| US 7,455,815 B2 | ||
| Micro-titre plate or chip with an embedded support core | ||
| Olaf Sollboehmer, Hamburg (Germany); and Ahmet Kabakci, Istanbul-Bebek (Turkey) | ||
| Assigned to Evotec AG, Hamburg (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/312,640 PCT Filed Jun. 02, 2001, PCT No. PCT/EP01/06327 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 18, 2003, PCT Pub. No. WO01/94018, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 13, 2001. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 100 28 323 (DE), filed on Jun. 07, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0157701 A1, Aug. 21, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B32B 3/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/00 (2006.01); F17C 3/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 422—102 [428/156; 220/560.05; 435/303.1; 156/39] | 9 Claims |

| 1. A sample support for receiving biological and/or chemical samples, comprising:
a flat support plate of plastic material comprising a plurality of recesses, wherein a support core of a higher-melting material
is embedded in said flat support plate, said support core surrounding said recesses,
wherein said support core is entirely enclosed by said plastic material at least in the area of said recesses of said support
plate, and wherein said support core is a metal plate with openings corresponding to said recesses, wherein the diameter of
said openings are larger than the diameter of said recesses.
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