Air filter structure

• US 20050160914A1
• Filed: 01/23/2004
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hai-Fang Hsieh, Yueh-A Chen
• Original Assignee: Hai-Fang Hsieh, Yueh-A Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Yueh-A, Hsieh, Hai-Fang
• Application Number:
  US10/762,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20050160914A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 96/244
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 47/085 with nozzles which are partly immersed in the washing fluid
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 47/16 Apparatus having rotary means, other than rotatable nozzles, for atomising the cleaning liquid

Abstract

The present invention discloses an improved air filter structure, comprising a container, a housing covering the container, a motor, a fan, and a stirring rod disposed at the bottom of the fan. A plant liquid or an aromatic liquid is placed in the container, and the gas outside the housing circulate continuously in and out of the container by the fan, such that the molecules of the liquid in the container can be released quickly to fill the space of a room with fragrance. A plurality of sensors is disposed at appropriate positions of the housing, and connected to a control switch. When someone is approaching the sensing range, the sensor will turn on the control switch and start the motor, so that the fan will circulate the airflow, and the stirring rod will stir the liquid to accelerate the dispersion of the liquid molecules. The air entering the container will be in touch with the surface of the liquid, so that the dust originally mixed in the air will be attached on the surface of the liquid and sunk to the bottom of the container by gravitation, and thus achieving the effect of filtering the impurities in the air.

Claims

1. An improved air filter structure, comprising:

a container for containing a liquid;

a housing for covering the top of said container;

an air passage for letting air flow in and out of said container;

a motor being installed in said housing with its core axle facing the liquid in said container, and said core axle further comprising a fan, a stirring rod disposed at the bottom of said fan and dipped into the liquid in said container, and a control switch for controlling the rotation of said motor;

wherein a liquid selected from the collection of a plant liquid and an aromatic liquid being disposed in said container, and said fan producing an air circulation to bring the air from the outside of said housing into said container, and discharge the air in the container out of said housing by said air circulation, thereby the air outside said housing being circulated in and out of said container and liquid molecules contained in said container being discharged quickly to fill a room with fragrance, and while said fan producing an air circulation, said stirring rod stirring the liquid in said container as said fan rotates, and thus improving the activity of liquid molecules to accelerate the dispersion of liquid molecules and the contact of air entering said container from the outside of said housing with the liquid surface and attach the dust originally mixed in the air onto the liquid surface, and the dust sinking to the bottom of said container due to gravitation, and thus achieving the effect of filtering the impurities in the air, characterized in that;

a plurality of sensors, being disposed at appropriate positions of said housing and coupled to a control switch;

thereby when a person approaching the sensing range of said sensor, said sensor turning on said control switch to start said motor, and thus achieving the effect of filtering air.

2. The improved air filter structure of claim 1, wherein said fan is a disc structure having a vane at its top, and said stirring rod comprises a flange disposed at the top of said stirring rod and coupled to the bottom of said fan, and the disc structure of said fan and the flange of said stirring rod respectively have a latch groove and a latch member to extend into and fix said stirring rod into the latch groove of said fan and engage said latch member with said latch groove by a rotation to couple said stirring rod and said fan.

3. The improved air filter structure of claim 1, wherein said container is made of a transparent material.

4. The improved air filter structure of claim 1, wherein said motor is coupled to a power cable of said control switch to electrically connect an air filter.

5. The improved air filter structure of claim 1, wherein said housing has a space for accommodating a battery, and said motor is coupled to a power cable of said control switch to drive the operation of said air filter by a battery.

6. The improved air filter structure of claim 1, wherein said sensor is a photoelectric cell which emits an infrared ray to sense and determine an object falling into a sensing range of said sensor.