Abstract: An oscillating or pulsing fluid stream, or flow 18, 132, 300, is produced from a flow of pressurized air by fluidic apparatus 10, 100, 130, 180, 220 in a device 250 configured for use in surface cleaning, sweeping, lawn care applications, and the like. Converging inlet chamber walls 20, 22, define a tapered internal lumen having a smooth narrowing profile is configured to generate at a power nozzle 44 a high velocity stream with minimal pressure drop. Downstream of the power nozzle, first and second control ports CP1, CP2 are in fluid communication with the high velocity stream 46 and with each other via an inertance loop 72 having a lumen of selected cross sectional area and length. The varying air flow is directed through an outlet chamber 14, 134 shaped to produce an oscillating flow 18 or a pulsating flow 132.

Abstract: An oscillating or pulsing fluid stream, or flow 18, 132, 300, is produced from a flow of pressurized air by fluidic apparatus 10, 100, 130, 180, 220 in a device 250 configured for use in surface cleaning, sweeping, lawn care applications, and the like. Converging inlet chamber walls 20, 22, define a tapered internal lumen having a smooth narrowing profile is configured to generate at a power nozzle 44 a high velocity stream with minimal pressure drop. Downstream of the power nozzle, first and second control ports CP1, CP2 are in fluid communication with the high velocity stream 46 and with each other via an inertance loop 72 having a lumen of selected cross sectional area and length. The varying air flow is directed through an outlet chamber 14, 134 shaped to produce an oscillating flow 18 or a pulsating flow 132.

Abstract: An oscillating or pulsing fluid stream, or flow, is produced from a flow of pressurized air by fluidic apparatus in a device configured for use in surface cleaning, sweeping, lawn care applications, and the like. A converging nozzle assembly defining a tapered internal lumen having a smooth narrowing profile is configured to generate at a power nozzle a high velocity stream with minimal pressure drop. Downstream of the power nozzle, first and second control ports are in fluid communication with the high velocity stream and with each other via an inertance loop having a lumen of selected cross sectional area and length. The varying air flow is directed through an outlet chamber shaped to produce an oscillating or a pulsating flow.

Abstract: An oscillating or pulsing fluid stream, or flow, is produced from a flow of pressurized air by fluidic apparatus in a device configured for use in surface cleaning, sweeping, lawn care applications, and the like. A converging nozzle assembly defining a tapered internal lumen having a smooth narrowing profile is configured to generate at a power nozzle a high velocity stream with minimal pressure drop. Downstream of the power nozzle, first and second control ports are in fluid communication with the high velocity stream and with each other via an inertance loop having a lumen of selected cross sectional area and length. The varying air flow is directed through an outlet chamber shaped to produce an oscillating or a pulsating flow.

Abstract: In many applications where it is desired to distribute a liquid onto a surface at a very small angle of incidence, it will be necessary to reduce the momentum of the droplets to prevent ricochet off the surface. Obvious methods such as using a restrictor, reducing the operating pressure, etc. are not satisfactory due to the inadequate flow, susceptibility to clogging, etc.

Abstract: A therapeutic spa tub having a waterline and one or more fluidic nozzles for issuing therapeutic jets of water into the tub. The one or more water nozzles each comprises a housing having an inlet for receiving a flow of water under pressure, a fluidic oscillator having an oscillation chamber and at least one power nozzle coupled to the inlet and the oscillation chamber for projecting at least one jet of water into the oscillation chamber in one or more outlets from said oscillation chamber for issuing one or more pulsating jets of water into the spa tub below the waterline. An air passage in the outlet entrains ambient air in water passing through the outlet. The fluidic oscillator is a low frequency reversing chamber oscillator wherein the oscillation chamber has a reversing wall.

Abstract: Spa nozzles having dual fluidic nozzles capable of submerged operation and of selectively providing straight, concentrated, non-oscillating jets with air entrainment or an oscillating jet or slugs of water in water to provide a soothing massaging effect with no moving parts.

Abstract: A fluid mixer and distribution device which comprises an oscillation/mixing chamber having an upstream end, a downstream end, top and bottom walls, sidewalls which diverge from the upstream end and then converge towards the downstream end. A power nozzle, adapted to be coupled to a source of liquid under pressure, issues a main jet of carrier fluid (a liquid, for example) into the upstream end of the oscillation/mixing chamber. The oscillation/mixing chamber has a pair of control ports symmetrically contiguous to the side of the main jet of liquid, and an exit aperture at the downstream end of the oscillation/mixing chamber for the egress of the mixed fluids from the oscillation/mixing chamber to ambient or a point of utilization.

Abstract: A fluidic nozzle having multiple operating modes comprising a fluidic oscillator circuit having an oscillation chamber having an upstream end and a downstream end and a power nozzle at the upstream end for introducing a jet of a liquid (water) into the oscillation chamber. An outlet throat at the downstream end has a width, which does not allow the oscillation circuit to fill up and start to oscillate without entrained liquid. A pair of control ports are at the upstream end of the oscillation chamber and a pair of feedback passages connect said control ports to downstream ends of said oscillation chamber adjacent said outlet throat. A pair of controllable entrainment holes are provided in the oscillation chamber at the upstream end and a valve opens and closes the entrainment holes, such that when the entrainment holes are open to air, air is entrained and the oscillator does not oscillate.

Abstract: A molded fluid device having a power nozzle with a width W and a coupling passage coupling a source of fluid to the power nozzle. The coupling passage is formed on one chip or insert surface and has a planar enlargement and a plurality of posts spaced across the enlargement, the spacing S between each post being less than the width of the power nozzle with the sum of spacing S being greater than the width W. A liquid spray nozzle is formed on an opposing chip surface and connected to the coupling passage downstream of the posts.

Abstract: Spa nozzles having dual fluidic nozzles capable of submerged operation and of selectively providing straight, concentrated, non-oscillating jets with air entrainment or an oscillating jet or slugs of water in water to provide a soothing massaging effect with no moving parts.

Abstract: A molded fluidic device having a power nozzle with a width W and a coupling passage coupling a source of fluid to the power nozzle. The coupling passage is formed on one chip or insert surface and has a planar enlargement and a plurality of posts spaced across the enlargement, the spacing S between each post being less than the width of the power nozzle with the sum of spacing S being greater than the width W. A liquid spray nozzle is formed on an opposing chip surface and connected to the coupling passage downstream of the posts.

Abstract: Fluidic oscillators with yawed liquid spray.

Abstract: A molded fluidic device having a power nozzle with a width W and a coupling passage coupling a source of fluid to said power nozzle. The coupling passage has a planar enlargement and a plurality of posts spaced across the enlargement, the spacing S between each post being less than the width of the power nozzle with the sum of spacing S being greater than the width W.