Claims
- 1. A method of producing a stream of small charged droplets that includes the following essential steps.
(a) Providing a flow of relatively non volatile electrically conducting liquid into a region in which there is an electric field sufficiently intense to disperse emerging liquid into region as a spray of small charged droplets; (b) Providing one or more electrodes have configurations, potentials and positions such that said stream of charged droplets will flow in a desired direction at a desired velocity. (c) Providing a target at ground potential with respect to the droplet source or vice-versa
- 2. A method as in claim 1 in which said electric waveshape is sine
- 3. A method as in claim 1 in which said electric waveshape is square
- 4. A method as in claim 1 in which said electric waveshape is random
- 5. A method as in claim 1 in which said electric waveshape changes polarity
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] Provisional App. No. 60/387,608 was filed on Jun. 11, 2002
Provisional Applications (1)
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60387608 |
Jun 2002 |
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