DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY ACOUSTIC WAVES

• Main Authors: SALLANON, Huguette, CHING, Gil, CHARLES, Florence
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 27.11.2019
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; CLEANING; CLEANING IN GENERAL; COFFEE MILLS; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FERTILISING; FISHING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL; FORESTRY; FURNITURE; GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLESOR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICALVIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PLANTING; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL; SOWING; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; WATERING

A device for treatment by high frequency sound waves that has at least one enclosure and at least one ultrasound transducer and methods for cleaning foodstuffs in the device. The waves produced by the ultrasound transducer in the enclosure filled with a cleaning liquid have a frequency greater than 100 kHz, preferably greater than 200 kHz.