Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Dtil Ireland Holdings Limited

Dhr Technologies Ireland Limited (Dtil)

Marcus O'Neill

Hiroshi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Onishi

Masato Kayahara

Naoki Mukaiyama

Michael Cooney

Ryusuke Furuya

Sean O'Mahony

An embodiment of a reagent container includes a bottle with a pipe to reduce the effects of reagent sloshing. The bottle has an elongated base and an opposed cover connected by side walls and an end wall. A flat platform surrounded by a raised rim lies in the base opposite an opening in the cover. A ribbed pipe frictionally fits within the bottle opening and may attach to the anchor region leaving vent passages around the pipe. The pipe includes an aperture adjacent to the anchor region and oriented toward the end wall so that sloshed fluid has only a small effect on the level of reagent in the pipe during transfers. A modified blow molding process produces the anchor region by extending a pin a predetermined distance into a mold while the molded material is still plastic.

Reagent bottle with aspiration pipe

Bottle

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County Clare, Ireland

Marcus O'Neill