Disclosure of Invention
An object of a first aspect of the present invention is to overcome at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art and to provide an air conditioning indoor unit that blows soft air at least in a linear region.
It is another object of the first aspect of the present invention to further improve the speed, volume and efficiency of the ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device.
It is a further object of the first aspect of the invention to avoid the occurrence of spark-over phenomena.
An object of a second aspect of the present invention is to provide an air conditioning indoor unit.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an ion wind generating device, comprising a plurality of discharge modules arranged in sequence, each of the discharge modules comprising a mesh electrode vertically disposed and extending in a transverse direction and a plurality of needle electrodes distributed on one side of the mesh electrode, wherein
The needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharge modules are arranged in a staggered mode in the direction perpendicular to the air outlet face of the ion wind generating device, and the projections of the corresponding needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharge modules in the air outlet face of the ion wind generating device are located on the same horizontal line.
Optionally, projections of each group of three needle electrodes adjacent to each other formed by the needle electrodes of the plurality of discharge modules in the horizontal plane form an isosceles triangle.
Optionally, the tips of the plurality of needle electrodes of each discharge module are in the same plane; and is
The needle electrodes of each discharge module are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the plane of the mesh electrodes of the discharge module.
Optionally, in each discharge module, the distance L between the tip of the needle electrode and the mesh electrode is set to satisfy L ═ a L1Wherein a is any constant in the range of 0.7 to 1.3, L1So that the wind speed of the ion wind at the wind speed central point of the mesh electrode reaches the maximum wind speed VmaxThe distance between the tip of the needle electrode and the mesh electrode is equal to the distance between the tip of the needle electrode and the mesh electrode, and the wind speed central point of the mesh electrode is the projection point of the tip of the needle electrode on the mesh electrode.
Optionally, in each of the discharge modules, a distance R between tips of two adjacent needle electrodes is set so as to satisfy: r ═ aR1Wherein R is1For the wind speed to reach the maximum wind speed VmaxB is any constant within the range of 0.3-0.7.
Optionally, the needle electrode of each of the discharge modules is electrically connected to a positive or negative polarity high voltage terminal, and the mesh electrode of each of the discharge modules is electrically connected to a ground terminal, so that the plurality of discharge modules are connected in parallel.
Alternatively, the needle electrode of the discharge module located at one end of the ion wind generating device is electrically connected to a positive or negative polarity high voltage terminal, the mesh electrode of the discharge module located at the other end of the ion wind generating device is electrically connected to a ground terminal, and the mesh electrode of each of the discharge modules except the discharge module located at the other end of the ion wind generating device, which are arranged from one end of the ion wind generating device to the other end thereof, is electrically connected to the needle electrode of the discharge module located adjacent thereto downstream, so that the plurality of discharge modules are connected in series.
Optionally, each of the discharge modules further includes a plurality of conductive rods, and the plurality of needle electrodes are uniformly distributed on one side of the conductive rods facing the mesh electrodes of the discharge module; and is
Each of the conductive rods has an insulating protective layer formed on the outside thereof and a conductive layer formed on the inside thereof, the conductive layer being electrically connected to the needle electrodes distributed on the conductive rod.
Optionally, a plurality of pinholes for installing the needle electrodes are formed in the side surface of each conducting rod facing the mesh electrode, and a filling layer filled by a welding process is arranged around the pinholes and around the needle electrodes.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides an indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising a casing and the ion wind generating device described above, wherein the ion wind generating device is disposed in the casing and is used for providing ion wind.
The ion wind generating device comprises a plurality of discharging modules, wherein the needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharging modules are arranged in a staggered mode in the direction perpendicular to the wind outlet surface of the ion wind generating device, and the projections of the corresponding needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharging modules in the wind outlet surface of the ion wind generating device are on the same horizontal line. That is, the needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharge modules are arranged in a staggered manner, but the heights of the needle electrodes are the same. Therefore, uniform soft wind can be generated in a plurality of linear regions in the horizontal direction, and the superposition of a plurality of discharge modules can form a larger and stronger electric field in the linear regions, so that the wind speed of the ion wind in the linear regions is relatively higher. The ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device of the invention is blown to the user, and the user has relatively strong soft wind feeling.
Furthermore, the invention can ensure that the ion wind generating device can generate uniform ion wind with larger wind quantity by reasonably designing the spatial position relationship between the needle electrodes and the mesh electrodes and reasonably distributing the position relationship among a plurality of needle electrodes, thereby improving the wind speed, the wind quantity and the wind efficiency of the ion wind generating device.
Furthermore, the plurality of discharging modules which are arranged in sequence are arranged, and corona discharge is generated between the needle electrode in each discharging module and the corresponding mesh electrode, so that the air can be accelerated for multiple times through the plurality of discharging modules, the superposition of the air speed is realized, negative pressure can be formed under the condition of obtaining higher air outlet speed, the air inlet volume is further increased, and the air supply speed, the air supply volume and the air supply efficiency of the ion air generating device are further improved.
Furthermore, the filling layer filled by the welding process is arranged around the needle-shaped electrode of the pinhole of each conducting rod, so that the needle-shaped electrode can be ensured to be well electrically connected with the conducting layer in the conducting rod, and the conducting layer can be strictly prevented from being exposed to the outside, thereby avoiding the phenomena of indiscriminate discharge or ignition.
The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Detailed Description
First, an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 2 is a schematic structural exploded view of an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the ion wind generating device 10 includes a plurality of discharge modules arranged in sequence, each of which includes a mesh electrode vertically disposed and extending in a transverse direction and a plurality of needle electrodes distributed at one side of the mesh electrode. It is emphasized that references to a plurality in embodiments of the present invention mean two, three or more than three. Specifically, the mesh electrode may be a metal mesh having square holes, diamond holes, circular holes, or other shaped through holes. The needle electrode may be a discharge needle made of a metal material, and has a discharge tip, and the discharge tip may be directed to the center of a through hole of the mesh electrode.
Fig. 3 is a schematic front view of a pin grid layout of an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 4 is a schematic side view of a pin grid layout of an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 5 is a schematic top view of a pin grid layout of an ion wind generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of description and understanding of the technical solution of the present invention, directional coordinates are given in fig. 3 to 5, wherein the OX direction denotes a front-back direction, and the direction indicated by the OX arrow is front and the direction indicated by the arrow facing away from the OX arrow is back; the OY direction represents a lateral direction; the OZ direction represents the vertical direction. Referring to fig. 3 to 5, the needle electrodes of each two adjacent discharge modules are arranged in a staggered manner in a direction perpendicular to the air outlet surface (i.e., a plane perpendicular to the OX direction and located on the front side) of the ion wind generating device 10, and the projections of the needle electrodes of each two adjacent discharge modules on the air outlet surface of the ion wind generating device 10 are located on the same horizontal line. That is, the needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharge modules are arranged in a staggered manner, but the heights of the needle electrodes are the same (i.e., there is no height difference between the needle electrodes of every two adjacent discharge modules in the Z direction). Therefore, uniform soft wind can be generated in a plurality of linear regions in the horizontal direction, and the superposition of a plurality of discharge modules can form a larger and stronger electric field in the linear regions, so that the wind speed of the ion wind in the linear regions is relatively higher. The ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device of the invention is blown to the user body, so that the user has relatively strong soft wind feeling.
The following describes the technical solution of the present invention in detail by taking an example that the ion wind generating device 10 includes two discharge modules arranged in sequence.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the number of the discharge modules may be two, that is, the front stage discharge module 100 located at the front side in the air outlet direction of the ion wind generating device 10 and the rear stage discharge module 200 located at the rear side in the air outlet direction. The pre-stage discharge module 100 has a mesh electrode 110 and a plurality of needle electrodes 120, and the post-stage discharge module 200 has a mesh electrode 210 and a plurality of needle electrodes 220. In the front view shown in fig. 3, the structure of the front stage discharge module 100 is shown by a solid line and the structure of the rear stage discharge module 200 is shown by a dotted line for easy understanding. The needle electrode 120 of the front stage discharge module 100 and the needle electrode 220 of the rear stage discharge module 200 are offset from each other, but have no height difference in the OZ direction. In the side view shown in fig. 4, the corresponding needle electrode 120 of the front stage discharge module 100 and the corresponding needle electrode 220 of the rear stage discharge module 200 are at the same height position, i.e., on a horizontal line. In the top view shown in fig. 5, the respective needle electrodes 120 of the front stage discharge module 100 and the respective needle electrodes 220 of the rear stage discharge module 200 are on different straight lines extending in the front-rear direction (i.e., parallel to the OX direction).
In some embodiments of the present invention, each set of three needle-shaped electrodes formed by the needle-shaped electrodes of the plurality of discharge modules in the horizontal plane and adjacent to each other forms an isosceles triangle in projection, so as to ensure that the ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device 10 is distributed more uniformly. Also taking two discharge modules as an example, referring to fig. 5, the projections formed in the horizontal plane by two adjacent needle electrodes 120 of the front discharge module 100 and the projections formed in the horizontal plane by the needle electrodes 220 adjacent to both needle electrodes 120 of the rear discharge module 200 (i.e., the needle electrodes 220 located between the two needle electrodes 120 in the OY direction) form an isosceles triangle. Similarly, the projections of the two adjacent needle electrodes 220 of the later-stage discharge module 200 in the horizontal plane form an isosceles triangle with the projections of the needle electrodes 120 of the earlier-stage discharge module 100 adjacent to both needle electrodes 220 (i.e., the needle electrodes 120 located between the two needle electrodes 220 in the OY direction) in the horizontal plane.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of needle electrodes of each discharge module are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the plane of the mesh electrodes of the discharge module, so as to ensure that each needle electrode and the corresponding mesh electrode can generate a relatively obvious discharge phenomenon, thereby generating an ion wind with a relatively high intensity.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the tips of the plurality of needle electrodes of each discharge module are located in the same plane, so as to ensure that the intensity of the ion wind generated between each needle electrode and the corresponding mesh electrode is the same, so that the ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device 10 as a whole is relatively uniform.
In order to increase the blowing speed of the ion wind generating apparatus 10, the designer of the present invention performed a large number of wind speed measurement experiments, and found that the distance L between the tip of each needle electrode and the mesh electrode was set so as to satisfy L ═ a L1(wherein a is any constant in the range of 0.7-1.3, i.e. a can be 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3, L1To maximize the ionic wind speed at the wind speed center point of the mesh electrodeHigh wind speed VmaxThe distance between the tip of the needle-shaped electrode and the mesh electrode, and the wind speed central point of the mesh electrode is the projection point of the tip of the needle-shaped electrode on the mesh electrode), on the one hand, the wind speed of the ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device 10 can better meet the normal use requirement of a user, and on the other hand, the needle-shaped electrode can be partially overlapped in the region where the mesh electrode generates effective ion wind to achieve the projection effect of the shadowless lamp, so that the ion wind distribution of the mesh electrode is more uniform.
Further, in order to increase the amount of air blown by the ion wind generating apparatus 10, the designer of the present invention has conducted a large number of experiments for measuring the projection radius of the needle tip, and as a result of the experiments, it was found that the distance R between the tips of two adjacent needle electrodes is set so as to satisfy R ═ aR1(wherein, R1For the wind speed to reach the maximum wind speed VmaxB times the distance between the wind speed measurement point and the wind speed central point, wherein b is any constant in the range of 0.3-0.7, namely b can be 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 or 0.7, and a is the same as above), the air volume of the ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device 10 can better meet the normal use requirements of users. Meanwhile, after the distance between two adjacent needle electrodes is specially designed, the mutual offset of wind speeds caused by too close distance between two adjacent needle electrodes can be avoided, and the reduction of wind volume and the uneven distribution of wind volume caused by too far distance between two needle electrodes can be avoided.
It is emphasized that the maximum wind speed V is here referred tomaxAll reference wind speed values are given on the premise that the voltage value between the needle electrode and the mesh electrode is constant.
Therefore, the ion wind generating device 10 can generate the uniform ion wind with larger wind quantity by reasonably designing the spatial position relationship between the needle electrodes and the mesh electrodes and reasonably arranging the position relationship among the needle electrodes, so that the air supply speed, the air supply quantity and the air supply efficiency of the ion wind generating device 10 are improved.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a connection relationship between a plurality of discharge modules of the ion wind generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 6, the needle electrode of each discharge module is electrically connected to a positive or negative polarity high voltage terminal, and the mesh electrode of each discharge module is electrically connected to a ground terminal, so that a plurality of discharge modules are connected in parallel. That is, the ion wind generating device 10 of the embodiment shown in fig. 6 is a parallel type multi-stage ion wind blowing device.
Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a connection relationship between a plurality of discharge modules of an ion wind generating apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 7, the needle electrode of the discharge module located at one end of the ion wind generating device 10 is electrically connected to a positive or negative polarity high voltage terminal, the mesh electrode of the discharge module located at the other end is electrically connected to a ground terminal, and the mesh electrode of each of the discharge modules except the discharge module located at the other end, which are arranged from one end of the ion wind generating device 10 to the other end thereof, is electrically connected to the needle electrode of the discharge module located adjacent thereto downstream, so that the plurality of discharge modules are connected in series. That is, the ion wind generating device 10 of the embodiment shown in fig. 7 is a series-connected multi-stage ion wind blowing device.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 6 and 7, a corona discharge phenomenon is generated between the needle electrode and the corresponding mesh electrode in each discharge module, so that the air can be accelerated multiple times through the plurality of discharge modules, the superposition of the air speed is realized, and further, a negative pressure can be formed under the condition of obtaining a higher air outlet speed, the air inlet volume is further increased, and the air supply speed, the air supply volume and the air supply efficiency of the ion air generating device 10 are further improved.
In some embodiments of the present invention, each discharge module further includes a plurality of conductive rods, and the plurality of needle electrodes are uniformly distributed on a side of the conductive rods facing the mesh electrodes of the discharge module. Taking the pre-stage discharge module 100 as an example, it further includes a plurality of conductive rods 131. The plurality of needle electrodes 120 of the pre-discharge module 100 are uniformly distributed on the conductive rod 131 side facing the mesh electrode 110 of the pre-discharge module 100. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of needle electrodes 120 may be distributed on the front side of the mesh electrode 110.
Further, each of the conductive rods 131 has an insulating protective layer formed on the outside thereof and a conductive layer formed on the inside thereof, which is electrically connected to the needle electrodes 120 distributed on the conductive rod. Therefore, the conducting layer can be prevented from being exposed to the outside, and the phenomenon of random discharge or ignition can be avoided.
In some embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of pinholes for installing the needle electrode 120 are opened on a side of each conductive rod 131 facing the mesh electrode 110, and a filling layer filled by a welding process is disposed around the needle electrode 120. Therefore, the needle electrode 120 can be ensured to be well electrically connected with the conductive layer in the conductive rod 131, and the conductive layer can be strictly prevented from being exposed to the outside, so that the phenomena of random discharge or ignition can be avoided. In particular, the size of the needle may be slightly smaller than the size of the needle electrode so that the two are secured together by way of an interference fit.
Fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a discharge module of the ion wind generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to fig. 2 and 8, in some embodiments of the present invention, each discharge module further includes a housing and a conductive bar for supporting the plurality of conductive bars thereof. Still taking the pre-discharge module 100 as an example, it includes a housing 140 and a conductive bar 132. The conductive strip 132 extends horizontally, and a plurality of conductive bars 131 extend vertically upward perpendicular to the conductive strip 132 and are electrically connected to the conductive strip 132. The conductive strip 132 may be engaged with the housing 140 so that the conductive strip 132 and the conductive rod 131 to which the plurality of needle electrodes 120 are fixed to the housing 140.
Further, a plurality of buckles 141 arranged along the transverse direction are disposed on the bottom wall of the housing 140, so that the plurality of conductive rods 131 pass through the plurality of buckles from bottom to top and extend into the housing 140. The conductive strip 132 is provided with a plurality of metal conductive sheets 1321, so that the conductive strip 132 is fixed to the bottom wall of the housing 140 by the engagement of the metal conductive sheets 1321 and the fasteners 141.
The embodiment of the invention also provides an air conditioner indoor unit. Fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of an air conditioning indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, and referring to fig. 9, the air conditioning indoor unit 1 includes a cabinet 20 and the ion wind generating device 10 described in any of the above embodiments. The ion wind generating device 10 is disposed in the housing 20 for providing ion wind.
Specifically, the indoor unit 1 of the air conditioner further includes a heat exchanging device disposed in the casing 20, and configured to exchange heat with air flowing therethrough to change the temperature of the air. The heat exchange device can be a flat plate evaporator, a multifold evaporator or other type of evaporator. The indoor unit 1 of the air conditioner can independently drive air supply through the ion wind generating device 10, and can also drive air supply together with the matching of fan components. The ion wind generated by the ion wind generating device 10 can be sent out after heat exchange by the heat exchange device, or can be directly sent out without heat exchange by the heat exchange device, and can be sent out after independently supplying air or mixing with air flow driven by a fan assembly.
It should be understood by those skilled in the art that terms used in the embodiments of the present invention, such as "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", "lateral", "front", "rear", and the like, for indicating orientation or positional relationship, are used with reference to the accompanying drawings, and are used only for convenience in describing and understanding the technical solutions of the present invention, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or components referred to must have a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Thus, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail herein, many other variations or modifications consistent with the principles of the invention may be directly determined or derived from the disclosure of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be understood and interpreted to cover all such other variations or modifications.