Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.

Rainin Instrument, LLC

Rainin Intstrumental Co., Inc.

Haakon T Magnussen

William D Homberg

James S Petrek

Kenneth Rainin

Christopher F Kelly

Roy P Moeller

David J Lemieux

Andrew Vainshtein

Phillip Yee

Gary L Smith

Paul K Chadwick

Christian K Apple

Stephen J Ruskewicz

Anthony K Wingo

Walter S Watson

Michael C Schmittdiel

Albert Y Wang

Vintory L Blake Moore

Phillip S Palmer

Thomas Allen Bell

A handheld electronic pipette including several features aimed at improving ease of use, including a color dot matrix display, an intuitive thumb-operated two-axis controller, and multifunction soft buttons adjacent to the display. A simple and consistent user interface facilitates easy access to various modes of operation, including a manual pipetting mode and a remote mode.

Electronic pipette with two-axis controller

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.

Hybrid manual-electronic pipette

A pipette for use with a pipette tip to aspirate and dispense a quantity of liquid, comprising a housing, a pipette tip mounting shaft extending from the housing to receive a pipette tip, a pipette tip ejector mechanism for ejecting the pipette tip from the mounting shaft, energy storage means, means for storing energy in the energy storage means and means for releasing energy from the energy storage means to assist the tip ejector mechanism in the ejecting of the pipette tip from the mounting shaft.

Pipette device with tip ejector utilizing stored energy

A volume adjustable manual pipette having a hand-holdable housing supporting (i) an electronic digital display and associated position sensing and control circuitry, (ii) a plunger unit and (iii) a quick set volume adjustment mechanism for simultaneously controlling the volume setting of the pipette and the electronic display, the quick set volume adjustment mechanism comprising a pipette volume setting member for limiting upward movement of the plunger unit within the housing to define the volume setting for the pipette and the volume setting member being supported for axial movement on the plunger unit and releasably secured relative to the housing by a pipette user operable locking mechanism. When released from the housing, the volume setting member is axially moveable on and with the plunger unit to quickly set the volume for the pipette. When secured to the housing, the plunger unit is axially moveable relative to the volume setting unit to aspirate and dispense the selected volume of liquid into and from a pipette tip extending from a lower end of the housing. The volume setting of the pipette is monitored by the sensing and control circuitry to provide a real time display of the volume setting of the pipette.

Volume adjustable manual pipette with quick set volume adjustment

A manual pipette including a delayed action home position latch for engaging only after the plunger unit of the pipette has moved downward through its home position to thereafter releasably connect a moveable bottom stop member to the plunger unit to move therewith and upon an upward return of the plunger unit by the pipette's return spring to engage a home position stop to releasably lock the plunger unit in its home position without any downward force being exerted by the pipette user on the plunger unit.

Manual pipette with delayed-action home position latch

A plurality of large maximized internal volume freely nestable pipette tips for mounting in a standard pipette tip rack or refill pack including a horizontally extending pipette tip support having a plurality of through holes arranged in an array, each hole having a center which is spaced a distance 's' from centers of immediately adjacent through holes, each pipette tip having a substantially cylindrical proximal portion and an elongated generally conical distal portion coaxial with and joined to its proximal portion adjacent a downward facing outwardly extending shoulder and including at a distal end of the tip a relatively small orifice for receiving and dispensing fluid into and from the pipette tip upon operation of a pipette to which the pipette tip is mounted, the proximal portion of each pipette tip having an outer diameter equal to or slightly less than 's' and a slightly conical inner surface for tightly receiving and releasably attaching to a pipette tip mounting shaft of a large volume pipette and the distal portion of each pipette tip in a first array of tips being vertically oriented in a different one of the through holes in the support with its shoulder on a top of the support.

Pipette tip rack and refill pack containing large maximized volume

A refill pack for storing and dispensing pipette tips into a tip rack, comprising a support plate with an array of holes containing disposable pipette tips arranged in an organized array and a carrier for hand positioning the support plate over the tip rack for release of the array of pipette tips into the tip rack.

Refill pack for pipette tip racks

A refill pack of light weight low mass material containing an array of replacement pipette tips for a reusable tip rack. The refill pack comprises a support plate with an array of holes containing pipette tips arranged in an organized manner and including a skirt-like guide for centering and guiding the support plate onto the tip rack with distal end portions of the pipette tips aligned with and vertically entering corresponding holes in an organizing tray in the tip rack.

A manual pipette including user controllable latch and trigger mechanisms for releasably locking the plunger of the pipette in a 'home' position ready for immersion of the pipette tip in a fluid to be drawn into the tip and further including a user controllable velocity governor for regulating the rate of plunger return from the 'home' position to a first or upper stop position in drawing the fluid into the tip.

Manual pipette with plunger velocity governor, home position latch and

A method and accompanying apparatus for automatically extending the linear dynamic absorbance range of absorbance detectors including multi-lightpath flow cells. The absorbance of a reference beam in a relatively short reference path is multiplied by a ratio of the absorbance of a sample beam in a relatively long sample path to the reference path absorbance in developing a relative absorbance for the sample path beyond its linear dynamic range.

Method and apparatus for extending the linear dynamic range of

A compact high performance absorbance detector including a flashlamp light source and folded optics system with ruled grating reflecting beam splitter for minimizing flash to flash angular pattern and spectral variations of the flashlamp.

High performance absorbance detector with flashlamp and compact folded

A fluid sample flow cell characterized by a circumferentially uniform radial fluid flow into an entry port to and/or from an exit port from a fluid passageway through the body of the cell.

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Orinda, CA, United States of America

Haakon T Magnussen