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US 2012/0267288 A1Published application
Acoustically driven nanoparticle concentrator
AssigneeEmpire Technology Development LLC
InventorsSung-Wei Chen, Eduardo Vom, Samuel Ross Garland Lanyon, Stuart Elliot, Richard Allman
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Abstract
An apparatus including an acoustic transducer configured to acoustically associate with at least a portion of a fluid cavity. The fluid cavity is configured as a resonator. The acoustic transducer is configured to create an acoustic wave in the at least a portion of the fluid cavity. The acoustic wave is selected to increase the concentration of at least one particulate in a location in the fluid cavity.
Claims25
An apparatus comprising:
- an acoustic transducer configured to acoustically associate with at least a portion of a fluid cavity configured as a resonator, wherein
- the acoustic transducer is configured to create an acoustic wave in the at least a portion of the fluid cavity, and wherein
- the acoustic wave is selected to increase the concentration of at least one particulate in a location in the fluid cavity.
A method comprising:
- forming an acoustic wave in at least a portion of a fluid cavity configured as a resonator, wherein the acoustic wave is selected to concentrate at least one particulate in the fluid cavity at a location in the fluid cavity, and wherein the acoustic wave resonates in the at least a portion of the fluid cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.