Proceedings of the KIEE Conference (대한전기학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2002.11a
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- Pages.64-66
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- 2002
A Study on Passive Microvalve for Glaucoma
녹내장 치료용 수동형 밸브의 제작
- Sim, Tae-Seok (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University) ;
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Kim, Yong-Kweon
(School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
- Published : 2002.11.09
Abstract
This paper reports the design, modeling, fabrication and measurement of passive microvalves applicable to glaucoma implants. The proposed microvalves consisted of microchannels and chambers. The microchannels had a fixed fluidic resistance and generated a pressure difference. The chamber was located in the middle of the microchannels and acted as a buffer preventing an abrupt pressure change from an external variation of the fluid flow. To find optimum design parameters, six kinds of the microvalves were fabricated and experimented.
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