LIQUID DROPLET DRIVING STRUCTURE, LIQUID DROPLET DRIVING SYSTEM USING IT AND LIQUID DROPLET DRIVING CONTROL METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid droplet driving structure capable of controlling the formation and disappearance of liquid droplets on the surface of a structure and an increase and decrease in the amount of liquid droplets by utilizing the volatilization and condensation of fine liquid droplets to control the liquid droplets to form them at a predetermined position or efficiently increasing or decreasing the amount of the liquid droplets at the predetermined position, a liquid droplet driving system using it and a liquid droplet driving control method.;SOLUTION: In the liquid droplet driving structure wherein a main electrode part, a sub-electrode part and a liquid droplet control part are provided outside an electrolyte body, the main electrode part and the sub-electrode part are formed into a porous structure and both of them are provided so as to be electrically spaced apart from each other. Voltage is applied to both electrode parts under a condition that the amount of the liquid outside of the structure and/or the temperature of the structure is adjusted to control the formation and elimination of the liquid droplets on the liquid droplet control part or the increase and decrease in the amount of the liquid droplets.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT