Pump and fluid control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11300115-B2
Application number	US-202016835541-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2020
Priority date	Dec 26, 2017
Publication date	Apr 12, 2022
Grant date	Apr 12, 2022

Abstract

A pump includes a first diaphragm, a second diaphragm, and a circumferential wall, which define a pump chamber, and a driver. The driver vibrates the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm in a flexural mode to cause pressure fluctuation in the pump chamber. The first diaphragm has a first hole to which no check valve is attached. At least one of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm has a second hole to which a check valve is attached. The first hole is located at a portion that coincides with an axis orthogonal to a center of the first diaphragm and a center of the second diaphragm. The second hole is located at a portion that does not coincide with the first hole when viewed in a direction in which the axis extends.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pump, comprising:
a first diaphragm;
a second diaphragm facing the first diaphragm, wherein an axis extends through a center of the first diaphragm and a center of the second diaphragm and is orthogonal to a plan view of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm;
a circumferential wall that connects a periphery of the first diaphragm and a periphery of the second diaphragm to each other;
a pump chamber located between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, and defined by the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the circumferential wall; and
a driver that vibrates the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm in a flexural mode to cause pressure fluctuation in the pump chamber,
wherein the first diaphragm has a first hole to which no check valve is attached, at a portion that coincides with the axis when viewed in a direction in which the axis extends, and
wherein at least one of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm has a second hole to which a check valve is attached, at a portion that does not coincide with the first hole when viewed in the direction in which the axis extends, wherein at least one of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm has a third hole to which no check valve is attached in an area closer to an outer side from the axis than an area including the second hole when viewed in the direction in which the axis extends.

2. The pump according to claim 1 , wherein the second hole is in the second diaphragm.

3. The pump according to claim 1 ,
comprising a plurality of the second holes, and
wherein the plurality of the second holes are circumferentially arranged in sequence on the second diaphragm.

4. The pump according to claim 3 , wherein an opening area of the first hole is greater than a sum of opening areas of the plurality of the second holes.

5. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second hole is in the second diaphragm, and
wherein the third hole is in the first diaphragm.

6. The pump according to claim 1 comprising a plurality of the third holes, and
wherein the plurality of the third holes are circumferentially arranged in sequence on the first diaphragm.

7. The pump according to claim 6 ,
wherein the plurality of the third holes is a plurality of cylindrical holes arranged equidistant from each other and having an identical opening diameter, and
wherein a distance between each adjacent two third holes of the plurality of the third holes is smaller than the opening diameter of each of the plurality of the third holes.

8. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein there are no holes other than the first hole, the second hole, and the third hole in any of the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the circumferential wall.

9. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the driver vibrates the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm in a flexural mode to cause standing waves in both the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm with respect to the axis at the center.

10. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the driver has a circular profile when viewed in the direction in which the axis extends.

11. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the driver includes a plate-shaped first piezoelectric device, and
wherein the first piezoelectric device is bonded to the second diaphragm.

12. The pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the driver includes a plate-shaped piezoelectric device having a through-hole at a center, and
wherein the piezoelectric device is bonded to the first diaphragm while allowing the through-hole and the first hole to be continuous with each other.

13. The pump according to claim 2 , comprising a plurality of the second holes in the second diaphragm, and
wherein the plurality of the second holes are circumferentially arranged in sequence on the second diaphragm.

14. The pump according to claim 2 ,
wherein there are no other holes other than the first hole the second hole, and the third hole in any of the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the circumferential wall.

15. The pump according to claim 3 ,
wherein there are no other holes other than the first hole, the second hole, and the third hole in any of the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the circumferential wall.

16. The pump according to claim 4 ,
wherein there are no other holes other than the first hole, the second hole, and the third hole in any of the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm, and the circumferential wall.

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Tanaka Nobuhira

Classifications

• F04B45/045 Primary

  with in- or outlet valve arranged in the plate-like pumping flexible members · CPC title

• F04B45/047

  Pumps having electric drive · CPC title

• F04B45/10

  having plate-like flexible members · CPC title