Abstract:
Disclosed is a device for cleaning a window of a motor vehicle, comprising a cleaning nozzle (9) that is mounted in a nozzle holder (4) so as to be pivotable about a horizontal axis. The nozzle holder (4) is fastened in a fixed manner to a body sheet of the motor vehicle. A specific spraying range which is to be sprinkled with cleaning liquid can be adjusted on the window when the cleaning nozzle (9) is pivoted.
Abstract:
A system for control of a fluid flow. The system includes an array of fluidic oscillators. Each fluidic oscillator carries an oscillating flow of the fluid and includes a throat, an input port connected to the throat, two control ports connected to the throat and two output ports extending from the throat. A feedback line is connected to each of the two output ports and each of the two control ports. The system further includes a plenum connected to the input ports of the fluidic oscillators to supply the fluid to the fluidic oscillators and a feedback chamber disposed along each feedback line of each fluidic oscillator to provide a feedback path for the control fluid to cause oscillatory fluid motion between the first output port and the second output port, the frequency of which may be modulated by adjusting the volume of the feedback chamber.
Abstract:
A fluid nozzle system (nicknamed the “RAP nozzle system”) is disclosed that combines a pulse flow device with a toroidal vortex generator to create a high momentum, self propelling jet for increasing long-range jet impact forces. The RAP nozzle system takes continuous flow normally exited through a nozzle and breaks it into discrete patterns of pulsed flow. The unsteady characteristics of the pulsed flow are then used with either single-stage ejectors, multi-stage ejectors or other devices to increase the momentum and/or the lateral size of the individual pulses. These fluid pulses are then used to generate a jet with large scale, stable toroidal vortices which travel long distances and apply large forces at impact. Unlike the prior art, such toroidal vortices are stable, carry large flow momentum, and propel themselves through the air (or other fluid) at a speed approximately ¼ the pulsed velocity of the fluid used to generate the vortices. Furthermore, the toroidal vortices travel with minimal mixing and minimal losses. Tests conducted have demonstrated that these toroidal vortices travel up to 10 times the distance of current continuous flow jets and can deliver an order of magnitude larger force to move particles at large distances from the nozzle exit when compared to the same energy, continuous jet. The same toroidal vortices generate stirring mechanisms at impact which can be useful in many applications. The RAP nozzle system can significantly improve the performance of leaf blowers, shop air nozzles, and all other products that utilize jet impact forces for particle movement. The same RAP nozzle system concept can be used in a significant number of other applications where fluid pulsations could be beneficial. Fluid pulsations increase the force of a fluid jet by adding impulsive forces similar to a jack hammer. These unsteady forces can be quite large and are directly related to the velocity of the jet at impact. In an alternate embodiment, the RAP nozzle concept can also carry a secondary fluid over a large distance without mixing the secondary fluid with the ambient fluid. The secondary fluid is carried in the core of the toroidal vortices generated.
Abstract:
The invention comprises a curved fluidic device and a housing piece with a curved slot to accommodate the curved fluidic device. The aim angle can be varied greatly by changing the depth of insertion of the fluidic device into the curved slot. By adjusting the curvature of the fluidic device and slot, the amount of variation possible and sensitivity to insertion depth can be controlled. With more curvature, the aim angle can be adjusted more but is more sensitive to insertion depth tolerance. With less curvature, the insertion depth is more robust but the aim adjustment range is smaller.
Abstract:
A spraying angular variable washer nozzle device is formed by press fitting and fixing a spraying nozzle in a device body. In order to enable the leakage of a cleaning fluid to be prevented and the spraying angle to be regulated, the spraying nozzle is provided with a nozzle body having a spraying flow passage; and a nozzle support having a recessed housing in which the nozzle body is inserted and fixed, and supported rotatably in a fitting hole of a head portion of the device body. The recessed housing is provided with an opening at a fluid supply side thereof, and an ejection port for spraying the spraying fluid from the nozzle body at a bottom section thereof.
Abstract:
A reversing chamber oscillator has an oscillation chamber with a reversing wall, a centrally located power nozzle for issuing a jet of liquid toward the reversing wall, and a pair of liquid passages from the reversing chamber on each side of the power nozzle, respectively, for alternately issuing periodic pulses of liquid. The outlet passages are smoothly extended to intersect directly at a common outlet and are dimensioned and angulated relative to each other to control the sweep angle of a liquid jet which is periodically swept in the common outlet and issued to ambient. The pair of fluid passages have an upstream end at the reversing chamber and a downstream end at the common outlet and each passage has an outer wall which, with the reversing wall, define an oval.
Abstract:
A nozzle tip of the washer nozzle has a configuration of a “fluidics type nozzle”. A diffusion angle β (jet angle in a width direction) of diffusive flow diffusively jetted from a diffusive jet port is determined by a ratio E of a cross-sectional area of a liquid inlet port and a cross-sectional area of the diffusive jet port. The diffusion angle β of the diffusive flow is set larger than a predetermined angle W formed by a pair of jet port sidewalls. That is, the diffusive flow jetted from the diffusive jet port at the diffusion angle β, which is determined by the cross-sectional area ratio E, is restricted its diffusion (diffusive limit) by the pair of jet port sidewalls (angle W) disposed downstream of the diffusive jet port.
Abstract:
Methods of molding fluidic oscillator device having at least a power nozzle for projecting a jet of liquid into an interaction region with an upstream end, opposing side walls, opposing top and bottom walls, and a pair of control ports at the upstream end. The side walls diverge from the power nozzle. A mold cavity is provided in which the power nozzle, interaction region (IR) and control ports can be molded as a core without any seam lines. For a crossover type IR in which the upstream ends diverge and the downstream ends converge to a common throat area and coupled to an outlet aperture, a further mold cavity is provided in which the converging portion of the crossover type interaction region is formed as a second core having a joinder line to the first the core which is transverse to the direction of liquid flow in the fluidic.
Abstract:
A warewash machine includes a housing including an area for receiving wares to be washed and a liquid dispensing arm removably positioned within the housing, the liquid dispensing arm including a nozzle receiving opening. Removably positioned in the nozzle opening is a nozzle that is configured to output liquid in a specific output pattern. The nozzle receiving opening and the nozzle are cooperatively shaped and configured such that when the nozzle is inserted in the nozzle receiving opening the nozzle is automatically positioned such that an orientation of the specific output pattern relative to the area is automatically set to a specific orientation.
Abstract:
An automated sprayer for spraying the walls of a shower enclosure with a liquid cleanser dispenses the cleanser using a pump and rotatable spray head. A motor drives the pump and rotates the spray head. The sprayer has a showerhead mountable housing with a hanger. The housing supports a bottle of cleanser in an inverted fashion. Cleanser is delivered from the bottle through a cleanser conduit in the piercing post into a well of the housing. The bottle is vented from the well through an air vent path in the piercing post or from a well vent outlet through the air vent path in the piercing post. An outlet valve in the well permits outflow of cleanser from the well. Various bottle caps and bottle closures are also provided to improve venting and/or limit cleanser leakage from the bottle when the bottle is installed in the housing.