Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Yasuo Watanabe

Mitsuhiro Nakamura

Takeo Takahashi

Keiji Haga

Hideomi Kanno

An apparatus and method for electromagnetically crushing, mixing and stirring substances is disclosed. The apparatus has a container for containing ferromagnetic or non-magnetic conductive working pieces together with substances to be processed, shifting magnetic field generators which act on and generate a random motion of the work pieces, and a mechanical driver which imparts a relative motion to said container on a plane generally parallel with the shifting direction of the shifting magnetic field generated by said shifting magnetic field generators. Similarly, the method comprises moving the container relative to shifting magnetic field generators on a plane generally parallel with the shifting directions of the generated magnetic fields.

Method and apparatus for electromagnetically crushing, mixing and

A method and apparatus for processing substances electromagnetically having a container for receiving conductive working pieces and substances to be processed and magnetic field generators located adjacent said container to generate violent random motion of said working pieces is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of operating said apparatus at a first magnetic field intensity level slightly greater than the minimum intensity level required to generate random motion of said working pieces, and then periodically either increasing or decreasing the intensity level from said first intensity level to maintain random motion of said working pieces. Similarly, the apparatus comprises a timing mechanism which periodically either increases or decreases the intensity level from said first intensity level.

An improved traveling magnetic field-type apparatus for crushing, mixing, polishing, deburring and the like is provided, comprising a container containing working substances and a quantity of material to be crushed operatively arranged between first and second traveling magnetic field generators. The generators are selectively shiftable between a first orientation and a second orientation, in which like polarity and dissimilar polarities face each other across the container. The field generators may be circular and concentrically arranged, or in the shape of a circular arc. Diaphragms also may be provided in the container to distribute more uniformly the working substances and the material to be crushed. It has been determined that the working substances are more readily magnetized, resulting in a higher magnetic torque, if they are relatively longer in the axial direction than in the cross sectional direction. Weighted portions may also be provided at each axial end of the pieces of the working substance to further concentrate the mass at each axial end, and thereby further increase the torque.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuo Watanabe