Collapsible sheath fluid reservoirs for flow cytometers

Patent · 31 December 1999

OSTI ID:873021

Mark, Graham A ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos, NM

The present invention is a container in the form of a single housing for holding fluid, including a first collapsible reservoir having a first valve. The first reservoir initially contains a volume of fluid. The container also includes a second reservoir, initially empty (or substantially empty), expandable to a second volume. The second reservoir has a second valve. As the volume of said first reservoir decreases, the volume of the second reservoir proportionally increases.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Regents of University of California (Los Alamos, NM); Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 6070477
• OSTI ID: 873021
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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