Microwave melter
AssigneeDoryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan
InventorsYoshihisa Sawada, Fumiaki Komatsu, Kazuo Sanada, Yorihisa Sakaki
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Abstract
A microwave melter in which a material charged in a crucible is heated and melted by irradiation of microwaves, the melter including a melting furnace having an upper furnace body fixedly mounted on a support structure and a lower furnace body detachably connectable with the upper furnace body, a waveguide for guiding microwaves from a microwave generator toward the furnace, a crucible received rotatably and in a suspended state in the lower furnace body, and a feed pipe for feeding untreated material to the crucible.
Claims6
A microwave melter of the type in which material charged in a crucible of a furnace is heated and melted by irradiation of microwaves from a microwave oscillator, said melter comprising:
- a waveguide connected to said microwave oscillator for guiding microwaves toward the furnace;
- an upper furnace body connected to said waveguide;
- a lower furnace body detachably connected to said upper furnace body;
- a rotatable container provided in said lower furnace body and adapted to rotate said crucible in a suspended state;
- a feed pipe for feeding untreated material to said crucible;
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- a tuner mounted on top of said upper furnace body for tuning said microwaves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.