1. A shade support that utilizes the glass tube portion of a spiral shaped compact fluorescent light to attach a shade to the light consisting of:
A. A said shade support.
2. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support utilizes a fastener to attach to the center somewhat straight cross-member portion of a compact fluorescent light’s glass tubing which; is farthest from the Edison style socket end of the light.
3. A system of claim two wherein; the said fastener utilizes another fastener or fasteners becoming a polarity of fasteners that are separated by a distance from each other by a fastener cross member.
4. A system of claim three wherein; the said fastener cross member is provided a relief area in its mid section that faces the light in order to accommodate room for the glass tubing’s protruding manufacturing bump that is found on the end of most spiral shaped compact fluorescent lights.
5. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support utilizes one or more finger members protruding from the device to provide opposing lateral support by contacting or attaching to opposing portions of the light’s tubing.
6. A system of claim five wherein; the said finger members are manufacture out of a deformable material that allows for their adjustment and the adjustment of the shade’s angle.
7. A system of claim one wherein, the said shade support is separate from the shade portion and provided with a means to attach a shade to the device.
8. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support is an integrated part of the shade portion and after manufacturing is one part.
9. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support’s interface between itself and a shade is provided with a slight offset angle either in the surface of the shade and or said shade support or be provided in part or in whole by a separate offset washer having one portion thicker than the other placed between the two.
10. A system of claim nine wherein; the said offset washer is provided with a means for its adjustment after the shade is attached to the said shade support.
11. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support is a clear tube that makes contact with and slides over the outer most portions of a compact fluorescent light’s spiral glass tubing and uses this contact to provide support to attach a shade.
12. A system of claim eleven wherein; a polarity of many expansion slots in the said clear tube allow it to become an expandable tube that also supplies spring tension and friction.
13. A system of claim eleven wherein; the clear tube is made in part or whole out of a heat shrinkable material.
14. A system of claim one wherein; the said shade support utilizes a said fastener or said polarity of fasteners to attach to the spiraled portion of a compact fluorescent light’s glass tubing.
15. A system of claims fourteen wherein; one or more surfaces of the said shade support make contact with the center somewhat straight cross-member portion of a compact fluorescent light’s glass tubing.
16. A system of claims fourteen wherein; the said shade support is provided with fingers that make contact with the center somewhat straight cross-member portion of a compact fluorescent light’s glass tubing.
17. A system of claim seven wherein; an extension spacer can be attached to the said shade support and then the shade attached to the said spacer.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A capillary array device comprising:
a plurality of capillaries;
a window unit for holding the arrangement of the plurality of capillaries in the middle of the length of the capillaries, the window unit provided with an aperture for radiating light to the arrangement of capillaries and an aperture from which the light from the capillaries comes out;
a load header for holding the plurality of capillaries and a plurality of electrodes at a sample inlet end; and
a capillary head for holding the plurality of capillaries at the other end,
wherein the load header is provided with a holder, the plurality of hollow electrodes fixed to the holder, and a conductive connection plate that makes contact with the outer surfaces of the plurality of hollow electrodes via spring force; and the plurality of capillaries are passed through the respective hollow electrodes such that the tips of the capillaries are exposed from the hollow electrodes.
2. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow electrodes and the connection plate are made of austenite stainless steel.
3. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein the edges of the connection plate and the outer surfaces of the hollow electrodes are electrically connected.
4. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of nail springs of the connection plate, which are symmetrically provided around each of the hollow electrodes, make contact with the outer surfaces of the hollow electrodes.
5. A capillary array device according to claim 4, wherein the inscribed circle formed by each set of nail springs of the connection plate is smaller than the outer diameter of each of the hollow electrodes, and the connection plate is inserted from the upper ends of the hollow electrodes for assembly.
6. A capillary array device according to claim 4, wherein a pressure at interfaces between the outer surfaces of the hollow electrodes and the nail springs of the connection plate is 5to 10 MPa.
7. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein the connection plate is made of a conductive rubber plate or conductive plastic.
8. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow electrodes are made integrally with the holder by integration molding.
9. A capillary array device according to claim 1, wherein the spring contact parts between the connection plate and the hollow electrodes are shielded from atmosphere.
10. A capillary array comprising:
a plurality of capillaries having sample inlet ends from which a separation medium for separating a sample is filled in and from which the sample is introduced;
a detection section for holding parts of the plurality of capillaries to be irradiated with laser light (parts of the capillaries where they allow transmission of the laser light for exciting the sample) in parallel;
a load header provided with hollow electrodes for holding the capillaries near the sample inlet ends of the capillaries, and a conductive connection member electrically connected to the hollow electrodes; and
capillary heads for holding the other ends of the capillaries,
wherein contact interfaces between the conductive connection member and the respective hollow electrodes are pressed by volume elasticity.
11. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein the conductive connection member is made of a conductive rubber.
12. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein the hollow electrodes are made of austenite stainless steel.
13. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein the crosssection of the peripheral surface of the hollow electrodes is circular.
14. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein the load header is provided with a pressing member for pressing the conductive connection member near the contact interfaces between the conductive connection member and the hollow electrodes.
15. A capillary array according to claim 14, wherein each of the hollow electrodes is present within each of the plurality of pressed parts (parts of the conductive connection member pressed by the pressing member).
16. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein one ends of the hollow electrodes have flared shapes.
17. A capillary array according to claim 10, wherein the conductive member directly makes contact with a high-voltage contact.
18. An electrophoresis apparatus incorporating a capillary array comprising:
a plurality of capillaries having sample inlet ends from which a separation medium for separating a sample is filled in and from which the sample is introduced;
a detection section for holding parts of the plurality of capillaries to be irradiated with laser light (parts of the capillaries that allow transmission of the laser light for exciting the sample) in parallel;
a load header provided with hollow electrodes for holding the capillaries near the sample inlet ends of the capillaries, and a conductive connection member electrically connected to the hollow electrodes; and
capillary heads for holding the other ends of the capillaries,
wherein contact interfaces between the conductive connection member and the respective hollow electrodes are pressed by volume elasticity.
19. An electrophoresis apparatus which can station a capillary array comprising:
a plurality of capillaries having sample inlet ends from which a separation medium for separating a sample is filled in and from which the sample is introduced;
a detection section for holding parts of the plurality of capillaries to be irradiated with laser light (parts of the capillaries that allow transmission of the laser light for exciting the sample) in parallel;
a load header provided with hollow electrodes for holding the capillaries near the sample inlet ends of the capillaries, and a conductive connection member electrically connected to the hollow electrodes; and
capillary heads for holding the other ends of the capillaries,
wherein contact interfaces between the conductive connection member and the respective hollow electrodes are pressed by volume elasticity.
20. A capillary array comprising:
a plurality of capillaries having sample inlet ends from which a separation medium for separating a sample is filled in and from which the sample is introduced;
a detection section for holding parts of the plurality of capillaries to be irradiated with laser light (parts of the capillaries where they allow transmission of the laser light for exciting the sample) in parallel;
a load header provided with hollow electrodes for holding the capillaries near the sample inlet ends of the capillaries, and a conductive connection member electrically connected to the hollow electrodes; and
capillary heads for holding the other ends of the capillaries,
wherein the load header has at least a main member for holding the hollow electrodes, a conductive connection member having contact interfaces with the hollow electrodes at which the conductive connection member is secured with the hollow electrodes by volume elasticity, and a lid which makes contact with the conductive member in the vicinity of the contact interfaces, and
wherein at least one of the main member, the conductive connection member and the lid is provided with means for preventing relative movement in the longitudinal and transversal directions of the hollow electrodes with respect to the other members.
21. A capillary array according to claim 20, wherein one ends of the hollow electrodes have flared shapes.
22. A capillary array according to claim 20, wherein the hollow electrodes are secured to the main member via a resin.
23. A capillary array according to claim 20, wherein the conductive connection member is a conductive rubber.
24. A capillary array according to claim 20, wherein each of the hollow electrodes is present within each of the plurality of pressed parts (parts of the conductive connection member pressed by the pressing member).
25. A method for producing a capillary array comprising:
a plurality of capillaries having sample inlet ends from which a separation medium for separating a sample is filled in and from which the sample is introduced;
a detection section for holding parts of the plurality of capillaries to be irradiated with laser light (parts of the capillaries where they allow transmission of the laser light for exciting the sample) in parallel;
a load header provided with hollow electrodes for holding the capillaries near the sample inlet ends of the capillaries, and a conductive connection member electrically connected to the hollow electrodes; and
capillary heads for holding the other ends of the capillaries,
wherein the load header has at least a main member for holding the hollow electrodes, a conductive connection member having contact interfaces with the hollow electrodes at which the conductive connection member is secured with the hollow electrodes by volume elasticity, and a lid which makes contact with the conductive member in the vicinity of the contact interfaces, and
wherein at least one of the main member, the conductive connection member and the lid is provided with means for preventing relative movement in the longitudinal and transversal directions of the hollow electrodes with respect to the other members,
the method comprising the steps of:
arranging the conductive connection member between the main member and the lid; and
pressing the main member and the lid toward each other in the longitudinal direction of the hollow electrodes to allow the conductive connection member and the hollow electrodes to make contact with each other and to bond the main member and the lid.