Patent ID: 11865565
Assignee: ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus, comprising:
a bottom substrate comprising:
an electrode arrangement comprising a plurality of sets of reservoir electrodes, droplet operations electrodes, and a droplet processing region formed by and fluidly connected by the droplet operations electrodes; and

a top substrate separated from the bottom substrate by a droplet operation gap, the top substrate comprising a plurality of on-actuator reservoirs, each on-actuator reservoir corresponding to one set of the reservoir electrodes, each of the on-actuator reservoirs comprising:
a loading port;
a liquid storage zone downstream of the loading port;
a droplet metering zone downstream of the liquid storage zone; and
a droplet dispensing zone downstream of the droplet metering zone,

wherein the droplet processing region comprises a plurality of droplet processing lanes,
wherein the metering zone is to meter sub-droplets from liquid in the liquid storage zone, and
wherein each of the on-actuator reservoirs further comprises:
a pressure loading source coupled to an outlet of the loading port, wherein the outlet is an upwardly protruding outlet; and
a cup portion fitted upon the upwardly protruding outlet of the loading port, wherein the pressure source is coupled to the cup portion.