Patent ID: 9327298
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B01L,B05B,G01N,H01J

Claim Text:
1. An induction based fluidic apparatus which is a) useful for accurately transporting or dispensing one liquid or for accurately transporting or dispensing a plurality of the same or different liquids, in similar or different microliter to femtoliter volume ranges, and optionally, b) is useful for performing one or more other operations concurrently or sequentially on the same or different liquids including those eluting from hybrid capillaries, pipettes, pipetted fitted syringes, pipetted fitted syringe or other pumps, pipette dispensers of all types fitted to SPE columns, HPLC, UPLC or other liquid treatment and instrument introduction pumps and devices with instrument, mass spectrometer sample introduction, and energizing same and sample placement devices; and furthermore which, c) is useful for accurately and precisely in both volumetric and spatial terms delivering treated liquids or liquids, drugs, anesthetics, taggants, slurries or cells, dissolved cells, suspended cells, biological fluids, DNA/RNA samples, glues, whole blood, paint, lubricants, viscous liquids, serum, semen, or suspended or other solids including nanoparticles to entities of all types including MALDI targets and microtiter plates, mass spectrometers and scientific instruments or all types, drugs or prescriptions, food, plants, animal and human subjects, packages or containers of all types, inanimate objects, and other objects either of a conductive, semi conductive or non-conductive material, rapidly, without touching same, and d) which is useful for manufacturing of 2D and 3D components such as charged functionalized solid entities or polymers or mixtures thereof, or non-charged polymers or pills, or wafers and or electronic or other components and e) which is useful for sample preparation for tissue MALDI, and LC/MALDI, LC/ESI/MS and LC/ESI/IMS and variants and for the characterization of bacteria by MALDI, SIMS or other energy/target systems and which is also useful for sample preparation and sample introduction and other testing related to medical diagnostics, disease and health biomarker testing via liquid processing to assess the condition of living or other systems which is comprised of: at least one air displacement pipette with at least one pipette tip reversibly attached to a terminal end of the said at least one pipette, and where said pipette tip has a side opening extending through a sidewall of the pipette tip, and where said pipette tip contains a compression fit capillary having geometry of precise, length, radii, shape and where said compression fit capillary has a polymeric coating on an outside and a polymeric coating on an inside of said compression fit capillary, and where the device further consists of at least one supporting Gaussian form fitting directing inductor where said inductor's terminal end is electrically connected to a form fitting area and where said inductor is connected via a flying lead to a switch and to an analogue or digital programmable bipolar HV power supply via another lead electrically connected to said switch, and where said bipolar HV power supply is connected via circuitry to a microprocessor or computer for control of said at least one power supply, and where the terminal end of said compression fit capillary is adjacent to a least one target which is electrically connected to said switch via a flying lead, and where an attached robotic system is connected with circuitry to said microprocessor or said computer for controlling the movement of said device.