SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATERIAL PREPARATION AND/OR HANDLING
First Claim
1. A system to perform lysis on material to be lysed, the system comprising:
- an arm having an attachment location to at least temporarily attach a container that at least temporarily holds a material to be lysed and a particulate lysing material;
a motor operable to provide a drive force; and
a drive mechanism coupled to transfer the drive force of the motor into oscillation of the attachment location of the arm along an arcuate path.
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Abstract
Oscillating angularly rotating a container containing a material may cause the material to be separate. Denser or heavier material may unexpectedly tend to collected relatively close to the axis of rotation, while less dense or light material may tend to collect relatively away from the axis of rotation. Oscillation along an arcuate path provides high lysing efficiency. Alternatively, a micromotor may drive an impeller removably received in a container. Lysing may be implemented in batch mode, flow-through stop or semi-batch mode, or flow-through continuous mode. Lysing particulate material may exceed material to be lysed or lysed material and/or air may be essentially eliminated from a chamber to increase lysing efficiency.
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110 Claims
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1. A system to perform lysis on material to be lysed, the system comprising:
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an arm having an attachment location to at least temporarily attach a container that at least temporarily holds a material to be lysed and a particulate lysing material; a motor operable to provide a drive force; and a drive mechanism coupled to transfer the drive force of the motor into oscillation of the attachment location of the arm along an arcuate path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of lysing a material to be lysed, the method comprising:
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receiving a material to be lysed in a chamber that contains a particulate lysing material; oscillating the chamber containing the material to be lysed and a particulate lysing material along an arcuate path to produce a lysed material; and removing the lysed material from the chamber. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method of lysing a material to be lysed, the method comprising:
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receiving a first cartridge having a chamber that contains a particulate lysing material and a material to be lysed; and oscillating the first cartridge having the chamber that contains the material to be lysed and the particulate lysing material along an arcuate path to produce a lysed material. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. An article to perform flow-through lysis on material to be lysed, the article comprising:
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at least one wall forming at least one chamber having a first opening and at least a second opening spaced from the first opening, the first and the second openings to provide fluid communication into the chamber from an exterior thereof; a particulate lysing material received in the chamber, the particulate material including a plurality of particles sized to lyse a material to be lysed; a first filter received in the chamber between the first opening and the particulate material, the first filter having a plurality of apertures sized to substantially pass the material to be lysed and to retain the particulate material; and a second filter received in the chamber between the second opening and the particulate material, the second filter having a plurality of apertures sized to pass the material to be lysed and to retain the particulate material, wherein the first filter and the second filter form a particulate retainment area therebetween. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A system to perform lysis, the system comprising:
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a container having at least one chamber to hold a material to be lysed and a lysing particulate material, the chamber having a first opening and at least a second opening to provide fluid communication into the chamber from an exterior thereof; an impeller having a number of blades received in the chamber of the container; and a micromotor coupled to turn the impeller. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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67. A method of system to perform lysis, the method comprising:
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receiving a material to be lysed via an entrance in at least one chamber of a container that holds a lysing particulate material; driving an impeller having a number of blades received in the chamber of the container via a micromotor; and expelling a material that has been lysed via an exit from the chamber of the container. - View Dependent Claims (68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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76. A system to perform lysis, the system comprising:
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a first container having at least one chamber to hold a material to be lysed and a lysing particulate material, the chamber having a single opening to provide fluid communication into the chamber from an exterior thereof; an impeller having a number of blades received in the chamber of the first container; and a micromotor coupled to turn the impeller, at least a portion of the micromotor removably received in the single opening of the first container to seal the single opening in use. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 79, 80)
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81. A method of operating a system to perform lysis, the method comprising:
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receiving a material to be lysed via an entrance in at least one chamber of a first container that holds a lysing particulate material; locating an impeller in the chamber of the first container via the entrance; closing the entrance of the first container with a micromotor that is coupled to drive the impeller; and driving the impeller to circulate the material to be lysed and the lysing particulate material in the chamber of the first container. - View Dependent Claims (82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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87. A system to separate materials, the system comprising:
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a base; an actuator coupled to the base and selectively operable to provide a drive force; and a drive mechanism coupled to the base and coupled to transfer the drive force of the motor into an oscillatory angular rotation of a container about an axis of rotation at a sufficiently high frequency to cause a relatively denser material to collected relatively closer to the axis of rotation than a relatively less dense material. - View Dependent Claims (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104)
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105. A method of separating material, the method comprising:
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receiving a material to be separated in a container; oscillating angularly rotating the container at a high frequency; and removing at least some of the separated material from the container. - View Dependent Claims (106, 107, 108, 109, 110)
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