US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on June 17 for "Dispensing device, automated analysis device, and dispensing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,103, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dispensing device, automated analysis device, and dispensing method" was invented by Masaaki Hirano (Tokyo), Masafumi Shimada (Tokyo), Eiichiro Takada (Tokyo) and Akihisa Makino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a dispensing device capable of preventing bubbles from jumping out of a nozzle and realizing highly accurate dispensing even though the nozzle is moved at a high speed toward a liquid level and is decelerated and stopped at a high acceleration. The dispensing device according to the present invention ...