Robotic Materials

Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Pumps

2022

Patent

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A pumping system includes a conduit with an inlet region and an outlet region and a first pump coupled with the conduit between the inlet region and the outlet region. The first pump includes a first actuator chamber configured to house at least a first actuator, a first pump chamber aligned along a longitudinal axis of the conduit, wherein the first pump chamber is in fluid communication with the inlet region and the outlet region, and a first flexible diaphragm separating the first actuator chamber from the first pump chamber. Methods for operating the pumping system are also disclosed.

Author(s): Shane Karl Mitchell and Eric Lucas Acome and Christoph Matthias Keplinger
Number (issue): US Patent App. 17/635,339
Year: 2022
Month: October
Day: 6
Department(s): Robotic Materials
Bibtex Type: Patent (patent)
Paper Type: Patent
URL: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f1/b7/51/c10d8911dd2ace/US20220316466A1.pdf

BibTex 

@patent{PCT-US2022-17635339,
  title = {Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Pumps},
  author = {Mitchell, Shane Karl and Acome, Eric Lucas and Keplinger, Christoph Matthias},
  number = {US Patent App. 17/635,339},
  month = oct,
  year = {2022},
  doi = {},
  url = {https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f1/b7/51/c10d8911dd2ace/US20220316466A1.pdf},
  month_numeric = {10}
}