Microfluidic system
OwnerKonstanin Choikhetinventor
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Abstract
The invention refers to a microfluidic system, particularly a microfluidic chip with at least one analytical channel in which a fluid and/or constituents contained therein are movable, and with a detection area in which the fluid and/or the constituents contained therein can be analyzed. At least three channel sections of said channel or of channels cross a substantially linear scan area within the detection area, wherein at least one of the channels has a meander-shaped channel section within the detection area, so that at least two of its channel sections cross the scan area.
Claims28
A microfluidic chip for a microfluidic system, the microfluidic chip having (a) at least one microfluidic channel in which a fluid is movable by a driving force, and (b) a detection area where a portion of the at least one microfluidic channel is located, the detection area being arranged for detection of at least one of (i) the fluid and (ii) a constituent of the fluid in the at least one microfluidic channel, the portion of the at least one microfluidic channel in the detection area including a meandering segment having at plural channel sections that can be crossed by a substantially linear scan area within the detection area, said scan area for a single channel enabling (a) a determination to be made of the position of said single channel and (b) a detection point of said single channel to be set, said scan area for plural channels enabling (a) a determination to be made of the position of said plural channels and (b) the detection points of each of said plural channels to be set.
A microfluidic chip including a supply area, a detection area and at least one microfluidic channel arranged so material can be moved through the at least one channel from the supply area to the detection area, the at least one channel having a meandering segment in the detection area, the meandering segment of the at least one channel in the detection area being arranged so the meandering segment in the detection area is crossed by a straight line at least twice.
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