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US 11,448,332 B2Granted
Chip, mixing device, and mixing method
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsYoshihisa Usami, Yasuyuki Ishii, Yuki Inoue, Aya Ouchi
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Abstract
A chip includes a first chamber that stores a fluid, a second chamber that stores a mixing target which is to be mixed with the fluid, a flow path that allows a communication between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a valve that is provided in the flow path and capable of changing the flow path by change in shape by heating.
Claims17
A chip comprising:
- a first chamber that stores a fluid;
- a second chamber that stores a mixing target which is to be mixed with the fluid;
- a first flow path that allows a communication between the first chamber and the second chamber;
- a first valve that is provided in the first flow path and capable of changing the first flow path by change in shape by heating;
- a second flow path that allows a communication between the second chamber and an outside of the chip;
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- a second valve that is provided in the second flow path and capable of changing the second flow path by change in shape by heating.
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A mixing method comprising:
- providing a chip comprising a first chamber and a second chamber;
- a first step of heating a first valve provided in a first flow path that allows a communication between a the first chamber and a the second chamber, and changing a shape of the first valve by heating to open the first flow path;
- a second step of moving the fluid stored in the first chamber to the second chamber in which a mixing target is stored;
- a third step of heating a second valve provided in a second flow path that allows a communication between the second chamber and an outside of the chip, and changing a shape of the second valve by heating to open the second flow path;
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- a fourth step of moving the fluid mixed with the mixing target from the second chamber to the outside of the chip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.