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US 2016/0228893 A1Published application
Droplet Actuator Devices Comprising Removable Cartridges and Methods
AssigneeAdvanced Liquid Logic, Inc.
InventorTheodore Winger
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Abstract
A microfluidic device having a substrate with an electrically conductive element made using a conductive ink layer underlying a hydrophobic layer.
Claims11
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A droplet actuator device for conducting droplet operations, comprising:
- (a) a bottom substrate and a removable top substrate;
- (b) an array of droplet operations electrodes arranged on the bottom substrate;
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- wherein the top substrate comprises a self-contained replaceable/removable cartridge for a droplet actuator-based assay;
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- (c) alignment guides for positioning the cartridge in proximity to the electrodes.
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A droplet actuator device for conducting droplet operations, comprising:
- (a) a bottom substrate region and a top substrate region;
- (b) a hinge region comprising a flexible substrate connecting the bottom substrate region and the top substrate region;
- (c) an array or path of droplet operations electrodes arranged on the bottom substrate region;
- (d) a dielectric layer selectively disposed atop the droplet operations electrodes;
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- (e) wherein the hinge region provides a mechanism to fold top substrate region into proximity of bottom substrate region to form a first closed cartridge position, and also provides a mechanism to unfold the top substrate region from the bottom substrate region to form a second open cartridge position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.