Humidifier

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9534801-B2
Application number	US-200813131845-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2008
Priority date	Nov 28, 2008
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

A wall mount-type evaporative humidifier according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a main body mounted on a wall and having an air intake port and an air blower port formed therein, a ventilator disposed within the main body and configured to suck air into the air intake port and blow the air toward the air blower port, a water guide disposed within the main body and having a water channel formed therein, a water tank configured to contain water in order to supply the water to the water guide and seated in the water guide, and a humidification filter configured to absorb water of the water guide and to supply moisture to air flowing toward the ventilator and seated in the water guide. The present invention is advantageous in that it can realize a humidifying effect and a cooling effect at the same time, has the high utilization of space, and can control the humidity of the entire room rapidly and uniformly.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wall mount-type evaporative humidifier, comprising:
a main body mounted on a wall having a front side, a lower portion, and a topside, the main body including a front air intake port, a first air intake port and an air blower port, wherein the front air intake port is on the front side of the main body, the first air intake port is at the lower portion of the main body, and the air blower port for blowing air is at the topside of the main body;
a ventilator within the main body and configured to suck air into the front air intake port and first air intake port, and blow the air toward the air blower port;
a water guide within the main body and having a water channel;
a water tank configured to contain water to supply the water to the water guide;
a humidification filter disposed in front of the ventilator to absorb water of the water guide and to supply moisture to the air flowing toward the ventilator; and
a purification unit disposed between the front air intake port and the humidification filter to purity the air flowing toward the humidification filter,
wherein the first air intake port is open at a lower rear side of the front air intake port,
wherein the first air intake port is formed at a position where the first air intake port overlaps the air blower port in a vertical direction,
wherein the main body comprises a duct formed to incline from the first air intake port toward the purification unit to guide the air sucked through the first air intake port, to the purification unit,
wherein the duct comprises front and rear plate parts, which are spaced apart from each other in forward and backward directions on the lower portion of the main body, and left and right plate parts which are spaced apart from each other in rightward and leftward directions on the lower portion of the main body,
wherein the main body further comprises a seated unit formed horizontally at the top end of the rear plate part of the duct,
wherein the water guide is placed on the seated unit.

2. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , wherein:
the water guide is lengthily disposed in rightward and leftward directions on a lower front side of the ventilator,
an intake portion is eccentrically formed on one of right and left sides of the ventilator,
the humidification filter is disposed in front of the intake portion of the ventilator, and
the water tank is disposed on a side of the humidification filter.

3. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , wherein:
the ventilator comprises a centrifugal fan having an intake portion formed on its front side and a blower portion formed on its topside, and
the blower portion is obliquely formed in a direction toward the upper front side.

4. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , further comprising a front door rotatably coupled to the main body in order to cover or expose the front air intake port and having an air intake duct formed therein.

5. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 4 , wherein the front door comprises:
a left door coupled to a left side of the main body in such a way as to rotate right and left;
a right door coupled to a right side of the main body in such a way as to rotate right and left; and
a control panel disposed in one of the left and right doors so that the air intake duct is formed between the control panel and at least one of the left and right doors while covering between-the left door and-the right door.

6. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 5 , wherein each of the left door and the right door comprises:
a lateral plate part covering part of a side of the main body, and
a front plate part integrally formed with the lateral plate part and covering part of a front of the main body.

7. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 4 , wherein the front door comprises:
a left door coupled to a left side of the main body in such a way as to rotate in a left direction; and
a right door coupled to a right side of the main body in such a way as to rotate in a right direction and configured to form the air intake duct between the right door and the left door.

8. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 7 , wherein an intake guide unit for guiding suction of the air is formed in one of the left door and the right door and spaced apart from the one of the left door and the right door so that the air intake duct is formed between the intake guide unit and the other of the left door and the right door.

9. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , wherein the main body comprises:
a rear casing mounted on the wall, and
a front casing disposed in front of the rear casing and having the front air intake port, the first air intake port and the air blower port therein.

10. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , further comprising lateral illuminators disposed on respective left and right sides of the main body and configured to irradiate light to the side of the main body.

11. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 10 , wherein the main body includes illuminator installation units in which the lateral illuminators are respectively disposed on the left and right sides of the main body.

12. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 10 , wherein each of the lateral illuminators comprises:
an illumination casing disposed within the main body and configured to have an open side;
a PCB disposed in the illumination casing;
a plurality of LEDs disposed in the PCB in the state in which the LEDs are spaced apart from each other; and
a transparent plate configured to cover the open side of the illumination casing and to pass light, irradiated from the plurality of LEDs, therethrough.

13. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 12 , wherein the transparent plate is disposed on the same plane as the side of the main body.

14. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 10 , further comprising:
a control panel for manipulating the wall mount-type evaporative humidifier; and
a control unit for controlling the ventilator and the lateral illuminators when the control panel is manipulated.

15. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 14 , wherein, when an operation command is input through the control panel, the control unit drives the ventilator and at the same time turns on the lateral illuminators.

16. The wall mount-type evaporative humidifier of claim 1 , wherein the wall mount-type evaporative humidifier is mounted on a wall of the room, which is opposite to a wall in which an air conditioner for lowering an indoor temperature is mounted.

Assignees

• Choi Yong Hyuk
• Chang Chin Hyuk
• Kim Dong Wook
• Jung Jae Hun
• Singh Arunesh Kr
• Jung Yo Sang
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Choi Yong Hyuk
• Chang Chin Hyuk
• Kim Dong Wook
• Jung Jae Hun
• Singh Arunesh Kr
• Jung Yo Sang

Classifications

• F24F6/04 Primary

  using stationary unheated wet elements · CPC title

• F24F2221/17

  mounted in a wall · CPC title

• F24F2006/006

  with water treatment · CPC title

• F24F6/00

  Air-humidification {, e.g. cooling by humidification} · CPC title

• F24F2006/008

  Air-humidifier with water reservoir · CPC title