Compact jam-resistant capillary dispenser for automation systems
โ Scribed by Lauren Sjoboen; Deirdre Meldrum
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-7533
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โฆ Synopsis
A compact capillary dispenser has been designed that reliably stores fragile glass capillaries in a known orientation and positively inserts one on demand into a robotic gripper head. A unique feature of the design keeps the capillaries from jamming. A successful prototype was built that stores 3800, 5 lL glass capillaries (55 mm length, 838 lm outside diameter) in an 8 cm cube, excluding the space required for two small pneumatic cylinders. The fundamental design of this dispenser can be scaled to dispense virtually any size round cylindrical objects.
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