Electrolytic water spraying device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12577685-B2
Application number	US-202118005630-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2021
Priority date	Jul 21, 2020
Publication date	Mar 17, 2026
Grant date	Mar 17, 2026

Abstract

An electrolytic water spraying device ( 100, 100 A) according to the present disclosure includes: a reservoir ( 14 ) that stores water; a dispensing timing controller ( 320 ) that controls a dispensing timing that is a timing at which an electrolysis-accelerating agent is to be dispensed into the reservoir ( 14 ); a dispensing amount controller ( 310 ) that controls a dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent to be dispensed into the reservoir ( 14 ); and an electrolyzer ( 17 ) that produces electrolyzed water by electrolyzing the water stored in the reservoir ( 14 ) and into which the electrolysis-accelerating agent has been dispensed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electrolytic water spraying device comprising:
a reservoir that stores water; a dispensing timing controller that controls a dispensing timing that is a timing at which an electrolysis-accelerating agent is to be dispensed into the reservoir; a dispensing amount controller that controls a dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent to be dispensed into the reservoir; an electrolyzer that produces electrolyzed water by electrolyzing the water stored in the reservoir, the water being water in which the electrolysis-accelerating agent has been dispensed; and an integrator that calculates an electrical characteristic energization amount by integrating energization time for which an electrode included in the electrolyzer is energized and an electrical characteristic value measured during energization of the electrode after the electrolysis-accelerating agent is dispensed according to, as a starting point, a timing at which water is drained from the reservoir and water is supplied, wherein the dispensing amount controller determines the dispensing amount when the electrolysis-accelerating agent is dispensed based on the electrical characteristic energization amount calculated by the integrator.

2 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 1 , wherein
the electrical characteristic value is a value of a voltage or a value of an electric current.

3 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an energization/dispensing storage that stores the electrical characteristic energization amount and the dispensing amount in association, wherein the dispensing amount controller determines the dispensing amount by specifying, based on the electrical characteristic energization amount calculated by the integrator, the dispensing amount associated by the energization/dispensing storage.

4 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display that displays the dispensing amount, wherein the dispensing amount controller instructs the display to display the dispensing amount determined by the dispensing amount controller.

5 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 4 , wherein
when the energization time for the electrode exceeds a first threshold value, the dispensing timing controller instructs the display to display the dispensing amount determined by the dispensing amount controller.

6 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a drainage display that displays a notification prompting drainage of the water from the reservoir; a drainage/dispensing storage that stores a drainage-time dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent to be dispensed into the reservoir after a drainage process; and a drainage controller that controls a drainage timing that is a timing at which the water stored in the reservoir is to be drained, wherein when the energization time for the electrode exceeds a second threshold value, the drainage controller instructs the drainage display to display the notification prompting the drainage of the water, and after the drainage process, the drainage controller instructs the display to display the drainage-time dispensing amount stored in the drainage/dispensing storage.

7 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a water amount sensor that senses an amount of water in the reservoir; and a water shortage occurrence counter that measures a total number of occurrences of a water shortage state where the amount of water sensed by the water amount sensor is less than a third threshold value, wherein when the total number of occurrences measured by the water shortage occurrence counter exceeds a fourth threshold value, the dispensing timing controller instructs the display to display the dispensing amount determined.

8 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a drainage display that displays a notification prompting drainage of the water from the reservoir; a drainage/dispensing storage that stores a drainage-time dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent to be dispensed into the reservoir after a drainage process; and a drainage controller that controls a drainage timing that is a timing at which the water stored in the reservoir is to be drained, wherein when the total number of occurrences measured by the water shortage occurrence counter exceeds a fifth threshold value, the drainage controller instructs the drainage display to display the notification prompting the drainage of the water, and after the drainage process, the drainage controller instructs the display to display the drainage-time dispensing amount stored in the drainage/dispensing storage.

9 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a water amount sensor that senses an amount of water in the reservoir; and a water shortage occurrence counter that measures a total number of occurrences of a water shortage state where the amount of water sensed by the water amount sensor is less than a sixth threshold value, wherein at a relatively earlier one of a timing at which the energization time for the electrode exceeds a seventh threshold value and a timing at which the total number of occurrences measured by the water shortage occurrence counter exceeds an eighth threshold value, the dispensing timing controller instructs the display to display the dispensing amount determined.

10 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a drainage display that displays a notification prompting drainage of the water from the reservoir; a drainage/dispensing storage that stores a drainage-time dispensing amount that is an amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent to be dispensed into the reservoir after a drainage process; and a drainage controller that controls a drainage timing that is a timing at which the water stored in the reservoir is to be drained, wherein at a relatively earlier one of a timing at which the energization time for the electrode exceeds a ninth threshold value and a timing at which the total number of occurrences measured by the water shortage occurrence counter exceeds a tenth threshold value, the drainage controller instructs the drainage display to display the notification prompting the drainage of the water, and after the drainage process, the drainage controller instructs the display to display the drainage-time dispensing amount stored in the drainage/dispensing storage.

11 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an electrolysis-accelerating agent dispenser that dispenses the electrolysis-accelerating agent into the reservoir, wherein the dispensing amount controller instructs the electrolysis-accelerating agent dispenser to dispense, into the reservoir, the dispensing amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent that has been determined by the dispensing amount controller.

12 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 11 , wherein
when the energization time for the electrode exceeds a first threshold value, the dispensing timing controller instructs the electrolysis-accelerating agent dispenser to dispense, into the reservoir, the dispensing amount of the electrolysis-accelerating agent that has been determined by the dispensing amount controller.

13 . The electrolytic water spraying device according to claim 11 , fu

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Asai Fumiaki

Classifications

• C25B15/023

  Measuring, analysing or testing during electrolytic production · CPC title

• C02F1/461

  by electrolysis · CPC title

• C25B15/02 Primary

  Process control or regulation · CPC title

• C25B9/01

  Electrolytic cells characterised by shape or form · CPC title

• C25B9/17

  Cells comprising dimensionally-stable non-movable electrodes; Assemblies of constructional parts thereof · CPC title