Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microparticle sorting device, and method and program for sorting microparticles
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Application No.: US16265826Application Date: 2019-02-01
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Publication No.: US11313784B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Fumitaka Otsuka , Yosuke Muraki
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-013801 20130128,JP2013-124209 20130612
- Main IPC: G01N15/14
- IPC: G01N15/14 ; B07C5/342 ; G01N21/27 ; G01N15/10

Abstract:
Provided are a microparticle sorting device, and a method and a program for sorting microparticles capable of stabilizing sorting performance over a prolonged period of time.
The microparticle sorting device includes an imaging element and a controller. The imaging element obtains an image of fluid and fluid droplets at a position where the fluid discharged from an orifice which generates a fluid stream is converted into the fluid droplets. The controller controls driving voltage of an oscillation element which gives oscillation to the orifice and/or controls a position of the imaging element based on a state of the fluid in the image and/or a state of a satellite fluid droplet. The satellite fluid droplet does not include microparticles and exists between the position, where the fluid is converted into the fluid droplets, and a fluid droplet, among fluid droplets including the microparticles, which is closest to the position where the fluid is converted into the fluid droplets.
The microparticle sorting device includes an imaging element and a controller. The imaging element obtains an image of fluid and fluid droplets at a position where the fluid discharged from an orifice which generates a fluid stream is converted into the fluid droplets. The controller controls driving voltage of an oscillation element which gives oscillation to the orifice and/or controls a position of the imaging element based on a state of the fluid in the image and/or a state of a satellite fluid droplet. The satellite fluid droplet does not include microparticles and exists between the position, where the fluid is converted into the fluid droplets, and a fluid droplet, among fluid droplets including the microparticles, which is closest to the position where the fluid is converted into the fluid droplets.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190219494A1 MICROPARTICLE SORTING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SORTING MICROPARTICLES Public/Granted day:2019-07-18
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