US 11,717,817 B2
Dispensing apparatus, liquid dispensing method, and cell dispensing method
Shinya Sakuma, Nagoya (JP); Yusuke Kasai, Nagoya (JP); and Fumihito Arai, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
Appl. No. 16/624,456
Filed by NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, Fukuoka (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 19, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/023242
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/235804, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-119895 (JP), filed on Jun. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0179918 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. B01L 3/02 (2006.01); C12M 1/26 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 3/0237 (2013.01) [C12M 33/04 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0832 (2013.01); B01L 2300/123 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dispensing apparatus comprising:
a dispensing member having a dispensing spout, the dispensing member comprising an opening portion located opposite the dispensing spout;
a tubular elastic member which is elastically deformable and comprises a first open end, a second open end and a cylindrical space, wherein the opening portion of the dispensing member is inserted and fitted into the first open end of the tubular elastic member;
a rod-shaped member fitted into the second open end of the tubular elastic member, the rod-shaped member comprising a first end surface and a second end surface; and
an actuator for compressing the tubular elastic member in an axial direction of the tubular elastic member via the second end surface of the rod-shaped member,
wherein the tubular elastic member elastically deforms in the axial direction in an elastically deformable region.