Notched wire, notched wire element and filtration apparatus

• US 8,251,230 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2005
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kanagawa Kiki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Kanagawa Kiki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hideto Y, Phan, Thanh Trung
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Walter D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Denise R
• Application Number:
  US11/231,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20060266695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,532 Days
• Field of Search: 210/483, 210/494.2, 210/497.01, 210/499, 210/497.1
• US Class Current: 210/483
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2201/127 with means for keeping the spacing between the pleats
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 29/48 of spirally or helically wound bodies

Abstract

A notched wire 4 that is disposed in layers in a filtration apparatus. First projection stripes 4d are formed on the top surface 4b of a base 4a at prescribed intervals in the longitudinal direction of the base 4a so as to extend in the width direction of the base 4a. Second projection stripes 4e are formed approximately at the centers of the first projection stripe 4d so as to extend between the first projection stripes 4d•4d. The second projection stripes 4e are projection stripes having an approximately semicircular cross section, for example. The second projection stripes 4e is smaller in height than the first projection stripes 4d, and the width of the second projection stripes 4e is shorter than the length of the first projection stripes 4d.

Claims

1. A notched wire disposed in layers in a filtration apparatus, comprising:

first projection stripes formed on one surface of a band plate, at prescribed intervals along a longitudinal direction of the band plate, so as to extend across a layering direction of the band plate in a flow direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and to the layering direction of the band plate or has a prescribed inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the band plate; and

second projection stripes extending between the first projection stripes on the one surface of the band plate, a height of the second projection stripes being smaller than that of the first projection stripes and a width of the second projection stripes being less than a width of the first projection stripes in the flow direction of the band plate;

wherein each of the second projection stripes is formed within a center band that is narrower than a width of the band plate in the flow direction.

2. The notched wire according to claim 1, wherein each of the second projection stripes has a convex surface.

3. The notched wire according to claim 2, wherein the second projection stripes are projection stripes having a substantially semicircular cross section.

4. The notched wire according to claim 1, wherein the height of each of the second projection stripes extending between the first projection stripes varies gradually in the longitudinal direction thereof.

5. The notched wire according to claim 1, wherein each of the second projection stripes is formed substantially at a center of a width of the band plate.

6. The notched wire according to claim 1, further comprising:

a filter frame of a filtration apparatus;

wherein

the notched wire is wound around the filter frame spirally in layers.

7. The notched wire according to claim 6, further comprising:

a main body;

wherein

the notched wire element is disposed in the main body comprising the filter frame and the notched wire that is wound around the filter frame spirally in layers.

8. The notched wire according to claim 7, wherein as a fluid or a powder flows through the notched filter element, it is filtered in two stages by first gaps S1 having the same height as the height of the first projection stripes and second gaps S2 having a height that is the height of the first projection stripes minus the height of the second projection stripes, the first and second gaps being formed between layered sections of the notched wire.

9. The notched wire according to claim 2, wherein the height of each of the second projection stripes extending between the first projection stripes varies gradually in the longitudinal direction thereof.

10. The notched wire according to claim 3, wherein the height of each of the second projection stripes extending between the first projection stripes varies gradually in the longitudinal direction thereof.

11. The notched wire according to claim 1, wherein the band plate has a substantially rectangular cross section including two straight parallel sides.

12. The notched wire according to claim 11, wherein the second projection stripes are projection stripes having a substantially semicircular cross section.

13. The notched wire according to claim 12, wherein each of the second projection stripes is formed substantially at a center of a width of the band plate.

14. The notched wire according to claim 1, wherein the flow direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

15. The notched wire according to claim 3, wherein the second projection stripes are projection stripes having a semicircular cross section.

16. The notched wire according to claim 5, wherein each of the second projection stripes is formed at the center of the width of the band plate.

17. The notched wire according to claim 11, wherein the band plate has a rectangular cross section including two straight parallel sides.

18. The notched wire according to claim 12, wherein the second projection stripes are projection stripes having a semicircular cross section.

19. The notched wire according to claim 13, wherein each of the second projection stripes is formed at the center of the width of the band plate.