Shimadzu Corporation

Toshihiko Yoshida

Shin Nakamura

Rintaro Yamamoto

Hiroaki Waki

Masahiro Hiraishi

Shinichi Kuroda

Tsutomu Nishine

Sunao Yoshida

A micro array chip is formed by high-speed in jection molding. A chip body has a thickness of 1 mm and each well has a capacity of 1.2 &mgr;L with the bottom having a wall thickness of 250 &mgr;m. An opening of each well is surrounded by an annular protrusion part, which is raised from a surface of the chip body by a height of 200 &mgr;m. The openings of wells may be closed with a sheet of sealant made of aluminum or a resin. An overall shape of the micro array chip is rectangular and is a flat plate with a level bottom surface. Therefore, the micro array chip can be used with a heat block in flat plate form, which is independent of chip specifications such as a number of wells and their shape.

Micro array chip

A quadrupole mass filter, or a multiple-pole mass filter in general, composed of a cylindrical main body made of an insulating material and having a star-shaped cross-sectional profile whose inward bulges are curved substantially hyperbolic, and four electrode layers of a high melting point metal deposited by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. The four electrode layers are separated at the outward bulges of the star-shaped cross-sectional profile. The quadrupole mass filter has pre-rod electrodes.

Cylindrical multiple-pole mass filter with CVD-deposited electrode layers

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Uji, Japan

Toshihiko Yoshida