Rotatable cartridge with a metering chamber for analyzing a biological sample

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PATENT NO 9868120
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15352680

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An automatic analyzer cartridge, spinnable around a rotational axis, has aliquoting and metering chambers, a connecting duct there between, and a vent connected to the metering chamber and nearer to the rotational axis than the metering chamber. The metering chamber has side walls that taper away from a central region. Capillary action next to the side walls is greater than in the central region. A circular arc about the rotational axis passes through a duct entrance in the aliquoting chamber and a duct exit in the metering chamber. The cartridge has a downstream fluidic element which is part of a fluidic structure for processing a biological sample into the processed biological sample. A valve connects the metering chamber to the fluidic element, which is fluidically connected to the fluidic structure. The fluidic structure receives the biological sample and has a measurement structure for enabling measurement of the processed biological sample.

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ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS INC9115 HAGUE ROAD INDIANAPOLIS IN 46250

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Boehm, Christoph Viernheim, DE 44 456
Lutz, Sascha Neustadt, DE 21 82
Spinke, Juergen Lorsch, DE 21 187

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