Hinged Filter Frame Layout for Adaptive Air Purifier Intake
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air purifiers face limitations in design diversity and operational optimization due to fixed configurations and filter types, which affect air purification efficiency and durability.
Innovation Solution
An air purifier design featuring a shape variable type filter frame and filter recognition system, allowing for multiple filter orientations and automatic control adjustments based on filter type and capacity, enabling optimized air discharge and suction structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If filters are disposed on both sides of housing to correspond to air inlets, then air purification efficiency is improved, but product design diversity is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The filter frame is designed with a hinge mechanism that allows it to rotate between different positions. The frame can be positioned to support filters on both sides of the housing for optimized air purification, or rotated to support a single filter for compact designs. This dynamic reconfigurability resolves the contradiction by allowing the same structural component to serve different design and performance requirements.
2Device complexity
If control setting values are fixed in manufacturing, then device complexity is reduced, but operational performance optimization is limited
Solution Approach 1:
A sensor detects the position of the filter frame (whether it is in the first position with both filters or rotated to the second position with one filter). Based on this detected position, the controller automatically adjusts control parameters such as blower speed and air outlet configuration. This feedback mechanism allows the system to optimize performance for different filter configurations without requiring complex manual setup or user input.
3Device complexity
If a single filter configuration is used, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different air purification needs is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The hinge mechanism enables the filter frame to dynamically reconfigure between supporting two filters in parallel or a single filter. This allows the air purifier to adapt to different purification needs - high-capacity mode with both filters or space-saving mode with one filter - while using the same basic hardware platform, thereby maintaining low device complexity while achieving high versatility.
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AI summary
The present invention provides an air purifier. The air purifier according to one preferred embodiment, of the present invention may comprise: a housing; a blowing unit installed in the housing so as to draw in external air; and a filter unit having filtering surfaces, through which the air passes and which are disposed in multiple directions, and an air inflow space, which has at least a part thereof surrounded by the filtering surfaces disposed in the multiple directions and into which the air discharged from, the blowing unit flows.