Microtiter plate

• US 4,735,778 A
• Filed: 08/22/1986
• Issued: 04/05/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Maruyama, Nobuo, Sekine, Teruaki, Shibata, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Michael S.
• Application Number:
  US06/899,039
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 422/65, 422/72, 422/102, 422/104, 436/809, 206/328, 206/334, 435/299-301
• US Class Current: 422/553
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/5085 for multiple samples, e.g. microtitration plates
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00297 Antistatic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 31/20 using microanalysis, e.g. drop reaction
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 436/809 Multifield plates or multicontainer arrays
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24149 Honeycomb-like

Abstract

A microtiter plate is made of a light-transmitting antistatic resin and defines at least one well. The bottom wall of the well is centrally equipped with a flat portion having a diameter of at least 1 mm and is preferably connected continuously to the corresponding peripheral wall by way of a rising part. The minimum radius of curvature of the inner wall of said well, said inner wall including said rising part, is preferably at least 0.5 mm.

Claims

1. In a microtiter plate including at least one well having a bottom wall, the improvement wherein:

said bottom wall of said well comprises a central flat portion having a diameter of at least 1 mm and wherein said plate is made of a light-transmitting antistatic resin composed of a graft copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing at least one ethylenically-unsaturated monomer on a rubber-like backbone polymer which contains, as a constituent thereof, a monomer having an alkylene oxide group and an ethylenically-unsaturated bond.

2. The microtiter plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein said well includes a continuous inner surface formation defined by a peripheral surface, a bottom wall surface and a curved merging surface continuously joining the peripheral surface and the bottom wall surface, and wherein the minimum radius of curvature of any portion of the inner surface formation of said well is at least 0.5 mm.

3. The microtiter plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the halflife of the static surface electrification of said antistatic resin as measured by a static charge gauge is 30 seconds or shorter and the transmittance of whole light through said antistatic resin is 80% or higher.

4. The microtiter plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the microtiter plate contains a plurality of wells arranged in a pattern of rows and columns and has tear grooves formed between at least adjacent rows of the wells.

5. In a microtiter plate having at least one well, the improvement comprising:

said plate is made of a light-transmitting antistatic resin composed of a graft copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing at least one ethylenically-unsaturated monomer on a rubber-like backbone polymer which contains, as a constituent thereof, a monomer having an alkylene oxide group and an ethylenically-unsaturated bond.

6. The microtiter plate as claimed in claim 5, wherein the halflife of the static surface electrification of said antistatic resin as measured by a static charge gauge is 30 seconds or shorter and the transmittance of whole light through said antistatic resin is 80% or higher.