US 11,885,323 B2
Linear peristaltic pumps for use with fluidic cartridges
Cameron Mar, San Diego, CA (US); Wesley A. Cox-Muranami, San Diego, CA (US); Steven Hendrix, Jamul, CA (US); and Cyril Delattre, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to ILLUMINA, INC., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on May 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/874,934.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/849,769, filed on May 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0362846 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. F04B 43/14 (2006.01); F04B 43/12 (2006.01); F04B 43/06 (2006.01)
CPC F04B 43/1223 (2013.01) [F04B 43/06 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a reagent cartridge to be received within a cartridge receptacle of a system, the reagent cartridge comprising:
a plurality of reagent reservoirs;
a plurality of dedicated fluidic lines, each of the reagent reservoirs being coupled to a corresponding dedicated fluidic line;
a common fluidic line to be coupled to a flow cell and each of the dedicated fluidic lines;
a plurality of valves, each valve to control fluid flow between one of the dedicated fluidic lines and the common fluidic line;
a body including a surface forming depressions, each depression having a fluid inlet formed as an aperture through the surface, and a fluid outlet formed as an aperture through the surface and being fluidly coupled to at least one other depression; and
a deformable material coupled to the surface of the body and including portions, each portion covering one of the depressions to define chambers,
wherein the portions of the deformable material are movable relative to the depressions between a first position outside of a dimensional envelope of the body and a second position within the dimensional envelope of the body,
wherein the surface of the body includes a mating surface to which the deformable material is coupled, a distance between the inlet and the mating surface is less than a distance between the outlet and the mating surface,
wherein the chambers are coupled via a fluidic line having a first fluidic-line portion and a second fluidic-line portion, the first fluidic-line portion being coupled to the outlet of a first one of the chambers and extending from the outlet toward the mating surface and the second fluidic-line portion being coupled to the first fluidic-line portion and to the inlet of a second one of the chambers.