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バルブ付きマイクロ流体デバイス試験用ソケット産業技術総合研究所 ○楊 振 (NEDO),前田 龍太郎 1.はじめに 2.構造と実装試験 (略) Fig. 1. Photo of the socket. There are 10 channels available for I/O of working fluids. The screw over each silicone tube works as a valve.
Fig. 2. Photo of an opened socket. At the bottom part of the socket is the spring array for electrical connection. The silicone tubes for fluidic connection are in dual-in-line structure with a pitch of 2.2 mm. The extended silicone tubes, on the top part of the socket, serve as o-rings to seal the flow channel ports on fluidic chip. Both working fluidic and electrical connections are adhesive/solder-free. The guides separated each spring made it efficient to align a microfluidic device into the socket. Fig. 3. Photo of a microfluidic valve mounted in a socket. The socket has only 8 fluidic channels and 18 springs for electrical connections. The die size is 6.6 mm x 6.6 mm x 0.9 mm. The top glass part of the microvalve has through holes with a pitch of 2.2 mm. Fig. 4. Photo of the exchangeable module for fluidic connection in the socket. (Left) The fluidic connection module which can be various thickness or pitch to fit for the die with different fluidic design. (Middle) The frame for the module. The grooves are the guides for silicone tubes and the hole under each groove is for the screw valve. (Right) The cover for the module. まとめ 縦型マイクロ流体デバイスのテスト・ソケットを開発した.初期開発したソケットより、プロセス可視化の部分が損なったが、パーティクル・フリーの仕様に適している。すべでの接点が半田及び接着剤フリー構造になり、試験チップの着脱はワンタッチで行われる。流体接続モジュールも交換可能である。バルブ機能を内蔵され、効率よく試験するソケットが実現した。 参考文献 1) Yang Z and Maeda R (2002) A world-to-chip socket for microfluidic prototype development, Electrophoresis 23 (20) 3474-3478 2) Unger M. A., Chou H. P., Thorsen T., Scherer, A. and Quake, S. R. (2000) Monolithic Microfabricated Valves and Pumps by Multilayer Soft Lithography. Science, 290, 1536-1540. For a softcopy of the paper (in Japanese), email to : Zhen.YANG@aist.go.jp
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