Hybrid manual-electronic pipette
AssigneeRainin Instrument Co., Inc.
InventorsHaakon T. Magnussen, Andrew Vainshtein, James S. Petrek, William D. Homberg
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Abstract
A hybrid manual-electronic pipette combines a manually driven piston with real-time electronic measurement of liquid volume and piston displacement while compensating for both pipette-specific and pipette model-specific variations. The hybrid nature of the pipette facilitates increased accuracy and improved ease of use, and enables additional functionalities not practicable with traditional manual pipettes.
Claims12
A method of logging data representative of a pipetting operation performed with a hybrid manual-electronic pipette having a manually-driven piston operated by a user, an electronic sensor, a processing unit, and a memory subsystem, the method comprising the steps of:
- performing a pipetting operation;
- identifying the pipetting operation from a plurality of available pipetting operations;
- obtaining a measurement from the electronic sensor while performing the pipetting operation, wherein the measurement relates to the pipetting operation;
- processing the measurement with the processing unit of the pipette to obtain a parameter;
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- storing a data record of the parameter in the memory subsystem.
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