Dual-Duct Ion Generation Layout for Higher Room Ion Concentration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ion generating apparatuses face challenges in increasing ion concentration in residential spaces, leading to limited sterilization and odor elimination effects, and suffer from inaccurate ion detection due to insulation degradation and humidity.
Innovation Solution
An ion generating apparatus with a motor-driven air blower and dual impellers creating separate air-flowing paths, each equipped with an ion generating section, and an ion detecting apparatus with a protective electrode to enhance detection accuracy amidst contamination and humidity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a single ion generator is used, then the device complexity is low, but the ion concentration in the room is insufficient for effective virus elimination and odor removal
Solution Approach 1:
The air blower is divided into two separate air-flowing paths, each with its own ion generating section. This segmentation allows multiple ion generators to operate independently without interfering with each other, thereby increasing the total ion concentration in the room while maintaining manageable device complexity through modular design
2Quantity of substance
If multiple ion generators are arranged in a single air-flowing path, then the ion concentration increases, but the ions interfere with each other and the sterilization effect is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The air-flowing path is segmented into two separate paths, with each path containing one ion generating section. This prevents ion interference between generators while still achieving high ion concentration in the room, thereby maintaining reliable sterilization and odor elimination effects
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of arranging multiple ion generators along a single linear path, the invention uses two separate air-flowing paths that diverge from the air blower. This spatial arrangement in another dimension allows independent ion generation without interference, solving the contradiction between ion concentration and sterilization effectiveness
3Measurement precision
If a standard ion sensor is used, then the device complexity is low, but the detection accuracy decreases due to insulation degradation and humidity
Solution Approach 1:
The collecting electrode is preliminarily protected by enclosing it within a protective electrode before exposure to the environment. This preliminary protective action prevents insulation degradation and humidity interference, maintaining high ion detection accuracy while adding only moderate device complexity through the enclosing structure
Solution Approach 2:
The protective electrode serves as a beforehand cushioning barrier that protects the collecting electrode from harmful environmental factors such as humidity and contamination. This prior protection ensures sustained detection accuracy without requiring complex environmental control systems
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 solution significantly increases ion concentration in residential spaces, enhancing virus sterilization and odor elimination, while ensuring accurate ion detection and preventing interference between ion generators.
Implementation Method 1
A standard ion generator generates corona discharge to generate positive and negative ions by applying a driving voltage, which is a high and alternating voltage, between a needle electrode and an opposite electrode or between a discharge electrode and a dielectric electrode
Implementation Method 2
a plurality of impellers 3 housed in two casings 4 to be freely rotatable on the output shafts 21 of the motor 2... two ducts 5 arranged above the impellers 3, respectively, as tubular portions letting the air generated by the rotations individually flow upward
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AI summary
An air blower including a motor 2 having output shafts 21, 21 on both sides in the axial direction and two impellers 3, 3 mounted on the respective output shafts 21, 21, and two ducts 5, 5 that individually allow passage of the air blown out by rotation of each of the impellers 3, 3 in the same direction and discharge the air to the outside are included. At a part or the whole of each of the ducts 5, 5, a laminar flow section that makes the flowing air laminar flow. An ion generating section is arranged at each laminar flow section so that ions generated by the ion generating section can effectively be included in the air, increasing the ion concentration of ions discharged in a room together with the air.