Patent ID: 9546986
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G01N

Claim:
1. A thermal system for use in a column manager of a liquid chromatography system, comprising: a plurality of spatially separated individually controlled thermoelectric chips; a column module housing a plurality of thermally conductive troughs, each trough residing in a separate thermal zone to be thermally conditioned individually by one of the individually controlled thermoelectric chips, each trough being adapted to hold one or more liquid chromatography columns therein; and a plurality of spatially separated thermal bridges, a first thermal bridge of the plurality of thermal bridges thermally coupling one of the thermoelectric chips to a first one of the plurality of troughs, and a second thermal bridge of the plurality of thermal bridges thermally coupling another of the thermoelectric chips to a second one of the plurality of troughs; and the first thermal bridge having a substantially similar shape and size as the second thermal bridge being physically connected to the column module in an inverse position with respect to the second thermal bridge.