Mikron Corporation Denver

Flavio Pointet

Giridhar Shamsunder

Tod Sean Hewitt

Michael B Gunner

A method and apparatus are provided for handling beads such as lyophilized beads or cryo beads to enable reliable singulation of the beads and facilitate accurate dosing. The bead handling equipment () includes an equipment housing () containing a hopper () and a bead dispenser (), a gas delivery system (), and an inspection system (). The housingmay be pressurized by supplying pressurized gas to the housingfrom the gas delivery system. The bead dispenser includes a pistonoperative to singulate individual beads from the stream of beads exiting the hopperand to deliver individual beads to a feed channeland to a container. The inspection systemidentifies bead fragments, or beads that are otherwise mis-sized, so that such beads can be rejected and not delivered to the container

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Denver, CO, United States of America

Flavio Pointet