US 12,434,275 B2
Method and device for cleaning surface of component
Najib Bin Mohamed Salleh, Singapore (SG); and Sherilyn Lim, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc, London (GB)
Filed by ROLLS-ROYCE plc, London (GB)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/386,104.
Claims priority of application No. 2217183 (GB), filed on Nov. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0165679 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. B08B 7/00 (2006.01); B08B 1/16 (2024.01); B08B 5/04 (2006.01); C11D 3/04 (2006.01); C11D 3/37 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 7/0014 (2013.01) [B08B 1/165 (2024.01); B08B 5/04 (2013.01); C11D 3/04 (2013.01); C11D 3/3753 (2013.01); C11D 2111/20 (2024.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for cleaning a surface of a component, the method comprising:
placing a volume of a cleaning agent onto the surface of the component;
performing an operation of the component either before or after placing the volume of the cleaning agent, wherein the operation results in a generation of contaminant particles, wherein, upon contact of the cleaning agent with the contaminant particles, the cleaning agent absorbs the contaminant particles by adhesion;
removing the cleaning agent from the surface of the component after the contaminant particles are absorbed by the cleaning agent,
wherein placing the volume of the cleaning agent onto the surface of the component further comprises injecting, via a delivery tube, the volume of the cleaning agent onto the surface of the component, and
dispensing, via a syringe, the cleaning agent into the delivery tube, wherein removing the cleaning agent from the surface of the component further comprises aspirating, via the syringe, the cleaning agent from the surface through the delivery tube after the contaminants are absorbed to the cleaning agent.