EP0292994A2 - Einrichtung, um geringe Flüssigkeitsmengen zu transportieren - Google Patents

Einrichtung, um geringe Flüssigkeitsmengen zu transportieren Download PDF

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EP0292994A2
EP0292994A2 EP88108514A EP88108514A EP0292994A2 EP 0292994 A2 EP0292994 A2 EP 0292994A2 EP 88108514 A EP88108514 A EP 88108514A EP 88108514 A EP88108514 A EP 88108514A EP 0292994 A2 EP0292994 A2 EP 0292994A2
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Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi
Shohei Narusawa Apartment 714 Yoshida
Kiyoshi Namura
Tsutomu Okusawa
Akira Arai
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B43/00—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members
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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid and, more parti­cularly, to an apparatus for transferring small amount of fluid which includes at least one pump series which is composed of a plurality of vibration-type pumps which exhibit small pulsation of the pumped fluid and which afford easy control of flow rate of the pumped fluid.
  • the apparatus of the present invention is suitable for use in apparatus or systems which handle small amounts of specimens which are generally expensive or difficult to obtain in large quantities, such as biological active substances, e.g., proteins, enzymes and cells.
  • the fluid transfer apparatus of the present invention is suitable for use in bio-technological apparatus, medical apparatus and medical analyzers, space flight mission devices for life science such as free flow electrophoresis.
  • the term "transfer of small amount of fluid" in this specification is used to mean the transfer of a fluid at a very small rate of, for example, 1 to 500 ⁇ l/min.
  • vibration type pumps have been proposed for the purpose of transferring small amounts of fluids, such as electromagnetic pump adapted for vibrating a diaphragm, and a pump in which, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 56-9679 or Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. 59-63578, a cylindrical vibration element is directly vibrated to displace a fluid.
  • vibration type pumps rely upon a vibratory motion of a wall or a member for cyclically expanding or contracting a closed space to cause a cyclic change in volume thereby displacing or transferring a fluid.
  • the vibration type pumps generally exhibit high reliability of operation and are capable of handling a corrosive or highly viscous fluids because they do not have any rotary or sliding part such as impeller or piston.
  • the vibration type pumps commonly suffer from a disadvantage that they essentially require check valves at the suction and delivery sides thereof for the purpose of preventing reversing of the pumped fluid, insofar as they make use of cyclic change in the internal volume.
  • These check valves operate in response to the movement of the fluid so that a time delay is inevitably involved in the operation of the check valves. This undesirably draws a limit in the shortening of the period of the cyclic change in the volume, and causes a pulsation of the pressure of the pumped fluid.
  • the fluid-flow characteristic of the system to be supplied with the fluid tends to be adversely affected by the generation of pulsation.
  • the known vibration type pumps inconveniently suffer from problems in the view point of performance, construction and reliability.
  • the respective vibration pumps have different fluid transferring charac­teristics because the fluid transferring characteristic of each pump depends upon the dimensional accuracy and vibration characteristic of the pump. In the pump system of this class, therefore, it is very difficult to obtain uniformly controlled fluid transfer rates from all of the parallel pumps.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid, which is improved to suppress generation of pulsation of the pressure of the fluid which is being transferred.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid, which is improved to enable a fluid to be stably transferred at a small rate.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid, which comprises a plurality of parallel rows of pump units each including a plurality of vibration pump units connected in series, the parallel rows of pump units sharing substantially equal proportions of the total rate of the fluid transfer.
  • an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid which includes at least one row of a plurality of vibration pump units connected in series, each pump unit including a fluid transfer pipe having fluid inlet and outlet ends, a vibrator surrounding the fluid transfer pipe to cause the same to make respiring vibration, inner peripheral electrode disposed between the fluid transfer pipe and the vibrator, an outer peripheral electrode disposed on an outer periphery of the vibrator, and a high-frequency voltage applying means for applying a high frequency voltage across the inner and outer peripheral electrodes; an orifice means disposed between each adjacent pair of pump units for allowing a fluid to flow easily from one of the pair of pump units into the other pump unit and exhibiting a resistance to a reversing flow of the fluid whereby the fluid is transferred from the one pump unit into the other pump unit; and means for controlling the high-frequency voltage applying means of respective pump units such that the vibrators of respec­tive pump units are operated with a predetermined phase difference maintained between each adjacent pair of pump units
  • an apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid which includes a plulraity of rows a vibration pump units connected in series.
  • Each pump unit includes a fluid transfer pipe having fluid inlet and outlet ends, a vibrator surrounding the fluid transfer pipe to cause the same to make respiring vibration, inner peripheral electrode disposed between the fluid transfer pipe and the vibrator, an outer peripheral electrode disposed on an outer periphery of the vibrator, and a high-frequency voltage across the inner and outer peripheral electrodes.
  • An orifice means is disposed between each adjacent pair of pump units of each row for allowing a fluid to flow easily from one of the pair of pump units to the other pump unit and exhibiting a resistance to a reversing flow of the fluid whereby the fluid is transferred from the one pump unit into the other pump unit.
  • An additional orifice means is connected to the fluid outlet end of the most downstream pump unit of each row.
  • a pressure differential detecting means is provided to detect a pressure differential across at least one of all of the orifice means of each row to produce a pressure differential signal.
  • a further means is provided to detect a deviation of the pressure differential signal produced by the pressure differential detecting means of all of the rows to control the high-frequency voltage applying means of all of the rows such that the fluid transferring rates of all rows are substantially equalized.
  • Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the apparatus and also to Fig. 2 which is a circuit diagram of a control circuit for controlling the operation of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1.
  • the apparatus has a fluid transfer passage having a plurality of cylindrical fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d connected in series. These fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d are respectively embraced by cylindrical vibrators 2a to 2d which fit on the outer peripheral surfaces of the respective pipes. These cylindrical vibrators are typically constituted by piezoelectric elements or electrostrictive elements.
  • the vibrators 2a to 2d are surrounded by outer peripheral electrodes 3a to 3d in such a manner that the outer peripheral surface of each vibrator is not covered by the outer electrode at a portion adjacent to one axial end of each vibrator.
  • inner electrodes 4a to 4d are provided such that these inner electrodes 4a to 4d lay on the outer peripheral surfaces of the vibrators 2a to 2d at the above-mentioned axial end portions which are not covered by the outer electrodes 3a to 3d and such that these inner electrodes covers the entire inner peripheral surfaces of the vibrators 2a to 2d.
  • These electrodes are intended for causing respirating action, i.e., radial expansion and contraction, of the associated fluid transfer pipes by the vibration of the respective vibrators.
  • the outer electrodes 3a to 3d and the inner electrodes 4a to 4d are insulated from each other. External high-frequency power supplies 6a to 6d are connected between the outer electrodes 3a to 3d and the corresponding inner electrodes 4a to 4d, respectively.
  • the fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d, the vibrators 2a to 2d, the outer electrodes 3a to 3d, the inner electrodes 4a to 4d and the power supplies 6a to 6d constitute respective vibration pump units.
  • the fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d are provided at their outlet ends with orifice means constituted by fluid diodes 5a to 5d which produce large flow resistance against reversing flow of the fluid.
  • each of the fluid diodes 5a to 5d is of a flow-nozzle type which has an entrance end defined by a smooth curvature and an exit end which opens at an acute angle to pose a large resistance to reversing flow of the fluid.
  • a high-frequency voltage is applied across the outer electrodes 3a to 3d and the inner electrodes 4a to 4d on the respective vibrators 2a to 2d of the respective pump units.
  • the vibrators 2a to 2d start to vibrate in the radial direction so as to cause respirating actions of the respective fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d, i.e., radial expansion and contraction, as indicated by the double-headed arrows 7a to 7d in Fig. 1.
  • induction flow components 8a to 8d and 9b to 9d are generated in the respective fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d along the inner peripheral surfaces of these pipes.
  • the induction flow components 8a to 8d causes displacement of the fluid towards the fluid diodes 5a to 5d on the outlet ends of the respective fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d because the entrance ends of the fluid diodes 5a to 5d are smoothly shaped to produce only a small flow resistance.
  • the induction flow components 9b to 9d which are directed towards the inlet ends of the respective fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d encounter large flow resistance produced by the exit ends the fluid diodes on the outlet ends of the fluid transfer pipes immediately upstream thereof, because the exit ends of these fluid diodes form restricted openings having an acute angle as illustrated.
  • phase differentials are introduced between the high-frequency signals applied from the high-frequency power supplies 6a to 6d to the respective vibrators 2a to 2d.
  • the high-frequency signals are applied by the respective power supplies 6a to 6d at phase differentials which are expressed as follows.
  • A0 sin ( ⁇ t) A1 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 1)
  • A2 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 2) A3 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 3)
  • A0 to A3 represent amplitudes of vibration
  • ⁇ represents angular or circular vibration frequency
  • t represents time
  • ⁇ 1 to ⁇ 3 represents the phases.
  • the fluid transfer pipe 1d which is on the upstream end of the pump unit series is vibrated, i.e., cylind­rically expands and contracts as indicated by the arrow 7a, as represented by A0 sin ( ⁇ t).
  • the downstream fluid transfer pipes 1b to 1d make respirating actions 7b to 7d as represented by A1 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 1), A2 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 2) and A3 sin ( ⁇ t + ⁇ 3), respectively.
  • the described embodiment employs a control circuit 11 which is capable of controlling the output levels, frequencies and phases of the high-­frequency signals from the high-frequency power supplies 6a to 6d, upon detection of and in accordance with the pressure differential across at least one, e.g., 5d, of the plurality of fluid diodes 5a to 5d.
  • the detection of the pressure differential is conducted by means of a pressure differential sensor 14 capable of sensing a very small pressure differential upon receipt of pressures derived from pressure measuring ports 12 and 13 communi­cating with the fluid passage on the upstream and downstream sides of the fluid diode 5d.
  • the output from the pressure differential sensor 14 is input to an amplifier 15 so as to be amplified to form a pressure differential signal 16 which is input to the control circuit 11.
  • Fig. 2 shows the practical circuit arrangement of the control circuit 11 shown in Fig. 1.
  • This control circuit 11 is designed to cause vibration of the four fluid transfer pipes 1a to 1d at different phases as described. More specifically, the control circuit 11 is capable of digitally producing a plurality of, four in the illustrated case, high-frequency signals in response to the pressure differential signal 16 derived from the amplifier 15, and causing a plurality of, four in the illustrated case, vibrators to vibrate in accordance with these high-frequency signals.
  • the control circuit 11 is capable of digitally producing a plurality of, four in the illustrated case, high-frequency signals in response to the pressure differential signal 16 derived from the amplifier 15, and causing a plurality of, four in the illustrated case, vibrators to vibrate in accordance with these high-frequency signals.
  • the control circuit 11 includes a pulse generator 17 (clock) for generating clock pulses, a reference counter 18a, a subordinate counter 18b to 18d, memories 19a to 19d, D/A converters 20a to 20d, amplifiers 21a to 21d, digital switches 22a to 22c and an operation unit 23 for controlling these constituent elements.
  • the vibration is caused by applying to the respective pump units sine-wave vibration signals having phase differentials. More specifically, the application of the sine-wave vibration signals is effected in a manner which will be explained hereinunder.
  • Each of the memories 19a to 19d has n0 bits of address which store digital data corresponding to one period of the sine-wave signal.
  • Digital pulses 24 generated by the pulse generator 17 are counted by the reference counter 18a and subordinate counters 18b to 18d.
  • the reference counter 18a is an n0-notation counter which is capable of counting up to the value n0 designated by the operation unit 23 and, after counting the value n0, clearing the content to commence counting again from the initial value 1.
  • the reference counter 18a upon counting the value n0, generates a synchronizing pulse 25 in accordance with which the subordinate counters 18b to 18d commence counting of the pulses from values n1 to n3 which are set by digital switches 22a to 22c in accordance with the instructions given by the operation unit 23.
  • n0 to n3 are determined to meet the condition represented by the following formula (1). 1 ⁇ n1 ⁇ n2 ⁇ n3 ... ⁇ n0 (1)
  • the subordinate counters 18b to 18d are n0-notation counters which are adapted to count up to n0 and then to be reset to start counting again from the initial value 1.
  • a plurality of number serieses ⁇ a i ⁇ , ⁇ b i ⁇ , ⁇ c i ⁇ and ⁇ d i ⁇ are formed.
  • the number series ⁇ b i ⁇ to ⁇ d i ⁇ are digital period number serieses which have phase differentials n1 to n3, respectively, with respect to the number series ⁇ a i ⁇ formed by the reference counter 18a.
  • the count output from the reference counter 18a is considered in relation to time.
  • the components a j , b j , c j and d j of the respective number series at a moment t j corresponds to the addresses in the respective memories 19a to 19d so that the memories 19a to 19d output and deliver digital waveform data which are beforehand stored in these memories and which correspond to the designated addresses.
  • These digital waveform data are converted into analog signals 26a to 26d by the respective D/A converters 20a to 22d and are then amplified by means of the respec­tive amplifiers 21a to 21d. Then, the high-frequency power supplies 6a to 6d are controlled in accordance with the amplified analog waveform data so as to energize the vibrators 2a to 2d.
  • the analog signals 26a to 26d are signals which have continuous sine waveforms and which are set at phases ⁇ 1 to ⁇ 3.
  • the phase differentials ⁇ 1 to ⁇ 3 are controllable through suitably setting by means of the operation unit 23, the counting initial values n1 to n3 from which the counting operations are to be commenced by the respective subordinate counters 18b to 18d which are triggered by the synchronizing pulse signal 25 produced by the reference counter 18a. It is to be noted, however, that the following relationships exist between the phases ⁇ 1 to ⁇ 3 and the counting initial values n0 to n3:
  • phase differences can freely be varied by setting the values n1 to n3 by means of digital switches 22a to 22c.
  • Fig. 3 shows the relationships between the analog signals 26a to 26d produced by the control circuit 11 shown in Fig. 2 and the waveform of the pressure differential signal indicative of the pressure differ­ential across the fluid diode 5d sensed by the pressure differential sensor 14. It will be seen that a pressure differential signal 16 having a small vibration amplitude or a pressure differential 16′ having a large vibration amplitude are obtainable according to the values of the phase differentials.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates the patterns of pressure distribution in the fluid transfer pipes in an apparatus embodying the invention and constituted by three pump units connected in series, in each of three cases: namely, curves (a), (b); (c), (d) and (e), (f) which are obtained with different values of the phase differentials.
  • the broken-line curves in Fig. 4 show the patterns of the pressure distribution as observed in the piping connected to the downstream end of the fluid transfer apparatus. More specifically, curves (a) and (b), curves (c) and (d) and curves (e) and (f) in Fig.
  • phase differential ⁇ is selected to be ⁇ /3
  • the nodes of the pressure waveform proceed in the direc­tion of flow indicated by X as will be seen from the curves (c) and (d).
  • the pressure waveform vary in a random manner, so that this value of phase differential is not preferred from the view point of prevention of pressure differential.
  • the phase differential ⁇ is selected to be 2 ⁇ /3
  • the pressure waveform gently varies in the direction X of flow of the fluid as will be seen from the curves (e) and (f).
  • the pressure wave in this case is a progressive wave having peaks progressively moved in the direction of flow. It will also be seen that the pulsation is appreciably suppressed in this case. From these facts, it is understood that the phase differential ⁇ is selected to be 2 ⁇ /3 when the apparatus is constituted by three pump units connected in series.
  • the rate of transfer of the fluid can easily be controlled by varying the frequency and the amplitude of the pulses.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 show another embodiment of the apparatus in accordance with the present invention for transferring a small amount of fluid.
  • This embodiment employs a plurality of serieses or rows 29 to 29n of pump units disposed in parallel, each series having a plurality of pump units of the type described above and connected in series.
  • the major constituents of each series of pump units are materially the same as those in the pump unit series as shown in Fig. 5.
  • this type of apparatus encounters a difficulty in equalizing the flow rates of the transfer of fluid by all pump unit series.
  • the apparatus is controlled by a control circuit shown in Fig. 6 in such a manner that the flow rates of the fluid in all the pump unit serieses are equalized.
  • control circuit shown in Fig. 6 has a plurality of control circuits 11 to 11n each of which is similar to that described before in connection with Fig. 2. These control circuits 11 to 11n are connected to the pulse generator 17 which is the same as that explained before with reference to Fig. 2 and are capable controlling the plurality of serieses 29 to 29n of the pump units.
  • the control circuit shown in Fig. 6 also has pressure differential sensors 14 to 14n which are capable of sensing the pressure differentials across the fluid diodes or orifice means 30 to 30n on the downstream ends of the respective serieses 29 to 29n of the pump units. The outputs from the respective pressure differ­ential sensors 14 to 14n are input to and amplified by amplifiers 15 to 15n.
  • the 6 further has a mean processing unit 27 which computes the means value of the pressure differential signals derived from the respective serieses of pump units, and pressure differential deviation computing circuits 28 to 28n which compute and output deviations of the pressure differential signals from the respective amplifiers 15 to 15n from the mean of the pressure differentials computed by the mean processing unit 27.
  • the thus determined pressure differential deviations are input to the operation unit 23.
  • the operation unit 23 operates to control the respective serieses of the pump units independently of one another in accordance with the pressure differential deviation signals input thereto. It is thus possible to construct an apparatus having a plurality of pump unit serieses which are connected in parallel and each of which includes a plurality of pump units connected in series as shown in Fig. 1, while enabling the flow rates of the fluid in all the parallel pump unit serieses to be equalized without difficulty.
  • Fig. 7 shows a modification of the pressure differential sensor 14 which is used in each of the embodiments of Figs. 1 and 5 for the purpose of sensing the pressure differential across the fluid diode.
  • the pressure differ­ential sensor is designed to detect the pressure differential across at least one of the fluid diodes 5a to 5d annexed to the series of pump units.
  • the pressure measuring ports 12 and 13, through which the pressure differential sensor 14 is communicated with the upstream and downstream sides of the fluid diode 5d (see Fig. 1), produce damping effect to damp the vibration of the fluid pressure caused by the high-­frequency vibrations of pump units, with the result that the frequency characteristics of the pressure differential waveform to be detected by the sensor 14 is impaired.
  • a housing 34 having an internal space greater than that of the fluid transfer pipe 1d is connected to the fluid transfer pipe 1d at the outlet end thereof.
  • An orifice plate 31 made of, for example, a piezoelectric element is provided in the housing. Electrodes 32 and 33, which are insulated from each other, are adhered to both sides of the orifice plate 31. These electrodes 32 and 33 are connected to an amplifier 15. Since the orifice plate 31 has an outer diameter greater than that of the fluid transfer pipe 1d, it can easily detect the waveform of vibration of the fluid 10 in the fluid transfer pipe 1d.
  • a pressure differ­ential of the fluid is formed across the orifice plate 10 and, at the same time, the orifice plate 31 defects in response to the pressure variation of the fluid 10d on the upstream side of the orifice plate 31.
  • a vibrator element such as a piezoelectric element
  • This voltage is picked up by the electrodes 32 and 33 and is input to the amplifier 15. It is thus possible to detect both the pressure differential across the orifice plate 31 and the cyclical variation of the pressure differential directly and with a high degree of accuracy. Therefore, the accuracy of control of the flow rate or flow rates performed by the embodiments shown in Figs. 1 and 5 can be further improved when these embodiments are modified to employ the arrangement shown in Fig. 7.

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