Testing module and method for testing test sample
AssigneeLite-On Technology Corporation
InventorsYi An Shih, Fu Chun Huang, Cheng Chang Lai
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Abstract
A testing module is provided. The testing module includes a carrier, a block member, and a sampling assembly. A flow path connects a storage chamber to a mixing chamber to guide the flow of a fluid. The block member is formed in the flow path to block the fluid from flowing from the storage chamber to the mixing chamber before the connection of the sampling assembly. When the sampling assembly which contains a test sample is connected to the carrier, the fluid mixes with the test sample and flows to the mixing chamber.
Claims20
A testing module, adapted to test a test sample, the testing module comprising:
- a flow path, configured to guide the flow of a fluid;
- a storage chamber, fluidly connected to an upstream of the flow path and configured to provide the fluid;
- a carrier, having a mixing chamber, wherein the mixing chamber is fluidly connected to a downstream of the flow path and configured to receive the fluid and the test sample;
- a block member, disposed in the flow path and selectively transformed from a first state to a second state;
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- a sampling assembly, detachably connected to the carrier and comprising a sampling member configured to collect the test sample;
- wherein a passage is formed in the sampling member, and the test sample is disposed inside the passage, wherein the passage comprises a fluid inlet configured to receive the fluid in the storage chamber and a fluid outlet configured to exhaust the fluid and the test sample to the downstream of the flow path;
- wherein before the sampling assembly is connected to the carrier, the block member is in the first state to block the fluid in the storage chamber flowing from the upstream of the flow path to the downstream of the flow path;
- wherein after the sampling assembly is connected to the carrier, the block member is in the second state to enable the fluid in the storage chamber to flow from the upstream of the flow path to the downstream of the flow path, and the sampling member is placed in the flow path;
- wherein after the fluid flows out of the storage chamber, a portion of the fluid flows into the downstream of the flow path via the passage of the sampling member and mixes with the test sample in the sampling member and then flows into the mixing chamber, and the other portion of the fluid flows into the downstream of the flow path via the periphery of the sampling member, not via the passage of the sampling member, and then flows into the mixing chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.