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Five groups of wheel check valves with different structures are used to test the wheel check valve opening height and air block probability. The experiment results show that reducing the wheel check valve thickness or diameter ratio can both increase the wheel check valve opening height, and decrease the air block probability. Through experiment, the optimum combination of the wheel check valve structure is obtained within the samples: as the thickness is 0.02 mm, the diameter ratio is 1.2, the wheel check valve opening height gets 252 \u00b5m, and within the given bubble volume, the air block probability is less than 2%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/mi6111452","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,16]],"date-time":"2015-11-16T05:40:47Z","timestamp":1447652447000},"page":"1745-1754","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["The Structure of Wheel Check Valve Influence on Air Block Phenomenon of Piezoelectric Micro-Pump"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Song","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, No. 5988, Renmin Road, Changchun 130025, China"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, No. 5988, Renmin Road, Changchun 130025, China"}]},{"given":"Yanhu","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, No. 5988, Renmin Road, Changchun 130025, China"}]},{"given":"Jiantao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, No. 5988, Renmin Road, Changchun 130025, China"}]},{"given":"Zhigang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Jilin University, No. 5988, Renmin Road, Changchun 130025, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Wu, Y. 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