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US 6,779,559 B2Granted
Non-mechanical valves for fluidic systems
AssigneeCaliper Life Sciences, Inc.
InventorsJ. Wallace Parce, Andrea W. Chow
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Abstract
Methods devices and systems that employ non-mechanical valve modules for controlling directing fluid and other material movement through integrated microscale channel network. These non-mechanical valve modules apply forces that counter the driving forces existing through a given channel segment, via fluidly connected channel segments, so as to selectively arrest flow of material within the given channel segment.
Claims2
A microfluidic device for sampling and dispensing material, comprising:
- a body structure having at least a first channel network disposed therein, the first channel network comprising at least a first valve module, wherein the valve module comprises first, second and third channel segments in the channel network, the second and third channel segments intersecting the first channel segment at an inlet end and an outlet end of the first channel segment, the inlet and outlet ends of the first channel segment forming inlet and outlet sides of the valve module;
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- first and second pipettor elements fluidly connected to the first channel network, wherein the first pipettor element is fluidly connected to the first channel network on an inlet side of the valve module, and the second pipettor element is fluidly coupled to the first channel network on an outlet side of the valve module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.