FLUID INJECTION DEVICE

• US 20090270799A1
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KAWASUMI, Kazuo, SETO, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US12/422,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20090270799A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/93.10
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/32037 for removing obstructions from inner organs or blood vessels, e.g. for atherectomy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00154 pulsed

Abstract

A fluid injection device includes: a fluid injection unit having; a fluid chamber body in which a fixed face, a diaphragm facing the fixed face, a fluid chamber having a space surrounded by a side wall continuing the fixed face and the diaphragm, and an inlet channel tube and an outlet channel tube communicating with the fluid chamber are integrally molded; an actuator in close contact with the diaphragm; and a lid body holding the fluid chamber body, wherein inner surfaces of respective connecting parts of the fixed face, the side wall, and the diaphragm are rounded in molding, and a volume of the fluid chamber is reduced by the diaphragm, and a pulsating fluid is injected from a nozzle opening provided in an end direction of the outlet channel tube.

Claims

1. A fluid injection device comprising:

a fluid injection unit having;

a fluid chamber body in which a fixed face, a diaphragm facing the fixed face, a fluid chamber having a space surrounded by a side wall continuing the fixed face and the diaphragm, and an inlet channel tube and an outlet channel tube communicating with the fluid chamber are integrally molded;

an actuator in close contact with the diaphragm; and

a lid body holding the fluid chamber body,

wherein inner surfaces of respective connecting parts of the fixed face, the side wall, and the diaphragm are rounded in molding, and

a volume of the fluid chamber is reduced by the diaphragm, and a pulsating fluid is injected from a nozzle opening provided in an end direction of the outlet channel tube.

2. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the outlet channel tube is protruded on the fixed face, and the fluid chamber has a rotator shape and the outlet channel tube is provided near a rotational axis of the rotator shape, and

a swirling flow generating part that generates a swirling flow of the fluid around the rotational axis of the rotator shape is provided on the inner surface of the fixed face or the diaphragm.

3. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the inlet channel tube is provided on the fixed face in parallel to the outlet channel tube.

4. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the inlet channel tube is protruded on the side wall.

5. The fluid injection device according to claim 4, wherein the outlet channel tube is provided on the fixed face, and the fluid chamber has a rotator shape and the outlet channel tube is provided near a rotational axis of the rotator shape, and

the inlet channel tube is communicated along an inner circumferential surface of the side wall.

6. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the lid body includes an upper case holding the fixed face and a lower case holding a circumferential edge of the diaphragm, and

projecting portions that respectively cover outer circumferences of side surfaces of the inlet channel tube and the outlet channel tube are provided on the upper case or the lower case.

7. The fluid injection device according to claim 6, wherein the upper case is formed of a metal layer over the fixed face and the side wall, the metal layer being thicker than the diaphragm.

8. The fluid injection device according to claim 7, wherein the metal layer is formed over the fixed face, the side wall, and the circumferential edge of the diaphragm.

9. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle opening is formed on an end of the outlet channel tube.

10. The fluid injection device according to claim 9, wherein a reinforcing tube that covers an outer circumferential side surface of the outlet channel tube is further provided.

11. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the inlet channel tube and the outlet channel tube are provided on the side wall in positions opposed with respect to the fluid chamber.

12. The fluid injection device according to claim 11, wherein the lid body has a nearly circular section shape in a perpendicular direction to a fluid flow direction.

13. The fluid injection device according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is a thin-film piezoelectric element.