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US 12,441,641 B2Granted
Bubble generator
AssigneePulse Burst Systems, LLC
InventorsCharles Otis, Kenneth E Neu
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Abstract
A bubble generator including a container having a side wall and a top wall defining a cavity. An insert is located within the cavity defining a gas path with a trap portion. The gas path being in communication with an exit in the container. The cavity including an opening receiving a gas accumulating within the cavity, the gas path allowing the accumulating gas to escape through the exit once the accumulating gas reaches a predetermined level proximate the trap portion.
Claims15
A bubble generator comprising:
- a container including a side wall and a top wall defining a cavity having a volumetric dimension at an initial pressure;
- an insert located within the cavity defining a gas path with a trap portion, the gas path being in communication with an exit in the container;
- said insert having a diameter equal to or less than the horizontal plane of the container;
- the cavity including an opening receiving a gas accumulating within the cavity, said cavity capable of receiving said accumulating gas and the gas expanding to a predetermined volume proximate to a trap exit level,
- the gas accumulating within the cavity and displacing a liquid internal to the cavity,
- the gas path of the trap allowing the accumulating gas to escape through the exit once the accumulating gas reaches said predetermined level proximate the trap portion,
- wherein said cavity returning to said initial liquid volume and pressure once the accumulating gas escapes,
- wherein a liquid path merges with the gas path at an acute angle between the trap portion and the exit
- wherein the sum of the cross-sectional area of the liquid path and the cross-sectional area of the gas path at the point of merger of the gas path and the liquid path is equal to or smaller than a cross sectional area of the exit.
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