JPH11512A - Air cleaner - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air cleaner enabling to correspond to all of installment on a floor, hanging from a ceiling and a wall hanging, and blowing out cleaning air into the center of a room. SOLUTION: Relating to the air cleaner 1 consisting of a blower 11, an air cleaning means, a control means for controlling these, a hexahedral case formed at a rectangle covering these, an air sucking port 6 provided on the case and an air blowout port 8, the air sucking ports 9 are provided on other two faces 14 orthogonally crossed with one face 15 of the hexahedron, and the air blowout port 8 is provided on one face 13 orthogonally crossed with one face 15 of the hexahedron and also orthogonally crossed with other two faces 14 provided with the air sucking ports 9, thus the clean air 3 is blown out into the room at a prescribed angle.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an air purifier for removing dust, odor, gas, bacteria, etc. from the environment such as a working space and a living space.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An ordinary air purifying apparatus generally has, for example, an air inlet on one surface of a main body case and an air outlet on another surface. A conventional air cleaning device will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a conventional air cleaning device. As shown in the figure, the air cleaning device 1
A configuration in which room air is taken in from an air inlet 9 provided on a side surface and purified inside the cleaning device main body, and is blown out as clean air from an air outlet 8 provided on a surface orthogonal to a surface provided with the air inlet 9. Have been.

Further, with reference to FIGS. 11, 12, and 13, another conventional air cleaning apparatus will be described. FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of another conventional air cleaning device, and FIG.
FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a method of purifying indoor air by a conventional air purifier, and FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a method of purifying indoor air by another conventional air purifier. An air purifying apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 11 takes in room air from an air inlet 9 provided on the upper surface, purifies the air inside the main body, and blows air from a surface provided on a surface facing the surface provided with the air inlet 9. The outlet 8 is configured to blow out as clean air.

There are two conventional means for purifying indoor air. In one method, as shown in FIG. 12, an air purifying device embedded in the ceiling is installed at the center of the room ceiling, and the contaminated air 2 at the center of the room is directly sucked at the center of the ceiling, and the air 3 purified by the air purifying device is used. Is blown into the room.

As another conventional means for purifying indoor air, as shown in FIG. 13, an air purifying apparatus shown in FIG. 10 or FIG.
Or suck in from the side s and blow out from the upper u,
This is a method of cleaning with circulating air 10.

[0006]

In the above prior art, an air purifier is installed on any one of a floor, a ceiling, and a wall surface of a room, and the room air is circulated while being purified while purifying the room air. Because of purification, air purification around the center of the room where people are located tends to be the slowest. Therefore, various proposals have been made in the conventional circulating air purifying apparatus to improve the air purifying power itself.

For example, a vortex chamber is provided between a filter for purifying air and a main body partition wall having the air suction port, and a filter corresponding to the suction port is protruded and curved forward, so that a filter other than the vortex chamber is formed. The partition wall is formed in a concave portion at the rear. This technique secures and cleans an air passage in the entire area of the filter, prevents a decrease in air volume, and improves air cleaning power. Related to this is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1993-49834.

Further, for example, the apparatus has a main body having an air intake port, a blower, and a filter for purifying air, and the main body has an intake cover for the intake port which can be opened and closed like a door with respect to the front of the main body. And a coarse auxiliary filter is provided at a portion of the intake port corresponding to the opening. This technology increases the projected area where dust can be sucked in,
This is to improve the air cleaning power. Related to this is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1991-7918.

Each of the above prior arts is a circulating air purifying method, and the blowing dynamic pressure at the outlet is low, so that a person located in the room has a poor feeling of cleanliness with an air purifying device, and Was. In order to increase the cleanliness, the size of the apparatus must be increased.

An object of the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has been made in consideration of the following problems.
It can be applied to any installation method of wall hanging, not only to perform air cleaning by circulating air, but also to supply clean air to a required position space in a spot-like manner, and to blow out the outlet. An object of the present invention is to provide an air cleaning device having a high pressure.

[0011]

In order to solve the above problems, an air purifying apparatus according to the present invention comprises a blower,
Air purifying means, control means for controlling them, a hexahedral case formed of a rectangle covering them, an air inlet and an air outlet provided in the case, and an air purifying device arranged indoors. An air inlet on another two surfaces orthogonal to one surface of the hexahedron, and an air blower on at least one surface orthogonal to one surface of the hexahedron and orthogonal to the other two surfaces provided with the air inlet. An outlet is provided, and the clean air is blown out from the air blowing means in a predetermined direction from the air outlet, and directed toward the center of the room.

In the above-described air purifying apparatus, when the air purifying apparatus is mounted on a ceiling, one surface of the hexahedron is a mounting surface.
In the air purifying apparatus described above, when the air purifying apparatus is mounted on a wall surface, one surface of the hexahedron is a mounting surface. In the air purifying device described above, when the air purifying device is installed on a floor, one surface of the hexahedron faces a wall surface, and a surface facing the surface provided with the air outlet is installed. It is a feature.

[0013] In any one of the above-mentioned air purifying apparatuses, a pressure chamber is provided at the air outlet to reduce a blowing speed of the clean air. In any one of the air purifiers described above, a direction in which clean air is blown into the room from the air outlet is a center direction of the room. In any one of the above-mentioned air purifying devices, an ozone generating unit and an ozone decomposing unit are provided in the air purifying unit, and a deodorizing function is added.

[0014]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.
This will be described with reference to FIG. [Embodiment 1] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an air purifying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 (a) is a plan view, FIG. 1 (b) is a left side view, and FIG. () Is a front view, and (d) is a right side view.

In FIG. 1, an air purifying apparatus 1 (hereinafter referred to as a main body) includes a main body upper surface 13 and two main body side surfaces 14.
And a hexahedron composed of a large and small six-sided rectangle composed of a main body back surface 15, a main body bottom surface 16, and a main body front surface 17. When the main body 1 is installed on an indoor wall surface, generally, the main body back surface 15 is attached to the wall surface, and the main body bottom surface 16 is installed facing each other wall surface. In this case, in the case of wall-mounted installation, a space is provided between the main body bottom surface 16 and another wall surface. In the case of floor installation, the main body bottom surface 16 is installed on the floor. Also. In the case of a ceiling hanging installation, the main body back surface 15 is installed on the ceiling surface, and the main body bottom surface 16 is installed on the wall surface.

As described above, if the air outlet 8 and the air inlet 9 are not provided on the rear face 15 and the bottom face 16 of the main body, three types of installation modes, such as floor-standing, ceiling-hanging, and wall-mounting, are supported. be able to. The air inlets 9 and 9 'are respectively provided on the side surfaces 14 and 14' of the main body where the two surfaces exist, and in any of the installation methods such as floor-standing, ceiling-hanging, and wall-hanging,
An air outlet 8 is provided on the upper surface 13 of the main body facing a wall surface of the room with a space therebetween, and contaminated air in the room is taken in from the air inlet 9, the air is cleaned by an electric dust collector 12 inside the main body, and the air is blown from the blower 11. The blown air 3 is blown out of the main body 1.

It is preferable that the blown air 3 is blown at an angle of 15 ° to 30 ° forward with respect to the rear surface 15 of the main body, as shown in the figure. As described above, the blowing direction of the blowing air 3 which is the clean air is given a specific angle to be the specific direction, so that the blowing air 3 is blown out spotwise toward the center of the room which is a living space, and The blowing dynamic pressure can be increased. As described above, the blowing direction of the blowing air 3 can be easily achieved by adjusting the blowing angle of the blower 11 and reducing the blowing area of the air blowing port 8 in order to set the blowing direction of the blowing air 3 to a predetermined angle.

Referring to FIG. 2 to FIG.
Three types of installation modes, hanging from the ceiling and hanging on the wall, will be described. FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a floor of the air purifying apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the indoor airflow by the floor-mounted air cleaning device of FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the ceiling suspended installation of the air cleaning device according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is the air of the ceiling suspended installation of FIG. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the indoor airflow by the cleaning device, FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the wall-mounted installation of the air cleaning device according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the indoor airflow by the wall-mounted air purification device of FIG.

In FIG. 2, the contaminated air in the room is taken as the suction air 2 as shown by the black arrow in FIG.
The air is taken into the main body 1 from the air suction ports 9 and 9 'of 14' (not shown). After the air purification, the air is blown out from the air outlet 8 toward the center 4 of the room as blown air 3 as shown by the white arrow in the figure. An air flow generated by the air 3 blown out in such a configuration will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3A is a plan view of the indoor airflow by the floor-mounted air cleaning device of FIG. 2, FIG. 3B is a front view of the indoor airflow, and FIG. It is a side view of an airflow.

In the room where the main body 1 shown in FIG. 3A is installed, the circulating air flow 1 in the room is caused by the intake air 2.
0 is formed, and the blowing air 3 is converged and blown out to the center 4 of the room as a spot. Figure 3 (a),
As can be seen from the diagrams (b) and (c), the rectangular surfaces of the two main bodies 1 facing the floor surface 6 and the wall surface 5 have air outlets 8.
And the air inlet 9 cannot be provided.

Further, the air inlet 9 can be provided on the front face 17 of the main body. However, in order to prevent a short circuit between the air 3 blown out from the upper surface 13 of the main body and the suction air 2 in the front face 17 of the main body, the surface of the circulating airflow 10 due to the air 2 sucked from both side surfaces 14 and 14 ′ (to the floor 6). parallel)
And, by making the blow-off air 3 (perpendicular to the floor surface 6) orthogonal, the air flow composition in the room is further crossed, so that the air purifying effect is improved to every corner.
The air inlet 9 is not provided on the front face 17 of the main body.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a ceiling hanging installation of the main body 1, and FIG. 5 shows a configuration of indoor airflow in the ceiling hanging installation of FIG. FIG. 5A is a plan view of the indoor airflow, FIG. 5B is a front view of the indoor airflow, and FIG. 5C is a side view of the indoor airflow. Also in the ceiling hanging installation, the circulating air flow 10 in the room is formed by the suction air 2 and the blown air 3 is blown out to the center 4 in the room in a spot manner. Fig. 5 (a) and (b)
As shown in FIG. 1, the two surfaces of the main body 1 facing the ceiling surface 7 and the wall surface 5, that is, the surfaces corresponding to the back surface 15 and the floor surface 16 (both are not shown) when described with reference to FIG. ,
The air outlet 8 and the air inlet 9 cannot be provided.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a wall-mounted installation of the main body 1, and FIG. 7 shows an airflow configuration in a room in the wall-mounted installation of FIG. Also in the case of this wall-mounted installation, the circulating air flow 10 in the room is formed by the intake air 2 and the blown air 3 is blown out to the center 4 in the room in a spot manner. As can be seen from FIGS. 7A and 7B, the air outlet 8 and the air inlet 9 cannot be provided on the long surface of the main body 1 facing the wall surface 5.

In summary, in the above three types of installation modes, the main body facing the floor surface 6 and the wall surface 5 can be seen in FIGS. 3 (a), 3 (b) and 3 (c). 5 (a) and 7 (b) on the rectangular surface of the main body facing the ceiling surface 7 and the wall surface 5 as shown in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b). As can be seen from the above, the air outlet 8 and the air inlet 9 cannot be provided on the rectangular surface of the main body 1 facing the wall surface 5, respectively, but these rectangular surfaces can be made to face the wall surface.

[Embodiment 2] Next, another embodiment of the air purifying apparatus according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an air cleaning device according to another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the upper surface 1 of the main body 1 having the air outlet 8 is provided.
3, a pressure chamber 18 is provided to reduce the velocity of the blown air 3 from 3-5 m / s to 1 m / s or less. If the clean blowing air is 1 m / s or less,
For example, since it does not cause discomfort even if it hits the face of a person, it is suitable for a device which is installed in a room for a child or an aged with allergies and supplies clean air.

[Embodiment 3] Next, still another embodiment of the air purifying apparatus according to the present invention will be described. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of an air cleaning device according to still another embodiment of the present invention. 9 (a) is a plan view of the main body 1, FIG. 9 (b) is a left side view of the main body 1, FIG. 9 (c) is a front view of the main body 1, and FIG. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2D, in the present embodiment, an ozone generating means 19 is provided downstream of the air suction port 9, and the generated ozone is mixed with the suction air 2 so that the blowing air is not shown. After being deodorized through a catalyst, ozone is decomposed by an ozone decomposing means 20 and blown out by a blower 11 to blow air into a room. Thus, the suction air 2 can be deodorized and sent out as clean blowing air 3.

[0028]

As described above in detail, according to the structure of the present invention, the positional relationship between the suction port and the discharge port is provided on the surfaces orthogonal to each other, so that any one of the floor placement, the ceiling hanging, and the wall hanging can be used. Provide an air purifying device that can respond to the installation method of the room, configure the circulating air flow in the room by the suction air, and supply the clean air flow to the center of the room, not only perform the air cleaning by the circulating air, but also It is possible to provide an air purifying apparatus that can supply clean air to the position space in a spot manner and that has a high dynamic pressure for blowing air from the outlet.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an air cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a floor of the air cleaning device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an indoor airflow by the floor-mounted air cleaning device of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a ceiling hanging installation of the air cleaning device according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an indoor airflow by an air purifying device installed in a suspended ceiling of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of an air purifying apparatus according to the present invention mounted on a wall.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an indoor airflow by an air purifying device installed on a wall in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an air cleaning device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of an air cleaning device according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a conventional air cleaning device.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of another conventional air cleaning device.

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a method of purifying indoor air by a conventional air purifying apparatus.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a method of purifying indoor air by another conventional air purifying apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Main body 2 ... Inlet air 3 ... Outlet air 4 ... Room center 5 ... Wall surface 6 ... Floor surface 7 ... Ceiling surface 8 ... Air outlet 9, 9 '... Air inlet 10 ... Circulating air 11 ... Blower 12 ... Electric dust collector DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 13 ... Top surface of main body 14, 14 '... Side surface of main body 15 ... Rear surface of main body 16 ... Bottom surface of main body 17 ... Front surface of main body 18 ... Pressure chamber 19 ... Ozone generation means 20 ... Ozone decomposition means

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FI B01D 53/74 B01D 53/34 116F F24F 7/00

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An air purifying means, an air purifying means, a control means for controlling them, a hexahedral case formed of a rectangle covering them, an air inlet and an air outlet provided in the case. An air purifying device disposed indoors, wherein an air suction port is provided on the other two surfaces orthogonal to one surface of the hexahedron, and another air inlet is provided on the other surface orthogonal to the one surface of the hexahedron and provided with the air suction port. An air purifier, wherein an air outlet is provided on at least one surface orthogonal to the surface, and clean air is blown from the air outlet in a predetermined direction from the air purifier, and directed toward the center of the room. 2. The air purifying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the air purifying apparatus is mounted on a ceiling, one surface of the hexahedron is a mounting surface. 3. The air purifying device according to claim 1, wherein when the air purifying device is mounted on a wall surface, one surface of the hexahedron is a mounting surface. 4. The air purifying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the air purifying apparatus is installed on a floor, one surface of the hexahedron faces a wall surface and faces the surface provided with the air outlet. An air purifier characterized by having a surface to be installed. 5. The air purifying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a pressure chamber is provided in the air outlet to reduce a blowing speed of the clean air. . 6. The air purifying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a direction in which clean air is blown into the room from the air outlet is a center direction of the room. An air purifier characterized by the following. 7. An air purifying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an ozone generating means and an ozone decomposing means are provided in the air purifying apparatus, and a deodorizing function is added. And air purifier.