Biaxial transducer

Claim 1

A pump comprising a chamber having interior surfaces, at least two layers of biaxer segments a resilient closure an inlet valve and an outlet valve, each said layer of biaxer segments having a support surface and a responsive surface, where the responsive surfaces of two biaxer segments are joined to common electrodes and the support surfaces are joined to ground electrodes attached to interlot surfaces of said pump chamber, said biaxer segments having spaces between them, having an axis about which the biaxer segments are distributed and each layer having a periphery at the end of a radius from the axis, said resilient closure is placed between the chamber and the layer's periphery to provide fluid closure for the pump, a pulsating electric source is connected to the common electrodes to activate the biaxer segments, said biaxers responsive to pulses of said pulsing electric source by shearing predominantly proximate said common electrodes, said shearing varying the volume of the spaces between said segments thereby changing the volume of open space in the chamber causing a change in chamber pressure, wherein a decrease in chamber pressure induces fluid into the chamber through the inlet valve and an increase in chamber pressure exhausts fluid through the outlet valve thereby providing pumping action.