PIPETTE TIP

• US 20100316542A1
• Filed: 06/11/2010
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sysmex Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sysmex Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuju, Toshikatsu, Toyoshima, Hiroto, MOTOTSU, Kazunori
• Application Number:
  US12/814,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20100316542A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/525
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0858 Side walls
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0275 Interchangeable or disposable dispensing tips
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 9/543 for disposable pipette tips, e.g. racks or cassettes

Abstract

The present invention is to present a disposable pipette tip used in a dispensing device, comprising: an attachment section for being attached to the dispensing device; and a liquid containing section for containing a liquid aspirated by the dispensing device, which is continually located to the attachment section and comprises a first part and a second part being continually located to the first part on the attachment section side, wherein the first part comprises a tip portion, an intermediate portion and a stepped portion, the tip portion including a distal end of the pipette tip, the intermediate portion continually located to the tip portion and the second part, the tip portion having an external diameter that decreases toward the distal end, and the intermediate portion having an external diameter that decreases toward the tip portion; the stepped portion is formed at a connecting position of the tip portion and the intermediate portion such that the external diameter of the intermediate portion at the connecting position is larger than that of the tip portion at the connecting position, the connecting position being closer to the distal end than the second part; the second part has an internal diameter that decreases toward the first part; the external diameter of the intermediate portion at the connecting position is larger than the internal diameter of an end of the second part on the first part side; the external diameter of the tip portion at the connecting position is smaller than the internal diameter of the end of the second part on the first part side; and length from the end of the second part on the first part side to the end of the attachment section on the opposite side of the second part is not less than twice but not more than four times as large as that of the tip portion.

Claims

1. A disposable pipette tip used in a dispensing device, comprising:

an attachment section for being attached to the dispensing device; and

a liquid containing section for containing a liquid aspirated by the dispensing device, which is continually located to the attachment section and comprises a first part and a second part being continually located to the first part on the attachment section side, wherein

the first part comprises a tip portion, an intermediate portion and a stepped portion, the tip portion including a distal end of the pipette tip, the intermediate portion continually located to the tip portion and the second part, the tip portion having an external diameter that decreases toward the distal end, and the intermediate portion having an external diameter that decreases toward the tip portion;

the stepped portion is formed at a connecting position of the tip portion and the intermediate portion such that the external diameter of the intermediate portion at the connecting position is larger than that of the tip portion at the connecting position, the connecting position being closer to the distal end than the second part;

the second part has an internal diameter that decreases toward the first part;

the external diameter of the intermediate portion at the connecting position is larger than the internal diameter of an end of the second part on the first part side;

the external diameter of the tip portion at the connecting position is smaller than the internal diameter of the end of the second part on the first part side; and

length from the end of the second part on the first part side to the end of the attachment section on the opposite side of the second part is not less than twice but not more than four times as large as that of the tip portion.

2. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

when another pipette tip is inserted into the pipette tip, an external surface of the stepped portion of the another pipette tip contacts with an inner surface of the end of the second part on the first part side of the pipette tip in a state that an external surface of the tip portion of the another pipette tip is not contacting with an inner surface of the first part of the pipette tip.

3. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

when another pipette tip is inserted into the pipette tip, an external surface of the stepped portion of the another pipette tip contacts with an inner surface of the end of the second part on the first part side of the pipette tip in a state that a space is being formed between an external surface of the tip portion of the another pipette tip and an inner surface of the first part of the pipette tip.

4. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

the liquid containing section comprises a third part being continually located to the attachment part and the second part.

5. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

the first part has an internal diameter that increases at a first rate from the distal end toward the end of the first part on the second part side,

and the second part has an internal diameter that increases at a second rate from the end of the first part on the second part side toward the attachment section, the second rate being greater than the first rate.

6. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

an inner surface of the first part is a smoothly continuous surface.

7. The disposable pipette tip of claim 1, wherein

length of the first part is larger than that from the end of the second part on the first part side to the end of the attachment section on the opposite side of the second part.