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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1992
Hideo Tsukazaki, Toride, JP;
T.H.I. System Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A washing and drying method and apparatus which uses a washing liquid such as pure water or a solvent of the hydrocarbon type but is very high in washing effect and drying effect and allows quick drying and hence a decrease of the drying time and besides can dry a workpiece of a complicated profile uniformly. A washing liquid tank in which washing liquid is accommodated is closed airtight, and the inside of the washing liquid tank is pressurized to a pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure with gas such as air or nitrogen while the washing liquid is heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point it has under the atmospheric pressure. A workpiece to be washed is immersed in the thus pressurized heated washing liquid to wash the same. The thus washed workpiece is moved from within the washing liquid tank into an evaporating drying chamber, which is subsequently isolated airtight from the washing liquid tank. Then, the inside of the evaporating drying tank is decompressed suddenly so that the washing liquid remaining sticking to the workpiece is evaporated at a moment.
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