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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2013
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents for and on Behalf of Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Jonathan Posner, Seattle, WA (US);
Kamil Salloum, Portland, OR (US);
Michal Lebl, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Reed, San Diego, CA (US);
Dale Buermann, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew Hage, San Diego, CA (US);
Bryan Crane, San Diego, CA (US);
David Heiner, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Kain, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Schroeder, Chandler, AZ (US);
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State Univeristy, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
An electroosmotic (EO) pump is provided that includes a housing having a pump cavity, a porous core medium and electrodes. The porous core medium is positioned within the pump cavity to form an exterior reservoir that extends at least partially about an exterior surface of the porous core medium. The porous core medium has an open inner chamber provided therein. The inner chamber represents an interior reservoir. The electrodes are positioned in the inner chamber and are positioned proximate the exterior surface. The electrodes induce flow of a fluid through the porous core medium between the interior and exterior reservoirs, wherein a gas is generated when the electrodes induce flow of the fluid. The housing has a fluid inlet to convey the fluid to one of the interior reservoir and the exterior reservoir. The housing has a fluid outlet to discharge the fluid from another of the interior reservoir and the exterior reservoir. The housing has a gas removal device to remove the gas from the pump cavity.