Microchannel chip
AssigneeSekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuhiko IMAMURA, Nobuhiko INUI
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Abstract
A microchannel chip (1) includes: a first channel (201); a reagent holder (230); a gas inlet (210) communicating with the first channel; a lid (50) closing the gas inlet; and a second channel (202) provided downstream of the first channel. A specimen holder (240) is provided downstream of the reagent holder (230). When the lid (50) closes the gas inlet (210), gas is supplied to the first channel (201) and pushes out the reagent downstream from the reagent holder (230). Thus, the pushed-out reagent merges with a specimen in the second channel (202).
Claims15
A microchannel chip mixing first liquid and second liquid to supply the thus mixed liquid, the microchannel chip comprising:
- a first channel;
- a first liquid holder provided on the first channel to store the first liquid;
- a gas inlet communicating with the first channel and being opened to an outside of a system on an upstream side of the first liquid holder;
- a lid closing the gas inlet;
- a second channel provided downstream of the first channel;
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- a second liquid holder capable of communicating with a downstream side of the first liquid holder, the second liquid holder holding the second liquid, wherein
- a downstream side of the second channel is opened to the outside of the system, and
- when the lid is closed, gas is supplied to the first channel and pushes out the first liquid downstream from the first liquid holder, and the thus pushed-out first liquid merges with the second liquid in the second channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.