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US 2018/0021778 A1Published application
Vented microfluidic reservoirs
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJeremy Sells, Chantelle E. Domingue, Robert Moline, Manish Giri
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Abstract
Vented microfluidic reservoirs can include a housing and a vent coupled to the housing to vent air associated with a fluid sample communicated into the housing to an environment surrounding a microfluidic device coupled to the housing.
Claims15
A microfluidic device, comprising:
- a microfluidic chip comprising a fluid receiving structure, a channel, a sensor in the channel, and a nozzle;
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- a vented microfluidic reservoir including:
- a housing coupled to the microfluidic chip to provide fluid communication of a fluid sample from the fluid receiving structure through the channel by the sensor via the nozzle into the housing;
- and
- a vent coupled to the housing to vent air associated with the fluid sample communicated into the housing to an environment surrounding the microfluidic device.
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A microfluidic device, comprising:
- a fluid receiving structure to receive a fluid sample;
- a sensor in a channel between the fluid receiving structure and a vented microfluidic reservoir, where the vented microfluidic reservoir includes a housing and a vent coupled to the housing;
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- an actuator associated with an ejection nozzle to cause flow of the fluid sample from the channel into the vented microfluidic reservoir.
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A system, comprising:
- a vented microfluidic reservoir including a housing defining a volume of the vented microfluidic reservoir;
- an actuator associated with an ejection nozzle to cause flow of a fluid sample into the volume of the vented microfluidic reservoir;
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- a vent coupled to the vented microfluidic reservoir to vent air associated with flow of the fluid sample into the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.