发明名称 |
Apparatus comprising a particle sorter/dispenser and method therefor |
摘要 |
A particle sorter/dispenser wherein particles that are suspended in a liquid are flowed through a conduit and selectively dispensed through a dispensing orifice. The conduit includes a sensing zone wherein the liquid-suspended particles are interrogated by a sensor. Data from the sensor is received by processing electronics that analyzes the data from the sensor and makes a decision whether or not to dispense a particle. The particle sorter/dispenser further includes a switch that, responsive to a signal from the processing electronics, controls whether or not a given particle is dispensed through the dispensing orifice. The switch has one or two valves that introduce relatively high-pressure liquid into the conduit. The flow streamlines of the high-pressure liquid controls the flow of the relatively low-pressure liquid-suspended particles in the conduit. Particles that are not dispensed are flowed past the dispensing orifice to a recycle reservoir that depends from the downstream end of the conduit.
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申请公布号 |
US7179420(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2007.02.20 |
申请号 |
US20020280537 |
申请日期 |
2002.10.25 |
申请人 |
TECHELAN, LLC |
发明人 |
HATCHER THOMAS JAMES;FEYGIN ILYA;GRINBERG ALEKSANDR;BRZEZINSKI JOSEPH J. |
分类号 |
G01N33/00;B01L3/02;G01N15/00;G01N15/02;G01N15/14;G01N35/08 |
主分类号 |
G01N33/00 |
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