Device for storing and/or treating chemicals

• US 20040173508A1
• Filed: 03/18/2004
• Published: 09/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johannes Martinus Petrus Van Deursen, Marinus Frans Van Der Maas
• Original Assignee: Johannes Martinus Petrus Van Deursen, Marinus Frans Van Der Maas
• Inventors: Maas, Marinus Frans Van der, Deursen, Johannes Martinus Petrus van
• Granted Patent: US 7,097,812 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/85
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/022 Transponder chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/5453 for test tubes
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00782 reprogrammmable code
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A device for storing and/or treating chemicals is described. The device includes a glass casing provided with a receiving cavity for storing chemicals therein, and further includes a transponder having a memory, the transponder being arranged in the device such that it cannot be affected by the chemicals.

Claims

1. A device for storing and/or treating chemicals, comprising

a casing which is made of glass and is provided with a receiving cavity for storing chemicals therein, and further comprising a transponder including a memory, the transponder being arranged in the device such that it cannot be affected by the chemicals.

2. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that the transponder is melted-in in a closed glass housing which constitutes an inseparable part of the device.

3. A device according to claim 1 characterized in that the transponder comprises an antenna.

4. A device according to claim 3, characterized in that the antenna is provided on the glass casing by a vapor deposition technique.

5. A device according to claim 4, characterized in that the vapor-deposited antenna is designed as a layer of metal ions vapor-deposited in a spiral path.

6. A device according to claim 3, characterized in that the antenna is designed as a coil-shaped element accommodated in the glass housing.

7. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a sampling tube, the casing being designed as a tube with two open ends, the receiving cavity accommodating an absorption material, and the transponder being embedded in the absorption material.

8. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a sampling bottle or vial for receiving therein chemicals such as samples of blood, water and the like.

9. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is an HPLC column (high performance liquid chromatography column), the HPLC column comprising a glass casing which is at least partly filled with separation material and comprises two coupling elements at the ends.

10. A device according to claim 9, characterized in that the transponder in the glass housing is embedded in the separation material.

11. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a test tube or blood tube.

12. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is a Petri dish.

13. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that the memory of the transponder is programmable.

14. A device according to claim 13, characterized in that the memory of the transponder contains a non-erasable identification number.