5929 results about "Drying time" patented technology

The present invention relates to inks and more particularly, to fluorescent ink formulations including quantum dots for various printing processes such as inkjet, flexographic, screen printing, thermal transfer, and pens. The inks include one or more populations of fluorescent quantum dots dispersed in polymeric material, having fluorescence emissions between about 450 nm and about 2500 nm; and a liquid or solid vehicle. The vehicle is present in a ratio to achieve an ink viscosity, surface tension effective, drying time and other printing parameters used for printing processes.

Water-based adhesive compositions are improved by the incorporation of hollow polymeric microspheres having outer surfaces coated with one or more barrier materials such as calcium carbonate particles. The adhesive compositions exhibit enhanced rheology, sprayability, drying time, tack and storage stability as compared to analogous adhesives that are not modified with coated hollow polymeric microspheres. Such compositions are useful as both contact adhesives as well as wet bonding one-way adhesives.

A drying control method and apparatus of a washing and drying machine, in which cooling water dropped from a condensation duct to a tub accelerates the condensation of moisture contained in circulated air so as to improve condensing capability, a cold air drying time is differently set according to load so that when the load is small, a drying time is shortened, and the drying of laundry is rapidly performed, a power consumption rate is minimized, or a cooling water consumption rate is minimized according to user's desire, and a drying operation is controlled using a difference between a temperature of air and a temperature of cooling water so that the drying operation is efficiently performed according to load conditions so as to improve the drying capability.

In a laundry washing/drying machine involving drying by a heat pump cycle, in an initial stage of the drying operation the heat within an air circulation path is deficient and therefore it is impossible to effect quick heating of air on a drum inlet side up to a sufficiently high temperature. According to the present invention there is provided a drying unit capable of raising the drum inlet air temperature quickly up to a sufficiently high temperature in an initial stage of the drying operation and thereby shortening the drying time. The drying unit includes a heat pump cycle device for performing a cycle of radiating, with use of a radiator, the heat of a refrigerant compressed by a compressor, passing the refrigerant through a pressure reducing/expansion valve, evaporating the refrigerant in an evaporator and compressing the refrigerant again by the compressor, an air circulation path for allowing air to be circulated by a blower in such a manner that air heated by the radiator is introduced into a drying chamber to dry the laundry, exhaust air discharged from the drying chamber is passed through the evaporator, then is heated again by the radiator and the air thus dehumidified is circulated by the blower, and an external heat source applying device for applying the heat of an external heat source to the evaporator to quicken the rise in temperature of the air in an initial stage of the drying operation.

Disclosed are ink jet ink compositions suitable for use in thermal ink jet printers. The ink jet ink compositions contain one or more volatile organic solvents, one or more humectants, one or more binder resins, and one or more colorants. The ink jet ink compositions may also contain additives such as a plasticizer and/or a surfactant. Embodiments of the ink jet ink compositions have short dry times, good adhesion to a variety of substrates, and/or long decap times.

A drying apparatus having a purpose of shortening a drying time of laundry, comprising an accommodating chamber in which the laundry is accommodated, and executing a washing operation of the laundry and a drying operation after end of the washing operation in the accommodating chamber, the machine comprising: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping; an air circulation path for discharging air which has exchanged heat with the gas cooler into the accommodating chamber by a blower to exchange the heat of the air passed through the accommodating chamber with the evaporator; and a control device for operating the compressor and the blower to perform the drying operation, wherein the control device starts the operation of the compressor before entering the drying operation.

An alcohol-free, transdermal drug delivery composition administered via a metered spray drug delivery device is described herein. The non-occlusive transdermal drug delivery composition includes a therapeutically effective amount of at least one physiologically active agent or prodrug thereof, an effective amount of at least one dermal penetration enhancer; and at least one non-volatile liquid. The transdermal drug delivery composition is administered to a dermal or mucosal surface of an animal needing the same using a metered spray device capable of delivering a fine spray of substantially uniform particle size to minimize the required drying time therefor.

The invention discloses a heat pump drying system for drying clothes by using a roller and a control method of the heat pump drying system. The system comprises a heat pump system for drying the clothes, and an air inlet and an air outlet which are communicated with the roller for accommodating the clothes respectively, wherein the heat pump system comprises a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device and an evaporator which are connected with one another in turn through a refrigerant circulating pipeline to form a circulating system; the heat pump system, the air inlet and the air outlet are integrated through an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate; an air deflector, the evaporator, the condenser and an air supply fan are arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet in turn to form an air circuit; the compressor is sealed in closed space by the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate; and the air supply fan is a direct-current fan with a controllable rotating speed, and the rotating speeds at different drying stages are correspondingly controlled to reduce the load of the compressor. The heat pump drying system has the characteristics of saving energy and shortening drying time.

The described invention is an unique universal ink jet media. The invention incorporates a unique barrier layer based upon UV or EB curable chemistry which replaces common polyethylene extruded bases. The invention also incorporates multiple ink receptive layers. The first layer is based upon gelatin and/or polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) chemistries and gives the invention excellent ink drytime. Poor drytime is a common problem which leads to smudging and print defects, especially as ink jet printer speeds increase as technology improves. The high ink absorbency of the invention also makes this media well suited for wide format ink jet printers. The next ink receptive layer(s) are based upon pigmented, cellulose chemistry which reduces the tack of the sheet and gives the sheet good waterfastness. This is important for the end use in that the sheet may be frequently handled and exposed to dampness. Another unique property provided by the next ink receptive layer(s) is excellent print quality across a wide range of printers and ink sets (both dye and pigmented), in which other media perform poorly. A final unique property is an anti-curl coating which resists curling as the ambient conditions change from cold and dry to hot and humid.

Conventional spray-drying methods are improved by incorporation of a pressure nozzle and a diffuser plate to improve the flow of drying gas and a drying chamber extension to increase drying time, such improvements leading to the formation of homogeneous solid dispersions of drugs in concentration-enhancing polymers.

After washing, the hands are dried rapidly and comfortably by using a shaped high speed flow of heated air. The air flows in a direction controlled by an air outlet shaped to retain much of the exiting forceful air flow and temperature at a distance where the hands are dried. The air entrainment is controlled so that the properties of the air flow are not diluted by the air entrainment to a point where the drying performance is degraded. The forceful air flow blows off most of the loose water on the hands. The forceful air flow also reduces the stagnation boundary layers in the hands so that the evaporation removal of the remaining film of water is improved. These result in reduced drying time and comfort during and after drying.

The invention discloses a negative-pressure microwave uniform spraying and drying device and application, belonging to the technical field of uniform drying devices. The negative-pressure microwave uniform spraying and drying device comprises a circulating material storage device, a feeder, a negative-pressure spraying pipe, a microwave heating cavity, a cyclone separator, a vacuum storage tank, a discharger, a water ring vacuum pump, a circulating pipe and microwave sources. The circulating material storage device is used for storing materials dried circularly, the feeder is used for feeding dry materials to the negative-pressure spraying pipe which is a channel for drying and circulating the materials, and the microwave sources are uniformly distributed inside the microwave heating cavity, two ends of which are sealed. The cyclone separator is connected with an outlet of the negative-pressure spraying pipe inside the microwave heating cavity and is connected with the vacuum storage tank and the discharger through a channel. The discharger is connected with the circulating material storage device through the circulating pipe. Because the materials can be sprayed under negative pressure, the device can be used for spraying, rotating and circulating the materials under a microwave vacuum drying condition so as to achieve the purpose of drying the materials efficiently and uniformly, meanwhile, is favorable for shortening the drying time by above 40% and reducing the cost of large-scale production.

An inkjet ink is provided that has a greater organic content than prior art inks. However, it is not simply enough to increase the organic content; other factors must be considered as well. These include controlling viscosity and surface tension, as well as maintaining acceptable drytime. An inkjet ink composition that evidences reduced outgassing and reduces paper cockle and curl comprises about 25 to 50 wt % of one or more organic co-solvents, has a viscosity of 10 cp or less, and has a surface tension of 40 dyne/cm or less. Advantageously, using a higher solvent ink reduces cockle and curl. Cockle and curl are also reduced as the water content of the ink is reduced. The present invention uses the higher solvent inks in combination with underprinting. In underprinting, a fixer solution is first "printed" on the print medium, followed by printing the inkjet ink thereon. There is a synergism to this combination. Together, weaknesses of both approaches are addressed. The advantages are a longer life pen, due to the reduction of outgassing of the ink, and reduced cockle and curl.

The invention relates to a faviform ammonia-method selective-catalytic-reduction denitrified catalyst and a preparation method thereof. The invention is characterized in that the catalyst uses TiO2 with a special specific surface area as the carrier and uses V2O5 and WO3 as the catalyst and the cocatalyst, various assistants favorable for the catalyst to form, disperse and perforate are simultaneously added, and the faviform denitrified catalyst is obtained in short drying time and calcination time. The catalyst comprises the following components in weight percent: 80-99% of TiO2, 0.1-2% of V2O5 and 5-10% of WO3. The method selects the TiO2 with the special specific surface area as the carrier, simultaneously adds the proper forming assistants and combines the special preparation techniqueso as to obtain the faviform denitrified catalyst with high strength and favorable forming performance and enhance the denitration activity of the catalyst; when the trial denitration test is carriedout on the faviform denitrified catalyst in a small-size coal burning boiler, the airspeed is 5000/hr, and the concentration of NOX is about 100 ppmv; when the fume temperature is 350 DEG C, the denitration efficiency reaches 95%; and after long-term operation, the denitration efficiency is still above 80%.

The invention relates to a method for preparing fruit-and-vegetable or aquatic leisure foods by freeze-drying and subsequent vacuum microwave combination, which belongs to a field of leisure food processing technique. The main process of the invention is that: after handpicking, blanching for extinguishing enzyme or blanching curing, then cooling soaking and quick freezing in a flavor liquid, the fruit and vegetable or aquatic raw material is freeze-dried to reduce the water content to 60-30 percent and then is vacuum-microwave dried to lead the final water content of fruit and vegetable to be less than 5 percent. The invention adopts a novel combined drying technique of freeze-drying before and subsequent vacuum microwave which is carried out by stages. The technique can not only maintain the nutrition and the form of the product in the maximal degree, but also remarkably shorten the drying time, reduce the drying energy consumption, save the cost and can have remarkable expansion effect at the same time, which improves the comprehensive quality of leisure foods.

The invention concerns to a method and composition for improving the drying time of hair, for example, after bathing, shampooing, swimming, and the like by impregnating it with a particular amino functional silicon derivative. In a preferred embodiment the invention concerns to hair styling compositions that are applied to dry or wet hair as a leave-in treatment and that additionally reduces the time to dry the hair during styling; further to leave-in or rinse-out hair care compositions that additionally reduces the time to dry the hair.

The preparation method comprises: 1) raw material processing: placing graphite, coke blacking, chopped carbon fiber and modifier at the drying cabinet to remove moisture from them; the drying temperature is 100 deg. C, and the drying time is 2-4 hours; 2) blending: evenly blending the graphite, coke blacking and chopped carbon fiber; adding the copper powder, copper fiber and modifier; in the last, adding phenolic resin to make mould material; 3) hot compacting and forming: placing the mould materials into die; heating and pressing it to make solidification forming; the press is 50-100MP, and the temperature is 160-170 deg. C; keeping 0.5-1 hours in room temperature; 4) sintering: making the sintering form the sample; the temperature is 800-900 deg. C, and the time length is 2-4 hours; 5) densification processing: after chemical vapor deposition or bituminizing, making the carbonizing treatment.

A sterilizer (20) is provided having a steam filled sterilizer chamber (24) for sterilizer articles placed within the chamber (24). An electronic air valve (186) is provided to control the venting rate of the steam is vented back to a water reservoir (140) after the articles have been sterilized. The electronic air valve (186) also vents the chamber (24) in a controlled manner during the heat up portion of the sterilization cycle to obtain an optimum saturated steam environment with the chamber (24) for the sterilizing process. The sterilizer (20) has pre-programmed and programmable sterilization cycles. And the drying times of each of these cycles is programmable by a user. The programmable sterilization cycles also provide a programmable vent rate which may be selected by the user to minimize damage to the sterilized articles. A steam condensing coil (200) is associated with the water reservoir (140) to minimize pressure build up within the water reservoir (140). The sterilizer (20) uses sensed pressure within the sterilizer chamber (24) to control heating of the chamber (24) to a predetermined sterilization temperature set point during a sterilization cycle. A motor (114) controls a door lock mechanism to open the door (32) of the sterilizer (20) following the sterilizing portion of the sterilization cycle.

The invention relates to a Xingyang red black tea processing technique. The technique comprises the following parameters: wilting temperature: 25-30 DEG C; humidity: 60-70%; wilting time: 6-7 h; twisting machine rotating speed: 55-60 r/min; 2-3 times of twisting, each for 30 min; amount of tea feed: 30-35 kg; unravel machine rotating speed: 35 r/min; sieve pore size: 6#; 2-3 times of unravelling;temperature in a fermentation chamber: 2-7 DEG C; humidity in the fermentation chamber: 96%; tea spread thickness: 10 cm; oxygen supply amount: 5 L/min; fermentation time: 4.5 h; initial drying temperature: 115 DEG C; initial drying time: 20 min; re-drying temperature: 75 DEG C; and re-drying time: 30 min. The processing technique of the invention is unique, and the quality of the made black tea is excellent: the appearance of the product is fat and tender and compact, the peak of the tea is gold and the tea has bright luster; the endoplasm aroma of the tea has rich green flavour; the taste of the tea is mellow and sweet; the tea liquor is brilliantly red; and the root of the tea leaf is soft and green, has many sprouts and a colour of brilliant red.

An acrylate-functionalized alkyd coating composition is disclosed having improved dry time. The compositon includes an acrylate-functionalized alkyd resin, a solvent, and a drier package that provides the composition with a cobalt content of at least 0.01 wt %, based on binder solids content, and a calcium content of from 0.15 wt % to 5 wt %, based on the binder solids content. The drier mixture disclosed results in the coating composition having improved dry time when compared with similar coating compositions using conventional drier packages.

Knit fabrics and military apparel such as T-shirts made therefrom are disclosed. The fabrics are constructed from blended yarns made from an intimate combination of nylon and cotton staple fibers. Such fabrics comprise a weight ratio of cotton to nylon which ranges from about 55:45 to about 85:15, and these fabrics also have a weight ranging from about 3 to about 8 oz/yd². Knit fabrics of this type possess a desirable combination of good thermal protective properties, provided the specified high level of staple fiber blend uniformity is achieved, along with very useful abrasion resistance, bursting strength and drying time characteristics.

A multi-ply absorbent sheet includes at least a first and second ply bonded together. In one construction, the first and second ply are provided with from about 90% by weight to about 25% by weight pulp-derived papermaking fiber and from about 10% to about 75% by weight fibrillated regenerated cellulosic microfiber having a characteristic CSF value of less than 175 ml; the sheet having a caliper of from 180-250 mils/8 sheets and exhibiting a wipe-dry time of less than 20 seconds, an SAT capacity in the range of 350-500 g/m², an SAT rate in the range of 0.05-0.25 g/s^0.5, a CD wet tensile in the range of 400-2500 g/3″ and a wet/dry CD tensile ratio of from 35% to 60%. The multi-ply sheets are efficient, high capacity wipers and have enough absorbent capacity to be used as ordinary paper towels. Preferred wiper towel products exhibit a differential pore volume for pores under 5 microns in diameter of at least about 75 mm³/g/micron.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a porous sodium acrylate super absorbent resin. The preparation method comprises the following steps: an aqueous solution containing 30 to 45 wt% of acrylic acid monomers with a neutralization rate of 60 to 90 mole%, a cross linking agent, a porogenic agent, and a polymerization initiator are polymerized together under nitrogen protection; and porous particles are prepared through preparing granulums with diameters of 2 to 10 mm from hydrogel prepared through polymerization, and adding the surface cross linking agent and an inorganic filler to carry out surface processing. The preparation method of the invention allows continuous production to be realized, productivity to be improved, manpower to be decreased, a problem of slow imbibition to be solved, drying period to be substantially decreased, product performances to be substantially improved, the qualified rate of products to be high, reaction to be mild, and three wastes to be less.