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Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Muscle Lab Canada Inc., Richmond Hill, CA;

Inventors:

Hirofumi Tamai, Osaka, JP;

Chaojun Zhou, Richmond Hill, CA;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/0237 (2013.01); B01L 3/0227 (2013.01); G01N 35/1011 (2013.01); G01N 35/1072 (2013.01); B01L 2200/146 (2013.01); G01N 2035/1025 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pipette modulehas a pipette-module frameattachable to the z-axis frameof a liquid handling system. A translatory-motion frameattached to the pipette-module frameis movable with respect thereto by a motor. A pneumatic aspirator assemblyincluding a cylinder, tube, tube tipand pressure sensoris attached to the translatory-motion frame. A pistondisposed in the cylinderis fixedly attached to the frame. A controllerfor the pipette modulehas a liquid surface detection mode which enables a pressure feedback control algorithm causing the motorto move the translatory-motion framein a z-axis translator motion until a change in a pressure in the tipas sensed by the pressure sensorindicates that the tiphas made contact with the liquid surface


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