U.S. Patent 7,451,941

Title

Dense fluid spray cleaning process and apparatus

  • SnoPen™ Benchtop Spray Cleaning Systems
  • OzoKool™ Tunable MQCL™ Systems
  • 2Cool Tool™ Thermal Management Systems
  • Mobi™ Mobile Spray Cleaning Systems
  • GENESYS™ Vector Pro™ Spray Treatment Systems
  • PowerSno™ Modular Spray Treatment Platform
  • Vector Pro™ CO2 Composite Spray Applicators
  • Clean Cell™ CO2 Spray Processing Minienvironments
  • Vulcon Ice™ Robotic Spray Cleaning Systems
  • OZPEN™ (Licensed Private Label Product, OZ Optics Ltd.)
  • CleanMaster™ (Licensed Private Label Product, Reliabotics LLC)
Inventor(s)

David Jackson

Date Issued

November 18, 2008

Technology Platform

CO2 Composite Spray™

Internet Link

U.S. Patent No. 7,451,941
https://www.google.com/patents/us7451941

Abstract

Disclosed is a dense fluid spray cleaning apparatus comprising a gas supply for providing a predetermined amount of a gas to an enhanced Joule-Thomson condensation reactor and for providing gas to a propellant generator, a premix chamber for receiving a solid particulate from the enhanced Joule-Thomson condensation reactor and heated gas from the propellant generator, and a mixing chamber for receiving the solid particulate and the heated gas and producing a spray stream containing the solid particulate.

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