CN113412395A

CN113412395A - Outdoor unit air purification assembly and micro-dust purification system comprising same

Info

Publication number: CN113412395A
Application number: CN202080013629.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 宋秀准; 柳大成; 郑贤宰
Original assignee: Co Ltd Sn
Current assignee: Co Ltd Sn
Priority date: 2019-11-13
Filing date: 2020-09-08
Publication date: 2021-09-17
Anticipated expiration: 2040-09-08
Also published as: CN113412395B; WO2021096039A1; KR20210057988A; KR102372484B1

Abstract

The invention relates to an air purification assembly. The invention comprises the following steps: a casing provided in an outdoor unit having a discharge fan; a filter unit disposed at one side of the housing to filter air discharged through the exhaust fan; and a lifting unit disposed at one side of the casing and selectively moving the casing based on an off state of an air conditioner to partition the casing from the outdoor unit or mount the casing to the outdoor unit.

Description

Outdoor unit air purification assembly and micro-dust purification system comprising same

Technical Field

The invention relates to an outdoor unit air purification assembly and a micro dust purification system comprising the same.

Background

The air quality of densely populated cities is very serious, but social costs are increasing year by year due to the failure to find good improvement methods, and many countries invest a lot of costs in the development of technologies for reducing dust emission and preventing soot and the improvement of equipment in order to improve the air quality. However, despite the great cost and effort, the air quality is not easily improved but rather is more and more deteriorated.

Methods for improving air quality include a method for finding out causes of deterioration of air quality and blocking in advance and a method for purifying deteriorated air. As a method of finding out causes of deteriorating air quality and blocking it in advance, many countries have achieved some results in reducing the use of fossil fuels by a method of converting energy supply and demand and expanding new renewable energy applications, or a method of expanding the spread of environmentally-friendly electric vehicles, or the like. However, it is not easy to find a good method that can improve the deteriorated air quality.

As described above, as for the method of finding out the cause of deteriorating the air quality and blocking in advance, good results can be obtained as long as time and cost are invested and effort is adhered to. Finding ways to purify the deteriorating air and improve the air quality is also time consuming and laborious, but is an important issue that cannot be discarded for the healthy life of humans in the future.

Development of an air purification technology by which air in the atmosphere can be purified without consuming energy or only a small amount of energy is supplied even if the energy is supplied is indispensable to human beings, so that it can be used outdoors economically and regardless of seasons or weather without causing other problems. It would be an important problem to be solved by the whole mankind to improve air quality by developing air purification technology that is easy to manufacture, easy to install and maintain, and can be installed and operated even in a narrow space.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem to be solved

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned technical background, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an air cleaning assembly installed in an outdoor unit of an air conditioner to clean air pollution by an air cleaning function when the pollution degree of fine dust, haze, etc. in the atmosphere is high.

The present invention is directed to providing a fine dust purification system which constructs a cloud-based air purification system using an outdoor unit of an air conditioner in an off-state, so that fine dust outside the air purification system can be effectively blocked and purified.

(II) technical scheme

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an air cleaning assembly comprising: a casing provided in an outdoor unit having a discharge fan; a filter unit disposed at one side of the housing to filter air discharged through the exhaust fan; and a lifting unit disposed at one side of the casing and selectively moving the casing based on an off state of an air conditioner to partition the casing from the outdoor unit or mount the casing to the outdoor unit.

In addition, it may include: a driving unit driving the lifting unit, the driving unit may include: a guide member having one side connected to an outer side surface of the housing and one side formed in a gear shape to guide a vertical movement of the housing; and a gear part connected with the housing and formed to be movable along the guide part to move the housing along the guide part.

In addition, the lifting unit may include a fixing member formed in plurality, the fixing member connecting the plurality of guide members to couple the guide members to the outdoor unit.

In addition, it may include: and a blocking member provided at the other side of the guide member and formed to be capable of inserting the casing into the inside when the casing is moved apart from the outdoor unit.

In addition, it may include: and a blocking film formed obliquely to prevent foreign matter from being deposited on one surface of the blocking member.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fine dust purification system comprising: an outdoor unit; the air cleaning assembly is attached to the outdoor unit and cleans the fine dust through a filter according to the driving of the outdoor unit; a driving device for driving the air purification assembly and the outdoor unit; and a cloud management server controlling to select the driving device to drive the air cleaning assembly and the outdoor unit based on an outage state of the air conditioner.

In addition, the air cleaning assembly may suck clean ambient air through the filter by using wind pressure of the outdoor unit and supply normal temperature air of cleaned fine dust to a predetermined area.

In addition, the air purification assembly may include: and a control unit receiving the control signal of the cloud management server and the control signal of the air conditioner of the user, which are transmitted through the driving device.

In addition, the cloud management server may selectively control driving areas and driving numbers of driving devices provided at a plurality of sites based on at least one of a dust generation cause and wind direction information.

(III) advantageous effects

According to the air cleaning assembly of one embodiment of the present invention, when the atmosphere is contaminated by a large amount of fine dust, haze, etc. in the atmosphere, the outside contaminated air is sucked into the outdoor unit and filtered through the filter and then discharged again to the outside atmosphere, so that the atmosphere containing fine dust, haze, etc. can be cleaned, contributing to environmental protection.

According to the air cleaning assembly of one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to easily disassemble the air cleaning assembly in the outdoor unit and easily replace the contaminated filter.

According to the air cleaning assembly of an embodiment of the present invention, the blocking film is formed, so that the filter can be prevented from being damaged by the solar rays, and rain or snow can be prevented from being accumulated on the blocking member in a rainy or snowy day.

According to the air cleaning assembly of an embodiment of the present invention, the housing to which the filter is attached is moved up and down by the driving unit and the elevating unit, thereby elevating or lowering the housing according to the degree of pollution of the atmosphere, and since the outdoor unit which is not operated in spring, autumn or winter where fine dust is serious is used, a new utility value can be given to the outdoor unit in a stopped state.

According to the air cleaning assembly and the fine dust cleaning system including the same of one embodiment of the present invention, the fine dust filter is attachingly installed at the outdoor unit of a plurality of places which have been set, and the fine dust cleaned air can be supplied to the outdoor for a large scale area by the wind pressure of the outdoor unit in a stopped state.

In addition, because the existing outdoor unit is used, no extra space is needed, and the dust can be reduced at low cost.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an outdoor unit incorporating an air cleaning assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of an outdoor unit incorporating an air cleaning assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a driving unit of an air cleaning assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an air purification assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a view illustrating a state in which an outdoor unit incorporating an air cleaning assembly is used, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a mote purification system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can easily carry out the embodiments. The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein, but may be embodied in various forms. Parts that are not relevant to the description are omitted in the drawings to clearly illustrate the present invention, and the same or similar components are given the same reference numerals throughout the specification.

In the present specification, terms such as "including" or "having" are used to designate the presence of features, numerals, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof described in the specification, but do not previously exclude the presence or addition of one or more different features, numerals, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an outdoor unit in which an air cleaning assembly is installed according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 2 is an exploded perspective view of an outdoor unit in which an air cleaning assembly is combined according to an embodiment of the present invention.

On the other hand, in the present invention, the outdoor unit 10 may be connected to an air conditioner installed indoors. An air conditioner (not shown) lowers the temperature of air by evaporating refrigerant by an evaporator placed indoors to perform cooling, and places a condenser or the like for discharging heat absorbed by the evaporator outdoors. Therefore, when the outdoor unit 10 operates in an outdoor unit function of an air conditioner, heat absorbed from indoor air can be discharged to the atmosphere together with heat generated by compression.

In addition, when the outdoor unit 10 operates with an air cleaning function, air containing fine dust, haze, dust, bacteria, etc. in the atmosphere may be sucked through the suction port 12 formed at the right side surface, and the sucked air may be discharged through the discharge fan 11 provided at the upper surface. In this case, the outdoor unit 10 of the present invention may be installed in an air conditioner such as a heater or an air cleaner other than an air conditioner.

According to the air cleaning assembly 100 of an embodiment of the present invention, when the polluted air sucked from the atmosphere is discharged to the outside by the exhaust fan 11 provided at the upper face, the polluted air is cleaned and then discharged, thereby making it possible to contribute to the atmospheric environment.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the air cleaning assembly 100 may include a case 110, a blocking member 111, a filter unit 120, and a lifting unit 130.

The housing 112 may be formed to have a rectangular cross section, and the filter unit 120 may be mounted at an upper portion and the through-hole 112a may be formed at a lower portion. At this time, the through hole 112a may be formed corresponding to the outer shape of the exhaust fan to enable installation of the exhaust fan 11. In addition, the lower portion of the casing 110 may be formed to correspond to the upper surface of the outdoor unit 10 to be mounted to the upper surface of the outdoor unit 10. That is, the discharge fan 11 is inserted into the through hole 112a, so that the coupling between the casing 112 and the outdoor unit 10 can be secured. The case 112 may prevent air discharged from the exhaust fan 11 from being discharged through other paths, and may pass the air through the case 112 and through the filter 121.

On the other hand, a filter unit 120 may be coupled to an upper portion of the housing 112, and the filter unit 120 may include a filter 121 and a cover 122. At this time, the housing 112 may move up and down in a state of being combined with the filter unit 120.

The filter 121 is coupled to an upper portion of the casing 112 so that air discharged through an upper surface of the outdoor unit 10 can be purified. In addition, the filter 121 is detachably formed at the case 122, so that the filter 121 can be easily replaced.

The filter 121 may be a mesh having a plurality of holes formed therein, such as a quadrangle or a circle, and the filter 121 may be a high efficiency air filter, a deodorizing filter, an electrostatic filter, a ceramic honeycomb filter, or the like.

The cover 122 may have a disk shape and be disposed at the center of the filter 121, and the cover 122 may prevent a vortex flow from being formed at the center when the air is discharged to the upper portion by the exhaust fan 11.

The upper portion of the filter unit 120 may be provided with a blocking part 111 disposed to be spaced apart from the filter unit 120. The blocking member 111 may be formed to have a rectangular cross section, and since a lower surface thereof is open-formed, a part or the whole of the case 112 to which the filter unit 120 is mounted may be inserted into the inside of the blocking member 111.

In addition, the upper surface of the blocking member 111 may be provided with a blocking film 111a formed to be inclined in the gravity direction. The blocking film 111a may prevent the filter unit 120 from being damaged by the solar rays and may prevent foreign substances from flowing into the filter unit 120 and the outdoor unit 10.

In addition, the blocking film 111a may be formed to be more and more inclined from the upper portion to the lower portion. That is, the blocking film 111a may prevent snow, rain, hail, and the like, which may be accumulated on the upper portion of the blocking member 111 due to weather such as rain or snow, from falling to the lower portion, thereby protecting the filter unit 120 and the outdoor unit 10.

On the other hand, a lifting unit 130 may be coupled to one side of the housing 112 so that the housing can be moved up and down in a state of being coupled to the filter unit 120. That is, the elevating unit 130 may include a supporting member 131, a fixing member 133, and a driving unit 140 so that the housing 112 may move up and down in a state of being combined with the filter unit 120.

The support member 131 may be formed in a strip shape, and may be formed in plurality. The support members 131 may be formed in four, and the four support members 131 may be connected between the outdoor unit 10 and the blocking member 111 in a vertical direction. That is, each of the four supporting members 131 may be connected between an outer corner portion of the outdoor unit 10 and the blocking member 111. The support member 131 is provided at an inner side surface thereof with a guide member 131a so as to support the guide member.

The fixing member 133 is coupled to an outer side surface of the outdoor unit 10 so that the supporting member 131 can be fixed to the outdoor unit 10. The fixing members 133 may be formed in a strip shape and may be formed in a pair. One fixing member 133 of the pair of fixing members 133 may be connected to lower sides of two support members 131 of the four support members, and the other fixing member 133 may be connected to lower sides of the other two support members 131 of the four support members. A pair of fixing members 133 are screw-coupled to an upper surface of the outdoor unit 10 so that the air cleaning assembly 100 can be fixed to the outdoor unit 10.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the driving unit 140 may be disposed inside the housing 112, and may include a guide part 131a, a first coupling part 141 of a gear part 144, a driving part 142, a second coupling part 143, a gear part 144, and a gear housing 145.

The guide member 131a has a strip shape, and may have a gear shape on an inner surface thereof. Gear member 144 may be meshingly coupled to the gear of guide member 131 a. The gear part 144 may be formed in four, and the four gear parts 144 may move in the up and down direction along the four guide parts 131 a.

Accordingly, the housing 112 combined with the filter 121 can be moved up and down, so that the housing 112 can be moved to an upper portion to prevent the filter 121 from being damaged when the degree of air pollution is low, and the housing 112 is moved to a lower portion to allow the exhaust fan 11 to be inserted into the interior of the housing 112 to purify the air exhausted from the exhaust fan 11 and to be discharged to the outside when the degree of air pollution is high.

The gear housing 145 may be formed to have a rectangular cross section, and may be formed to internally mount the gear member 144. In addition, the gear housing 112 may be formed to cover the gear member 144 so that the gear member 144 may be prevented from being separated from the guide member 131a when the gear member 144 moves in the up-and-down direction along the guide member 131.

The driving part 142 may be formed in a cylindrical shape, and it may be a motor that may supply a rotational force to the gear part 144. At this time, the driving parts 142 may be formed in four, and the four driving parts supply the rotational force to the four gear parts 144, so that the gear parts 144 may move in the up-down direction along the guide part 131 a.

The first coupling part 141 may be formed in four, and may be coupled with the driving part 142. The first coupling part 141 may be coupled to an inner side surface of the case 112 to fix the driving part 142 to the case 112.

The second coupling part 143 may be coupled to an inner side surface of the case 112. The second coupling part 143 may fix the driving part 142 to the inner side surface of the case 112, like the first coupling part 141, so that vibration generated by rotation of the driving part 142 may be minimized.

Fig. 5 is a state diagram illustrating the use of the ascent/descent of the filter unit according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 5, when air pollution is serious, the casing 112 combined with the filter unit 120 may be moved to the upper surface of the outdoor unit 10. At this time, the external air flows into the outdoor unit through the suction port 12 of the outdoor unit 10, and the air thus flowing in is discharged to the filter unit 120 by the discharge fan 11 of the outdoor unit 10, and the air flowing in is purified in the filter unit, thereby achieving air purification of the atmospheric air. In addition, when the air pollution is low or the outdoor unit 10 is used in a function of an outdoor unit of an air conditioner, the housing 112 is raised to the inside of the blocking member 111 so that the housing 112 is inserted into the inside of the blocking member 111, so that the filter unit 120 can be protected, and interference of the housing 112 can be prevented when air is discharged from the outdoor unit 10. In fig. 6, a fine dust purification system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an air purification assembly 100, a driving device 200, and a cloud management server 300. The components included in the mote cleaning system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be connected to each other through a network (network). In order to transmit and receive data through such a network, the fine dust purification terminal 100, the driving device 200, and the cloud management server 300 may each include a wired communication module and a wireless communication module.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of fine dust purification terminals 100 dispersedly located at a plurality of sites and a driving device 200 for driving the fine dust purification terminals are connected to one cloud management server 300, thereby constituting a dispersed cloud fine dust purification system 1 that can reduce the concentration of fine dust in a large area.

With the fine dust purification system 1, the outdoor unit 10 is driven in the air conditioning function in summer when relatively less fine dust is generated, and the outdoor unit 10 that is not in operation is used in spring, autumn, and winter when the fine dust is severe, so that a new utility value can be given to the outdoor unit in the stopped state.

In addition, it is possible to provide a new method of reducing fine dusts without spending a large amount of national expenses by using the outdoor unit 10 as an infrastructure attached to all buildings in advance.

The cloud management server 300 controls to select the driving devices 200 of the plurality of locations to drive the fine dust purification terminal 100 and the outdoor unit 10 based on the off-state of the air conditioners of the plurality of locations. In this case, the plurality of locations not only mean fixed locations such as general homes and buildings, but also include moving locations such as vehicles and ships.

Since one embodiment of the present invention uses the outdoor units 10 which are previously installed at a plurality of places, the present invention has advantages that no additional space is required and fine dusts can be reduced at low cost.

The driving devices 200 are respectively installed in outdoor units of a plurality of locations, and drive the air cleaning assembly 100 and the outdoor unit 10 according to the control of the cloud management server 300. The air cleaning assembly 100 is individually attached to the outdoor unit 10 provided in a plurality of places, and cleans fine dusts through the filter unit 120 according to driving of the outdoor unit.

Various manners of rewarding may be provided for a user who is allowed to set the air cleaning assembly 100. Such a reward may be provided based on the amount of power usage measured by a sensing unit (not shown) described later.

Such an air purification assembly 100 may further include a sensing unit (not shown) and a control unit (not shown). The filter unit 120 purifies air according to the wind pressure of the outdoor unit toward the outside to discharge clean air to the outside. That is, the air cleaning assembly 100 can supply the normal temperature air cleaned of the fine dust by the filter 120 to the outside by the wind pressure of the outdoor unit.

Since one embodiment of the present invention uses the outdoor unit of the air conditioner which is not operated, it supplies normal temperature air purified by once fine dust, not unpleasant hot wind, so that it is possible to always supply comfortable air to pedestrians. In one embodiment, the air pressure of the outdoor unit is preferably set to be greater than the atmospheric pressure, and the specific air pressure can be adjusted according to various conditions such as the size, performance, and dust level of the outdoor unit.

A sensing unit (not shown) of the air purification assembly 100 may measure the power usage amount for the time driven according to the control of the cloud management server 300. In addition, the air purification assembly 100 may transmit the measured power usage to the cloud management server 300, and thus the cloud management server 300 may manage to exclude the measured power usage from the power usage of the air conditioner at the site.

The sensing unit (not shown) may also perform a function of checking whether the filtering unit 120 is contaminated by the pressure sensor and transmitting the result thereof to the cloud management server 300 or the user terminal. Accordingly, the manager can confirm the replacement cycle of the filtering unit 120 at each site to provide the replacement service, and the user can directly replace the filter 121 when directly transmitting to the user terminal.

The control unit (not shown) of the air purification assembly 100 performs a function of receiving the control signal of the cloud management server 300 and the control signal of the air conditioner of the user, which are transmitted through the driving device 200, for adjustment. Specifically, the control unit (not shown) may perform control such that the filter unit 120 of the air cleaning assembly 100 is in a state of being mounted on the upper surface of the outdoor unit or in a state of being inserted into the inside of the blocking member 111, based on the air conditioner off state according to the control signal of the cloud management server 300 or the control signal of the air conditioner of the user.

First, it is checked whether or not the air conditioner corresponding to the outdoor unit is in an off state. The air cleaning assembly 100 may not be driven when the air conditioner is in use, and in some cases, the air cleaning assembly 100 may be simultaneously driven even when in use according to the operation state of the air conditioner.

When the air conditioner is not used, or when the air cleaning assembly 100 is set to be driven together even when the air conditioner is used, whether to drive the air cleaning assembly 100 is judged based on the degree of fine dust at a plurality of places.

At this time, in determining whether to drive the air cleaning assembly 100, the driving regions and the driving number of the driving devices 200 provided at a plurality of places may be selectively controlled based on at least one of the dust generation cause and the wind direction information.

Then, when it is determined that the air cleaning assembly 100 needs to be driven, the driving device 200 at the location is selected and the air cleaning assembly 100 and the outdoor unit 10 are driven.

At this time, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the air cleaning assembly 100 may be driven by moving the air cleaning assembly 100 in the up and down direction from the outdoor unit 10. The dust particle purification system 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention can be realized by a program (or an application program) and stored in a medium to be executed in conjunction with a server as hardware.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of the preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and it will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the concept and scope of the claims.

Claims

1. An air purification assembly comprising:

a casing provided in an outdoor unit having a discharge fan;

a filter unit disposed at one side of the housing to filter air discharged through the exhaust fan; and

and a lifting unit provided at one side of the casing and selectively moving the casing based on an off-state of an air conditioner to separate the casing from the outdoor unit or mount the casing to the outdoor unit.

2. The air purification assembly of claim 1, comprising:

a driving unit for driving the lifting unit,

the driving unit includes:

a guide member having one side connected to an outer side surface of the housing and one side formed in a gear shape to guide a vertical movement of the housing; and

a gear member connected with the housing and formed to move along the guide member to move the housing along the guide member.

3. The air purification assembly of claim 2,

the lifting unit includes a fixing member formed in plurality, the fixing member connecting the plurality of guide members to couple the guide members to the outdoor unit.

4. The air purification assembly of claim 2, comprising:

and a blocking member provided at the other side of the guide member and formed to insert the casing into the inside when the casing is moved apart from the outdoor unit.

5. The air purification assembly of claim 4, comprising:

and a blocking film formed obliquely to prevent foreign matter from being deposited on one surface of the blocking member.

6. A mote purification system comprising:

an outdoor unit;

the air cleaning assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 5, attached to the outdoor unit, and cleaning fine dusts through a filter according to driving of the outdoor unit;

a driving device for driving the air purification assembly and the outdoor unit; and

a cloud management server to control to select the driving device to drive the air cleaning assembly and the outdoor unit based on an outage state of the air conditioner.

7. A fine dust purification system according to claim 6,

the air cleaning assembly sucks clean ambient air through the filter by using wind pressure of the outdoor unit and supplies normal temperature air of clean fine dust to a predetermined area.

8. A fine dust purification system according to claim 7,

the air purification assembly includes:

and a control unit receiving the control signal of the cloud management server and the control signal of the air conditioner of the user, which are transmitted through the driving device.

9. A fine dust purification system according to claim 7,

the cloud management server selectively controls driving areas and driving numbers of driving devices provided at a plurality of places based on at least one of a dust generation cause and wind direction information.