Abstract:
The fine channel device has a fine channel substrate having a fine channel, in which patterns of same or different concave-convex are formed in front and rear surfaces wherein a functional unit having an electrical, magnetic, physical or chemical function, or an information recording function is provided on the fine channel substrate three-dimensionally. Further, the fine channel device usable for analyzing permits use of a plurality of analyzing liquid reagents in order to analyze a plurality of specified substances, and can reduce the amount of usable sample and improves the sensitivity of fluorescence measurement. Further, the fine channel device is formed by laminating a plurality of substrates having a fine channel, in which patterns of same or different concave-convex are formed, efficiently. Further, a method for producing the fine channel device capable of producing it economically in a short time and in a large scale.
Abstract:
A fine channel device for performing a chemical treatment or for producing fine particles, having the degree of integration of fine particles two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally and capable of supplying a liquid to all of the fine channels evenly and producing products in a large quantity, is provided, and a small-sized chemical plant capable of achieving a production quantity comparable to a conventional large-scale chemical plant comprising the fine channel device as a fundamental constituent factor, is provided. A fine channel device introducing at least one fluid and having fine channels for performing a chemical treatment for the fluid introduced and for producing particles from the fluid introduced, the fine channel device having a storage space for temporarily storing the introduced fluid having a shape of a circular or a polygonal recess, and supply channels of a linear and/or a curved shape formed in a radial direction from the storage space, wherein the fine channels are communicated with each of the fine channels of the fine channel substrate having the fine channels, is used. A small sized desksize chemical plant comprising a plurality of the fine channel devices as fundamental constituents, means for supplying at least one fluid to the plurality of fine channel devices, and means for recovering products produced by performing a chemical treatment of above fluid or particles produced from the above fluid in the plurality of fine channel devices, is used.
Abstract:
An information measuring apparatus having a fine channel device comprises at least one detector for measuring information supplied from a plurality of measuring portions formed in the fine channel device, a position-holding/determining means for holding and positioning the fine channel device, a rotating means for rotating the fine channel device at a predetermined angle, a position-determining means for positioning the measuring portion and the detector, wherein information supplied from the measuring portions in the fine channel device is measured successively by rotating the fine channel device at the predetermined angle, whereby information from the measuring portions is stably and efficiently measured.
Abstract:
A fine channel device comprising a fine channel (19) provided with at least two inlet ports (11, 28, 29) for feeding fluid, inlet channels communicated with the inlet ports, a confluent portion (37) communicated with the inlet channels to feed the fluid, a branch portion (4) communicated with the fine channel, from which at least two outlet channels are branched to feed predetermined amounts of fluid, and outlet ports (12, 30, 31) communicated with the outlet channels, wherein the fine channel (19) is provided with a plurality of partition walls (22) along a boundary formed by at least two kinds of fluid (13, 14) fed from the inlet ports so as not to cause mutual contamination of fluid, whereby different kinds of fluid flowing in the fine channel in an adjacent state can form stably the fluid boundary and each kind of fluid can be discharged from a predetermined outlet port separately without causing the mutual contamination of fluid between adjacent flows of the fluid, is provided. By using such fine channel device, a chemical reaction can be accelerated by making two different kinds of fluid contact at the fluid boundary in a flowing direction of fluid in the fine channel of the fine channel device.
Abstract:
A fine channel device capable of producing fine particles in an industrial scale, hardening the fine particles immediately after the production and recovering the fine particles from a medium without collapsing the shape of the produced fine particles, a fine particle producing method using the fine channel device and a solvent extraction method using the fine channel, are presented. The fine channel device comprises a fine channel provided with an inlet port and an inlet channel which feed a dispersion phase, an inlet port and an inlet channel which feed a continuous phase, and an outlet channel and an outlet port which discharge fine particles produced by the dispersion phase and the continuous phase, wherein the inlet channel for feeding the dispersion phase and the inlet channel for feeding the continuous phase are joined at an arbitrary angle, and the two inlet channels are connected to the outlet channel at the arbitrary angle.