KR100704955B1 - A water purifier - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water purifier, and an object of the present invention is to provide a water purifier provided to prevent the waste of water while producing reduced water within a drinking water standard of high quality.

To this end, the water purifier according to the present invention includes a filter device provided to filter water supplied from the outside; A water tank arranged to store a portion of purified water that has passed through the filter device; A water intake cock provided to withdraw the water stored in the tank to the outside; And a hydrogen supply device configured to electrolyze another part of the purified water passed through the filter device, and to select only hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas obtained by electrolysis into the water tank.

Description

Water Purifier {A WATER PURIFIER}

1 is a perspective view showing the structure of a water purifier according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing the internal configuration of the water purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a structure of an electrolysis kit provided in a hydrogen supply device in a water purifier according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which the electrolysis kit of FIG. 3 is assembled.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawings *

2: water supply pipe 3: filter device

4: water tank 10: hydrogen supply device

20: water tank 30: electrolysis kit

31: separator 32: first outer plate

32a: positive electrode 32b: water inlet port

32c; Oxygen outlet port 33: second outer plate

33a: negative electrode 33b: hydrogen outlet port

34: negative electrode plate 35: positive electrode plate

36,37: catalyst plate 40: hydrogen supply pipe

50: oxygen discharge tube

The present invention relates to a water purifier, and more particularly, to a water purifier provided to generate reduced water using electrolysis.

In general, a water purifier is a device for converting raw water received from an external water supply to a purified water that can be immediately purified by purifying various impurities or bacteria through a filter device.

On the other hand, the recent acidification of the quality of the food due to excessive intake of acidic foods, such as meat and fish, has been pointed out as one of the important factors of modern adult diseases such as hypertension diabetic heart disease, drinking drinking reduced water to keep the pH at an appropriate level Theories are emerging that help to reduce your burden and help you stay healthy.

Therefore, recently, a 'medical material generator' called 'ion water group' has been introduced, and such ion water group has been widely used in connection with reducing water by using the characteristic that strong alkali water has high reducibility. Raw water is electrolyzed in an electrolytic cell without any filtration to produce strong alkaline water.

The electrolytic cell has an anode chamber and a cathode chamber in which both sides are provided with a positive electrode and a negative electrode, respectively, and a partition wall is formed in the center of the electrolytic cell between the anode chamber and the cathode chamber so that only ions having electrical quality can pass therethrough.

Therefore, when voltage is applied to the positive electrode and the negative electrode while the raw water is placed in the electrolytic cell, anion is collected in the anode chamber to form acidic water, and cation is formed in the cathode chamber to form alkaline water. Used for beverages, acidic water is to be discarded.

However, since the electrolyzed water generates strong alkaline water exceeding pH9.0 in order to have sufficient reducibility, there is a problem that water is too large to be used as general drinking water over the pH range of pH5.8 ~ pH8.5 set by the Ministry of Environment. The acidic water that is thrown away also has a problem of wasting water.

The present invention is to solve this problem, it is an object of the present invention to provide a water purifier that is capable of general drinking and to prevent the waste of water while allowing the quality of the reduced water is produced.

In order to achieve this object, the water purifier according to the present invention includes a filter device provided to filter water supplied from the outside; A water tank arranged to store a portion of purified water that has passed through the filter device; A water intake cock provided to withdraw the water stored in the tank to the outside; And a hydrogen supply device configured to electrolyze another portion of the purified water passed through the filter device, and to select only hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas obtained by the electrolysis into the water tank.

The hydrogen supply device includes a water tank provided to receive and store water passed through the filter device, an electrolysis kit provided to receive water from the water tank, and electrolyzed, and hydrogen generated from the electrolysis kit into the water tank. It includes a hydrogen supply pipe provided to supply, the electrolysis kit is a separator provided to pass ions and block the gas; A first outer plate formed on one side of the separator and having a positive electrode, a water inlet port provided at a lower portion to supply water from the water tank to the separator so as to wet the separator, and an oxygen outlet port provided at an upper portion thereof; A second outer plate formed on the other side of the separator and having a negative electrode and a hydrogen outlet port provided at an upper portion thereof; A positive electrode plate provided between the first outer plate and the separator so as to be connected to the positive electrode; And a negative electrode plate provided between the second outer plate and the separator so as to be connected to the negative electrode, wherein the hydrogen supply pipe is coupled to the hydrogen outlet port to connect the hydrogen outlet port to the water tank.

In addition, the oxygen outlet port is characterized in that the oxygen discharge pipe for discharging the oxygen gas to the outside of the water purifier.

Next, a preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the water purifier according to the present embodiment forms an appearance through the main body 1 having a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

The main body 1 includes a water supply pipe 2 provided to supply raw water into the main body 1 from an external water supply source (not shown), and various impurities or bacteria contained in the raw water delivered into the main body 1. A water tank provided at the end of the water supply pipe 2 installed in the middle of the water supply pipe 1 and configured to store a filter device 3 composed of a plurality of filters 3a and purified water purified through the filter device 3. 4) is provided.

In addition, the front of the main body 1 is formed with a water intake space (1a) formed to be recessed to open to the front side, the water intake so that the purified water from the inside of the main body (1) can be taken out to the outside on the rear inner wall of the water intake space (1a) The cock 1b is provided, and this water intake cock 1b is connected to the outlet of the water tank 4 so that the purified water stored in the water tank 4 is drawn out to the outside when opened.

Through this, the user can open the water intake cock 1b in a state where the water intake container is located below the water intake cock 1b of the water intake space 1a, and the purified purified water can be taken out of the main body 1, and the water intake space ( At the bottom of 1a), a drip tray 1c is installed to receive such water when water flows out of the intake container.

On the other hand, the inside of the main body (1) of one side of the water tank (4) receives a portion of the purified water passed through the filter device 3 and electrolyzes it, and only the hydrogen gas and the hydrogen gas obtained by the electrolysis is selected to separate the water tank (4) there is provided a hydrogen supply device (10) provided to feed into.

The structure of the hydrogen supply device 10 employs an ionizer to separate the purified water by electrolysis into acidic water and reduced water, and then discards most acidic water and uses only reduced water as drinking water. By continuously electrolyzing to form hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, and then oxygen gas is released to the outside and only hydrogen gas is supplied into the water tank in which the purified water is stored so that all the purified water is converted into reducing water. Compared to effectively reduce the waste of water while producing and supplying excellent quality reduced water.

In other words, human body fluids remain weakly caustic before and after pH 7.4, which is very important to maintain life, while the recent intake of acidic foods such as meat and fish As the acidification of is pointed out as one of the important factors of modern adult diseases such as hypertension and diabetic heart disease, the alkali is rich in minerals with a pH (hydrogen ion concentration index) of 5.8-8.5 and an ORP (oxidation reduction potential) of about -100 mV or less. Theories have shown that drinking ionic water can help to maintain health by reducing the burden on the body to keep the pH at an appropriate level.

However, when the hydrogen gas is dissolved in the purified water through the filter device 3 as in the present embodiment, a large amount of active hydrogen is generated and the active hydrogen is stored in the mineral contained in the purified water without being present in the hydrogen ion state. . Therefore, at this time, as the amount of hydrogen increases, the ORP value of the purified water can be drastically reduced to be -100 mV or less, so that the effect of reducing the oxidized body fluid can be effectively performed, but most of the hydrogen does not exist in the ionic state. The pH value of the purified water is able to sufficiently maintain the weakly alkaline state of 8.5 or less, and becomes a suitable state for drinking.

Next will be described in detail the structure of the hydrogen supply device 10 that enables this.

The hydrogen supply device 10 receives a water tank 20 provided to receive and stores a portion of the purified water separately from the water tank 4 and the filter device 3, and receives the purified water supplied from the water tank 20. Electrolysis kit 30 for decomposing to generate oxygen gas and hydrogen gas, hydrogen supply pipe 40 provided to supply the hydrogen gas generated in the electrolysis kit 30 into the purified water in the water tank 4, and electricity It is configured to include an oxygen discharge pipe 50 provided to discharge the oxygen gas generated in the decomposition kit 30 to the outside of the main body (1).

In the middle of the water supply pipe (2) between the filter device (3) and the water tank (4) is provided with a branch pipe (2a) branched to guide a part of the water passing through the filter device (3) to the water tank 20 side, the branch pipe The outlet of 2a extends into the water tank 20.

The electrolysis kit 30 is installed at the bottom side of the housing 30a partitioned with the water tank 20, and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the electrolysis kit 30 is hydrophilic and ions pass while The gas includes a separator 31 provided to block the gas, and a first outer plate 32 and a second outer plate 33 respectively provided on the right and left sides of the separator 31 in the drawing.

The positive electrode 32a is formed at one side of the central portion of the first outer plate 32, and the water of the water tank 20 is wetted with the separator to wet the separator 31 at the lower portion of the first outer plate 32. The water inlet port 32b provided to supply 31 is formed, and an oxygen outlet port 32c is formed on the upper portion of the first outer plate 32.

In addition, a negative electrode 33a is formed at the center side of the second outer plate 33, and a hydrogen outlet port 33b is formed on the second outer plate 33, and the first outer plate 32 and the separator 31 are formed. ) And between the second outer plate 33 and the separator 31 are provided with a positive electrode plate 34 provided to be connected to the positive electrode 32a and a negative electrode plate 35 provided to be connected to the negative electrode 33a.

The positive electrode plate 34 and the negative electrode plate 35 are each formed in a network structure, and also have a network structure between the positive electrode plate 34 and the separator 31 and between the negative electrode plate 35 and the separator 31 to promote electrolysis. The catalyst plates 36 and 37 are formed to have a gold or carbon material, respectively.

In addition, bolt fastening holes 32d and 33c are formed at outer edges of each of the first outer plate 32 and the second outer plate 33, and the electrolytic kit 30 includes the separator 31, the positive electrode plate 34, and the like. The first outer plate 32 and the second outer plate 33 with the negative electrode plate 35 and the respective catalyst plates 36 and 37 interposed between the first outer plate 32 and the second outer plate 33. ) Is assembled by fastening the fixing bolts 100 to the corresponding bolt fastening holes 32d and 33c and fixing with nuts 101. For reference, reference numeral 102 denotes a gap maintaining member for maintaining a gap between the first outer plate 32 and the second outer plate 33.

In addition, a connection pipe 21 extending from the outlet of the water tank 20 is coupled to the water inlet port 32b, and the hydrogen supply pipe 40 is respectively connected to the hydrogen outlet port 33b and the oxygen outlet port 32c. And the oxygen discharge tube 50 is combined.

In the middle of the connecting pipe 21, a flow control valve 22 is installed so that only a small amount of purified water supplied from the outlet of the water tank 20 is supplied to the water inlet port 32b, and the hydrogen supply pipe 40 has an outlet. Is provided to extend into the raw water stored in the tank (4), the oxygen discharge pipe 50 is the outlet is discharged to the interior space outside the main body (1) where the oxygen is discharged is installed water purifier is the front of the main body (1) It extends to the blowing network 1d formed in the.

The water purifier according to the present invention having the hydrogen supply device 10 includes the positive electrode (A) in a state in which water in the water tank 20 is supplied to the water inlet port 32b little by little along the connecting pipe 21. When the current is supplied to the 32a) and the negative electrode 33a, the water purified on the surface of the separator 31 toward the first outer plate 32 is electrolyzed, and hydrogen is separated between the separator 31 and the first outer plate 32. Separated into ions and hydroxide ions. The double hydroxide ions are separated into hydrogen ions and small ions again. Among the separated ions, the hydrogen ions pass through the separator 31 and move toward the negative electrode plate 35, between the second outer plate 33 and the separator 31. Form a hydrogen gas in the hydrogen gas is introduced into the hydrogen outlet port (33b) is supplied into the water tank (4) through the hydrogen supply pipe 40 and converts the purified water into reducing water. In addition, oxygen ions between the separator 31 and the second outer plate 33 form an oxygen gas, and the oxygen gas flows into the oxygen outlet port 32c and is discharged into the indoor space through the oxygen discharge pipe 50. It also increases the amount of oxygen in the indoor space.

As described in detail above, the water purifier according to the present invention can supply the hydrogen gas directly to the purified water to convert the purified water into reduced water, thereby overcoming the disadvantage of exceeding the drinking water standard of conventional ionized water. Of course, there is an advantage that the quality of the reduced water is produced while effectively suppressing the waste of water.

Claims (3)

A filter device provided to filter water supplied from the outside; A water tank arranged to store a portion of purified water that has passed through the filter device; A water intake cock provided to withdraw the water stored in the tank to the outside; And a hydrogen supply device configured to electrolyze another part of the purified water passed through the filter device, and to select only hydrogen gas from the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas obtained by the electrolysis into the water tank. The hydrogen supply device includes a water tank provided to receive and store water passed through the filter device, an electrolysis kit provided to receive water from the water tank and electrolyzed, and hydrogen generated from the electrolysis kit into the water tank. A hydrogen supply pipe arranged to supply, The electrolysis kit is a separator provided to pass ions and block gas; A first outer plate formed on one side of the separator and having a positive electrode, a water inlet port provided to supply water from the water tank to the separator to wet the separator, and an oxygen outlet port; A second outer plate formed on the other side of the separator and having a negative electrode and a hydrogen outlet port; A positive electrode plate provided between the first outer plate and the separator so as to be connected to the positive electrode; And a negative electrode plate provided between the second outer plate and the separator so as to be connected to the negative electrode. And said hydrogen supply pipe is coupled to said hydrogen outlet port to connect said hydrogen outlet port to said water tank. delete The method of claim 1, And an oxygen discharge pipe connected to the oxygen outlet port for discharging oxygen gas to the outside of the water purifier.

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