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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Christopher DiBiasio, Stoughton, MA (US);
Joseph L. Charest, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Newton, MA (US);
Ernest S. Kim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel I. Harjes, Acton, MA (US);
Kevin Hufford, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An compact hydraulic manifold for transporting shear sensitive fluids is provided. A channel network can include a trunk and branch architecture coupled to a bifurcation architecture. Features such as tapered channel walls, curvatures and angles of channels, and zones of low fluid pressure can be used to reduce the size while maintaining wall shear rates within a narrow range. A hydraulic manifold can be coupled to a series of microfluidic layers to construct a compact microfluidic device.