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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
  • A61L9/00—Disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air
  • A61L9/16—Disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air using physical phenomena
  • A61L9/22—Ionisation
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24F—AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
  • F24F8/00—Treatment, e.g. purification, of air supplied to human living or working spaces otherwise than by heating, cooling, humidifying or drying
  • F24F8/30—Treatment, e.g. purification, of air supplied to human living or working spaces otherwise than by heating, cooling, humidifying or drying by ionisation

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• the present invention relates to non-ozone anion apparatus that mounted inside air purifiers or air conditioners, generates anion.
• Electrons generally regard the interface between a metal and the gas as a barrier, and to discharge an electron beyond the barrier, energy higher than the energy confining the electron should be applied. In other words, an electric field higher than the electron-confining energy is required. In case the electric field gets higher, tunnel effect occurs, in which electrons have the property of wave and penetrate the thinned energy barrier between an metal and a dielectric (air), instead of passing over it. Tunnel effect has been generally known to happen in case the thickness of energy barrier is below about 100[A]. On the interface between a metal and the gas, tunnel effect happens in case the charged electric field is around 10 7 ⁇ 10 8 [V/cni] to generate a current of a few /A. The tunnel effect, however, may happen at a voltage as low as 2-5kV in case of a fine line section or sharp points.
• the present invention consists of anion generating section that has the form of metal fiber (MF) with innumerable sharp protrusions and power supply section, and the anion generating section is composed of an alloy of eight metals of platinum, stainless steel, copper, silver, zinc, nickel, manganese and tungsten, conductive cloth with free electrons, conductive gum and semi-conductive gum twisted like a rope.
• the MF employed for the present invention has numerous needles on its surface. As the needles discharges electrons to the air at the energy lower than general ionization potential when the MF is charged with electric energy. In this case the ambient moisture due to attachment of moisture influences it.
• Electrons emitted from needles attach to neutral particles, such as oxygen and others (oxygen has very high electron affinity f-135KJ/mole], to turn them into anions.
• neutral particles such as oxygen and others
• oxygen has very high electron affinity f-135KJ/mole
• mass of anions grows larger than that of electrons and their moving speed drop not only to reduce conductance but also not to ionize other neutral particles. Accordingly, the present invention claims that it generates anion, without generating ozone (O,).
• Air purifiers have become nowadays one of living necessaries to supply clean air to people who spend most of their time indoor, such as offices, living rooms or sleeping rooms.
• Water wave method which generates anions by splitting water drops, requires larger size than other methods and generates low-value anions. Compared with these methods, the present invention generates anions at low energy thanks to its unique properties of materials. It has been known that anion has influence on parasympathetic nerve, thus relaxing us from stress and protecting us from various diseases by increasing immunity. It has been also known to effectively remove air contaminants.
• the present invention which relates to a cluster anion apparatus, generates anions in the following method:
• the existing anion apparatus have a clearance between stylus electrode (1) and flat plate electrode (2), and current of high voltage is supplied to stylus electrode (1) and flat plate electrode (2) is grounded to generate anions.
• An atom is composed of the nucleus and extra-nuclear electron(s) that revolves around the nucleus. Extra-nuclear electrons are on the orbit close to the nucleus, which is called ground state. If an atom in ground state is applied to external energy as in the cases of collision with other particles or ray irradiation, extra-nuclear electrons transfer to the energy level higher (i.e. outer orbit) than ground state, which is called excitation and the energy necessary for the excitation is called excitation energy. If an atom is applied to a greater external energy, extra-nuclear electrons free themselves from the restraint of nucleus to be free electrons and the atom to be an cation.
• ionization energy or ionization potential This is the process of aforesaid ionization and the minimum energy for ionization is called ionization energy or ionization potential.
• the phenomenon that the charged particles of the positive and the negative combine and return to neutral particles is called recombination, which is divided into the recombination of electron and cation, and the recombination of anion and cation.
• recombination of anion and cation is easier to occur, because the speed of anion is much slower than cation and anion are near to cation to have more opportunity for interaction.
• This sort of gases are called electro negative gases, to which halogens (F, Cl, Br, I) that have one less peripheral electron than inert gases, itheir compounds or oxygen, air and vapor that contain oxygen belong.
• ozone leaves no harmful residuals and disinfects bacteria and virus with strong effect. In addition to powerful bleaching effect, it reacts with stinking gases and harmful organic matters such as cigarette smoke to make them harmless.
• Ozone transfers one of the three atoms of oxygen to other matters in a moment and is very strong in oxidizing all matters, organic and inorganic.
• ozone affects the human body. It combines with organic matters on the skin and generates harmful matters to cause fatal troubles.
• Tender tissues such as the cornea are particularly vulnerable to ozone.
• ozone is such a dangerous gas that a number of researches have reported that ozone density exceeding 7% increases death rate by 7%. For the reason, many countries strongly regulate the density of ozone as shown below:
• OSHA occupational Safety Health Association
• Ozone begins to give out unique a little fishy smell at the density of 0.01 —
• the present invention intends to provide non-ozone cluster anion apparatus that can resolve the problems stated above.
• the present invention consists of anion generating section that has the form of metal fiber (MF) with innumerable sharp protrusions and power supply section, and the anion generating section is composed of an alloy of eight metals of platinum, stainless steel, copper, silver, zinc, nickel, manganese and tungsten, conductive cloth with free electrons, conductive gum and semi-conductive gum twisted like a rope.
• the MF employed for the present invention has numerous needles on its surface. As the needles discharges electrons to the air at the energy lower than general ionization potential when the MF is charged with electric energy, the present invention claims that it is non-ozone cluster anion apparatus that generates only anion, without generating ozone (O,). Another claim of the present invention is that it provides a solution for the regulation problem of ozone as it, unlike conventional anion apparatus, does not produce the by-product ozone in the process of generating anions.
• Fig. la and lb are illustrations of the principles employed with anion apparatus of the existing air purifiers.
• Fig. 2 is an illustration of the composition of anion apparatus of the present invention.
• Fig. 3 is a detail illustration of major components of anion apparatus of the present invention.
• Fig. 4 is an illustration for the presentation of the working of anion apparatus of the present invention, which shows cluster generation by moisture.
• Fig. 5 is an illustration for the presentation of anion apparatus of the present invention, which shows the process of cluster (deionization) generation. * Description of numerials for major sections of the illustrations *
• Stylus electrode 2 Flat plate electrode
• Power supply section 14 DC high voltage connection cable
• Fig. 2 is an illustration of the composition of anion apparatus of the present invention and Fig. 3 is a detail illustration of major components of anion apparatus of the present invention.
• Fig. 4 and 5 are illustrations for the presentation of the working of anion apparatus of the present invention, which respectively show the cluster generation by moisture and the process of cluster (deionization) generation.
• non-ozone cluster anion apparatus which is composed of anion generating section 12 and high voltage section for anion generation 15, generates anions by applying high voltage to anion generating section 12 from the high voltage section of anion generation 15.
• the anion generating section 12 with the form of fiber winds the main body 11 of anion apparatus and the regular power supply 13 is connected to one end of the anion generating section 12 to supply DC high voltage.
• High voltage section for anion generation 15 which converts the supplied AC and DC power into DC high voltage, is connected to the power supply 13 through DC voltage connection cable 14.
• the anion generating section 12 is presented in detail below: As illustrated in Fig. 3, the anion generating section 12 is composed of an alloy of eight metals of platinum, stainless steel, copper, silver, zinc, nickel, manganese and tungsten, conductive cloth wid free electrons, conductive gum and semi-conductive gum twisted like a rope.
• the anion generating section 12 discharges electrons to the air through a given resistance without spark discharge for safety.
• Magnified surface of anion generating section 12 that has the form of fiber shows numerous lightening rod-like shapes, which provide wide surface area that allows to discharge electricity at a very low electric energy. The following is a detail presentation of the mechanism for the constraining of ozone generation.
• oxygen which accounts for 21% of the air and has the largest electron affinity second to hydrogen, attracts electrons and turns into anion owing to electron charge.
• ambient moisture combines with the anion to make molecular cluster.
• Fig. 4 is the sketch that illustrates the fomiing process of anions (0 2 ⁇ ) by moisture.
• Fig. 6 is the sketch that illustrates the forming process of cluster ion.
• the present invention claims that it is non-ozone cluster anion apparatus that generates anions wholesome to men, but does not generate ozone.
• Cluster ion which is most similar to natural ions, stays in the air for longer time and moves farther than any ions, while the ions generated by the existing anion apparatus that accompany ozone are a sort of electrons that are neutralized as soon as they are generated.
• Detail presentation of the present invention has been limited to some concrete examples, but diverse modifications and revisions of the invention within the scope of described technology is clearly possible and such modifications and revisions naturally belong to the claims of the patent of the present invention.
• the present invention of non-ozone cluster anion apparatus enables persons to breathe with ease and take comfortable rest indoor, thus protecting persons from diseases by increasing the physical resistance to diseases, as it can steadily generate plenty of anions without generating ozone harmful to men.
• the present invention an apparatus generating anions that have been known to be wholesome to men free from ozone, is particularly useful in fundamentally restraining of the ozone generation that has been inevitable in electric discharge by the conventional ways.
• it is an apparatus for the solution of ozone regulation problem arising from ozone generated in the process of anion generation, as it does not generate ozone.

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