Patents by Inventor David J. Lemieux

David J. Lemieux has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6007779
    Abstract: A refill pack for storing and dispensing pipette tips into an empty tip rack. The refill rack comprises a hand-gripable carrier for an array of pipette tips releasably secured relative to the carrier such that after hand positioning the array of tips on the empty tip rack, the carrier may be released from the tips which are then free to be seated on a lower end of a pipette and removed from the tip rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Lemieux, William D. Homberg, Christopher Kelly, Kent G. Moriarty
  • Patent number: 5779984
    Abstract: A plurality of large maximized internal volume freely nestable pipette tips for mounting in a standard pipette tip rack or refill pack including a horizontally extending pipette tip support having a plurality of through holes arranged in an array, each hole having a center which is spaced a distance "s" from centers of immediately adjacent through holes, each pipette tip having a substantially cylindrical proximal portion and an elongated generally conical distal portion coaxial with and joined to its proximal portion adjacent a downward facing outwardly extending shoulder and including at a distal end of the tip a relatively small orifice for receiving and dispensing fluid into and from the pipette tip upon operation of a pipette to which the pipette tip is mounted, the proximal portion of each pipette tip having an outer diameter equal to or slightly less than "s" and a slightly conical inner surface for tightly receiving and releasably attaching to a pipette tip mounting shaft of a large volume pipette and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Rainin Intstrumental Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Kelly, David J. Lemieux, Haakon T. Magnussen, Jr., James S. Petrek, Kenneth Rainin
  • Patent number: 5612000
    Abstract: A refill pack for storing and dispensing pipette tips into an empty tip rack. The refill rack comprises a hand-gripable carrier for an array of pipette tips releasably secured relative to the carrier such that after hand positioning the array of tips on the empty tip rack, the carrier may be released from the tips which are then free to be seated on a lower end of a pipette and removed from the tip rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Lemieux
  • Patent number: 5441702
    Abstract: A refill pack for storing and dispensing pipette tips into a tip rack, comprising a support plate with an array of holes containing disposable pipette tips arranged in an organized array and a carrier for hand positioning the support plate over the tip rack for release of the array of pipette tips into the tip rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Lemieux, Paul K. Chadwick, Christopher Kelly, James S. Petrek, Kenneth Rainin, Haakon T. Magnussen, Jr., William D. Homberg
  • Patent number: 5392914
    Abstract: A refill pack of light weight low mass material containing an array of replacement pipette tips for a reusable tip rack. The refill pack comprises a support plate with an array of holes containing pipette tips arranged in an organized manner and including a skirt-like guide for centering and guiding the support plate onto the tip rack with distal end portions of the pipette tips aligned with and vertically entering corresponding holes in an organizing tray in the tip rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Lemieux, Paul K. Chadwick, Christopher Kelly, James S. Petrek, Kenneth Rainin, Haakon T. Magnussen, Jr., William D. Homberg
  • Patent number: D271239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Rainin Instrument Co., Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Lemieux, Kenneth Rainin