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US 2008/0017246 A1Published application
Microchannel device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuaki Tabata, Takayuki Yamada, Masaki Hirota
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Abstract
A microchannel device includes; a microchannel that forms two or more different fluids as a multiphase flow, and a section shape of the multiphase flow having in at least one portion a first shape in which plural polygons are two-dimensionally arranged, and adjacent to one another, a second shape in which a polygon is inscribed in one of a circle and an ellipse, or circumscribes one of a circle and an ellipse, or a third shape in which at least plural circles and polygons are two-dimensionally arranged, and adjacent to one another.
Claims18
A microchannel device comprising:
- a microchannel that forms two or more different fluids as a multiphase flow, and
- a section shape of the multiphase flow having in at least one portion
- a first shape in which plural polygons are two-dimensionally arranged, and adjacent to one another,
- a second shape in which a polygon is inscribed in one of a circle and an ellipse, or circumscribes one of a circle and an ellipse, or
- a third shape in which at least a plurality of circles and polygons are two-dimensionally arranged, and adjacent to one another.
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