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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2000
Mark Blitshteyn, New Hartford, CT (US);
Lisle R. Knight, Jr., Richmond, CA (US);
Petr Gefter, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott J. S. Gehlke, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ira J. Pitel, Morristown, NJ (US);
Sean J. Quigley, Upper Darby, PA (US);
Michael J. Leonard, Bala Cynwyd, PA (US);
John K. O'Reilly, Cavan, IE;
Ion Systems, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Abstract
An ionizing bar assembly having a plastic housing with two individual ionizing electrode modules disposed on opposite sides. The ionizing electrode modules each include a plurality of printed circuit boards having signal traces thereon with ionizing electrodes or pins extending therefrom. The printed circuit boards are electrically coupled together by conductive rods or tubing positioned adjacent to the traces on the boards and soldered at various positions along the traces. The ionizing electrode modules are placed at opposing angles and are offset laterally from each other in such a way that the ionizing electrodes or pins extending from one module are located between the ionizing electrodes or pins extending from the opposite module, with the tips of each aligned along a common central linear axis.