Microfluidic cartridge and microfluidic delivery device comprising the same
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsDana Paul Gruenbacher, William Michael Cannon, Hua Hu, James Thomas Sullivan
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Abstract
A microfluidic delivery device and method of dispensing a fluid composition from a microfluidic die are provided. The method includes generating air flow from a fan; directing a first portion of the air flow through a first air outlet in a housing; directing a second portion of the air flow through a second air outlet in the housing; jetting a fluid composition from a microfluidic die through a fluid orifice in the housing; directing the second portion of air flow adjacent to the microfluidic die and out the fluid outlet, wherein the first portion of the air flow directs the fluid composition jetted out of the fluid outlet into the air.
Claims19
A method of dispensing a fluid composition from a microfluidic die, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating air flow from a fan;
- directing a first portion of the air flow through a first air outlet in a housing;
- directing a second portion of the air flow through a second air outlet in the housing;
- jetting a fluid composition from a microfluidic die through a fluid orifice in the housing;
- directing the second portion of air flow adjacent to the microfluidic die and out a fluid outlet, wherein the first portion of the air flow directs the fluid composition jetted out of the fluid outlet into the air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.