Flow distributor
AssigneePharmafluidics NV
InventorsGert Desmet, Sander Jespers, Sander Deridder
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Abstract
A distributor is described for distributing a fluid flow from a smaller to a more broad fluid flow. It comprises a fluid input and a plurality of fluid outputs, and a channel structure in between the fluid input and the plurality of fluid outputs. The channel structure comprises alternatingly bifurcating channel substructures and common channel substructures wherein the substructures are arranged so that fluid exiting different channels from a bifurcating channel substructure mixes in a subsequent common channel substructure, and whereby fluid channels of the bifurcating channel substructure are arranged such that these do not contact the subsequent common channel substructure at the edges thereof.
Claims14
A distributor for distributing a fluid flow from a smaller fluid plug to a more broad fluid plug,
- said distributor comprising a fluid input and a plurality of fluid outputs, and a channel structure in between the fluid input and the plurality of fluid outputs,
- the channel structure comprising alternatingly bifurcating channel substructures and common channel substructures wherein said substructures are arranged so that fluid exiting different channels from a bifurcating channel substructure mixes in a subsequent common channel substructure,
- wherein at least one common channel substructure comprises a common channel filled with a plurality of pillar elements arranged spaced from each other, and
- whereby fluid channels of the bifurcating channel substructure are arranged such that these do not contact the subsequent common channel substructure at the edges thereof.
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