Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method which satisfies the below three requirements at once. (1) The composition ratio of mixed refrigerant in a base material container at the time of shipment is appropriate. (2) The composition ratio of mixed refrigerant is not changed when it is filled into a heat pump system. (3) Mixed refrigerant gets uniformly dispersed while circulating in a heat pump system.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fluid stirring and liquefaction promoting apparatus which enables uniform mixture of refrigerator oil with refrigerant, thereby improving the heat exchange efficiency of heat pump systems and reducing the energy consumption. There is provided a liquefaction promoting apparatus to be disposed on a pipeline of a heat pump system for the purpose of stirring and uniformly mixing the fluid containing refrigerant and refrigerator oil circulating therein. The apparatus comprises a cylindrical casing, one or more channelizing units each composed of a pair of large-diameter disks on its outer side and a pair of small-diameter disks on its inner side disposed in axial alignment inside the cylindrical casing.

Abstract: A fluid stirring and liquefaction promoting apparatus is coupled to a pipeline of a heat pump system to enable uniform mixture of refrigerator oil with refrigerant to improve the heat exchange efficiency of the heat pump system and to reduce the energy consumption. The liquefaction promoting apparatus is configured with a cylindrical housing, a system of tubes fluidly coupled between the pipeline and the interior of the cylindrical housing, as well as large and a small coil springs disposed in the cylindrical housing. Being actuated by the kinetic energy of the fluids circulating in the cylindrical housing, the large and small coil springs vibrate and oscillate to stir and mix the fluids to result in their uniform mixture.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an agitating device which can be shaken to agitate, whip, froth and disperse the liquid material content. There is provided a device for mixing liquid material comprising: a container containing liquid material; an opening-closing member formed on the top of said container; and a coil spring accommodated in said container and having an end fixed on the upper part of said container so as to be vibrable and oscillable. The coil spring has a smaller coil pitch in its lowest part than that in its upper part.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fluid stirring and liquefaction promoting apparatus which enables uniform mixture of refrigerator oil with refrigerant, thereby improving the heat exchange efficiency of heat pump systems and reducing the energy consumption. There is provided a liquefaction promoting apparatus to be disposed on a pipeline of a heat pump system for the purpose of stirring and uniformly mixing the fluid containing refrigerant and refrigerator oil circulating therein.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fluid stirring and liquefaction promoting apparatus which enables uniform mixture of refrigerator oil with refrigerant, thereby improving the heat exchange efficiency of heat pump systems and reducing the energy consumption. There is provided a liquefaction promoting apparatus to be disposed on a pipeline of a heat pump system for the purpose of stirring and uniformly mixing the fluid containing refrigerant and refrigerator oil circulating therein. The apparatus comprises a cylindrical casing, an one or more channelizing units each composed of a pair of large-diameter disks on its outer side and a pair of small-diameter disks on its inner side disposed in axial alignment inside the cylindrical casing.

Abstract: In a soil processing method of the present invention, a microwave radiator is made to move into soil, and microwaves are thereafter radiated from the microwave radiator to soil to be processed. As a method for making the microwave radiator move into soil, a method in which an underground mover incorporating the microwave radiator is made to move underground while making a cultivator move underground by means of a underground-moving claw mechanism similar to a chisel or subsoiler, a method in which the microwave radiator is vertically thrust into and drawn out from soil by a power arm, or a method in which the microwave radiator is vertically thrust into and drawn out from soil by using one of various vertical excavation devices may be used. According to the present invention, the influence of microwaves on soil in a deep region not easily influenced by microwave radiation to a farm surface can be effectively improved to ensure that various functions useful in agriculture, e.g.