Air purifier

• US 20060086252A1
• Filed: 10/26/2004
• Published: 04/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hsi Cheng Huang
• Original Assignee: Hsi Cheng Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Hsi Cheng
• Application Number:
  US10/972,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20060086252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 96/134
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/20 Ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2255/802 Photocatalytic
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2257/90 Odorous compounds not provided for in groups B01D2257/00 - B01D2257/708
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 53/885 Devices in general for catalytic purification of waste gases
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 1/0071 with means for purifying supplied air perfuming or deodorising means F24F1/008
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/14 mounted on the ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 8/167 using catalytic reactions
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 8/22 using UV light

Abstract

Disposed is an air purifier, which includes a mounting structure with air inlets and air outlets for installation in the ceiling of a house, an air purifying unit formed of a photocatalytic filter and an active carbon-coated filter and a number of ultraviolet lamps and mounted inside the mounting unit, and a fan unit formed of a turbofan and mounted in the mounting structure for draw air into the air inlets toward the air outlets via the air purifying unit.

Claims

1. An air purifier comprising:

a mounting structure for installation in a ceiling, said mounting structure comprising a mounting frame, said mounting frame having a center mounting hole and a plurality of air outlets, and a cover board fastened to said mounting frame and covered over said center mounting hole, said cover board having a plurality of air inlets;

an air purifying unit mounted in the center mounting hole of said mounting frame of said mounting structure and covered by said cover board, said air purifying unit comprising a grating mounted in the center mounting hole of said mounting frame of said mounting structure at a bottom side, a photocatalytic filter disposed in close contact with a bottom side of said cover board for the passing of air entering said air inlets, a carbon-coated air filter sandwiched in between said grating and said photocatalytic filter, and a plurality of ultraviolet lamps mounted in a bottom said of said grating; and

a fan unit, said fan unit comprising a casing fastened to said mounting frame of said mounting structure beneath said air purifying unit, said casing having an air accumulation chamber and an exhaust port in communication with the air outlets of the mounting frame of said mounting structure, and a turbofan mounted in said air accumulation chamber and adapted to draw air from said air inlets of said mounting structure through said air purifying unit toward said exhaust port of said casing and said air outlets of said mounting structure.