US 11,867,342 B2
Fluidic channels and methods of altering the surface energy of components thereof
Eric Lee Hanson, Carlsbad, CA (US); Eric L. Bruner, La Jolla, CA (US); Justin Hardin, Poway, CA (US); and Edward W. Hughes, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to ACULON INC., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by ACULON, INC., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/465,277.
Application 16/698,503 is a division of application No. 13/507,981, filed on Aug. 10, 2012, abandoned.
Application 17/465,277 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/698,503, filed on Nov. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/073,699, filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/574,935, filed on Aug. 11, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0404594 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. F16L 58/08 (2006.01); B05D 1/18 (2006.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01); B05D 7/22 (2006.01); B05D 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 58/08 (2013.01) [B05D 1/185 (2013.01); B05D 5/08 (2013.01); B05D 7/22 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01); B82Y 40/00 (2013.01); B05D 2202/00 (2013.01); B05D 2350/65 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mesh nebulizer comprising a reservoir and a dispensing device that comprises a microarray of microchannels, wherein the reservoir and dispensing device are configured to allow a fluid to flow from the reservoir through the dispensing device and exit the dispensing device as an aerosol, and wherein the reservoir and dispensing device comprise:
1) an interior surface;
2) an exterior surface that opposes the interior surface;
3) a metal surface layer applied to the interior and exterior surfaces and comprising one or more of silver, gold, palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium, tantalum, aluminum, copper, titanium, iron, chromium, alloys thereof, and oxides thereof; and
4) a hydrophobic coating layer comprising an organo-silicon or a self-assembled monolayer of an organophosphorus acid, adhered to the metal surface layer on the interior and/or exterior surfaces of the reservoir and dispensing device, wherein the hydrophobic coating layer is adhered to the metal surface layer either directly or indirectly through an intermediate organometallic coating.