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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Arata Suzuki, late of Ramsey, NJ (US);
Mary Anne Dell, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James W. Gray, Charlotte, TN (US);
Assignee:
Capintec, Inc., Ramsey, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/00 ; B07C 5/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/00 ; B07C 5/02 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for assaying and sorting automatically a batch of radioactive seeds used in medical applications. The method and apparatus consist in feeding seeds from a vibratory feeder through a first gate to an EA measuring station where the equitorial anisotrophy of the seeds are determined. The seeds then pass automatically to a dose calibrator where their radioactivity level is determined. Based on the radiation measurements, a computer controls a turret wheel to position it correctly, to sort the seeds from the dose calibrator into a plurality of receptacles.