Dry cleaning device and dry cleaning method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYoichi Okamoto, Yuusuke Taneda, Akihiro Fuchigami, Tatsuya Satoh
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Abstract
A circulation-air generating unit directly generates circulation air that flows along a surface of a cleaning tank. The circulation air is applied to cleaning medium accumulated on the cleaning tank from a direction orthogonal to a direction of face of the cleaning medium to deliver and flow up the cleaning medium. The cleaning medium is flown up inside the cleaning tank by the force of the circulation air. The cleaning medium flowing inside the cleaning tank collides with a cleaning target object by high-velocity air supplied from a cleaning-medium accelerating unit to remove dust on the cleaning target object.
Claims19
A dry cleaning device comprising:
- a cleaning tank containing flexible flaked-shaped cleaning medium;
- a circulation-air generating unit that generates high-velocity air inside the cleaning tank to cause the flexible flaked-shaped cleaning medium to flow in the cleaning tank;
- a cleaning-medium accelerating unit separate from the circulation-air generating unit that accelerates the cleaning medium flowing in the cleaning tank so that the cleaning medium collides with a cleaning target object thereby separating particles sticking onto the cleaning target object;
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- a cleaning-medium recycle unit that sucks the particles separated from the cleaning target object and recycles the cleaning medium,
- wherein the cleaning-medium accelerating unit is arranged on a surface of the cleaning tank, the surface being a surface orthogonal to another surface on which a circulation path is arranged, wherein the circulation path is a path along which the air generated by the circulation-air generating unit flows.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.