JP7459356B1 - Oxygen hydrogen bath system - Google Patents

Abstract

[Problem] To provide an oxygen-hydrogen bath system that can take in more hydrogen faster and reduce active oxygen. [Solution] The oxygen-hydrogen bath system includes a chamber 11 that has a gas supply port 20 and accommodates a human body, a gas supply unit 12 that supplies oxygen-containing gas into the chamber via an air supply pipe 23 to make the internal pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, a hydrogen supply unit 13 that supplies hydrogen gas into the chamber via a hydrogen supply pipe 27, and a gas exhaust unit 15 that exhausts gas and hydrogen gas from the chamber via an exhaust valve 28 that maintains the pressure inside the chamber within a predetermined pressure range, and the exhaust valve maintains the pressure inside the chamber at or above atmospheric pressure and below the usable pressure of the exhaust valve. In this oxygen-hydrogen bath system, a flow path branch point is provided in the middle of the flow path connecting the gas supply unit and the gas supply port, at a point closer to the gas supply unit side than the junction where hydrogen gas from the hydrogen supply pipe joins, and one branch flow path heads toward the gas supply port and the other branch flow path heads toward the gas exhaust unit. [Selected Figure] Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to an oxygen-hydrogen bath system.

(Position of this application)
The present applicant separately owns a patent (Patent No. 6133526 (hereinafter referred to as Patent Document 1) entitled "Oxygen Hydrogen Bath System", but this application is based on the invention described in this patent. This is an application related to an improved invention.

The invention covered by Patent No. 6133526 is an invention related to an oxygen hydrogen bathing system that allows the body to take in more hydrogen than when hydrogen water is orally ingested, making it easier to reduce active oxygen. In recent years, there has been a growing need to eliminate excess active oxygen from the body in order to maintain health. People with this need include busy businessmen who are pressed for time, and it is expected that such businessmen will enjoy great benefits if they can take an oxygen hydrogen bath in a short time even during work hours.
The basic technical idea of the invention described in this patent is to supply air that has been adjusted to a certain hydrogen gas concentration outside the chamber at a certain rate and amount to the oxygen-hydrogen bath chamber, while maintaining the hydrogen volume concentration of the air in the chamber at dynamic equilibrium.

Patent No. 6133526

However, in the oxygen hydrogen bath system that implements the invention described in Patent Document 1, from the viewpoint of the danger associated with the use of a hydrogen gas generator, its hydrogen gas generation capacity is limited to 500 cc of 100% hydrogen gas per minute. capacity and the hydrogen concentration within the chamber can only be maintained up to 1.0% by volume when dynamic equilibrium is reached. Therefore, there are aspects of this method that do not fully meet the market needs for taking in a sufficient amount of hydrogen into the body in a shorter period of time, or a larger amount of hydrogen in the same amount of time.

In such cases, a common solution is to simply increase the capacity of the hydrogen gas generator without changing the entire system, but this solution ensures that the amount of hydrogen gas produced is This is undesirable because it exceeds the range where hydrogen has been confirmed and there is a risk of hydrogen explosion. Furthermore, it is necessary to introduce a new hydrogen gas generator, which greatly affects the manufacturing cost, which increases the manufacturing cost, which is undesirable from a business perspective.

Therefore, the present inventor used a hydrogen gas generator whose safety has been confirmed, in which the amount of hydrogen gas generated through long-term use of the oxygen-hydrogen bath system of Patent Document 1 (prior art) is within the safe range, and As a result of intensive research into a solution that achieves the objective while avoiding a significant increase in manufacturing costs, the system was developed without changing the hydrogen gas generator used in the oxygen-hydrogen bath system described in Patent Document 1. A simple low-cost Y-shaped joint is inserted in the middle of the air supply pipe, one branch pipe is piped in the same manner as in Patent Document 1, a reducer is inserted in the other branch pipe, and a T-shaped joint is inserted at the end of the pipe. We have discovered that by simply connecting the gas exhaust section of Patent Document 1 through the gas exhaust section, it is possible to increase and maintain the hydrogen concentration in the chamber of the oxygen-hydrogen bath system to a level that could not be obtained with the invention described in the same document. The present invention was made based on this knowledge.

That is, the first invention includes a chamber that has a gas supply port into which gas is introduced and is capable of accommodating the entire human body;
A gas supply unit having a gas supply pipe connected to the gas supply port, and supplying a gas containing oxygen into the chamber through the gas supply pipe to make the pressure inside the chamber higher than atmospheric pressure. and,
A hydrogen supply pipe connected to the gas supply pipe via a Y-shaped joint A, and a hydrogen gas generator are provided, and hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas generator is introduced into the chamber through the hydrogen supply pipe. A hydrogen supply unit that supplies hydrogen;
A gas exhaust section that communicates with the chamber and has a safety valve or a valve that maintains the inside of the chamber within a predetermined pressure range by an ON/OFF operation, and exhausts the gas and the hydrogen gas from the chamber through the valve. and,
In an oxygen-hydrogen bath system comprising:
The gas supply pipe of the gas supply section includes a Y-shaped joint that divides the flow path of the gas from the gas supply section into two equal parts at a position closer to the gas supply section than the position of the Y-shaped joint A. has B,
One branch pipe A of the Y-shaped joint B joins the hydrogen supply pipe at the Y-shaped joint A and then connects to the gas supply port, and the other branch pipe B extends through a reducer. This is an oxygen-hydrogen bath system characterized in that the gas exhaust part is connected to the gas exhaust part through a T-shaped joint after the main body.

A second invention is the first invention, characterized in that the pressure in the chamber is maintained at 1.1 to 1.35 atmospheres and the volume concentration of the hydrogen gas in the chamber is maintained at 1.0 to 2.0 volume % by the valve.

A third invention is that in the first or second invention, while the gas supply unit is supplying the gas into the chamber, the hydrogen supply unit supplies the hydrogen gas into the chamber. It is characterized by

Note that the configuration of the invention as claimed in claim 1 of the present application is to add the underlined constitutional features below to the configuration of the invention as claimed in claim 1 of patent No. 6133526, which has already been patented. It is considered that the added constituent elements are sufficiently patentable.
a chamber having a gas supply port through which gas is introduced and capable of accommodating the entire human body;
A gas supply having a gas supply pipe connected to the gas supply port, and supplying a gas containing oxygen into the chamber through the gas supply pipe to make the pressure inside the chamber higher than atmospheric pressure. Department and
A hydrogen supply pipe connected to the gas supply pipe via a Y-shaped A joint , and a hydrogen gas generator are provided, and hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas generator is introduced into the chamber through the hydrogen supply pipe. A hydrogen supply unit that supplies hydrogen;
A gas exhaust section that communicates with the chamber and has a safety valve or a valve that maintains the inside of the chamber within a predetermined pressure range by ON/OFF operation, and exhausts the gas and the hydrogen gas from the chamber via the valve. and,
In an oxygen hydrogen bath system comprising:
The gas supply pipe of the gas supply section has a Y-shape B that divides the flow path of the gas from the gas supply section into two equal parts at a position closer to the gas supply section than the position of the Y-shape A joint. has a joint,
One branch pipe A extending from the Y-shaped B joint is connected to the gas supply port after joining the hydrogen supply pipe at the Y-shaped A joint, and the other branch pipe B is connected to the gas supply port through a reducer. After extending, connect to the gas exhaust part via a T-type joint.
An oxygen-hydrogen bath system characterized by:

According to the present invention, through the long-term use of the oxygen-hydrogen bath system of the invention (prior art) described in Patent Document 1, a hydrogen gas generator whose safety has been confirmed in which the amount of hydrogen gas generated is within a safe range is provided. Not only can it be expected that more hydrogen can be efficiently taken into the body through the skin and mucous membranes of the human body in a shorter period of time than with conventional technology, making it easier to obtain the effect of reducing active oxygen, but it is also possible to reduce the amount of oxygen gas and hydrogen. It is expected that more gases will be taken into the human body as dissolved gases, thereby increasing dissolved oxygen and hydrogen in blood or body fluids.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a system according to the prior art. Note that the reference numbers in the drawings are the same as those in the drawings of Japanese Patent No. 6133526, and these reference numbers indicate the same elements in FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrating embodiments of the present invention. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a system of the present invention (a conceptual diagram following the description method shown in FIG. 1); In the figure, reference numbers that are the same as those in FIG. 1 mean the same components as in FIG. 1. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system in which the branching portion, the connecting portion, and the reducer portion of the piping of the present invention are shown in close-up. In this figure, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 denote the same components as those in FIG. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a chamber (same conceptual diagram as the conventional technology). Note that the reference numbers in the drawings are the same as those in the drawings of Japanese Patent No. 6133526, and these reference numbers indicate the same elements in FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrating embodiments of the present invention. 2 is a graph showing a change in hydrogen concentration (volume %) in a chamber over time according to a conventional technique. 1 is a graph showing a change in hydrogen concentration (volume %) in a chamber over time according to the present invention. In the same figure, two line graphs are shown, and the upper line graph shows the case of high-speed operation, and the lower line graph shows the case of normal operation. Note that these two line graphs overlap from the start to the elapsed time of 25 minutes.

(Embodiment)
Embodiments according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
The present invention is an improved invention of the prior art (the invention described in Patent Document 1), and is an improved invention by adding new components to the system configuration of the prior art. First, in order to facilitate understanding of which components are newly added compared to the system configuration of the prior art, we will first introduce a conceptual diagram of the system configuration of the prior art and the system of the present invention. Figure 2, which shows a conceptual diagram of the configuration, has been prepared. Note that the notation of the system configuration conceptual diagram in FIG. 2 follows the notation of the system configuration diagram in Patent Document 1, which is a prior art. FIG. 3 is a close-up representation of branching parts, connecting parts, etc. in the system configuration diagram of FIG. 2.

The oxygen hydrogen bath system 10 according to the present embodiment includes a chamber 11 that accommodates the entire human body (not shown), a gas supply section 12 that supplies air into the chamber 11 and makes the internal pressure higher than atmospheric pressure. A hydrogen supply section 13 that supplies hydrogen gas into the chamber 11 , a gas exhaust section 15 that discharges air and hydrogen gas from the chamber 11 , and a Y-shaped A in the middle of the pipe connecting the gas supply section 12 and the chamber 11 . The joint 42 and the Y-shaped B joint 44, the reducer 40 in the middle of the pipe connecting the gas supply section 12 and the gas exhaust section 15, and the T-shaped joint at the point where the pipe extending from the reducer 40 connects with the gas exhaust section 15. 46, a measurement section 16 that measures the environment inside the chamber, and a control section 17 that controls the environment inside the chamber.

As is clear from a comparison between FIG. 3 showing a conceptual diagram of the system of the present invention and FIG. 1 showing a conceptual diagram of a system of the prior art, in the system of the present invention, the Y-shaped A joint 42 and the Y-shaped B A joint 44, a reducer 40, and a T-shaped joint 46 are arranged at the locations shown in FIG. 3, and are connected by piping shown by straight lines in FIG. It is made of the same material as the piping used in the technology (the outside diameter and wall thickness of each piping are described below).

The chamber 11 is made of a cylindrical metal member such as aluminum or stainless steel, has air and moisture impermeability, and is strong enough to withstand an atmospheric pressure of at least 1.4 atmospheres. An opening 11a through which people can enter and exit is provided on the side of the chamber 11, and an opening/closing unit 18 for closing the opening 11a is provided. A gas supply port 20 connected to the gas supply unit 12 is also provided on the side of the chamber 11.

The gas supply unit 12 includes a compressor 22 for bringing air (air containing oxygen) into the chamber 11 at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure, and an air supply pipe (gas supply pipe) 23. Here, the gas supply unit 12 may further include an air pressure adjustment valve that adjusts the supply pressure of air. Note that, instead of the compressor 22, a pressure vessel (not shown) into which air at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure is pressurized may be provided.

Here, the air (air containing oxygen) compressed by the compressor 22 flows inside the air supply pipe 23 toward the chamber 11, but the flow rate flowing from one flow path is A Y-shaped A joint 44 for discharging the flow rate divided into two equal parts from two flow paths, a flow of hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas generation section 13 and a flow of compressed air from the compressor 22. A Y-shaped B joint 42 is inserted for merging the two. The Y-shaped A joint 44 has the configuration of a general Y-shaped joint, and the outer diameter and wall thickness of the tube on the inlet side are the same as the outer diameter and wall thickness of the two tubes on the outlet side. . The Y-shaped A joint 44 is inserted in the path of the air supply pipe 23 through which the air compressed by the compressor 22 passes, and divides the amount of compressed air equally into 1/2, respectively. Drain into branch pipes. In addition, the Y-shaped B joint 42 also has the configuration of a general Y-shaped joint, but here, it has a configuration in which two channels with different outer diameters and wall thicknesses are merged into one channel. It has become. Specifically, it is configured so that air from one of the branch pipes branching from the Y-shaped A joint 44 and hydrogen gas from the hydrogen supply section 13 are combined. The combined air/hydrogen mixed gas flows together into the chamber 11 through the gas supply port 20 .

The hydrogen supply unit 13 includes a hydrogen gas generator 25 that generates high-concentration hydrogen gas by electrolyzing water, a hydrogen supply valve 26 disposed between the hydrogen gas generator 25 and the chamber 11, and a hydrogen supply pipe 27 connecting them. The hydrogen supply pipe 27 merges with one branch pipe from the Y-shaped A joint at a Y-shaped B joint. Here, the hydrogen supply unit 13 may further include a hydrogen pressure adjustment valve (not shown) that adjusts the supply pressure of hydrogen gas. The tip of the hydrogen supply pipe 27 merges with a branch pipe from the Y-shaped A joint of the air supply pipe at a Y-shaped B joint located midway along the air supply pipe 23 outside the chamber 11. Note that instead of the hydrogen gas generator 25, a pressure vessel (not shown) into which hydrogen gas at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure is injected may be provided.

The gas exhaust unit 15 is equipped with an exhaust valve 28 that exhausts air and hydrogen gas introduced into the chamber 11 to the outside of the chamber 11. The gas exhaust unit 15 is turned on/off by the control unit 17 to maintain the pressure inside the chamber 11 within a predetermined pressure range (i.e., above atmospheric pressure and below the usable pressure of the exhaust valve 28). The gas exhaust unit 15 may further include a safety valve (not shown) that automatically exhausts the gas inside the chamber 11 when the pressure inside the chamber 11 reaches or exceeds a predetermined pressure.

The measurement section 16 is connected to the control section 17. The chamber 11 and the control unit 17 are connected, and the measurement unit 16 includes a pressure sensor 30 that measures the pressure inside the chamber 11.

The control unit 17 is composed of a computer equipped with a CPU, memory, and display (not shown), and controls the environment inside the chamber 11 based on data from the pressure sensor 30. For example, it controls the ON/OFF operation of the compressor 22, the hydrogen gas generator 25, and the first hydrogen supply solenoid valve 26. It also controls the ON/OFF operation of the exhaust valve 28 to adjust the pressure inside the chamber 11.

The environment within chamber 11 is controlled by controlling the entire system so that, when the pressure within chamber 11 and the hydrogen volume concentration within chamber 11 reach dynamic equilibrium, the pressure within the chamber is preferably 1.10 atmospheres or more and 1.35 atmospheres or less, or 1.10 atmospheres or more and less than the usable pressure of exhaust valve 28, the volume concentration of oxygen within chamber 11 is 20% or more and 30% or less, and the volume concentration of hydrogen is 1.0% to 2.0%, less than the minimum explosion limit of hydrogen.

Here, the hydrogen supply unit 13 supplies hydrogen gas to the chamber 11 only while the gas supply unit 12 is supplying air. The compressor 22, hydrogen gas generator 25, and hydrogen supply valve 26 may be manually turned on and off, and the various pressure controls may be manually adjusted by the user himself while watching the various pressures displayed on the display.

Next, the operation of the oxygen-hydrogen bath system 10 according to this embodiment will be explained.
First, the opening/closing part 18 of the chamber 11 is opened, and a user (not shown) enters the chamber 11 through the opening 11a.

After the opening/closing unit 18 is closed, the entire system starts operating under the instruction of the control unit 17, and under the instruction of the control unit 17, the gas supply unit 12 supplies air into the chamber 11 and the hydrogen supply unit 13 supplies hydrogen gas into the chamber 11.

At this time, the control unit 17 controls the flow rate of air and hydrogen gas by ON/OFF operation of the compressor 22 based on the data from the measurement unit 16, the ON/OFF operation of the hydrogen gas generator 25 and the hydrogen supply 26, and controls the exhaust valve. By appropriately controlling the internal pressure through ON/OFF operations, the environment within the chamber 11 (in particular, the state of pressure and hydrogen volume concentration) is brought into a dynamic equilibrium state within a desired time. Under this dynamic equilibrium state, the internal pressure of the chamber 11 is set at 1.10 atm or more and 1.35 atm or less, the oxygen volume concentration is set at 20% or more and 30% or less, and the hydrogen volume concentration is preferably 1.0%. Maintain above 2.0% or less.

In the present invention, one of the important points is to maintain the environment within the chamber 11 in a dynamic equilibrium state. A user (not shown) will immerse himself in this dynamic equilibrium environment within chamber 11 for a desired period of time. After the predetermined time has elapsed, the hydrogen supply section 13 stops supplying hydrogen gas into the chamber 11, and then the gas supply section 12 stops supplying air into the chamber 11.

According to this oxygen-hydrogen bath system 10, as shown in FIG. 5 (in the case of the prior art) and FIG. 6 (in the case of the present invention), the hydrogen volume concentration in the chamber 11 can be increased in a shorter time than in the case of the prior art. It is possible to reach a higher value than that possible with conventional technology, and depending on the piping configuration within the system, even though the same hydrogen generator as that used in conventional technology is used, the final It is possible to reach a value nearly twice that of the conventional technology, and it is expected that it will be efficiently absorbed into the human body in a short time.

In addition, by increasing the oxygen concentration in the oxygen-containing gas, we have created a high-pressure and high-concentration oxygen atmosphere that has a higher concentration of oxygen than the atmospheric pressure (approximately 21%). The human body can be exposed to the atmosphere below, and it is expected that more oxygen gas will be taken into the human body as dissolved oxygen.

In particular, while the gas supply section 12 is supplying air into the chamber 11, the hydrogen supply section 13 supplies hydrogen gas into the chamber 11, so that a situation in which the inside of the chamber 11 becomes excessively hydrogen can be suitably suppressed. can do.

Furthermore, it is also possible to control the volume concentration of hydrogen gas in the chamber 11 by the gas supply section 12, hydrogen supply section 13, and gas exhaust section 15 so that it is less than the minimum value of the explosion limit of hydrogen gas. It is possible to suitably prevent the chamber 11 from becoming a dangerous environment in which a hydrogen explosion occurs.

(Example)
The graph shown in FIG. 6 showing the change in hydrogen concentration within the chamber over time was obtained under the following conditions. Note that the pipes with an outer diameter of 10 mm in the following description had a wall thickness of 1.75 mm, the pipes with an outer diameter of 6 mm had a wall thickness of 1 mm, and the pipes with an outer diameter of 12 mm had a wall thickness of 2 mm.
1) The Y-shaped A joint is configured for branching.
2) Outer diameter of the pipe connected on the inlet side of the Y-shaped A joint: φ10mm
The outer diameter of the two pipes connected on the outlet side of the Y-shaped A joint is each φ10 mm.
3) The Y-shaped B joint is configured for merging,
Of the two pipes connected on the inlet side of the Y-shaped B joint, the outer diameter of the air (air containing oxygen) pipe is φ10 mm, and the outer diameter of the hydrogen gas pipe is φ6 mm.
The outer diameter of one pipe connected on the outlet side of the Y-shaped B joint is φ10mm.
4) The reducer is a reducer that expands the inflow side piping with an outer diameter of φ10 mm to an outer diameter of φ12 mm. 5) The T-shaped joint is configured to change the flow path direction.
A pipe with an outer diameter of 12 mm extending from the reducer is connected to the middle of an exhaust line with an outer diameter of 12 mm from the chamber.
6) The compressor was operated at a discharge capacity of 200 liters per minute, and the hydrogen generator was operated at a production capacity of 500 cc per minute of 100% pure hydrogen gas at room temperature.
7) When operated under the above conditions, the hydrogen volume concentration at the outlet of the Y-shaped B joint was approximately 3%.
8) In addition, in the case of a conventional system that has the same Y-shaped B joint but does not have a Y-shaped A joint, reducer, and T-shaped joint, when the same compressor and the same hydrogen generator are used, the Y-shaped The hydrogen volume concentration at the outlet of the Type B joint was approximately 1%.

Note that the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, although it is assumed that the gas supply unit 12 supplies air into the chamber 11, it is not limited to air and may be any other gas as long as it contains oxygen at a predetermined concentration and is safe for the human body. It doesn't matter if there is. Further, there are no restrictions on the spatial arrangement of each component, and for example, a configuration in which the hydrogen gas supply port is arranged below the chamber is also included within the scope of the present invention.

Further, the measurement unit 16 may include an oxygen concentration sensor or a hydrogen concentration sensor. In this case, the oxygen concentration and hydrogen concentration within the chamber 11 can be measured in real time.

Further, although the hydrogen supply pipe 27 of the hydrogen supply unit 13 is connected to the air supply pipe 23, the present invention is not limited to this, and a separate hydrogen supply port may be provided in the chamber so that the hydrogen supply pipe 27 can be supplied separately from the air. I do not care. Further, at this time, the hydrogen supply pipe may extend from the hydrogen supply port to the vicinity of the user's face when the user enters the chamber. This allows hydrogen to be taken into the body more efficiently.

Further, the opening/closing part may be of a sliding type. Furthermore, since the pressure inside the chamber 11 becomes equal to or higher than atmospheric pressure during use, a structure that slides on the inner surface of the chamber is more preferable.

10 Oxygen hydrogen bath system 11 Chamber 12 Gas supply section 13 Hydrogen supply section 15 Gas exhaust section 20 Gas supply port 23 Air supply pipe 27 Hydrogen supply pipe 28 Exhaust valve)
40 Reducer 42 Y-shaped B joint 44 Y-shaped A joint 46 T-shaped joint

Claims (3)

a chamber having a gas supply port through which gas is introduced and capable of accommodating the entire human body;
A gas supply having a gas supply pipe connected to the gas supply port, and supplying a gas containing oxygen into the chamber through the gas supply pipe to make the pressure inside the chamber higher than atmospheric pressure. Department and
A hydrogen supply pipe connected to the gas supply pipe via a Y-shaped A joint, and a hydrogen gas generator are provided, and hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas generator is introduced into the chamber through the hydrogen supply pipe. A hydrogen supply unit that supplies hydrogen;
A gas exhaust section that communicates with the chamber and has a safety valve or a valve that maintains the inside of the chamber within a predetermined pressure range by an ON/OFF operation, and exhausts the gas and the hydrogen gas from the chamber through the valve. and,
In an oxygen-hydrogen bath system comprising:
The gas supply pipe of the gas supply section has a Y-shape B that divides the flow path of the gas from the gas supply section into two equal parts at a position closer to the gas supply section than the position of the Y-shape A joint. has a joint,
One branch pipe A extending from the Y-shaped B joint is connected to the gas supply port after joining the hydrogen supply pipe at the Y-shaped A joint, and the other branch pipe B is connected to the gas supply port through a reducer. An oxygen-hydrogen bath system characterized in that the extended end is connected to a gas exhaust part through a T-shaped joint.
The pressure in the chamber is maintained at 1.1 to 1.35 atmospheres by the valve, and the volume concentration of the hydrogen gas in the chamber is maintained at 1.0 to 2.0% by volume. The oxygen-hydrogen bath system according to claim 1.
The oxygen-hydrogen bath system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the hydrogen supply unit supplies the hydrogen gas into the chamber while the gas supply unit supplies the gas into the chamber.

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