Apparatus for separating molecules

US6296752A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sarnoff Corporation · US

Inventors

• Sterling Eduard McBride · Lawrenceville, US
• Satyam Choudary Cherukuri · Cranbury, US
• Rajan Kumar · Lawrence, US
• Judith A. Ladd · Sayre, US
• Zhonghui Hugh Fan · Gainesville, US
• Bryan Lloyd Bentz · Princeton, US
• Peter John Zanzucchi · Lawrenceville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B03C5/028
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for separating, in a medium, a component from a composition comprising: PA1 (1) an array of three or more electrodes arrayed along a pathway along which molecules of the composition are transported; and PA1 (2) a power source device for delivering to voltage to the electrodes; wherein the voltages delivered to the electrode array by the power source device are effective to: PA2 (a) alter the relative movement along the transport pathway of two or more of the molecules caused by a motive force, or PA2 (b) cause the molecules to move along the transport pathway.