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US 11,759,793 B2Granted
Object separating
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsViktor Shkolnikov, Daixi Xin
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Abstract
An object separator may include a substrate, a fluid channel supported by the substrate, a pair of electrodes along the fluid channel to form a dielectrophoretic force to interact with an object entrained in a fluid, and an inertial pump supported by the substrate and positioned within the fluid channel to move the fluid along the fluid channel.
Claims20
An object separator for separating an object in a fluid, the object separator comprising:
- a substrate;
- a fluid channel supported by the substrate;
- a pair of electrodes along the fluid channel to form a dielectrophoretic force to interact with an object entrained in a fluid;
- and
- an inertial pump supported by the substrate and positioned within the fluid channel to move the fluid along the fluid channel.
2 more elements
A method for separating an object in a fluid, the method comprising:
- moving fluid through a channel of a substrate with an inertial pump supported by the substrate and positioned with the channel;
- and
- applying a dielectrophoretic force to an object entrained in the fluid to separate the object from other objects in the fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.