JP2007327816A - Measuring device for measuring performance of ion generator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measuring device for measuring performance of an ion generator, capable of measuring easily the performance of the ion generator noncontactly therewith, without affected greatly by disturbance due to a peripheral environment such as an electric field, humidity and dust in its periphery, allowing precise measurement, and capable of regulating sensitivity easily. <P>SOLUTION: This measuring device comprises a measuring instrument A with a surface potential sensor 3 built in a main body case 1, and a display B connected thereto by a cable C. An external charge electrode 11 is arranged in an outside of the main body case 1. An internal charge electrode 10 impressed with a high voltage is disposed in an inside thereof to be opposed to the surface potential sensor 3, and the external charge electrode 11 is electrically connected to the internal charge electrode 10 by a conductive member penetrating the main body case of the measuring instrument from the outside to the inside. The display B inputs an output from the surface potential sensor 3 via the cable and displays at least a measured potential. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an ion generator performance measuring apparatus that measures the performance of an ion generator that generates ions by discharge, such as a static eliminator or a charger.

Conventionally, there are techniques described in the following Patent Documents 1 to 5 as techniques for measuring and evaluating the performance of the static eliminator.
<Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-271372)>
It consists of a probe unit with a probe at the tip and a built-in charge amount measurement unit, and a calculation / display unit connected to the outside. The probe contacts the charged object and inputs the charge to the charge amount measurement unit. The charge measuring unit is connected between the switch, the resistor connected to the switch, the operational amplifier having one input connected to the resistor, and one input terminal and the other input terminal of the operational amplifier. The calculation / display unit calculates the charge amount based on the output of the operational amplifier output as a voltage with respect to the other input terminal of the operational amplifier, and displays this.

<Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-286776)>
A voltage generating unit, which is attached to a ground electrode of a static eliminator using corona discharge and has a conductive charging plate and a support device that supports the charging plate so that the static eliminator and the charging plate maintain a predetermined positional relationship; It consists of and. The conductive charging plate is configured to be able to apply either positive or negative voltage or both, and the support device is attached to the ground electrode of the static eliminator and is slidably held on the ground electrode. It is configured as follows.

<Patent Document 3 (JP-A-5-264628)>
A probe is attached to the outside of the static eliminator that removes static electricity by causing a corona discharge between the static elimination electrode to which a high voltage is applied and the ground electrode. The probe is provided with a metal detection plate located outside the static elimination electrode and a shield plate located outside the detection plate. A discrimination device electrically connected to the probe compares the induced potential of the detection plate with a reference voltage to determine whether the operation of the static eliminator is good or bad.

<Patent Document 4 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-77348)>
Based on the measurement result of the high voltage power supply that outputs high voltage, the switch that switches between energization / cutoff of the metal plate and the high voltage power supply, the electrometer that measures the potential of the metal plate, and positive / negative ion The calculation unit is configured to perform a calculation process for obtaining a static elimination time in consideration of the balance deviation value and / or the swing of the potential decay waveform of the metal plate, and an output unit that outputs the calculation result of the calculation unit to the outside. The recording unit records the calculation result of the calculation unit such as the positive / negative ion balance deviation value and the static elimination time.

<Patent Document 5 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-124812)>
A first capacitor in which an upper metal plate and a lower metal plate charged by a static eliminator are opposed to each other via an insulator, and a second capacitor connected between the upper metal plate and the lower metal plate via a switch. Capacitors, high-voltage power supply that applies high voltage to the upper and lower metal plates, surface potential sensors placed on the surface of the upper metal plate to measure the surface potential of the upper metal plate, and measurement It consists of a display recorder such as an oscilloscope that displays and records values as analog data.

However, none of these is a simple structure. In addition, there are problems such as being easily affected by the surrounding environment such as the surrounding electric field, humidity, and dust, the fluctuation in measurement accuracy being large, and the sensitivity being unable to be adjusted.
JP-A-11-271372 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-286776 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-264628 JP 2005-77348 A JP 2001-124812 A

  The problem of the present invention is that the performance of the ion generator can be easily measured without contact with it, is less susceptible to disturbance due to the surrounding environment such as the surrounding electric field, humidity, and dust, and can be measured with high accuracy. An object of the present invention is to provide an ion generator performance measuring apparatus capable of easily adjusting sensitivity.

  The performance measuring apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises a measuring instrument A having a surface potential sensor 3 built in a main body case 1 and a display B connected to the measuring instrument A by a cable C. An external charging electrode 11 is disposed outside the main body case 1 of the measuring device, and an internal charging electrode 10 to which a high voltage is applied is disposed inside the measuring device case 1 so as to face the surface potential sensor 3. The internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11 are electrically connected to each other by a conducting member 9 that penetrates the inside and outside of the main body case of the measuring instrument so as to induce charges. The display B inputs the output from the surface potential sensor 3 via a cable and displays at least the measured potential.

  In the invention according to claim 2, in addition to the above structure, the internal charging electrode 10 is mounted in the main body case 1 so that the distance between the surface charging sensor 10 and the surface potential sensor 3 can be adjusted. The invention according to claim 3 is a specific example of this. The conductive member is a metal screw 9, which connects the internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11. By allowing the external charging electrode 11 to move with respect to the main body case 1 of the measuring instrument A with the screw 9, the facing distance between the internal charging electrode 10 and the surface potential sensor 3 can be adjusted.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a switch 14 for turning on / off the application of a high voltage to the internal charging electrode 10 is provided outside the main body case 1 of the measuring instrument A.

  In the main body case 1 of the measuring instrument A, the V / F converter 6 for converting the output signal of the surface potential sensor 3 to voltage / frequency and outputting it to the cable C is built in the main body case 1 of the measuring instrument A, and the display B Includes an F / V converter 21 that reversely converts a frequency into a voltage.

  In the invention according to claim 6, the power supply unit 26 for applying a high voltage to the internal charging electrode 10 via a cable is provided on the display B side.

  According to the performance measuring apparatus of the present invention, when a high voltage is applied to the internal charging electrode in the main body case of the measuring instrument to charge it, the charge is induced to the external charging electrode outside the main body case. When ions from the ion generator are applied to the external charging electrode, the potential of the external charging electrode changes according to the performance of the ion generator (specifically, changes due to the ion current, etc.) and is reflected in the internal charging electrode. Since the potential change is indirectly detected by the surface potential sensor in the main body case, it is difficult to be affected by the surrounding environment such as the surrounding electric field, humidity and dust, and the performance of the ion generator can be accurately measured. An internal charging electrode and an external charging electrode are provided inside and outside the main body case, a measuring instrument with a built-in surface potential sensor in the main body case, and a display that displays at least the measured potential by inputting the output from the surface potential sensor via a cable Therefore, the performance of the ion generator can be easily measured in a non-contact manner.

  According to the second aspect of the invention, by adjusting the installation position of the internal charging electrode in the main body case, the facing distance to the surface potential sensor can be adjusted and the capacitance between them can be varied. The sensitivity can be adjusted.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the opposing distance between the internal charging electrode and the surface potential sensor is adjusted by the screw that electrically connects and connects the internal charging electrode and the external charging electrode, and the electrostatic potential between them is adjusted. Since the capacity can be varied, sensitivity adjustment is easy and the adjustment mechanism can be simplified.

  According to the invention which concerns on Claim 4, the application of the high voltage to an internal charging electrode can be easily turned on / off by the switch provided in the outer side of the main body case.

  According to the fifth aspect of the invention, the output signal of the surface potential sensor is converted into voltage / frequency in the measuring instrument and output to the cable, and this is converted back to voltage in the indicator, so that the measuring instrument is displayed. Transmission to and from the instrument can be performed with little disturbance.

  According to the invention of claim 6, since the power supply unit for applying a high voltage to the internal charging electrode via the cable is provided on the display side, the measuring device can be made compact to improve the workability of the measurement. it can.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the performance measuring apparatus according to the present invention includes a measuring device A having a size that can be held with one hand and a display device B connected to the measuring device A with a cable C.

  The measuring device A includes a surface potential sensor 3 installed on a circuit board 2 in a rectangular box-shaped main body case 1, and a high-voltage relay 4, an amplifier 5, and a V / V that converts the frequency of the voltage on the circuit board 2. An F converter 6 is mounted. The circuit board 2 is supported in the main body case 1 by a vibration-proof rubber 7 and a rubber cap 8 that closes the rear end of the main body case 1 so as not to receive vibration from the main body case 1.

  At the front end of the main body case 1, an internal charging electrode 10 positioned inside the main body case 1 and an external charging electrode 11 positioned outside the main body case 1 are made of metal screws that penetrate the upper wall 1 a of the main body case 1. 9 are separated and connected inside and outside, but are connected and supported so as to be electrically connected to each other. An insulating supporter 12 is interposed between the internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11 to separate them from the inner and outer surfaces of the main body case 1, and screws 9 are provided on the outer surface of the upper wall 1a. An insulative nut 13 is screwed onto the screw. The screw 9 passes through the insulating supporter 12 and the insulating nut 13 to connect the internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11, and connects the internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11 to the upper wall 1 a. It can be moved simultaneously in the inner and outer directions. Although the internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11 can be moved simultaneously, the main body case 1 has a sealed structure even in this portion because of the support structure as described above.

  As disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent No. 3518809, the surface potential sensor 3 includes a detection electrode and a vibrator that chops an electric field between the detection electrode and the object to be measured. Is a tuning fork type in which the vibrator is vibrated by a vibrator driving circuit and the surface potential of the object to be measured is detected from the AC voltage generated from the detection electrode. The surface potential sensor 3 has its detection hole opposed to the internal charging electrode 10 at a distance, and detects the electric potential of the electric charge charged in the internal charging electrode 10 in the main body case 1 without contact. The output is amplified by the amplifier 5, converted into a frequency signal by the V / F converter 6, and then transmitted to the display B through the cable C.

  The internal charging electrode 10 has a disk shape, but the external charging electrode 11 has a disk shape larger than the internal charging electrode 10 as shown in FIG. 2 or a rectangular plate shape as shown in FIG.

  A start switch 14 for turning on / off the high voltage relay 4 with a push button is provided on the outer surface of the main body case 1, for example, on the upper wall 1 a thereof. A high voltage applied to the internal charging electrode 10 from the B side can be turned on / off on the measuring device A side with respect to the internal charging electrode 10.

  On the other hand, the display B is an F / V converter 21 that reversely converts the frequency signal of the potential transmitted from the measuring device A via the cable C from frequency to voltage, and an A / D that converts the output from analog to digital. The converter 22, the CPU 23 that processes the digitally converted data, the display unit 24 such as a liquid crystal that displays the data processed by the CPU 23, the oscillator 25 that supplies a clock signal thereto, and the DC power source of the display B itself In addition, a power supply unit 26 that also serves as a power supply for the measuring instrument A is provided.

  The power supply unit 26 is supplied with the voltage of the battery 27 via the power switch 28, and supplies the DC power to the display device B by the first DC / DC converter 29 and the second DC / DC converter 30. The known cock croft circuit 31 is operated to generate a positive high voltage and a negative high voltage by the cock croft circuit 31. The positive and negative high voltages can be adjusted by changing the DC voltage of the second DC / DC converter 30 by the voltage variable volume 32, and the polarity is selected by the polarity changeover switch 33, and the measuring instrument A through the cable C is selected. The internal charging electrode 10 can be applied.

  Since the performance measuring apparatus of this example has such a configuration, the start switch 14 of the measuring instrument A is turned on, and the positive or negative high voltage adjusted by the voltage variable volume 32 is internally charged from the display B side. When applied to the electrode 10, the external charging electrode 11 is charged together with the internal charging electrode 10. Therefore, when ions from the ion generator D such as a static eliminator are applied to the external charging electrode 11, the potentials of the external charging electrode 11 and the internal charging electrode 10 change according to the performance of the ion generator D, and the potential change is , Detected by the surface potential sensor 3 in the measuring instrument A. At that time, since the measuring instrument A has a sealed structure, it is less susceptible to disturbances caused by the surrounding environment such as the surrounding electric field, humidity, and dust.

  The output of the surface potential sensor 3 is amplified by the amplifier 5, converted into a frequency signal by the V / F converter 6, and then transmitted to the display B through the cable C. On the display B side, the frequency signal of the potential is inversely converted into a voltage by the F / V converter 21, then analog / digital converted by the A / D converter 22, and processed by the CPU 23. The decay time until decay to a certain set potential is displayed on the display unit 24. On the display unit 24, the transition of the attenuation can be displayed symmetrically separately for positive and negative, so that the characteristics of the ion generator D and the ion balance state can be understood.

  The internal charging electrode 10 and the external charging electrode 11 can be simultaneously moved in and out of the upper wall 1a of the main body case 1 by the screw 9. Accordingly, the opposing distance between the internal charging electrode 10 and the surface potential sensor 3 is set to the screw. By varying the value by 9, it is possible to easily adjust the measurement sensitivity by varying the capacitance between them.

  If the external charging electrode 11 is L-shaped as shown in FIG. 4 and its part 11a is positioned in front of the front end surface of the main body case 1, the measurement of both the upper and front sides of the main body case 1 is performed. Is possible.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the performance measuring apparatus by this invention. It is a top view of a measuring device at the time of making an external charging electrode into a disk shape. It is a top view of a measuring device when an external charging electrode is a rectangular plate. It is a side view which shows the modification of an external charging electrode.

Explanation of symbols

A Measuring instrument B Display C Cable D Ion generator 1 Main body case 1a Upper wall 2 Circuit board 3 Surface potential sensor 4 High voltage relay 5 Amplifier 6 V / F converter 7 Anti-vibration rubber 8 Rubber cap 9 Screw 10 Internal charging electrode 11 External Charging Electrode 12 Insulating Supporter 13 Insulating Nut 14 Start Switch 21 F / V Converter 22 A / D Converter 23 CPU
24 Display Unit 25 Oscillator 26 Power Supply Unit 27 Battery 28 Power Switch 29/30 DC / DC Converter 31 Cockcroft Circuit 32 Voltage Variable Volume 33 Polarity Switch

Claims (6)

  It consists of a measuring instrument with a built-in surface potential sensor in the main body case and a display connected to this by a cable, and an external charging electrode is arranged outside the main body case of the measuring instrument, and inside it An internal charging electrode to which a high voltage is applied is placed opposite to the surface potential sensor, and the internal charging electrode and the external charging electrode penetrate inside and outside the main body case of the measuring instrument so as to induce charges. An ion generator performance measurement apparatus, wherein the display is configured to display at least a measurement potential by inputting an output from the surface potential sensor via the cable.   2. The ion generator performance measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the internal charging electrode is mounted in the main body case so as to be capable of adjusting an interval between the internal charging electrode and the surface potential sensor.   The conducting member is a metal screw that connects the internal charging electrode and the external charging electrode, and the internal charging electrode and the external charging electrode can be moved with respect to the main body case of the measuring instrument with this screw. The apparatus for measuring the performance of an ion generator according to claim 2, wherein the distance between the internal charging electrode and the surface potential sensor can be adjusted.   4. The ion generator performance measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a switch for turning on / off application of a high voltage to the internal charging electrode is provided outside the main body case of the measuring instrument.   A V / F converter that converts the output signal of the surface potential sensor into voltage / frequency and outputs it to the cable is built in the main body case of the measuring instrument, and F / V converts the frequency back to voltage inside the display. 5. The ion generator performance measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a converter.   6. The ion generator performance measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising a power supply unit for applying a high voltage to the internal charging electrode via a cable on the display side.

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