Technologies

Guillotine Cutting

Guillotine cutting technology is designed to provide robustness, flexibility and precision in both R&D and high volume manufacturing environments.

Rotary Card Cutting

The Rotary Card Cutter is a compact system designed for fast cutting of paper, assembled cards, or other diagnostic materials. The standard configuration is with 5 mm blades, however other blade assemblies are available. The Rotary Card Cutter can be configured with various types of collection chutes. Whether a bottle fill or removable collection chute, the Rotary Card Cutter can be modified for most cutting applications.

Rotary Slitting:

The rotary slitter consists of a web feed system, a rotary cutter module and individual take-up reels. The objective is to slit a wide web into a number of smaller web widths where each smaller web is taken up on one of the take up reels. The take up reels can then be transferred to a lamination machine or other process station for further value added operations.

Front Line Contact Dispensing

Frontline dispensing is ideal for printing lines on membranes and other substrates for BioChips. The technology couples a high resolution syringe pump with a microtube. During dispensing the micro-tube glides across the surface of the membrane or substrate to create a quantitative line. The width of the line can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the programmed volume of the line.

AirJet Quanti - Non-contact Dispensing

AirJet technology is non-contact, quantitative aerosol dispensing. BioDot's proprietary technology couples any one of the three AirJets with a high resolution syringe pump to meter exact amounts of reagents. This process produces a precise and easy to use method for dispensing microliter quantities of fluids. Unique design features ensure repeatability and allow for disassembly and cleaning without affecting calibration.

BioJet Quanti - Non-contact Dispensing

This quantitative non contact technology couples the BioDot "drop-on-demand" valve with a high resolution syringe pump to meter precise amounts of reagent. Incorporating the benefits of non-contact dispensing and the ability to program exact drop volumes, results in BioJet technology being a flexible and highly accurate technology.

Dispo Solid Transfer

Transferring materials in the solid state has been a challenge for automation for years. Transfer of solid samples with a wide range of properties has proven even more difficult. To further complicate matters, many experiments require sample mass in the microgram range. BioDot's Dispo solid transfer technology provides the ideal solution to these challenges.

Clamshell Lamination

For batch mode, a Clamshell or manual approach is designed for the accurate assembly of precut materials into a specific test strip product.Precut membrane, absorbent material, conjugate pads and plastic backing are brought together to form a laminated lateral flow test strip. The Clamshell laminator contains top and bottom vacuum nests to hold test strip materials in place for the lamination process. The nests are customized to the customer's design but are easily interchangeable so other designs can be laminated as well. When the nests are brought together accurate alignment of the laminate is achieved.

In-Line Lamination

For a continuous lamination process, automated lamination is needed. BioDot has evolved a modular lamination system suitable for test formats comprised of multiple layers joined by adhesives.

Each material is fed from adjustable spindles through guides and under a pressure roller to assure complete adhesion to the support backing. The automated system can also be configured with dispensing or cutting technologies.

Automated Lamination

For a continuous lamination process, automated lamination is needed. BioDot has evolved a modular lamination system suitable for test formats comprised of multiple layers joined by adhesives.

Rotary Slitting

Reel-To-Reel Systems

The Reel-To-Reel system has been designed to accommodate a wide range of reagent application and drying processes for web materials used in test strip product. The Reel-To-Reel is a module system and is used to prepare these different materials in a web format that if necessary, can be slit to appropriate widths that are then used for automatic lamination to assemble the test configuration.