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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2001
Applicants:
Shouichirou Tsukita, Kyoto, JP;
Takashi Funatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Shouji, Saitama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Saitama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E03B 1/00 (2006.01); F15B 21/00 (2006.01); C01F 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of simply controlling the flow of fluid in a micro system without using a complicated value structure, comprising the steps of adding the substance transformed from sol-gel by stimulation to the fluid flowing through the micro flow passage of the micro system, and adding the stimulation to the fluid at a desired position on the micro flow passage to transform the fluid into gel for flow control.