Patent ID: 8518342

Claim:
An analysis device designed to be associated with a container containing a sample to be analyzed, the analysis device comprising: a first impervious membrane; a second impervious membrane superposed on the first membrane, the second membrane being configured to be attached to an outside wall of the container, wherein the second impervious membraned is planar and flexible along its entire length, and wherein the outside wall of the container is separate from the second membrane; the first and second membranes being fixedly attached over at least a portion of their respective surfaces, the portion defining a peripheral zone of an interstitial space forming an internal reaction cavity with no fluid communication with an outside of the analysis device; at least one analysis means placed inside the internal reaction cavity, the analysis means designed to be placed in contact with the sample; and at least one means designed to create a way for the sample to enter the internal reaction cavity, wherein the at least one means designed to create a way for the sample to enter the internal reaction cavity is a perforation device, and a point of the perforation device perforates the second membrane and an anterior wall of the container without perforating a posterior wall of the container wherein the perforation device is placed inside the cavity.