US 11,738,349 B2
Device for coupling a cartridge for a lab-on-a-chip analysis device, lab-on-a-chip analysis device and method for coupling a cartridge for a lab-on-a-chip analysis device
Jochen Rupp, Stuttgart (DE); Daniel Czurratis, Aalen (DE); Karsten Seidl, Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE); and Thomas Jelinek, Klosterlechfeld (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 16/982,961
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/060063
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/202068, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 206 066.5 (DE), filed on Apr. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0016289 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B01L 99/00 (2010.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); B01L 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 9/527 (2013.01) [B01L 9/50 (2013.01); B01L 2200/025 (2013.01); B01L 2200/026 (2013.01); B01L 2200/16 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
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1. A device for coupling a cartridge with a lab-on-a-chip analyzer, the cartridge having at least one pneumatic port and at least one reagent chamber, the device comprising:
a housing;
a receiving region defined within the housing and accessible through an opening in the housing, the receiving region configured to receive the cartridge by insertion of the cartridge through the opening into the defined receiving region; and
a clamping unit comprising:
a pneumatic interface configured to pneumatically contact the at least one pneumatic port; and
a punch configured to be introduced into the at least one reagent chamber,
wherein the clamping unit is arranged adjacent to the receiving region,
wherein the clamping unit is designed to execute a first translatory movement in a direction toward the receiving region to bring the pneumatic interface into contact with the at least one pneumatic port, and
wherein the clamping unit is designed to execute a second translatory movement in the direction toward the receiving region, subsequent to the first translatory movement, to insert the punch to a final position at least partially within the reagent chamber.