Alkaline Water Diffuser Venting for Safe Cleaning Mist

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cleaning and deodorization methods using bleach or alcohol are hazardous due to irritation, corrosion, and environmental pollution, and fail to effectively clean three-dimensional spaces, while gaseous fragrance or insecticide sprays can cause harm and damage electrical components.

Innovation Solution

A hand wash cleaning and environmental purification diffuser using alkaline ionized water, which is non-toxic and non-residual, is designed to create a safe mist for cleaning and disinfecting hands and environments, incorporating a bottom shell, fan, oscillation device, diffusing cover, and control unit, with acid and alkali-resistant coatings to prevent corrosion and enhance safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If bleach or alcohol are used for cleaning and deodorization, then cleaning effectiveness is improved, but safety and environmental harm worsen due to irritation, corrosion, and pollution

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecleaning effectivenessVSAvoidirritation and corrosion to human body

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful effects of traditional cleaning agents into beneficial effects by using alkaline ionized water, which produces hydroxyl ions that have strong oxidizing power for disinfection and deodorization without the corrosive and irritating effects of bleach or alcohol. The alkaline ionized water serves as a safe alternative that maintains cleaning effectiveness while eliminating harm to human health and the environment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

2Area of stationary object

If gaseous fragrance or insecticide spray devices are used, then space cleaning coverage is improved, but safety worsens due to harm to human body and damage to electrical components

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespace cleaning coverageVSAvoidharm to human body and electrical components

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces harmful gaseous fragrances and insecticides with alkaline ionized water mist that provides similar space cleaning and disinfection benefits without causing harm to human health or electrical components. The alkaline ionized water generates hydroxyl ions that effectively disinfect and deodorize three-dimensional spaces while being safe for humans and electronics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Power

If corrosive acid liquid is used in spray device water tank, then cleaning power is improved, but device reliability worsens due to corrosion of oscillator and electrode layer damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecleaning powerVSAvoiddevice component durability

Core Design Contradiction:

PowerVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional approach by using alkaline ionized water instead of corrosive acid liquid. The alkaline solution provides sufficient cleaning power through hydroxyl ion oxidation while being non-corrosive to the oscillator and electrode layers, thereby maintaining device reliability. The patent specifically addresses the corrosion problem by reversing the chemical nature of the cleaning agent from acidic to alkaline.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The diffuser produces a safe and effective atomized mist that cleans, sterilizes, and deodorizes without harming human health or the environment, allowing for safe use in three-dimensional spaces and above ground, while also providing decorative and lighting features to enhance the atmosphere.

Implementation Method 1

instruct the first oscillation device to oscillate the liquid in the oscillation space (such as alkaline ionized water or various environmental cleaning and purification agents) to generate atomized mist

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectVibration: Vibration

Implementation Method 2

The air flow channel has one side thereof protruding in the oscillation space of the water tank to form a protruding pipe vent, and an opposite side thereof extending out of the tank bottom to form a vent. The first fan is combined in the vent and disposed in communication with the first air inlet through the chamber.

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectAir flow: Convection

Data Source

PatentUS11524089B2Hand wash cleaning and environmental purification diffuser

Publication Date: 2022.12.13 DONGGUAN YIH TEH ELECTRIC PRODS

AI summary

A hand wash cleaning and environmental purification diffuser includes tank cover covered on a slot of a water tank in a bottom shell, a diffusing cover assembled to an opening of the bottom shell to shield the tank cover, an air flow channel formed in the oscillation space in the water tank and shaped like a tubular bulge so that when the diffuser is dumped, the liquid in the water tank is less likely to seep directly into the interior of the diffuser or the environment, two oscillators mounted in the oscillation space in the water tank and respectively coated with a layer of acid and alkali resistant coating, users can add safe cleaning liquids such as alkaline ionized water to the oscillation space and atomize into a cleaning mist, which can be used as deodorization and sterilization for hand cleaning, disinfection and environmental purification, and is safe to use.