Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tip connector for fluidic and electrical connection
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Application No.: US16604778Application Date: 2018-04-05
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Publication No.: US10910749B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: David Vincent Bonzon , Jean-Pierre Bonzon , Georges Henri Muller , Jean-Baptiste Bureau , Yann Barrandon , Philippe Renaud , David Forchelet , Nicolas Uffer
- Applicant: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
- Applicant Address: CH Lausanne
- Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
- Current Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
- Current Assignee Address: CH Lausanne
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: WOPCT/IB2017/052088 20170411
- International Application: PCT/IB2018/052363 WO 20180405
- International Announcement: WO2018/189628 WO 20181018
- Main IPC: H01R13/00
- IPC: H01R13/00 ; G01N15/12 ; G01N35/10 ; B01L3/02 ; B01L3/00

Abstract:
A connector for providing both a fluidic and electrical connection is disclosed, said connector having a proximal end, a distal end and an elongated body in between, characterized in that the elongated body has an inner cavity spanning throughout its length, and the distal end comprises: a) an inner body portion comprising a first inner electrical contact and b) an outer body portion comprising a second outer electrical contact having a spring element. The connector is easily adaptable to many kind of fluidic actuators and particularly to pipette instruments usually found in laboratory practice and developed to adapt fluidic actuators and pipette instalments to work according to the Coulter principle in every working condition, in particular to adapt the electrical and fluidic connection between a sensing tip and an instrumented pipette.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200381853A1 TIP CONNECTOR FOR FLUIDIC AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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