论文信息 - Buckled-type valves integrated by parylene micro-tubes

Buckled-type valves integrated by parylene micro-tubes

This paper demonstrates a newly developed parylene buckled-type valve with the same working principle of the "buckled straw". Such a new design of valves uses the buckled region of plastic tubes as the on/off switch for flow control, and there is no need of adding deformable diaphragms or sealing parts into the valve device. By the merit of its concise mechanism, i.e., a straight pipeline with the region for buckling, the buckled-type valve intrinsically operates with almost zero dead volume. The fabrication sequence of this new valve combines the techniques of sacrificial mould of capillary glass tubes, conformal coating of parylene and SU-8 photolithography. A valve device of 1cm long, 0.8cm wide and with the buckled micro-tube of 350 /spl mu/m diameter is demonstrated. The turn-on angle of this valve verified as 135/spl deg/ experimentally.

Lung-Jieh Yang | Wen-Pin Shih | Jiun-Min Wang | Kuan-Chun Liu | Kai-Chung Ko

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