US 7,485,232 B2
Water treatment method and water treatment apparatus
Kazuyuki Yamasaki, Hiroshima (Japan); Kazuyuki Sakata, Fukuyama (Japan); and Kazumi Chuhjoh, Takamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/602,209.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-336826 (JP), filed on Nov. 22, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0114176 A1, May 24, 2007
Int. Cl. C02F 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 210—617  [210/629; 210/150; 210/194] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A water treatment apparatus comprising:
a water treatment water tank having a charcoal charging section,a water stream generation section and a micro-nano bubble generation section,
said charcoal charging section being constructed to contain a charcoal charge and said charcoal charging section being constructed and arranged to receive treatment water which is to be subjected to treatment; and
said water stream generation section contains a diffuser; and
said a micro-nano bubble generation section comprising a micro-nano bubble generator,
wherein
the water treatment tank further comprises a diapharm which partitions the water stream generation section and the charcoal changing section from each other and which extends vertically, and
the micro-nano bubble generation section is placed on the diaphragm within the water treatment tank.