Capillary pump unit and flow cell
AssigneeNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
InventorsTsutomu Horiuchi, Toru Miura, Yuzuru Iwasaki, Michiko Seyama, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Jun-ichi Takahashi, Tsuneyuki Haga
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Abstract
In a capillary pump unit, a capillary pump including a plurality of through portions making a first point and a second point of an approximately flat-plate-shaped base communicable with each other are formed in the base, and a sample liquid is transferred from the first point to the second point by capillary force by the through portions.
Claims17
A capillary pump unit, wherein a capillary pump comprising a plurality of through portions making a first point and a second point of an approximately flat-plate-shaped base communicable with each other are formed in the base, and
- a sample liquid is transferred from the first point to the second point by capillary force by the through portions.
A flow cell comprising:
- a substrate;
- and
- a capillary pump unit disposed on an approximately flat-plate-shaped base, the capillary pump unit including a capillary pump formed in the base and transferring a sample liquid from a first point of the base to a second point of the base due to a capillary force by a plurality of through portions, the capillary pump comprising the plurality of through portions making the first point and the second point communicable with each other,
- wherein a suction flow path that the plurality of through portions reach is formed between opposing surfaces of the substrate and the capillary pump unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.