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AssigneeWaters Technologies Corporation
InventorsSylvain Gilles Cormier, Charles T. Murphy, Joseph D. Michienzi
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Described is a multi-channel fluidic device that includes a diffusion-bonded body having a device surface and a plurality of fluid channels. Each fluid channel includes a channel segment defined in a plane that is parallel to the device surface and parallel to each of the planes of the other channel segments. The plane of each channel segment is at a depth below the device surface that is different from the depth below the device surface for the other planes. Each channel segment may have a volume equal to the volume of each of the other channel segments. One of the fluid channels may include a plurality of channel segments serially connected to each other and each defined in a plane that is different from the planes of the other channel segments.
A multi-channel fluidic device comprising a diffusion-bonded body having a device surface and having a plurality of fluid channels, each of the fluid channels comprising a channel segment defined in a plane that is parallel to the device surface and parallel to each of the planes of the other channel segments, wherein the plane of each channel segment is at a depth below the device surface that is different from the depth below the device surface for each of the other channel segments.
A multi-channel fluidic device comprising a diffusion-bonded body having a plurality of fluid channels and a pair of layers wherein the layers are diffusion-bonded together at an interface, each of the fluid channels comprising a channel segment defined in a plane parallel to the interface and having a volume equal to the volume of each of the other channel segments, wherein a length of each channel segment is different from a length of each of the other channel segments and wherein a depth of each channel segment is different from a depth of each of the other channel segments.
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