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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Hiroshi Kozuka, Okazaki, JP;
Masahiro Inoue, Nagoya, JP;
Kanji Imura, Toyota, JP;
Yuji Nemoto, Toyota, JP;
Hiroshi Kozuka, Okazaki, JP;
Masahiro Inoue, Nagoya, JP;
Kanji Imura, Toyota, JP;
Yuji Nemoto, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A microbubble cleaning system includes a tank in which a solution into which a product is immersed to clean the product is stored; supplying means for putting microbubbles into the solution and supplying the solution that includes the microbubbles into the tank; oil separating apparatus that collects bubbles that have risen to a surface of the solution stored in the tank as a result of cleaning the product, as well as a portion of the solution that is near the surface of the solution, in order to separate oil from the solution; generating means for generating a surface flow of the solution near the surface of the solution in order to remove the bubbles that have risen to the surface of the solution in the tank; and removing means for removing carbon dioxide from air that is used to generate the microbubbles by the supplying means.