Honeywell International Inc.

Jay G Schwichtenberg

Aravind Padmanabhan

Cleopatra Cabuz

Ernest Allen Satren

Bernard S Fritz

Eugen I Cabuz

Robert Demers

Cabuz Cleopatra

A microvalve assembly that can help protect a microvalve or an assembly of microvalves from the environment. Such a microvalve assembly may be mechanically assembled, without the use of adhesives and/or other materials that might out-gas and/or otherwise reduce the performance of the electrostatically actuated devices contained therein. In particular, a microvalve assembly can include a base fixture, a clamp fixture that is configured to be attached to the base fixture, and an electrostatically actuated microvalve that is disposed between the base fixture and the clamp fixture. The clamp fixture may be mechanically secured to the base fixture.

Microvalve package assembly

A medium having microfluidic circuitry for sampling and analyses. The medium may be a cartridge having a window countersunk into it and containing a flow channel. The flow channel may have items of interest flowing through it. Analyses of these items may be optical involving one or more light sources emanating light to and one or more light detectors receiving light from the channel. There are various configurations so that source and detector light cones may reach the flow channel without obscuration or interference of the light to and from the flow channel in the window.

Cytometer analysis cartridge optical configuration

The present invention is directed towards receiving removable media, and in some embodiments, providing tighter alignment tolerances between an inserted removable media member and a receiving device. The present invention is also directed towards providing one or more electrical or optical device on or in the removable media member itself, and for providing an electrical and/or optical link between the one or more electrical and/or optical devices on or in the removable media and the receiving device.

Method and apparatus for receiving a removable media member

An integratable fluid flow and property microsensor assembly is configured to be operably embedded in a microfluidic cartridge of the type used in lab-on-a-chip systems. The assembly is a robust package having a microstructure flow sensor contained within a housing in order to achieve a robust sensing device. The cartridge provides a flow path to the assembly, which directs the fluid across the flow sensor and returns the fluid to the cartridge flow path. The flow sensor monitors the controlled flow of fluid and transmits signals indicative of that flow. The assembly structure provides a robust sensor that is operable and accurate in many different applications.

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New Hope, MN, United States of America

Jay G Schwichtenberg