Patent ID: 7358098
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: B01J,B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. A device for capturing beads comprising: a chamber to hold a solution containing a plurality of beads; a vibration generator to vibrate the chamber; a long and narrow bead capturing nozzle to capture the beads at a tip thereof; a suction pump connected to the bead capturing nozzle; and an actuator to insert the tip of the bead capturing nozzle into the solution in the chamber as well as to lift up the bead capturing nozzle, wherein an opening at the tip of the bead capturing nozzle is formed as smaller than a diameter of several tens of micrometers to several millimeters of each of the beads, and an outer diameter of the tip of the bead capturing nozzle is larger than the diameter of several tens of micrometers to several millimeters of each of the beads.