Microreactor

• US 20060034736A1
• Filed: 08/09/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Wada, Morio, Miura, Akira, Kobayashi, Shinji, Ikezawa, Katsuya, Yakihara, Tsuyoshi, Oka, Sadaharu
• Application Number:
  US11/199,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20060034736A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/129
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 19/0093 Microreactors, e.g. miniaturised or microfabricated reactors laboratory containers with capillary fluid transport in microfabricated channels or chambers B01L3/5027
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00822 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00826 Quartz
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00828 Silicon wafers or plates
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00833 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00853 Employing electrode arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/0086 Dimensions of the flow channels
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00889 Mixing micromixers B01F33/30
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00905 Separation
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00934 Electromagnetic waves

Abstract

A microreactor has a plurality of flow channels, a joint flow channel where the plurality of flow channels are joined, a light applying section which applies light, that accelerates a reaction of fluids which flows through the plurality of flow channels to join in the joint flow channel, to the joint flow channel; and an applying section which applies a magnetic field and/or an electric field to a reaction production substance.

Claims

1. A microreactor, comprising:

a plurality of flow channels;

a joint flow channel where the plurality of flow channels are joined;

a light applying section which applies light, that accelerates a reaction of fluids which flows through the plurality of flow channels to join in the joint flow channel, to the joint flow channel; and

an applying section which applies a magnetic field and/or an electric field to a reaction production substance.

2. The microreactor according to claim 1,

wherein the joint flow channel is branched into a plurality of channels on a downstream side, and

the applying section is provided adjacent to the branch part.

3. The microreactor according to claim 1,

wherein the light applied from the light applying section is laser light,

the light applying section applies the laser light through a lens, and

the laser light is narrowed through the lens so that a beam waist of the laser light in the joint flow channel is smaller than the joint flow channel in width.