Micromixer
AssigneeYamatake Corporation
InventorNobuaki Honda
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Abstract
A micro-mixer of a simple structure suited to form a micro-mixed liquid from two kinds of liquids A and B comprises a plurality of passage modules 7 stacked and thereby forming a multi-tiered flow passage. Each of the passage modules has a plurality of combining-dividing units 10 arranged at regular intervals. Each of the combining-dividing units has two inlets 11a, 11b and two outlets 12a, 12b. The two outlets 12a, 12b of each of the combining-dividing units in each of the stacked passage modules are connected with an inlet 11a of a combining-dividing unit and an inlet 11b of another combining-dividing unit in its immediate downstream passage module, respectively.
Claims8
A micro-mixer, comprising:
- a plurality of passage modules stacked so as to form a multi-tiered flow passage, wherein each passage module of a plurality of said passage modules includes a plurality of combining-dividing units arranged at regular intervals;
- wherein each of said combining-dividing units includes n number of inlets formed in an upstream surface of the passage module, n number of outlets formed in a downstream surface of the passage module, and a channel connecting said n number of inlets and said n number of outlets, wherein n is at least 2;
- wherein each of said n number of outlets of each of said combining-dividing units in each of said stacked passage modules is connected with an inlet of a respective different combining-dividing unit in an immediately downstream passage module;
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- wherein, in each of the combining-dividing units, a flow of a fluid introduced through each of the n number of inlets is divided into n number of partial flows, and a partial flow from each of the n number of inlets is guided to each of the n number of outlets, such that each of the n number of outlets outputs a combined flow including n number of the partial flows taken respectively from the n number of inlets.
A micromixer, comprising:
- a plurality of plate-like passage modules which are stacked;
- wherein each of said passage modules includes at least one combining-dividing unit and/or at least one combining unit, said combining-dividing unit having two inlets and two outlets connected by a channel, and said combining unit having two inlets and one outlet connected by a channel,
- wherein the two inlets of each of said at least one combining-dividing unit and/or at least one combining unit in each of said stacked passage modules are each connected with an outlet of a different one of two of said at least one combining-dividing unit and/or at least one combining unit in an immediately downstream passage module, and
- wherein in said stacked passage modules, a total number of said at least one combining-dividing unit and/or at least one combining unit included in each passage module is decreased one by one from a most upstream passage module to tire a most downstream passage module so as to mix fluids flowing through said stacked passage modules and such that the mixed fluids flow out into a single passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.