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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

May. 09, 2019
Applicant:

Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Arthur Stanley, Seattle, WA (US);

Erik Roby, Redmond, WA (US);

Casey Glick, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15C 1/10 (2006.01); F15C 3/00 (2006.01); F16K 99/00 (2006.01); H03K 19/21 (2006.01); F16K 1/12 (2006.01); F16K 31/363 (2006.01); F16K 31/122 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F15C 3/00 (2013.01); F16K 99/0055 (2013.01); F16K 1/126 (2013.01); F16K 31/1223 (2013.01); F16K 31/363 (2013.01); H03K 19/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fluidic device may include inlet ports, input ports, one or more output ports, fluid channels each configured to route fluid from one of the inlet ports to one of the one or more output ports, and pistons. In some examples, each piston may include (1) a restricting gate transmission element configured to block, when the piston is in a first position, and unblock, when the piston is in a second position, one of the fluid channels, (2) a controlling gate transmission element configured to interface with a first control pressure that, when applied to the controlling gate transmission element, forces the piston towards the first position, and (3) an additional controlling gate transmission element configured to interface with a second control pressure that, when applied to the additional controlling gate transmission element, forces the piston towards the second position. Various other related devices and systems are also disclosed.


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