Ozone Gas Generator Electrode Gap Tolerance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ozone gas generators face manufacturing difficulties due to the need for high accuracy in assembling electrode gaps, which becomes increasingly challenging as the gap size decreases, leading to complex and time-consuming assembly processes.
Innovation Solution
The ozone gas generator incorporates a first and second electrode portion with a layer of metal or metal compounds on their surfaces, allowing for a discharge gap accuracy of ±10% to ±50%, facilitating stable ozone gas generation while simplifying the manufacturing process by relaxing the assembly precision requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If high accuracy assembly is used to ensure uniform discharge gap, then stable ozone gas generation is achieved, but manufacturing difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of discharge gap accuracy from high precision (conventional requirement) to low precision (±10% to ±50% tolerance). This parameter change enables stable ozone gas generation while significantly easing manufacturing difficulty, as the metal or metal compound layer compensates for the larger gap variations through its functional properties.
2Productivity
If small discharge gap is used to improve ozone generation efficiency, then manufacturing accuracy requirement becomes extremely strict, but with metal layer it becomes easier to manufacture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses composite materials by coating metal or metal compound layers on the electrode surfaces. This composite structure allows the use of small discharge gaps for high ozone generation efficiency while the metal layer provides tolerance to gap variations, reducing manufacturing precision requirements to ±10% to ±50%.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical-chemical parameters of the electrode surfaces by introducing metal or metal compound layers. This modification enables the system to maintain high productivity with small gaps while accepting larger manufacturing tolerances, as the metal layer's properties compensate for gap non-uniformity.
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
This configuration enables stable ozone gas production while significantly reducing the complexity and time required for manufacturing, particularly for generators with small discharge gaps, by leveraging the enhanced ozone gas generation efficiency of metal or metal compound layers.
Implementation Method 1
at least a portion of a surface of the first electrode portion or the second electrode portion on sides facing each other is formed of a layer including at least one of a metal or a metal compound
Data Source
AI summary
An ozone gas generator includes a first electrode portion that includes a first electrode, and a second electrode portion that faces the first electrode portion, is disposed with a predetermined interval at which discharge between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion is possible, and includes a second electrode, in which at least one of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion includes a dielectric that is provided on a surface of the first electrode or the second electrode on sides facing each other, and at least one of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion includes a layer that is provided on at least a portion of the surface of the first electrode or the second electrode on the sides facing each other, or the dielectric, and includes at least one of a metal or a metal compound, and the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are configured such that accuracy of an interval between surfaces facing each other is ±3% or more and ±50% or less.