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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kaisha

Masahiko Kubota

Teruo Ozaki

Yoshiyuki Imanaka

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Ichiro Saito

Hiroshi Arimizu

Masami Ikeda

Ryoji Inoue

Toshio Kashino

Yoshinori Itoh

Arihito Miyakoshi

Muga Mochizuki

Nobuhito Yamaguchi

Ryoji Kanri

Akihiko Okano

Akitoshi Yamada

Tomoyuki Hiroki

Kiyomitsu Kudo

Masahiko Ogawa

Kazuhiro Asai

Tamaki Sato

Yumi Yanai

Takumi Suzuki

Masanori Takenouchi

Sadayuki Sugama

Akihiro Yamanaka

Takaaki Yamaguchi

Masashi Miyagawa

Koichi Ishida

Hiroshi Sugitani

Akira Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Hidehiko Kanda

Koromo Shirota

Shoji Shiba

Atsunori Terasaki

Maki Kato

Ryuji Katsuragi

Shuji Koyama

Yoichi Taneya

Aya Yoshihira

Takayuki Yagi

Ikuo Nakazawa

Tsutomu Abe

Kazuaki Masuda

Takashi Saito

Yoshinori Tagawa

Toshihiro Mori

Jun Kawai

Masami Kasamoto

Hiroaki Mihara

Seiichiro Karita

Osamu Sato

Yutaka Koizumi

Hirokazu Komuro

Hiroyuki Morimoto

Takashi Nojima

Kenji Takahashi

Yoshinori Misumi

Hiroki Tajima

Masataka Sakurai

Takeshi Okazaki

Yasunori Saito

Toru Yamane

Toshiyasu Sakai

Naozumi Nabeshima

Hideo Saikawa

Jun Koide

Tetsuji Kurata

Seiji Ogasawara

Masakazu Tsukuda

Masashi Kitani

Masaki Ohsumi

Kouichi Omata

Hideo Sugimura

Noribumi Koitabashi

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa

Takeshi Yazawa

Kenji Kitabatake

Ken Tsuchii

Masataka Kato

Takuya Hatsui

Kenji Sato

Shinjiro Hori

Takayuki Ono

Keisuke Matsuo

Satoshi Ibe

Kenji Makino

Shinya Asano

Yasushi Iijima

Shigeyuki Matsumoto

Yoshie Asakawa

Yoshikazu Saito

Yoichi Takada

Akiko Saito

Tsuyoshi Santo

Seiichi Tamura

Yuji Tsuruoka

Hiroshi Higuchi

An ultrafine bubble (UFB)-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit having a thermal energy generating element, a flow path for leading liquid to the thermal energy generating element, a driving unit configured to drive the thermal energy generating element, and an ejection opening. The UFB-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus also includes a collecting unit configured to collect liquid ejected from the ejection opening. The driving unit drives the thermal energy generating element to cause film boiling in liquid led to the flow path and causes liquid containing ultrafine bubbles generated by the film boiling to be ejected from the ejection opening.

Ultrafine bubble-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method

Provided is a method of producing an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid containing ultrafine bubbles generated by causing film boiling in a liquid with a heat generation member, including: detaching a solid present at a liquid contact surface of the heat generation member in a form of a microscopic substance by using the film boiling; and generating ultrafine bubbles with the detached microscopic substance as a core.

Apparatus for and method of producing ultrafine bubble-containing liquid, and ultrafine bubble-containing liquid

Ultrafine bubbles with a diameter of less than 1.0 &#x3bc;m are generated in liquid by causing film boiling in liquid by means of a heater.

Ultrafine bubble generating method, ultrafine bubble-containing liquid manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method, and ultrafine bubble-containing liquid

An ultrafine bubble generating apparatus and an ultrafine bubble generating method capable of efficiently generating an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid with high purity are provided. In order to this, a heating element provided in a liquid is caused to generate heat, and film boiling is made on an interface between the liquid and the heating element. A film boiling bubble is generated by the film boiling, and ultrafine bubbles are thus generated near the film boiling bubble.

Ultrafine bubble generating method, ultrafine bubble generating apparatus, and ultrafine bubble-containing liquid

In order to efficiently produce a liquid containing ultrafine bubbles of a desired gas, an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes a gas dissolving unit that dissolves a predetermined gas into a liquid, and a UFB generating unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in the liquid in which the predetermined gas is dissolved. A CPU performs control under a first condition in a case of causing the gas dissolving unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the dissolving unit. The CPU performs control under a second condition different from the first condition in a case of causing the UFB generating unit to operate in a circulation route passing through the UFB generating unit.

Ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus and ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing method

The present invention provides an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus capable of reducing the possibility of intermitting supply of a UFB-containing liquid. An ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes producing units that produce an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid containing ultrafine bubbles by using a liquid supplied from a liquid introducing unit and deliver the produced ultrafine bubble-containing liquid to a liquid delivering unit. The producing units include a plurality of ultrafine bubble generating units capable of operating independently. Each of the plurality of ultrafine bubble generating units is provided to be capable of independently switching between communicating with and being disconnected from the liquid introducing unit and the liquid delivering unit.

Provided is a UFB generating apparatus capable of manufacturing an ozone UFB-contained liquid with high purity and quality. To this end, in the UFB generating apparatus capable of generating UFBs containing ozone by causing film boiling in ozone water, a liquid contact portion to come into contact with the ozone water is made of a material with corrosion resistance to ozone water.

Ultrafine bubble generating apparatus and ultrafine bubble generating head

A discharge apparatus includes a discharge unit configured to discharge a liquid to a medium, a suction unit, and a supply unit configured to supply a gas to the suction unit. The suction unit includes an opening facing the medium, and a suction groove including an arc-shaped inner wall surface inside the opening and configured to suck mist around the medium. An outlet portion configured to blow out the gas supplied from the supply unit toward the inner wall surface is provided in the opening.

Discharge apparatus and suction unit

Provided is an ultrafine bubble generating apparatus that generates ultrafine bubbles by generating film boiling by causing a heater provided in a liquid to generate heat, the ultrafine bubble generating apparatus including: an element substrate including a first heater that generates the film boiling in the liquid and a second heater that is arranged adjacent to the first heater, in which the first heater and the second heater are driven in different timings.

Ultrafine bubble generating apparatus and ultrafine bubble generating method

Provided is an UFB generating apparatus and an UFB generating method capable of efficiently generating an UFB-containing liquid with high purity. The ultrafine bubble generating apparatus includes a generating unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in a liquid and a post-processing unit that performs predetermined post-processing on the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid generated by the generating unit. The generating unit generates the ultrafine bubbles by causing a heating element, which is provided in the liquid on which the pre-processing is performed, to generate heat to generate film boiling on an interface between the liquid and the heating element.

An object of the present disclosure is to improve the generation efficiency of a UFB-contained liquid in a generation apparatus having a circulation mechanism. One embodiment of the present invention is an ultra fine bubble generation apparatus including: a first tank that stores a liquid; a generation unit configured to generate an ultra fine bubble in the liquid output from the first tank; a second tank that stores the liquid output from the generation unit; and a liquid passage that inputs again the liquid stored in the second tank to the first tank, and the ultra fine bubble generation apparatus includes a blocking configuration that blocks an ultra fine bubble included in the stored liquid from being input again to the first tank.

Ultra fine bubble generation apparatus

Provided is an ultrafine bubble generating method and an ultrafine bubble generating apparatus capable of efficiently generating a UFB-containing liquid with high purity. To this end, a flow passage inner volume is varied by using a flow passage inner volume varying element, the liquid is pressurized such that the liquid passes through a narrow portion at high speed and flows into a depressurizing area.

Ultrafine bubble generating method and ultrafine bubble generating apparatus

The present invention provides a fine bubble generating apparatus capable of generating fine bubbles efficiently. The present invention includes a fluid flow passage that includes a narrow portion in at least a part thereof, a heating part capable of heating a liquid flowing through the fluid flow passage, and a controlling unit that controls the heating part. The controlling unit controls the heating part to generate film boiling in the liquid to generate ultrafine bubbles.

Fine bubble generating apparatus, fine bubble generating method, and fine bubble-containing liquid

The apparatus includes: a producing unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in a liquid supplied from a liquid introducing unit to produce an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid containing the ultrafine bubbles, and delivers the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid; a liquid delivering unit that delivers the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid to an outside; a buffer tank that receives the liquid delivered from the producing unit and delivers the liquid to the liquid delivering unit; and a controller that controls the delivery of the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid from the buffer tank to the liquid delivering unit such that, if the producing unit stops operating, an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid accumulated in the buffer tank is delivered to the liquid delivering unit to enable the liquid delivering unit to deliver the ultrafine bubble-containing liquid to the outside.

Provided is an UFB generating apparatus and an UFB generating method capable of efficiently generating an UFB-containing liquid with high purity. To this end, the ultrafine bubble generating apparatus includes a pre-processing unit that performs predetermined pre-processing on a liquid W and a generating unit that generates ultrafine bubbles in the liquid on which the pre-processing is performed. The generating unit generates the ultrafine bubbles by causing a heating element, which is provided in the liquid on which the pre-processing is performed, to generate heat to generate film boiling on an interface between the liquid and the heating element.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiko Kubota