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This application is a U.S. National Stage of International Application PCT/FR01/03783, filed Nov. 30, 2001 and published on Jun. 6, 2002 in the French Language.
This invention concerns the field of micromanipulations of fluids wherein valves are used to direct at least one fluid displaced by transfer systems within a test sample card.
Up until now, most test sample cards have recesses on both of their plane and parallel faces as well as crosswise recesses, all of the recesses forming a channel network in which one or more fluids are displaced. On the face of the cards, said recesses are marked out by adhesive films. Fluid displacement is controlled by valves.
This type of structure is not reusable, as a valve can only be used efficiently once. Thus, when the valve is tipped into closed position, the adhesive surface of the film also comes into contact with the rest of the card, and the valve can therefore no longer be used. The valve remains in closed position.
The only solution to this problem thus consists in depositing an inert non-adhesive layer onto an adhesive film, this inert layer being initially made by means of cut-outs, for example by using a punch, and positioned accurately in relation to the adhesive film.
Technically speaking, this is not easy to achieve. In addition, the cost of manufacturing such complex film as well as the difficulties encountered in positioning the film on the test sample card are incompatible with mass production.
Patent application WO-A-00/13795, filed by the applicant, describes an invention on a device or test sample card inside which a reaction or at least two parallel or series reactions can be carried out. The device consists of a network of channels wherein the transfer of at least one sample to be treated and/or analyzed is possible, on the one hand, and at least one valve built into the device, on the other hand, enabling the orientation of each sample transferred at the network level and thus the control of transfers, reactions and analyses in said device. In the embodiment shown in
This structure thus provides a solution, although it increases the number of elements and the manufacturing cost of a functional test sample card.
Document WO-A-97/27324 attempts to provide a solution to this problem. Thus, it concerns a cassette to conduct reactions in parallel which features an entry and exit orifice to transfer the sample(s) to be introduced into the cassette. Valves are present at cassette level, which have a particular construction (Bursapak chamber, piston valve, bead valve). Under a continuous outside force, these valves allow a channel to be held closed. In this embodiment, the film is heat-sealed to the cassette.
However, this construction has a major disadvantage. The disadvantage resides in the deformation of the face of the cassette onto which the film is heat-sealed. While this face is originally plane, the heat-sealing weld causes distortion which is detrimental to subsequent proper use of the cassette. This could range from an error in manipulation and/or analysis to rendering the valves inoperable. The worst problems may be encountered when this type of cassette is used by an automated controller, which is generally the case. In this configuration, the card, which is warped by the heat-seal, may block or even damage the automated controller assembly.
Another disadvantage of this innovation is that it is absolutely necessary that the film is precisely heat-sealed onto the card. Even a tiny error may lead to channel blockage and/or valve leakage.
The applicant also filed a patent application PCT/FR00/1719, filed under priority Jun. 22, 1999, which provides a practical response to all of the disadvantages of prior art described above. Thus, the film is heat-sealed onto the body of the test sample card without damaging the surface where the heat-seal is made. Furthermore, the tolerance for the heat-sealing position is greater, as it only outlines the area that makes up the valve and does not follow it closely. This invention concerns a valve, with at least one channel running through it, allowing at least one fluid displaced by transfer means within a test sample card, the card featuring two faces connected to one another by an edge, characterized in that it consists of a film, which is flexible and/or which can be deformed, secured partly on at least one of the faces of said card, and a film compression means which can be activated or deactivated. The film is secured to at least one of the plane faces by fixing means located at the level of a recession peripheral to the valve, such as a groove. In addition, fixation is carried out by a heat seal peripheral to the valve in the bottom of the groove.
However, the flexible films used in prior art are inert, i.e. they only have structural deformations when subjected to physical stresses. The succession of these stresses, as well as their intensity, may induce constant deformation, which could lead to definitive closing or opening. In addition, these openings and/or closings by deformation require a mechanism to actuate the movement of flexible films, which is bulky, complicated and costly.
Films exist which are not inert. Such films are intrinsic conducting polymers, which will be defined in more detail below. The use of such films as actuators is also known as shown by the following patent applications:
Patent application WO-A-97/22825 describes a microfluid device designed to deliver or not deliver a liquid or gas contained in a pocket via a conduit (48). The opening or closing of the conduit, the partitions of which are flexible, is carried out by a valve using a piezo-electric actuator which can close or open the conduit by means of a metal strip. The valve is opened or closed according to the electric power applied to the actuator. Likewise, U.S. Pat. No. 6,033,191 concerns a pump and not actually a valve. In addition, this pump features a piezo-electric actuator which is superimposed on the pump membrane and even secured by means of a conductive bonding agent.
In contrast to this invention, where the actuator is only the electrical current that will directly deform the film, the actuator according to prior art, constituted by the two previous documents, is made of two parts, which undergo either directly, for the piezo-electric part, or indirectly, for the metal strip, the electric potential, these two parts being independent from the partition which, as for it, is always deformed under the indirect action of the electrical current.
In accordance with this invention, the use of conducting polymers, also known as electroactive polymers, which are very different from those mentioned above, is foreseen. They are used to make valves and, more specifically, mini-valves, which are normally open or closed and which close or open, respectively, when electrical current is applied to them. This mechanism considerably simplifies their design and operation.
Such polymers are already known, but their use is currently limited to fundamental research. The use of these materials in valves on small test sample cards is thus of special interest and not obvious.
In relation to mechanically- or pneumatically-controlled valves, valves controlled by electroactive polymers or shape-memory materials have the following advantages:
Within the scope of the micro-pump, there is a need to perfectly synchronize the opening and closing of both valves concerned, which can be performed electrically, although much more difficult mechanically, particularly with dimensions in the order of a few micrometers.
To that end, this invention concerns a valve with at least one channel running through it, allowing a fluid to be directed by transfer means within a device, the device featuring at least one face, possibly flat, the valve consisting of a film which is flexible and/or can be deformed, fixed on all or part of the face of said device, and a film actuator, which enables said valve to be activated or deactivated, this actuator consisting of an electrical current source.
Preferably, the device is a test sample card with two faces, possibly flat and connected to one another by an edge, the valve consisting of a film which is flexible and/or can be deformed, fixed on all or part of at least one of the faces.
Preferably, the actuator acts directly on an electroactive polymer or on a shape memory material.
According to a first alternate embodiment, the film consists of at least one layer of electroactive polymer allowing the valve to be activated or deactivated directly.
According to this first variant, a first embodiment is represented by the film which consists of a layer of electroactive polymer associated with one porous membrane coated on the other of its faces with a metallic layer of gold or silver, the electroactive polymer forming the positive electrode or the negative electrode and the metal layer forming the actuator's opposite polarity electrode or the electrical power source.
According to this first variant, a second embodiment is represented by the film which consists of a layer of electroactive polymer associated with one porous membrane coated on the other of its faces with a metallic layer of gold or silver, the electroactive polymer forming the positive electrode or the negative electrode and the metal layer forming the actuator's opposite polarity electrode or the electrical power source.
In these two embodiments, a layer of electroactive polymer consists of polyaniline and/or polypyrrole and/or polythiophene and/or polyparaphenylvylene and/or poly-(p-pyridyl vinylene), possibly associated with polyethylene.
Still regarding these two embodiments, the porous layer is any material or mix of materials whose porosity allows ions to pass through it, such as Teflon, polyamide, cellulose, polyaceate and/or polycarbonate.
According to a second alternate embodiment, a control mechanism is present between the film and the actuator.
According to this second variant, the control mechanism consists in whole or in part of an electroactive polymer as defined above, or of a shape memory material, enabling the valve to be activated or deactivated indirectly.
When using an electroactive polymer, the electroactive polymer consists of a longitudinal strip of at least one layer of electroactive polymer. When using a shape memory material, it consists of a complex alloy whose structure changes according to the temperature, such as a nickel and titanium alloy.
In addition, according to the second alternate embodiment, the shape memory material cooperates with a rocking lever to form all or part of the control mechanism.
More specifically, the rocking lever consists of a flexible part and a rigid part, the rigid part cooperating with a valve compression means, the shape memory material, the lever and the compression means together forming the control mechanism.
This invention also concerns a test sample card containing at least one valve, such as described above.
The invention finally proposes a valve actuating process, as described above, which consists in:
The accompanying drawings are given by way of example and are not to be taken as limiting in any way. They are designed to make the invention easier to understand.
A test sample card 1 according to the invention is a combination of functions featuring fluid management (micro-fluids), chemical and/or biochemical reactions, separation of species present in the fluid and detection of these species, grouped together on the same support measuring just a few square centimeters (cm2) in size. These systems can be used to automatically and autonomously perform all the functions of the entire traditional chemical and/or biochemical analysis process by handling only very small quantities of reagent, between a few microliters and a few nanoliters.
The most routinely encountered functions for this type of test sample card 1 are represented in table 1 below. This list is in no way comprehensive.
Main functions used on the test sample cards
according to the invention
Fluid management
Silicon, polymers, quartz and glass can be used to make these test sample cards. Conducting polymers and electroactive polymers, defined below, are suitable for numerous other functions.
This invention concerns a reaction card 1 which consists of a rectangular parallelepiped featuring a front surface 4 and a rear surface 5 connected together by an edge, also referred to as the side 6. All of the elements which form the front surface 4 are represented in solid lines in
Each film 7, 16 or 21 may be present on the entire surface of the card 1. This is the case for films 16 and 21, or on certain portions of said card 1, as for the film 7. Nevertheless, the film 21 may be missing. In this case it is replaced by a partition made with the same material as the rest of the body of the card 1.
The film 16 defines the outer face of the valves 2 according to the embodiment shown in
In addition, the transparent film 16 located on the front 4, and the transparent film 21 located on the rear face 5, can consist of a single transparent film, which further facilitates the fabrication of such a card 1 which is so equipped.
A test sample card 1, according to the invention, generally features dozens of valves 2, as is the case for example in patent applications PCT/FR00/01718, filed under priority Jun. 22, 1999, and FR00/10978 of Aug. 28, 2000, filed by the applicant. An example of fluid movements (F1 in
These valves 2 are controlled by electronic addressing as will be described below.
Conducting Polymers
For informational purposes, the conducting polymers discussed in the prior art above, may be of three broad types:
Electroactive polymers deform when a voltage is applied to them. They can be divided into two families responding to an electric voltage by either a pendulum movement or by a longitudinal movement, as shown in table 2 below.
The nature of electroactive polymers according
to their displacement mode
Displacement mode
Ionic Polymer Metal
Composite (IPMC)
Polypyrrole, polyaniline
Ionic polymer gel
Carbon nanotubes, Shape
memory alloys . . .
ceramic . . .
Products exist in sheet form, such as Nafion (registered trademark), with a thickness of 180 μm, manufactured by DuPont de Nemours in the United States. It is a perfluorosulfate polymer, which is then covered with electrodes. Additional information about this material can be found in the article by S. G. Wax and R. R. Sands, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices. SPIE Vol. 3669, March 1999; 2–10, or in the article by Y. Bar-Cohen, S. Leary, M. Shahinpoor, J. O. Harrison and J. Smith, Electroactive Polymer (EAP) actuators for planetary applications. SPIE Vol. 3669, March 1999; 57–63. Protons are exchanged for mobile cations used in the exchange process, which are generally sodium (Na+) or lithium (Li+). It requires the presence of a solvent to operate and absorbs a large quantity of water. The SO3 − groups are fixed to the matrix of the membrane.
Electric Addressing
Concerning the problem of electronic addressing of a matrix of n�n electrodes, corresponding to electroactive valves, present on a test sample card, a direct connection or multiplexing technique can be used.
The direct connection is the simplest addressing configuration. Each element of the X/Y matrix is connected by two connecting wires. The support can be either a silicon or polymer of variable size owing to micro-technologies and printed circuit and screen-printing techniques.
The multiplexing technique consists in integrating electronic functions under the electrodes of the matrix (column—line decoder). Depending on the line and column selected, these electronic functions enable a point X/Y to be addressed specifically. Only micro-electronic techniques enable components having electronic functions to be made. This type of addressing configuration, based on integrated circuit technologies, is reserved for small components made only on silicon or glass. Such multiplexing principles are well described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,965,452, for example.
The choice of an addressing configuration depends on the foreseen number of electrodes per cm2. For more than 100 electrodes per cm2, a matrix multiplexed by micro-electronic techniques on silicon or glass is generally used. This technique, owing to its low cost per cm2, must be limited to small components, in the order of a few mm2, and is suitable for making electrically-addressable DNA chips. On the other hand, for lesser densities, the direct connection configuration may be used.
Following this description, reference to the alternate embodiments will be made in relation to the explanations provided above.
This invention concerns a test sample card 1 which is a small machined support, measuring a few square centimeters for example, and which, using a fluid circulation network, enables chemical or biological reactions (mixing, incubation, heating . . . ) to be managed (electrophoresis, pumping, valves, sensors, for example) and enables one or more species present in a fluid to be separated (electrophoresis, chromatography, etc.) or detected (spectroscopic, electrochemical detection . . . ).
1�) First Alternate Embodiment
It should also be noted that the card features a number of compartments 17. The compartments 17 are connected to the valves by means of channels 3 and it is also possible, although not represented in the figure, that other valves and other compartments are located on the rest of the card 1 which allows mixing between two networks of channels 3 located in parallel and not in series.
The fluid or fluids in the test sample card 1 are displaced in the direction F1 within this card 1 by means of a pressure or vacuum that is created. Deforming the invagination 25 along F2, by applying electric voltage causing the ions to move in the conducting polymer film, authorizes the movement of the fluid at a valve 2, along F3 in
In this manner, the film 7 can be distorted and the fluid can move in the direction of F3 as is clearly displayed. The film 7 must therefore be made of a material that deforms under the action of this electric current and that returns to blocking position according to
According to a first construction method, the electroactive polymer forming the film 7 consists of a porous membrane coated on one of its faces with a layer of gold or silver, forming both the positive and negative electrodes of the electric current source.
According to a second construction method, the electroactive polymer consists of a porous membrane with each of its faces coated with a conductive layer, one layer forming the positive electrode and the other layer forming the negative electrode of the electric current source.
This conductive layer consists of polyaniline and/or polypyrrole, two materials which start a pendulum movement when electrically excited.
2�) Second Alternate Embodiment
This variant shares the same components and thus the same references as those of the first variant, namely the valve 2, the channels 3, the faces 4 and 5 of the test sample card 1, the edge 6 of said card 1, the electroactive polymer film 7 on the face 4 of the card 1, the recess or peripheral groove 9 around the valve 2, the peripheral weld 10 in the bottom of the groove 9 and the film 21.
However, the upper face 4 of the card 1 features a recess 26, whose dimensions (namely greater depth and diameter) allow:
When a potential difference is applied, as defined above in the first alternate embodiment, the film 7 will be able to swell and fluid will thus no longer move in the direction of F3 as can be clearly seen in
It is thus the opposite effect of the first alternate embodiment, when an electric current is applied, the valve 2, according to this first alternate embodiment, is open while the valve 2 is closed according to the second alternate embodiment, and vice versa.
Of course, the recess 26 has a smaller diameter at the flat part circumscribed by the peripheral groove 9.
3�) Third Alternate Embodiment
This third variant shares the same components and thus the same references as those of the first and second variants, namely the valve 2, the channels 3, the faces 4 and 5 of the test sample card 1, the edge 6 of said card 1, the electroactive polymer film 7 borne by the face 4 of the card 1, the peripheral groove 9 around the valve 2, the peripheral weld 10 in the bottom of the groove 9 and the film 21.
However, the upper face 4 of the card 1 features an internal space 28, which is big enough so that the two channels 3 used in the valve 2 open at the level of this internal space 28.
When a potential difference is applied as defined above in the first and second alternate embodiments, the film 7 can be distorted and fit the shape of the internal space 28, which will prevent the fluid from moving in the direction of F3 as can be clearly seen in
As soon as this electric current action stops, the film 7 returns to its initial position, according to
Of course, the reverse phenomenon is possible, that is that the electroactive polymer 7 closes the valve 2 at rest, and opens said valve 2 as soon as current is applied.
4�) Fourth Alternate Embodiment
This fourth variant concerns a reaction card 1 which, like its predecessors, consists of a rectangular parallelepiped featuring a front face 4 and a rear face 5 connected together by an edge with a shoulder 29.
A valve 2 is shown in greater detail in
It can also be seen that there is a beveled face 12 at the free end of the tab 8 which facilitates opening of said valve 2. This beveled face 12 is designed to allow said tab 8 to tip, in the direction of F4 in
The manner in which this valve 2 operates is thus different from the three previous variants, as the electric current has no direct action on the film 16. If only the card 1 is observed, only the presence or the absence of the tab 8, by means of its elastomer pin 11, allows the closing and opening of said valve 2 respectively.
The outside element implemented to allow the tab 8 to move in the direction of F4 is represented in
This tipping along F6 is clearly shown in
Along a wire 22, another contact exists with the bearing boss 20 which acts as a means of transmission of the shrinking force F5 of said wire 22, to ensure the tipping F6 of the rigid part 19 of the lever 15. Such wires 22 may consist of FLEXINOL wires (registered trademark) made of a complex nickel-titanium alloy purchased from the DYNALLOY Inc. Company (Costa Mesa, Calif., United States of America). At ambient temperature, this wire 22 is easily drawn, although when a sufficient current flows through it, that is approximately 1,000 milliamperes (mA) at 0.3 Volt per centimeter (V/cm), its length decreases 3 to 5% while exerting a traction force of approximately 900 gram.force (g.force). Nevertheless, this force depends on the diameter of the wire, as can be clearly seen in table 3 below:
Performance characteristics of shape memory wires
in relation to their diameter
Wire diameter
Shrinking force
Relaxation force
Typical current
(g. force)
(g. force)
(mA) at 0.3 V/cm
The response times allow 13 to 65 cycles per minute, for a transition temperature of 90� C. The number of cycles shifts from 9 to 40 if this temperature is 70� C. The life cycle of this type of wire 22 is at least one million cycles.
As shown in
5�) Fifth Alternate Embodiment
The fundamental difference lies in the fact that the card 1 does not have compression means 8. The card 1 thus has valves which are normally open at rest, while they are normally closed in the fourth variant.
The control mechanism 13 is thus simpler, according to this fifth variant, as the lever 32 acts directly on said card 1; in this manner, the free end of the lever 32, not labeled, is equipped with an elastomer hermetic closing means or compression pin 33. This pin compresses the film 16 when the wire made of shape memory material 22, already described in the previous variant, is not energized.
It is also possible to foresee that the wire 22 is replaced by a longitudinal strip made of electroactive polymer, according to the first three alternate embodiments.
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"I've said it before that tough times don't last, but tough teams do. I thought we played an absolutely tremendous first half of football. We have to get to where we finish the second half. Where we couldn't sustain drives offensively in the second half, we had the defense out there for a lot of plays. Eventually they wore down and led to missed tackles.
"For us to win we have to play exceptionally well in all phases - offensively, defensively and on special teams. We'll continue to improve each week. That's what we've done every week this season and we'll continue to do that. Our players played extremely hard. We're OK, we're just going to coach hard, work hard and believe in each other.
"At some point we'll have to bow-up and make plays. I believe we didn't have first down for a quarter? We were trying to sustain drives. We'll have to look at the film and see if we can improve.
"The doctors told us when (Charles Ross) could and couldn't go in because of asthma. He had an asthma attack. We would have used him more, certainly.
"You saw us play a good first half. We were flying to the ball, making hard hits and gang-tackling. We were paying defense the way it's suppose to be played. We've got to learn from our mistakes, see what's happened to us, and can't continue to make the same ones. We know it. Now we have to do it.
"We had some new faces in there tonight, and that is, `you better be ready to come off the bench.' We just have to make those two's and three's understand they could be in for a while. We just have to get them better. We work them hard in practice, it just a matter of getting them to play when they take the field. We got to get more two's and threes making plays so there's no drop-off. I know they can do it. It's up to me to figure out how to get it out of them."
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"I thought the offensive line played well considering the young guys we got in there. If they blitz, then we have to hit a short pass and gain yards. That's how you defeat it. We weren't able to do that tonight.
"I missed some passes early that I should have hit. You can't do that when you get open receivers down the field. You have to hit them. I'm sure that other teams are going to try and get to us with that blitz. It's up to us to beat ready to go and play hard.
"I thought we had some good individual performances, but if you have ten guys do it right and one guy do it wrong there's a chance it could all go wrong, myself included."
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