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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Applicant:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Hallie R. Holmes, Seattle, WA (US);
Karl F. Bohringer, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); F17D 1/16 (2006.01); F15D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/502792 (2013.01); F17D 1/16 (2013.01); B01L 2300/161 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0436 (2013.01); F15D 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
In order to expand capabilities of anisotropic ratchet conveyor (ARC) systems beyond those of the simple systems that include only a single track of consistent rung spacing, disclosed herein are ARC devices, systems, and methods related to ARC gates that can selectively pause droplet transport; ARC switches that can select the direction of droplet transport between two tracks, each moving away from an intersection between the two tracks; and ARC junctions that can move a droplet towards, and then through, an intersection between two tracks.