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US 11,532,899 B2Granted
Fluidic wire connectors
AssigneeTeveri LLC
InventorsGianluca Lazzi, Dulce Maria Altabella Lazzi, Kyle Loizos
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Abstract
A connector to connect to a liquid metal wire includes a hollow conduit configured to connect to a tubular wire casing, and further includes a reservoir including a solid metal conductor. The reservoir is to receive liquid metal to substantially fill a volume of the reservoir such that the liquid metal extends into the tubular wire casing. The tubular wire casing, filled with the liquid metal, becomes the liquid metal wire.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a connector comprising:
- an opening to couple to a channel;
- and
- a reservoir comprising a solid metal conductor, wherein the reservoir is to receive liquid metal to substantially fill a volume of the reservoir and extend through the opening into the channel, wherein the channel, when filled with the liquid metal, forms at least a portion of a liquid metal circuit.
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A method comprising:
- coupling one or more conduits of a connector to a channel, wherein the connector comprises one or more reservoirs corresponding to the one or more conduits, each of the one or more reservoirs comprises a respective solid metal conductor, and the one or more reservoirs when filled with liquid metal bring the liquid metal into contact with the conductor of the reservoir;
- and
- injecting liquid metal to fill the one or more reservoirs and enter the channel via the one or more conduits.
An apparatus comprising:
- a first electronic component coupled to a first connector;
- a second electronic component coupled to a second connector;
- and
- a liquid metal wire connecting the first connector to the second connector,
- wherein the first connector comprises:
- a hollow conduit configured to connect to channel, wherein the liquid metal wire comprises the channel;
- and
- a reservoir comprising a solid metal conductor, wherein the reservoir is to be substantially filled with liquid metal extending into the liquid metal wire to bring the liquid metal into contact with the solid metal conductor, and the solid metal conductor is conductively connected to circuitry of the first electronic component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.