KR102324913B1 - Air Shower - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function, which can maximize operation efficiency, comprising: a frame body including upper and lower frames and left and right frames; a filter assembly with a right filter module; a plurality of air inlets; a cross-fan; a lower dust collecting hole provided on a bottom surface of the frame body; a blower fan; a UV LED lamp for emitting UV light; an infrared sensor; and a controller.

Description

Air shower with air cleaning and sterilization function {Air Shower}

The present invention relates to an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function, and an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function capable of removing contaminants such as dust and performing sterilization.

In everyday living environments, undesirable foreign substances such as contaminants and bacteria exist around people. Since these foreign substances are attached to and absorbed by a person's body or clothes and adversely affect health, it is desirable to cleanly remove them as often as possible. In addition, various odors, for example, bad odors such as food odors, are often absorbed into the body or clothes during life, which also causes discomfort, and thus is subject to removal.

Accordingly, an air shower device is used, and the air shower device is used in a way to remove dust attached to clothes in an air shower booth provided in a separate space in the room.

However, as interest in fine dust has recently increased, various methods have been proposed to improve indoor air quality.

Indoor air can be polluted by people entering the room from the outdoors in schools, apartments, large buildings, etc. In particular, with the recent increase in fine dust, the need to prevent the influx of pollutants such as dust and soil into the room is emerging. .

However, the conventional air shower booth type air shower device only removes pollutants such as dust by spraying polluted air, but does not provide a function of removing pollutants using sterilized air.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2003-0032814

An object of the present invention is to efficiently provide air cleaning and sterilization as well as an air shower that removes fine dust, and also to provide a user GUI.

In addition, the technical object of the present invention is to provide a wind direction control means that can maximize the operating efficiency during air shower, air cleaning and sterilization.

An embodiment of the present invention is a frame body consisting of an upper frame, a lower frame, a left frame, a right frame; a filter assembly including an upper filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the upper frame, a left filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the left frame, and a right filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the right frame; a plurality of air inlets provided in the frame body; a cross fan that introduces air into the frame body through the air inlet (eg, an upper cross fan that functions as four air curtains and eight double cross fans on the side); a lower dust collecting hole provided on the bottom surface of the frame body; a blower fan for sucking air inside the frame body through the lower dust collecting port; UV LED lamp provided on the inner surface of the frame body for emitting UV light; an infrared sensor provided inside the frame body to detect the presence of a person inside the frame body; When a person inside the frame body is not detected, the cross fan and blower fan are driven to control the external air cleaning sterilization mode to exhaust air outside the frame body. When a person inside the frame body is detected, air flows into the frame body and the frame Simultaneously discharges air to the outside of the body (e.g., the air curtain function works in the upper four cross fans, drives the remaining three double cross fans to introduce air into the frame body, and at the same time drives the remaining blower fans to the inside of the frame body and a controller that controls the air shower sterilization mode to emit ultraviolet LED lamps to sterilize the air inside the frame body.

The air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function includes: an external monitor provided on the outer surface of the frame body to display operating state information of the air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function; and an internal monitor provided on the inner surface of the frame body to display the operating status information of the air shower having air cleaning and sterilization functions and to receive an environment setting value, wherein the controller includes the operating status information on the external monitor and the internal monitor can be displayed.

Displaying the operation state information may display the operation mode information being operated in the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode in the form of a graphic icon.

The air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function includes a fine dust sensor, a temperature sensor, and a humidity sensor located on the outer surface of the frame body, and displaying the driving state information is to display fine dust, temperature, and humidity. can

The upper filter module is implemented as a pre-filter that removes dust larger than one or more basic particles, and the left filter module and the right filter module are implemented as two pre-filters and one triple filter, so that a triple filter is formed between the pre-filters. The filter is located, and the triple filter may include a HEPA filter that removes fine particles smaller than the basic particles, a carbon filter that removes odors, and a sterilization filter that removes pathogenic bacteria.

The air shower sterilization device may be provided for each air inlet, and the controller may control the air volume differently by varying the driving amount of the motor according to the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode.

UV lamps and reflectors are alternately arranged along a horizontal plane so that air is sterilized when air is introduced through the air exhaust port of the upper frame, and the reflector has a vertical concavo-convex structure and a plurality of air outlets are formed on the concave-convex surface. can be characterized.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently perform air cleaning and sterilization as well as an air shower that removes fine dust. In the case of an existing air shower device, only air shower sprays polluted external air to people, but according to an embodiment of the present invention, air shower spraying of filtered and sterilized air may have an effect.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by intuitively displaying the driving state information as a graphic icon on the monitor, the user can easily check the driving state information from the outside or the inside of the frame body.

In addition, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to control the wind direction that can maximize the operation efficiency according to each operation mode during air shower, air cleaning and sterilization.

1 and 2 are diagrams showing the operation of the air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4, 5 and 6 are a perspective view and a front view according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating a left-hand line lamp and a reflector according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a diagram illustrating a state in which air sterilization is performed according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a diagram illustrating a monitor on which operation state information of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the advantages and features of the present invention, and a method of achieving them, will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but will be implemented in various different forms, and is provided to completely inform those of ordinary skill in the art to the scope of the invention As such, the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. In addition, in the description of the present invention, if it is determined that related known technologies may obscure the gist of the present invention, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 and 2 are diagrams illustrating the operation of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4, 5 and 6 are a perspective view and a front view according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a left lamp and a reflector according to an embodiment of the present invention. , FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state in which air sterilization is performed according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a monitor on which operation state information of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function is displayed according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a picture that shows

The present invention efficiently provides air cleaning and sterilization as well as air shower that removes fine dust. For example, when a person enters the air shower device, it operates in the air shower sterilization mode as shown in FIG. In the standby mode in which no person enters the shower device, as shown in FIG. 2 , it operates in the external air cleaning sterilization mode. Hereinafter, the term 'air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function' refers to a device that performs an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function.

To this end, the air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, includes a frame body 10 consisting of an upper frame, a lower frame, a left frame, and a right frame, and the air of the upper frame. A filter assembly 100 having an upper filter module mounted on the exhaust port, a left filter module mounted on an air exhaust port of the left frame, and a right filter module mounted on an air exhaust port of the right frame, both sides of the frame body 10 and A plurality of air inlets 200 provided in the inner frame, and a cross fan 300 for introducing the inside of the frame body 10 through the air inlets 200; for example, the upper cross pan performing four air curtain functions and 8 on the side double cross fan), a lower dust collecting port 400 provided on the bottom surface of the frame body 10, and a blower fan 500 that sucks air inside the frame body 10 through the lower dust collecting port 400, and , An ultraviolet LED lamp 600 provided in the inner frame of the frame body 10 for emitting ultraviolet light, and an infrared sensor 700 provided inside the frame body 10 to detect the presence of a person inside the frame body 10 And, if a person inside the frame body 10 is not detected, the double cross fan and blower fan are driven to control the external air cleaning sterilization mode to exhaust air into the frame body 10, and the person inside the frame body 10 When this is detected, air inflows into the frame body and air exhausts out of the frame body at the same time (for example, the air curtain function works in the upper four cross fans and drives the remaining three double cross fans to blow air into the frame body) A controller that controls the air shower sterilization mode that emits UV LED lamps 600 to sterilize the air inside the frame body 10 as well as exhaust the air inside the frame body to the outside by driving the remaining blower fans at the same time 800) may be included. In addition, an external monitor 900 provided on the external frame of the frame body 10 to display operation status information of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilizing function, and an air cleaning and sterilizing function provided in the inner frame of the frame body 10 It may include an internal monitor 950 that displays the operating state information of the air shower with an input of an environment setting value, and a fine dust sensor, a temperature sensor, and a humidity sensor located in the frame body 10 outside the frame. It will be detailed below.

The frame body 10 is a frame housing of an air shower having air cleaning and sterilization functions, and includes an upper frame, a lower frame, a left frame, and a right frame. The front and rear may be open, and therefore, a person entering the front may exit through the rear after receiving an air shower from the inside of the frame body 10 .

The filter assembly 100 is a filter assembly for filtering air introduced into the frame body 10, and as shown in FIG. 4, an upper filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the upper frame, and an air exhaust port of the left frame. and a left filter module mounted therein, and a right filter module mounted in the air exhaust port of the right frame.

Here, the upper filter module is implemented as a pre-filter that removes dust larger than one or more basic particles, and the left filter module and the right filter module are implemented as two pre-filters and one triple filter, so that a triple filter is provided between the pre-filters. to be located As shown in FIG. 6, the triple filter includes a HEPA filter that removes fine particles smaller than the basic particles, a carbon filter that removes odors, and a sterilization filter that removes pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, air cleaning is possible through the quadruple filter of pre-filter (large dust), HEPA filter (fine dust), carbon filter (odor, harmful gas), and sterilization filter (bacteria).

For reference, the function and replacement cycle of each filter are described in the table below.

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function

Cleaning and replacement cycle


pre-filter
Extends the replacement cycle of the deodorizing filter and the dust collecting (HEPA) filter by performing two functions at the same time, from antibacterial treatment to removing large dust


Exchange every 6-12 months




triple filter


[HEPA filter] Removes fine particles such as mites, pollen, cigarette smoke (fine particles), fine dust, dust, animal hair, etc.

[Carbon filter] Removes harmful gases such as cigarette smoke (odor), food odor, nitrogen dioxide, toilet odor, ammonia, acetic acid, acetaldehyde, toluene, and formaldehyde with a comprehensive deodorizing filter

[Sterilization filter] Since it contains active oxygen species in the filter, it has a sterilizing effect on pathogenic bacteria and viruses introduced into the filter within 1 minute.





Exchange every 6-12 months

The air inlet 200 is provided in plurality on both sides of the frame and the inner frame of the frame body 10 . Accordingly, air may be introduced from both inner sides and the inner upper side of the frame body 10 through the plurality of air inlets.

The cross fan 300 performs a function of introducing air into the frame body through an air inlet. Accordingly, air having a pneumatic pressure may be introduced into the frame body 10 through the air inlet through the rotation of the motor.

The lower dust collecting port 400 is a hole provided on the bottom surface of the frame body 10 to collect dust. A mesh network is installed in the lower dust collecting port 400 to filter out large contaminants.

The blower fan 500 is a fan that sucks air inside the frame body 10 through the lower dust collecting port 400 .

The ultraviolet LED lamp 600 is a lamp that is provided in the inner frame of the frame body 10 and emits ultraviolet rays. It is possible to completely sterilize various bacteria and viruses contained in the air inside the frame body 10 by using a strong ultraviolet LED (UV C, UV A) lamp certified by a nationally recognized testing institution.

As described above, when air is introduced into the upper frame, a sterilization process is performed. When air is introduced through the air exhaust port of the upper frame, air sterilization is performed. As shown in FIG. 7, a UV lamp and a reflector are alternately arranged along a horizontal plane so that air is sterilized when air is introduced through the air exhaust port of the upper frame, and the reflector has a vertical concavo-convex structure and a plurality of air on the concave-convex surface. to form an exhaust vent. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, an ultraviolet lamp is installed inside the reflector so that the light can be irradiated as much as possible in a limited space. can

Therefore, according to the present invention, the air introduced through the upper filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the upper frame is sterilized from the ultraviolet lamp, and the air shower sprays the air. That is, in the case of the conventional air shower device, only air shower spraying polluted air, the present invention has the effect of air shower spraying of filtered and sterilized air by the UV lamp.

The infrared sensor 700 is a sensor provided inside the frame body 10 to detect the presence of a person inside the frame body 10 . The infrared detection sensor 700 may be implemented as an infrared infrared detection sensor 700 , or may be implemented as a camera sensor, and may be implemented with various other infrared detection sensors 700 .

The controller 800 controls the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode according to whether a person is detected through the infrared sensor 700 .

The external air cleaning and sterilization mode is a mode that operates when a person inside the frame body 10 is not detected, and operates two double cross fans 300 and two blower fans to supply air to the outside of the frame body 10 This is the eject mode. Therefore, the air discharged to the outside of the frame body 10 is dust removed and sterilized through the upper filter module, the left filter module, and the right filter module, and the dust removed and sterilized in this way is discharged to the outside through the air exhaust port, As a result, air purification and sterilization are performed.

The air shower sterilization mode is a mode that operates when a person inside the frame body 10 is detected, and drives the upper four cross fans 300 and eight side double cross fans to pump air into the frame body 10 . An air shower that draws in and drives the blower fan 500 at the same time to suck in the air inside the frame body 10 and discharge it to the outside, and also emits an ultraviolet LED lamp 600 to sterilize the air inside the frame body 10 . Control in sterilization mode. Therefore, when the user enters the product, the air shower function is activated, and the upper air curtain fan forms an air film inside, and the air stream from the side double cross fan shakes off the contaminants attached to the body and sucks it into the lower dust collection port. The air is sterilized and re-sprayed by the ultraviolet lamp (UV A, UV C) installed inside.

In the end, the following three-step air shower is performed.

(1) 1st stage air shower - When the user enters, the clean air sterilized inside the device is removed from the body through the motors placed on the upper and left and right sides to shake off the fine dust and viruses on the body and collect the dust with the lower blower fan to prevent scattering indoors.

(2) 2nd stage quadruple air filter - Pre-filter (large dust), HEPA filter (fine dust), carbon filter (odor, harmful gas) sterilization filter (bacteria) air cleaning.

(3) 3rd stage UV C LED air sterilization - The air filtered through the quadruple filter is completely removed from various bacteria and viruses contained in the air by using a powerful UV LED (UV C, UV A) lamp certified by a nationally accredited testing institution. Sterilization.

On the other hand, the air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function may include an external monitor 900 installed in the external frame and an internal monitor 950 installed in the internal frame.

The external monitor 900 is a display panel provided on the external frame of the frame body 10 to display operation status information of an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function, and the internal monitor 950 is the frame body 10 . It is provided in the inner frame and displays the operating status information of the air shower with air cleaning and sterilization functions and the function to receive environment setting values is the input/output panel. The controller 800 displays the driving state information on the external monitor 900 and the internal monitor 950 .

Furthermore, the air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function may include a fine dust sensor, a temperature sensor, and a humidity sensor located on the outer frame of the frame body 10, so that the controller 800 displays the driving state information. It can display fine dust, temperature, and humidity, so users can easily check the amount of fine dust, temperature, and humidity.

An example of such operation state information display is shown in FIG. 9, and operation mode information being operated in the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode is displayed in the form of a graphic icon. Accordingly, by intuitively displaying the driving state information as a graphic icon on the external monitor 900 and the internal monitor 950 , the user can easily check the driving state information from the outside or the inside of the frame body 10 .

On the other hand, the air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function of the present invention operates in the air shower sterilization mode as shown in FIG. 1 when a person enters the air shower device, In the standby mode, as shown in FIG. 2, it operates in the external air cleaning and sterilization mode. Therefore, in the air shower sterilization mode, the efficiency of the air shower function is improved by allowing the wind to be evenly sprayed on the entire outer surface of the person inside the frame body 10 of the air shower device and to collect dust from the inside. On the other hand, in the external air cleaning sterilization mode, the wind sprayed from the inner frame body 10 must be directed toward the filter module so that the air inside the frame body 10 is discharged to the outside through the upper filter module, the left filter module, and the right filter module. Air purifying efficiency is improved.

In consideration of this point, the controller 800 of the air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function of the present invention controls the number of the cross fan motor and the lower dust collector blower motor differently depending on the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode. . Therefore, by adjusting the wind direction discharged from the inside of the frame body 10 differently according to each operation mode, it is possible to increase the efficiency of the operation mode.

The embodiments in the description of the present invention described above are presented by selecting and presenting the most preferred examples to help those skilled in the art from among various possible implementations, and the technical spirit of the present invention is not necessarily limited or limited only by this embodiment. , various changes and modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.

10: frame body 100: filter assembly
200: air inlet 300: cross fan
400: lower dust collection port 500: blower fan
600: UV LED lamp 700: infrared sensor
800: controller 900: external monitor
950: internal monitor

Claims (7)

a frame body consisting of an upper frame, a lower frame, a left frame, and a right frame;
a filter assembly including an upper filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the upper frame, a left filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the left frame, and a right filter module mounted on the air exhaust port of the right frame;
a plurality of air inlets provided in the frame body;
a cross fan for introducing air into the frame body through the air inlet;
a lower dust collecting hole provided on the bottom surface of the frame body;
a blower fan for sucking air inside the frame body through the lower dust collecting port;
UV LED lamp provided on the inner surface of the frame body for emitting UV light;
an infrared sensor provided inside the frame body to detect the presence of a person inside the frame body;
When a person inside the frame body is not detected, it is controlled in the external air cleaning sterilization mode that discharges air to the outside of the frame body. and a controller for controlling the air shower sterilization mode to emit the UV LED lamp to sterilize the air inside the frame body.
UV lamps and reflectors are alternately arranged along a horizontal plane so that air is sterilized when air is introduced through the air exhaust port of the upper frame, and the reflector has a vertical concave-convex structure and has a plurality of air exhaust ports on the concave-convex surface. Air shower with sterilization function.
The method according to claim 1,
The air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function includes: an external monitor provided on the outer surface of the frame body to display operation state information of the air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function; It includes; an internal monitor that is provided on the inner surface of the frame body and displays the operating status information of the air shower having air cleaning and sterilization functions and receives environment setting values.
The controller is an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function for displaying operation status information on the external monitor and the internal monitor.
The method according to claim 2, Displaying the driving state information,
An air shower with an air cleaning and sterilization function that displays information about the operation mode being operated in the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode in the form of a graphic icon.
4. The method according to claim 3,
The air shower having the air cleaning and sterilization function includes a fine dust sensor, a temperature sensor, and a humidity sensor located on the outer surface of the frame body,
Displaying the operating state information is an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function that displays fine dust, temperature, and humidity.
The method according to claim 1,
The upper filter module is implemented as a pre-filter that removes dust larger than one or more basic particles, and the left filter module and the right filter module are implemented as two pre-filters and one triple filter, so that a triple filter is formed between the pre-filters. is located,
The triple filter is an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function including a HEPA filter for removing fine particles smaller than the basic particles, a carbon filter for removing odors, and a sterilization filter for removing pathogenic bacteria.
The method according to claim 1,
The air shower sterilization device is provided for each air inlet,
The controller is an air shower having an air cleaning and sterilization function for controlling the air volume differently by varying the driving amount of the motor according to the external air cleaning sterilization mode or the air shower sterilization mode. delete

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