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Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd.

Churyo Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasushi Ito

Shogo Yamaguchi

Takashi Tanaka

Koichi Aoki

Sadahiro Abe

Masaru Nishimura

Minoru Yoshizawa

Hironobu Fujikake

Shinichi Tokunaga

Noriaki Matsumura

A cleaning method is provided for on-site cleaning of equipment such as filling equipment that fills beverages, etc. into bottles, cans, and other containers, liquid treatment equipment for filling solutions, and pipe equipment for connecting said equipment, the method being able to increase significantly the cleanliness of portions in contact with the filling solution while shortening cleaning time and reducing the amount used of utilities such as cleaning solution, etc. In the cleaning method for on-site cleaning of the liquid pathways of equipment such as filling equipment () for filling beverages into bottles, cans and other containers, liquid-treatment equipment () for filling solutions, or pipe equipment () that connects said equipment, liquid comprising nanobubbles is pumped into said equipment and is left undisturbed to soak for a prescribed period.

Instrument-cleaning method that uses soaking with nanobubble water

An apparatus and method in which the lateral surface of a sealed container (11) containing a beverage liquid (12) is pressed (21, 22) for deformation to measure the internal pressure (P) of the container, and displacement caused by the pressure and the load (F, 31) applied by the pressure is detected (35) so that the gas density of the beverage liquid may be evaluated from these values. An ultrasonic pressure wave is applied (111) to the sealed container to measure the sugar content of the beverage from the propagation velocity of the pressure wave received by an ultrasonic receiver (112), container surface temperature and the ambient temperature resulting from sensors (121, 122) and a calculation unit (50). For simultaneously measuring the gas density and the sugar content a gas density measuring unit (220, 230, 240) and a sugar content measuring unit (290) are provided. In addition, for shaking the content of a sealed container in which the container (500) is placed in a water tank (503), an ultrasonic wave is generated from an ultrasonic shaker (501) provided at the bottom of the water tank to agitate the content of the container for uniformity.

Apparatus for measuring gas density and sugar content of a beverage

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Nagoya, Japan

Yasushi Ito