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US 6,618,137 B1Granted
Elastic fine tube, its production process and particle analyzer using the elastic fine tube
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorsKenichi Sawa, Fumio Kubota
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Abstract
An elastic fine tube includes a light-transmissive body of an elastic material having at least one flow channel therethrough, and a first connecting conduit and a second connecting conduit connected to the body and communicating with both ends of the inside flow channel of the body, respectively.
Claims13
An elastic fine tube comprising:
- a light-transmissive body of an elastic material having at least one flow channel therethrough so that a particle not more than 300 μm in diameter passes through the flow channel, and
- a first connecting conduit and a second connecting conduit which are connected to the body and communicated with both ends of the flow channel of the body, respectively.
A particle analyzer comprising:
- an elastic fine tube having a light-transmissive body of an elastic material having at least one inside flow channel with a circular cross section of 10 to 300 μm diameter and a first connecting conduit and a second connecting conduit which are connected to the body and communicated with both ends of the inside flow channel of the body, respectively;
- a liquid feed section for feeding a particle suspension into the elastic fine tube;
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- a detection section for measuring particles running through the elastic fine tube,
- wherein the detection section includes a device for capturing an image of particles illuminated by a light source.
2 more elements
An elastic fine tube comprising:
- a light-transmissive tubular member of a rubber having a flow channel therethrough, and
- a first connecting conduit and a second connecting conduit which are inserted into both ends of the tubular member, respectively, and communicated with the flow channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.