Competitive Advantages
- Inexpensive
- Highly reliable
- Scalable pump rate
- Reduced fabrication complexity
Summary
Our inventors have developed peristaltic micro pumps that are fabricated with direct write printing technologies. The micro-pumps are fabricated such that they are scalable to a broad range of pump rates. These novel fabrication methods achieve significant reductions in fabrication complexity, cost, and micro-pump size. The methods not only provide a controlled fluid flow path that minimizes the number of materials and sources of potential failure of conformal coatings, the techniques also enable integration of the micro-pumps directly on traditional printed circuit board assemblies for low-cost, ultra-miniaturized integration of commercial off the shelf control electronics without complicated interconnects and associated failure modes.These peristaltic micro-pumps, due to their ability to be sterilized, can be used in chemical, pharmaceutical, and food industries; medical applications like vascular or neural drug delivery; and drug administration for protective and restorative biotherapies for noise induced-, sensorineural-, and age-related hearing loss, deafness, and vestibular disorders.
Superior and Inferior View of the Fully Integrated Device Pump Performance Deduced by Volume-Time Graph Showing Volume of Delivered Drug Measured in 10 Minutes
Desired Partnerships
- License
- Sponsored Research
- Co-Development