Apparatus for cleaning industrial components
AssigneeTech Sonic Limited Partnership
InventorsWilliam Lash Phillips, Shawn Smith, Byron Kieser
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Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning industrial components which has a liquid container defining a liquid enclosure for containing a cleaning liquid and ultrasonic transducers having an operating frequency and a wavelength in the cleaning liquid and secured to at least a portion of the liquid container at a spacing of between 2 and 10 wavelengths. During operation, the transducers generate a larger power density in the component-receiving area of the liquid container than an average power density of the liquid container.
Claims42
1-49. (canceled)
An apparatus for cleaning industrial components, comprising:
- a liquid container having a sidewall defining a liquid enclosure for containing a cleaning liquid, the liquid container having a component-receiving area spaced from the sidewall;
- and
- ultrasonic transducers having an operating frequency and a wavelength in the cleaning liquid and secured to at least a portion of the liquid container at a spacing of between 2 and 10 wavelengths, wherein in operation the ultrasonic transducers generate a power density in the component-receiving area of the liquid container that is greater than an average power density of the liquid container, the ultrasonic transducers are resonating rod transducers secured to an inner surface of the liquid container in a two dimensional plane.
A method of cleaning industrial components, comprising the steps of:
- securing resonating rod ultrasonic transducers to an inner surface of at least a portion of a liquid container in a plane at a spacing of between 2 and 10 wavelengths based on the operating frequency and wavelength of the ultrasonic transducers in a cleaning liquid;
- introducing the cleaning liquid into the liquid container;
- introducing an industrial component into the cleaning liquid and positioning the industrial component in a component-receiving area of the liquid container that is spaced from a sidewall of the liquid container;
- and
- operating the ultrasonic transducers to generate a larger power density in the component-receiving area of the liquid container than an average power density of the liquid container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.