Method of attract-to-merge control of liquid jet-stream flows (AMS method)
First Claim
1. Method of Attract-to-Merge Control of Liquid Jet-Stream Flows (AMC method) with pure fluidic beam deflecting type liquid-to-liquid amplification that provides for innovative technology of non-destructive angular deflection of high-impulse jet-stream flow Ji, running out of a hydraulic supply facilities, by alternative one-sided non-invasive contact-and-pull influence of low-impulse jet-stream flow Jc inside any of engaged control cavities of the pneumatic interacting area, under-pressurized by entraining influence of flow Ji, and sequent aiming flow Ji to a point of utilization, that is being placed in an adjacent submerged hydraulic distributing area, pressurized by impacting influence of flow Ji, for performing the useful work, wherein the impact of flow Ji is being distributed amongst a few of hydraulic output channels either in digital (bistable) or in analog modes. The high impulse of flow Ji is being kept in full initial value to the exclusion of friction losses along its free path inside the pneumatic interacting area and through the jet-stream passing channel Ch that connects the said pneumatic area with the said adjacent hydraulic distributing area.
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Abstract
Method of Attract-to-Merge Control of Liquid Jet-Stream Flows (AMC method) with pure fluidic beam deflecting type liquid-to-liquid amplification is disclosed wherein the innovative technology is applied for non-destructive angular deflection of high-impulse jet-stream flow Ji by an alternative and one-sided non-invasive contact-and-pull influence of the low-impulse jet-stream flow Jc inside the pneumatic interacting area, under-pressurized by entraining influence of flow Ji, and sequent aiming flow Ji to a point of utilization in an adjacent submerged hydraulic distributing area, pressurized by impacting of flow Ji, for performing the useful work, wherein the impact of flow Ji is being distributed amongst a few of hydraulic output channels in digital (bistable) or analog mode. AMC method is being realized by the novel interdependent disposition of controlling measures and techniques inside the gaseous ambient of inverse control cavities of pneumatic interacting area with the purposefully correlated techniques for arranging output channels, thrust impact and vent free flow channels, and auxiliary (“memory”) streamlined solid surfaces inside the submerged room of hydraulic distributing area, connected with pneumatic interacting area solely by the jet-stream passing channel Ch. Both side solid surfaces of channel Ch are being curve-outlined for attracting flow Jc regarding the Coanda effect and therefore directing it along the predetermined (primarily memorized) trajectory, so that attract-to-merge influence of flow Jc upon flow Ji results in non-destructive and steady-state streaming of flow Ji cocurrently with flow Jc along the said trajectory under influence of multilayer Coanda effect based on the continuity of cocurrent flows. The submerged auxiliary solid surfaces enable keeping high impulse flow Ji along properly aiming (secondary memorized) trajectory under stable action of regular single-layer Coanda effect, while directing said flow to a point of utilization. The said novel disposition is being established for enabling the basic functions either of automatic control unit or logic gate for any embodiment of AMC method, including the amplifying of weak pneumatic or hydraulic input signal (e.g. the kind of respective output signal from an integrated Microfluidic platform) into relatively powerful output hydraulic signal, which should meet the requirements to the input signal of operated hydraulically a valve-type control unit of miniaturized (or even macro scaled) pneumatic or hydraulic power drive.
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- 1. Method of Attract-to-Merge Control of Liquid Jet-Stream Flows (AMC method) with pure fluidic beam deflecting type liquid-to-liquid amplification that provides for innovative technology of non-destructive angular deflection of high-impulse jet-stream flow Ji, running out of a hydraulic supply facilities, by alternative one-sided non-invasive contact-and-pull influence of low-impulse jet-stream flow Jc inside any of engaged control cavities of the pneumatic interacting area, under-pressurized by entraining influence of flow Ji, and sequent aiming flow Ji to a point of utilization, that is being placed in an adjacent submerged hydraulic distributing area, pressurized by impacting influence of flow Ji, for performing the useful work, wherein the impact of flow Ji is being distributed amongst a few of hydraulic output channels either in digital (bistable) or in analog modes. The high impulse of flow Ji is being kept in full initial value to the exclusion of friction losses along its free path inside the pneumatic interacting area and through the jet-stream passing channel Ch that connects the said pneumatic area with the said adjacent hydraulic distributing area.
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2. AMC method that provides for novel combination of fluid handling techniques with spatial arrangement of supplying, controlling, directing, distributing, and intake solid facilities, which are being positioned and outlined in purposeful interdependence inside adjacent through-pass rooms of:
- a) under-pressurized pneumatic interacting area, where non-destructive angular deflection of high impulse liquid flow Ji is being accomplished with separate or combined programmable effecting thereupon by attract-to-merge action of low impulse hydraulic liquid flows Jc and/or by transverse pressure momentum action of auxiliary gas flows;
b) quasi-submerged jet-stream passing channel Ch, where its side solid curve-shaped surfaces are being outlined so that to enable keeping of integral stream of cocurrent flows Ji and Jc under steady influence of multilayer Coanda effect, providing the primary memory position of high impulse flow Ji;
c) pressurized submerged hydraulic distributing area, where auxiliary curve-shaped streamlined solid surfaces are being positioned so that to enable keeping of purposefully vectored direction of high impulse flow Ji in status of secondary memory position under influence of regular single layer Coanda effect, where interrelated arrangement of sharp-ended solid splitters and streamlined curve-shaped solid surfaces provides for rated distribution of impacting impulse of flow Ji among a few hydraulic output channels, and where output hydraulic channels and vent liquid flow channels are being arranged so that to enable utilization of both direct impacting of high impulse flow Ji and additional thrust impacting of vent liquid flows upon entrance openings of output hydraulic channels. The said novel combination imparts to any embodiment of AMC method the basic functions of either automatic control unit or logic gate, including the amplifying of weak pneumatic or hydraulic input signal (predominantly-the respective output signals from integrated or modular Microfluidic platform) into relatively powerful output hydraulic signal in either digital (bistable) or analog modes, which should meet the requirements to the input hydraulic signal of a valve-type control unit of miniaturized pneumatic or hydraulic drive. - View Dependent Claims (7, 9, 10)
- a) under-pressurized pneumatic interacting area, where non-destructive angular deflection of high impulse liquid flow Ji is being accomplished with separate or combined programmable effecting thereupon by attract-to-merge action of low impulse hydraulic liquid flows Jc and/or by transverse pressure momentum action of auxiliary gas flows;
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12. AMC method wherein any embodiment of its fundamental features claimed herein is being destined to operate as a pure fluidic Interface Transducer (IT) between an integrated or modular microfluidic platform (MFP) and a valve-type hydraulically operated control unit (CU) of a micro/meso-mini/macro scaled pneumatic or hydraulic drive for the purpose of packaging all the said components into an entire Microfluidic Modular Assembly (MiFluMA).
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