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Patent US8046867 - Mobile surface cleaner having a sparging device - Google Patents
A mobile surface cleaner is provided, which includes a mobile body configured to travel over a surface, a source of a liquid, a liquid dispenser, a flow path from the liquid source to the liquid dispenser, and an electrolyzing sparging device in fluid communication with the flow path....http://www.google.com/patents/US8046867?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8046867 - Mobile surface cleaner having a sparging device
Publication number US8046867 B2
Also published as US8719999, US20070186367, US20120097201
Publication number 11655359, 655359, US 8046867 B2, US 8046867B2, US-B2-8046867, US8046867 B2, US8046867B2
Patent Citations (238), Non-Patent Citations (50), Referenced by (6), Classifications (18), Legal Events (5)
US 8046867 B2
a control circuit which applies power to the sparging device and the functional generator such that the sparging device is operable to generate nanobubbles in the liquid by electrolysis, and wherein the nanobubbles have a size that is too small to break surface tension of the liquid.
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U.S. Classification 15/320, 15/300.1
Cooperative Classification A47L11/4088, A61L2209/213, A61L2/186, A61L2202/11, C02F1/4672, A61L2/035, A47L11/302, A47L11/4083, A47L11/4011
European Classification A61L2/03E, A47L11/30B, A61L2/18P, A47L11/40N2, A47L11/40C, A47L11/40N6