TY - JOUR
T1 - Compact jam-resistant capillary dispenser for automation systems
AU - Sjoboen, Lauren
AU - Meldrum, Deirdre
PY - 1998/1/1
Y1 - 1998/1/1
N2 - 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 μL glass capillaries (55 mm length, 838 μm 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.
AB - 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 μL glass capillaries (55 mm length, 838 μm 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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U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2728(1998)10:1<15::AID-LRA3>3.0.CO;2-0
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2728(1998)10:1<15::AID-LRA3>3.0.CO;2-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002493027
SN - 0895-7533
VL - 10
SP - 15
EP - 17
JO - Laboratory Robotics and Automation
JF - Laboratory Robotics and Automation
IS - 1
ER -