CN217613642U - Dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment - Google Patents

Dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment Download PDF

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CN217613642U
CN217613642U CN202222407766.4U CN202222407766U CN217613642U CN 217613642 U CN217613642 U CN 217613642U CN 202222407766 U CN202222407766 U CN 202222407766U CN 217613642 U CN217613642 U CN 217613642U
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刘晓东
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The application discloses a dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment, which comprises a shell, wherein a filter plate is arranged on one side of the shell, and an air outlet structure is arranged on the other side of the shell; the cleaning brush, the filter screen, the driving mechanism and the fan blades are arranged in the shell; the brush body of the cleaning brush is abutted with the filter screen; the driving mechanism comprises a sleeve, a double-shaft motor, a power wheel and an output wheel; output shafts on two sides of the double-shaft motor are respectively connected with a rotating shaft of the fan blade and a rotating shaft of the power wheel; the power wheel is sleeved in the output wheel, and the output wheel is rotatably arranged in the sleeve; the outer wall of the power wheel is hinged with a pawl, an elastic part is arranged at the rotating shaft of the pawl, and the inner wall of the output wheel is provided with inner ratchet teeth matched with the pawl; the output wheel is rotationally connected with the cleaning brush through a transmission mechanism; the fan blades are driven to rotate when the double-shaft motor rotates forwards, and the fan blades and the cleaning brush are driven to rotate simultaneously when the double-shaft motor rotates backwards. The application solves the problem that the dust treatment effect and the efficiency of the air conditioning device in the prior art are not ideal.

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Dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment
Technical Field
The application belongs to the technical field of dispersed particles separated in gas, and particularly relates to a dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment.
Background
The dust filtering and cleaning device of the heating ventilation air-conditioning equipment is mainly used for heating and ventilation inside buildings, and when the existing dust filtering and cleaning device of the heating ventilation air-conditioning equipment is used for ventilation, dispersed dust in air needs to be separated, and clean gas is conveyed to the interior of the dust filtering and cleaning device, so that an improved filter needs to be installed on the dust filtering and cleaning device of the heating ventilation air-conditioning equipment.
However, the existing filter has unsatisfactory dust treatment effect and efficiency to the outside air, and the filter screen has long service life, dust can adhere to the surface of the meshes of the filter screen, so that the meshes are easily blocked, and the filtering efficiency of the filter screen is reduced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The embodiment of the application provides a dust filtering and cleaning device of heating ventilation air conditioning equipment, and solves the problem that the dust treatment effect and the efficiency of an air conditioning device in the prior art are not ideal.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a dust filtering and cleaning device for a heating ventilation air conditioning equipment, which comprises a housing, a filter plate, a cleaning brush, a filter screen for filtering small-particle impurities, a driving mechanism, and fan blades;
the filter plate is arranged on one side of the shell, and round holes for filtering large-volume sundries are formed in the filter plate; an air outlet structure is arranged on the other side of the shell;
the cleaning brush, the filter screen, the driving mechanism, the fan blades and the electric heating net are sequentially arranged in the shell along the flowing direction of the air flow; the brush body of the cleaning brush is abutted with the filter screen;
the driving mechanism comprises a sleeve, and a double-shaft motor, a power wheel and an output wheel which are arranged in the sleeve;
output shafts on two sides of the double-shaft motor are respectively connected with a rotating shaft of the fan blade and a rotating shaft of the power wheel; the power wheel is sleeved in the output wheel, and the output wheel is rotatably arranged in the sleeve; the sleeve is fixed in the shell through a mounting bracket;
a pawl is hinged to the outer wall of the power wheel, an elastic piece is arranged at a rotating shaft of the pawl, and inner teeth of a ratchet wheel matched with the pawl are arranged on the inner wall of the output wheel;
the output wheel is rotationally connected with the cleaning brush through a transmission mechanism;
the double-shaft motor drives the fan blades to rotate when rotating positively, the double-shaft motor drives the fan blades and the power wheel to rotate simultaneously when rotating negatively, and the power wheel drives the cleaning brush to rotate through the output wheel and the transmission mechanism.
In one possible implementation, the filter screen is a circular surface, the cleaning brush is a long strip shape, the cleaning brush is arranged along the radial direction of the filter screen, and the cleaning brush passes through the circle center of the filter screen.
In one possible implementation, the transmission mechanism includes a power input body and a power output body;
the power input body and the power output body are respectively arranged on two sides of the filter screen, and the power input body and the power output body have the same structure;
the power input body and the power output body respectively comprise a sliding rail with an annular structure and two magnets symmetrically arranged in the sliding rail; the sliding rail is fixed on the inner wall of the shell, and the magnet is arranged in the sliding rail in a sliding manner;
the magnets corresponding to the power input body and the power output body are mutually attracted;
the two magnets of the power input body are connected to the output wheel through a transmission rod;
two ends of the cleaning brush are respectively connected with the two magnets of the power output body.
In a possible implementation, the two magnets of the power input body are connected to the output end of the gear reducer through a transmission rod, and the input end of the gear reducer is connected to the rotating shaft of the output wheel.
The embodiment of the utility model provides an in the one or more technical scheme that provide, have following technological effect or advantage at least:
the embodiment of the utility model provides a heating and ventilation air conditioning equipment's dust filters belt cleaning device, the device is when using, biax motor corotation, biax motor drive flabellum rotates, makes outdoor air pass through electric heating net after filter plate and filter screen two-stage filter in proper order, if when needing the heating, opens electric heating net to the air heating of input, and the air passes through the air-out structure after the heating and inputs indoor and then realize the purpose of heating, and electric heating net can also realize certain bactericidal ability. If only need when ventilating, the air is direct to be imported indoor through air-out structure. When needing to clear up adnexed dust on the filter screen, control the reversal of biax motor, biax motor simultaneous drive flabellum and power wheel rotate, the power wheel passes through pawl and ratchet internal tooth and drives the output wheel and rotate, the output wheel passes through drive mechanism and drives the rotation of clearance brush, the brush body and the filter screen butt of clearance brush, make the brush body of clearance brush sweep adnexed dust on the filter screen, during the flabellum reversal, the wind direction has been changed simultaneously, make outside the air can blow off the filter with the dust of sweeping, and then realize the purpose of removing dust. The utility model discloses can utilize drive flabellum pivoted motor to drive the clearance brush simultaneously and rotate, and then need not to set up drive clearance brush pivoted motor, and then simplified the device's structure, when the device cleared up the dust simultaneously, changed the wind direction for the dust can blow off the device, and consequently the dust removal effect is good, and is efficient, the device simple structure, and the practicality is strong, convenient to popularize and use.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some of the embodiments described in the present application, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a dust filtering and cleaning device of a heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 isbase:Sub>A sectional viewbase:Sub>A-base:Sub>A of fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an installation schematic diagram of the power wheel and the output wheel provided by the embodiment of the present invention.
Reference numerals: 1-a housing; 2-a filter plate; 3-air outlet structure; 4-cleaning brush; 5, filtering the filter screen; 6-a drive mechanism; 61-a sleeve; 62-a two-shaft motor; 63-a power wheel; 64-a pawl; 65-an output wheel; 66-ratchet internal teeth; 7-fan blades; 8-an electric heating net; 9-a transmission mechanism; 91-a power input body; 92-a power take-off; 10-a slide rail; 11-a magnet; 12-a transmission rod; 13-gear reducer.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are only for convenience of describing the embodiments of the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. The terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "coupled" are to be construed broadly and may include, for example, fixed connections, removable connections, or integral connections; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the embodiments of the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 3, the embodiment of the present invention provides a dust filtering and cleaning device for heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment, which comprises a housing 1, a filter plate 2, a cleaning brush 4, a filter screen 5 for filtering small-particle impurities, a driving mechanism 6, and fan blades 7.
One side of the shell 1 is provided with a filter plate 2, and the filter plate 2 is provided with a round hole for filtering large-volume sundries. The other side of the shell 1 is provided with an air outlet structure 3.
The cleaning brush 4, the filter screen 5, the driving mechanism 6, the fan blades 7 and the electric heating net 8 are sequentially arranged in the shell 1 along the flowing direction of the air flow. The brush body of the cleaning brush 4 is abutted against the filter screen 5.
The drive mechanism 6 includes a sleeve 61, and a biaxial motor 62, a power wheel 63, and an output wheel 65 provided in the sleeve 61.
Output shafts on both sides of the double-shaft motor 62 are respectively connected to a rotating shaft of the fan blade 7 and a rotating shaft of the power wheel 63. The power wheel 63 is sleeved in the output wheel 65, and the output wheel 65 is rotatably arranged in the sleeve 61. The sleeve 61 is fixed in the housing 1 by a mounting bracket.
The outer wall of the power wheel 63 is hinged with a pawl 64, the rotating shaft of the pawl 64 is provided with an elastic part, and the inner wall of the output wheel 65 is provided with ratchet internal teeth 66 matched with the pawl 64.
The output wheel 65 is connected in rotation with the cleaning brush 4 via a transmission 9.
When the double-shaft motor 62 rotates forwards, the fan blade 7 is driven to rotate, when the double-shaft motor 62 rotates backwards, the fan blade 7 and the power wheel 63 are driven to rotate simultaneously, and the power wheel 63 drives the cleaning brush 4 to rotate through the output wheel 65 and the transmission mechanism 9.
It should be noted that the air outlet structure 3 is in a closed shape, and a temperature sensor can be arranged at the air outlet structure 3, so that a user can better perform heating. The filter 2 is used for filtering the bulky debris, realizes prefiltering, and filter screen 5 is used for realizing the tiny particle debris, for example dust etc..
The pawl 64 on the outer wall of the power wheel 63 and the internal ratchet teeth 66 on the inner wall of the output wheel 65 can only realize the rotation of the fan blades 7 when the motor rotates forwards, and the pawl 64 slides over the internal ratchet teeth 66. When the motor rotates reversely, the fan blades 7 change directions, meanwhile, the pawls 64 are clamped on the inner ratchet teeth 66, and the power wheel 63 drives the output wheel 65 to rotate through the pawls 64 and the inner ratchet teeth 66.
When the device works, the double-shaft motor 62 rotates positively, the double-shaft motor 62 drives the fan blades 7 to rotate, outdoor air passes through the electric heating net 8 after being filtered by the filter plates 2 and the filter screen 5 in two stages in sequence, if heating is needed, the electric heating net 8 is opened to heat the input air, the air is input into a room through the air outlet structure 3 after being heated, and then the purpose of heating is achieved, and the electric heating net 8 can also achieve certain sterilization capacity. If only need when ventilating, the air is direct to be imported indoor through air-out structure 3. When needing to clear up adnexed dust on the filter screen 5, control the reversal of biax motor 62, biax motor 62 drives flabellum 7 and power wheel 63 simultaneously and rotates, power wheel 63 passes through pawl 64 and ratchet internal tooth 66 and drives output wheel 65 and rotates, output wheel 65 passes through drive mechanism 9 and drives cleaning brush 4 and rotate, cleaning brush 4's the brush body and the 5 butts of filter screen, make cleaning brush 4's the brush body sweep adnexed dust on the filter screen 5, when flabellum 7 reverses, the wind direction has been changed simultaneously, make the air can blow off the dust of sweeping off outside filter 2, and then realize the purpose of removing dust. The utility model discloses can utilize 7 pivoted motors of drive flabellum to drive simultaneously and clear up brush 4 rotations, and then need not to set up 4 pivoted motors of drive clearance brush, and then simplified the device's structure, when the device cleared up the dust simultaneously, changed the wind direction for the dust can blow off the device, and consequently the dust removal effect is good, and is efficient, the device simple structure, and the practicality is strong, convenient to popularize and use.
In this embodiment, the filter screen 5 is a circular surface, the cleaning brush 4 is a strip, the cleaning brush 4 is arranged along the radial direction of the filter screen 5, and the cleaning brush 4 passes through the center of the filter screen 5.
It should be noted that the circular filter screen 5 is suitable for the circular air intake channel of the present invention. The strip-shaped cleaning brush 4 has small area, so that the air inlet efficiency of the filter screen 5 cannot be greatly influenced. Meanwhile, when the long cleaning brush 4 rotates, the whole cleaning operation of the filter screen 5 can be realized.
In the present embodiment, the transmission mechanism 9 includes a power input body 91 and a power output body 92.
The power input body 91 and the power output body 92 are respectively arranged at two sides of the filter screen 5, the power input body 91 and the power output body 92 have the same structure, and both the power input body 91 and the power output body 92 comprise a slide rail 10 with an annular structure and two magnets 11 symmetrically arranged in the slide rail 10. The slide rail 10 is fixed on the inner wall of the shell 1, and the magnet 11 is installed in the slide rail 10 in a sliding manner.
The magnets 11 of the power input body 91 and the power output body 92 are attracted to each other.
The two magnets 11 of the power input body 91 are connected to the output wheel 65 through the transmission rod 12.
Both ends of the cleaning brush 4 are connected to the two magnets 11 of the power output body 92, respectively.
It should be noted that the output wheel 65 drives the two magnets 11 of the power input body 91 to rotate in the slide rail 10 through the transmission rod 12, and the two magnets 11 of the power output body 92 rotate in the slide rail 10 due to the mutual attraction between the magnets 11 corresponding to the power input body 91 and the power output body 92, so as to drive the cleaning brush 4 to rotate, thereby achieving the ash removal operation.
The utility model discloses a two magnets 11 of inter attraction transmit, consequently need not to set up the shaft hole that supplies the drive shaft to pass through at filter screen 5 center, have saved rotary seal device and support the support in shaft hole, also need not to set up the space that supplies drive mechanism 9 to pass through in the circumference of filter screen 5 simultaneously, avoid the dust to gather in drive mechanism 9 and pass through, and have the problem that is not convenient for clear up and get into the building inside.
In this embodiment, the two magnets 11 of the power input body 91 are connected to the output end of the gear reducer 13 through the transmission rod 12, and the input end of the gear reducer 13 is connected to the rotating shaft of the output wheel 65.
It should be noted that the gear reducer 13 can realize the purpose of slowly rotating the cleaning brush 4 when the fan blade 7 rotates at a high speed, so that the problem that the fan blade 7 and the cleaning brush 4 rotate synchronously and wind power is insufficient or the cleaning brush 4 rotates too fast is avoided, and the dust removal effect is further ensured. The gear reducer 13 may employ a planetary gear reducer.
In the present embodiment, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

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1. The utility model provides a heating ventilation air conditioning equipment's dust filters belt cleaning device which characterized in that: comprises a shell (1), a filter plate (2), a cleaning brush (4), a filter screen (5) for filtering small-particle impurities, a driving mechanism (6) and fan blades (7);
the filter plate (2) is arranged on one side of the shell (1), and round holes for filtering large-volume impurities are formed in the filter plate (2); an air outlet structure (3) is arranged on the other side of the shell (1);
the cleaning brush (4), the filter screen (5), the driving mechanism (6) and the fan blades (7) are sequentially arranged in the shell (1) along the airflow flowing direction; the brush body of the cleaning brush (4) is abutted against the filter screen (5);
the driving mechanism (6) comprises a sleeve (61), and a double-shaft motor (62), a power wheel (63) and an output wheel (65) which are all arranged in the sleeve (61);
output shafts on two sides of the double-shaft motor (62) are respectively connected to a rotating shaft of the fan blade (7) and a rotating shaft of the power wheel (63); the power wheel (63) is sleeved in the output wheel (65), and the output wheel (65) is rotatably arranged in the sleeve (61); the sleeve (61) is fixed in the shell (1) through a mounting bracket;
a pawl (64) is hinged to the outer wall of the power wheel (63), an elastic piece is arranged at the rotating shaft of the pawl (64), and ratchet wheel inner teeth (66) matched with the pawl (64) are arranged on the inner wall of the output wheel (65);
the output wheel (65) is rotationally connected with the cleaning brush (4) through a transmission mechanism (9);
the double-shaft motor (62) drives the fan blades (7) to rotate when rotating positively, the double-shaft motor (62) drives the fan blades (7) and the power wheel (63) to rotate simultaneously when rotating negatively, and the power wheel (63) drives the cleaning brush (4) to rotate through the output wheel (65) and the transmission mechanism (9).
2. The hvac apparatus of claim 1, wherein the dust filter cleaning device comprises: the cleaning brush is characterized in that the filter screen (5) is a circular surface, the cleaning brush (4) is in a long strip shape, the cleaning brush (4) is arranged along the radial direction of the filter screen (5), and the cleaning brush (4) passes through the circle center of the filter screen (5).
3. The heating ventilation air-conditioning equipment dust filtering and cleaning device according to claim 2, characterized in that: the transmission mechanism (9) comprises a power input body (91) and a power output body (92);
the power input body (91) and the power output body (92) are respectively arranged on two sides of the filter screen (5), and the power input body (91) and the power output body (92) have the same structure;
the power input body (91) and the power output body (92) respectively comprise a sliding rail (10) with an annular structure and two magnets (11) symmetrically arranged in the sliding rail (10); the slide rail (10) is fixed on the inner wall of the shell (1), and the magnet (11) is installed in the slide rail (10) in a sliding manner;
the magnets (11) corresponding to the power input body (91) and the power output body (92) are mutually attracted;
the two magnets (11) of the power input body (91) are connected to the output wheel (65) through a transmission rod (12);
two ends of the cleaning brush (4) are respectively connected with the two magnets (11) of the power output body (92).
4. The hvac apparatus of claim 3, wherein the dust filter cleaning device comprises: the two magnets (11) of the power input body (91) are connected to the output end of the gear reducer (13) through the transmission rod (12), and the input end of the gear reducer (13) is connected to the rotating shaft of the output wheel (65).
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