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8172159 Surface to move a fluid via fringe electric fields  
Macroscopic volumes of fluid can be moved across a surface, including windshields, without mechanical assistance. Insulated electrodes, which for windshields and windows are preferably transparent,...
8152477 Electrokinetic pump designs and drug delivery systems  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a piston assembly having a piston housing filled with an electrolyte; a housing within the piston housing that divides the piston housing into a...
8154202 Starter member for a low-pressure discharge lamp  
Disclosed is a starter member to which a mercury-absorbing layer is applied and which can be used in low-pressure mercury discharge lamps. A starter member for a low-pressure amalgam discharge lamp...
8136553 Microfluidic circuit having an active component  
A microfluidic circuit comprising microchannels (24, 26) containing different fluids (F1, F2), with a laser beam being focused at (32) on an interface (30) between the fluids so as to form a pump,...
8076820 High energy density electro-osmotic pump and actuator  
An electro-osmotic pump includes a pump chamber having a wall fabricated of an electric double layer material, the surface area of the electric double layer material being high relative to the...
8057191 Electrokinetic micropump having ion-exchange membranes  
The invention is directed to the elimination of changes of the chemical composition of a pumped liquid caused by introduction of strange components or by modification of original components....
8042928 Liquid container, fuel cell system and method for controlling fuel cell system  
A liquid container includes a hollow body; a tubular suction port coupled to the hollow body; a first porous member disposed in the hollow body; a second porous member disposed in the suction port...
7976779 Integrated LC-ESI on a chip  
A microfluidic system with on-chip pumping which can be used for liquid chromatography and also electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and which provides improved efficiency, better integration...
7959483 Airtight container manufacturing method involves irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter so as not to activate it before a sealing process  
Provided is a manufacturing method of forming an airtight container including an electron beam irradiation process for irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter that has not been...
7931789 Device for charging separation buffer liquid to microchip, and microchip processing device equipped with the charging device, electrophoresis method in capillary channel and its microchip processing device  
In a separation buffer solution filling device, a microchip is arranged such reservoirs are opened on a surface on respective ends of channels including at least a main separation channel in which...
7913747 Miniature liquid cooling device with two sets of electrodes crossed over one another to drive a fluid  
A miniaturized liquid cooling device (200) includes at least a heat absorber (20), at least a heat dissipater (30), a droplet generator (40) driving a working fluid circulating between the at least...
7913418 Automatic clothes dryer  
An automatic clothes dryer comprises a cabinet defining an interior space in which is rotatably mounted a drum that defines a drying chamber, a heater assembly having a heating element for heating...
7914262 Electrohydrodynamic pump (EHD pump) with electrode arrangement  
To improve the configuration of electrodes disposed in the fluid channel of EHD pumps, and to reduce of the fluid channel of EHD pumps, as well as to reduce the cost of producing EHD pumps, and to...
7887301 Electro-hydrodynamic micro-pump and method of operating the same  
Provided is an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) micro-pump and a method of operating the same. The EHD micro-pump includes a plurality of electrodes alternately disposed on a substrate, an insulating...
7875159 Electrokinetic pump having capacitive electrodes  
An electrokinetic pump achieves high and low flow rates without producing significant gaseous byproducts and without significant evolution of the pump fluid. A first feature of the pump is that the...
7850432 Ion pump having emission containment  
An ion pump having emissions containment. The ion pump includes an anode constructed from a plurality of tubes and a cathode constructed from plates positioned on opposite sides of the anode and...
7819633 Sputter ion pump  
A sputter ion pump includes one vacuum chamber, two parallel anode poles and one cold cathode electron emitter. The vacuum chamber includes at least one aperture located in an outer wall thereof....
7802970 Micropump for electronics cooling  
A micropump including one or more microchannels for receiving a fluid and a plurality of electrodes arranged on a diaphragm and energized in a manner to provide an enhanced electrohydrodynamic flow...
7799453 Fuel cell with electroosmotic pump  
Water flooding at the cathode of a fuel cell is a common problem in fuel cells. By integrating an electroosmotic (EO) pump to remove product water from the cathode area, fuel cell power can be...
7781743 Charged particle beam system and method for evacuation of the system  
The present invention provides a charged particle beam system which can perform evacuation on an electron gun chamber or an ion-gun chamber having a non-evaporable getter pump in a short time and...
7758316 Ion micro pump  
A method and apparatus are provided for pumping a gas. The method includes the steps of ionizing the gas, separating the ionized gas into groups of positive and negative ions using positive and...
7717615 Process and apparatus for producing emulsion and microcapsules  
In a process and apparatus for rapidly producing an emulsion and microcapsules in a simple manner, a dispersion phase is ejected from a dispersion phase-feeding port toward a continuous phase...
7703479 Plasma actuator  
An actuator including a first and second conductor on a dielectric, wherein application of a voltage to the first conductor creates a plasma, thereby modifying a fluid flow in communication with...
7666287 Method for preparing an electrokinetic element  
A method for preparing an electrokinetic element is provided and generally includes providing a porous membrane adapted for use in an electrokinetic pump and encapsulating the porous membrane...
7648619 Hydrogel-driven micropump  
A hydrogel-driven micropump, comprising: two fluid chambers; a fluid channel, connecting the two fluid chambers; a first substrate plate and a second substrate plate, which are glass wafers...
7635943 Image display device having an ion pump with reduced leakage  
An image display apparatus is provided with a vacuum chamber consisting of an electron source substrate and an image display substrate, and an ion pump which is attached to an electron-emitting...
7615765 Charged particle beam apparatus  
There is provided a compact charged particle beam apparatus with a non-evaporable getter pump which maintains high vacuum even during emission of an electron beam without generating foreign...
7559356 Electrokinetic pump driven heat transfer system  
A heat transfer system comprising a primary heat exchanger for receiving heat from a heat source; a secondary heat exchanger for exhausting heat to a heat sink; a conduit connecting the primary...
7540717 Membrane nanopumps based on porous alumina thin films, membranes therefor and a method of fabricating such membranes  
A technique has been developed to fabricate micro- or nanopumps based on porous alumina thin films. The main body of the nanopump consists of a porous alumina thin film (containing nano-sized...
7534097 Method and apparatus for controlling multi-fluid flow in a micro channel  
A method and apparatus for controlling multi-fluid flow in a micro channel is disclosed. The apparatus has a first inlet for a first fluid; a second inlet for a second fluid; a first outlet; and a...
7517440 Electrokinetic delivery systems, devices and methods  
A method of pumping fluid including the steps of providing an electrokinetic pump comprising a pair of double-layer capacitive electrodes having a capacitance of at least 10−2 Farads/cm2 and b...
7508132 Device having a getter structure and a photomask  
A device including a substrate, a getter structure coupled to the substrate, and a photomask disposed over the getter structure. The photomask has a substantially transmissive and a substantially...
7494326 Micro ion pump  
An ion pump having conductive electrodes on both sides of an insulator which may form a number of channels. These electrodes may provide electrical discharges which have a corona or cold cathode...
7467928 Microfluidic device utilizing magnetohydrodynamics and method for fabrication thereof  
Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls and a current carrying species within a solution...
7458783 Method and apparatus for improved pumping medium for electro-osmotic pumps  
A pumping medium for an electro-osmotic pump made of porous silicon. The porous silicon may result in a lower required pumping voltage and a smaller form factor for an equivalent flow rate and...
7413412 Vacuum micropump and gauge  
A vacuum micropump for use in a sealed package includes at least one pumping cell and a magnetic field proximate to the pumping cell. The pumping cell has at least one anode, at least one...
7380490 Housing for rotary hydraulic machines  
A variable capacity hydraulic machine has a rotating group located within a casing and a control housing secured to the casing to extend across and seal an opening in the casing. The control...
7370946 Pump, liquid transporting apparatus provided with the same, and liquid moving apparatus  
A pump includes an ink pressurizing chamber, an inlet port and an outlet port communicating with the chamber, a first valve member provided near the inlet port, a second valve member provided near...
7367781 Packaged micromachined device such as a vacuum micropump, device having a micromachined sealed electrical interconnect and device having a suspended micromachined bonding pad  
A number of micromachined devices including a micromachined pump for on-chip vacuum is provided. For example, a single-chip micromachined implementation of a Knudsen pump having one or more stages...
7352128 Gas injection port structure of flat fluorescent lamp  
A gas injection port structure for a flat fluorescent lap (FFL) is provided. The FFL has a flat lower plate and an upper plate that form a channel therebetween, and at least one gas injection port...
7316543 Electroosmotic micropump with planar features  
An electroosmotic micropump having a plurality of thin, closely-spaced, approximately planar, transversel aligned partitions formed in or on a substrate, among which electroosmotic flow (EOF) is...
7308761 Method for preparing a getter structure and getter structure  
A structure is prepared by preparing a getter assembly by furnishing a single-piece getter base including a getter substrate and a getter-shield precursor, affixing a getter material to the getter...
7297246 Electrokinetic pump  
A method for altering the surface properties of a particle bed. In application, the method pertains particularly to an electrokinetic pump configuration where nanoparticles are bonded to the...
7279846 Image display apparatus  
Provided is an image display apparatus including: a vacuum container having an electron source enclosed therein for displaying an image; an ion pump communicating with the vacuum container for...
7267753 Electrokinetic device having capacitive electrodes  
An electrokinetic device is capable of operating for extended periods of time, e.g. days to a week, without producing significant gaseous byproducts and without significant evolution of the pump...
7261521 Electrode design for electrohydrodynamic conduction pumping  
An electrohydrodynamic conduction liquid pumping system includes a vessel configured to contain a liquid or a liquid/vapor therein. This vessel can be of a elongate conduit configuration, an...
7235164 Electrokinetic pump having capacitive electrodes  
An electrokinetic pump achieves high and low flow rates without producing significant gaseous byproducts and without significant evolution of the pump fluid. A first feature of the pump is that the...
7236344 Ionic flow generator for thermal management  
The apparatus for generating ionic flow of media includes a DC voltage supply having a positive terminal and a negative terminal with a collector connected to the negative terminal of the direct...
7231839 Electroosmotic micropumps with applications to fluid dispensing and field sampling  
Apparatus and methods according to the present invention preferably utilize electroosmotic pumps in fluid handling and field sampling applications. The electroosmotic pumps used in these...
7217104 Method and system for liquid leak detection, notification and removal  
A system for detecting a collection of liquid, notifying a person or thing that liquid has been detected and pumping the liquid. The system includes a control unit, at least one sensor and relay...
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