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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Horst Rüther, Hart/Graz, AT;
Helmut List, Graz, AT;
Assignee:
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 8/584 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 8/584 ;
Abstract
In order to improve the shelflife of tonometered fluids containing at least one dissolved gas component and being packaged in a flexible container, a gas phase containing at least the dissolved gas component of the fluid is additionally introduced into the flexible container. The volume of the tonometered fluid and the volume of the gas phase together amounting to less than the maximum filling volume of the flexible container, which is collapsed when it is empty but unfolding when it is being filled.