Static electricity and dust removing apparatus

Abstract

This static electricity and dust removing apparatus has a base box (11) provided with an airflow inlet port (16), and a processing head (23) attached to the base box (11) through a support column (21), wherein a processing space (24) is formed between the airflow inlet port (16) and the processing head (23). Air curtains for isolating the processing space (24) from the outside due to air from a spout of an air spout pipe (33) are formed at a front opening portion (29) and right and left side opening portions (28) of the apparatus. Ionized air generated by an ion generator (42) is spouted into the processing space (24), so that the ionized air is sprayed on matters to be processed which are disposed in the processing space (24) and dust is removed from the matters to be processed. Thereby, a static electricity and dust removing operation to the dust adhering to the matters to be processed can be efficiently performed within a short time, and work environment can be prevented from being contaminated due to a leakage of the removed dust.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a static electricity and dust removing apparatus, which sprays ionized air on parts or the like of industrial products as matters to be processed to remove dust adhering to the matters to be processed and not to contaminate work environment.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In manufacturing parts of industrial products such as electrical components and in assembling the parts to manufacture the industrial products, dust including solid particles, foreign substances, and motes adhering to the parts has to be removed. Since the dust adhering to the parts includes dust adhering to them by static electricity, if ionized air is sprayed on the parts to remove the dust while neutralizing and removing the static electricity on surfaces of the parts, the dust can be reliably removed. As above, techniques, which remove the dust adhering to the parts or the like of the industrial products as workpieces, i.e., the matters to be processed while neutralizin...

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Benefits of technology

[0019]Schemes of forming the airflow and actuating the air curtains and the ion spout nozzle in the box at a processing start time and at a processing completion time are set at a constant, so that, at a time of spraying the ionized air on the matters to be processed and after the processing completion of the matters to proceeded, an interior of the processing space becomes in a state where no dust is present. Therefore, quality of the processing performed to the matters to be processed is enhanced.

[0020]The removed dust in the processing space is prevented from being leaked to the outside, so that the work environment can be prevented from being contaminated due to the dust.

Problems solved by technology

In this case, the matters to be processed cannot be kept clean after dust removal.

Moreover, the removed dust may fly and float around the work environment, which results in contamination of the work environment.

However, when the ionized air is mixed into the main airflow flowing from the nozzle, an ion concentration therein is decreased and static electricity removing efficiency is decreased, whereby a long time is required to complete a static electricity and dust removing operation.

Meanwhile, if the open / close door is operated at a time of inserting the matters to be processed into the box, an operator has to frequently operate the open / close door for carrying in and carrying out the matters to be processed, whereby there is a problem of low operability in a processing operation.

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