CARTRIDGE ASSEMBLY Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC B01L3/00 C12M3/00 G01N35/00 

FIELD: cartridge assemblies.

SUBSTANCE: cartridge assembly is described, containing: a casing containing a flow cell chamber made with the possibility of receiving a flow cell; a well plate containing liquid wells made with the possibility of receiving the necessary amounts of liquids, while the well plate contains a valve station, a pumping station and a fluid analysis station, the well plate contains channels associated with the specified wells, the valve station, the pumping station and the fluid analysis station; a pumping unit provided on the well plate in the pumping station, wherein the pumping unit is designed to control the flow of fluid through the specified channels between the pumping station and the fluid analysis station; and a rotary valve assembly located on the well plate in the valve station, wherein the rotary valve assembly contains a rotary shaft and a rotary valve located with the possibility of rotation around the axis of rotation and selective connection of wells to the pumping station, while the rotary shaft has a distal end exposed through the casing, the rotary shaft has a double slot configuration at its distal end, wherein the double slot configuration contains the first and the second sets of slots, wherein the first set of slots forms a drive interface, and the second set of slots forms a position encoding interface.

EFFECT: expansion of the arsenal of cartridge assemblies.

24 cl, 35 dwg