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Design and construction of a micropump for drug delivery applications

  • Abbas Z. Kouzani
  • , Mile Ivankovic
  • , Michael Fielding
  • , Akif Kaynak
  • , Chunhui Yang
  • , Wei Duan
  • , Eric J. Hu

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Abstract

This paper presents design, construction, and evaluation of a micropump for drug delivery applications. The proposed micropump consists of three components: fluidics, electronics, and software. The fluidics component includes a silicone elastic diaphragm, a microservo, housing and two check valves. The diaphragm is modeled and simulated to establish its geometrical specifications. The housing is built using a rapid prototype machine. The electronics component consists of a microcontroller, a microswitch array, a simple display and a power unit. The software component is written in C and receives inputs from user, controls the microservo speed and displays the programmed speed. A number of experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance and capabilities of the micropump. The experiments focus on measurement of flow rate, dosage and duration of operation. A discussion of the performance and capabilities of the developed micropump is also given.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME2010, 13-15 July 2010, Gold Coast, Australia
PublisherIEEE
Pages182-187
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781424468430
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
EventInternational Conference on Complex Medical Engineering -
Duration: 13 Jul 2010 → …

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Complex Medical Engineering
Period13/07/10 → …

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