JPH05277171A - Wind generation device with fragrance function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve workability, and to change a container with one operation. CONSTITUTION:A fragrance generating part 24 which has a fan for generating an air flow, is formed to a box body having a suction port and an exhaust port, arranged on the down stream of a dust collecting part for cleaning air and provided with a fragrance container 26 in which a fragrance agent is contained consists of a solenoid valve 29 provided with a valve 30 which controls the fragrance quantity and is pressed against the fragrance container 26 side by force of a spring 29a at the time of non-operation, a guide part for holding the fragrance container 26 and a clip 27 for fixing the container 26 to the guide part. In the guide part, a stopper 2g for abutting at the time of removing the fragrance container 26 is constituted, and the clip 27 for fixing the fragrance container 26 is provided with a fitting part 27a engaged to a projection 2e of the guide part and an elastic part for extending this fitting part to the outside by a lever part. In such a way, the container can be changed with one operation, and at the time of changing it, it saves handling time, and even in a narrow place, a work for changing the container is facilitated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container attaching / detaching structure for attaching / detaching a container in an air purifying device such as an air purifier. Is.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Although there are various types of air blowers, air purifiers for cleaning dirty air are generally known. Especially in a small room or inside a vehicle, the air is extremely dirty, so it is very comfortable to have an air purifier. In recent years, by adding a fragrance container containing an air freshener to this air purifier, it not only cleans the air inside or in the car, but creates a more comfortable atmosphere by letting a good scent drift around. Has also been done. By the way, since this fragrance reduces the amount of fragrance emitted after a certain period of time,
Sometimes it is necessary to change the fragrance. Therefore, it has become an important issue to make this exchange as easy as possible. Here, a case will be described in which an air purifier is used as the air blower and an aroma container containing an air freshener is used as the container.

A conventional technique will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 6 is a plan view showing an aroma generating portion of a conventional air purifier with aroma function, which is described in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-20939. In the figure, a solenoid valve 61 is fixed to one end of a frame 60, which is operated by conducting a current from a circuit (not shown) through a lead wire 61a. The base end 62a of the leaf spring 62 is fixed to the other end of the frame 60. The leaf spring 62 has a magnetic material 6 on the front and back of the tip 62b.
3 and the lid 64 of the container 65 are fixed. The tip 62b of the leaf spring 62 is extended to near the solenoid valve 61, and the elastic force of the leaf spring 62 normally closes the opening of the container 65 with the lid 64. The container 65 contains an aromatic agent 66.

The operation will be described. When a current flows through the solenoid valve 61 through the lead wire 61a in accordance with the output from the solenoid valve drive circuit, the magnetic material 63 is moved by the arrow 6 against the elastic force of the leaf spring 62.
7 is suctioned and the opening of the container 65 is opened. As a result, the scent of the aromatic agent 66 is emitted from the container 65. When the fragrance of the fragrance 66 becomes weak and the fragrance 66 needs to be replaced, the leaf spring 62 is pushed up by hand and then the fragrance 66 is removed together with the container 65, and the container 65 filled with the new fragrance 66 is manually again. The leaf spring 62 is pushed up with the leaf spring 6
Set to 2 and attach fragrance 66. Then, the solenoid valve driving circuit drives the solenoid valve 61 again to drive the aromatic agent 66.
Give off the scent of.

Next, another conventional example will be described. FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a conventional vehicle deodorizing device described in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-45813. In the figure, the hollow container 7
Reference numeral 1 is a container that stores the deodorant 72. A screw 71b is formed in the upper opening 71a of the hollow container 71, a cap 73 is fixed to the screw 71b by screw connection, and the hollow container 71 is sealed. A fixing support portion 73a is formed integrally with the cap 73, and a hook 73b is formed at the tip of the fixing support portion 73a.
Further, a connecting nozzle tube 73c which is a mounting port of the nozzle 75 is formed in a part of the cap 73. One end of the nozzle 75 is fitted into the nozzle tube 73c, and
The other end is fitted in the air flow path in the air conditioner in the direction of arrow 76. A deodorant discharge port 73d is formed near the upper opening 71a of the hollow container. An electromagnetic valve 74 is mounted on the upper portion of the cap 73, and a valve 74a driven by the electromagnetic valve is attached to the electromagnetic valve 74. The valve 74a moves up and down by the operation of the solenoid valve 74,
As a result, the deodorant discharge port 73d is opened and closed.

The operation of FIG. 7 will be described. The solenoid valve 74 operates in accordance with the output from the solenoid valve drive circuit (not shown), and the valve 74a moves up and down. When the valve 74a moves up, the deodorant discharge port 73d opens, and the components of the deodorant 72 in the hollow container 74 are discharged to the air flow path in the air conditioner through the nozzle pipe 73c and the nozzle 75. .. When the deodorant is exhausted and the deodorant is to be replaced, the hollow container 74 is rotated and removed from the cap 73, and the new deodorant 72 is removed.
It is possible to replace the screw 71b of the hollow container 74 filled with by screwing it again.

[0007]

Since the container attaching / detaching structure in the conventional blower is constructed as described above, no special procedure is required for replacing the fragrance or the like, or a screwing system or the like is required. It took a lot of time. Further, even when the storage container for the fragrance or the deodorant is installed in a relatively narrow place, it is difficult to replace the storage container.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and does not require a special procedure, and even when installed in a relatively narrow place, it is possible to replace a container with good workability. It is an object of the present invention to obtain an air blower that enables the above, and further to obtain a fixing structure in which this container can be attached and detached with one touch.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a box device having an intake port and an exhaust port, a fan for sucking outside air from the intake port, and a suction unit. A fragrance-providing device having an fragrance container for containing an fragrance for diffusing fragrance in the generated air flow, comprising: (i) a guide portion for holding the fragrance container; and (ii) a fragrance container. A fixed body for fixing to the guide part, (iii) a solenoid valve having a valve that is pressed against the opening of the aroma container by a spring to control the amount of aroma, and (iv) provided in the guide part, And a stopper portion that comes into contact with the valve when the aroma container is removed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the fragrance function-providing device according to the first aspect, wherein the guide portion is provided with at least two fitting portions, and the fixing portion is provided with:
A gripping part made of an elastic member for gripping the aroma container, a fitting part provided on each end of the gripping part and fitted to each fitting part of the guide part, and a fitting part formed integrally with the gripping part. At least one set of protrusions extending in a direction away from each other is provided, and by applying an external force to both ends of the protrusions to make them approach each other, the grip portion is flexed and expanded to the outside, and the guide portion and the grip portion are fitted together. It is designed to cancel the match.

[0011]

The container attachment / detachment portion of the air blower according to the present invention accommodates the container provided at the rear flow of the fan for generating the air flow in the guide portion, and when the container is attached / detached from the guide portion, A so-called snap-fit structure is formed in which the operating portion is opened and closed with a finger or the like to open the fitting portion by the action of the elastic portion, and the fitting portion is locked to the guide portion.

Further, when the aroma container is detached from the guide portion accommodating the aroma container, the valve of the solenoid valve which is pressed against the aroma container side by the spring force when not in operation is applied to the stopper portion formed on the guide portion. Then, if you remove the fixed body and then remove the aroma container, you can remove the aroma container with one touch.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of an air purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a top view showing a state in which the upper lid of the air purifier of the embodiment of FIG. 1 is removed. In the figure, an air purifier 1 has a function of sucking in dirty air in a room or in a vehicle and sending out clean air. The outer peripheral portion of the air purifier 1 is composed of a main body 2, a lid body 3 and a punching metal 4. The lid body 3 constitutes a box body together with the main body 2, and has an intake port 3a on the upper part and an exhaust port 3b on one side surface. The punching metal 4 is a metal cover having a large number of small holes, and the groove 3 is formed so as to cover the intake port 3a of the lid body 3.
While being inserted into c, the convex portions are inserted into the through holes 3d at several places and are bent and fixed inward.

The axial fan 5 creates a flow of air in the air purifier 1, and is a combination of a fan 5a and a drive motor 5b. This is fixed by a cover 6. The activated carbon 7 has a deodorizing effect and has a honeycomb shape, and the outer periphery is protected by a sponge 7a. The dust collecting portion 8 for purifying intake air is composed of a lower case 9 and an upper case 10, and the lower case 9 and the upper case 10 are fixed by a so-called snap-fit structure which is a fitting method. The dust collecting section 8 has a discharge electrode plate 11 having a discharge line 11a on the upper portion thereof, and a high voltage of about 6 KV is applied to the discharge electrode plate 11 from the positive electrode 12a of the high voltage power supply 12. On the other hand, the ground electrode plate 13 arranged in parallel with the discharge electrode plate 11 is connected to the ground electrode of the high voltage power source 12 by the same spring as the plus electrode 12a. And the connection between the discharge electrode plates 11 and between the ground electrode plates 13 is
Each spring 14 maintains the conduction state.

The control section is composed of control boards 15 and 16, and various electronic parts are mounted thereon. Control board 15
Has a connector 17 for connecting to an external power source,
An external power source is supplied to the high-voltage power source 12 via the connecting line 12b and also to various electronic components. These control parts are protected by a protective cover 18, which is screw 1
It is attached to the main body 2 by 9. The control board 15 is electrically connected to the punching metal 4 by a conductive spring 20 in order to bring the punching metal 4 to the grounded state, and the conductive spring 20 is fixed to the protective cover 18 with a screw 21. The fixing lever 22 is fixed to the lid body 3 with a screw 23, and the protective cover 1
The tip projection 22a of the fixing lever 22 is inserted into and fitted into the hole 18a provided in FIG.

The fragrance generating section 24 provided downstream of the dust collecting section 8 and downstream of the axial fan 5 has the following structure. The fragrance container 26 in which the porous beads 25 containing the fragrance are enclosed is guided by the guide portion 2a formed in the main body 2 and held by the clip 27 as a fixed body. The fragrance container 26 is capped by a cap 28 having a net-like bottom for holding the beads 21 and allowing only the fragrance to pass, and is guided by the guide portion 2a.
The opening of the cap 28 is sealed by a valve 30 that is integrated with an electromagnetic valve 29 that controls aroma and contacts the sealing surface of the cap 28 by the force of a spring 29a when the valve is not driven. Then, the electromagnetic valve 29 is driven by energization from the control board 15 and the valve 30 is reciprocated to control the diffusion of aroma. The solenoid valve 29 is fixed to the main body 2 with a screw 31. Air purifier 1
Is fixed to the mounting board 35 by screws 32, washers 33 and wing nuts 34 fixed to the main body 2.

3 to 5 are detailed views of the fragrance generating section 24. FIG. 3 is a top view of the fragrance generating section, FIG. 4 is a front view, and FIG. 5 is a side sectional view. Guide portion 2a formed on the main body 2
Is composed of a bottom surface 2b that regulates the position of the fragrance container 26 in which the beads 25 are enclosed in the height direction, and two columnar lateral guides 2c that regulate the position of the fragrance container 26 in the horizontal direction. It forms a holding part for storing. On this lateral guide 2c, two projections 2d that serve as insertion guides for the clip 27 and a projection that forms a locking portion that engages with a fixed body by snap-fitting with a hole 27b of the clip 27 described later. 2e, a concave portion 2f for guiding the convex portion 28a of the cap 28, and a stopper 2g for preventing the movement of the bulb 30 when the aroma container 26 and the cap 28 are not provided. The cap 28 is formed with a sealing surface 28b that abuts the valve 30 and seals the aroma container 26.
The solenoid valve 29 and the spring 29a that drive the valve 30 are as described above.

As for the shape of the clip 27, referring to FIG. 5, a fitting portion 27a having a hole 27b for fitting with the projection 2e of the lateral guide 2c, and a fitting portion 27 when the clip 27 is detached and attached.
It is formed by a lever portion 27c serving as an empty portion that deforms a to the outside to facilitate attachment and detachment, and an elastic portion 27d that bends when attaching and detaching the clip 27 from the lateral guide 2c.

Next, the operation of the air purifier 1 of the present invention will be described. The axial fan 5 is driven to apply a high voltage of about 6 KV from the high voltage power supply 12 to the dust collecting section 8. By creating an air flow with the fan 5a, the air inside the passenger compartment is cleaned of relatively large dust by the punching metal 4 provided on the upper portion of the lid body 3, and is sucked through the intake port 3a at the upper opening of the dust collecting section 8. The air that has entered the intake port 3a of the dust collecting section 8 is
Corona discharge generated between the discharge wire 11a of the discharge electrode plate 11 and the ground electrode plate 13 positively charges fine dust contained therein, and the ground electrode plate 13 collects and removes the dust. At this time, ozone is secondarily generated. After that, it passes through the inside of the honeycomb activated carbon 7 which is the deodorizing portion from the side opening of the dust collecting portion 8, and at this time, ozone is decomposed by the catalytic action of the honeycomb activated carbon 7, and the miscellaneous gas components in the air become Adsorbed by adsorption. After that, the gas passes through the axial fan 5 and is discharged into the vehicle compartment from the exhaust port 3 b provided on the side surface of the lid body 3 and the punching metal 4 above and above the axial fan 5.

At this time, the solenoid valve 2 is removed from the circuit of the control board 15.
When a voltage is applied to the valve 9, the solenoid valve 29 is activated, the valve 30 is separated from the sealing surface 28b of the cap 28 against the force of the spring 29a, and the aroma container 26 is released.
The mouth is opened, and the aroma contained in the beads 25 floats in the aroma generating part 24. As a result, this fragrance diffuses into the exhaust air sent by the fan 5a, and is released into the vehicle compartment together with the exhaust air containing the fragrance. This maintains a good atmosphere in the passenger compartment.

The attachment and detachment of the aroma container 26 and the cap 28 are carried out as follows from FIG. First, when removing the container,
By pinching the lever portion 27c of the clip 27 inward as indicated by the arrow 41, the elastic portion 27 of the clip 27 is
The d is bent and the fitting portion 27a is deformed outward, so that the projection 2e of the lateral guide 2c and the hole 27b of the fitting portion 27a are disengaged from each other and the clip can be removed. Then, it is possible to remove the aroma container 26 and the cap 28 by pulling them upward as shown by an arrow 43 in FIG. At this time, the valve 30 of the solenoid valve 29 is pushed out by the force of the spring 29a. However, since the stopper 2g formed on the lateral guide 2c shown in FIG. ..

Next, when setting the container, the aroma container 2
The cap 6 and the cap 28 are inserted into the guide portion 2a including the bottom surface 2b and the lateral guide 2c from above, as indicated by an arrow 43 in FIG. At this time, the lateral guide 2c of the main body 2 has the valve 30
Since the height of the container is up to about half of that of the horizontal guide 2 of the main body 2, the container insertion means is moved above one of the horizontal guides 2c so as not to interfere with the valve 30.
After contacting c, the solenoid valve 29 is moved toward
And the convex portion 28a are fitted to each other at a substantially matched position, and finally inserted into the bottom surface 2b of the main body 2. During a series of operations at this time, the valve 30 is in a state of being in contact with the stopper 2g and leaving the stopper 2g from a place where it is in contact with the sealing surface 28b, and is in a state of maintaining a seal with the sealing surface 28b. After storing the container in the guide portion 2a, the clip 27
Is inserted from above from above using the space between the convex portions 2d as a guide, and the lever portion 27c of the clip 27 is attached with the arrow 41
As described above, the hole 27b is fitted into the protrusion 2e by utilizing the elasticity of the elastic portion 27d, and the fitting portion 27a is fitted therein. Of course, if the upper portion of the protrusion 2e is formed as a slope as shown in FIG. 5, the clip 27 can be fitted only by pushing it along the guide from above.

In the above embodiment, the case of the air purifier has been described. However, not only the air purifier but also other air blowers such as an air conditioner and a blower may be used, and the same effect as the above embodiment is obtained. Can be played. Further, the fixing method is effective not only for fixing the fragrance container but also for various removable containers such as a deodorant container, and the same effect is obtained.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to open and close the guide portion for accommodating the container provided in the downstream of the fan for generating the air flow and the fixed body for fixing the container to the guide portion. Since a so-called snap-fit structure is formed in which a fitting part, an operating part for opening and closing the fitting part, and an elastic part are formed, and the fitting part is locked to the guide part, it does not take time to replace the container, and Even in a relatively narrow place, the replacement work becomes easy.

Further, a guide portion for accommodating the aroma container and a fixed body for fixing the aroma container to the guide portion are provided, and a valve which is pressed against the aroma container side by a spring force when not operating to control the aroma amount is further provided. Since the guide portion is formed with a stopper portion that comes into contact with the fragrance container when the fragrance container is removed, the fragrance container can be fixed or removed with one touch.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of an air purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view showing a state in which an upper lid of the air purifier of FIG. 1 embodiment is removed.

FIG. 3 is a top view of an aroma generating portion according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the aroma generating unit of FIG.

5 is a side cross-sectional view of the aroma generating unit of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing an aroma generating portion of a conventional air purifier with an aroma function.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional vehicle deodorizing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Air purifier 2 Main body 2a Guide part 2b Bottom face 2c Horizontal guide 2d Convex part 2e Projection 2f Recessed part 2g Stopper 3 Lid body 5 Axial fan 7 Activated carbon 8 Congestion part 9 Lower case 10 Upper case 12 High voltage power supply 24 Aroma generating part 25 Beads 26 Fragrance container 27 Clip 27a Fitting portion 27b Hole 27c Lever portion 27d Elastic portion 28 Cap 28a Convex portion 28b Sealing surface 29 Solenoid valve 30 Valve

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A box body having an intake port and an exhaust port, a fan for sucking outside air from the intake port, and an aroma container for containing an aromatic agent for diffusing an aroma in the air flow that is sucked. In a fragrance function-equipped blower equipped with, a guide part for holding the fragrance container, a fixed body for fixing the fragrance container to the guide part, and a non-operating spring for controlling the fragrance amount of the fragrance container. An air purifying device with an aroma function, comprising: an electromagnetic valve having a valve that is pressed against the opening; and a stopper part that is provided in the guide part and abuts on the valve when the aroma container is removed. 2. The guide part is provided with at least two fitting parts, and the fixing part is provided with a grip part made of an elastic member for gripping the aroma container, and the guide parts are provided at both ends of the grip part, respectively. A fitting part that fits into each fitting part of the part, and at least one set of projections that are formed integrally with the grip part and that extend in a direction away from the fitting part. An aroma-providing device with a fragrance function, characterized in that the grip is flexed and expanded by applying an external force to bring the grips closer to each other, and the fitting between the guide and the grip is released.