Moisture control apparatus, moisture control method, program, storage medium, produced object, product, apparatus, and facility
AssigneeEvertron Holdings Pte Ltd
InventorHisao Tanaka
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Abstract
Provided are a moisture control apparatus, a moisture control method, a program, a storage medium, a produced object, a product, an apparatus, and a facility that can improve the characteristics of an object through moisture control. In a moisture control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention, a predetermined voltage or current including a DC component and/or an AC component is applied to at least one electrode that generates at least one of an electric field, a magnetic field, an electromagnetic field, electromagnetic waves, sound waves, and ultrasonic waves to achieve a bonded state of moisture elements in an object disposed to face the electrode, so that a property of the object is able to be improved.
Claims50
A control apparatus, comprising:
- at least one electrode configured to direct an electromagnetic field toward an object;
- and
- a controller configured to control an interfacial tension between a moisture phase and another phase in the object, by controlling a voltage applied to the at least one electrode, wherein
- the controller is further configured to:
- receive information of a type or a state of the object from (a) input information input from a man-machine interface or (b) detection information from an object detection sensor,
- before the voltage is applied to the at least one electrode, control the electromagnetic field generated by the at least one electrode by selecting
- a voltage value of the voltage from a range of 0 to 2,000 V, and
- a frequency of an alternating current (AC) component of the voltage from a range of 0 Hz to 1 MHz according to a control parameter suitable for the type or the state of the object based on a relationship between electromagnetic field conditions and a degree of decrease in the interfacial tension, and
- control the interfacial tension according to the electromagnetic field generated by the at least one electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.