CN218379821U - Ion generator, filtering component and air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an ionizer, a filter assembly and an air conditioner, the ionizer including: a first housing having a guide groove; and the ion generation assembly is positioned in the guide groove and used for emitting ions outwards based on the notch of the guide groove.

Description

Ion generator, filtering component and air conditioner

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to an ion generator, a filtering assembly and an air conditioner.

Background

Currently, as the living standard is improved, people have higher and higher requirements on the quality of indoor air, and air purification equipment with an ion generator is gradually and widely applied to the purification of indoor air. The ion generator can generate ions by utilizing a method of boosting the power frequency voltage to the required voltage by using the high-voltage transformer, and the ions are released into the surrounding air so as to be neutralized with suspended particles floating in the air and carrying positive charges, so that the suspended particles are deposited, thereby purifying the air and improving the living environment of people.

The current air cleaning device with the ion generator usually has a black wall effect.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present disclosure provides an ionizer, a filter assembly and an air conditioner.

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an ionizer including:

a first housing having a guide groove;

and the ion generation assembly is positioned in the guide groove and used for emitting ions outwards based on the notch of the guide groove.

In some embodiments, the ionizer further comprises:

a second housing having an insulating property, the second housing being located outside the first housing and having an opening fitted with the notch of the guide groove.

In some embodiments, the guide slot has a slot bottom;

the area of the groove bottom is smaller than that of the groove opening, and the connecting surface of the edge of the groove bottom and the edge of the groove opening is a plane.

In some embodiments, the first housing is frustum shaped.

According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a filter assembly comprising:

a frame body for mounting the filter screen;

the ionizer according to any one of the above embodiments;

the ion generator is mounted on the frame.

In some embodiments, the ionizer is rotatably mounted on the frame.

In some embodiments, the frame body is provided with a grid-type air inlet hole;

the filter assembly includes: and the filter screen is arranged at the grid type air inlet.

In some embodiments, the frame comprises: a first frame body and a second frame body; the first frame body includes: a first accommodating chamber having a first opening facing the second frame body;

the second frame body includes: a second accommodating chamber having a second opening facing the first frame;

the first frame body is arranged on the second frame body, and the first accommodating cavity is communicated with the second accommodating cavity to form an accommodating space;

in some embodiments, the first frame includes a first locking member;

the second frame body comprises a second locking piece;

when the first frame body is arranged on the second frame body, the first locking piece is matched with the second locking piece and used for fixing the first frame body on the second frame body.

In some implementations, the filter assembly further includes:

the filter element is positioned in the accommodating space of the frame body;

the filter core is the static filter core, the static filter core is used for carrying out the electrostatic precipitation to the air and handles.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an air conditioner including:

the middle frame comprises an air inlet;

the filter assembly of any of the above embodiments;

the filtering component is positioned at the air inlet.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can have the following beneficial effects:

ions generated by the conventional ion generator are radially scattered into the air, suspended particles with positive charges in the air can be gathered with other suspended particles to form larger particles and gradually fall down after encountering negative ions, and a filter assembly provided with the ion generator is usually close to a wall, so that the larger suspended particles are easily adsorbed to the nearby wall to form a black wall effect. The ion generator provided by the embodiment of the disclosure includes a first housing, and the first housing has a guide groove therein, and the ion generating assembly is located in the guide groove, so that the ion generating assembly can emit ions toward a specific position based on the direction of the notch of the guide groove, without causing ion scattering, thereby improving the generation of the black wall effect.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view illustrating a structure of an ionizer according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a structure of an ionizer shown in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a first frame body of a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a first frame of a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a first frame of a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration in which an air conditioning and filter assembly is separated, according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural view illustrating an air conditioner equipped with a filter assembly according to an exemplary embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The following description refers to the accompanying drawings in which the same numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the exemplary embodiments below do not represent all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of devices consistent with certain aspects of the present disclosure, as detailed in the appended claims.

In the specification, unless otherwise explicitly stated, the terms "first" and "second" are used only for description to distinguish constituent elements, and should not be understood as indicating an order. Unless expressly stated otherwise, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed in a generic sense including, but not limited to, directly, indirectly, removably "connected," "secured," and the like.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the disclosed embodiment provides an ionizer 100 including:

a first housing 10, the first housing 10 having a guide groove 2;

and the ion generating assembly 3 is positioned in the guide groove 2 and used for emitting ions outwards based on the notch 21 of the guide groove 2.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the ion generator 100 is a device for generating air negative ions, and can be applied to any device with air conditioning function, and the ion generator utilizes a high-voltage dc at the releasing end to generate high corona to increase negative ion components in the air, adsorb and settle suspended particles and other harmful substances such as viruses, bacteria, formaldehyde and the like, which are positively charged in the air, so as to play roles of air freshening, smoke abatement, dust removal, sterilization and the like, and the redundant negative ions can also effectively activate oxygen molecules in the air, so that the oxygen molecules are more active and can be absorbed by human body more easily, thereby improving sleep, lung function, metabolism and the like.

The device having an air conditioning function may be, for example, an air conditioner, an air purifier, a fresh air machine, or the like.

The ion generator includes a first housing 10, the first housing 10 having a guide groove 2, the ion generating assembly 3 being located in the guide groove 2 and emitting ions toward a specified position based on a direction of a notch 21 of the guide groove 2.

The ion generating unit 3 is a device for generating ions.

In the disclosed embodiment, the guide slot 2 causes the ion generating assembly 3 to emit ions towards the air inlet.

Through the guide effect of guide way 2, the ion that the subassembly 3 produced takes place for the ion is towards air inlet department transmission, under the negative pressure's of fan subassembly effect, enter into the target space of equipment completely, and can not be in the radial scattered air that is in, from this, can get into in the target space back at the ion, with the suspended particle in the same gas that gets into in the target space carry out the neutralization, and make it subside in the device of collecting the dust in the target space, thereby can not just form great suspended particle in air inlet department, from this, black wall effect has been reduced.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that in some other embodiments, the guide slot 2 may also cause the ion generating assembly to emit ions towards any other location.

The ionizer further includes:

a second housing 20, the second housing 20 having an insulating property, the second housing 20 being located outside the first housing 10 and having an opening adapted to the notch 21 of the guide groove 2.

The second housing 20 is a protective housing of the ionizer, and is made of an insulating material, including but not limited to a plastic material such as Polycarbonate (PC), and the PC material has good mechanical properties, high strength, good dimensional stability, low creep property, and good insulation property.

The ionizer is usually installed on the filter assembly, and when a user cleans or replaces the filter assembly, the ionizer is easily touched, and when the ionizer is just stopped, a large amount of charged ions may exist in the air, thereby causing the possibility of electric shock. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, a ring of second housing 20 made of an insulating material is further enclosed outside the first housing 10 for protecting.

The second housing 20 has an opening matched with the notch 21 of the guide groove 2, so that the ion generating assembly 3 can not influence the emission of ions during operation while the protection effect is achieved.

The second housing 20 is manufactured, for example, by an injection molding process that is fast, efficient, and dimensionally accurate.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the second housing 20 and the first housing 10 are two separate members, the second housing 20 is sleeved on the outer side of the first housing 10, and a gap may be provided between the second housing 20 and the first housing 10, so that the overall weight of the ion generator may be reduced while the protection function is performed.

In some embodiments, the second housing 20 may be a unitary structure with the first housing 10, and is manufactured by an injection molding process, i.e., the wall thickness of the first housing 10 is increased for protection.

The guide groove 2 has a groove bottom 22;

wherein, the area of the groove bottom 22 is smaller than that of the groove opening 21, and the connecting surface of the edge of the groove bottom 22 and the edge of the groove opening 21 is a plane.

The area of the groove bottom 22 of the guide groove 2 is smaller than that of the notch 21, so that the connecting surface between the edge of the groove bottom 22 and the edge of the notch 21 is an inclined surface.

Alternatively, the connecting surface may guide the movement trajectory of the ions so that the ions generated by the ion generating assembly 3 are emitted to specific positions according to a predetermined trajectory.

Still alternatively, the ion generating assembly 3 may be installed along a direction parallel to the connection surface, so that the ion generating assembly 3 may emit ions at different angles according to different inclination angles, so that the ions generated by the ion generating assembly 3 are emitted toward a specific direction.

The junction of the edge of the slot bottom 22 and the edge of the slot opening 21 is planar and thus does not block the emission path of ions.

The first housing 10 is shaped like a frustum of a pyramid.

The shape of the first housing 10 can be adaptively changed according to the shape of the guide slot 2, and in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the first housing 10 is substantially in a frustum shape, so that the overall weight of the ionizer can be effectively reduced, and the installation area of the ionizer can be reduced, so that the air intake is not affected by the oversize volume of the ionizer.

In some other embodiments, the first casing 10 may also be substantially square, rectangular or any other shape.

As shown in fig. 3-6, embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a filter assembly 200, including:

a frame 4 for mounting a filter screen 6;

the ionizer 100 of any of the above embodiments;

the ionizer 100 is mounted on the frame 4.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the filter assembly 200 is a device having a filtering function, and may be applied to any equipment having an air conditioning function, and fine particulate matters (PM 2.5), microorganisms, large particulate matters, or the like in air may be filtered by the filter assembly, so as to purify air quality.

The air inlet department at equipment is installed usually to the filtering component, covers the air intake area of equipment completely, so, can utilize filtering component to carry out the filtration of maximize, purify to the gas that enters into equipment target space through the air intake, improve purification efficiency.

The shape of the filter assembly can be adaptively changed according to the shape of the air inlet of the equipment. In the disclosed embodiment, the filter assembly is generally rectangular, but the filter assembly may be, for example, square, circular, or any other shape that fits the shape of the corresponding intake vent.

The frame 4 is adapted to support at least one screen 6 mounted on the filter assembly. The frame body 4 may be provided with only one filter screen or a plurality of filter screens.

The frame body 4 may be made of a material having a light weight, good abrasion resistance and good workability, such as plastic, for example, polypropylene (PP) material.

The frame body 4 can also be produced by an injection molding process.

The material and the aperture of the filter screen 6 can be the same or different. When guaranteeing the intake, the thicker of filter screen 6 or the quantity of filter screen is the more, and the filter capacity is better. The number of the filter screens 6 can be increased or decreased appropriately according to the filtering requirement and the air exchange requirement.

The ion generator is installed on the frame body 4 and emits negative ions, so that suspended particles such as dust and charged ions in air entering the air inlet are settled in a device for collecting dust in the filtering assembly through the neutralized sum, the air purifying effect is achieved, and meanwhile, the redundant negative ions can also generate a good refreshing effect on the air.

The filter assembly may have only one ionizer or may have a plurality of ionizers.

For example, as shown in fig. 6, the ion generators may be arranged side by side and spaced apart on one side of the air intake side of the frame body 4.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, the ion generators may be oppositely disposed on both side edges of the air intake side of the frame body 4.

Further illustratively, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the ionizers may be arranged in parallel and at intervals on one side of the leeward side of the frame body 4.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the ionizer may be installed at any position on the frame body 4 as long as it can be directed to emit ions at a desired specific position, and the embodiment of the present disclosure does not limit this.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the ionizer is detachably fixed on the frame body 4, and the detachable installation manner can facilitate subsequent maintenance and replacement.

In some other embodiments, the ionizer can be secured to the frame 4 of the filter assembly by any means such as screwing, gluing or welding.

For example, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the frame body 4 may have a mounting position 9 for mounting the ionizer, and the ionizer may be fixed to the frame body 4 by being snapped into the mounting position 9.

Further exemplarily, the frame 4 may have a sliding slot, and one end of the ionizer may be engaged in the sliding slot and may slide in the sliding slot, so that the ionizer may be slid according to different requirements, and emit ions toward corresponding positions.

The ionizer is rotatably mounted on the frame 4.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 7 and 8, one end of the ionizer 100 is rotatably and fixedly connected to the frame body. The rotatable connection mode can facilitate the user to adjust the emission angle of the ion generator according to different requirements so as to emit ions to corresponding positions.

The frame body is provided with a grid type air inlet hole 5;

the filter assembly includes: and the filter screen 6 is arranged at the grid-type air inlet 5.

The frame body 4 can be provided with grid type fresh air inlet 5, and the grid type fresh air inlet 5 can play better support effect to the filter screen 6 on the one hand, carries out the surrounding protection to the filter screen 6, and on the other hand can effectively increase the air inlet area of fresh air inlet, improves air purification efficiency.

The filter screen 6 may be an integral filter screen, which is integrally covered on the frame 4. The filter screen 6 can also be a plurality of small grid-shaped filter screens and is embedded in the grid-shaped air inlet holes of the frame body 4.

Optionally, a filter screen frame may be fixedly connected to the grid-type air inlet holes 5, and a filter screen 6 is fixedly connected to the filter screen frame.

Optionally, the filter screen 6 and the frame 4 are integrally formed.

The frame body 4 includes: a first frame body 41 and a second frame body 42; the first frame body 41 includes: a first accommodating chamber having a first opening facing the second frame;

the second frame body 42 includes: a second accommodating chamber having a second opening facing the first frame;

the first frame body 41 is mounted on the second frame body 42, and the first accommodating cavity is communicated with the second accommodating cavity to form an accommodating space;

in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the frame 4 is a separate structure, and includes a first frame 41 and a second frame 42.

The first frame 41 and the second frame 42 are movably connected to each other, that is, the first frame 41 and the second frame 42 can be separated from each other. In some embodiments, the connection between the first frame body 41 and the second frame body 42 includes, but is not limited to: threaded connection, plug-in connection or clamping connection and the like. The movable connection mode is convenient for placing, taking out or replacing functional devices such as a filter element, a functional module or a dust collecting device in the accommodating space.

The first accommodating cavity of the first frame 41 and the second accommodating cavity of the second frame 42 are communicated through the first opening and the second opening to form an accommodating space for accommodating a functional device.

For example, the first frame body 41 may be sleeved on the second frame body 42, that is, the size of the first receiving cavity is larger than that of the second receiving cavity, and the first frame body 41 covers the second frame body 42.

For example, the second frame 42 may be sleeved on the first frame 41, that is, the size of the second receiving cavity is larger than that of the first receiving cavity, and the second frame 42 covers the first frame 41.

Further exemplarily, the first frame body 41 is mounted on the second frame body 42, that is, the size of the first accommodating cavity is equal to the size of the second accommodating cavity, and the first frame body 41 just closes the second opening of the second frame body 42.

In some other embodiments, the frame 4 may also be a unitary structure.

The size of the first opening and the second opening may be determined according to the size of the functional device, and the size of the first opening and the second opening should be larger than the size of the functional device so as to facilitate the installation of the functional device in the accommodating space.

The accommodating space may be provided in a regular shape or an approximately regular shape, for example, a rectangular parallelepiped or an approximately rectangular parallelepiped. The housing space may be provided in any other shape as long as it can house the functional device placed therein.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the ionizer is located in the accommodating space, so that a user is prevented from accidentally touching the ionizer to cause an electric shock when the device is in operation.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 6 to 8, the ionizer may be located outside the accommodating space, so that the ionizer can be maintained without disassembling the filter assembly.

The first frame body 41 includes a first locking member 71;

the second frame body 42 includes a second locking piece 72;

when the first frame 41 is mounted on the second frame 42, the first locking member 71 is engaged with the second locking member 72, so as to fix the first frame 41 to the second frame 42.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, in order to ensure the installation stability of the first frame body 41 and the second frame body 42, the first frame body 41 includes a first locking member 71, and the second frame body 42 includes a second locking member 72.

When the first frame body 41 is mounted on the second frame body 42, the first locking members 71 are aligned with the second locking members 72, so that the first frame body 41 is fixed on the second frame body 42 by the cooperation of the first locking members 71 and the second locking members 72.

For example, the first locking member 71 and the second locking member 72 may be screw holes, and when the first frame body 41 closes the second opening of the second frame body 42, the screw hole of the first frame body 41 is aligned with the screw hole of the second frame body 42, and then the first frame body 41 is screwed to the second frame body 42 by a screw connection member passing through the screw hole of the first frame body 41 and the screw hole of the second frame body 42.

As another example, the first locking member 71 may be a snap, the second locking member 72 may be a card slot, and the first frame body 41 may be snapped onto the second frame body 42 by means of the snap and the card slot.

Here, the card slot may also be a through hole.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, there may be a plurality of first locking members 71 and a plurality of second locking members 72, the plurality of first locking members 71 may be arranged on the first frame body 41 at intervals, the plurality of second locking members 72 may be arranged on the second frame body 42 at intervals, and one first locking member 71 is aligned with one second locking member 72.

The filter assembly further comprises:

the filter element 8 is positioned in the accommodating space of the frame body 4;

the filter core 8 is a high field dielectric filter core, which is used for performing electric dust removal treatment on air.

The filter element 8 is an important device in the filter assembly and is a main influence factor influencing the air purification effect.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the filter element is an electrostatic filter element.

The electrostatic filter element can carry out electric precipitation on the air flow filtered by the filter screen, and adsorb larger suspended particles formed by the neutralization and aggregation of ions generated by the ion generator, thereby better realizing the effect of purifying air.

Because electrified dust particle can adsorb on electrostatic filter, along with the increase of the length of time of filter assembly's use, can accumulate a large amount of dust particles on the electrostatic filter in the filter assembly.

Based on this, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, because the first frame body 41 and the second frame body 42 of the filter assembly are detachably connected, the first frame body 41 or the second frame body 42 of the filter assembly can be opened by the accessible, so that the electrostatic filter element can be conveniently and quickly taken out of the filter assembly to be cleaned, and the cleaned electrostatic filter element is placed in the filter assembly, thereby prolonging the service life of the filter assembly and reducing the use cost of a user.

In some other embodiments, the filter element 8 may be any other filter element.

Alternatively, the filter element 8 may have an adsorption layer through which impurities in the air flowing through the filter element are adsorbed.

The filter element 8 can comprise a multi-layer adsorption structure, and adsorption of various substances in the air is realized through superposition of a plurality of different adsorption layers, so that the effects of air filtration and purification are achieved.

As shown in fig. 9 and 10, an embodiment of the present disclosure also provides an air conditioner 300, including:

the middle frame comprises an air inlet 301;

the filter assembly 200 according to any of the previous embodiments;

the filter assembly 200 is located at the air inlet 301.

The filter assembly is arranged at the air inlet 301 of the air conditioner middle frame and completely covers the air inlet 301 area of the equipment, so that the gas entering the target space of the equipment through the air inlet 301 can be filtered and purified to the maximum extent by utilizing the filter assembly, and the purification efficiency is improved.

The mounting mode of the middle frame and the filter assembly can be as follows: snap-fit, threaded connection or plug-in connection, etc.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed herein. This disclosure is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements that have been described above and shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims (11)

1. An ionizer, characterized by comprising:

a first housing having a guide groove;

and the ion generation assembly is positioned in the guide groove and used for emitting ions outwards based on the notch of the guide groove.

2. The ionizer of claim 1, further comprising:

a second housing having an insulating property, the second housing being located outside the first housing and having an opening fitted with the notch of the guide groove.

3. The ionizer of claim 1,

the guide groove is provided with a groove bottom;

the area of the groove bottom is smaller than that of the groove opening, and the connecting surface of the edge of the groove bottom and the edge of the groove opening is a plane.

4. The ionizer of claim 1,

the first shell is in a frustum pyramid shape.

5. A filter assembly, comprising:

a frame body for mounting the filter screen;

the ionizer according to any one of claims 1 to 4;

the ion generator is mounted on the frame body.

6. The filter assembly of claim 5,

the ion generator is rotatably mounted on the frame body.

7. The filter assembly of claim 5,

the frame body is provided with grid-type air inlet holes;

the filter assembly includes: and the filter screen is arranged at the grid type air inlet.

8. The filter assembly of claim 5,

the frame body includes: a first frame body and a second frame body; the first frame body includes: a first accommodating chamber having a first opening facing the second frame;

the second frame body includes: a second accommodating chamber having a second opening facing the first frame;

the first frame body is arranged on the second frame body, and the first accommodating cavity is communicated with the second accommodating cavity to form an accommodating space.

9. The filter assembly of claim 8,

the first frame body comprises a first locking member;

the second frame body comprises a second locking piece;

when the first frame body is arranged on the second frame body, the first locking piece is matched with the second locking piece and used for fixing the first frame body on the second frame body.

10. The filter assembly of claim 8, further comprising:

the filter element is positioned in the accommodating space of the frame body;

the filter core is the static filter core, the static filter core is used for carrying out the electrostatic precipitation to the air and handles.

11. An air conditioner, characterized in that the air conditioner comprises:

the middle frame comprises an air inlet;

the filter assembly of any one of claims 5 to 10;

the filtering component is positioned at the air inlet.

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