Drip-resistant pipetting device and drip-resistant pipetting method

摘要

A liquid-metering device is disclosed, in particular, a pipetting device for aspirating and dispensing liquids. The device comprises a vessel which is at least partially filled with gas and has an opening through which liquid is received or discharged, a gas-pressure-changing device for changing the gas pressure in the vessel, a state-variable-detecting device for detecting at least one state variable of the gas in the vessel, and a control device which activates the gas-pressure-changing device as a function of the state variable detected by the state-variable-detecting device. The control device is a regulating device which, during a regulating time segment between liquid reception and liquid discharge, activates the gas-pressure-changing device as a function of the detected state variable such that the actual gas pressure in the vessel is kept essentially at a predetermined gas pressure.