Patents Assigned to Ion Bond AG
  • Patent number: 8267572
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the mechanically protective production of finely dispersed micro-/nanoemulsions with narrow droplet size distribution, whereby drops are produced on the surface of a membrane or of a filter fabric, and the drops are detached from the membrane or filter fabric surface by motion of the membrane or of the filter fabric in a first immiscible liquid phase in which pronounced stretching flow components in particular, besides shear flow components, bring about the detachment of the drops formed on the membrane surface especially efficiently and protectively. The invention also relates to a device for implementing the method according to the invention with a membrane or filter unit that is positioned to move, in particular to be able to rotate, in a housing with a gap that may be eccentric toward the inner wall of the housing and/or provided with flow baffles that produce stretching flow components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: ETH-Zurich Institut fur Lebensmittelwissenschaft, Laboratorium fur Lebensmittelverfahren-Stechnik ETH-Zentrum/LFO, Kinematica AG, Ion Bond AG, Processtech GmbH
    Inventors: Erich J. Windhab, Verena Schadler, Beat Troxler, Andreas Kurt Dürig, Fred-Rainer Grohmann
  • Publication number: 20110038901
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the mechanically protective production of finely dispersed micro-/nanoemulsions with narrow droplet size distribution, whereby drops are produced on the surface of a membrane or of a filter fabric, and the drops are detached from the membrane or filter fabric surface by motion of the membrane or of the filter fabric in a first immiscible liquid phase in which pronounced stretching flow components in particular, besides shear flow components, bring about the detachment of the drops formed on the membrane surface especially efficiently and protectively. The invention also relates to a device for implementing the method according to the invention with a membrane or filter unit that is positioned to move, in particular to be able to rotate, in a housing with a gap that may be eccentric toward the inner wall of the housing and/or provided with flow baffles that produce stretching flow components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicants: ETH-ZURICH, INSTITUT FUR LEBENSMITTELWISSENSCHAFT,, KINEMATICA AG, ION BOND AG, PROCESSTECH GMBH
    Inventors: Erich J. Windhab, Verena Schadler, Beat Troxler, Andreas Kurt Dürig, Fred-Rainer Grohmann