Air cleaner for air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10315201-B2
Application number	US-201415101489-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2014
Priority date	Dec 5, 2013
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed is an air cleaning device for air conditioners. The air cleaning device includes a charging unit, and a dust collector including ground bodies and high voltage applied bodies forming a potential difference with the ground bodies, and disposed after the charging unit in an air flow direction, the charging unit includes a charging unit body and carbon fiber electrodes installed on the charging unit body, and a hydrophilic layer is formed on the outer surface of at least one of the ground bodies and the high voltage applied bodies. The air cleaning device may minimize an amount of generated ozone and an amount of generated ions, as compared to a case having a charging unit in which electrical discharge wires and opposite electrodes are alternately disposed, and increase dust collection efficiency with a simple structure and at low costs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air cleaning device for air conditioners, comprising:
a charging unit; and
a dust collector including ground bodies and high voltage applied bodies forming a potential difference with the ground bodies, and disposed after the charging unit in an air flow direction, wherein the charging unit includes:
a charging unit body; and
carbon fiber electrodes installed on the charging unit body for performing corona discharge by high voltage applied from a high voltage generator, wherein a hydrophilic layer is formed on an outer surface of the ground bodies, wherein the charging unit body is formed to have a rectangular closed loop-shaped cross section, and a space is formed at an inside of inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body, and wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are respectively installed on the inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body.

2. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the carbon fiber electrodes includes a brush having a bundle of a plurality of carbon fibers.

3. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular to the air flow direction.

4. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are disposed at an edge of an air flow path.

5. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are separated from each other.

6. The air cleaning device according to claim 5 , wherein a dust collection space is formed in the dust collector and the dust collector further includes a dust collector body on which the ground bodies and the high voltage applied bodies are installed, and wherein the dust collection space is located at a rear of the carbon fiber electrodes in the air flow direction.

7. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes protrude from the inner circumferential surfaces into the space.

8. The air cleaning device according to claim 1 , further comprising a filter located prior to the charging unit in the air flow direction.

9. An air cleaning device for air conditioners, comprising:
a charging unit;
a dust collector including ground bodies and high voltage applied bodies forming a potential difference with the ground bodies, and disposed downstream of the charging unit in an air flow direction; and
a filter located upstream of the charging unit in the air flow direction, wherein the charging unit includes:
a charging unit body; and
carbon fiber electrodes installed on the charging unit body for performing corona discharge by high voltage applied from a high voltage generator, wherein a hydrophilic layer is formed on an outer surface of the ground bodies, wherein the charging unit body is formed to have a rectangular closed loop-shaped cross section, and a space is formed at an inside of inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body, and wherein the carbon fiber electrodes protrude from the inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body into the space.

10. The air cleaning device according to claim 9 , wherein each of the carbon fiber electrodes includes a brush having a bundle of a plurality of carbon fibers.

11. The air cleaning device according to claim 9 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular to the air flow direction.

12. The air cleaning device according to claim 9 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are disposed at an edge of an air flow path.

13. The air cleaning device according to claim 9 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are separated from each other.

14. The air cleaning device according to claim 13 , wherein a dust collection space is formed in the dust collector and the dust collector further includes a dust collector body on which the ground bodies and the high voltage applied bodies are installed, and wherein the dust collection space is located downstream of the carbon fiber electrodes in the air flow direction.

15. An air cleaning device for air conditioners, comprising:
a charging unit; and
a dust collector including ground bodies and high voltage applied bodies forming a potential difference with the ground bodies, and disposed downstream of the charging unit in an air flow direction, wherein the charging unit includes:
a charging unit body; and
carbon fiber electrodes installed on the charging unit body for performing corona discharge by high voltage applied from a high voltage generator, wherein a hydrophilic layer is formed on an outer surface of the ground bodies, wherein the charging unit body is formed to have a rectangular closed loop-shaped cross section, and a space is formed at an inside of inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body, wherein the carbon fiber electrodes protrude from a central portion of each of the inner circumferential surfaces of the charging unit body into the space in a direction perpendicular to the air flow direction, and wherein each of the carbon fiber electrodes includes a brush having a bundle of a plurality of carbon fibers.

16. The air cleaning device according to claim 15 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are disposed at an edge of an air flow path.

17. The air cleaning device according to claim 15 , wherein the carbon fiber electrodes are separated from each other.

18. The air cleaning device according to claim 17 , wherein a dust collection space is formed in the dust collector and the dust collector further includes a dust collector body on which the ground bodies and the high voltage applied bodies are installed, and wherein the dust collection space is located downstream of the carbon fiber electrodes in the air flow direction.

19. The air cleaning device according to claim 15 , further comprising a filter located upstream of the charging unit in the air flow direction.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Yanghwa
• Kim Hojung
• Kim Woojin

Classifications

• B03C3/12

  characterised by separation of ionising and collecting stations · CPC title

• B03C3/47

  flat, e.g. plates, discs, gratings · CPC title

• B03C3/41 Primary

  Ionising-electrodes · CPC title

• F24F2003/165

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• B03C3/60

  Use of special materials other than liquids · CPC title