Ultrasonic tanks
July 1st 2007

Guyson International provides full manufacturing, sales, support and service from its 10,000 square metre facility in Skipton in the North of England, for their broad range of Kerry KS and UCR (ultrasonic clean and rinse) ultrasonic cleaning tanks.

Typical applications for this range of tanks include production cleaning of machined, extruded, pressed and stamped parts, refurbishment of office equipment, aerospace and automotive engine and gearbox components and maintenance of mould tools, dies, printing components, electronics assembly system parts, food processing machines. High-end quality cleaning includes printed circuit boards, surgical instruments, laboratory, medical and dental applications.

Ultrasonic transducers bonded to the tank base provide reliability together with uniform distribution of the ultrasonic energy. The frequency is tuned to the individual tank/transducer combination and then optimised under normal usage conditions with frequency sweep and fully automatic tuning.

Pulsatron KS and UCR tanks allow the user to pre-set exact cleaning times and temperatures, ensuring consistent levels of cleanliness from batch to batch and providing an affordable way to improve cleaning quality.

All functions are controlled by a simple four-button membrane keypad. An LCD panel displays the temperature and time set by the user, the time elapsed since the start of the cleaning process, and the status of the power supply, heater and ultrasonics.

Each unit works within operating temperatures from 20 to 80°C which can be set in 1° increments, allowing the optimum temperature to be selected for a particular combination of component material, cleaning solution and contaminant.

Sonics time may be set in the range 0.1 up to 99.9 minutes in 0.1 min increments, or to constant when sonics may be switched on and off manually.

Automatic safety devices include non-operation of sonics if solution temperature is more than 10°C above set temperature, and low-level protection to prevent heater burn-out if solution level drops.

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