EP0208664B1 - An arrangement for blowing clean air into rooms - Google Patents
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- EP0208664B1 EP0208664B1 EP86850150A EP86850150A EP0208664B1 EP 0208664 B1 EP0208664 B1 EP 0208664B1 EP 86850150 A EP86850150 A EP 86850150A EP 86850150 A EP86850150 A EP 86850150A EP 0208664 B1 EP0208664 B1 EP 0208664B1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
- A61G13/00—Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor
- A61G13/10—Parts, details or accessories
- A61G13/108—Means providing sterile air at a surgical operation table or area
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
- A61G10/00—Treatment rooms or enclosures for medical purposes
- A61G10/02—Treatment rooms or enclosures for medical purposes with artificial climate; with means to maintain a desired pressure, e.g. for germ-free rooms
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
- F24F3/00—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems
- F24F3/12—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling
- F24F3/16—Air-conditioning systems in which conditioned primary air is supplied from one or more central stations to distributing units in the rooms or spaces where it may receive secondary treatment; Apparatus specially designed for such systems characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling by purification, e.g. by filtering; by sterilisation; by ozonisation
- F24F3/167—Clean rooms, i.e. enclosed spaces in which a uniform flow of filtered air is distributed
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
- A61G2210/00—Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis
- A61G2210/30—Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis for intensive care
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- the present invention relates to an arrangement for blowing or injecting clean air into a room in which high requirements are placed on the cleanliness and purity of the air in the room, or in at least a part of the room.
- rooms for which the invention is intended include operating theatres in hospitals and like health centres, and industrial clean rooms. In health centres efforts are made to keep down effectively the amount of particulate impurities carried by the air, and therewith the amount of airborne bacteria-carrying particles.
- clean rooms are necessary in order to protect sensitive devices, for example in such cases as the manufacture of integrated circuits where dust particles can readily destroy a circuit.
- This restricted working area may constitute an operating table in an operating theatre, or a working area in the manufacturing industry.
- the primary object of the invention is to enable a given, desired low content of airborne particulate impurities (or alternatively gaseous impurities) to be maintained within a restricted cubic area of a room, or of a space in the room, for example on/around a surgical operating table or some other form of work surface, with the aid, among other things, of an obliquely and downwardly directed air shield or air curtain.
- the problem upon which the invention is based resides in positively providing air-flow conditions around the obliquely located air curtain, produced with the aid of separate air-supply means in such a manner as to avoid effectively co-ejection of insufficiently clean air (for example air having a particle content which lies above the low level desired).
- the above-mentioned object is achieved according to the invention with an arrangement for blowing clean air into a room in which high requirements are placed on the cleanliness of the air therein, or at least in a region of the room, for example in an operating theatre of a so-called industrial dean room, comprising a substantially horizontal, ventilated ceiling unit incorporating air-supply means for producing a uniformly distributed air supply via a downwardly facing surface of the air-supply means of the unit; characterized in that the arrangement includes a substantially vertical, ventilated wall unit having an upper edge which substantially adjoins a side-edge of the ceiling unit, and which wall unit incorporates air-supply means for producing a uniformly distributed supply of air through the air supply means of the wall unit in towards the space beneath the downwardly facing surface of the ceiling unit; and in that separate air-supply means for producing at least one substantially obliquely and downwardly directed air-supply through one or more substantially parallel air curtains, is arranged in the proximity of the intersection line between an air-supply surface of the ceiling unit
- the upper edge of the wall unit may be connected directly to the aforesaid side-edge of the ceiling unit. If the two units do not extend into direct abutment with one another, the aforesaid intersection line lies on the point of mutual intersection of the geometric extension of respective air-supply surfaces. When the ceiling unit and the wall unit terminate at a distance from the intersection line, it may be beneficial to place the separate air-supply means in precisely this extension area or in the angular region outside the intersection line.
- Embodiments of the arrangement according to the invention preferred for mutually different and having mutually different fields of application are set forth in the dependent Claims 2-9.
- Claims 7-9 refer to an arrangement in which the ceiling unit, the wall unit and associated air-supply means constitute parts of a box or cage structure, which can be incorporated in or placed in a surrounding locale.
- the cage structure is provided with vertical side-walls which extend from opposing side-edges of the ceiling unit and which have vertical edge portions which connect with the wall unit.
- This embodiment of the invention is particularly suited for use as a so-called operating-theatre cage in health centres.
- Figure 1 illustrates an arrangement according to the invention schematically and in perspective, the obliquely and downwardly directed air flows from respective separate air-supply means being indicated by the long flow- arrows, and the supply of air over the ventilated wall unit being indicated by a plurality of horizontal short arrows extending from holes or apertures in the air-supply surface of the wall unit;
- Figure 2 is a perspective and schematic illustration of an air-blowing arrangement according to the invention in the form of a surgical-operation cage;
- Figures 3-5 are partial views in vertical section of various embodiments of connecting arrangements located in the region between the ceiling unit and the wall unit, and illustrate the manner in which the separate air-supply means can be arranged in this region.
- FIG. 1 illustrates in perspective a clean-air blower arrangement according to the invention.
- the arrangement includes a horizontal ventilated ceiling unit 1 and a vertical ventilated wall unit 3, the upper edge 4 of which adjoins the side-edge 5 of the ceiling unit 1.
- Clean air is blown or injected into the space beneath the downwardly facing surface 2 of the ceiling unit 1 and inwardly of the inner surface 6 of the wall unit, through a large number of holes or apertures 8 which are distributed uniformly over respective surfaces and from which the clean air issues in the form of air jets L.
- the inner surface 6 of the wall unit 3 and the downwardly facing surface of the ceiling unit 1 are provided with similar air apertures 8.
- the wall unit 3 and the ceiling unit 1 of this embodiment both have the form of a flat box-like chamber to which clean air is supplied from a clean-air supply system (not shown).
- the clean air supply to the units 3 and 1 leaves the units in the form of air jets L through the apertures 8 located in the inwardly facing surface 6 and the downwardly facing surface 2 of respective units.
- Figure 3 is a partial sectional view of an alternative embodiment of a clean-air blowing arrangement in accordance with the invention, particularly with regard to the connection of the ceiling unit 1 with the wall unit 3.
- the separate air-supply means 7 comprises a single air-supply slot which extends parallel with the edges 4 and 5 and which is located on the intersection line S of the geometric extensions of the surfaces 2 and 6.
- the clean air supplied issues from the slot 7 in the form of an obliquely and downwardly facing air curtain L".
- Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view similar to that of Figure 3 and illustrates a further embodiment in which a separate air-supply device 10 is arranged in the angular region outwardly of the intersection line S at which the geometric extensions of the air-supply surfaces 2 and 6 of the mutually adjoining units 1 and 3 intersect.
- the air-supply device 10 of this embodiment is connected to an air-supply system (not shown) and comprises an elongated, horizontally extending, hollow element of triangular cross-section, and is provided with two mutually parallel air-supply slots 7 in the forwardly located, oblique wall 9 of said separate air-supply means.
- the clean air issuing from the slots 7 of the air-supply device 10 has the form of two substantially parallel air. curtains Lg.
- the air-supply device 10 may be given a cross-sectional shape other than triangular, without consequent impairment to the function of the air-supply means.
- Figure 5 illustrates a further embodiment in which a horizontal air-slot 7 is provided in the upper part of the inner surface 6 of the wall unit 3, and in which two air-supply slots 7 parallel therewith are placed in the region where the downwardly facing surface of the ceiling unit 1 borders on the intersection line S.
- the clean air leaves the slots 7 in the form of three mutually parallel air curtains L s .
- FIG 2 is a perspective illustration similar to that of Figure 1 and which illustrates schematically an air-blowing arrangement according to the invention in the form of a so-called surgical operating cage.
- the ceiling unit 1, the wall unit 3, and the parallel air-supply slots 7 are incorporated in a cage structure placed in a surrounding locale and comprising vertical, parallel side-walls 16 which extend down from the two separated, parallel side edges of the ceiling unit projecting out from the wall unit 3.
- the vertical side-wall 16 of the cage structure comprise air-impervious screening elements in the form, for example, of curtains, drapes or the like.
- the ceiling unit 1 is provided on the side-edge 12 remote from the wall unit 3 with a box-shaped air-supply device 13, which is connected to an air-supply system not shown.
- the air-supply device 13 has a downwardly facing, bottom air-supply surface 14 having provided therein two mutually parallel air-supply slots 15, through which air is blown downwardly from the air-supply means 13 in the form of a depending air curtain D, which forms opposite the wall unit 3 an "air-curtain wall" which closes-off the illustrated cage structure, which structure may constitute a surgical operating cage for example.
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Priority Applications (1)
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AT86850150T ATE49465T1 (de) | 1985-04-26 | 1986-04-23 | Vorrichtung um reine luft in raeume einzublasen. |
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SE8502043A SE8502043D0 (sv) | 1985-04-26 | 1985-04-26 | Anordning for iblasning av ren luft i exempelvis operationsrum och s k renrum |
SE8502043 | 1985-04-26 |
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EP0208664A1 EP0208664A1 (en) | 1987-01-14 |
EP0208664B1 true EP0208664B1 (en) | 1990-01-10 |
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EP86850150A Expired - Lifetime EP0208664B1 (en) | 1985-04-26 | 1986-04-23 | An arrangement for blowing clean air into rooms |
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EP (1) | EP0208664B1 (ja) |
JP (1) | JPS63501476A (ja) |
AT (1) | ATE49465T1 (ja) |
DE (1) | DE3668234D1 (ja) |
SE (1) | SE8502043D0 (ja) |
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NL2000922C2 (nl) * | 2007-10-11 | 2009-04-15 | Tenbelis V O F | Inrichting voor het conditioneren van de lucht in een deel van een ruimte. |
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US3511162A (en) * | 1969-02-20 | 1970-05-12 | Johnson & Johnson | Apparatus and method for isolating a patient zone |
DE2260380C3 (de) * | 1972-12-09 | 1979-10-04 | Brandi Ingenieure Gmbh, 5020 Frechen | Verfahren zum Klimatisieren von Räumen |
US3998142A (en) * | 1975-07-03 | 1976-12-21 | Sterilaire Medical, Inc. | Air circulating system for ultra clean areas |
IT8123283A0 (it) * | 1981-07-31 | 1981-07-31 | Marco Zambolin | Sistema di recupero calore perdestratificazione, sovrapressione ed isolamento termico mediante distribuzione di aria a temperatura esterna nella parte superiore di edifici industriali. |
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- 1985-04-26 SE SE8502043A patent/SE8502043D0/xx unknown
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- 1986-04-23 EP EP86850150A patent/EP0208664B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1986-04-23 DE DE8686850150T patent/DE3668234D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1986-04-23 AT AT86850150T patent/ATE49465T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1986-04-28 JP JP61502518A patent/JPS63501476A/ja active Pending
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JPS63501476A (ja) | 1988-06-09 |
DE3668234D1 (de) | 1990-02-15 |
SE8502043D0 (sv) | 1985-04-26 |
EP0208664A1 (en) | 1987-01-14 |
ATE49465T1 (de) | 1990-01-15 |
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