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Foundation of the Manipulation Technology for Tiny Objects Based on the Control of the Heterogeneity of Electric Fields

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  • Isao Shirota

    (Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka 535-8585, Japan)

  • Keiichiro Yoshida

    (Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka 535-8585, Japan)

Abstract

Effective sorting and extraction of tiny plastic objects is becoming increasingly important for manufacturing high-quality recycled plastics. Herein, we designed a manipulation device for tiny objects that can drive multiple target objects individually. This type of device has a potential to sort tiny pieces of a wide variety of materials, not strongly depending on their physical properties, by combining different detection meanings. In this study, two types of devices were tested as the basic components of the proposed device. One of them had a single object-holding point and the other had two of them. These holding points consisted of strip-shaped electrodes facing each other. The high voltage applied to the facing electrodes created forces heading toward the object-holding points caused by the heterogeneity of the electric field in the devices. The forces created in these devices were determined from the motion analysis of a glass sphere, which is a model for target objects, and a numerical simulation. The results indicate that dielectrophoretic forces are dominant at locations that are sufficiently remote from the holding point, and the Coulombic force caused by dielectric barrier discharge is dominant near the high-voltage electrodes with the holding point. Moreover, the transfer of a glass sphere from one holding point to an adjacent point was successfully demonstrated.

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  • Isao Shirota & Keiichiro Yoshida, 2022. "Foundation of the Manipulation Technology for Tiny Objects Based on the Control of the Heterogeneity of Electric Fields," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-13, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:13:p:4513-:d:843911
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