FLUID ACTUATOR FOR DIGITALLY CONTROLLABLE MICROFLUIDIC DISPLAY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display which has a considerably reduced weight, can provide a wide color region, easily formed into a module and has the quality of visualization hardly affected by weather conditions. SOLUTION: In the display, each pixel 110 includes a wall 120 and a microfluidic system. The microfluidic system includes: a reservoir chamber which is arranged on a first side part of the wall and is defined in part by a deformable wall; a colored fluid 140 arranged in a reservoir 130; a display chamber 150 arranged on a second side part of the wall; a conduit 160 which communicates between the reservoir and a display chamber; and a fluid actuator 170 which includes a means for selectively transferring part of the colored fluid between the reservoir and the display chamber through the conduit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT