A porous membrane for use in an electroosmotic pump for pumping a fluid by electroosmotic transport, the porous membrane comprising: first and second opposite surfaces and a net fluid flow direction extending in the porous membrane between said opposite surfaces, wherein when a given amount of charge flows through the porous membrane from the first to the second opposite surface more electroosmotic transport of the fluid will occur than when the same amount of charge flows through the porous membrane from the second to the first, opposite surface.

A fluid device including a fluid chamber which is designed for receiving a fluid and which is commonly delimited by a device housing and a bending-elastic membrane element. The membrane element with a peripheral edge section is fixed to the device housing in a fluid-tight manner and has a membrane working section which is framed by the peripheral edge section and which for the change of the volume of the fluid chamber can be elastically deflected by a piezoactuator. The membrane element consists of a rubber-elastic material, wherein the piezoactuator comprises a drive section which extends along the membrane working section, is embedded into the membrane element and is enveloped by the rubber-elastic material of the membrane element.

A diaphragm assembly for a pulsatile fluid pump includes an edge-mounted flexible diaphragm, the diaphragm configured for operation cyclically between a diastole mode and a systole mode. The diaphragm assembly further includes a systolic distribution brace having an interior wall configured to cup a portion of the outside surface of the diaphragm, and a diastolic plate, embedded in the diaphragm, mechanically coupled to a portion of the inside surface of the diaphragm. In the course of the systole mode, force is applied across the maximum radial extent of the systolic distribution brace, so as to impart tension in the diaphragm around the periphery of the systolic distribution brace. In the course of the diastole mode, force is applied across the maximum radial extent of the diastolic plate, so as to impart tension in the diaphragm around the diastolic plate.

A medical infusion fluid handling system, such as an automated peritoneal dialysis system, may be arranged to de-cap and connect one or more lines (such as solution lines) with one or more spikes or other connection ports on a fluid handling cassette. This feature may reduce a likelihood of contamination since no human interaction is required to de-cap and connect the one or more lines and the one or more spikes. For example, the automated peritoneal dialysis system may include a carriage arranged to receive the one or more lines each having a connector end and a cap. The carriage may move along a first direction so as to move the connector ends of the one or more lines along the first direction, and a cap stripper may be arranged to engage with the caps on the the one or more lines on the carriage. The cap stripper may move in a second direction transverse to the first direction, as well as to move with the carriage along the first direction.

A channel-less microfluidic pump includes a cartridge including a substrate and an actuatable film layer disposed on the substrate, and a manifold having at least three actuatable void volumes separated by a plurality of wall sections and an actuatable flexible layer disposed on the manifold interfacing the actuatable film layer. In operation, the pump can be in an unactuated state wherein the actuatable film layer is disposed against the surface of the substrate or an actuated state wherein at least a portion of the flexible layer and a corresponding portion of the actuatable film layer are deflected into a corresponding void volume thus forming a fluidic volume between the deflected portion of the actuatable film layer and the surface of the substrate. In the actuated state, there is a fluidic gap between immediately adjacent void volumes formed by a thinned region of the flexible layer at a point of contact with a top surface of a wall section. A method of transporting fluid using the channel-less microfluidic pump is described.

A diaphragm structured for use in a diaphragm pump useful to pump a working fluid includes a first non-planar layer and a second non-planar layer. The second non-planar layer is independent from the first non-planar layer, but engaged to the first non-planar layer so that the first non-planar layer and the second non-planar layer form a closed space therebetween and travel together while flexing in an intake direction or a discharge direction within a pumping assembly of a diaphragm pump.

A medical treatment system, such as a peritoneal dialysis system, may include a control and other features to enhance patient comfort and ease of use. For example, a cycler device may include a heater bag receiving section and a lid mounted to cover and uncover the heater bag receiving section, potentially enabling faster heating of a dialysate. A user interface may be moveable to be received into the receiving section and covered by the lid, if desired. The system may detect anomalous conditions, such as tilting of a housing of the system, and automatically recover without terminating a treatment. The system may include noise reduction features, such as porting pneumatic outputs to a common chamber, and others. The system may also automatically detect any one of several different solution lines connected to the system, and control operation accordingly, e.g., to mix solutions provided by two or more lines and form a needed dialysate solution. A cassette control surface may be arranged to have one or more ports that can detect a presence of a liquid, e.g., to identify if a cassette is leaking or has otherwise been compromised.

A diaphragm-type compressor includes a substrate, a diaphragm, and an actuator, the substrate, the diaphragm, and the actuator being laminated and provided in this order. In a plan view from a direction of the lamination, the diaphragm includes a first film section that overlaps the actuator and a second film section that does not overlap the actuator. A step is provided on a surface at the diaphragm side of the substrate. A portion corresponding to the first film section and a portion corresponding to the second film section of the substrate are respectively different stages.

A diaphragm compressor having a compressor head with a hydraulic fluid plate having a fluid plate contact plane and a process fluid plate having a process plate contact plane, the plates forming a compression chamber when contact therebetween is established, the compression chamber being divided in an upper chamber and a lower chamber by a multi-layered diaphragm where a controller is configured for controlling an alternating movement of the multi-layered diaphragm towards the upper and the lower chambers respectively, a process fluid plate seal is positioned in a process fluid seal groove provided in the contact plane, the process fluid plate seal forms a process fluid seal between an upper side of the multi-layered diaphragm and the contact plane, and the process fluid plate includes a process fluid leak groove system fluidly connected to a process fluid plate leakage passage provided in the process fluid plate.

A rolling diaphragm pump that can inhibit an increase in cost with a simple configuration is provided. A rolling diaphragm pump 1 includes: a housing 2; a piston 3 disposed so as to be slidable relative to an inner peripheral surface of the housing 2 and reciprocatable in an axial direction; a rolling diaphragm 4 having a movable portion 41 disposed at one end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 and reciprocatable together with the piston 3, a fixed portion 42 fixed to the housing 2, and a flexible connecting portion 43 connecting the movable portion 41 and the fixed portion 42 to each other; a pump chamber 5 defined by the rolling diaphragm 4 at one side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a transport fluid is sucked and discharged by changing a volume of an interior of the pump chamber 5 by deformation of the connecting portion 43 due to reciprocation of the piston 3; and a working fluid chamber 6 defined by another end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 at another side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a working fluid is supplied and discharged, thereby causing the piston 3 to reciprocate.