EP1003973B1 - Micropompe comprenant un organe de controle d'entree permettant son auto-amorcage - Google Patents
Micropompe comprenant un organe de controle d'entree permettant son auto-amorcage Download PDFInfo
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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
- F04B43/02—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms
- F04B43/04—Pumps having electric drive
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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
- F04B53/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B23/00 or F04B39/00 - F04B47/00
- F04B53/10—Valves; Arrangement of valves
- F04B53/1037—Flap valves
- F04B53/1047—Flap valves the valve being formed by one or more flexible elements
- F04B53/106—Flap valves the valve being formed by one or more flexible elements the valve being a membrane
- F04B53/1067—Flap valves the valve being formed by one or more flexible elements the valve being a membrane fixed at its whole periphery and with an opening at its centre
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- the invention relates to a fluidic device such as a micropump.
- a fluidic device such as a micropump.
- a fluidic device such as a micropump.
- a fluidic device such as a micropump.
- said inlet control member being a non-return valve composed of a mobile body and a membrane-shaped part connecting said movable member to the rest of said intermediate plate, interposed between the inlet duct and the pumping chamber and allowing by its elasticity, the movement of said valve between a closed position and a open position, said movable member being traversed by an orifice, between the first and second ends, said valve being shaped so that, in said open position, the movable member does not prevent the flow of the liquid from said port to said pumping chamber and the second end of the movable member being shaped to ensure, in said closed position, tight contact with that of the pads
- such a device constitutes a micropump for medical use which regularly delivers a quantity controlled drug.
- the manufacturing of these micropumps is based on micro-machining technologies for silicon or any other material machinable by etching using photolithographic techniques.
- the micropump is controlled by varying the volume of the pumping chamber (alternating decreases and increases), for example by means of an order by a piezoelectric actuator.
- European patent application 95904674.9 presents such a self-priming micropump.
- the inlet valves described in this document cannot be made easily.
- European patent application 90 810272.6 describes a micropump comprising an inlet member, forming a non-return valve, which does not allow however, not to ensure self-priming of the pump.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a fluidic device such a micropump comprising an input control member allowing to obtain in a secure manner the self-priming of said device, this member being able to be easily manufactured.
- this objective is achieved by the fact that the movable member is located over most of the thickness of said intermediate plate, that the membrane-shaped part is located near the other of the platelets and that said orifice has a limited volume.
- the liquid inlet control member included in the device according to the present invention constitutes a non-return valve of the seat valve type.
- This non-return valve has a shaped part membrane allowing, by its elasticity, the opening and closing of the valve and a movable member surrounding an orifice intended for the flow of liquid.
- the movable member also comprises at one of its ends means ensuring the tightness of this inlet valve in its closed position, that is to say that the movable member is in sealed contact support against one plates adjacent to the valve, this plate forming the seat of the valve.
- the first end of the movable member adjacent to said membrane-shaped part is provided with at least one stop element intended to limit the movement of said valve from the closed position towards the open position, the free end of said abutment element coming to contact of the plate located near the membrane-shaped part in said open position without said stop member preventing the flow of liquid from said orifice to said pumping chamber.
- the micropumps 10 and 100 comprise a base plate 12, preferably made of glass, traversed right through by two conduits 14, 16 respectively forming an inlet conduit and a micropump outlet duct.
- An intermediate plate 18 surmounts the base plate 12, this intermediate plate preferably being made of silicon and connected to the base plate 12 by the technique, known per se, of anodic welding.
- the intermediate plate 18 is surmounted by an upper plate 20 or second plate, preferably glass, the intermediate plate and the second plate being linked together by the same technique as the base plate 12 and the intermediate plate 18.
- the first plate 12 and the second plate 20 have a substantially equal thickness of the order of 1 mm while the intermediate plate also has a substantially constant thickness but more low, between 0.1 and 0.5 mm, preferably between 0.3 and 0.5 mm and advantageously of the order of 0.3 mm.
- a portion of the intermediate plate 18 constitutes a membrane pump 22 of substantially circular shape and delimiting, with the face upper of the first plate 12, the pumping chamber 24.
- the pumping membrane 22 constitutes a movable wall controlled by a actuator 26, 126.
- the inlet duct 14 is connected to the pumping chamber 24 by one or more several input control members 28 which will be described in more detail below.
- the pumping chamber 24 is connected to a device for controlling liquid outlet or outlet valve 30 which may be of structure similar to that described in the aforementioned European patent application 95 904674.9.
- the outlet valve 30 shown includes the elements provided for in the above European patent application, namely an annular rib 32 placed opposite the duct of outlet 16 and in sealing contact with the upper surface of the first plate 12 in the closed position of the outlet valve 30, a membrane flexible 34, and thin layers of silicon oxide 36 and 38 allowing, respectively, to avoid adhesion between the annular rib 32 and the first plate 12, and, on the side of the membrane 34 opposite the first plate 12, to create a preload stressing the top of the rib 32 against the first plate 12.
- the outlet valve 30 also includes a limiting member 39 disposed at the level of the annular rib 32, on the face of the membrane flexible 34 opposite the first plate 12, this limiting member constituting a stop element coming to bear against the second plate 20 in the open position of the outlet valve 30 in order to limit the spacing of the annular rib 32 relative to the first plate 12.
- the inlet control member or inlet valve 28 visible on the Figures 1 and 2 in its closed position, is illustrated in more detail in the Figure 3 in which the inlet valve is in its open position.
- the inlet valve 28 is consists of a movable member 40 surrounded by a membrane-shaped part 42.
- This membrane 42 is substantially circular with a diameter of on the order of 3 mm, its thickness, preferably substantially constant, is between 10 and 50 ⁇ m, preferably of the order of 25 ⁇ m.
- the inlet valve (s) 28 constitute non-return valves, part of which abuts against one of the first and second pads, in the closed position of the valve.
- the movable member 40 surrounds an orifice 44 which passes through the movable member 40 from its first end 45, adjacent to the first plate 12, towards its second end 46, adjacent to the second plate 20.
- the movable member 40 preferably has an external shape of revolution, for example a substantially cylindrical outer shape with circular section or, as illustrated in Figures 1 to 3, in the shape of a trunk cone, the widest part being directed towards the first plate 12.
- the orifice 44 its volume constituting a space of connection added to the volume of the pumping chamber 24, it is necessary that it is minimum so as not to constitute too much volume important in relation to the volume of the pumping chamber 24.
- This orifice 44 can have various shapes such as cylindrical, circular, square or other, truncated cone or pyramid-shaped section. If the technique used to engrave the silicon plate constituting the intermediate plate 18 makes it possible to produce an orifice 44 of small diameter, we can make an orifice 44 having a small and substantially section equal over the entire length of this orifice 44.
- the orifice 44 has a shape made up of two pyramids with square base whose bases constitute of the ends of said orifice, the central zone of this orifice belonging to the two pyramids.
- This shape composed of two inverted pyramids having their vertices in contact makes it possible to obtain a shape for the orifice 44 of which the total volume is less than that of a single pyramid engraved from one of the two ends of the movable member 40.
- an advantageous solution consists in carrying out anisotropic etching from the two ends 45 and 46 of the movable member 40.
- anisotropic etching For this, we begins to dig hole 44 starting, for example, with the first end 45 of the movable member 40, the etching consisting of a square whose side length decreases as we dig more into the movable member 40.
- an orifice 44 is produced having a cross section substantially constant over its entire length, for example thanks to a method of reactive ion etching or micro-machining, an orifice 44 of small is obtained diameter, this diameter possibly being of the order of 10 to 100 ⁇ m.
- the volume of the orifice 40 has a volume at most equal to one fifth, preferably one tenth, of the unit volume of pumping, i.e. the volume moved at each open-close cycle of the pump or the volume moved by each cycle up and down of the pumping membrane 22.
- the relationship between, on the one hand, the maximum distance between the membrane-shaped part of the nearest wafer and, on the other hand, the thickness of the wafer intermediate is less than 1/20, advantageously of the order of 7 ⁇ m.
- said membrane-shaped part, the first end of the movable member and the outlet of the orifice are adjacent to the first plate and the outlet of the orifice opens directly into the pumping chamber.
- annular rib 48 surrounding the inlet of the orifice 44 and allowing, when in contact against the lower surface of the second plate 20, to seal the inlet valve 28.
- annular rib 48 having a surface of contact as small as possible so that, on the one hand, the surface in front present an optimum surface condition has the smallest surface area possible and, on the other hand, so as to produce an inlet valve 28 which can open for a difference in liquid pressure between the inlet pipe 14 and the relatively small pumping chamber 24.
- the pressure difference allowing the opening of the inlet valve 28 corresponds to the pressure difference of liquid between the liquid present in the connection space 50 placed upstream of the inlet valve 28 and the liquid pressure in the orifice 44, this pressure being the same as in the pumping chamber 24.
- the liquid can pass from the orifice 44 to the pumping 24, in the open position of the inlet valve 28, provision is made, on the surface of the first end 45 of the movable member 40 placed in look of the first plate 12, a series of stop elements 52 under the shape of small pillars, one end of which is integral with the first end of the movable member 40 and whose second end, free, comes lean against the upper surface of the first plate 12.
- these abutment elements 52 constitute limiters of movement for the inlet valve 28 when the latter opens so that, in its opening movement, when the movable member 40 approaches of the first plate 12, we are not in a situation where the surface of the first end of the movable member 40 which surrounds the outlet orifice 44 comes to bear on the first plate 12 by closing thus the exit from orifice 44.
- the inlet valve 28 When the liquid pressure in the connection space 50 is equal to the liquid pressure in the pumping chamber 24, the inlet valve 28 is closes itself by a recall phenomenon whose origin is explained below. Then, the actuator 26, 126 controls the downward movement of the pumping membrane 22 so that one obtains a liquid pressure in the pumping chamber 24 which is higher than the liquid pressure in the connection space located downstream of the outlet valve 30. In this situation, the outlet valve opens as soon as the pressure difference is sufficient and the liquid flows out of the chamber pumping 24.
- the inlet valve 28 further comprises a first layer of silicon oxide 54 covering at least the surface of the second end 46 of the movable member 40 capable of entering into contact with the second plate 20 in order to prevent a joining between the valve and the second plate in the closed position of the valve input 28.
- This first layer of silicon oxide 54 covers at least the annular rib 48 in the area intended to come into contact with the second wafer 20, this thin layer of silicon oxide allowing avoid bonding between the movable member 40 and the second plate 20. So that the inlet valve 28 is closed in its rest position, we advantageously provides layers of silicon oxide 56, 58 arranged on the membrane 42 so that it is subjected to a certain prestressing up the figures.
- the oxide layer 56 is arranged at the level of the region of the part form of membrane 42 which is adjacent to the movable member 40 and which is turned towards the second plate 20 and the oxide layer 58 is disposed in an area of the membrane 42 furthest from the organ mobile 40, on the opposite face of the first plate 12.
- the inlet valve 28 being preferably machined within the wafer intermediate 18 in silicon using photolithographic techniques known, it is expected that, preferably, the surface of the first portion 42a turned towards the first plate 12 is parallel to the surface of the first plate 12 placed opposite the inlet valve 28 and either same level as the free end of the stop elements 52 because these two elements are machined simultaneously. So these two elements are placed at an identical distance from said first plate 12 when the valve 28 is closed.
- the free end of the stop elements 52 is planar and parallel to the surface of the first plate 12 adjacent to the pumping chamber 24.
- the inlet valve 28 in FIG. 5 does not have the layers of oxides 54, 56 and 58 of Figure 3 because it is shaped, during its manufacturing, to be naturally, that is to say in its rest position, in closed position. In the absence of layer 54, it is expected that at least the surface of the annular rib 48 facing the second plate 20 and / or at least the surface of the second plate 20 placed opposite the annular rib 48 is treated, for example coated with an anti-adhesion layer, to avoid the connection between the valve 28 in the closed position and the second plate 20.
- an inlet valve 28 can be made with a membrane 42 in steps, such as that of FIG. 5, and comprising some or all of the silicon oxide layers 54, 56 and 58 in the figure 3. If a layer 58 is provided, it will preferably be limited to the first portion 42a of the membrane 42.
- the variant embodiment illustrated in FIG. 6 corresponds to a non-return valve 28 in closed position whose position has been reversed with respect to that of FIG. 3.
- the membrane 42 is located near the second plate 20 and the seat of the valve 28 is formed by the annular zone of the upper face of the first plate 12 facing the annular rib 48 directed towards the bottom of Figure 6 and placed on the second end 46 of the movable member 40.
- the stop elements 52 On the side of the first end 45 of the movable member 40, adjacent to the second plate 20 and extended by the membrane 42, are arranged the stop elements 52 and the movable member is extended radially by the membrane 42.
- the orifice 44 has the same characteristics and can be made of the same way as in the case of the embodiments presented previously.
- the micropump comprising a inlet valve 28 according to one of the embodiments which have just been described, it remains identical to that of a micropump of the type of those which are described in the aforementioned European applications
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- la figure 1 représente, en coupe longitudinale, un premier type de micropompe selon l'invention ;
- la figure 2 est une vue analogue à celle de la figure 1 concernant un deuxième type de micropompe, les figures 1 et 2 représentant l'organe de contrôle d'entrée de liquide dans sa position fermée ;
- la figure 3 est une vue agrandie d'un détail des figures 1 ou 2, ce détail concernant la zone de la micropompe comportant l'organe de contrôle d'entrée de liquide ou valve d'entrée ;
- la figure 4 représente partiellement et schématiquement, en vue de dessous selon la direction IV-IV, la valve d'entrée de la figure 3 ;
- la figure 5 est une vue analogue à celle de la figure 3 représentant une variante de réalisation de la valve anti-retour, en position fermée, cette valve constituant l'organe de contrôle d'entrée de la micropompe selon la présente invention, et,
- la figure 6 représente la zone de la micropompe telle qu'illustrée à la figure 3 munie d'une variante de réalisation de la valve anti-retour pour l'entrée du liquide.
- section à l'entrée ou à la sortie de l'orifice 44 : de l'ordre de 200 µm,
- section au niveau du centre de l'orifice 44 : de l'ordre de 50 µm,
- longueur de l'orifice 44 : au moins la moitié de l'épaisseur de la plaquette intermédiaire 18.
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- Dispositif fluidique tel qu'une micropompe (10; 100) comprenant au moins une première plaquette (12), une deuxième plaquette (20), une plaquette intermédiaire (18) disposée entre lesdites première et deuxième plaquettes (12, 20), une chambre de pompage (24) délimitée par ladite première plaquette (12) et ladite plaquette intermédiaire (18) et des organes de contrôle d'entrée et de sortie (28, 30) communicant avec ladite chambre de pompage (24), des conduits d'entrée et de sortie (14, 16) traversant de part en part une desdites première et deuxième plaquettes (12, 20), ledit organe de contrôle d'entrée (28) étant une valve anti-retour composée d'un organe mobile (40) et d'une partie en forme de membrane (42) reliant ledit organe mobile (40) au reste de ladite plaquette intermédiaire (18), interposée entre le conduit d'entrée (14) et la chambre de pompage (24) et permettant, par son élasticité, le mouvement de ladite valve (28) entre une position fermée et une position ouverte, ledit organe mobile (40) étant traversé entre ses première et deuxième extrémités (45, 46), par un orifice (44), ladite valve (28) étant conformée de sorte que, dans ladite position ouverte, l'organe mobile n'empêche pas l'écoulement du liquide depuis ledit orifice (44) vers ladite chambre de pompage (24) et la deuxième extrémité (46) de l'organe mobile (40) étant conformée pour assurer, dans ladite position fermée, un contact étanche avec celle des plaquettes (12, 20) formant le siège de la valve,
caractérisé en ce que l'organe mobile est situé sur la majeure partie de l'épaisseur de la plaquette intermédiaire (18), en ce que la partie en forme de membrane est située à proximité de l'autre des plaquettes (12, 20) et en ce que ledit orifice (44) présente un volume inférieur au volume de la chambre de pompage (24). - Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la première extrémité (45) de l'organe mobile adjacente à ladite partie en forme de membrane (42) est munie d'au moins un élément de butée (52) destiné à limiter le mouvement de ladite valve (28) depuis la position fermée vers la position ouverte, l'extrémité libre dudit élément de butée venant au contact de la plaquette (12, 20) située à proximité de la partie en forme de membrane (42) dans ladite position ouverte sans que ledit élément de butée (52) empêche l'écoulement du liquide depuis ledit orifice (44) vers ladite chambre de pompage (24).
- Dispositif selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit organe mobile (40) possède une forme extérieure sensiblement cylindrique à section circulaire ou en forme de tronc de cône.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que ledit orifice (44) possède une forme cylindrique.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que ledit orifice (44) possède une forme composée de deux pyramides à base carrée dont les bases constituent les extrémités dudit orifice, la zone centrale dudit orifice appartenant aux deux pyramides.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit orifice (44) présente un volume au plus égal à un cinquième du volume unitaire de pompage.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que ladite plaquette intermédiaire (18) est réalisé en silicium et en ce que la valve (28) comprend en outre une première couche (54) d'oxyde de silicium recouvrant au moins la surface de la deuxième extrémité (46) de l'organe mobile susceptible de rentrer en contact avec ladite plaquette (12, 20) formant le siège de la valve, afin d'empêcher une solidarisation entre ladite valve (28) et ladite plaquette (12, 20) dans la position fermée de la valve.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la valve (28) comprend en outre une deuxième couche (56) d'oxyde de silicium qui s'étend au moins sur la surface extérieure de la valve (28), au niveau de la zone de la partie en forme de membrane (42) qui est adjacente à l'organe mobile (40) et qui est tournée en direction de la plaquette (12, 20) formant le siège de la valve, afin de générer une précontrainte obligeant la valve (28) à être en position fermée contre ladite plaquette (12, 20) dans la position de repos de la valve.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite plaquette intermédiaire (18) possède une épaisseur sensiblement constante comprise entre 0,3 et 0,5 mm.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite partie en forme de membrane (42) possède une épaisseur sensiblement constante comprise entre 10 et 50 µm.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite partie en forme de membrane (42) présente un décrochement (60) au niveau de sa surface tournée vers la plaquette (12, 20) située à proximité de la partie en forme de membrane (42) en délimitant une première portion (42a) plus proche de ladite plaquette (12, 20) qu'une deuxième portion (42b) contigüe audit organe mobile (40).
- Dispositif selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que ledit décrochement (60) est circulaire et centré autour dudit orifice (44), lesdites première et deuxième portions (42a, 42b) de ladite partie en forme de membrane (42) formant des anneaux concentriques.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 11 ou 12, caractérisé en ce que la surface de ladite première portion (42a) tournée en direction de ladite plaquette (12, 20) située à proximité de la partie en forme de membrane (42) et l'extrémité libre desdits éléments de butée (52) sont équidistants de ladite plaquette (12, 20).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la distance maximum séparant la partie en forme de membrane (42) de la plaquette la plus proche (12, 20) est comprise entre 3 et 20 µm.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes caractérisé en ce que le rapport entre, d'une part, la distance maximum séparant la partie en forme de membrane (42) de la plaquette la plus proche (12, 20) et, d'autre part, l'épaisseur de la plaquette intermédiaire (18) est inférieur à 1/20.
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite partie en forme de membrane (42), la première extrémité de l'organe mobile et la sortie de l'orifice (44) sont adjacentes à la première plaquette (12) et en ce que la sortie de l'orifice (44) débouche directement dans la chambre de pompage (24).
- Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 15, caractérisé en ce que ladite partie en forme de membrane (42), la première extrémité de l'organe mobile et la sortie de l'orifice (44) sont adjacentes à la deuxième plaquette (20) et en ce que la sortie de l'orifice (44) communique avec ladite chambre de pompage au moyen d'un orifice supplémentaire (64) traversant toute l'épaisseur de la plaquette intermédiaire (18).
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