IP Library Granted Patent US 7,997,424
Granted Patent B2
US 7,997,424 · App. 12/382,660 · Granted Aug 16, 2011

Flat membrane element and manufacturing method thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,997,424
App. No.
12/382,660
Granted
Aug 16, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Even when a membrane sheet contains an inorganic material, the membrane sheet and a support plate are properly deposited by a laser emission. In a manufacturing method of a flat membrane element lapping a membrane sheet performing solid-liquid separation on a support plate supporting the membrane sheet and emitting a laser to a mutual joint portion to deposit the membrane sheet and the support plate, when the membrane sheet contains an inorganic material, the support plate is formed by a material having laser penetration and the laser is emitted from the support plate side to the joint portion.

Claims (22)

1. A flat membrane element comprising:

a support plate formed by a material having laser penetration;

a first membrane sheet of which circumferential portion is deposited onto a first surface of the support plate; and

a second membrane sheet formed to have a larger size than the first membrane sheet and arranged on a second surface of the support plate so that the second membrane sheet is deposited at an outer peripheral side of a deposition line of the first membrane sheet,

wherein the first and second membrane sheets comprise a pigment.

2. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second membrane sheets comprise a synthetic resin.

3. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second membrane sheets are attached onto the support plate by a weld.

4. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second membrane sheets are laser absorbent.

5. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the first membrane sheet and the second membrane sheet each comprises a skin layer, a support layer and a wetting layer between the skin layer and the support layer.

6. The flat membrane element of claim 5 , wherein the skin layer comprises an inorganic material.

7. The flat membrane element of claim 5 , wherein the support layer comprises a synthetic resin.

8. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the support plate comprises a water passing portion and a circumferential edge that defines a frame around a lateral edge of the water passing portion, the circumferential edge comprising a laser penetrable material.

9. The flat membrane element of claim 1 , wherein the pigment is carbon black.

10. A flat membrane element comprising:

a support plate formed by a material having laser penetration;

a first membrane sheet of which circumferential portion is deposited onto a first surface of the support plate;

a second membrane sheet formed to have a larger size than the first membrane sheet and arranged on a second surface of the support plate so that the second membrane sheet is deposited at an outer peripheral side of a deposition line of the first membrane sheet; and

a deposition agent being at joint portions between each of the first and second membrane sheets and the support plate.

11. The flat membrane element of claim 10 , wherein the first and second membrane sheets comprise an absorbent.

12. The flat membrane element of claim 10 , wherein the first and second membrane sheets are of inorganic material.

13. The flat membrane element of claim 10 , wherein the deposition agent is carbon black.

14. The flat membrane element of claim 10 , wherein the support plate comprises a water passing portion and a circumferential edge that defines a frame around a lateral edge of the water passing portion, the circumferential edge comprising a laser penetrable material.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Mar 4, 2014
From: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: HITACHI, LTD.
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