JP2005090832A - Ion spraying device, and ion spraying method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for creating a space of the natural environment by generating and maintaining a great deal of negative ions, and suitably carrying out humidification to the target space. <P>SOLUTION: A ceramic activated carbon body is rotatably placed in a container and it is rotated by a drive source. A passage means is provided for soaking the ceramic activated carbon body with water. A fan is provided in the container in a position facing the ceramic activated carbon body. A negative ion generator is arranged in the container. Negative ions are mixed in spray water sprayed following rotation of the ceramic activated carbon body in the container, the mixed spray water and the negative ions are mixed, and the mixed spray water and negative ions are discharged from the container. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an ion spraying device and an ion spraying method for mixing and discharging negative ions and spray water.

  There is a method in which the temperature of water is controlled and supplied to a rotating part from a fixed part, the size of the water is reduced as much as possible, and ionized spraying is performed together with negative ions released by corona discharge. In addition, there is a device that contributes to the human living environment through a system suitable for the natural environment by supplying moisture containing negative ions and performing humidification antibacterial.

  As a device for cooling and heating by freely adjusting the temperature of water, a device for cooling and heating outside air through a pipe is generally known. There are also devices that control the temperature by dehumidifying moisture, such as air conditioners and coolers. Regarding antibacterial devices, there are a method of antibacterial by generating negative ions and ozone, and a method of antibacterial using alcohol, metal and the like. As for the humidifier, there is also known a device for humidifying by spraying water like a humidifier.

  An apparatus for generating negative ions and ozone described in Patent Document 1 includes a discharge-type negative ion / ozone generating unit that generates negative ions and ozone, a natural evaporation type humidifying unit, a negative ion / ozone generating unit, and a humidifier. The means includes air blowing means for circulating air, and the negative ion / ozone generating means is arranged downstream of the humidifying means and air blowing means in the air flow rate direction.

  Patent Document 2 includes an ion wind inducing means for inducing an ion wind, a humidifying element having water absorption installed in or near the flow path of the ion wind, and a water supply unit for supplying water to the humidifying element. There is described a humidifier in which a fan is provided with a fan, and a humidifying element is disposed in the air passage by the fan and in the vicinity of the ion wind passage.

  Patent Document 3 discloses an ion generation filter having a function of generating fine OH ions by causing mild electrolysis of ambient moisture and having air permeability, humidified air generating means, and external air. There is described a negative ion generation device including a blowing means for passing humidified air subjected to either pressure or heating or both through an ion generation filter.

JP 2002-286356 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-72246 JP 11-178939 A

  Conventionally, if sufficient humidification is performed, the amount of air flowing to the negative ion generating means decreases and it becomes impossible to supply high-concentration negative ions. Conversely, if the amount of negative ion generation is increased, the amount of air flowing to the humidifying means There was a problem that the amount of humidification decreased as the amount decreased.

  In addition, the running cost is increased by controlling the temperature of the water in the apparatus and maintaining the heat exchange apparatus. In addition, since air conditioners and coolers are dehumidified using electricity or the like, running costs are high. Furthermore, it is said that a temperature difference from the outside air is generated and it is not good for the body. Since negative ion generators and ozone generators are indispensable for maintenance and management of safety devices, running costs for maintenance and the like are high. Antibacterial methods using alcohol, metal, etc. are temporarily effective, but large-scale facilities are required to maintain a long duration. When moisture is sprayed for a long time like a humidifier, mold and bacteria are generated.

  The present invention eliminates the problems of such conventional apparatuses and methods, generates and sustains a large amount of negative ions, and suitably humidifies the target space to create a natural environment space. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to achieve such an object, in the present invention, a water tank is installed in the upper part of the penetrating container, and the water in the tank is continuously soaked from the center of the ceramic activated carbon inside the rotating shaft, Rotate the water-containing ceramic activated carbon to spray water, install a fan on the rear side of the container that is penetrated, and install a corona discharge device, for example, in the front part of the fan, and the water sprayed from the front side of the container An ion spraying apparatus and method using ceramic activated carbon that releases ions to the outside and a humidifying antibacterial apparatus were provided.

  In addition, the water supplied from the upper water tank in the container to the inside of the rotation has a hole formed in a part of the rotary joint installed on the fixed part and the axis of the rotation part, and a groove is provided in contact with the hole. An ion spraying apparatus and method using ceramic activated carbon supplied with a hole formed in the rotating shaft so as to continuously supply water to the ceramic activated carbon were used.

  In the present invention, a ceramic activated carbon body having a shape in which ceramic activated carbon is densely formed and in which water can penetrate is referred to as a ceramic activated carbon body. That is, the present invention is characterized in that this ceramic activated carbon body is used for forming spray water.

  In the present invention, since the rotating ceramic activated carbon body is used for forming the spray water, the target space is suitably humidified, and it is immediately mixed with a large amount of generated negative ions to have sustainability. Can do. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a negative ion spraying apparatus and a negative ion spraying method capable of realizing a safe and low running cost and creating a space with a lot of negative ions.

  The ion generator and method are provided with a container for storing at least three containers, upper, middle, and lower, a ceramic activated carbon body in a middle container, a fan and a negative ion generator at a position opposite to the ceramic activated carbon, The container is configured as a water tank, a drive source is disposed in the lower container, the ceramic activated carbon body is attached to a rotating shaft having a communication hole, and is rotatable. The water from the water tank is placed in the communication hole. Water flowing through the communication hole so as to flow by its own weight soaks into the ceramic activated carbon body, and rotates the ceramic activated carbon body by rotating the rotating shaft by the driving source, whereby the ceramic activated carbon is rotated. Water sprayed from the body and mixed with negative ions from the negative ion generator and mixed with negative ions and spray water Configured so as to release.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an ion spray apparatus 100 has a container 1, and the container 1 is basically composed of three containers 2, 3, and 4 at the upper part, the middle part, and the lower part. A space 5 is formed between the containers 2 and 3. Each of the containers 2, 3, 4 and the space portion 5 is configured as a form penetrating from the right end side to the left end side (hereinafter referred to as the front-rear direction) in the drawing. The containers 2, 3, and 4 can be configured as independent types so that they can be taken out from the container 1.

  A humidifying section 11 is formed near the right end side in the intermediate container 3 and a blower section 12 is formed near the left end side so that the air from the blower section 12 flows to the humidifying section 11 and outside the body. The A corona discharge device 14 constituting the negative ion generator 13 is disposed across the containers 3 and 4. The negative ion emission part 15 of the corona discharge device 14 is located in the container 3. Here, the negative ion generation part 13 is handled as being disposed in the container 3. The entire corona discharge device 14 may be provided in the container 3. The negative ion generating unit 13 is disposed between the air blowing unit 12 and the humidifying unit 11 described above. You may make it arrange | position to the outgoing end side of the humidification part 11. FIG.

The upper container 2 is configured as a water tank. Although the water tank may be arranged as a separate body, the container 2 includes a water tank here, including any method.
A heater 16 is disposed on the left end side in the container 2, and a water discharge portion (drainage portion) 17 is disposed on the right end side, and a water introduction portion (water guide portion) is provided in a part of the container 1 located above the heater 16. ) 18 is provided.

  A drive source, for example, a motor 20 as a device that gives a rotational driving force is disposed in the lower container 4, and the output of the motor 21 is transmitted as the rotational driving force of the ceramic activated carbon 21 of the humidifying unit 11 as will be described later. Is done.

Each component will be further described in detail.
The container 1 is configured as a compact type having a length of, for example, a length of 250 mm and a height of 290 mm.
The humidifying unit 11 has a disk-shaped ceramic activated carbon body 21 having a thickness of, for example, 10 mm and a diameter of about 100 mm, a rotating shaft 22 attached thereto, a support member 23, a water flow path unit 24 formed on the rotating shaft 22, And two left and right rotary joints 25 (left and right joint portions 25a and 25b).

  Details of the ceramic activated carbon body 21 are shown in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the ceramic activated carbon 21 has a disk portion 31 having a flat disk shape, and a plurality of holes 32 (see FIG. 2) provided through the disk portions 31, that is, both disk surfaces. In this example, seven holes are provided.), A plurality of arc-shaped surfaces are formed, the outer end portion 33 having a large surface area, and the plurality of holes 32 into which the rotary shaft 22 is inserted. It is comprised from the insertion hole 34 provided in the center part. The number of holes 32 may be seven or more.

The ceramic activated carbon body 21 is mixed with 0.1 to 0.5% silver and 0.5 to 1.0% titanium based on 20 to 50% activated carbon, 30 to 60% kaolin, and 10 to 40% Kibushi clay, for example. And it is comprised by baking at 1150-1260 degree | times for 10 to 18 hours in an oxygen-free state.
The ceramic activated carbon body 21 is fired as described above, and holes serving as spray holes of innumerable countless water of about 4 to 20 μm are formed on the disk surface, the hole surface, and the outer end surface.

Other properties and characteristics of the ceramic activated carbon body 21 are as follows.
○ Characteristics of ceramic activated carbon 21 ・ Methylene blue adsorption is 40-90 ml / g (minimum and maximum)
・ Iodine adsorption is 310-550 mg / g (minimum and maximum)
Specific surface area (BET method) is 60 to 380 m ² / g (minimum value and maximum value)
・ Heavy metal (As) is less than 0.2 mg / kg (standard value of activated carbon for water supply is 2 or less)
・ Heavy metal (Zn) is less than 5 mg / kg (standard value of activated carbon for water supply is 50 or less)
-Heavy metal (Pb) is less than 1 mg / kg (standard value of activated carbon for water supply is 10 or less)
・ Heavy metal (Cd) is less than 0.1 mg / kg (standard value of activated carbon for water supply is 1 or less)
○ Characteristics of ceramic activated carbon 21 ・ Because it is made of ceramic, it has excellent heat and cold resistance and durability. ・ Because it is made hard, there is very little damage.

  Along with the rotation, countless spray water is discharged from the entire surface of the ceramic activated carbon body 21 (the surface of the disk portion, the surface of the hole 32 (excluding the insertion hole 34), the outer end surface) and mixes with negative ions. The supplied water is sprayed by the spraying action of the ceramic activated carbon 21 and flows toward the discharge port as a one-way flow with negative ions. In this way, the ceramic activated carbon body 21 refines and sprays water, thereby preventing negative ions from reacting immediately with positive ions and maintaining the negative state for a long time, thereby maintaining the antibacterial action due to the negative ions for a long time. Has an effect.

  Details of the rotary shaft 22, the flow path portion 24, and the rotary joint 25 (rotary joint portions 25a and 25b) are shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the rotary shaft 22 is provided with two rotary joint portions 25a and 25b apart from each other, and a flow passage portion 24 is formed. The flow path portion 24 includes a communication hole 26 formed in the center portion of the rotary shaft 22 and a groove 27 formed on the circumference on a part of the surface of the rotary shaft located between the two rotary joint portions 25a and 25b. , A radially formed hole 28 communicating with the communication hole 26 and the groove 27, and further formed on a part of the rotary shaft to be disposed inside the ceramic activated carbon body 21. It is formed from a hole 29 communicating with the insertion hole 34 of the ceramic activated carbon body 21. In other words, a hole is formed in a part of the rotary joint 25, a groove 27 is provided in contact with the hole, and water is continuously supplied to the flowing water channel portion in the rotary shaft 22 through the groove 27. It can be said that it is a configuration. In this case, the rotary joint 25 becomes a part of means for supplying water.

  FIG. 4 shows a front view of the container 1. The rotary joint 25 is connected to the side surface 71 of the container 3 by three fixing shafts 72 so that the rotary shaft 22 disposed in the space (unidirectional air region) 40 penetrating back and forth in the center of the container 3 can be fixed. The situation where this is held rotatably is shown.

FIG. 5 shows a rear view of the vessel 1. A switch 73 of the heater 16 for temperature control is provided on the upper left side of the container 3, and a temperature panel 74 is installed on the upper right side to manage the temperature of the water in the water tank. Moreover, the whole is operated by a main switch 75 installed on the lower right side of the container 1.
In FIG. 1, the rotary joints 25a and 25b are supported by a support member 30, and the rotary shaft 22 and further the ceramic activated carbon 21 are rotatable.

The motor 20 has a motor shaft 31, and the motor shaft 31 is provided with a first pulley 32. A second pulley 33 is provided on the rotating shaft 22, and a belt 34 is hung between the pulleys 32, 33. With this configuration, the drive output of the motor 20 is transmitted to the rotary shaft 22 via the first pulley 32, the belt 34, and the second pulley 33, the rotary shaft 22 rotates, and the ceramic activated carbon body 21 is rotated accordingly. Driven by rotation. The air blowing unit 12 includes a fan 41 and a support member 42.
The fan 41 has 3 to 9 blades, and can freely rotate according to the distance and space volume in which the corona discharge device 14 is incorporated.

  The water in the water tank of the upper container 2 is set and adjusted by a heater 16 (including a cooling function) so that the temperature becomes 4 to 90 ° C., and thus, air conditioning can be performed when humidified.

The water guide 17 is provided with a water adjustment switch 43. The adjustment switch 43 is interlocked with the drain outlet 44 of the water guide section 17 to adjust the amount of water supplied to the water guide path 45 in the container 4. A valve 46 is provided between the drainage port 44 and the water conduit 45, and the supply of water can be completely stopped. Further, the water conduit 45 communicates with the above-described hole 28 via a water conduit 47 provided in the support member 23. Water flows from the valve 46 to the water conduit 47 by its own weight, for example.
The containers 2, 3, and 4 are respectively provided with a heater extraction portion 61, a fan extraction portion 62, and an air port portion 63. The motor 20 is fixed to the container 4 by a support member 64.

  With such a configuration, water is supplied from the water tank provided in the upper part of the container 3 that passes through the front and rear, with the amount adjusted by the adjustment switch 43, and continuously connected to the communication hole 26 in the rotary shaft 22. Is infiltrated into the ceramic activated carbon 21 through the flow path portion 24. The water-containing ceramic activated carbon body 21 is rotated to spray water from the surface portion. That is, water is discharged in a fine form from the surface of 3 to 9 holes 32 provided in the ceramic activated carbon body 21 by the centrifugal force of rotation. The so-called spray water sprayed from the front side (right end side) of the container 3 is immediately mixed with negative ions from the corona discharge device 14 sent by the wind sent by the fan 41 from the rear side (left end side).

  In this case, the wind sent by the configuration in which the fan 41 is disposed on the left end side of the container 3 and the ceramic activated carbon 21 is disposed on the right end side is conditioned by the unidirectional air region 40 formed therebetween. It is not radial, but flows in the container 3 in one direction, entrains negative ions, and is mixed with the spray water. By forming such a unidirectional flow, it is released as a unidirectional flow to the outside of the body, and it takes time for the negative ions to combine with the positive ions.

Here, the generation amount of ozone ions and the wavelength of ozone by the corona discharge device 14 will be described.
The corona discharge device 14 includes ozone ion reduction means. The amount of ozone generated by one device is 0.001 ppm or less. Moreover, even if ozone is generated, the ozone reacts with water and disappears as simple oxygen by spraying water.
As described above, in the present invention, a large amount of negative ions is supplied, but ozone ions are extremely reduced in consideration of touching the human body. For example, the abundance of ozone ions is set to 0.001 ppm or less.

As described above, the ceramic activated carbon body is rotatably arranged in the container, rotated by a driving source, and provided with flow path means for soaking water into the ceramic activated carbon body, at a position facing the ceramic activated carbon body. A fan is provided in the container, and a negative ion generator is disposed in the container, in which the negative ions are mixed with the spray water sprayed with the rotation of the ceramic activated carbon body, and the mixed spray water and An ion that mixes negative ions and discharges the mixed spray water and negative ions from the container, that is, a negative ion spraying device is configured.
Further, a water tank is installed in the upper part of the container, the ceramic activated carbon body is attached to a rotating shaft, the flow path means is provided in the rotating body and communicates with the ceramic activated carbon body, and the communication holes An ion spraying device formed by a water conduit communicating with the water tank is configured.

In addition, an ion spray apparatus is provided in which a rotary joint is provided on the rotary shaft, a groove is provided in a part of the rotary joint, the water conduit is formed by a hole communicating with the groove and communicating with the communication hole.
Further, the ceramic activated carbon body has a thin disk shape, and constitutes an ion spray apparatus in which a plurality of through holes are provided through both disk surfaces.

  Further, the ceramic activated carbon body provided in the container is soaked in water and rotated to spray the soaked water, and discharged in the longitudinal direction of the container as a one-way flow by the fan provided in the container, and sprayed. An ion spraying method for discharging the negative ions generated by the negative ion generator in the spray water from the container is configured.

Further, the disk-shaped ceramic activated carbon body has a plurality of through holes penetrating both disk surfaces, and an ion spraying method in which spray water is sprayed from these through holes in addition to both the disk surfaces. Composed.
In addition, an ion spraying method is provided in which a water tank is installed in the upper part of the container, and water from the water tank is adjusted to a temperature of 4 ° C. to 90 ° C. and supplied to the ceramic activated carbon body.

  Table 1 shows test data indicating how much negative ions are generated by the ion spray apparatus and the ion spray method described above. In Table 1, the case of no water shows a comparative example, and the case of normal water, alkaline water, and special water (functional water) shows a case where water is soaked into the ceramic activated carbon 21 and released by centrifugal force.

* Purpose of the experiment Measure the value of negative ions by the negative ionization spray device.
2. Explain the number of negative ions depending on the type of water.
3. Minor in the distance range from the negative ionization spray device to the measurement port
Measure the value of scion.
* Measurement conditions Ion measurement according to the height of the center of the negative ionization spray device outlet
Measure with the same height at the center of the measurement port.
2. Measure in a room with no wind.
3. The experiment interval is 40 minutes.
4). 200cc of water for experiment is used.
5). KEC-900 is used as the ion measuring instrument model.
Large value 2 million pieces / cm ³ )

  It can be seen from Table 1 that the negative ions up to the measurement port are sufficiently sustained by discharging water from the ceramic activated carbon 21 and mixing it with the negative ions.

Sectional drawing which shows schematic structure of the Example of this invention. The figure which shows the detailed structure of the ceramic activated carbon body of FIG. The figure which shows the detailed structure of the rotary joint of FIG. The figure which shows a part of front part of FIG. The figure which shows a part of rear surface part of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Container 2, 3, 4 ... Container, 5 ... Space part, 11 ... Humidification part, 12 ... Air blower part, 13 ... Negative ion generation part, 14 ... Corona discharge apparatus, 15 ... Negative ion discharge | release part, 16 ... Heater, 17 ... Water discharge part (drainage part), 20 ... Motor, 21 ... Ceramic activated carbon, 22 ... Rotating shaft, 24 ... Flow path part, 25 (25a, 25b) ... Rotary joint, 40 ... Unidirectional wind Zone, 100 ... ion spraying device.

Claims (8)

  A rotatable ceramic activated carbon body is disposed in the container, rotated by a driving source, and provided with flow path means for allowing water to penetrate into the ceramic activated carbon body, and a fan is disposed in the container in a form facing the ceramic activated carbon body. And a negative ion generator is disposed in the container, in which the negative ions are mixed with the spray water sprayed with the rotation of the ceramic activated carbon body, and the mixed spray water and the negative ions are mixed in the container. Ion spraying apparatus characterized by discharging from.   In Claim 1, the water tank is installed in the upper part of the container, the ceramic activated carbon body is attached to a rotating shaft, the flow path means is provided in the rotating body and communicates with the ceramic activated carbon body, An ion spraying device formed by a communication hole and a water conduit communicating with the water tank.   3. The rotary shaft according to claim 2, wherein two rotary joints are provided apart from the rotary shaft, a groove is provided in a part of the rotary shaft located between the two rotary joints, the groove communicates with the groove, An ion spray apparatus characterized in that the water conduit is formed by a communicating hole.   The ion spray apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ceramic activated carbon body has a thin disk shape and is provided with a plurality of through holes penetrating both disk surfaces.   A container for storing at least three containers, upper, middle and lower, is provided, a ceramic activated carbon body is provided in the middle container, a fan and a negative ion generator are provided, and the upper container is configured as a water tank, A drive source is disposed in a lower container, and the ceramic activated carbon body is attached to a rotating shaft having a communication hole so as to be rotatable, and water from the water tank flows into the communication hole so that the communication hole is provided. The water that has flowed through the ceramic activated carbon body soaks into the ceramic activated carbon body, and the rotating shaft is rotated by the drive source to rotate the ceramic activated carbon body, thereby spraying water from the ceramic activated carbon body, An ion jet characterized in that the negative ions mixed with the negative ions from the negative ion generator and the spray water are discharged out of the vessel. Apparatus.   Spray the sprayed water by spraying the water soaked in the ceramic activated carbon body provided in the container by rotating it so that the water soaked in, and discharging it in the longitudinal direction of the container as a one-way flow by the fan provided in the container. An ion spraying method characterized in that negative ions generated by a negative ion generator are discharged from the container.   In claim 6, the disk-shaped ceramic activated carbon body is provided with a plurality of through holes penetrating both disk surfaces, and spray water is sprayed from these through holes in addition to both disk surfaces. An ion spraying method characterized by the above. 7. The ion spray according to claim 6, wherein a water tank is installed in an upper part of the container, and water from the water tank is adjusted to a temperature of 4 ° C. to 90 ° C. and supplied to the ceramic activated carbon body. Method.

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