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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2010
Bruce K. Gale, Taylorsville, UT (US);
Himanshu Sant, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Venu Madhav, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Srinivas Merugu, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Bruce K. Gale, Taylorsville, UT (US);
Himanshu Sant, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Venu Madhav, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Srinivas Merugu, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A split thin-flow separations device can include a fluid channel having an inlet zone, an outlet zone, and a transport region between the inlet zone and outlet zone. The inlet zone includes a sample inlet and a carrier fluid inlet which are fluidly separated by an inlet splitter to minimize mixing of fluids from respective inlets in the inlet zone. The transport region can be a substantially open channel. Similar to the inlet zone, the outlet zone can include a sample outlet and a carrier outlet which are fluidly separated by an outlet splitter to segregate portions of a fluid into each of the two outlets as the fluid enters the outlet zone. A plurality of cross-flow inducers can also be oriented along a wall of the fluid channel in the transport region. The cross-flow inducers are oriented to form a cross-flow field across the transport region.