CN1727771A

CN1727771A - Air cleaner and its control method

Info

Publication number: CN1727771A
Application number: CN 200410020190
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑淳起
Original assignee: LG Electronics Tianjin Appliances Co Ltd
Current assignee: LG Electronics Tianjin Appliances Co Ltd
Priority date: 2004-07-29
Filing date: 2004-07-29
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Anticipated expiration: 2024-07-29
Also published as: CN100487329C

Abstract

The present invention discloses an air purifier and its control method. Said air purifier has side outlet for guiding purified air toward side direction and discharging it and bottom outlet for guiding purified air toward lower direction and discharging it, and the side outlet and bottom outlet can be selectively opened or closed according to the operator's setting. Its control method includes the following stages: stage for inputting operation mode, stage for judging inputted operation mode type, and stage for selectively opening and closing outlet according to the inputted operation mode type.

Description

Air cleaner and control method thereof

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of air cleaner and control method thereof.

Background technology

Air cleaner is the device that is replaced with fresh air after the air cleaning of polluting, and, behind fan suction air, removes fine dust or bacterium class by filter more that is, removes peculiar smell such as body odor or cigarette.

As shown in Figures 1 to 4, recently, the air cleaner that in air conditioner inside, is provided for purifying the air of a room.In order to purify the air of a room, promptly air cleaner to be set and to use in the indoor set inboard of the air conditioner that carries out refrigerating/heating.

Fig. 1 is the schematic perspective view of the indoor machine of air conditioner of existing air cleaner; Fig. 2 is the side sectional view of the indoor machine of air conditioner of existing air cleaner; Generalized section when Fig. 3 is installed to air conditioner for existing air cleaner; Front schematic view when Fig. 4 is installed to air conditioner for existing air cleaner.

As shown in Figures 1 to 4, the rear side of air cleaners 4 is provided with air cleaner 6 after air conditioner sucks grid 2.Air cleaner 6 is installed on the air conditioner by horizontal stand 5 and vertical support frame 7.

Concrete is: the central upside of the horizontal stand 5 that is connected with the cabinet 1 of air conditioner outward appearance is formed with contact guide rail 8, and air cleaner 6 is set on contact guide rail 8, also is used in a pair of vertical support frame 7 that both sides are connected with cabinet 1 simultaneously and comes support air clearing machine 6.

After starting air conditioner, motor 11 as shown in Figure 2 drives fan 13 and rotates, and is forced to suck room air successively by sucking grid 2, air cleaner 4, air cleaner 9, cooling simultaneously by fan 13.The air that flows into fan drums 12 by fan 13 is discharged to indoor by the outlet 3 of upside.

Not having the figure number 1a of explanation in the drawing is base plate, the 10th, collect and discharge the drip tray that produces condensed water from indoor heat converter.

But there is following defective in the air cleaner of aforesaid existing air conditioner.

Above-mentioned air cleaner 6 is installed in the inside of indoor machine of air conditioner and purifies the air of a room.But such air cleaner 6 is owing to mainly being made of single filter, so generally have only a kind of function.Existence can not purify the air of the interior space that produces multiple pollution sources up hill and dale.

And 3 of the outlets of existing air cleaner 6 form facing one direction, make the operator can not select the switching of outlet 3.

Summary of the invention

The objective of the invention is to overcome the deficiency of above-mentioned technology, the air cleaner that has a plurality of outlets and improve detergent power is provided.

Another object of the present invention is can individually open and close the control method of the air cleaner of a plurality of outlets for the operator provides selection.

The present invention solves the problems of the technologies described above the technical scheme that is adopted:

A kind of air cleaner has the air that purifies to side guiding and a side outlet of discharging and a bottom surface outlet that the air that purifies guides downwards; Its side outlet and bottom surface outlet are optionally to open and close according to operator's setting.

Only when setting the high wind pattern, just open the bottom surface outlet.

A kind of control method according to above-mentioned air cleaner, this control method comprised with the next stage: the input phase of input operational mode; Judge the differentiation stage of the operational mode kind of importing; Optionally open and close the switching stage of outlet according to input operational mode kind.

Judge in the described differentiation stage whether the operational mode of being imported is the high wind pattern.

The described switching stage is meant: only just control the switching outlet when the operational mode of being imported is the high wind pattern.

The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: air cleaner of the present invention has the filter that is configured to by filter assemblies and filter frame, and its filter assemblies is connected by multiple filter such as fore filter, HEPA, odor removal filter, nano active carbon filter, deozonize filter, nano silver filtering device and constitutes.Filter assemblies is dismantled easily, reduced the manufacturing of air cleaner and changed the required operation of filter, simplify technology.Improve the detergent power of room air, can improve practicality.

On shell of the present invention, be formed with outlet, individually open and close, can adjust the discharge direction of air, more comfortable indoor environment can be provided according to operator's setting along all directions.For example, when below air cleaner, having a rest or sleeping, can set ' high wind pattern ' pattern in addition, prevent from directly to dry to human body.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the schematic perspective view of the indoor machine of air conditioner of existing air cleaner;

Fig. 2 is the side sectional view of the indoor machine of air conditioner of existing air cleaner;

Generalized section when Fig. 3 is installed to air conditioner for existing air cleaner;

Front schematic view when Fig. 4 is installed to air conditioner for existing air cleaner;

Fig. 5 is the schematic perspective view of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is the exploded perspective schematic diagram of the internal structure of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Front schematic view when Fig. 7 is the front panel of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention and front framework apart;

Fig. 8 is the schematic perspective view at the back side of the air cleaner filter assemblies of the embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 9 is the exploded perspective schematic diagram of the air cleaner filter assemblies of the embodiment of the invention;

Figure 10 be air cleaner control method of the present invention schematic flow sheet;

Figure 11 is the user mode schematic diagram of air cleaner of the present invention when starting with the high wind pattern;

The user mode schematic diagram of Figure 12 when to be air cleaner of the present invention with the pattern beyond the high wind pattern start.

* the major part symbol description * of drawing

50. air cleaner 52. shells

54. front framework 56. front panels

60. filter 61. filter assemblies

61a. fore filter 61b. HEPA

61c. odor removal filter 61d. nano active carbon filter

61e. deozonize filter 61f. nano silver filtering device

62. filter frame 63. electric precipitation filters

64. aperture 66. Air Blast fans

68. fan electromotor 70. outlets

72. discharge blade 80. ozone generating-devices

82. ozone generator 82 '. the ozonizer installation portion

84. ozone spraying machine 84 '. the spraying machine fixed part

100. the 110. differentiation stages of input phase

120. the switching stage

The specific embodiment

Preferred embodiment to air cleaner of the present invention describes in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 5 is the schematic perspective view of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 6 is the exploded perspective schematic diagram of the internal structure of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention; Front schematic view when Fig. 7 is the front panel of air cleaner preferred embodiment of the present invention and front framework apart; Fig. 8 is the schematic perspective view at the back side of the air cleaner filter assemblies of the embodiment of the invention; Fig. 9 is the exploded perspective schematic diagram of the air cleaner filter assemblies of the embodiment of the invention; Figure 10 be air cleaner control method of the present invention schematic flow sheet; Figure 11 is the user mode schematic diagram of air cleaner of the present invention when starting with the high wind pattern; The user mode schematic diagram of Figure 12 when to be air cleaner of the present invention with the pattern beyond the high wind pattern start.

As shown in the figure, the side casings 52 of air cleaner 50 of the present invention forms rectangle, and the length that reaches left and right directions up and down is relatively greater than its thickness.

The front end of shell 52 has front framework 54.Front framework 54 roughly forms rectangle, and the central portion of front framework 54 is formed with the suction inlet 55 that becomes the air movable passageway.

Above-mentioned suction inlet 55 is made of several tetragonal suction through-hole section 55 '.Suck the indoor air of through-hole section 55 ' guiding and flow into shell 52 inside.

The front of framework 54 is provided with front panel 56 at a distance of a distance in front.Front panel 56 forms the front outward appearance of air cleaner 50, and its upper end is connected on the front framework 54.

The rear side of front framework 54 has the filter for installation 60 that is made of filter assemblies 61 and filter frame 62.Filter assemblies 61 is a rectangle, and effect is to purify from air cleaner 50 outside interior space inhaled airs.Filter assemblies 61 is made of several filter combinations, not only can remove airborne peculiar smell, also has sterilization and multiple function such as antibiotic.

In filter assemblies 61, the fore filter 61a that removes the airborne relatively large dust that sucks forms leading flank.Fore filter 61a is made of the net that has than macropore, has antibacterial effect in order to make it, can add the material of antibacterial action on this wire side.

Rear side at fore filter 61a has the HEPA 61b that the fine dust by fore filter 61a is filtered once more.HEPA 61b is the high-performance filter that scribbles the natural component of the green tea with antibacterial effect, can remove 0.3 micron fine dust more than 99.97%.

At the rear side of HEPA 61b the odor removal filter 61c of the smell particle in the filtered air is arranged.Odor removal filter 61c mainly adopts the HHT higher high tensile active carbon filter, can remove airborne cigarette smell and food odors.

The rear side of odor removal filter 61c has the nano active carbon filter 61d stronger than general odor removal filter performance, and nano active carbon filter 61d can remove kimchi smell and cigarette smell and fishlike smell etc. up hill and dale.

Nano active carbon filter 61d is the spherical carbon structure body of 200～500nm size, and the pore of a few nanometer sizes is contained on its surface, so have very big surperficial adsorption area.Big surperficial adsorption area means that the ability of absorption odor pollutant and organic substance is strong.

Use has the nano active carbon filter 61d of nano active charcoal, can at random adjust the skin thickness and the pore opening of carbon structure body by the 7 stage synthetic methods of utilizing the silica primary particle, can strengthen the adsorption capacity to various pollution sources.

Above-mentioned nano active carbon filter 61d has added the catalyst that decomposes odorant in the clearance spaces of carbon structure body inside, can carry out absorption and decomposition function simultaneously to pollutant, so it is strong 8～12 times to the decomposition removing ability of foul gas to compare general active carbon, strong more than 15 times to the absorption affinity of removing the water pollution material.

The rear side of nano active carbon filter 61d has deozonize filter 61e.Deozonize filter 61e is used to remove airborne ozone O, prevents that especially the flow of ozone that the ozone generating-device that hereinafter will illustrate 80 produces from going into indoor space, thereby provides health and comfortable environment.

The rear side of deozonize filter 61e has the nano silver filtering device 61f of the trailing flank that forms filter assemblies 61.Nano silver filtering device 61f be coated with on the web frame metal that antibiotic property is the strongest on the earth---silver can prevent that the bacterial reproduction of filter corner, its structure from being Nano Silver and the combining of nano silicon.

Nano silver filtering device 61f making by the plating Nano Silver on the net of forming of resin or with resin-shaped the time into the net the method for interpolation nano silver particles make.

Filter assemblies 61 is installed on the filter frame 62.Filter frame 62 is fixed on the front in the aperture 64 that hereinafter will illustrate, inner circumferential surface has and the corresponding shape of the outer peripheral face of filter assemblies 61.Be formed with several through holes 62 ' that the air by filter assemblies 61 passes backward on the filter frame 62.

Front end one side at filter frame 62 is provided with electric precipitation filter 63.Electric precipitation filter 63 utilizes the power supply that applies from the outside, removes dust in air etc. behind the generation high-tension electricity.Its right-hand end hinge is connected the right side leading section of filter frame 62, and its left-hand end removably is fixed on the left side leading section of filter frame 62.

If the left-hand end of pull filter frame 62 forward, the left-hand end of electric precipitation filter 63 breaks away from the left side front end of filter frame 62, and the left-hand end of electric precipitation filter 63 with its right-hand end serve as axially before rotation.

In the inside of shell 52, promptly the rear side of filter assemblies 61 has aperture 64.The central authorities in aperture 64 are formed with the mouth of pipe 64 ' that guides to the Air Blast fan 66 that hereinafter will illustrate by the air of filter assemblies 61.

The rear side in aperture 64 is provided with Air Blast fan 66.The effect of Air Blast fan 66 is to force to suck air cleaner 50 air outside, makes its circulation.During the effect rotation of Air Blast fan 66 by the fan electromotor 68 that hereinafter will illustrate, after sucking, the pivot of Air Blast fan 66 discharges along circumferencial direction again by suction inlet 55 inhaled airs.

Above-mentioned Air Blast fan 66 drives by the fan electromotor 68 that is installed on the shell 52.Be the motive power that fan electromotor 68 provides Air Blast fan 66 rotations, be fixed on the electric machine support 68 '.Electric machine support 68 ' is arranged on the shell 52.

Be formed with the air that Air Blast fan 66 is discharged above the side of shell 52, bottom surface reach and be discharged to the outlet 70 that need carry out interior space air conditioning.Has the discharge blade 72 that optionally covers outlet 70 on the outlet 70 respectively.

Concrete structure is: outlet 70a above the top formation of shell 52, and the side forms side outlet 70b, and the bottom surface forms bottom surface outlet 70c.These

outlets

70a, 70b, 70c optionally open and close discharge blade 72a separately, 72b, 72c.

That is, the top discharge blade 72a that is positioned on the top outlet 70a optionally opens and closes top outlet 70a; The side discharge blade 72b that is positioned on the outlet 70b of side optionally opens and closes side outlet 70b; The bottom surface discharge blade 72c that is positioned on the outlet 70c of bottom surface optionally opens and closes bottom surface outlet 70c.

Also be provided with ozone generating-device 80 on the shell 52.Ozone generating-device 80 is made of ozone generator 82 and ozone injector 84, and ozone generator 82 is the ozone O3 that produce by outside supply power; Ozone injector 84 is to spray the ozone that ozone generator 82 produces in air.

There is the ozonizer installation portion 82 ' that ozone generator 82 is installed on right side, shell 52 lower end; There is the jet tray fixed part 84 ' that ozone injector 84 is installed the lower end, right side of filter frame 62.

Effect and control method to air cleaner of the present invention describes below.

At first the process that air cleaner 50 of the present invention is purified air describes.The operator operates enter key and starts air cleaner 50, and discharge blade 72 is open respectively, and fan electromotor 68 rotates and drive Air Blast fan 66 rotations, and the air that is conditioned the space is inhaled into air cleaner 50 inside by sucking through-hole section 55 '.

That is, have the slit between plate 56 and the front framework 54 in front, the air of the interior space is inhaled into air cleaner 50 inside by the suction inlet 55 that these slits flow into.

The air that is inhaled into air cleaner 50 inside is by filter assemblies 61.Because filter assemblies 61 is made of several filter combinations, and has multiple function, so can remove foreign matter and peculiar smell such as dust in air by filter assemblies 61.

Be in detail: fore filter 61a filter to suck in the air and contains relatively large dust, removes 0.3 micron fine dust more than 99.97% by HEPA 61b again.

After containing scent of particle etc. in the air by HEPA 61b and being removed, be eliminated once more when removing the stronger nano active carbon filter 61d of smell performance than odor removal filter 61c again by odor removal filter 61c.

Deozonize filter 61e removes the ozone that ozone generating-device 80 produces, and nano silver filtering device 61f suppresses the bacterial reproduction in the filter.

In addition, ozone generation device 82 sprays to the suction air by suction inlet 55 by ozone injector 84 after producing ozone.Thereby institute's inhaled air and filter assemblies 61 are played bactericidal action jointly.

The electric precipitation filter 63 that is installed in filter frame 62 front ends is flowing high-tension electricity, thereby removes by the foreign substances such as dust in suction inlet 55 inhaled airs.

Be removed purifying air of foreign matter and peculiar smell by filter assemblies 61 and under the guiding function in aperture 64, flow into the central authorities of Air Blast fan 66, and discharge along the center of circle direction of Air Blast fan 66.The air of discharging from Air Blast fan 66 is discharged to the outside interior space by outlet 70.

Behind long-time use air cleaner 50, when changing filter assemblies 61, front framework 54 dismantle forward, dismantle the left-hand end of electric precipitation filter 63 again and be the center rotation with the right-hand end.

Like this, the place ahead of filter frame 62 is open fully, and forwards the separator-filter assembly 61.Among the present invention, be connected with a plurality of filters on the filter assemblies 61, can change a plurality of filters simultaneously.

Below the operator being set the state that opens and closes outlet 70 describes.Below by three kinds of patterns importing: ' high wind pattern ', ' apoplexy pattern ', ' weak wind pattern ' illustrate.

At first, connect power supply, operator's operation housing 52 or the enter key (figure does not show) on remote controller (figure does not show), and the setting operational mode is the key input phase 100 of ' high wind pattern '.

After finishing setting, control part (figure does not show) judges whether the signal of being imported is the differentiation stage 110 of ' high wind pattern '.If the judged result signal is ' a high wind pattern ', when discharge blade 72a, side discharge blade 72b and bottom surface discharge blade 72c open top outlet 70a, side outlet 70b and bottom surface outlet 70c above rotating, increase the rotation intensity of force of Air Blast fan 66, the switching stage 120 of rotating with ' by force ' pattern.

Air Blast fan 66 is during with the rotation of strong revolving force, suck and purify a large amount of wind after, be discharged to the outside of air cleaner 50 again by whole outlet 70.Promptly as shown in figure 11, discharge air by top, side and the below of air cleaner 50.

If the signal of judged result input is not ' a high wind pattern ', side discharge blade 72b rotates open side outlet 70b, and bottom surface discharge blade 72c closes the stage 130 of bottom surface outlet 70c.And judge whether the signal of being imported is the stage 140 of ' apoplexy pattern '.

If the judged result input signal is ' an apoplexy pattern ', the intensity of Air Blast fan 66 is set to ' apoplexy ' state, and the stage 150 of rotating with apoplexy.Promptly be not equivalent to ' weak wind pattern ' this moment if the judged result input signal is not ' apoplexy pattern ', and Air Blast fan 66 is set to ' weak wind ' state, and its rotating speed is the stage 160 of step-down also.

By said process, rotate discharge blade 72 according to separately signal, open and close outlet 70, and the intensity of regulating Air Blast fan 66 air that needs from air cleaner discharging operation person.So the operator selects ' high wind pattern ' pattern in addition, when promptly selecting ' apoplexy pattern ' or ' weak wind pattern ', close bottom surface outlet 70c, as shown in figure 12, air cleaner 50 is not discharged air downwards.

When not needing to start air cleaner 50, its operation is with to set the operational mode program identical, and the key that operation is formed on shell 52 or remote controller (scheming not show) stops the operation of air cleaner 50.

The front is described the present invention in detail, but those of ordinary skill in the art can make change miscellaneous and modification in the claim scope.

For example, the foregoing description middle filtrator assembly 61 is linked in sequence with fore filter 61a, HEPA 61b, odor removal filter 61c, nano active carbon filter 61d, deozonize filter 61e, nano silver filtering device 61f's, but the position that also can change each filter.

The embodiment of the invention always total fore filter 61a, HEPA 61b, odor removal filter 61c, nano active carbon filter 61d, six filters of deozonize filter 61e, nano silver filtering device 61f constitute, but can save one of them above filter or can add other extra filters.

In addition, input signal is divided into ' high wind pattern ', ' apoplexy pattern ' and ' weak wind pattern ' in the foregoing description, except such differentiation, can also set ' park mode ' and wait other patterns to use.When promptly setting ' park mode ', close bottom surface outlet 70c and make air not discharge, do not influence sleep from the below of air cleaner.

Claims

1. an air cleaner is characterized in that this air cleaner has the air that purifies to side guiding and a side outlet of discharging and a bottom surface outlet that the air that purifies guides downwards; Its side outlet and bottom surface outlet are optionally to open and close according to operator's setting.

2. according to the air cleaner described in the claim 1, it is characterized in that only just open bottom surface outlet when setting the high wind pattern.

3. control method according to the air cleaner described in the claim 1 is characterized in that this control method comprised with the next stage:

The input phase of input operational mode;

Judge the differentiation stage of the operational mode kind of importing;

Optionally open and close the switching stage of outlet according to input operational mode kind.

4. according to the control method of the air cleaner described in the claim 3, it is characterized in that judging in the described differentiation stage whether the operational mode of being imported is the high wind pattern.

5. according to the control method of the air cleaner described in the claim 3, it is characterized in that the described switching stage is meant: only when the operational mode of being imported is the high wind pattern, just control the switching outlet.