Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Freeze vacuum drying apparatus and freeze vacuum drying method
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Application No.: US17107297Application Date: 2020-11-30
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Publication No.: US11112176B2Publication Date: 2021-09-07
- Inventor: Tsutomu Nishihashi , Haruhisa Nakano , Hirohiko Murakami , Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto , Masaki Itou , Takumi Komiya
- Applicant: ULVAC, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chigasaki
- Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
- Current Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chigasaki
- Agency: Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk
- Priority: JP2018-110092 20180608
- Main IPC: F26B5/06
- IPC: F26B5/06 ; A23L3/00 ; A23L3/44

Abstract:
A freeze vacuum drying apparatus includes: a spraying unit; a pipe unit; a heating unit; and a collection unit. The spraying unit sprays a raw material liquid into a vacuum chamber. The pipe unit has a non-linear shape, includes a first opening end and a second opening end, and traps frozen particles via the first opening end, the frozen particles being formed by self-freezing of liquid droplets formed by spraying the raw material liquid into the vacuum chamber. The heating unit heats the frozen particles in the pipe unit for sublimation drying, the frozen particles moving in the pipe unit from the first opening end toward the second opening end by kinetic energy produced during spraying. The collection unit collects dried particles that are formed by sublimation drying of the frozen particles in the pipe unit and released from the second opening end of the pipe unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210080179A1 FREEZE VACUUM DRYING APPARATUS AND FREEZE VACUUM DRYING METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-03-18
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