Sanitization mist shower apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9907877-B2
Application number	US-201615099335-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2016
Priority date	Jun 9, 2015
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

Abstract

A sanitization mist shower apparatus includes a water tank that stores water, a plasma generator that causes a plasma discharge in water inside the water tank and generates reformed water, an air blower that blows pressurized air, and a mist nozzle that spouts fine mist obtained by mixing the reformed water supplied from the water tank and the pressurized air supplied from the air blower. A liquid pressure of the reformed water supplied to the mist nozzle and air pressure of the pressurized air are substantially the same as each other.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sanitization mist shower apparatus comprising:
a water tank that stores water;
a plasma generator that causes a plasma discharge in the water inside the water tank and generates reformed water;
a mist nozzle that spouts fine mist through a mist spout port;
an air blower that supplies pressurized air obtained by pressurizing air to the mist nozzle; and
a liquid pressurizer that pressurizes the reformed water generated by the plasma generator inside the water tank and supplies the pressurized reformed water to the mist nozzle,
wherein the fine mist is generated in the mist nozzle by mixing the pressurized air supplied from the air blower and the reformed water supplied from the liquid pressurizer,
wherein air pressure of the pressurized air supplied to the mist nozzle and liquid pressure of the reformed water are substantially equal to each other,
wherein the mist nozzle includes an opening of a water orifice component spouting the reformed water and at least six air orifice flow channels spouting the pressurized air,
wherein the air pressure of the pressurized air is 0.3 MPa or greater, and
wherein the air orifice flow channels are provided at radially equal intervals centering around a liquid current of the reformed water spouted through the opening of the water orifice component, and the pressurized air spouted through the air orifice flow channels collides with the liquid current in perpendicular directions and generates the fine mist.

2. The sanitization mist shower apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the mist spout port is increased in diameter so as to be widened toward a spouting side.

3. The sanitization mist shower apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the liquid pressurizer is a liquid delivery pump arranged in the middle of a liquid delivery pipe between the water tank and the mist nozzle.

4. The sanitization mist shower apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the liquid pressurizer includes the air blower and a second gas pipe, which is bifurcated from a first gas pipe connected to the air blower and the mist nozzle, and communicates with the water tank, and
wherein the reformed water inside the water tank is pressurized by the pressurized air supplied from the air blower to the water tank via the second gas pipe, and the pressurized reformed water is supplied to the mist nozzle.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Minamio Masanori
• Isomi Akira
• Tabata Daisuke
• Kitahara Yukiko

Classifications

• A61L2/22

  Phase substances, e.g. smokes or aerosols · CPC title

• A61L9/145 Primary

  air-liquid contact processes, e.g. scrubbing · CPC title

• A61L2209/213

  Use of electrochemically treated water, e.g. electrolysed water or water treated by electrical discharge · CPC title

• A61L9/14 Primary

  using sprayed or atomised substances {including air-liquid contact processes} · CPC title

• B05B7/2489

  an atomising fluid, e.g. a gas, being supplied to the discharge device (B05B7/2402, B05B7/2483, B05B7/262 take precedence) · CPC title