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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
May. 18, 2009
Ioan Sauciuc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ravi Mahajan, Tempe, AZ (US);
Ioan Sauciuc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ravi Mahajan, Tempe, AZ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method of confining a liquid metal alloy within a closed-loop system; distributing a first portion of the liquid metal alloy in a cavity within the closed-loop system; turning on an electromagnet to generate a magnetic field to permeate flexible sidewalls of the cavity; attracting the liquid metal alloy in the cavity towards the electromagnet to expand the flexible sidewalls; inducing a second portion of the liquid metal alloy to enter the cavity from an inlet end of a pipe within the closed-loop system; turning off the electromagnet; repelling the liquid metal alloy in the cavity away from the electromagnet to contract the flexible sidewalls; and inducing a third portion of the liquid metal alloy to exit the cavity to an outlet end of the pipe.