CN101072619A

CN101072619A - Wet type air cleaner

Info

Publication number: CN101072619A
Application number: CNA2005800421762A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 金�雄
Original assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: WiniaDaewoo Co Ltd
Priority date: 2004-11-08
Filing date: 2005-11-07
Publication date: 2007-11-14
Anticipated expiration: 2025-11-07
Also published as: KR20060041128A; CN100566796C; KR100589788B1

Abstract

A wet type air cleaner includes a cylindrical housing (50) provided with an air inlet (52) at a top surface thereof and at least one of air outlets (54) at a lateral surface thereof, for storing cleaning water in a bottom portion thereof, a blower unit (60) including a fan having a spray unit incorporated thereon, for sending indoor air introduced through the air inlet downward while dispersing the cleaning water, and a water supply unit (70) for supplying the cleaning water contained in the housing to the fan, to thereby allow the cleaning water to be sprayed to contact the air introduced through the air inlet, while adsorbing foreign substances contained in the air.

Description

Wet type air cleaner

Technical field

The present invention relates to air cleaner, and more especially, relate to by air is introduced in the clean water that is stored in the housing, increase the contact between air and the clean water simultaneously as far as possible, can remove the wet type air cleaner of the harmful substances in air that sucks air cleaner efficiently.

Background technology

Usually, air cleaner is by discharge the equipment of clean air after using purification medium to clear the pollution off from the room air that contains fine dust, various pernicious gas, various bacterium, mould, virus etc.Because such air cleaner has the disgusting smell of removing and removes short grained various functions, therefore it can use in each season, it has outside the indoor air clean of maintenance and the dulcet major function, also have the function that prevents to break out owing to infection through air disease, described granule for example is flat lice, pollen and pet hair.

Air cleaner mainly can be divided into two classes: dry type and wet type.Dry air cleaner can be divided into filter type and electric dust collection type again.

Here, dust collection type air cleaner is not used filter, and therefore, it has the advantage that does not need to change filter.But, if dust accretions on the electric dust dish, the purification efficiency of air cleaner will reduce, and its dust is removed ability also with destroyed.

On the other hand, as for the filter type air cleaner, because when air passes through filter, various particulates are hunted down, and described filter type air cleaner presents very high purification efficiency, therefore, in the season that yellow dust occurs, be fit to use this air cleaner.But owing to need the periodic filter of changing, its maintenance cost is very high.

Simultaneously, wet type air cleaner uses such method, contacts with water by making the air that is inhaled into, and the airborne floating particle that is inhaled into is deposited in the water.Although wet type air cleaner also is not commonly used, it does not need to change filter and produces noise hardly, also have humidification function simultaneously, thereby it has many advantages.Therefore, concerning child, preferably use it.But, when using wet type air cleaner, should change or supplementing water, this is quite to bother.

Fig. 1 illustrates the example of traditional wet air cleaner, and it is disclosed in Korean Patent No.10-0205566, and name is called " air cleaner ".

As shown in Figure 1, water filter 12 is installed in air suction inlet 11.Water filter 12 flows out water, washes dust in air or bacterium off, simultaneously released mineral matter.Water tank 19 makes water cycle through water filter 12.And water pond 13 is arranged on the upside of water filter 12, and is connected with water pump 22 by water-supply line 23.Water pump 22 is connected with water tank 19 or water feed unit 24 by connecting line 21, water is pumped in the water pond 13 of water filter 12.Water supply valve 25 is installed on the connecting line 21, and controller 29 is controlled opening or closing of water supply valves 25.

In addition, float switch 26 is located on the water tank 19, and water overflow valve 27 is installed on the useless flowing line 28.Float switch 26 and water overflow valve 27 also are electrically connected with controller 29.

Blower fan 18 is installed in a side of the rear discharge port 16 of water filter 12, and fan 18 rotates under the driving of motor 17, to suck air by air intake.Motor 17 is connected to the motor drive circuit 30 that is connected with controller 29.

In addition, water pond 13 and catch tray 14 lay respectively at the upside and the downside of water filter 12, and many water ponds 15 are stacked between water pond 13 and the catch tray 14 with predetermined interval tilted stratum.

The aforesaid traditional air cleaner of structure is removed for example harmful substance such as dust or bacterium by water filter from air, and gives off the mineral matter to the human body beneficial.

But in traditional air cleaner, air duct forms air and passes the filter of introducing the water that flows.Therefore, air is restricted to the cycle that air passes filter with the cycle that contacts of clean water.Therefore, clean water is absorbed with time of harmful substances from air insufficient, so that the effect that purifies air can not improve on certain level.

In addition, because traditional air cleaner arrangement complexity, and have a large amount of parts, and the manufacturing time of air cleaner and cost can not reduce, and this is the restraining factors that reduce the air cleaner price.

In order to address the above problem, wet type air cleaner with simple structure is proposed, clean water is contained in a certain space of its inside, and blasting unit and water spray unit also are installed in the same space.Publication number is that the Japan Patent of No.2000-334240 discloses one of such wet type air cleaner, and name is called " wet type air cleaner ".

Described wet type air cleaner comprises air circulation duct, and air is introduced in the inside of air cleaner by air circulation duct, outputs to the outside then after being cleaned.Air cleaner also comprise be used for circulating air by air circulation duct blasting unit and be used for liquid is ejected into the injection unit of the jet space of container.

Blasting unit comprises the motor that air is sucked the fan of described jet space and drive described fan.Described injection unit comprises pump that pumps liquid from described air cleaner and the nozzle that liquid is ejected into described jet space.

In addition, the air that enters air circulation duct flow downward usually, but liquid sprays from bottom to top be introduced into described container from above after.Therefore, the air of introducing air cleaner contacts with the tiny liquid particles by nozzle ejection, thereby harmful substances in air is absorbed by liquid.

But in aforesaid traditional wet type air cleaner, the blasting unit of circulation room air and the injection unit of atomizing of liquids are installed independently.Therefore, the quantity of the parts of air cleaner can not be reduced to below the certain level.

In addition, in traditional wet type air cleaner, the droplet and the air that have absorbed fine dust are discharged to the outside together, therefore, cause relatively poor purification efficiency and undesirable high humility.In addition, the contact of cleaning water and air is insufficient, causes its detergent power to reduce.

Summary of the invention

Technical problem

Therefore, target of the present invention provides the wet type air cleaner with some injection units, by air is imported by in the clean water that injection unit sprayed, and thereby contacting between maximization room air and the clean water, can remove the harmful substance in the room air that enters air cleaner.

Technical scheme

According to the present invention, wet type air cleaner is provided, comprising: housing, blasting unit and water supply unit.Has air intake on the top surface of housing, and on its side surface, has at least one air outlet slit, storing cleaning water in the described housing, blasting unit is fixedly mounted on the rotating shaft, and be integrated with injection unit thereon, in the clean water of disperseing to be supplied to thereon, force the air that is introduced into by described air intake to transmit downwards, the water supply unit offers fan to the clean water that is stored in the housing, thereby make clean water injected, so that contact with the air that is introduced into by air intake, absorption simultaneously is included in airborne impurity.

Beneficial effect

In wet type air cleaner according to the present invention, air intake is arranged on the top surface of housing, yet air outlet slit is formed on the sidewall of housing.Then, by introducing clean water in the housing, can make the contact area maximization between air and the clean water, thereby improve air cleaning efficient passing room air that air intake is inhaled into.

In addition, by blasting unit and some injection units are installed on the rotating shaft that is positioned at the housing core, blasting unit and injection unit can rotate simultaneously, therefore can make air circulation when disperseing clean water.In addition, owing to have the size that this structure can reduce air cleaner, make it can more easily be installed in different positions.

Description of drawings

Above and other objects of the present invention and feature will become clearly in the subsequent descriptions of given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings preferred embodiment, wherein:

Fig. 1 illustrates the traditional wet air cleaner;

Fig. 2 and 3 illustrates the profile according to various types of wet type air cleaners of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the detailed perspective view of the blasting unit shown in Fig. 2 and 3; With

Fig. 5 is the detailed perspective view of the clean unit shown in Fig. 2.

The specific embodiment

Hereinafter, will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings wet type air cleaner according to the preferred embodiment of the invention.

With reference to figure 2, show profile according to wet type air cleaner of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 2, wet type air cleaner comprises the housing 50 that is provided with air intake 52 and air outlet slit 54, has clean water in it; Be installed in the blasting unit 60 below the air intake 52; Be used for the clean water in the housing 50 is offered the water supply unit 70 of blasting unit 60; Be installed in the sprayer unit 80 below the blasting unit 60; With the clean unit 90 that is installed in below the sprayer unit 80.

Housing 50 is cylindrical, and has clean water within it.Air intake 52 is located on the top surface of housing 50, and air outlet slit 54 is located on the sidewall of housing 50.In addition, rotating shaft 58 is contained in the core of housing 50.Particularly, rotating shaft 58 is installed so that it passes the center of the center of center, sprayer unit 80 of blasting unit 60 and clean unit 90 and is inserted into.

In addition, housing 50 has the drainage cell (not shown) that allows contaminated clean water to discharge from the bottom of housing 50.

In addition, air outlet slit 54 is located on the sidewall of housing 50, and between sprayer unit 80 and clean unit 90, condensation portion 56 is protruded from the lower end of air outlet slit 54, and with the predetermined angle extension that is inclined upwardly.Because the existence of condensation portion 56, the air that only is cleaned can be discharged from and enter in the room, and the clean water that has arrived air outlet slit 54 simultaneously is condensed in condensation portion 56, flows into once more in the housing 50.

Water supply unit 70 comprises the water-supply line 72 that extends to its top from the end portion of housing 50; With the pump 74 that is installed in water-supply line 72 1 sides, pump 74 pumps clean water, so that clean water is supplied to the position of blasting unit 60 tops.

Blasting unit 60 is fixedly mounted in the rotating shaft 58, and when will spray to air from the clean water that water-supply line 72 falls, make air pass air intake 52 and enter air cleaner, therefore dust in air or the injected clean water of harmful substance are absorbed.Blasting unit 60 comprises the fan main body 62 that is fixedly mounted in the rotating shaft 58 that is driven by motor 69; Be formed on the some blades 66 on the peripheral surface of fan main body 62, blade 66 follows that fan main body 62 is rotated so that the guiding air passes air intake 52; With the sprayer 67 that is formed on the fan main body 62, sprayer 67 sprays into air circulation duct to clean water.

Illustrate as knowing among Fig. 4, each blade 66 is provided with some guiding pieces 68, and wherein guiding piece 68 radially extends on the top surface of each blade 66.The existence of guiding piece 68 makes the clean water on the top surface of falling blade 66 upwards be disperseed in the week of fan main body 62.Therefore, guiding piece 68 forms crooked shape, to be fit to the shape of blade 66, therefore helps the dispersion of clean water.

In addition, sprayer 67 comprises the hole for water spraying 64 on the water storage basin 65 that is recessed to form from the top surface of fan main body 62 and a large amount of perimeter surface that is located at water storage basin 65 downwards, water storage basin 65 is used for storing the clean water that falls from water-supply line 72 within it, and hole for water spraying 64 is stored in the clean water of water storage basin 65 inside in the circumferential injection of the action of centrifugal force lower edge fan main body 62 that fan main body 62 is produced.

Core at water storage basin 65 has opening that inserts rotating shaft 58 and the inclined surface 69 that reduces height from its central part to the periphery gradually.Therefore, because the existence of inclined surface 69, the clean water that falls into the core of fan main body 62 moves slidably to peripheral part of water storage basin 65, makes clean water being disperseed in the radial direction in fan main body 62.

Later with reference to figure 2, sprayer unit 80 also is fixedly mounted in the insertion rotating shaft 58 wherein, and it is cylindrical shape, has open top.Sprayer unit 80 comprises: rotating cylinder 82, and the perimeter surface of rotating cylinder 82 is provided with a large amount of discharge orifice 84; With the gathering line 86 that tilts to extend to the space of rotating cylinder 82 tops from the inwall of housing 50, enter rotating cylinder 82 to collect droplet.

Clean unit 90 be installed in sprayer unit below so that the part of clean unit 90 is immersed in the clean water, and be used for upwards aspirating clean water, and it disperseed in housing.As described in detail among Fig. 5, clean unit 90 comprises: inner leader 91, and its lower end is immersed in the clean water, and it has funnel shaped, so that clean water moves up under action of centrifugal force; Water spout 92, its upper end with inner leader 91 is connected, and is fed into clean water there with injection; The blasting unit 94 that comprises fan 94a, it is fixedly mounted in the rotating shaft 58, with downward transmission air; With exterior guiding part 96, it is installed in the outside of inner leader 91, form the gap between exterior guiding part 96 and the inner leader 91, introducing in the clean water in the housing 50 by the air of blasting unit 94 guiding downwards and described dispersed clean water.

On the other hand, Fig. 3 illustrates the another kind of type according to wet type air cleaner of the present invention.In this connection, the structure shown in Fig. 3 is except that purifying

unit

900 and 90 differing from one another in shape, and other is identical with the structure shown in Fig. 2.Therefore, for for simplicity, the description of the parts identical with first embodiment will be omitted.

The operation that below introduction is had the wet type air cleaner of said structure.

After the energising, CD-ROM drive motor 69 so that blasting unit 60 rotate so that air is introduced into from air intake 52.Therefore it is after 80s under the effect of clean unit 90 that the air that is introduced into passes sprayer unit, is imported into downwards in the clean water that is stored in the housing 50.When air contacts with water, be included in the airborne impurity water that is cleaned and absorb, and thereby the air that is cleaned circulate again in the inlet chamber by air outlet slit 54.

At this moment, the clean water that supplies to blasting unit 60 top positions by water-supply line 72 is collected in the water storage basin 65, is disperseed by discharge orifice 64 under action of centrifugal force then, contacts with the air that is introduced into, simultaneously from wherein being absorbed with harmful substances.In addition, dispersed clean water produces anion by collision on the inwall of housing 50.

After this, the clean water of whereabouts is introduced in the rotating cylinder 82 by gathering line 86, and is discharged once more by discharge orifice 84, and clean unit 90 absorbs impurity from air simultaneously.Therefore, the efficient of removal of contamination further improves.

In addition, in clean unit 90, the air that transmitted downwards by blasting unit 94 pass the clean water of being sprayed by water spout 92 and are further filtered.Then, air is imported in the clean water of housing 50 bottoms, has maximized the contact between air and the clean water thus, and water is removed so that harmful substances in air was cleaned before being discharged from by air outlet slit 54 again.Thereby, created the indoor environment of comfortable.

Illustrate with relevant preferred embodiment has been described in, should be understood that those skilled in the art can make various changes and modification under the prerequisite that does not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention that limit as follow-up claim.

Claims

1, a kind of wet type air cleaner comprises:

Housing has air intake on its top surface, and has at least one air outlet slit on its side surface, and described housing is portion's storing cleaning water within it;

Blasting unit, it is fixedly mounted on the rotating shaft, and is integrated with injection unit thereon, and described blasting unit forces the air of introducing by described air intake to be advertised downwards in the clean water of disperseing to be fed on it; With

The water supply unit, its clean water that is stored in the housing offers fan, thereby makes clean water injected to contact with the air of introducing by air intake, absorbs simultaneously to be included in airborne impurity.

2, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1 also comprises the sprayer unit that is installed in described blasting unit below, is used for the clean water of disperseing for the second time to be fallen afterwards by the blasting unit dispersion.

3, air cleaner as claimed in claim 2, wherein sprayer unit comprises: have the cylindrical barrels of open top, cylindrical barrels is installed on the rotating shaft, and is provided with a plurality of discharge orifices on its perimeter surface; The gathering line that is inclined upwardly and extends with madial wall from housing.

4, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1 also comprises the clean unit that is installed in the sprayer unit below, and the part of clean unit is immersed in the clean water, so that clean water is sucked and is dispensed in the housing.

5, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1, wherein said clean unit comprises:

Inner leader, its lower end is immersed in the clean water, and inner leader has funnel shaped, and its width narrows down from the top to the bottom;

Water spout, it is connected with the upper end of inner leader;

Blasting unit, it is installed in the rotating shaft, forces air to be advertised downwards; With

The exterior guiding part, it is installed in the outside of inner leader, keeps the gap between inner leader and exterior guiding part, in the clean water in the clean water introducing housing that will be disperseed by the air and the injected unit of blasting unit guiding downwards.

6, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1, the unit that wherein supplies water comprises: the water-supply line that extends to the blasting unit top position from the end portion of housing; With the pump that is installed in water-supply line one side, to pump clean water.

7, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1, its middle shell also comprises condensation portion, and condensation portion is protruded from the lower end of air outlet slit, and extends with a predetermined angle with being inclined upwardly, the clean water that has wherein the arrived air outlet slit partial condensation that is condensed, thereby fall in the housing again.

8, air cleaner as claimed in claim 1, wherein air outlet slit is arranged on the sidewall of housing, between sprayer unit and clean unit.