发明名称 |
Apparatus, Systems, And Methods Adapted To Rinse And Dry Clinical Analyzer Sample Probes |
摘要 |
A rinsing and drying apparatus of a clinical analyzer probe drain station is provided. The rinsing and drying apparatus has a group of nozzles that are offset from a longitudinal axis of a probe passage and may be inclined and oriented to provide tangentially oriented fluid-jet trajectories exiting into the sample probe passage. The offset nozzles, nozzle orientation, and cavity geometrical features of the device permit the drying capacity of probe-impinging planar air-knife jets to be maximized by stabilizing local internal fluid movement to form a swirling (e.g., helical) gas flow field directed away from a drying region and toward a vacuum exhaust. The rinsing and drying apparatus eliminates rinse water re-circulated entrainment and up-wash (spitting) during the air-knife drying operation. Therefore, the rinsing and drying apparatus significantly reduces water carryout on sampling probes thereby reducing sample/reagent dilution.
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申请公布号 |
US2012227771(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2012.09.13 |
申请号 |
US201013510840 |
申请日期 |
2010.11.17 |
申请人 |
WATERBURY RAYMOND;HADDAD ANTOINE ELIAS;MIZZER JOHN PAUL;SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS INC. |
发明人 |
WATERBURY RAYMOND;HADDAD ANTOINE ELIAS;MIZZER JOHN PAUL |
分类号 |
B08B3/02;B08B5/02;B08B5/04;B08B7/04 |
主分类号 |
B08B3/02 |
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