Invention Grant
US09120032B2 Microchip, microchip device, and evaporation operation method using the microchip
有权
Microchip,微芯片器件和使用微芯片的蒸发操作方法
- Patent Title: Microchip, microchip device, and evaporation operation method using the microchip
- Patent Title (中): Microchip,微芯片器件和使用微芯片的蒸发操作方法
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Application No.: US12734384Application Date: 2008-10-30
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Publication No.: US09120032B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Katsuhiko Ohsaki , Shigeki Yamazaki , Takehiko Kitamori , Masaharu Ueno , Kazuma Mawatari , Yoshikuni Kikutani
- Applicant: Katsuhiko Ohsaki , Shigeki Yamazaki , Takehiko Kitamori , Masaharu Ueno , Kazuma Mawatari , Yoshikuni Kikutani
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa
- Assignee: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION,KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION,KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz, Goodman & Chick PC
- Priority: JP2007-285012 20071101
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/069755 WO 20081030
- International Announcement: WO2009/057693 WO 20090507
- Main IPC: B01D1/00
- IPC: B01D1/00 ; B01D1/14 ; A61K51/00 ; B01J10/00 ; B01D3/00 ; B01D1/22 ; B01J19/00 ; B01D1/02 ; G01N33/00 ; B01D3/34 ; B01L3/00

Abstract:
Provided is a microchip capable of integrating liquid evaporation as an operation on the microchip. In the microchip 10 having a gas flow path 13 inside, liquid is dispersed by capillary action and pooled in a pool portion 12 at a bottom of the gas flow path 13, and at least a part of the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 is evaporated. As the capillary action is used, the liquid can be dispersed and pooled in the pool portion 12 at the bottom of the gas flow path 13 inside the microchip 10. Besides, the liquid pooled in the pool portion 12 remains in the pool portion by a surface tension even if gas is made to flow in the gas flow path 13 or the gas flow path is evacuated for evaporation. This enables highly efficient evaporation inside the microchip 10.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100247429A1 MICROCHIP, MICROCHIP DEVICE AND EVAPORATION METHOD USING MICROCHIP Public/Granted day:2010-09-30
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