Fluid sample testing system
AssigneeChen & Chen, LLC
InventorShuqi Chen
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Abstract
A sample testing system may include a housing, a cavity in the housing to receive a chamber, two contact members, and a sensor. The contact members may be positioned to be engageable with respective portions of the chamber inserted in the cavity, and to compress those respective portions, thereby driving fluid flow. A sample testing system may include a housing, a cavity in the housing to receive a chamber, at least one contact member, and a sensor. The at least one contact member may be positioned to be engageable with a first segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity, and to compress the first segment, thereby defining a gap of the first segment of the chamber and a reservoir in at least a second segment of the chamber.
Claims22
A sample testing system, comprising:
- a housing;
- a cavity in the housing, so sized and shaped to receive a chamber;
- a first contact member, so positioned:
- as to be engageable with a first flexible segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity;
- and
- as to compress the first flexible segment, thereby driving fluid flow from the first flexible segment through a central segment of the chamber to a second flexible segment of the chamber;
- a second contact member so positioned:
- as to be engageable with the second flexible segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity;
- and
- as to compress the second flexible segment, thereby driving fluid flow from the second flexible segment through the central segment to the first flexible segment;
- and
- a sensor to sense a condition of a fluid sample in the chamber and to generate an output signal indicative of that condition.
A sample testing system, comprising:
- a housing;
- a cavity in the housing, so sized and shaped to receive a chamber;
- a first contact member, so positioned:
- as to be engageable with a first segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity;
- and
- as to compress the first segment, thereby defining a gap of the first segment of the chamber and a reservoir in at least a second segment of the chamber;
- a second contact member, so positioned:
- as to be engageable with a segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity;
- and
- as to compress that segment, thereby driving fluid flow from the reservoir in the second segment to the first segment of the chamber;
- and
- a sensor to sense a condition of a fluid sample in the chamber and to generate an output signal indicative of that condition.
A sample testing system, comprising:
- a housing;
- a cavity in the housing, so sized and shaped to receive a chamber;
- at least one contact member, so positioned:
- as to be engageable with a first segment of the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity;
- and
- as to compress the first segment, thereby defining a gap of the first segment of the chamber and a reservoir in at least a second segment of the chamber;
- a base member so positioned as to support the chamber when the chamber is in the cavity, the at least one contact member being so movable towards the base member as to compress at least one portion of the chamber against the base member;
- and
- a sensor to sense a condition of a fluid sample in the chamber and to generate an output signal indicative of that condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.