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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1990
Roberto del Valle, Miami, FL (US);
Santos E Vargas, Miami, FL (US);
Pedro P Cabrera, Miami, FL (US);
Coulter Corporation, Hialeah, FL (US);
Abstract
A liquid metering and transfer valve assembly having the capability of metering, isolating, transfering and delivering precise microliter volume aliquots of a blood sample, from a source thereof, to mixing and testing chambers of an electronic blood analysis system for analysis, and further, carrying a loop for metering and isolating an additional sample aliquot within the valve assembly in the loop, a first dedicated passageway for introducing a first fluid to the loop to force the additional aliquot from its isolated location to a first dedicated portion of the valve assembly displaced from the loop and a second dedicated portion of the valve assembly to establish a flow path for introducing a lysing reagent to the first dedicated portion to force the additional aliquot from its displaced disposition, as a lyse reagent/aliquot mixture, to a selected additional mixing and testing chamber exterior of the valve assembly without contaminating any interior flow path traversed by a blood sample and associated diluent thereof within the valve assembly.