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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter Louis Gebrian, Wilmington, DE (US);
Assignee:
Dade MicroScan Inc., Sacramento, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F 1/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F 1/308 ;
Abstract
Mixing a liquid solution in a container by rotating a pair of bar-shaped magnets in a coordinated pattern in which lines parallel to the axes of the bar-shaped magnets remain normal to one another, the magnets disposed in close proximity to and on opposite sides of the container a distance above the bottom of the container so that a magnetic mixing member is caused to rotate in the liquid about the same distance above the bottom of the container. Relative vertical movement of the magnets and the container generates a vortex-like mixing action throughout the container.