CN222068854U - Fresh air treatment device for total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier - Google Patents

Fresh air treatment device for total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier Download PDF

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CN222068854U
CN222068854U CN202323377917.7U CN202323377917U CN222068854U CN 222068854 U CN222068854 U CN 222068854U CN 202323377917 U CN202323377917 U CN 202323377917U CN 222068854 U CN222068854 U CN 222068854U
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本实用新型涉及除湿机技术领域,具体为一种全热回收转轮除湿机用新风处理装置,包括除湿机本体,除湿机本体的两侧分别设置有进风管和出风管,进风管的内部通过支架固定安装有双轴电机,双轴电机左侧输出轴的表面固定连接有扇叶,所述进风管的内部设置有灰尘过滤机构,出风管与进风管之间设置有预热利用机构。本实用新型在锥形过滤网板的作用下对空气中的灰尘进行过滤,并在双轴电机的运行下通过小齿轮、大齿轮、传动杆、同步带带动传动杆和刷毛于锥形过滤网板的表面转动,以扫去其表面吸附的灰尘,同时,刮杆和刷毛扫刷下来的灰尘通过排尘开口落入收集瓶内,在细滤网的作用下可以对灰尘进行过滤收集。

The utility model relates to the technical field of dehumidifiers, specifically a fresh air processing device for a full heat recovery rotary dehumidifier, comprising a dehumidifier body, an air inlet pipe and an air outlet pipe are respectively arranged on both sides of the dehumidifier body, a dual-axis motor is fixedly installed inside the air inlet pipe through a bracket, a fan blade is fixedly connected to the surface of the left output shaft of the dual-axis motor, a dust filtering mechanism is arranged inside the air inlet pipe, and a preheating mechanism is arranged between the air outlet pipe and the air inlet pipe. The utility model filters dust in the air under the action of a conical filter screen plate, and drives the transmission rod and bristles to rotate on the surface of the conical filter screen plate through a small gear, a large gear, a transmission rod, and a synchronous belt under the operation of the dual-axis motor to sweep away the dust adsorbed on the surface. At the same time, the dust swept down by the scraper rod and the bristles falls into the collection bottle through the dust discharge opening, and the dust can be filtered and collected under the action of the fine filter.

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Fresh air treatment device for total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of dehumidifiers, in particular to a fresh air treatment device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier.
Background
The rotary dehumidifier is a relatively scientific dehumidification technology developed recently, belongs to an important branch in the field of air conditioning, and is a typical representative of temperature rising dehumidification. The main production areas of the global rotary dehumidifier are concentrated in the United states, japan, swedish, china and the like, and the rotary dehumidifier in China has been developed for more than 20 years, but the core technology is still mastered in state-owned enterprise industries of the United states, japan, swedish and the like, so the status in the market is not remarkable.
In the prior art, a rotary dehumidifier air duct structure disclosed in China patent with a publication number of CN219934144U adopts a structure comprising a box body, a dehumidifying rotary wheel, an electric heater, a first pipeline and a second pipeline; the dehumidifying rotating wheel is arranged in the box body, and the moisture absorption and dehumidification treatment area of the dehumidifying rotating wheel is communicated with the dehumidifying air duct; the electric heater is arranged outside the box body, the input end of the electric heater is provided with a second air inlet, the output end of the electric heater is communicated with one end of the first pipeline, and the other end of the first pipeline penetrates into the box body and is communicated with one end of the regeneration zone of the dehumidifying rotating wheel; the other end of the regeneration zone of the dehumidification runner is communicated with one end of the second pipeline, the other end of the second pipeline penetrates out of the box body, and the air duct structure of the runner dehumidifier has small resistance when the dehumidification work is carried out, and can fully utilize the dehumidification air duct and the moisture absorption and dehumidification treatment zone of the dehumidification runner to dehumidify, so that the dehumidification efficiency of the dehumidification air duct is improved.
However, the above scheme still has some defects, for example, the scheme lacks the mechanism of ash removal when in actual use, so that in the process of dehumidifying air, dust doped in the air can enter the rotary dehumidifier together, and in the long past, the adsorption and accumulation of the dust can cause blockage and loss of the rotary dehumidifier, therefore, the utility model provides a fresh air treatment device for the full heat recovery rotary dehumidifier.
Disclosure of utility model
The utility model provides a fresh air treatment device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier, which has the beneficial effect of filtering dust and solves the problem that dust doped in the air in the background art enters the dehumidifier to cause loss.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions: the utility model provides a total heat recovery is fresh air processing apparatus for rotary dehumidifier, includes the dehumidifier body, and the both sides of dehumidifier body are provided with the air-supply line respectively and go out the tuber pipe, and the inside of air-supply line has biax motor through support fixed mounting, and the fixed surface of biax motor left side output shaft is connected with the flabellum, the inside of air-supply line is provided with dust filtering mechanism, is provided with between play tuber pipe and the air-supply line and preheats utilization mechanism.
The dust filtering mechanism comprises a conical filter screen plate fixedly connected to the inner wall of the air inlet pipe, a rotating opening is formed in the surface of the conical filter screen plate, a rotating rod is connected to the inner wall of the rotating opening in a rotating mode, a supporting plate is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the air inlet pipe, a connecting opening is formed in the surface of the supporting plate, a driving rod is connected to the inner wall of the connecting opening in a rotating mode, a large gear and a small gear are fixedly connected to the left end of the driving rod and the surface of the right output shaft of the double-shaft motor respectively, synchronous wheels are fixedly connected to the right end of the driving rod and the left end surface of the rotating rod respectively, synchronous belts are sleeved on the surfaces of the two synchronous wheels, a scraping rod is fixedly connected to the right end of the rotating rod, bristles are arranged on one side, adjacent to the conical filter screen plate, and a dust collecting mechanism is arranged on the surface of the air inlet pipe.
Preferably, the large gear is meshed with the small gear, the right output shaft of the double-shaft motor is in transmission connection with the transmission rod through the small gear and the large gear, and the rotation rod is in synchronous connection with the transmission rod through the synchronous belt.
Preferably, the number of the bristles is a plurality, the plurality of bristles are equidistantly arranged on the surface of the scraping rod, and the bristles are overlapped with the surface of the conical filter screen plate.
Preferably, the dust collecting mechanism comprises a mounting seat fixedly connected to the surface of the air inlet pipe, the inner wall of the mounting seat is in threaded connection with a collecting bottle, and a dust discharging opening penetrating into the collecting bottle is formed in the inner wall of the air inlet pipe.
Preferably, an air outlet is formed in one end, far away from the mounting seat, of the collecting bottle, and a fine filter screen is arranged on the inner wall of the air outlet.
Preferably, the preheating utilization mechanism comprises a guide Wen Tonghuan which is respectively embedded in the inner wall of the air outlet pipe and a spiral copper pipe which is fixedly connected in the air inlet pipe through a bracket, a temperature-conducting copper pipe is arranged above the dehumidifier body, and two ends of the temperature-conducting copper pipe are respectively fixedly connected with the guide Wen Tonghuan and the spiral copper pipe.
Preferably, the surface of the temperature-conducting copper pipe is sleeved with an insulating layer, and the insulating layer is made of aluminum silicate insulating cotton.
Preferably, the right-hand member surface of air-supply line has seted up annular slide rail, and the right-hand member of air-supply line is connected with the apron through annular slide rail rotation, and the inner wall fixedly connected with deep bead of air-supply line right-hand member, and two air intakes of symmetry have all been seted up to the surface of apron and deep bead.
The utility model has the following beneficial effects:
this new trend processing apparatus for total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier filters the dust in the air under the effect of toper filter screen plate to through pinion, gear wheel, transfer line, hold-in range drive transfer line and brush hair in the surface rotation of toper filter screen plate under the operation of biax motor, in order to sweep its surface adsorption's dust, simultaneously, scrape the dust that pole and brush hair swept down and fall into the collecting bottle through the dust removal opening, can filter the dust under the effect of fine filter screen and collect, and hot-blast in-process through the tuber pipe that goes out heats lead Wen Tonghuan, lead Wen Tonghuan back and heat up and pass through the heat conduction copper pipe and heat up the heliciform copper pipe, make it heat up, the heliciform copper pipe after the heat up can heat the new trend in the air-supply line, play the effect of preheating.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the utility model or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, it being obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the utility model, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic elevational view of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of the front cross-section of the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of FIG. 2A according to the present utility model;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure of FIG. 2B according to the present utility model;
Fig. 5 is a schematic view of the front cross-section of the cover plate of the present utility model.
In the figure: 1. a dehumidifier body; 2. an air inlet pipe; 3. an air outlet pipe; 4. a biaxial motor; 5. a fan blade; 6. conical filter screen plate; 7. a rotating lever; 8. a support plate; 9. a transmission rod; 10. a large gear; 11. a pinion gear; 12. a synchronous belt; 13. a scraping rod; 14. a mounting base; 15. a collection bottle; 16. a dust discharge opening; 17. fine filter screen; 18. a guide Wen Tonghuan; 19. a spiral copper tube; 20. a temperature-conducting copper pipe; 21. a cover plate; 22. and a wind deflector.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.
Example 1
Referring to fig. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier includes a dehumidifier body 1, two sides of the dehumidifier body 1 are respectively provided with an air inlet pipe 2 and an air outlet pipe 3, a double-shaft motor 4 is fixedly installed in the air inlet pipe 2 through a bracket, a fan blade 5 is fixedly connected to a surface of an output shaft on the left side of the double-shaft motor 4, and a dust filtering mechanism is arranged in the air inlet pipe 2.
The dust filtering mechanism comprises a conical filter screen plate 6 fixedly connected to the inner wall of the air inlet pipe 2, a rotating opening is formed in the surface of the conical filter screen plate 6, a rotating rod 7 is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the rotating opening, a supporting plate 8 is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the air inlet pipe 2, a connecting opening is formed in the surface of the supporting plate 8, a transmission rod 9 is rotatably connected to the inner wall of the connecting opening, a large gear 10 and a small gear 11 are fixedly connected to the left end of the transmission rod 9 and the surface of the right output shaft of the double-shaft motor 4 respectively, synchronous wheels are fixedly connected to the right end of the transmission rod 9 and the left end surface of the rotating rod 7, and synchronous belts 12 are sleeved on the surfaces of the two synchronous wheels.
The gear wheel 10 and the pinion 11 intermesh, the right side output shaft of biax motor 4 passes through pinion 11 and gear wheel 10 and is connected with the transmission pole 9 transmission, and dwang 7 passes through hold-in range 12 and is connected with transmission pole 9 synchrony, and the right-hand member fixedly connected with of dwang 7 scrapes pole 13, scrapes pole 13 and the adjacent one side of toper filter screen plate 6 and is provided with the brush hair, and the quantity of brush hair is a plurality of, and a plurality of brush hair equidistance sets up the surface at scraping pole 13, and brush hair overlap joint mutually with the surface of toper filter screen plate 6, and the surface of air-supply line 2 is provided with dust collection mechanism.
The dust collection mechanism comprises four mounting seats 14 fixedly connected to the surface of the air inlet pipe 2, the four mounting seats 14 are arranged on the surface of the air inlet pipe 2 in a circumferential array, the inner wall of the mounting seat 14 is in threaded connection with a collecting bottle 15, a dust discharge opening 16 penetrating into the collecting bottle 15 is formed in the inner wall of the air inlet pipe 2, an air outlet is formed in one end, far away from the mounting seat 14, of the collecting bottle 15, and a fine filter screen 17 is arranged on the inner wall of the air outlet.
The operation of the double-shaft motor 4 drives the fan blade 5 to rotate to blow outside moist air into the dehumidifier body 1 through the air inlet pipe 2 for drying treatment, during the period, dust in the air is filtered under the action of the conical filter screen plate 6, dust is prevented from entering the dehumidifier body 1, the transmission rod 9 is driven to rotate slowly through the pinion 11 and the large gear 10 under the operation of the double-shaft motor 4, the transmission rod 9 rotates synchronously through the synchronous belt 12 to drive the rotation rod 7, the rotation of the rotation rod 7 drives the scraping rod 13 and the brush hair to sweep the surface of the conical filter screen plate 6, meanwhile, the dust which is swept by the scraping rod 13 and the brush hair falls into the collecting bottle 15 through the dust discharge opening 16, and the dust can be filtered and collected under the action of the fine filter screen 17, so that the dust collection purpose is achieved.
Example 2
On the basis of embodiment 1, a second embodiment of the present application provides a fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier, which is different from the first embodiment in that: as shown in fig. 2 and 5, a preheating utilization mechanism is arranged between the air outlet pipe 3 and the air inlet pipe 2, the preheating utilization mechanism comprises a guide Wen Tonghuan which is respectively embedded in the inner wall of the air outlet pipe 3 and a spiral copper pipe 19 which is fixedly connected in the air inlet pipe 2 through a bracket, a heat-conducting copper pipe 20 is arranged above the dehumidifier body 1, two ends of the heat-conducting copper pipe 20 are respectively fixedly connected with the guide Wen Tonghuan 18 and the spiral copper pipe 19, an insulation layer is sleeved on the surface of the heat-conducting copper pipe 20, and the insulation layer is made of aluminum silicate heat-insulating cotton.
The dehumidifier body 1 discharges the hot-blast air after handling through air-out pipe 3, and during the period, hot-blast in the in-process through air-out pipe 3 heats the heat conduction copper ring 18, and the heat conduction copper pipe 20 is passed through to heat conduction copper pipe 19 after the heat conduction Wen Tonghuan heats, makes it heat, and the spiral copper pipe 19 after the heat can heat the new trend in the air-in pipe 2, plays the effect of preheating.
The annular slide rail has been seted up on the right-hand member surface of air-supply line 2, and the right-hand member of air-supply line 2 rotates through annular slide rail to be connected with apron 21, and the inner wall fixedly connected with deep bead 22 of air-supply line 2 right-hand member, and two air intakes of symmetry have all been seted up to apron 21 and deep bead 22's surface.
The air inlet on the cover plate 21 is staggered with the air inlet on the surface of the wind shield 22 by rotating the cover plate, so that the air inlet quantity of the device can be adjusted.
The foregoing has shown and described the basic principles, principal features and advantages of the utility model. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present utility model is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that the above-described embodiments and descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present utility model, and are not intended to limit the utility model, and that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model as claimed. The scope of the utility model is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

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1. The utility model provides a new trend processing apparatus for total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier, includes dehumidifier body (1), and the both sides of dehumidifier body (1) are provided with air-supply line (2) and play tuber pipe (3) respectively, and the inside of air-supply line (2) is through support fixed mounting has biax motor (4), and the fixed surface of biax motor (4) left side output shaft is connected with flabellum (5), its characterized in that: a dust filtering mechanism is arranged in the air inlet pipe (2), and a preheating utilization mechanism is arranged between the air outlet pipe (3) and the air inlet pipe (2);
The dust filtering mechanism comprises a conical filter screen plate (6) fixedly connected to the inner wall of an air inlet pipe (2), a rotating opening is formed in the surface of the conical filter screen plate (6), a rotating rod (7) is connected to the inner wall of the rotating opening in a rotating mode, a supporting plate (8) is fixedly connected to the inner bottom wall of the air inlet pipe (2), a connecting opening is formed in the surface of the supporting plate (8), a transmission rod (9) is connected to the inner wall of the connecting opening in a rotating mode, a large gear (10) and a small gear (11) are fixedly connected to the left end of the transmission rod (9) and the surface of an output shaft on the right side of the double-shaft motor (4) respectively, synchronous wheels are fixedly connected to the right end of the transmission rod (9) and the left end surface of the rotating rod (7), synchronous wheels are sleeved on the surfaces of the two synchronous wheels, synchronous belts (12) are arranged on the right end of the rotating rod (7), bristles are arranged on one side, adjacent to the conical filter screen plate (6), and a dust collecting mechanism is arranged on the surface of the air inlet pipe (2).
2. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier according to claim 1, wherein: the large gear (10) is meshed with the small gear (11), the right output shaft of the double-shaft motor (4) is in transmission connection with the transmission rod (9) through the small gear (11) and the large gear (10), and the rotation rod (7) is in synchronous connection with the transmission rod (9) through the synchronous belt (12).
3. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier according to claim 1, wherein: the number of the brush hairs is a plurality of, the brush hairs are equidistantly arranged on the surface of the scraping rod (13), and the brush hairs are overlapped with the surface of the conical filter screen plate (6).
4. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier according to claim 1, wherein: the dust collection mechanism comprises a mounting seat (14) fixedly connected to the surface of the air inlet pipe (2), a collecting bottle (15) is connected to the inner wall of the mounting seat (14) in a threaded mode, and a dust discharge opening (16) penetrating into the collecting bottle (15) is formed in the inner wall of the air inlet pipe (2).
5. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier of claim 4, wherein: an air outlet is formed in one end, far away from the mounting seat (14), of the collecting bottle (15), and a fine filter screen (17) is arranged on the inner wall of the air outlet.
6. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier according to claim 1, wherein: the preheating utilization mechanism comprises a guide Wen Tonghuan (18) which is respectively embedded in the inner wall of the air outlet pipe (3) and a spiral copper pipe (19) which is fixedly connected in the air inlet pipe (2) through a bracket, a temperature-conducting copper pipe (20) is arranged above the dehumidifier body (1), and two ends of the temperature-conducting copper pipe (20) are respectively fixedly connected with the guide Wen Tonghuan (18) and the spiral copper pipe (19).
7. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier of claim 6, wherein: the surface of the heat conduction copper pipe (20) is sleeved with a heat preservation layer, and the heat preservation layer is made of aluminum silicate heat preservation cotton.
8. The fresh air processing device for a total heat recovery rotary dehumidifier according to claim 1, wherein: the right-hand member surface of air-supply line (2) has seted up annular slide rail, and the right-hand member of air-supply line (2) is connected with apron (21) through annular slide rail rotation, and inner wall fixedly connected with deep bead (22) of air-supply line (2) right-hand member, and two air intakes of symmetry have all been seted up on the surface of apron (21) and deep bead (22).
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