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Method of Attract-To-Merge Control of Liquid Jet-Stream Flows (AMC Method)

This invention relates to micro or meso scaled final amplifiers of integrated or modular Microfluidic systems which feature with various physical, chemical or biological inputs, and which should be used for control of basic or redundant hydraulic or pneumatic drives that operate in conditions of fire and explosion hazard, influence of radiation and magnetic fields, extra heat flux and moisture, aggressive chemicals, exposure to a hostile suppressing noise at the battle field, etc. More specifically, the present invention discovers the art of fluid flow handling regarding a new procedure of converting and amplifying a weak main hydraulic signal and auxiliary pneumatic signal, optionally outgoing from the same microfluidic platform, into significantly enhanced hydraulic signal that represents the relatively powerful output of said final amplifiers, which is capable to operate any valve type control unit of mini or macro scaled hydraulic or pneumatic power drives of various machines and mechanisms at industry, transport, military, and utility objects.

The miniaturization of hydraulic and pneumatic is driven by industrial, transport, medicine, and utility objects for cost, security, and military benefits. There are, currently, numerous applications of hydraulic and pneumatic drives that actuate miniaturized mechanical devices, which have outstanding mass-to-power and mass-to-response features. Additionally, initense marketing and development of microelectronics has lead to adequate miniaturization of the control component of electric-hydraulic or electric-pneumatic mini drives.

However, such advances only represent the scaled down version of drives from previous generations. The effectiveness of such drives is limited, though, to the increasingly harmful ambient physical factors such as the following: