Capillary pins for high-efficiency microarray printing device

US8283181B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Regents of the University of California · US

Inventors

• Daniel Pinkel · Lafayette, US
• Donna G. Albertson · Lafayette, US
• Greg Hamilton · San Francisco, US
• Nils W. Brown · San Francisco, US
• Robert Nordmeyer · Calabasas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 9, 2008
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2012
• Expiry date: May 11, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/2575
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

This invention provides improved components (e.g. array “pins”, print head, substrate platen, print head platen, and the like) for microarray printing devices as well as microarray printing devices incorporating such components. In one embodiment, this invention provides a microarray print head comprising a plurality of glass or quartz spotting capillaries disposed in a support that maintains a fixed spacing between the spotting capillaries and that permits the spotting capillaries to move in a direction parallel to the long axis of the capillaries.