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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Sony Corporation, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation of America, New York, NY (US);
Fumitaka Otsuka, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Zordan, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Akiko Tsuji, Machida, JP;
Yuya Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masashi Kimoto, Oota-ku, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation of America, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A microparticle sorting apparatus includes a detection unit which detects microparticles flowing through a flow path; an imaging device which images a droplet containing the microparticles which is discharged from an orifice provided on an edge portion of the flow path; a charge unit which applies a charge to the droplets; and a control unit which determines a delay time as from a time that the microparticles are detected by the detection unit to the time at which the sum of intensity of an image region imaged by the imaging device reaches a maximum, making it possible for the charge unit to apply a charge to the microparticles once the delay time has lapsed after the microparticles are detected by the detection unit.