Centrifuge rotor having a predetermined region of failure

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494 16, 494 82, B04B 504

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ABSTRACT:
A centrifuge rotor is characterized by a portion of the undersurface thereof being removed to define a predetermined number of bosses, each with a sample receiving cavity therein. A relatively thin skirt portion extends between at least one pair of adjacent bosses. The skirt portion has defined thereon a localized region which exhibits a stress therein that is greater than the stress present in any other portion of the rotor when the rotor is operating at the predetermined operating speed. The skirt may have a weight thereon. The weight may be either separate from or formed integrally with the skirt. Additionally or alternatively, a stress riser, in the form of one or a pair of hole(s), notch(es) or groove(s), may be defining on the skirt. Over operation time, the probability that rotor failure will occur only in the localized region of the skirt is enhanced.

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