Microfluidic device and analyzing device using the same
    1.
    发明授权
    Microfluidic device and analyzing device using the same 有权
    微流体装置及分析装置采用相同的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08313626B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-20

    申请号:US13067005

    申请日:2011-05-02

    IPC分类号: G01N27/26 B81B1/00

    摘要: The conventional micropump and the conventional micromixer have the following problems. In a mechanical or hydrodynamic method, the structure of the inside of a flow path is complex so as to easily cause clogging, and manufacturing cost is high, and dead volume is large. Additionally, in an electrical method, the conventional micropump or the conventional micromixer was incapable of operating with a liquid having the concentration of a physiological saline that is important in the medical or biological field although the structure of the flow path is simple. These problems are solved by applying an AC voltage to a pair of electrodes in which an electrode-to-electrode gap between the pair of electrodes is vertically arranged and by generating the flow of a fluid in the direction opposite to gravity along the electrode-to-electrode gap. A micropump (43, 44) can be realized especially by forming a micro-sized flow path (11) in the vertical direction along the electrode-to-electrode gap, and a micromixer (41) can be realized by forming a micro-sized flow path (11) in the horizontal direction to cross at right angle to the electrode-to-electrode gap.

    摘要翻译: 传统的微型泵和传统的微混合器具有以下问题。 在机械或流体动力学方法中,流路内部的结构复杂,容易引起堵塞,制造成本高,死体积大。 此外,在电气方法中,传统的微型泵或常规微混合器不能用具有在医学或生物领域中重要的生理盐水浓度的液体进行操作,尽管流动路径的结构简单。 通过对一对电极施加AC电压来解决这些问题,在该对电极中,一对电极之间的电极间电极垂直排列,并且沿与电极相反的方向产生与重力相反的方向的流体 - 电极间隙。 特别是通过在电极间电极间沿垂直方向形成微小流路(11),能够实现微型泵(43,44),通过形成微型混合器(41) 流动路径(11)在水平方向上与电极间电极交叉成直角。

    Microfluidic device, measuring apparatus, and microfluid stirring method
    2.
    发明申请
    Microfluidic device, measuring apparatus, and microfluid stirring method 审中-公开
    微流体装置,测量装置和微流体搅拌方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080047833A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-02-28

    申请号:US11802419

    申请日:2007-05-22

    IPC分类号: G01N27/26

    摘要: Conventionally, it has been difficult to effectively and promptly stir and mix fluids together by use of a microfluidic device having a simple flow path structure. Additionally, there has been no means for keeping a particulate sample floating in a fluid in a flow path for a long time without precipitating the particulate sample. Additionally, there has been no method for measuring the true size of a flowing and floating particulate sample by use of a microscope. The present invention solves these problems by using a microfluidic device in which an electrode pair having a wide electrode-to-electrode gap is formed in a flow path or in a chamber, and by applying an AC voltage to this electrode pair, and by generating an eddy by which a fluid is swirled in a torus manner. The accurate size of the particulate sample that crosses the in-focus plane can be measured especially by setting an in-focus plane (53) of an objective lens (52) of a microscope at a position through which a swirling flow (41) vertically passes.

    摘要翻译: 通常,通过使用具有简单流路结构的微流体装置,难以有效地并且迅速地将流体混合在一起。 此外,没有使颗粒样品在流动路径中长时间漂浮在流体中而不使颗粒样品沉淀的方法。 另外,没有使用显微镜测量流动和浮动的颗粒样品的真实尺寸的方法。 本发明通过使用微流体装置来解决这些问题,其中在流路或室内形成具有宽的电极间电极间隙的电极对,并且通过向该电极对施加AC电压,并且通过产生 流体以环形方式旋转的涡流。 可以通过将显微镜的物镜(52)的聚焦平面(53)设置在垂直于旋转流(41)的位置上来测量穿过对焦平面的颗粒样品的精确尺寸 通过

    Apparatus for generating ions in solid ion recording head with improved
stability
    4.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for generating ions in solid ion recording head with improved stability 失效
    用于在固体离子记录头中产生离子的设备,具有改进的稳定性

    公开(公告)号:US5404157A

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-04

    申请号:US98873

    申请日:1993-07-29

    IPC分类号: G03G15/32 G01D15/06

    CPC分类号: G03G15/323

    摘要: A solid ion recording head using an ion generation device, capable of realizing a uniform and stable recording and a compact physical configuration. The head includes a head support member in substantially rectangular cross sectional shape for supporting the ion generation device on a lower side of the rectangular cross sectional shape facing against the recording medium and the driving circuits on side faces of the rectangular cross sectional shape. The ion generation device includes control electrodes having ion passing holes which are arranged such that picture dot to be recorded on the recording medium from each one of the ion passing holes is recorded on a spot around which picture dots already recorded by other ion passing holes are distributed symmetrically on both sides. The control electrodes may have a structure in which a plurality of the ion passing holes are provided with respect to each picture dot to be recorded.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用离子发生装置的固体离子记录头,能够实现均匀且稳定的记录和紧凑的物理配置。 头部包括大致矩形横截面形状的头部支撑构件,用于在与记录介质相对的矩形横截面形状的下侧和矩形横截面形状的侧面上的驱动电路上支撑离子产生装置。 离子产生装置包括具有离子通过孔的控制电极,该离子通过孔被布置为使得从每个离子通过孔记录在记录介质上的图像点被记录在已被其它离子通过孔记录的图像点的位置上 两侧分布对称。 控制电极可以具有相对于要记录的每个图像点设置多个离子通过孔的结构。

    Apparatus for printing images on booklets
    5.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for printing images on booklets 失效
    用于在小册子上打印图像的装置

    公开(公告)号:US5183347A

    公开(公告)日:1993-02-02

    申请号:US920528

    申请日:1992-07-28

    IPC分类号: B41J3/28 B41J13/22 B42D9/04

    摘要: An apparatus for printing images on a booklet comprises, first and second paired pinch rollers for conveying pages of the opened booklet to a printing head, located between these paired pinch rollers, a rotatable platen opposed to the printing head and located between the paired pinch rollers, guide plate for guiding one page of the opened booklet to the platen, and a press member for fixing the free end of the one page to the platen. The second paired rollers hold the other page of the booklet but may slipe the page when the free end of the one page is fixed onto the platen thereby adding tension to the other page of the booklet as the platen is rotated. The layout of the recorded images are changed and then printed on the page.

    摘要翻译: 用于在小册子上打印图像的装置包括:第一和第二成对的夹送辊,用于将打开的小册子的页面传送到位于这些成对夹送辊之间的打印头;与打印头相对的位于成对夹送辊之间的可旋转压板 用于将打开的小册子的一页引导到压板的引导板,以及用于将一页的自由端固定到压板的按压构件。 第二个成对的辊子保持小册子的另一页,但是当一页的自由端固定在压板上时可以将页面滑动,从而在压板旋转时向小册子的另一页面增加张力。 记录的图像的布局被更改,然后打印在页面上。

    Thermal recording head
    6.
    发明授权
    Thermal recording head 失效
    热敏记录头

    公开(公告)号:US5006870A

    公开(公告)日:1991-04-09

    申请号:US248847

    申请日:1988-09-26

    IPC分类号: B41J2/345 B41J2/36

    CPC分类号: B41J2/345

    摘要: An improved thermal recording head having a large number of heating elements connected in parallel between a plurality of pairs of electrodes for recording halftone images is provided. Each of the heating elements has end portions divided into two leg sections, and the center portion is narrowed. This configuration allows the thermal recording head to reduce image-roughness to the naked eye. In addition, the variable range of recording density can be significantly expanded.

    Thermal head driver circuit
    7.
    发明授权
    Thermal head driver circuit 失效
    热敏头驱动电路

    公开(公告)号:US4819008A

    公开(公告)日:1989-04-04

    申请号:US75296

    申请日:1987-07-17

    CPC分类号: B41J2/365 B41J2/35 G06K15/028

    摘要: A thermal head driver circuit is disclosed, which comprises a thermal head including a plurality of heat generation elements in an array, a shift register for storing image data including a plurality of bits for a plurality of heat generation elements, signal generation circuit for generating a print signal having a duration corresponding to image data for each of said heat generation elements held in said shift register, and driving circuit for energizing the heat generation elements of the thermal head according to the print signal. The shift register has parallel data input terminals, to which all of image data including a plurality of bits for each of said heat generation elements are fed at a time. Image data is supplied in a single transfer from an external device to the driver circuit. The signal generation circuit includes a counter for counting a clock signal, a plurality of comparators for comparing the count of the counter and image data of each heat generation element and providing an output signal when the count of the counter is greater than image data of each heat generation element, and a plurality of gates, to which the print signal and the output signals of the plurality of comparators are fed.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种热敏头驱动器电路,其包括具有阵列中的多个发热元件的热​​敏头,用于存储包括多个发热元件的多个位的图像数据的移位寄存器,用于生成 具有与保持在所述移位寄存器中的每个所述发热元件的图像数据相对应的持续时间的打印信号,以及根据打印信号激励热敏头的发热元件的驱动电路。 移位寄存器具有并行数据输入端子,其中包括用于每个所述发热元件的多个位的所有图像数据一次被馈送到该数据输入端子。 图像数据以从外部设备到驱动器电路的单次传输提供。 信号发生电路包括用于计数时钟信号的计数器,用于比较每个发热元件的计数器计数和图像数据的多个比较器,并且当计数器的计数大于每个发热元件的图像数据时提供输出信号 发热元件和多个栅极,多个比较器的打印信号和输出信号被馈送到多个栅极。

    Microfluidic device and analyzing device using the same
    8.
    发明申请
    Microfluidic device and analyzing device using the same 有权
    微流体装置及分析装置采用相同的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20110284375A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-11-24

    申请号:US13067005

    申请日:2011-05-02

    IPC分类号: G01N27/447 B81B1/00

    摘要: The conventional micropump and the conventional micromixer have the following problems. In a mechanical or hydrodynamic method, the structure of the inside of a flow path is complex so as to easily cause clogging, and manufacturing cost is high, and dead volume is large. Additionally, in an electrical method, the conventional micropump or the conventional micromixer was incapable of operating with a liquid having the concentration of a physiological saline that is important in the medical or biological field although the structure of the flow path is simple. These problems are solved by applying an AC voltage to a pair of electrodes in which an electrode-to-electrode gap between the pair of electrodes is vertically arranged and by generating the flow of a fluid in the direction opposite to gravity along the electrode-to-electrode gap. A micropump (43, 44) can be realized especially by forming a micro-sized flow path (11) in the vertical direction along the electrode-to-electrode gap, and a micromixer (41) can be realized by forming a micro-sized flow path (11) in the horizontal direction to cross at right angle to the electrode-to-electrode gap.

    摘要翻译: 传统的微型泵和传统的微混合器具有以下问题。 在机械或流体动力学方法中,流路内部的结构复杂,容易引起堵塞,制造成本高,死体积大。 此外,在电气方法中,传统的微型泵或常规微混合器不能用具有在医学或生物领域中重要的生理盐水浓度的液体进行操作,尽管流动路径的结构简单。 通过对一对电极施加AC电压来解决这些问题,在该对电极中,一对电极之间的电极间电极垂直排列,并且沿与电极相反的方向产生与重力相反的方向的流体 - 电极间隙。 特别是通过在电极间电极间沿垂直方向形成微小流路(11),能够实现微型泵(43,44),通过形成微型混合器(41) 流动路径(11)在水平方向上与电极间电极交叉成直角。

    Ink-jet printer
    10.
    发明授权
    Ink-jet printer 失效
    喷墨打印机

    公开(公告)号:US5852453A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-22

    申请号:US610398

    申请日:1996-03-04

    CPC分类号: B41J2/06 B41J2002/061

    摘要: An auxiliary substrate is provided so as to face a main substrate to which ink is supplied and the pattern of a voltage applied to an auxiliary electrode array formed on the auxiliary substrate is controlled. In a printing operation, the coloring material components are sent to the vicinity of an ink droplet emitting outlet and the coloring material components in the ink where the coloring material is dispersed in solvent are concentrated. Then, they are emitted from the ink droplet emitting outlet in the form of ink droplets and are forced to fly at a printing medium, thereby printing on the medium. In a non-printing operation, the auxiliary electrode array is controlled so that the coloring material components may be kept away from the ink droplet emitting outlet and the concentration of the coloring material components in the ink near the ink droplet emitting outlet is made lower than in a printing operation.

    摘要翻译: 提供辅助基板以面向供应墨的主基板,并且控制施加到形成在辅助基板上的辅助电极阵列的电压图案。 在打印操作中,着色材料成分被送到墨滴喷射出口附近,着色材料分散在溶剂中的着墨材料成分被浓缩。 然后,它们以墨滴的形式从墨滴发射出口发射,并被迫在打印介质上飞行,从而在介质上打印。 在非打印操作中,控制辅助电极阵列,使得着色材料成分可以远离墨滴发射出口,使得墨滴发射出口附近的墨中的着色材料成分的浓度低于 在打印操作中。