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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hoi Cheong Sun, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Eugene Samuel Poliniak, Willingboro, NJ (US);
Dominic Stephen Rosati, Hamilton, NJ (US);
Bawa Singh, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Nitin Vithalbhai Desai, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204164 ; 42218604 ; 427-214 ; 118624 ; 118D / ;
Abstract
AC waveforms biasing of bead transporter chucks and their accumulated charge sensing circuits tailored for low resistivity substrates and beads where if traditional DC quasi-static biasing potentials were used, the bead attraction potentials of the chuck would undergo rapid RC decay and cause the bead transporter chuck to stop working. Methods for selecting AC waveforms are given, including those that maximize the time average of the bead attraction potential at the bead collection zone of the bead contact surface.