JP3076375U - Water reformer - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] A conventional water reformer is attached to a water pipe by connecting a pair of magnet units to each other with a plurality of left and right screws. It takes time to remove. One guide member (12) extending in a scissor direction of both magnet units (11) is fixed to one magnet unit (11a), and the other magnet unit (11b) is attached to the guide member (12).
Are slidably engaged. When the two magnet units 11 are opposed to each other with the water pipe interposed therebetween, and the other magnet unit 11b is slid along the guide member 12 in a direction approaching the one magnet unit 11a, the water pipe is sandwiched between the two magnet units 11. That is, the water reformer 1 can be attached to a water pipe. Further, if the other magnet unit 11b is retracted along the guide member 12, the water reformer 1 can be easily removed.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a water reformer in which a water pipe is sandwiched between a pair of magnet units, and a magnetic force generated by the magnet unit acts on water flowing in the water pipe to reform the water.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 As this type of water reformer, for example, one described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-294684 is known. In this publication, the water pipe is sandwiched from above and below by two separate and independent magnet units that are not connected to each other, and two magnet units are provided on each of the left and right sides so that the magnet units do not come off from the water pipe. Are connected to each other with screws.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 When attaching the conventional magnet unit to a water pipe, both magnet units must be connected to each other with two screws on each of the right and left sides. However, when the water pipe is sandwiched between the two magnet units from above and below, the posture of each magnet unit must be properly maintained so that the screw can be inserted into the screw hole. The posture of the magnet unit is easily inclined by the attraction force to the tube. Therefore, installation takes time. Also, when removing the magnet unit from the water pipe, all four screws on the left and right, which interconnected both magnet units, must be removed, which is also troublesome.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a water reformer that can be easily attached to and removed from a water pipe.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a water reformer that reforms water by sandwiching a water pipe with a pair of magnet units and applying a magnetic force generated by the magnet unit to water flowing in the water pipe. One guide member extending along the scissor direction of the magnet unit is fixed to one magnet unit, the other magnet unit is slidably engaged with the guide member, and the distance between the two magnet units is adjustable. It is characterized by the following.

According to the present invention, since the other magnet unit is slidably engaged with the guide member fixed to one of the magnet units, the two magnet units are opposed to each other with the water pipe interposed therebetween. When the other magnet unit is slid along the guide member in a direction approaching one magnet unit, the water pipe is sandwiched between the two magnet units, and the water reformer can be attached to the water pipe. When the two magnet units are opposed to each other with the water pipe interposed therebetween, even if the other magnet unit is engaged with the guide member, since there is only one guide member, the water can be supplied from a direction in which the guide member does not interfere. Both magnet units can be opposed to each other across the water pipe across the pipe. On the other hand, both magnet units can be removed from the water pipe simply by returning the other magnet unit in a direction away from one magnet unit along the guide member from a state where both magnet units are attached to the water pipe.

When the water pipe is a steel pipe, the water reformer is fixed to the water pipe by the attraction force of the magnet unit to the water pipe, but the water reformer is made of a non-magnetic material such as vinyl chloride. When the water reformer is fixed to the pipe, fixing means for fixing the other magnet unit at an arbitrary position within a sliding range with respect to the guide member is provided, and both magnet units are provided with a water supply. It is preferable to fix the other magnet unit to the guide member while the tube is held therebetween.

[0008]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a water reformer according to the present invention, which includes a pair of magnet units. The water reformer 1 is attached to the water pipe B on both the upstream and downstream sides of the water pipe B connected to the water meter A, with the water pipe B sandwiched between the left and right magnet units 11. In the embodiment shown in this figure, the water reformer 1 is mounted on both the upstream side and the downstream side of the water meter A, but it may be mounted on only one of them.

Referring to FIG. 2, water reformer 1 includes a pair of magnet units 11 as described above. One guide member 12 extending along the scissor direction of both magnet units 11 is fixed near the upper end of one magnet unit 11a. The guide member 12 is a plate-like body having a rectangular cross section, but the cross-sectional shape of the guide member 12 is not limited to a rectangle, and may be, for example, a circle or a polygon. The other magnet unit 11b is provided with a hole 13 for passing the guide member 12 at a position where the guide member 12 passes in a state facing the one magnet unit 11a. The hole 13 has such a size that a slight gap is formed between the guide member 12 and the other magnet unit 11b so that the other magnet unit 11b can slide along the guide member 12 while passing through the guide member 12. . Thus, the other magnet unit 11b is slidably engaged with the guide member 12 by passing the guide member 12 through the hole 13.

Since the other magnet unit 11b is slidably engaged with the guide member 12 fixed to the one magnet unit 11a, the water reformer 1 is connected to the water pipe B from above the water pipe B. The two magnet units 11 are straddled so as to be opposed to each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the magnet unit, and the other magnet unit 11b is slid along the guide member 12 in a direction to approach one magnet unit 11a. When the water pipe B is sandwiched between the magnet units 11, the water reformer 1 can be attached to the water pipe B.

Since only one guide member 12 is provided near the upper end of the one magnet unit 11a, when the water reformer 1 is laid over the water pipe B, the guide member 12 is provided. When the water reformer 1 is straddled over the water pipe B with the side of the water reformer facing upward, the water reformer 1 can be straddled easily without any interference with the water pipe B.

Referring to FIG. 3, a screw hole 14 is provided at an upper portion of the other magnet unit 11b to reach a hole 13 provided in the other magnet unit 11b. When the screw 15 as fixing means is inserted into the screw hole 14 and the screw 15 is tightened at a desired position within a range in which the other magnet unit 11b slides along the guide member 12, the guide member 12 comes into contact with the bottom surface of the hole 13. The other magnet unit 11b, which is sandwiched between the tips of the screws 15, can be fixed at the desired position.

The guide member 12 is provided with a protrusion 16 on the lower surface near the end to prevent the other magnet unit 11 b from falling off the guide member 12.

The two magnet units 11 include a permanent magnet 111, a core 112 made of a pair of magnetic materials adsorbed to the S pole and the N pole of the permanent magnet 111, and a permanent magnet 111 and a core. And a case 113 made of a non-magnetic material for holding 112. The water pipe contact surface, which is the distal end face of each core 112, is curved so as to be able to come into wide contact with the outer periphery of the water pipe B. Since each core 112 is made of a magnetic material and adsorbed on the permanent magnet 111, each core 112 is magnetically polarized. Therefore, magnetic flux flows from the N-polarized core 112 to the S-polarized core 112. When each core 112 is brought into contact with the water pipe B, the magnetic flux passes through the water pipe B to form a magnetic field. When water flows in the water pipe B in this state, the water is reformed by ionization of the water by the action of a magnetic force.

The mounting orientation of the permanent magnets 111 of the two magnet units 11 is set such that both S poles and N poles are opposed to each other, so that the magnetic flux emitted from the N poles is opposed to each other. A strong magnetic field can be formed in the middle portion between the two magnet units 11, that is, inside the water pipe B, without flowing to the S pole of the other magnet unit.

Meanwhile, when the water reformer 1 is straddled over the largest diameter water pipe B of the water pipe B to which the water reformer 1 is assumed to be attached, the guide member 12 is provided with the other magnet. The length is set such that the unit 11b can be straddled over the water pipe B if the unit 11b is retracted to the extreme end of the guide member 12.

In order to prevent the guide member 12 from interfering with the water pipe B when attaching the water reformer 1 to the water pipe B, a center line connecting the two permanent magnets 111 and the guide member 12 are provided. Is set to be larger than the radius of the water pipe B having the maximum diameter at which the water reformer 1 is assumed to be attached.

[0018]

[Effect of the invention]

 As is apparent from the above description, the present invention requires only sliding the other magnet unit slidably engaged with the guide member along the guide member fixed to one magnet unit. In addition, the water reformer can be easily attached to and removed from the water pipe.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a use state of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing the structure of a magnet unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A water meter B water pipe 1 water reformer 11 magnet unit 12 guide member 15 screw 111 permanent magnet

Claims (2)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A water pipe is sandwiched between a pair of magnet units,
The magnetic force generated by the magnet unit acts on the water flowing in the water pipe, and in a water reformer that reforms the water, one guide member extending along the scissor direction of the magnet unit is fixed to one magnet unit, A water reformer characterized in that the other magnet unit is slidably engaged with the guide member so that the distance between the two magnet units can be adjusted. 2. The water reformer according to claim 1, further comprising fixing means for fixing the other magnet unit at an arbitrary position within a sliding range with respect to the guide member.