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US 7,017,278 B2Granted
Microwave drying method
AssigneeNGK Insulators, Ltd.
InventorShigeki Kato
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Abstract
A method for drying a plurality of objects in a same space using a microwave, a method of uniformly drying all the objects to be dried while retaining the high productivity (mass productivity) as much as possible is provided. The method comprises laying a plurality of objects to be dried apart from each other by keeping, as a shortest distance between at least one pair of adjacent objects among them a distance equivalent to ¾ or more of the wavelength of the microwave to be used and irradiating them with the microwave.
Claims10
A microwave drying method for drying a plurality of objects comprising:
- laying the plurality of objects to be dried apart from each other and keeping, as a shortest distance between at least one pair of adjacent objects among the plurality of objects, a distance equivalent to ¾ or more of a wavelength of a microwave to be used to dry the plurality of objects, and
- irradiating the laid objects with the microwave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.