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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
May. 01, 2012
Kun Guo, Pinole, CA (US);
Daniel Y. Chu, Hercules, CA (US);
Paul Patt, Lafayette, CA (US);
Amir Sadri, Toronto, CA;
Roger Tong, Berkeley, CA (US);
Kun Guo, Pinole, CA (US);
Daniel Y. Chu, Hercules, CA (US);
Paul Patt, Lafayette, CA (US);
Amir Sadri, Toronto, CA;
Roger Tong, Berkeley, CA (US);
BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
Rapid and uniform temperature changes in the wells of a microplate or any thin-walled plate that contains an array of reaction wells or sample receptacles are achieved by the use of heating and cooling elements with a vapor chamber interposed between such elements and the microplate. The upper surface of the vapor chamber and the underside of the sample plate in certain embodiments are complementary in shape, i.e., they have identical but oppositely directed contours in the areas around each of the sample receptacles, to provide continuous surface contact along the surface of each receptacle. In other embodiments, an intermediary plate is placed between the vapor chamber and the well plate, with the top surface of the intermediary plate being complementary in shape to the underside of the well plate.