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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2004
Murat Okandan, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Paul C. Galambos, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Gilbert L. Benavides, Los Ranchos, NM (US);
Dale L. Hetherington, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Murat Okandan, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Paul C. Galambos, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Gilbert L. Benavides, Los Ranchos, NM (US);
Dale L. Hetherington, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for simultaneously aligning and interconnecting microfluidic ports is presented. Such interconnections are required to utilize microfluidic devices fabricated in Micro-Electromechanical-Systems (MEMS) technologies, that have multiple fluidic access ports (e.g. 100 micron diameter) within a small footprint, (e.g. 3 mm×6 mm). Fanout of the small ports of a microfluidic device to a larger diameter (e.g. 500 microns) facilitates packaging and interconnection of the microfluidic device to printed wiring boards, electronics packages, fluidic manifolds etc.