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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Waters Technologies Corporation, Milford, MA (US);
Joshua A. Burnett, Taunton, MA (US);
Marc E. Lemelin, Douglas, MA (US);
Sylvain Gilles Cormier, Mendon, MA (US);
Waters Technologies Corporation, Milford, MA (US);
Abstract
A seal pack of a sample manager of a liquid chromatography system having a plurality of wash flow pathways fluidically connected to a central pathway that accommodates a sample needle, wherein a first wash flow pathway is vertically offset from a second wash flow pathway, such that a wash solution flows axially along an exterior surface of the sample needle in a vertical direction to wash the sample needle when flowing from the first wash flow pathway to the vertically offset second wash flow pathway, is provided. Furthermore, an autosampler and associated methods are also provided.