Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting – deodorizing – preser – Chemical reactor – With means applying electromagnetic wave energy or...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-09-20
2003-11-25
Mayekar, Krishor (Department: 1753)
Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preser
Chemical reactor
With means applying electromagnetic wave energy or...
C422S186120, C422S186040, C422S121000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06652816
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus for generating ozone and anion and, more particularly, to an apparatus for generating ozone and anion, which is capable of respectively controlling an ozone generator and an anion generator according to a using purpose and also conveniently controlling various functions.
2. Description of the Related Art
Ozone is colorless and odorous gas having strong oxidizing power and comprising a molecule of three oxygen atoms. The ozone has a boiling temperature of 115° C. and a dissolving temperature of 192.5° C. The gas is 1.5 times as heavy as air. Therefore, if the ozone is leaked, the ozone is collected at a lower portion than the air.
The ozone has been stably used in various fields, e.g., a large-scaled water purification plant, in Europe and America over one hundred years ago. Further, in a natural state, the ozone forms an ozone layer in the stratosphere so as to protect human beings from intense ultraviolet rays generated from the sun.
The permissible level of ozone in working environment for a long time is 0.1 ppm. Typically, natural ozone of about 0.05 ppm is contained in the air of a beach, and about 0.03 ppm is contained in the fresh air of a forest. Generally, a man can smell the ozone of 0.01~0.03 ppm contained in the air. Therefore, the origin of a word “ozone”also means “smell” in Greek.
Further, the ozone tends to be intensely resolved during radiating of heat energy. To this end, if the ozone is in a desired useful concentration, the ozone has a characteristic of being intensely resolved even at a lower temperature of −120° C. However, in a lower concentration, a resolving speed of the ozone at a room temperature is greatly reduced.
Herein, one of the most important properties of the ozone is the strong oxidizing power. The ozone can oxidize many chemical compounds that do not react with oxygen. These properties can be applied through lots of substantial applications. Particularly, the oxidizing power is used in a treating process of water such as drinking water, general-purpose water, water for a swimming pool and wastewater, etc.
The ozone does not leave a harmful residual substance at all, which is different from chlorine, when being used as an oxidizing agent. The ozone also has strong germicidal power and thus removes a bacterium and a virus. Further, the ozone has strong bleaching power. Moreover, the ozone reacts with cigarette smoke, odorous gas and various harmful organic substances so as to make them harmless.
In using the ozone as a sterilizing and germicidal agent and an oxidizing agent, one of the important advantages is in that the ozone resolves only the oxygen but does not release other undesirable substances in the water. Substantially, the resolved oxygen is a very useful substance in the drinking water or the water for a swimming pool.
Therefore, the ozone has a sterilizing and germicidal property that does not exert any undesirably influence on external form, taste and smell of the water.
The ozone can be produced in various methods. For example, the ozone is generated by an electrical or chemical producing process, or by heating gaseous oxygen or exposing infrared rays in the air.
Substantially, in the producing process of the ozone, high-tension electricity is applied to the flow of oxygen (e.g., air), which contains the ozone gas. At this time, “Silent discharge” generated by the high-tension electricity transforms a part of the oxygen into the ozone, and also generates ultraviolet rays at the same time.
However, in the ozone generator, as described above, there are some problems that a discharging portion is rapidly corroded, thereby reducing a life span, and it is difficult to use it at home, since its volume is too large and its way of using is very complicate.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for generating ozone and anion, in which an ozone generator has a small volume and an anion generator is additionally provided, and the ozone generator and the anion generator can be respectively controlled, and the ozone and the anion are independently or simultaneously generated according to an using purpose so as to be supplied to an indoor space or to be dissolved in various kinds of raw water, thereby sterilizing the water and removing odor of the water and thus providing clean water.
To achieve one of the aforementioned objects of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for generating ozone and anion so as to clean air and sterilize water for drinking and various vegetables/fruits, comprising an ozone generator
50
for generating ozone having a desired concentration, an ozone generator-driving portion
40
for driving the ozone generator, a second power source
45
for supplying power to the ozone generator-driving portion
40
, an anion generator
35
for generating anion having a desired quantity of electric charge, an anion generator-driving portion
20
for driving the anion generator
35
, a circulating fan
30
for facilely circulating the anion generated from the anion generator
35
to an outside, a first power source
25
for supplying power to the anion generator-driving portion
20
, a selecting valve
60
for selectively discharging the anion generated from the anion generator
50
to the water purifier
100
or the ozone container
300
, an activated carbon filter
55
for removing specific smell of the ozone introduce through the selecting valve
60
into the water purifier
100
, a controlling portion
15
for controlling the entire portions including the anion generator-driving portion
20
and the ozone generator-driving portion
40
, an operating portion
10
for inputting an external instruction to the controlling portion
15
, and a timer
75
for controlling a reserving function of the operating portion
10
.
Preferably, the ozone generator comprises a cylindrical dielectric body
520
which is formed of quartz or glass, an external electrode
540
which is formed of a spring type conductor apart from the dielectric body
520
at a distance, and an internal electrode
550
which is formed of the spring type conductor in the dielectric body
520
. The anion generator comprises an acicular portion
240
having a plurality of sharp needles at a front face thereof, a fixing frame
250
for fixing the acicular portion
240
, a discharging plate
230
having a plurality of discharging holes
231
corresponding to the needles of the acicular portion
240
so as to efficiently generate the anion, and a grill plate
220
for facilely discharging the anion, wherein the acicular portion
240
has a negative terminal
241
,
241
-
1
that is connected with an anion-generating electrode (−), and the discharging holes
231
of the discharging plate
230
are disposed to be apart from the acicular portion
240
at a distance, and a power-supplying terminal is provided at both sides of the anion generator so that the anion generator can be assembled and disassembled without distinction of an upper and lower portion.
Preferably, the operating portion
10
comprises a vegetable/fruit button
7
which is provided to completely remove and sterilize residual agricultural chemicals, synthetic detergents and various germs on the vegetables and the fruits so as to maintain freshness when storing the vegetables and the fruits for a long time, and to sterilize and clean table services and kitchen utensils, an ozone button
6
which is provided to obtain a beauty effect but not used as water for drinking, a clean water button
1
which is provided to provide the water for drinking, which is completely harmless in an aseptic state, a clean air button
2
that generates the anion for sterilizing and purifying the air, and is performed for a predetermined time, or continuously performed, or performed in a sleep mode, a number displaying button
8
that is operated or controlled by the time and ozone increasing and decreasing buttons
4
,
5
when displaying a time
Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis L.L.P.
Mayekar Krishor
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