Modular Air Cleaning and Humidification With Dust Status Lighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Typical humidifiers lack a strong air cleaning function and cannot operate solely for air filtration, often performing humidification even when air cleaning is desired, especially in high humidity situations.
Innovation Solution
A humidification and air cleaning apparatus that integrates an air clean module for filtration, an air wash module for humidification, a dust sensor for concentration detection, and a lighting module that emits color-coded light to indicate air cleanliness, allowing intuitive recognition of indoor air quality from a distance and in all directions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a typical humidifier adds a filtration function to perform both humidification and air cleaning, then the air cleaning function is improved, but the device cannot operate solely for air filtration and must perform humidification even when air cleaning is desired
Solution Approach 1:
The apparatus is divided into functionally independent modules: an air cleaning module with filter and blower, and a humidification module with water tank and humidification medium. This segmentation allows each module to operate independently, enabling the user to select only air cleaning or only humidification, thus resolving the contradiction between functional versatility and operational control.
2Measurement precision
If a dust sensor detects dust concentration, then air quality measurement is improved, but the information is not easily recognizable from a distance
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting module emits different colored lights (red, yellow, green) corresponding to different dust concentration levels detected by the dust sensor. This color-coding system allows users to instantly recognize air quality status from a distance without needing to read numerical data, thus resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and information visibility.
3Loss of information
If a lighting module emits light to indicate air cleanliness, then information visibility is improved, but the light may not be visible in all directions or from a distance
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting module is positioned inside the air cleaning module and emits light in multiple directions (upward, downward, sideways) rather than in a single direction. This multi-dimensional light emission ensures that the color-coded air quality information is visible from various angles and distances, resolving the contradiction between information visibility and light visibility range.
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
Enables users to intuitively assess indoor air cleanliness through color-coded lighting, ensuring effective air cleaning and humidification without unnecessary humidification in high humidity conditions.
Implementation Method 1
a dust sensor disposed on at least one of the air clean module or the air wash module and detecting a dust concentration of external air
Implementation Method 2
a diffusion member having one end facing the first light emitting member and the other end facing the second light emitting member
Implementation Method 3
a humidification filter type of humidifier which allows water to naturally evaporate from a wet humidification medium by flowing air
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a humidification and air cleaning apparatus. The humidification and air cleaning apparatus includes an air clean module receiving external air and performing filtration on the entered external air to generate filtered air, an air wash module disposed at an upper part of the air clean module, receiving filtered air from the air clean module, and performing humidification on the filtered air, a dust sensor disposed on at least one of the air clean module or the air wash module and detecting a dust concentration of external air, and a lighting module disposed on at least one of the air clean module or the air wash module and emitting light as a color classified according to a dust concentration detected from the dust sensor.