Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blowing apparatus including piezoelectric valve and optical granular material sorting machine using the blowing apparatus
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Application No.: US15758158Application Date: 2016-09-05
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Publication No.: US10525508B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Takafumi Ito , Sze Keat Chee
- Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP2015-176659 20150908
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/075945 WO 20160905
- International Announcement: WO2017/043431 WO 20170316
- Main IPC: B07C5/342
- IPC: B07C5/342 ; B07C5/36 ; F16K31/00

Abstract:
The present invention has an object to provide a blowing apparatus wherein a piezoelectric element is unlikely to cause insulation deterioration leading to burnout during use of the blowing apparatus. The blowing apparatus of the present invention blows compressed gas supplied from a compressed gas supply unit through a nozzle hole of a nozzle unit by opening a piezoelectric valve. The blowing apparatus comprises a humidity sensor detecting a humidity of the compressed gas inside a flow path unit, and a humidity control unit comparing a detected value of the humidity detected by the humidity sensor with a set value. If the humidity of the compressed gas inside the flow path unit detected by the humidity sensor is equal to or greater than the set value, the humidity control unit replaces the compressed gas inside the flow path unit with the compressed gas whose humidity is less than the set value and which is supplied from the compressed gas supply unit, before starting to use the blowing apparatus.
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