Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mixer module for a deterministic hydrodynamic tool for the pulsed polishing of optical surfaces, and pulsed polishing method
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Application No.: US16467316Application Date: 2017-11-08
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Publication No.: US11478896B2Publication Date: 2022-10-25
- Inventor: Erika Sohn López-Forment , Elfego Guillermo Ruiz Schneider , Luis Salas Casales , Esteban Antolin Luna Aguilar
- Applicant: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
- Applicant Address: MX Mexico City
- Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
- Current Assignee Address: MX Mexico City
- Agency: Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- Priority: MXMX/a/2016/016317 20161209
- International Application: PCT/MX2017/000127 WO 20171108
- International Announcement: WO2018/106100 WO 20180614
- Main IPC: B24C1/08
- IPC: B24C1/08 ; B24C3/32 ; B24C1/04 ; B24C7/00

Abstract:
A hydrodynamically optimized mixer module, to be coupled to a deterministic hydrodynamic tool that allows pulsed polishing of optical surfaces is described. This module allows the supply of abrasive foam or fluid that enters the tool to be interrupted without impairing the operational stability of the polishing process and of said hydrodynamic tool. The mixer module includes at least one interrupter element for switching high-velocity fluids; a first inlet through which air is injected under pressure and in a controlled manner; a second inlet through which a polishing fluid is injected in a controlled manner, said polishing fluid filling a predetermined volume with a hydrodynamically optimized shape and being transferred to a mixing zone where, together with the pressure-injected air, an abrasive foam is produced that is injected into at least one rotational acceleration chamber of the hydrodynamic tool to which the mixer module is coupled.
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