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Companies dedicated to the development of artificial muscles based on conjugated polymers have also emerged in recent years. MicroMuscle based in Sweden and EAMEX from Japan are both actively pursuing actuators for biomedical and electronics apphcations. Santa Fe Science and Technology, USA, has produced continuous spun polyaniline fibres and demonstrated their use as linear actuators [11, 12]. Academic laboratories have also developed several demonstration products including a variable camber hydrofoil [13], a robotic fish propulsor fin [14], a gas valve [15], microrobots [16] and a micropump [10], some of which are illustrated in Figure 10.1. An electronic Braille screen using ICP actuators is also described in this book [17]. 

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Figure 4 shows the prototype heat pipe and PPy diaphragm pump (Eamex HP) designed for cooling a central processing unit (CPU) in personal computers. The dimension of diaphragm pump was 25 mm square and 10 mm thickness. The heat pipe was assembled widi ten thin tubes in a rectangular rod with length of 150 mm, width of 9.2 mm, and thickness of 1.8 mm as shown in Fig. 4. The heat pipe transferred 30 W widi die operation fi equency of 0.5 Hz at 1.5 V. The coolant came and went in die diin tube, which can be seen in the demonstration at Eamex HP.

Fig. 3 (a) Schematic drawing of diaphragm pump and (b) photograph of the prototype diaphragm pump (Reproduced from (Eamex HP, http //eamex.co.jp/))... 

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