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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2018
Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;
David Vincent Bonzon, Le Mont-Pelerin, CH;
Jean-Pierre Bonzon, Le Mont-Pelerin, CH;
Georges Henri Muller, Lausanne, CH;
Jean-Baptiste Bureau, Ecublens, CH;
Yann Barrandon, Echandens-Denges, CH;
Philippe Renaud, Preverenges, CH;
David Forchelet, Coffrane, CH;
Nicolas Uffer, Riex, CH;
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
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.