Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Kyosuke Suzuki

Hisashige Kanbara

Yoshihito Kikuhara

Kouichi Tsuyama

Takahiro Suzuki

Susumu Naoyuki

Minoru Tosaka

Toshirou Okamura

Masami Negishi

Tadayasu Fujieda

A metal filter includes a plurality of through holes. An opening shape of each of the plurality of through holes is a rectangle or rounded-rectangle and a length of a short side of the rectangle or a rounded rectangle is 5 to 15 &#x3bc;m. A method for concentrating cancer cells using the metal filter includes separating cancer cells from blood and blood cell constituents by passing blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets through the plurality of through holes while capturing cancer cells to concentrate the cancer cells.

Metal filter and method for concentrating cancer cells

An engraved plate which includes a substrate and an insulating layer on a surface of the substrate wherein a concave portion which increases in width toward an opening and to which the substrate is exposed is formed at the insulating layer, and an engraved plate, a substrate with conductor layer pattern manufactured by a transferring method using the engraved plate, and a conductor layer pattern are provided.

Engraved plate and substrate with conductor layer pattern using the same

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Tsukuba, Japan

Kyosuke Suzuki