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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2002
Ronald Chang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Douglas B. Dority, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Lee A. Christel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kurt E. Petersen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald Chang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Douglas B. Dority, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Lee A. Christel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kurt E. Petersen, San Jose, CA (US);
Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A reaction vessel has a reaction chamber, a loading reservoir connected to the reaction chamber via a first channel, and an aspiration port connected to the chamber via a second channel. To load the sample into the reaction chamber, the sample is dispensed into the loading reservoir and then drawn into the chamber by application of a vacuum to the aspiration port. A system for controlling the temperature of the sample in the reaction vessel includes one or more thermal elements for heating or cooling the sample and optionally optics for detecting one or more analytes in the sample.