Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluidic switching devices
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Application No.: US15683937Application Date: 2017-08-23
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Publication No.: US10648573B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Sean Jason Keller , Jack Lindsay , Serol Turkyilmaz , John Michael Lutian , Tristan Thomas Trutna , Andrew Arthur Stanley
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: G05D7/03
- IPC: G05D7/03 ; F16K31/02 ; F16K3/28 ; F16K31/385 ; F16K3/34 ; G06F3/01

Abstract:
A fluidic device controls fluid flow in channel from a source to a drain. In some embodiments, the fluidic devices comprises a gate, a channel, and an obstruction. The gate comprises at least one chamber whose volume increases with fluid pressure. A high pressure state of the gate corresponds to a first chamber size and a low pressure state of the gate corresponds to a second chamber size that is smaller than the first chamber size. The obstruction controls a rate of fluid flow within the channel based on the fluid pressure in the gate. The obstruction induces at most a first flow rate of fluid in the channel in accordance with the low pressure state of the gate, and at least a second flow rate of the fluid in the channel in accordance with the high pressure state of the gate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190063619A1 FLUIDIC SWITCHING DEVICES Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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