DocumentCode
1873264
Title
PDMS balloon pump with a microfluidic regulator for the continuous drug supply in low flow rate
Author
Mukouyama, Yumi ; Morimoto, Yuya ; Habasaki, Shohei ; Okitsu, Teru ; Takeuchi, Shoji
Author_Institution
Inst. of Ind. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2015
fDate
18-22 Jan. 2015
Firstpage
666
Lastpage
669
Abstract
This paper describes a small sized balloon pump for providing liquid in low flow rate without a driving source. The balloon pump is composed of a balloon tank and a microfluidic valve. The balloon tank can work as a reservoir to store liquid and an actuator to pump liquid. By connecting the microfluidic valve to the balloon tank, we achieved extremely low flow rates of the liquid. Therefore, our balloon pump will be applicable to implantable pumps for the continuous drug supply in low flow rates without batteries.
Keywords
bioMEMS; drug delivery systems; microactuators; microfluidics; micropumps; PDMS balloon pump; actuator; balloon tank; continuous drug supply; implantable pumps; low flow rate; microfluidic regulator; microfluidic valve; Actuators; Liquids; Microchannels; Microfluidics; Partial discharges; Regulators; Valves;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2015 28th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Estoril
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7051045
Filename
7051045
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