Patent ID: 9221023
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B01F,F04B

Abstract:
1. A liquid mixing apparatus comprising: a flow channel that supplies a liquid therethrough; a vortex-flow generating unit including a conductive member and an electrode, the vortex-flow generating unit generating a vortex flow in the liquid in the flow channel by an electric field, wherein the conductive member is provided in the flow channel, and the electrode applies the electric field to the conductive member; a directional-flow generating unit that generates a flow of the liquid in a direction along the flow channel; and a switching unit, which is connected to both the vortex-flow generating unit and the directional-flow generating unit, that sends control signals to the vortex-flow generating unit and the directional-flow generating unit to alternately switch between driving the flow in the flow channel using the vortex-flow generating unit and driving the flow in the flow channel using the directional-flow generating unit, wherein the switching unit is configured such that alternately switching between driving the flow using the vortex-flow generating unit and driving the flow using the directional-flow generating unit is performed at a prescribed frequency.