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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2004
Michihiro Ohnishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Morishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Takehiko Kitamori, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A new technical means is provided that can be produced and prepared at low cost, and in which the generation of stagnation in the flow of a liquid sample can be suppressed, microbeads can be smoothly and simply injected, filled and transported and the generation of dust can be also suppressed and a new extracting method for nucleic acid using the new technical means is provided. A microchip has a microchannel () formed by groove parts () provided in connecting surfaces of upper and lower substrates (). In the microchannel (), a gap part () in which the section of the channel is reduced is provided in a central part upward and downward, rightward and leftward, or upward and downward and rightward and leftward the section thereof, and microbeads are checked.