Particulate matter sensing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11047788-B2
Application number	US-201916388411-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2019
Priority date	Dec 19, 2018
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

A particulate matter sensing device includes a screening component, a charging component, and a collecting and sensing component. The screening component separates a plurality of particulate matters from the air by inertial impaction. The charging component is used to produce a plurality of ions to combine with the particulate matters separated by the screening component, making each of the particulate matters separated by the screening component having a first electricity. The collecting and sensing component includes a collecting unit and a sensing unit electrically connected to the collecting unit, to detect the amount of charges of the particulate matters that reach the collecting unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A particulate matter sensing device comprising:
a screening component for separating a plurality of particulate matters by inertial impact;
a charging component for generating a plurality of ions to be combined with the particulate matters selected by the screening component, making those particulate matters possess a first electricity; and
a collecting and sensing component further comprising a collecting unit and a sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is electrically connected to the collecting unit to detect an amount of charge carried by the particulate matters reaching the collecting unit,
wherein the screening component includes an impaction panel and an adjustment element, and a distance between the impaction panel and an inlet can be changed by the adjustment element, and
wherein the impaction panel has no holes and separates the particulate matters by inertial impact.

2. The particulate matter sensing device according to claim 1 , wherein the charging component includes a discharge electrode for generating the ions, and an ion captor for capturing free ions that are not combined to the particulate matters among the ions generated by the discharge electrode.

3. The particulate matter sensing device according to claim 2 , wherein the ion captor has a second electricity, and the second electricity is opposite to the first electricity.

4. The particulate matter sensing device according to claim 1 , wherein the sensing unit is an ammeter, the ammeter is electrically connected to the collecting unit, and detects the current carried by the particulate matters reaching on the collecting unit.

5. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein the collecting and sensing component comprises an acceleration channel and an electric field generating unit, the electric field generating unit has the first electricity, the particulate matters having the first electricity are inertially impacted on the collecting unit by the acceleration channel, and the electric field generating unit approaches the particulate matters with the first electricity toward the collecting unit.

6. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein the collecting unit is a conductive material.

7. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein the collecting and sensing component comprises an electric field generating unit, and the collecting unit comprises a first collecting unit and a second collecting unit, the first collecting unit surrounds the electric field generating unit, the second collecting unit is located below the electric field generating unit, and a part of the particulate matters with the first electricity are moved to the first collecting unit by the electric field generating unit, the remaining of the particulate matters with the first electricity are inertially impacted on the second collecting unit.

8. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein a majority of particle diameter of the particulate matters collected on the collecting unit is between 0.25 micrometers and 2.5 micrometers.

9. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , further comprising an air extracting unit for guiding airflow in the particulate matter sensing device to an outside.

10. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , further comprising a data analysis circuit electrically connected to the collecting and sensing component for data processing.

11. A particulate matter sensing device comprising:
a screening component for separating a plurality of particulate matters by inertial impact;
a charging component for generating a plurality of ions to be combined with the particulate matters selected by the screening component, so that the particulate matters selected by the screening component respectively have a first electricity; and
a collecting and sensing component including a collecting unit and a sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is electrically connected to the collecting unit to detect an amount of charge carried by the particulate matters reaching the collecting unit, wherein the collecting unit further comprising a horizontal collecting unit,
wherein the screening component includes an impaction panel and an adjustment element, and a distance between the impaction panel and an inlet can be changed by the adjustment element, and
wherein the impaction panel has no holes and separates the particulate matters by inertial impact.

12. The particulate matter sensing device according to claim 11 , wherein the collecting and sensing component comprises an acceleration channel and an electric field generating unit, the particulate matters having the first electricity are inertially impacted on the collecting unit by the acceleration channel, and the electric field generating unit approaches the particulate matters with the first electricity toward the collecting unit.

13. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 12 , wherein the collecting unit is a conductive material.

14. A particulate matter sensing device comprising:
a screening component for separating a plurality of particulate matters by inertial impaction;
a charging component for generating a plurality of ions to be combined with the particulate matters selected by the screening component, so that the particulate matters selected by the screening component respectively have a first electricity; and
a collecting and sensing component including a collecting unit and a sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is electrically connected to the collecting unit to detect an amount of charge carried by the particulate matters reaching the collecting unit, wherein the collecting unit further comprising a horizontal collecting unit and a vertical collecting unit,
wherein the screening component includes an impaction panel and an adjustment element, and a distance between the impaction panel and an inlet can be changed by the adjustment element, and
wherein the impaction panel has no holes and separates the particulate matters by inertial impact.

15. The particulate matter sensing device according to claim 14 , wherein the charging component includes a discharge electrode for generating the ions, and an ion captor for capturing free ions that are not combined to the particulate matters among the ions generated by the discharge electrode, wherein the ion captor surrounds the discharge electrode.

16. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 14 , wherein the collecting and sensing component comprises an electric field generating unit, the charging component comprises a discharge electrode, wherein an electricity applied to the electric field generating unit is the same as an electricity of the discharge electrode, the vertical collecting unit surrounds the electric field generating unit, the horizontal collecting unit is located below the electric field generating unit, and a part of the particulate matters with the first electricity are moved to the vertical collecting unit by the electric field generating unit, the remaining of the particulate matters with the first electricity are inertially impacted on the horizontal collecting unit.

17. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 14 , wherein the vertical collecting unit and the horizontal collecting unit are electrically connected to a sensing unit together.

18. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein the collecting unit further comprises a collecting plate.

19. The particulate matter sensing device of claim 1 , wherein the screening component is adjustable

Assignees

• Ind Tech Res Inst

Inventors

• Chen Tzu-Ming
• Hsu Jung-Nan

Classifications

• G01N15/0656 Primary

  using electric, e.g. electrostatic methods or magnetic methods (by investigating individual particles G01N15/1031, G01N15/12) · CPC title

• G01N2015/0046

  in gas, e.g. smoke · CPC title