摘要:
A silicone rubber diaphragm pump utilizing a pair of MEMS Parylene check valves and a miniature solenoid plunger and actuator is comprised of a spacer sandwiched by a silicone rubber diaphragm on one side and a check valve support on the other. The check valves in the check valve support form the inlet and outlet to a pumping chamber defined between the check valve support and silicone rubber diaphragm. The pumping action has been demonstrated by driving the silicone diaphragm with the plunger using the solenoid type actuator to generate over and under pressures in the chamber. This forces the pumped medium into and out of the chamber, thus allowing the medium to be transported. Tubing or connectors affixed to the inlet and outlet ports of the check valve support structure allow for external fluidic access. The pump works with both gas and liquid.
摘要:
A micromachined fluid handling device having improved properties. The valve is made of reinforced parylene. A heater heats a fluid to expand the fluid. The heater is formed on unsupported silicon nitride to reduce the power. The device can be used to form a valve or a pump. Another embodiment forms a composite silicone/parylene membrane. Another feature uses a valve seat that has concentric grooves for better sealing operation.
摘要:
A micromachined fluid handling device having improved properties. The valve is made of reinforced parylene. A heater heats a fluid to expand the fluid. The heater is formed on unsupported silicon nitride to reduce the power. The device can be used to form a valve or a pump. Another embodiment forms a composite silicone/parylene membrane. Another feature uses a valve seat that has concentric grooves for better sealing operation.
摘要:
A micromachined fluid handling device having improved properties. The valve is made of reinforced parylene. A heater heats a fluid to expand the fluid. The heater is formed on unsupported silicon nitride to reduce the power. The device can be used to form a valve or a pump. Another embodiment forms a composite silicone/parylene membrane. Another feature uses a valve seat that has concentric grooves for better sealing operation.
摘要:
A micromachined fluid handling device having improved properties. The valve is made of reinforced parylene. A heater heats a fluid to expand the fluid. The heater is formed on unsupported silicon nitride to reduce the power. The device can be used to form a valve or a pump. Another embodiment forms a composite silicone/parylene membrane. Another feature uses a valve seat that has concentric grooves for better sealing operation.
摘要:
A valve where the valve membrane is made from silicone rubber. Preferably the valve is a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) thermopneumatic valve. Because of the advantageous physical properties of silicone rubber, the valve provides desirable performance with reasonable power consumption.
摘要:
A micropump including a chamber plate with connected pumping chambers for accepting small volumes of a fluid and a pumping structure. The pumping structure includes a flexible membrane, portions of which may be inflated into associated pumping chambers to pump the fluid out of the chamber or seal the chamber. A working fluid in cavities below the flexible membrane portions are used to inflate the membrane. The cavities may include a suspended heating element to enable a thermopneumatic pumping operation. The pumping chambers are shaped to closely correspond to the shape of the associated flexible membrane portion in its inflated state.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present inventions sets forth a method for decreasing a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of a MEMS resonator. The method comprises lithographically defining slots in the MEMS resonator beams and filling the slots with a compensating material (for example, an oxide) wherein the temperature coefficient of Young's Modulus (TCE) of the compensating material has a sign opposite to a TCE of the material of the resonating element.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a substrate contact for a MEMS device die, where the substrate contact is formed through an electrically insulative layer in the device die that is positioned between a handle wafer layer and a MEMS device layer formed on the handle wafer layer. The substrate contact serves as a path to ground for the MEMS handle wafer layer and is formed during the fabrication process of the MEMS device. One advantage of the disclosed invention is that a robust, low-impedance path to ground is provided for the MEMS handle wafer layer, with minimal impact on the process of fabricating a MEMS device.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a substrate contact for a MEMS device die, where the substrate contact is formed through an electrically insulative layer in the device die that is positioned between a handle wafer layer and a MEMS device layer formed on the handle wafer layer. The substrate contact serves as a path to ground for the MEMS handle wafer layer and is formed during the fabrication process of the MEMS device. One advantage of the disclosed invention is that a robust, low-impedance path to ground is provided for the MEMS handle wafer layer, with minimal impact on the process of fabricating a MEMS device.