Patent ID: 7867455

Claim:
A microtube picking device having a picking member, wherein said picking member has a square microtube accommodating hole formed by a reference side member having an L-shaped cross-section with two adjacent internal surfaces at right angles and an opposing side member having an L-shaped cross-section with two internal surfaces at right angles, said opposing side member having two leaf spring latch members, each leaf spring latch member being secured at one end to said opposing side member and having a circular free end, said opposing side member having two orifices, one orifice in each of said internal surfaces of said opposing side member, each orifice accommodating the circular free end of one leaf-spring latch member, said reference side member and said opposing side member engaging each other, so that their internal surfaces form said square microtube accommodating hole, said hole having four internal surfaces disposed in a square arrangement, each leaf-spring latch member biasing said free circular end into and through said microtube accommodating hole, whereby said circular end enters said square microtube accommodating hole, and presses and fixes the accommodated microtube against one of two adjacent internal surfaces of the reference side member of the microtube accommodating hole.