Nanoparticle generator

Abstract

A nanoparticle generator includes a heating unit directly heating material for generating nanoparticles. Due to the structure of the heating unit directly heating the material, a space between the heating unit and the material is eliminated such that a volume of the nanoparticle generator is remarkably reduced and the nanoparticle generator is easily minimized.

1 . A nanoparticle generator comprising:
 a main body which forms a cyclone chamber; and   a heating unit which directly contacts and heats material accommodated in the cyclone chamber to vaporize the material into a gas;   wherein nanoparticles generated by condensing the gas with a fluid flowing through the cyclone chamber are discharged to out of the cyclone chamber.   
     
     
         2 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 1 , wherein the heating unit has a material accommodating room having an opened side and accommodating the material. 
     
     
         3 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 2 , wherein a side of the heating unit adjacent to the material accommodating room is spaced apart from a sidewall of the cyclone chamber. 
     
     
         4 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 2 , wherein the main body comprises:
 an upper cylinder;   a lower cone; and   an inlet formed in a lateral side of the upper cylinder in the tangential direction; and   an outlet formed in an upper side of the upper cylinder.   
     
     
         5 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 4 , further comprising a guide tube which is disposed in the outlet and extended a predetermined distance to an inside of the cyclone chamber adjacent to the heating unit to such that the nanoparticles discharged out of the cyclone chamber are guided by the guide tube. 
     
     
         6 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 5 , wherein the material accommodating room faces the guide tube. 
     
     
         7 . The nanoparticle generator according to  claim 1 , wherein the heating unit comprises:
 an insulator which has a material accommodating room communicating with the cyclone chamber to accommodate the material and having an opened side facing the cyclone chamber; and
 a heater which is disposed in the insulator to form at least one side of the material accommodating room.