Mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus

• US 7,111,652 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2004
• Issued: 09/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Industries Co. Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Industries Co. Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ito, Yasuo, Koide, Akira, Endo, Yoshishige, Miyake, Ryo
• Primary Examiner(s): Douglas, Steven O.
• Application Number:
  US10/855,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20050087562A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 141/2, 141/18, 141/9, 141/100, 141/104, 141/94
• US Class Current: 141/104
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 2101/21 Mixing of ingredients for cosmetic or perfume compositions
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/3132 by using two or more injector devices
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/31322 used simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/31323 used successively
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/3142 the conduit having a plurality of openings in the axial direction or in the circumferential direction
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/433 Mixing tubes wherein the shape of the tube influences the mixing, e.g. mixing tubes with varying cross-section or provided with inwardly extending profiles
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/4331 Mixers with bended, curved, coiled, wounded mixing tubes or comprising elements for bending the flow
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/3012 Interdigital streams, e.g. lamellae
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/84 Mixing plants with mixing receptacles receiving material dispensed from several component receptacles, e.g. paint tins
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 3/08 to container bodies B65C3/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 9/46 Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling manually-controlled or operable apparatus having printing equipment B65C11/02; ticket printing and issuing G07B1/00 ; apparatus for ticket validating or cancelling G07B11/00
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0044 for mixing inside the dispensing nozzle
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/005 with means for converging streams
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/02 for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/743 electrically or electro-mechanically operated

Abstract

A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprises: an information input unit, in which information of an object, to which a mixed liquid is offered, is input; a material storage system that stores a plurality of materials for a mixed liquid; a product information system that selects kinds and quantities of the stored materials on the basis of the input information of the object, to which a mixed liquid is offered; a liquid transfer unit, by which the selected materials are taken out from the material storage system; a mixing unit, in which the materials supplied from the liquid transfer unit are mixed; an injection unit, by which the mixed liquid is injected into a mixed liquid container; an input unit, by which matters being declared on a label of the mixed liquid container are input; and a label formation unit, in which the input matters are printed on the label and the label is stuck on the mixed liquid container, and wherein the label formation unit begins printing before the injection unit completes injection of the mixed liquid into the container.

Claims

1. A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprising:

an information input unit, in which customer information is input;

a material storage system that stores a plurality of materials for a mixed liquid;

a product information system that selects kinds and quantities of the stored materials on the basis of the input customer information;

a liquid transfer unit, by which the selected materials are taken out from the material storage system;

a mixing unit, in which the materials supplied from the liquid transfer unit are mixed;

an injection unit, by which the mixed liquid is injected into a mixed liquid container;

an input unit, by which matters being declared on a label of the mixed liquid container are input; and

a label formation unit, in which the input matters are printed on the label and the label is stuck on the mixed liquid container, and

wherein the mixing unit comprises a first substrate and a second substrate that define a flow passage, through which a fluid flows, and

the first substrate comprises a first nozzle region and a second nozzle region, from which a first and a second fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage are supplied, and

the first nozzle region and the second nozzle region are arranged to interpose therebetween the flow passage.

3. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mixed fluid comprises perfume or cosmetic liquid.

2. A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprising:

an information input unit, in which customer information is input;

a material storage system that stores a plurality of materials for a mixed liquid;

a product information system that selects kinds and quantities of the stored materials on the basis of the input customer information;

a liquid transfer unit, by which the selected materials are taken out from the material storage system;

a mixing unit, in which the materials supplied from the liquid transfer unit are mixed;

an injection unit, by which the mixed liquid is injected into a mixed liquid container;

an input unit, by which matters being declared on a label of the mixed liquid container are input; and

a label formation unit, in which the input matters are printed on the label and the label is stuck on the mixed liquid container, and

wherein the mixing unit comprises a first substrate and a second substrate that define therebetween a flow passage, through which a fluid flows,

the first substrate comprises a first nozzle region, in which a plurality of first nozzles for supplying a first fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage are arranged at intervals in a direction transverse to the flow of the fluid flowing through the flow passage, and

a second nozzle region, which is disposed on a downstream side of the first nozzle region in the flow passage, and in which a plurality of second nozzles for supplying a second fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage are arranged at intervals in the direction transverse to the flow of the fluid flowing through the flow passage,

the second nozzles are arranged in a region, through which the first fluid supplied by the first nozzles flows, in a region, through which the fluid flows.

4. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the mixed fluid comprises perfume or cosmetic liquid.

5. A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprising a first substrate and a second substrate that define therebetween a flow passage, through which a fluid flows, and

the first substrate comprises a first nozzle region, from which a first fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage, is supplied, and a second nozzle region, from which a second fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage, is supplied, and

the first nozzle region and the second nozzle region are arranged to interpose therebetween the flow passage.

6. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first nozzle region includes a multiplicity of first nozzles arranged on a first wall, which is formed on the first substrate, along a flow direction in the flow passage, and a supply unit for the first fluid being supplied to the first nozzles is formed to be positioned relative to the flow passage with the first wall therebetween.

7. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the nozzles formed in the first nozzle region and the second nozzle region form flow passages for the first fluid and the second fluid between the first substrate and the second substrate.

10. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first fluid supplied from the first nozzle region is larger in flow rate than that of the second fluid that is supplied from the second nozzle region and is smaller in dispensing quantity than the first fluid.

8. A mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus comprising a first substrate and a second substrate that define therebetween a flow passage, through which a fluid flows, and

the first substrate includes a first nozzle region, in which a plurality of first nozzles for supplying a first fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage are arranged at intervals in a direction transverse to the flow of the fluid, and a second nozzle region, which is disposed on a downstream side of the first nozzle region in the flow passage, and in which a plurality of second nozzles for supplying a second fluid being mixed with the fluid flowing through the flow passage are arranged at intervals in the direction transverse to the flow of the fluid, and

the second nozzles are arranged in a region, through which the first fluid supplied by the first nozzles flows, in a region, through which the fluid flows.

9. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising wall portions disposed in a region that includes a side of the flow passage upstream of the first nozzles and in positions respectively corresponding to the first nozzles.

11. The mixed liquid manufacturing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first fluid supplied from the first nozzle region is larger in flow rate than that of the second fluid that is supplied from the second nozzle region and is smaller in dispensing quantity than the first fluid.