Patent Application
20070057753
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for modifying properties of a substance, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for modifying properties of a substance by utilizing an electromagnetic effect.
2. Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 37 CFR 1.98.
Cigarettes and tea leaves, commonly used in a person's daily life, are enjoyed by many people. However, people worry about their health while enjoying them because nicotine in cigarettes or caffeine in tea leaves present latent risks to human health. Thus, various fiber filter tips of active carbon are added to cigarettes, or various Chinese herbal medicines, serving as absorbents or neutralizers, are added to tobacco, in order to reduce the nicotine content absorbed from the tobacco into human bodies. However, the manufacturing cost of these products increases, and the production speed is affected accordingly.
Additionally, facing the trend of a possible global energy shortage, means of effectively using petroleum products such as gasoline and machine oil for transportation is truly an important issue.
Furthermore, if skin care products are improved, then some costs can also be reduced.
In the past, electromagnetic coils have been commonly used in electric motors. Recently, electromagnetic coils have been applied in semiconductor reaction chambers to change activity, e.g., direction and intensity, of the plasma generated therein. Such further application indicates that electromagnetic coil technology has been advanced from macro-application to micro-application. However, if the technology of electromagnetic coils can be improved and further applied to molecule refinement technology and even nano-technology, these new applications will improve the quality of people's lives effectively.
An objective of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a method for modifying properties of a substance for extracting desired or useful ingredients or suppressing unnecessary ingredients, thereby allowing the substances to be modified and thus enhancing efficacy.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned objective, the present invention provides an apparatus for modifying properties of a substance, which comprises at least two electromagnetic coils and a power supply for supplying power to the two electromagnetic coils. Once powered on, the magnetic poles of the two electromagnetic coils are arranged opposite to each other, i.e., the N pole of one coil faces the S pole of the other coil. Furthermore, each of the electromagnetic coils is formed by spirally winding a plate-like wire cluster having a plurality of conductive lines, wherein the plurality of conductive lines are insulated from each other. Each of the electromagnetic coils surrounds a magnetic core that can be formed by a magnetic iron block or a combination of a plurality of magnetic iron sheets (for easy dissipation of heat), so as to facilitate the release of oscillatory waves, the conduction of magnetic lines, and the formation of the electromagnetic coils.
The substance is placed in front of the magnetic lines of the magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic coils. While the electromagnetic coils are powered on, an interactive electromagnetic effect of the conductive lines is generated. The refinement processes of molecule aggregation and dispersion are performed by way of generating magnetism from electricity associated with generating electricity from magnetism and through interactive effects such as an oscillation effect generated from the interactive influence of magnetic fields, thereby achieving the substance modification.
The apparatus and method of modifying properties of a substance in accordance with the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings.
The plate-like wire cluster 21 can be comprised of seven copper wires 25 connected in a row along the direction of the long side 320 of the cross-section of the plate-like wire cluster 21. In practice, two to fifteen copper wires 25 are preferable. Each copper wire 25 is covered by an insulation layer 26 for insulation from the adjacent one. For each copper wire 25, the cross-section is approximately square, so that manufacturing difficulties caused by a large discrepancy between inner and outer radiuses of the copper wire 25 will not occur.
Once powered on, the electromagnetic coils 20 in
Additionally, the two electromagnetic coils also can be connected in parallel. As a result, the two electromagnetic coils are formed with the same polarity, which can be used for modifying a substance also.
The power supply 30 can convert an alternate current into a direct current byway of charging and discharging a capacitor. In the present embodiment, the capacity of the capacitor is set to be 65,000 μF. The voltage release of the power supply 30 is adjustable. If the voltage release is set to be 500 V, an instantaneous current value is 13,520+/−20 A. If the voltage release is set to be 400 V, the instantaneous current value is 10,770+/−20 A. If the voltage release is set to be 300 V, the instantaneous current value is 7,900+/−10 A (the current value is also influenced by the thickness of the wire). If the power supply is released by using a voltage of 500 V, a magnetic field intensity of 20000-30000 gauss is produced. A voltage of 300 V can be used to generate a magnetic field intensity of about more than 10000 gauss, and the operating time (from the power release to the generation of a magnetic field till finishing the operation) is about 1-2 seconds. In practical application, the magnetic field intensity preferably falls within a range of 10000-50000 gauss and the operation time preferably falls within a range of 1-10 seconds. However, a small coil only requires a voltage of higher than 150 V, such as 200 volt, to achieve the equivalent effect.
The distance between a test sample, i.e., a substance, and the electromagnetic coils 20 is about less than 50 cm, where the test sample is placed in front of the magnetic cores 32 of the coils or where the two magnetic fields are crossed.
Ginsengs, tea leaves, wines (58° Quemoy Sorghum Wine), gasolines, and skin care products are placed in front of the electromagnetic coils 20 to be processed as follows.
1. The ginseng: the ginseng is cut into two parts, wherein one part is processed by the electromagnetic coils according to the aforementioned method, and the other part is not processed and serves as a reference. Subsequently, 0.2 g of the ginseng is taken to be soaked in 20 ml of water of a temperature 50 for one hour. During the testing process, the ingredients of the ginseng saponin are analyzed using high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
2. The tea leaves: one part of the dry tea leaves is processed by the electromagnetic coils, and the rest is not processed but serves as a reference. Subsequently, caffeine and catechin are analyzed using HPLC.
3. Unleaded gasoline #95: the gasoline to be processed by the electromagnetic coils and the gasoline not processed are both taken to be tested. A car of Nissan Cefiro 2.0 is used for the test, wherein the total displacement is 1995 c.c., the rotating speed of the engine at idle is 750 rpm, the tire pressure is 2.0 kgf/cm2, and the reference weight is 1639 kg.
4. The machine oil: the machine oil to be processed by the electromagnetic coils and the machine oil not processed are both taken to be tested. X-special machine oil manufactured by China Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is employed and the temperature for the test is 23.3.
5. The collagen (a skin care product): Collagen Essence produced by Taiwan Salt Industrial Corporation is tested. Under an environment of 24, 50+/−5% RH, the water content of normal skin cutin is tested. The collagen is tested after being daubed for 60 minutes. The volunteer for the test is a female, 25-45 years old, without allergic history.
Results of the test sample before and after the electromagnetic effect are show in the table below:
As known from the above test results, after the substances to be tested are modified by the substance modifying apparatus 10 of the present invention, the ingredients are obviously modified. According to the analysis of the test data, the modifications are all about the dispersion behavior of converting macromolecules within the substances into micromolecules. For example, the content of the ginseng saponin and the water content of the skin care product are increased, and the caffeine and catechin contained in the tea leaves, the consumption of the gasoline, and the viscosity of the machine oil are decreased. During the practical process of testing the machine oil, the reduction of the viscosity of the machine oil makes drivers directly feel the enhancement of horsepower, the acceleration quality, and the sensitivity of a throttle.
Additionally, after the sorghum wine is processed through an electromagnetic process by the substance modifying apparatus 10 of the present invention, tasters generally think that such wine is not acrid, less bitter, and tastes like an aged wine (aging effect). Therefore, the apparatus provided by the present invention also can be used to accelerate the aging speed of alcohols.
The above-described embodiments of the present invention are intended to be illustrative only. Numerous alternative embodiments may be devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 094131613 | Sep 2005 | TW | national |
