阅读说明：本技术 一种气压驱动的离心式微流控检测芯片 (Air pressure driven centrifugal micro-fluidic detection chip ) 是由 李贵阳 郭龙宗 李玉燕 刘国华 王熊 王振华 杨中兴 郑军贵 曲心怡 汪琼 沈巍 于 2020-03-10 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种气压驱动的离心式微流控检测芯片,属于医学检测技术领域。本发明在全封闭的芯片内采用独特的气压驱动技术,为微流控检测芯片内的反应液运动提供动力来源,可在微流控检测芯片内进行需要温度变化才能催化的检测反应。市面上绝大部分核酸检测微流控检测芯片都采用恒温扩增技术,而恒温扩增技术没有变温扩增技术稳定且准确,本发明的气压驱动的离心式微流控检测芯片可实现变温扩增技术,该芯片存在多个检测单元串联,可以同时检测多个基因靶标。(The invention relates to an air pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip, and belongs to the technical field of medical detection. The invention adopts a unique air pressure driving technology in a totally closed chip, provides a power source for the movement of reaction liquid in the microfluidic detection chip, and can carry out detection reaction which can be catalyzed only by temperature change in the microfluidic detection chip. The majority of nucleic acid detection micro-fluidic detection chips on the market adopt constant temperature amplification technology, but the constant temperature amplification technology is stable and accurate without variable temperature amplification technology.)

1. The utility model provides a centrifugal micro-fluidic detection chip of atmospheric pressure drive which characterized in that: the microfluidic detection chip is a rectangular plate body and comprises a top substrate and a bottom substrate which are pressed and sealed together;

a closed W-shaped channel which vertically extends in a W shape is arranged on the left side in the bottom base plate, and a sample inlet hole and a sample inlet air outlet hole are respectively communicated between the starting end of the upper part and the terminating end of the lower part of the W-shaped channel and the front surface of the bottom base plate; each right convex part of the W-shaped channel is communicated with a first reaction chamber on the right side of the W-shaped channel through a transversely arranged microporous channel, the adjacent first reaction chambers are communicated with each other through a microchannel, a second reaction chamber and the microchannel in sequence, the second reaction chamber is positioned on the right side of the first reaction chamber, the first reaction chamber positioned on the uppermost side is also communicated with an upper end air pressure chamber above the first reaction chamber through the microchannel, and the first reaction chamber positioned on the lowermost side is also communicated with a lower end air pressure chamber below the first reaction chamber through the microchannel, the second reaction chamber and the microchannel in sequence;

through holes are respectively arranged at the positions of the top substrate corresponding to the sample inlet and the sample inlet air outlet.

2. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: and a buffer chamber is arranged between each second reaction chamber and the first reaction chamber or the lower end air pressure chamber communicated with the lower part of the second reaction chamber, and a buffer chamber is arranged between the uppermost first reaction chamber and the upper end air pressure chamber.

3. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: the depth of the sample inlet hole and the sample inlet air outlet hole is 0.3-0.9 mm.

4. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: the cross section area of the W-shaped channel is 0.5-2.5 mm²。

5. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: the sectional area of the micropore channel is smaller than that of the microchannel, and the sectional area of the micropore channel is 0.1-1.5 mm²The cross section area of the micro-channel is 0.2-2 mm²。

6. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: one W-length channel in the W-shaped channels can accommodate the reaction liquid with the volume of 20-160 mu L.

7. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber are equal in volume, and the volume of the contained reaction liquid is 10-80 mu L.

8. A gas-pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to claim 1, wherein: the communication position of the first reaction chamber and the microchannel bends to one side of the W-shaped channel, and the first reaction chamber is positioned at the right side of the communication position with the microchannel.

Technical Field

The invention relates to an air pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip, and belongs to the technical field of medical detection.

Technical Field

The micro-fluidic detection chip technology integrates basic operation units of sample preparation, reaction, separation, detection and the like in the processes of biological, chemical and medical analysis on a micron-scale chip, and automatically completes the whole analysis process. Due to its great potential in the fields of biology, chemistry, medicine and the like, the method has been developed into a new research field crossing the disciplines of biology, chemistry, medicine, fluid, electronics, materials, machinery and the like. The microfluidic detection chip technology is applied to the field of gene detection, and has wide application prospect.

The gene detection is a technology for detecting DNA/RNA through blood, other body fluids or cells, and is a method for taking the peripheral venous blood or other tissue cast-off cells of a detected person, amplifying the gene information, amplifying and detecting the nucleic acid molecule information in the cells of the detected person through specific equipment, and analyzing whether the gene type, the gene defect and the expression function contained in the nucleic acid molecule information are normal or not, so that people can know the gene information of themselves, determine the cause of a disease or predict the risk of the body suffering from a certain disease.

The gene detection needs to be carried out in a special laboratory, and is operated by professional personnel, so that pollution is easy to generate, and the wide application of the gene detection technology is limited. The micro-fluidic chip enables detection reaction to be executed in a closed chip, is not easy to generate pollution, reduces operation procedures, reduces the requirements of gene detection technology on detection environment and personnel, and is beneficial to popularization and application of the technology.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an air pressure driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip, which can adopt a temperature-variable nucleic acid amplification technology, has higher accuracy and specificity of detection results, and can carry out high-throughput, rapid and efficient multi-purpose nucleic acid detection on one sample.

The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the utility model provides a centrifugal micro-fluidic detection chip of atmospheric pressure drive which characterized in that: the microfluidic detection chip is a rectangular plate body and comprises a top substrate and a bottom substrate which are pressed and sealed together;

a closed W-shaped channel which vertically extends in a W shape is arranged on the left side in the bottom base plate, and a sample inlet hole and a sample inlet air outlet hole are respectively communicated between the starting end of the upper part and the terminating end of the lower part of the W-shaped channel and the front surface of the bottom base plate; each right convex part of the W-shaped channel is communicated with a first reaction chamber on the right side of the W-shaped channel through a transversely arranged microporous channel, the adjacent first reaction chambers are communicated with each other through a microchannel, a second reaction chamber and the microchannel in sequence, the second reaction chamber is positioned on the right side of the first reaction chamber, the first reaction chamber positioned on the uppermost side is also communicated with an upper end air pressure chamber above the first reaction chamber through the microchannel, and the first reaction chamber positioned on the lowermost side is also communicated with a lower end air pressure chamber below the first reaction chamber through the microchannel, the second reaction chamber and the microchannel in sequence;

through holes are respectively arranged at the positions of the top substrate corresponding to the sample inlet and the sample inlet air outlet.

Wherein, the preferred scheme is as follows:

and a buffer chamber is arranged between each second reaction chamber and the first reaction chamber or the lower end air pressure chamber communicated with the lower part of the second reaction chamber, and a buffer chamber is arranged between the uppermost first reaction chamber and the upper end air pressure chamber. In the invention, each second reaction chamber, the first reaction chamber communicated with the upper part of the second reaction chamber and the right convex part of the single W-shaped channel are used as a reaction unit, and the arrangement of the buffer chamber can prevent reaction liquid from entering other reaction units or an upper end air pressure chamber and a lower end air pressure chamber.

The depth of the sample inlet hole and the sample inlet air outlet hole is 0.3-0.9 mm.

The cross section area of the W-shaped channel is 0.5-2.5 mm²Preferably 2.0mm²。

The sectional area of the micropore channel is smaller than that of the microchannel, and the sectional area of the micropore channel is 0.1-1.5 mm²Preferably 0.8mm²The cross section area of the micro-channel is 0.2-2 mm²Preferably 1.2mm²。

One W-length channel in the W-shaped channels can accommodate the reaction liquid with the volume of 20-160 mu L, and preferably 50 mu L.

The first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber have the same volume, and the volume of the contained reaction liquid is 10-80 mu L, preferably 25 mu L.

The communication position of the first reaction chamber and the microchannel bends to one side of the W-shaped channel, and the first reaction chamber is positioned at the right side of the communication position with the microchannel. By adopting the arrangement mode, the reaction liquid can be prevented from overflowing to other chambers during centrifugation.

In the invention, the amplification reaction solution is added from the sample inlet and the sample inlet gas outlet, and the primer of the amplification reaction is added (or freeze-dried) to the first reaction chamber or the second reaction chamber in advance. And placing the microfluidic detection chip in a centrifugal device, and applying a temperature control device to the outside of the centrifugal device. The centrifugal device comprises a centrifugal shaft, a centrifugal arm and a tray, the microfluidic detection chip is arranged in the tray at one end, one side of the W-shaped channel faces the centrifugal shaft, and reaction liquid in the W-shaped channel enters the first reaction chamber through centrifugation. The temperature control equipment comprises first temperature control equipment, second temperature control equipment, third temperature control equipment and fourth temperature control equipment, the temperature of the first reaction chamber is controlled by the first temperature control equipment, the temperature of the second reaction chamber is controlled by the second temperature control equipment, and the two reaction chambers have different temperatures (preferably, the first reaction chamber is heated at a high temperature, and the second reaction chamber is heated at a low temperature); the temperature of the upper end air pressure chamber is controlled by a third temperature control device, the temperature of the lower end air pressure chamber is controlled by a fourth temperature control device, one end of the upper end air pressure chamber is heated, the other end of the upper end air pressure chamber is cooled, pressure difference is generated through thermal expansion and cold contraction of air, reaction liquid is pushed to move back and forth in the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber, the first reaction chamber and the second reaction chamber have different temperatures, and the reaction liquid is heated and cooled to carry out nucleic acid amplification reaction. And acquiring an amplification result in the microfluidic detection chip by acquiring a fluorescence signal of the first reaction chamber or the second reaction chamber.

Compared with the prior art, the centrifugal micro-fluidic detection chip driven by air pressure adopts a unique air pressure driving technology in a totally-enclosed chip, provides a power source for the movement of reaction liquid in the micro-fluidic detection chip, and can carry out detection reaction which can be catalyzed only by temperature change in the micro-fluidic detection chip. The majority of nucleic acid detection micro-fluidic detection chips on the market adopt constant temperature amplification technology, but the constant temperature amplification technology is stable and accurate without variable temperature amplification technology.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a three-dimensional structure of a pneumatic-driven centrifugal microfluidic detection chip according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of the base substrate of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a single reaction unit of the microfluidic detection chip according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a centrifugal mode of the microfluidic detection chip according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the temperature control mode of the microfluidic chip according to the present invention;

the labels in the figures are: 1-sample inlet, 2-upper end air pressure chamber, 3-W type channel, 4-buffer chamber, 5-first reaction chamber, 6-second reaction chamber, 7-micro channel, 8-base plate, 9-sample inlet and outlet, 10-lower end air pressure chamber, 11-third temperature control device, 12-first temperature control device, 13-second temperature control device, 14-fourth temperature control device, 15-centrifugal arm, 16-centrifugal shaft, 17-centrifugal tray, 18-top substrate, 19-micro channel.

Detailed Description

The invention is further illustrated by the following figures and examples, which are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

It should be noted that, for convenience of description, the terms of orientation such as "front", "back", "left", "right", "up" and "down" described in this patent are based on the direction of fig. 2, but do not represent the actual placement position of the microfluidic detection chip during application, and the microfluidic detection chip is laid flat during actual application.