Fluids and High Tech Products
Did you know that the word fluid means any substance that can flow, like air or liquids? Does the word fluid come to mind when you think of high tech products? It should.

Surprisingly, high-tech innovations are often limited by fluid-related issues. Products such as PCs, laptops, servers and LED lamps use air and liquids for cooling; micro fuel cells use liquid fuel and compressed air to generate electric power and portable medical devices like O2 concentrators use compressed air to create O2 for patients. Fans, compressors and pumps (aka fluid movers) are the machines that move these fluids inside of tech products.

Conventional Fluid Movers Limit Tech Product Advancements
The relentless trend towards smaller and more powerful tech products has created fluid mover requirements that exceed the size-performance-cost-life boundaries of 20th century fluid movers.  For conventional pumps and compressors, the boundaries result largely from their designs that use a stand-alone rotary motor to drive a stand-alone pump. These motors comprise 80% of the pump cost and at least 50% of the pump’s size.  Similar limitations exist with fans. Markets like LED lighting require 10 year fan life, while conventional fans typically provide 3 years of life or less.

Influent’s Innovation
Influent has broken through these boundaries with a new family of miniature high-performance fluid movers including flex fans, air jets, pumps, vacuum pumps and compressors. All of these products are derived from the same key innovation: the development of new highly integrated drive systems that eliminate the need for large expensive rotary motors.

Our new drive systems are based on breakthroughs in subcomponent integration, where the functions of multiple fluid mover subcomponents are combined, or integrated, into single subcomponents. Unlike conventional fluid mover designs, Influent’s integrated subcomponents enable pump miniaturization by allowing both motor and pump components to literally occupy the same space. These integrated drive systems are the engines that power Influent’s new fluid mover products and enable the performance, cost and form factors sought by today’s markets.
 
Influent’s functionally integrated subcomponents are the building blocks for our small but powerful flex fans, air jets, pumps, vacuum pumps and compressors.  These subcomponents can be combined in multiple ways to create new fluid movers optimized for a wide range of specifications including size, fluid performance, energy efficiency, unique form factors and cost.  Influent’s proprietary computer numerical models enable these components to be combined, modeled and optimized to quickly create new fluid mover products for new applications.

These unique building blocks enable Influent to deliver the continuous advancements in performance, size, and cost needed for 21st century fluid movers.

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