A gas transportation device includes a gas outlet cover, plural flow-guiding pedestals and plural gas pumps. The gas outlet cover includes a gas outlet nozzle and a gas outlet cavity. The gas outlet nozzle and the gas outlet cavity are in communication with each other. Each flow-guiding pedestal includes a main plate, a protruding frame and a chamber frame. The main plate includes a recess and a communicating aperture in communication with the recess. The gas pumps are disposed inside the chamber frames of the flow-guiding pedestals, respectively. The gas outlet cover covers the flow-guiding pedestals and is connected to the protruding frames, whereby plural convergence chambers are defined and are in communication with the gas outlet cavity. Consequently, the gas is transported through the recesses, the communicating apertures, the convergence chambers and the gas outlet cavity sequentially, and finally is discharged out from the gas outlet nozzle.

Electrokinetic devices and methods are described with the purpose of propelling a dielectric fluid medium, usually air, and optionally collecting assayable agents from the medium. Electrokinetic flow may be induced by the use of plasma generation at high voltage electrodes and consequent transport of charged particles in an electric voltage gradient. The generation of electrokinetic flow has the disadvantage that certain amounts of ozone may be formed in the process. Methods and devices are described herein where suitable catalysts can be combined with the electrokinetic device in such a way that ozone is effectively destroyed in the effluent flow without compromising the amount of flow.

Electrokinetic devices and methods are described with the purpose of propelling a dielectric fluid medium, usually air, and optionally collecting assayable agents from the medium. Electrokinetic flow may be induced by the use of plasma generation at high voltage electrodes and consequent transport of charged particles in an electric voltage gradient. The generation of electrokinetic flow has the disadvantage that certain amounts of ozone may be formed in the process. Methods and devices are described herein where suitable catalysts can be combined with the electrokinetic device in such a way that ozone is effectively destroyed in the effluent flow without compromising the amount of flow.

A piezoelectric blower includes a housing, a vibrating body, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating body includes a vibration plate, a reinforcing plate, and a restraining plate. The vibrating body forms a columnar blower chamber with the housing while holding the blower chamber therebetween from a thickness direction of the vibration plate. The vibrating body includes an outer peripheral region in contact with an area from the outermost node of pressure vibration in the blower chamber, of nodes of the pressure vibration formed by the bending vibration of the vibrating body, to an outer periphery of the blower chamber, and a center region located in an inner side portion of the outer peripheral region. The restraining plate that restrains the bending vibration of the outer peripheral region is provided in the outer peripheral region.

A piezoelectric blower includes a housing, a vibrating body, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating body includes a vibration plate, a reinforcing plate, and a restraining plate. The vibrating body forms a columnar blower chamber with the housing while holding the blower chamber therebetween from a thickness direction of the vibration plate. The vibrating body includes an outer peripheral region in contact with an area from the outermost node of pressure vibration in the blower chamber, of nodes of the pressure vibration formed by the bending vibration of the vibrating body, to an outer periphery of the blower chamber, and a center region located in an inner side portion of the outer peripheral region. The restraining plate that restrains the bending vibration of the outer peripheral region is provided in the outer peripheral region.

A fan structure with non-circular circumference includes a frame, a first hub, a second hub, a transmission belt member, a first assembling member and a second assembling member. A first and a second base are provided in and protruded from a bottom of the frame. The first and the second hub are respectively mounted on the first and the second base, and a stator unit is provided between the first hub and the first base. The transmission belt member is fitted around side walls of the first and second hubs, and has a plurality of blades spaced on an outer surface thereof. The first and the second assembling member are correspondingly assembled to the tops of the first and the second hub. With the above arrangements, the fan structure can operate with largely reduced vibration and noise and can be manufactured at reduced material and production costs.

A fan structure with non-circular circumference includes a frame, a first hub, a second hub, a transmission belt member, a first assembling member and a second assembling member. A first and a second base are provided in and protruded from a bottom of the frame. The first and the second hub are respectively mounted on the first and the second base, and a stator unit is provided between the first hub and the first base. The transmission belt member is fitted around side walls of the first and second hubs, and has a plurality of blades spaced on an outer surface thereof. The first and the second assembling member are correspondingly assembled to the tops of the first and the second hub. With the above arrangements, the fan structure can operate with largely reduced vibration and noise and can be manufactured at reduced material and production costs.

Electrokinetic devices and methods are described with the purpose of propelling a dielectric fluid medium, usually air, and optionally collecting assayable agents from the medium. Electrokinetic flow may be induced by the use of plasma generation at high voltage electrodes and consequent transport of charged particles in an electric voltage gradient. The generation of electrokinetic flow has the disadvantage that certain amounts of ozone may be formed in the process. Methods and devices are described herein where suitable catalysts can be combined with the electrokinetic device in such a way that ozone is effectively destroyed in the effluent flow without compromising the amount of flow.

Electrokinetic devices and methods are described with the purpose of propelling a dielectric fluid medium, usually air, and optionally collecting assayable agents from the medium. Electrokinetic flow may be induced by the use of plasma generation at high voltage electrodes and consequent transport of charged particles in an electric voltage gradient. The generation of electrokinetic flow has the disadvantage that certain amounts of ozone may be formed in the process. Methods and devices are described herein where suitable catalysts can be combined with the electrokinetic device in such a way that ozone is effectively destroyed in the effluent flow without compromising the amount of flow.

A piezoelectric blower includes a valve, a housing, a vibrating plate, and a piezoelectric element. The vibrating plate forms, together with the housing, a column-shaped blower chamber such that the blower chamber is interposed therebetween in a thickness direction of the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate and the housing are formed such that the blower chamber has a radius (a). The piezoelectric element causes the vibrating plate to undergo concentric bending vibration at a resonance frequency (f). The radius (a) of the blower chamber and the resonance frequency (f) of the vibrating plate satisfy a relationship of 0.8(k.sub.0c)/(2)af1.2(k.sub.0c)/(2), where an acoustic velocity of gas that passes through the blower chamber is (c) and a value that satisfies a relationship of a Bessel function of a first kind of J.sub.0(k.sub.0)=0 is k.sub.0.