DEVICE FOR IRRADIATING MEDIA WITH UV LIGHT

• US 20110272599A1
• Filed: 03/24/2011
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EHEIM GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: EHEIM GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Voss, Peter, Mayer, Ferdinand, Valder, Werner, Blossey, Bjoern, Wisskirchen, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/070,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20110272599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/492.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/04 Arrangements for treating water specially adapted to receptacles for live fish

Abstract

A device for irradiating media with UV light has a housing which contains at least one tubular body composed of UV-permeable material and through which medium flows, and at least one UV light source disposed at a distance from the tubular body and approximately parallel thereto, and to which a reflector is assigned. A reflector is likewise assigned to the at least one tubular body, which is disposed opposite the reflector of the UV light source and is open toward same.

Claims

1. A device for irradiating media with UV light, comprising a housing which contains at least one tubular body composed of UV-permeable material and through which medium flows and at least one UV light source disposed at a distance from the tubular body and substantially parallel thereto;

a first reflector assigned to the at least one UV light source; and

a second reflector which is assigned to the at least one tubular body, is situated opposite the first reflector of the UV light source, and is open toward the first reflector.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the first reflector of the at least one UV light source is shaped substantially as an arc of a circle.

3. The device as defined in claim 2, wherein the first reflector is substantially circular.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the second reflector of the tubular body is shaped substantially as an arc of a circle.

5. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the second reflector is substantially semi-circular.

6. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the first reflector of the at least one UV light source and the second reflector of the tubular body extend along a common circular arc.

7. The device as defined in claim 6, wherein the first reflector of the at least one UV light source and the second reflector of the tubular body extend along a circle.

8. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the second reflector of the tubular body and the first reflector of the at least one UV light source combine to form a reflector circle.

9. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein each of the first and second reflectors is disposed in a manner selected from the group consisting of on an inner side of the housing and in a form of a mirror coating.

10. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the tubular body is disposed by a longitudinal central axis thereof substantially at a focal point of the second reflector.

11. The device as defined in claim 10, wherein the tubular body is disposed on a focal point axis which extends approximately parallel to the longitudinal central axis.

12. The device as defined in claim 10, wherein the focal point of a reflector selected from the group consisting of the second reflector of the tubular body, the first reflector of the UV light source, and both is located within a diametral plane and substantially at one half a radius of a circular arc.

13. The device as defined in claim 12, wherein the focal point of the reflector selected from the group consisting of the second reflector of the tubular body, the first reflector of the UV light source, and both is located substantially at one half a radius of a circle.

14. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the UV light source comprises several rods which extend next to one another substantially in parallel, and have a common base, with which they are held on a cover piece of the housing such that the cover piece is removable together with the UV light source as a unit.

15. The device as defined in claim 14, wherein the rods include two rods which extend by longitudinal central axes thereof within a rod longitudinal plane common to both, and a focal point of the first reflector lies within the rod longitudinal plane.

16. The device as defined in claim 14, wherein the rods include two rods which extend by a longitudinal central axes thereof within a rod longitudinal plane common to both, and a focal point of the first reflector lies within the rod longitudinal plane, wherein a focal point axis of the first reflector lies within the rod longitudinal plane.

17. The device as defined in claim 15, wherein the rods are disposed in the housing such that the rod longitudinal plane extends radially and diametrically opposite the tubular body.

18. The device as defined in claim 17, wherein a focal point of the second reflector of the tubular body extends within a diametral plane within which the rod longitudinal plane extends.

19. The device as defined in claim 18, wherein a focal point axis of the second reflector of the tubular body extends within the diametral plane within which the rod longitudinal plane extends

20. The device as defined in claim 18, wherein a half-way point of the rod longitudinal plane is located at a distance from a circle center that corresponds substantially to one half of a radius, and is situated substantially in a focal point which extends substantially parallel to the rod longitudinal plane of the first reflector.

21. The device as defined in claim 20, wherein the half-way point is located on a focal point axis which extends substantially parallel to the rod longitudinal plane of the first reflector.

22. The device as defined in claim 14, wherein the rods are disposed in the housing such that a rod longitudinal plane lies on a circular secant which extends at a right angle to a diametral plane, is located at a distance from a circle center substantially equal to one half a radius, and is diametrically opposite the tubular body.

23. The device as defined in claim 22, wherein a focal point of the first reflector of the UV light source is located within a diametral plane—

which is oriented substantially at a right angle to a circular secant—

at a distance from a circle center that corresponds substantially to one half a radius.

24. The device as defined in claim 23, wherein a focal point axis of the first reflector of the UV light source is located within a diametral plane—

which is oriented substantially at a right angle to a circular secant—

at a distance from a circle center that corresponds substantially to one half a radius.

25. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein a focal point of the second reflector of the tubular body lies within a diametral plane and at substantially one half the radius from a circle center.

26. The device as defined in claim 25, wherein a focal point axis of the second reflector of the tubular body lies within the diametral plane and at substantially one half the radius from the circle center.

27. The device as defined in claim 15, wherein the two rods of the UV light source, and the tubular body are arranged in a triangle.

28. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the tubular body is disposed in the housing such that a longitudinal central axis of the tubular body extends substantially parallel to a longitudinal extension of the UV light source and a longitudinal central axis of the housing, and the tubular body is connected in a leak-proof manner at one end to a connector for inflow, and at an opposite end to a connector for outflow, which align with the longitudinal central axis of the tubular body.

29. The device as defined in claim 28, wherein each of the connectors is substantially tubular and is placed in a leak-proof manner.

30. The device as defined in claim 29, wherein each of the connectors is inserted in assigned tube ends of the tubular body in the leak-proof manner.

31. The device as defined in claim 28, wherein each of the connectors extends outwardly through an opening in a respective end-face housing cover, and is sealed relative thereto.

32. The device as defined in claim 31, wherein one of the housing covers comprises a passage for the UV light source with a base, and an outer sealing surface, against which a cover piece comprising the base with the UV light source rests by a seal.

33. The device as defined in claim 32, wherein the cover piece comprising the base with the UV light source, and the housing cover are covered by a detachable end cap, through which one of connectors for an inflow or an outflow, and an electrical power supply for the UV light source are routed.

34. The device as defined in claim 8, wherein the reflector circle is formed of a substantially cylindrical tube which has a reflecting surface on an inner side and is disposed in an interior of the housing between two housing covers.