Device for storing and/or treating chemicals

• US 6,475,443 B1
• Filed: 04/27/1998
• Issued: 11/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joint Analytical Systems GmbH
• Original Assignee: SGT Exploitatie B.V.
• Inventors: Van der Maas, Marinus Frans, van Deursen, Johannes Martinus Petrus
• Primary Examiner(s): Soderquist, Arlen
• Application Number:
  US09/067,483
• Time in Patent Office: 1,653 Days
• Field of Search: 422/102, 422/104, 340/572, 340/825.24, 340/572.1, 340/572.8, 700/231
• US Class Current: 422/549
• 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 in the form of a vial which is made of glass and is provided with a receiving cavity for storing chemicals therein; and

a transponder including a memory, the transponder being enclosed in a closed glass housing such that it cannot be affected by the chemicals, the closed glass housing being inseparably connected to the device such that it constitutes an inseparable part of the device,

wherein the inseparable connection between the closed glass housing and the vial casing is effected by a column of which one end is connected to the inner side of the casing wall in the receiving cavity.

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

3. A device according to claim 2 characterized in that the antenna is provided on the glass casing by a vapor deposition technique.

4. A device according to claim 3, characterized in that the vapor-deposited antenna is designed as a layer of metal ions vapor-deposited in a spiral path.

5. A device according to claim 2 characterized in that the antenna is designed as a coil-shaped element accommodated in the glass housing.

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

7. A device according to claim 6, characterized in that the memory of the transponder contains a non-erasable identification number.

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

a casing in the form of a vial which is made of glass and is provided with a first receiving cavity for storing chemicals therein; and

a transponder including a memory, the transponder being inseparably connected to the device such that it constitutes an inseparable part of the device,

wherein an inseparable connection between the casing and the transponder is effected in that the vial casing comprises an inner vial and an outer vial wherein the transponder is accommodated in a closed second receiving cavity between the inner vial and the outer vial.