Resonant system to pump liquids, measure volume, and detect bubbles

A device for conveying a deliverable liquid from one location to another, said device comprising:

• a. a transducer assembly for receiving an oscillatory electrical signal and transforming said oscillatory electrical signal into a corresponding oscillatory mechanical force;
• b. a resonant transformer assembly having a compliant element, wherein said resonant transformer assembly is connected to said transducer assembly and said compliant element is coupled to said deliverable liquid, said resonant transformer assembly for transforming said oscillatory mechanical force into a resonant motion of the combination of said deliverable liquid and said compliant element that includes oscillatory motion of said deliverable liquid;
• c. fluid path confinement means for confining said deliverable liquid such that said oscillatory motion of said deliverable liquid and inertia of said deliverable liquid create a deliverable-liquid oscillatory pressure and;
• d. single-valve means for converting said deliverable-liquid-oscillatory pressure into conveyance of said deliverable liquid in one direction from one location to another.

A system for conveying a deliverable fluid from a source to a sink, said system functioning as a generator of oscillatory fluid pressure and as a self-measuring volumetric reservoir, said system comprising:

• a. an electromechanical driver/sensor assembly;
• b. a resonant fluid cavity for receiving said deliverable fluid and coupled to said electromechanical driver/sensor assembly, wherein said electromechanical driver/sensor assembly is designed to generate in said resonant fluid cavity a deliverable-fluid oscillatory pressure;
• c. means coupled to said electromechanical driver/sensor assembly, said means for electrically energizing said electromechanical driver/sensor assembly at a resonance of said resonant fluid cavity;
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• d. fluid path confinement means for confining said deliverable fluid such that oscillatory motion of said deliverable fluid and inertia of said deliverable fluid create said deliverable-fluid oscillatory pressure.

A device for transforming a first motion into a second motion, wherein the direction of said second motion is at a right angle to the direction of said first motion, said device comprising:

• a. a first driver subassembly and a second driver subassembly forming a pair of opposing driver subassemblies, wherein each of said driver subassemblies is couplable to a power supply;
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• b. a linkage assembly having a first end connected to said first driver subassembly and a second end connected to said second driver subassembly, wherein said linkage assembly is designed with a middle region that moves in the direction of said second motion when said first end and said second end of said linkage assembly are driven in the direction of said first motion by operation of said pair of opposing driver subassemblies,
• wherein each of said driver subassemblies includes a transducer, wherein each of said transducers includes a hollow electromagnetic element, driver windings and sense windings positioned about said electromagnetic element, and wherein said linkage assembly component is coupled to a core rod mounted within the center of said electromagnetic element and coaxial with said electromagnetic element, and wherein said linkage assembly component is a V-shaped metal band with the bottom of the V of said V-shaped band forming said middle region of said linkage assembly, wherein said middle region is couplable to an element to be moved in the direction of said second motion.