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US 12,013,327 B2Granted
Flow cell device
AssigneesZeus Co., Ltd., Zeus Enp Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyun Kook Park, Seong Hwan Park
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Abstract
A flow cell device of the present invention comprises a flow path part in which a flow medium flows, and a flow cell part in which a flow path is formed.
Claims6
A flow cell device comprising:
- a flow path through which a fluid medium flows;
- a flow cell part in which the flow path is formed;
- and
- a plurality of elastic pressing parts installed in a housing part to elastically support an outer side surface of the flow cell part;
- the plurality of elastic pressing parts are disposed in a longitudinal direction of the flow cell part;
- and each elastic pressing part comprises a pressing rod part,
- wherein the flow cell part includes:
- a flow cell body part in which the flow path is formed;
- a supply pipe part connected to one side of the flow cell body part so that the fluid medium is supplied to the flow cell body part;
- and
- a discharge pipe part connected to the other side of the flow cell body part so that the fluid medium is discharged from the flow cell body part,
- further comprising a bubble removal unit which is connected to a fluid medium inlet side of the flow cell part and removes bubbles mixed in the fluid medium introduced into the flow cell part,
- wherein the bubble removal unit includes:
- a bubble discharge line connected to the fluid medium inlet side of the flow cell part;
- and
- a bubble discharge valve installed on the bubble discharge line, and
- wherein one side of the bubble discharge line is connected to a circulation pump installed in a circulation flow path so that the bubbles of the bubble discharge line are discharged to the circulation flow path due to a suction pressure of the circulation pump,
- wherein a cross-section area of the flow cell body part is greater than a cross-section area of the supply pipe part so that the fluid medium forms a turbulent flow in the flow cell body part,
- wherein the supply pipe part includes:
- a first supply pipe part through which the fluid medium is supplied;
- and
- a second supply pipe part formed to have a diameter greater than a diameter of the first supply pipe part so that the fluid medium supplied through the first supply pipe part forms a turbulent flow,
- further comprising:
- a light source part and a photodetector part;
- further comprising:
- a first optical part installed to apply light applied from the light source part onto the fluid medium in the flow cell part;
- a second optical part installed to apply light, by which a wavelength of the fluid medium is absorbed while passing through the fluid medium in the flow path, to the photodetector part;
- and
- a third supply pipe part extending from the second supply pipe part and connected to the one side of the flow cell body part,
- wherein the third supply pipe part is connected to the flow cell body part so as to be inclined with respect to a longitudinal direction of the flow cell body part, and
- wherein the flow cell body part is disposed to be inclined upward from the supply pipe part side to the discharge pipe part side,
- further comprising:
- a first collimator part which faces the first optical part and to which a first optical fiber part is connected;
- and
- a second collimator part which faces the second optical part and to which a second optical fiber part is connected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.