Cleaning apparatus

Cleaning apparatus for cleaning components by means of a gaseous cleaning medium, the cleaning apparatus comprising:

• a cleaning chamber with an inner space and a wall arrangement enclosing same, a receptacle for the component in the inner space, and a flow device for the cleaning medium, which comprises a pressurization device and comprises or forms at least one inlet into the inner space and at least one outlet from the inner space;
• wherein a pressure difference between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet is providable by means of the flow device;
• wherein the flow device is formed such that the cleaning medium forms a vortex flow at least in sections in the inner space from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet;
• wherein two or more inlets are provided;
• and
• wherein a plurality of the two or more inlets are positioned at uniform angular distances from another in relation to an axis of the cleaning chamber.

Cleaning apparatus for cleaning components by means of a gaseous cleaning medium, the cleaning apparatus

• comprising a cleaning chamber with an inner space and a wall arrangement enclosing same, a receptacle for the component in the inner space;
• and
• a flow device for the cleaning medium, which comprises a pressurization device and comprises or forms at least one inlet into the inner space and at least one outlet from the inner space;
• wherein a pressure difference between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet is providable by means of the flow device;
• and
• wherein the flow device is formed such that the cleaning medium forms a vortex flow at least in sections in the inner space from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet;
• wherein the at least one inlet is of slit-shaped configuration, is at least one of adapted to be flowed through tangentially by the entering cleaning medium, in relation to an axis defined by the cleaning chamber, and extended axially in relation to the axis, and causes the flow of the cleaning medium in the inner space to run along the wall arrangement of at least one of the cleaning chamber and centrally around the axis.

Cleaning apparatus for cleaning components by means of a gaseous cleaning medium, the cleaning apparatus comprising:

• a cleaning chamber with an inner space and a wall arrangement enclosing same;
• a receptacle for the component in the inner space;
• and
• a flow device for the cleaning medium, which comprises a pressurization device and comprises or forms at least one inlet into the inner space and at least one outlet from the inner space;
• wherein a pressure difference between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet is providable by means of the flow device, and wherein the flow device is formed such that the cleaning medium forms a vortex flow at least in sections in the inner space from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet;
• wherein the cleaning apparatus comprises a separating device for particles that are detached from the component and carried by the cleaning medium;
• and
• wherein the separating device is of at least one of inertia-based and filterless configuration.

Cleaning apparatus for cleaning components by means of a gaseous cleaning medium, the cleaning apparatus comprising a cleaning chamber with an inner space and a wall arrangement enclosing same, a receptacle for the component in the inner space, and a flow device for the cleaning medium, which comprises a pressurization device and comprises or forms at least one inlet into the inner space and at least one outlet from the inner space;

• wherein a pressure difference between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet is providable by means of the flow device, and
• wherein the flow device is formed such that the cleaning medium forms a vortex flow at least in sections in the inner space from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet;
• wherein the cleaning apparatus comprises a separating device for particles that are detached from the component and carried by the cleaning medium;
• and
• wherein the separating device comprises a collection container for separated particles.