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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:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Chiyoda Kohan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/32 ;
Abstract
Filtration apparatus prevents a membrane filter from fouling by providing a UV irradiation apparatus. The filtration apparatus comprises a filtration tank which contains a membrane filter with a pore size of 0.1 to 1 &mgr;m connected to the UV irradiation equipment, an air diffusing pipe placed below the membrane filter, an air blower for sending air to the air diffusing pipe, a filtrate discharge pipe connected to the membrane filter, a flow meter and a flow control valve.