Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
417322000 | Magnetostrictive chamber | 13 |
20080240942 | Diaphragm pump for pumping a fluid - A diaphragm pump for pumping a fluid, includes a flexible diaphragm which contains magnetically hard or soft particles and is actuated by an electromagnetic actuator. The diaphragm pump having a housing having an interior space containing two pump chambers which are separated by the diaphragm, and in that the diaphragm is actuated by two opposite electromagnetic actuators. | 10-02-2008 |
20090053079 | LIQUID DISCHARGING DEVICE - The liquid discharging device includes a driving mechanism that drives a needle, a measurement plunger member and an inlet valve members that are concentrically-arranged inside a container. The driving mechanism includes: a piezoelectric-element support plate to which piezoelectric elements are attached; a spring for biasing the piezoelectric-element support plate toward a discharge outlet; and a control device adapted to control the piezoelectric elements separately. The piezoelectric-element support plate includes: a base end to which first end sides of the piezoelectric elements are fixed; a drive unit to which second end sides of the piezoelectric elements are fixed; and a displacement expanding portion expanding and outputting a displacement of the drive unit, the drive unit being displaced in conjunction with a expansion and contraction driving of the piezoelectric elements. Since the three members can be driven by the two piezoelectric elements, a driving at high speed can be realized and the liquid discharging device can be easily downsized. | 02-26-2009 |
20090060760 | Diaphragm pump - A diaphragm pump includes: a volume changing member which changes the volume of a fluid chamber; a diaphragm member fixed in a stretched state and arranged separate from the fluid chamber, the diaphragm member having a pair of electrodes and a stretch film formed of dielectric elastomer, and the diaphragm member driving the volume changing member in a forward movement direction; a return bias member which drives the volume changing member in a backward movement direction; and a connection member which connects the diaphragm member and the volume changing member. In a low voltage state, the diaphragm member and the return bias member have driving force with respect to the volume changing member. The diaphragm member is arranged so as to be elastically protruded in the backward movement direction compared to the stretched state, and an inclination angle of the diaphragm member in the low voltage state with respect to that in the stretched state is set to 45° or greater in a cross section along a reciprocal movement direction. | 03-05-2009 |
20090092503 | VALUE STRUCTURE - A valve structure includes a valve opening diaphragm and a valve diaphragm. The valve opening diaphragm provides a central valve opening with a plurality of wave shaped projections at the circumference of the valve opening. The valve diaphragm stacks on the valve opening diaphragm and providing at least a pair of elongated circular grooves. The pair of circular grooves is symmetrically disposed with respect to the center of the valve diaphragm and an area enclosed by the pair of circular grooves covers the valve opening. | 04-09-2009 |
20090129951 | Electrically powered hydraulic actuating system - An electrically powered hydraulic actuating system is disclosed. The system includes a pump that has a plurality of electro-magnetically actuated pumping chambers. The plurality of electro-magnetically actuated pumping chambers have a common inlet situated to supply the plurality of electro-magnetically actuated pumping chambers with low-pressure fluid. The plurality of electro-magnetically actuated pumping chambers also have a common outlet situated to receive fluid pressurized by the plurality of electro-magnetically actuated pumping chambers. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129952 | Microfluidic Device - A microfluidic device is described. The microfluidic device comprises at least one transport channel and at least one working chamber, wherein the at least one transport channel and the at least one working chamber are separated from each other by a common deformable wall. The at least one transport channel is for containing a transport fluid and the at least one working chamber is for containing a working fluid. The microfluidic device comprises at least one pair of electrodes for changing the pressure on the working fluid such that when the pressure on the working fluid is changed, the deformable wall deforms, resulting in a change of the cross-section of the at least one transport channel. The working chamber comprises a flexible wall different from the common deformable wall and at least one electrode of the at least one pair of electrodes is provided on the flexible wall. | 05-21-2009 |
20100068080 | WIRING STRUCTURE FOR USE IN MICRO PIEZOELECTRIC PUMP - An electrical connection structure for use in a micro piezoelectric pump is disclosed. The electrical connection structure includes a driving circuit board and a multilayered wiring structure. The electrical connection structure includes the driving circuit board, the wiring structure, and a piezoelectric element arranged from top to bottom. The driving circuit board is provided with a driving circuit for driving the piezoelectric element and at least an electrical contact, wherein the electrical contacts are electrically connected to the driving circuit. A first electrode contact region and a second electrode contact region electrically insulated from each other are defined on the same surface of the piezoelectric element. The wiring structure sends a signal from the electrical contacts to the first electrode contact region and the second electrode contact region. | 03-18-2010 |
20100254830 | Magnetically driven micro-pumping method using external rotating stirrer - A device and method for conducting peristaltic pumping of a fluid in a body is provided. The body includes a channel having an input and an output and being partially defined by a flexible layer. A plurality of contacts are spaced along the layer and the channel is filled with the fluid. The plurality of spaced contacts is magnetically coupled to a magnetic field in sequence so as to translate peristaltic motion to the layer thereby pumping the fluid through the channel. | 10-07-2010 |
20110274566 | MAGNETICALLY DRIVEN MICROPUMP - A magnetically driven micropump for handling small fluid volumes. The micropump includes a first chamber and a second chamber. A flexible membrane being disposed between the first and second chambers. The flexible membrane being magnetically coupled to an actuator for displacing the membrane. | 11-10-2011 |
20120087809 | PIPE PUMP SYSTEM - Disclosed is an embodiment that introduces a novel system to pump fluids, or, gases or, semi-solids, or, solids, from one place to another. Conventionally, a motorized pump systems are used to pump any given fluid from one position to another, nonetheless, in this invention not only a new system of pumping fluids is so introduced, but, existing functions of a conventional motorized pumping systems are saliently augmented by the pipe pump system. The pipe pump functions basically, by a series of electromagnets, that are placed around a flexible and resilient tube, (a rubber tube, for instance), and when these said electromagnet arrangements are actuated, then, that causes the pipe pump to pump out fluids, by squeezing on the fluids, or gases, contained within. | 04-12-2012 |
20140377091 | PUMP FOR INJECTING A FLUID, AND IN PARTICULAR A MICROPUMP FOR USE DELIVERING A DETERMINED DOSE - A pump devoid of mobile mechanical parts and including a tank with a sleeve for dispensing fluid that remains fully open, but of which an inside capillary is too thin to allow for dispensing of fluid when idle. Recourse is therefore made to a resonator device with a piezoelectric exciter, that produces vibrations, in particular bending, of the sleeve to oblige the fluid to flow through it at a determined flow rate that depends on characteristics of the pump and of excitation. The assembly can be miniaturized and used as an implantable device, for example for treatment of hearing pathologies, to deliver a drug, or, in certain embodiments, also take samples of ambient fluid. A remote energy supply is possible. | 12-25-2014 |
20150118077 | PUMP, ESPECIALLY FOR DELIVERING LIQUID FUEL FOR A VEHICLE HEATER - A pump, especially for delivering liquid fuel for a vehicle heater, includes a pump body ( | 04-30-2015 |
20160123316 | PIPE PUMP SYSTEM - Disclosed is an embodiment that introduces a novel system to pump fluids, or, gases or, semi-solids, or, solids, from one place to another. Conventionally, a motorized pump systems are used to pump any given fluid from one position to another, nonetheless, in this invention not only a new system of pumping fluids is so introduced, but, existing functions of a conventional motorized pumping systems are saliently augmented by the pipe pump system. The pipe pump functions basically, by a series of electromagnets, that are placed around a flexible and resilient tube, (a rubber tube, for instance), and when these said electromagnet arrangements are actuated, then, that causes the pipe pump to pump out fluids, by squeezing on the fluids, or gases, contained within. | 05-05-2016 |