Fluid handling apparatus
AssigneeEnplas Corporation
InventorTakuhito Ohse
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Abstract
A fluid handling apparatus 10 has an upper apparatus body 12 on which a plurality of upper fluid handling sections 16 are arrayed, and a lower apparatus body 14 capable of mounting thereon the upper apparatus body 12. Each of the upper fluid handling sections 16 of the upper apparatus body 12 has an upper fluid handling chamber 28 in which a large number of beads 24 are housed, and a valve body 26 which is provided in the bottom portion of the upper fluid handling chamber 28, the valve body 26 being pushed up by a protruding portion 18b when the upper apparatus body 12 is mounted on the lower apparatus body 14.
Claims10
A fluid handling apparatus comprising an upper apparatus body on which a plurality of upper fluid handling sections are arrayed, and a lower apparatus body for mounting thereon the upper apparatus body, each of the upper fluid handling sections comprising:
- an inlet for injecting a fluid;
- an upper fluid handling chamber for housing therein the fluid injected from the inlet;
- a surface-area increasing means, arranged in the upper fluid handling chamber, for increasing an area of a contact surface with the fluid in the upper fluid handling chamber;
- an outlet for discharging the fluid downwards from the upper fluid handling chamber;
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- a valve body for opening and closing the outlet,
- wherein said lower apparatus body has a lower fluid housing section for housing therein the fluid discharged from the upper fluid handling chamber, and the valve body of each of the upper fluid handling sections is open when the upper apparatus body is mounted on the lower apparatus body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.