- Patent Title: Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids
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Application No.: US16678485Application Date: 2019-11-08
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Publication No.: US11408607B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Carl D. Meinhart , Brian Piorek , Nicholas B. Judy
- Applicant: Numerical Design, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Assignee: Numerical Design, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Numerical Design, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Agent Mark Rodgers
- Main IPC: F22B1/28
- IPC: F22B1/28 ; A61L9/03 ; B01B1/00 ; B05B7/16 ; F24F6/02

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for vaporizing liquid into the surrounding environment, including directing liquid from a liquid source to a vaporization port where the vaporization port has lateral dimensions varying from 10 um to 300 um, applying heat to the liquid in the vaporization port with an at least one heating element located in thermal communication to the vaporization port, and releasing vaporized liquid from the vaporization port into the surrounding environment so that fluid is transported through the depth of the structure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200173648A1 MICROFLUIDIC-BASED APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VAPORIZATION OF LIQUIDS Public/Granted day:2020-06-04
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