Patent 9951800 was granted and assigned to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology on April, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A surface plasma actuator includes a conducting wire attached to a surface of a target object and electrically insulated from the target object. Surface plasma is generated along a neighborhood of the conducting wire by applying a pulse voltage between the conducting wire and a conductive portion on a side of the target object. An induced gas flow is generated by the surface plasma.