Jet Injection Device Nanobubble Mist Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies do not effectively inject mist at high speeds while incorporating nanobubbles, limiting their application in fields such as cleaning, agriculture, and fire extinguishing.

Innovation Solution

A jet injection device comprising a two-fluid nozzle with a nanobubble generation device and a compressor to mix high-pressure nanobubble water and air, creating a mist that can be sprayed at high speeds with nanobubbles, enhancing its efficacy by maintaining particle size and stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If high-pressure liquid and air are mixed to form jet stream, then cleaning capability is improved, but nanobubbles cannot be effectively incorporated in the mist

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecleaning capabilityVSAvoidnanobubble incorporation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The device segments the mixing process into two distinct stages: first, nanobubbles are generated and incorporated into liquid to form nanobubble water; second, this nanobubble water is mixed with air in the two-fluid nozzle to create mist containing nanobubbles. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, ensuring nanobubbles are effectively incorporated while maintaining cleaning capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The nanobubble generation device performs preliminary action by creating nanobubble water before the mist generation process. This pre-prepared nanobubble water is then supplied to the two-fluid nozzle, ensuring that nanobubbles are already incorporated into the liquid phase before mixing with air, thus resolving the contradiction between mist formation and nanobubble incorporation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Speed

If mist is sprayed at high speed, then application effectiveness is improved, but nanobubbles are lost or destabilized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemist spray speedVSAvoidnanobubble stability
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The device carefully controls pressure parameters throughout the system. The nanobubble generation device operates at specific high pressure to create stable nanobubbles, while the two-fluid nozzle is designed to mix air and nanobubble water at pressure ratios that maintain nanobubble stability during mist formation. By optimizing pressure parameters, the system achieves high-speed spray while preserving nanobubble integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Device complexity

If conventional mixing methods are used, then device simplicity is maintained, but nanobubble generation and mist injection cannot be achieved simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice structureVSAvoidnanobubble mist injection capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The device merges the nanobubble generation device with the two-fluid nozzle system in an integrated configuration. The nanobubble generation device supplies nanobubble water directly to the two-fluid nozzle, combining bubble generation and mist injection functions into a unified system. This merging enables simultaneous nanobubble generation and high-speed mist injection while maintaining reasonable device complexity through functional integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The device achieves stable and long-lasting mist delivery with nanobubbles, providing bacteriostatic, antibacterial, and photosynthetic effects, as well as improved cleaning and propulsion capabilities, while minimizing evaporation and gas concentration risks.

Implementation Method 1

high-pressure liquid such as water is supplied from an upstream side of a joint body 5, and high-pressure air including abrasive agents such as metal particles and sand particles is supplied from high-pressure air pipe 12, and then the high-pressure liquid and air are mixed at a position of an inside piece 8

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectGas-liquid mixing:

Implementation Method 2

the gas-liquid mixed fluid may collide with dirt and paint etc. attached to an object to be polished as a high-speed jet stream, thereby scrubbing off the dirt and paint from the object

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectImpact force: Impact Force

Implementation Method 3

the gas-liquid mixed fluid pushed out from a pressurized liquid pump 12 is put into a pumping tube 13 and is returned to a steady state to be in a supersaturated state, cavitation (a phenomenon in which bubbles are formed and collapse) is strongly generated, thus to deposit the dissolved air and gases

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCavitation: Cavitation

Implementation Method 4

the gas-liquid mixed fluid pushed out from a pressurized liquid pump 12 is put into a pumping tube 13 and is returned to a steady state to be in a supersaturated state

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectSupersaturation: Supersaturation

Implementation Method 5

high-pressure liquid such as water is supplied from an upstream side of a joint body 5, and high-pressure air including abrasive agents such as metal particles and sand particles is supplied from high-pressure air pipe 12

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure gradient: Pressure Gradient

Data Source

PatentUS11103838B2Jet injection device
Publication Date: 2021.08.31 AKIMOKU IRON WORKS CO LTD
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AI summary

A jet injection device that incorporates nanobubbles (ultrafine bubbles) in a mist includes: a two-fluid nozzle configured from a circular nozzle outer cylinder and an air connection tube integrally and perpendicularly connected to the nozzle outer cylinder; a nanobubble generation device that supplies the nozzle outer cylinder of the two-fluid nozzle with high-pressure nanobubble water; and a compressor that supplies the air connection tube of the two-fluid nozzle with high-pressure air. The gas-injected bubble water generated from the nanobubble generation device is pressure-fed to the nozzle outer cylinder of the two-fluid nozzle, and compressed air from the compressor is pressure-fed to the air connection tube of the two-fluid nozzle. In the two-fluid nozzle, the high-pressure gas-injected bubble water and the compressed air serve as a gas-liquid fluid mixture, and are injected at a high speed in mist form from a nozzle cylinder of the two-fluid nozzle.