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Flow-cell device

US5007732A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 18, 1988
Grant dateApr 16, 1991
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Expiry dateApr 18, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N15/1404
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A sheath flow type flow-cell device for plow-cytometer which comprises a first inlet for sheath fluid, a flow passage communicated with the first inlet and contracted toward downstream, the flow passage having a substantially rectangular cross section, a straight capillary flow passage connected to the flow passage downstream thereof, the capillary flow passage having a substantially rectangular cross section, a second inlet for sample fluid, a nozzle communicating with the second inlet and opened within the flow passage in the same direction as the flow direction of the straight capillary flow passage, a discharge port provided at a terminal end of the straight capillary flow passage, and flow regulating means for regulating the flow of the sheath fluid in the straight capillary flow passage to be a laminar flow having a gradient of flow velocity.

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