APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ANTIGENS AND USE THEREOF Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC G01N33/543 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to detection of food pathogenic contaminants by determining positive or negative reaction to a target molecule. An apparatus for detecting a target molecule comprises a housing and a membrane detection system. The housing has an inlet opening for feeding a sample into the membrane detection system, a clamp, a movable lock in contact with the clamp, a connector in contact with the lock, and a sliding button whose movement moves the movable lock. The membrane detection system comprises a spacer for conjugation, a test membrane and an absorbent element, wherein parts of the membrane detection system are parallel to each other. The lock is in contact with the absorbent element and can apply pressure perpendicular to the membrane detection system. The invention also discloses a system and a kit comprising a detector and a method of detecting a target molecule using the disclosed detector.

EFFECT: detector improves sensitivity and rate of detection.

25 cl, 10 dwg, 1 ex