How Custom Designed Ultrasonic Cleaners Meet Automotive Industry Needs

 

The automotive industry has varied cleaning requirements for automotive parts and re-built components. Cleaning applications range from rugged engine parts to more fragile parts with special coatings or finishings.

Automotive ultrasonic cleaners can be custom designed to handle special cleaning applications, and customized systems often deliver optimum cleaning results.

Businesses use customized automotive ultrasonic cleaners that are designed with basic parameters that ideally match the cleaning application. For instance, low frequencies (such as 26 kHz and 38 kHz) clean robust, heavily contaminated parts. In comparison, higher frequencies (such as 78 kHz) are best for cleaning more delicate components such as aluminum parts.

Another important consideration is the cleaning tank, which hold the cleaning solution and the parts being cleaned. Standard tanks are gloss polished 12-gauge stainless steel, but other materials can be used when the specific cleaning applications require it. Tanks can be ambient temperature or heated, and they can include circulating pumps and filtration. Heating in the cleaning solution can soften more challenging and more stubborn dirt (such as caked grease), thus speeding up the cleaning process. Filtration can remove dirt as it is loosened from the automotive parts.

Transducers convert the electrical signal from the ultrasonic generator into sound waves that travel through the cleaning solution. Transducers can be permanently installed, bolt-on, or immersible, as needed by cleaning application.

Some automotive production lines require cleaning for a specific part, while others may have large volumes of several parts to be cleaned regularly. The level of contamination may be predictable or may vary, depending on the job. These factors influence how the parts should be cleaned, and therefore they may require extensive customization.

Other possible factors for customization of automotive ultrasonic cleaners include physical characteristics and special processing options. For example, the physical arrangement can be adapted to existing available space, and components (such as transducers) can be customized to be placed in existing tanks.

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