Method for controlling electrochemical pump and electrochemical pump implementing the same
AssigneeMicroMED Co., Ltd.
InventorsPo-Ying LI, Tsung-Chieh CHENG, Jiunn-Ru LAI
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for controlling an electrochemical pump, comprising: providing an electrochemical pump, and causing a control circuit of the electrochemical pump to generate a pulse signal to enable an electrochemical reaction on electrodes of the electrochemical pump, wherein the pulse signal has alternating on-periods and off-periods where the pulse signal is off, and wherein each on-period has a plurality of on-times where the pulse signal is on and a plurality of off-times where the pulse signal is off, the on- and off-times being alternatingly arranged.
Claims18
A method for controlling an electrochemical pump, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing an electrochemical pump comprising:
- a substrate having an electrode region;
- a plurality of electrodes disposed in the electrode region;
- a dam enclosing the electrode region to define an accommodating space;
- an electrochemical liquid disposed in the accommodating space;
- and a control circuit electrically connected with the electrodes;
- and
- causing the control circuit to generate a pulse signal to enable an electrochemical reaction on surfaces of the electrodes;
- wherein the pulse signal has alternating on-periods and off-periods where the pulse signal is off, and
- wherein each on-periods has a plurality of on-times where the pulse signal is on and a plurality of off-times where the pulse signal is off, the on- and off-times being alternatingly arranged.
An electrochemical pump comprising:
- a substrate having an electrode region;
- a plurality of electrodes disposed in the electrode region;
- a dam enclosing the electrode region to define an accommodating space, the accommodating space storing an electrochemical liquid;
- a control circuit electrically connected to the electrodes;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium connected to the control circuit, including instructions that, when executed by the control circuit, causes the control circuit to:
- generate a pulse signal to enable an electrochemical reaction on surfaces of the electrodes,
- wherein the pulse signal has alternating on-periods and off-periods where the pulse signal is off, and
- wherein each on-period has a plurality of on-times where the pulse signal is on and a plurality of off-times where the pulse signal is off, the on- and off-times being alternatingly arranged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.