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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2013
Eppendorf Ag, Hamburg, DE;
Holger Link, Hamburg, DE;
Tobias David, Bargteheide, DE;
Eppendorf AG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a pipetting apparatus, and a method for producing the same, comprising: —a valve arrangement having at least one valve device for setting a pipetting pressure, wherein the valve device comprises a valve chamber; —at least one pump device, which is connected to the valve chamber to generate a chamber pressure in the valve chamber; —a pipetting channel, to which the pipetting container can be connected, and; —a bypass channel, which is open to the surrounding environment; wherein the pipetting channel and the bypass channel are each connected to the valve chamber; —and wherein the at least one valve device is designed such that, to generate the desired pipetting pressure in the pipetting channel, the chamber pressure is distributed in a metered manner by the valve device between the pipetting channel and the bypass channel.