Mixer
AssigneeBio Media Co., Ltd.
InventorTomohiko Hashiba
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Abstract
A mixer capable of uniformly mixing a plurality of fluid materials without providing a mixing tank or an agitating vane. Different fluid raw materials are stored in raw material tanks, respectively. The raw materials are fed at a predetermined rate by variable restrictors so as to be supplied to a fluid supply hole of a nozzle. At this moment, the materials are not mixed. When the materials are discharged from a fluid discharge outlet, compressed air introduced from an air supply hole of the nozzle forms a high-speed vortex flow of the compressed air in front of the nozzle and the discharged raw materials are crushed into fine particles and mixed by this vortex flow, thereby obtaining a uniformly mixed material.
Claims9
A mixer for mixing a plurality of fluid materials together, having fluid characteristics of being fed in a pipe by a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side inside the pipe, comprising:
- a nozzle having a fluid discharge outlet for discharging the fluid material, a fluid supply hole communicated with the fluid discharge outlet for supplying the fluid material to the fluid discharge outlet, a gas ejection hole formed around the fluid discharge outlet for forming a high-speed vortex flow of a gas in front of the fluid discharge outlet, and a gas supply hole communicated with the gas ejection hole for supplying the gas to the gas ejection hole;
- a fluid supply means for supplying each of the plurality of fluid materials to the fluid supply hole of the nozzle, the fluid supply means comprising a flow rate regulating means configured to be capable of regulating relative supply flow rates of the plurality of fluid materials;
- a gas supply means for supplying the gas to the gas supply hole of the nozzle;
- a mixed material characteristic detecting means for detecting characteristics of a mixed material which has been discharged in a coexistent state from the fluid discharge outlet of the nozzle, and crushed into fine particles by the high-speed vortex flow of the gas to be ejected in a uniformly mixed state;
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- a control means for controlling the flow rate regulating means according to a detection result by the mixed material characteristic detecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.