Patent ID: 8070466

Claim:
A seamless capsule manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a seamless capsule by ejecting a droplet into hardening liquid to harden at least the surface area of the droplet, said apparatus comprising: a nozzle; a liquid tank for storing liquid to form the droplet; a tube passage connecting said liquid tank and said nozzle; a pump connected to said tube passage for feeding the liquid to be stored in said liquid tank to said nozzle; a vibration unit for applying vibration to said nozzle; and a flexible tube section formed of a synthetic resin tube, said flexible tube section being arranged between said pump and said nozzle, and said flexible tube section being configured to absorb vibration noise generated by said pump and to block transmission of the vibration noise from said pump to said nozzle; wherein said nozzle, said vibration unit, and said flexible tube section are configured and arranged such that the liquid ejected from said nozzle is cut by the vibration applied to said nozzle by said vibration unit to form the droplet without interference from the vibration noise absorbed and blocked by said flexible tube section.