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Solvent cleaning system

US5538025A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 27, 1994
Grant dateJul 23, 1996
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Expiry dateJul 27, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S134/902
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A improved solvent cleaning method and system which is truly a closed system in which the object to be cleaned is placed in a chamber and subjected to a negative gauge pressure to remove air and other non-condensible gases after which a solvent is introduced to the evacuated chamber and the object is cleaned and then the solvent is recovered from the object and chamber within the closed system before the clean object is removed.

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