Apparatus for Preparing Hydrogen Water

• US 20160076155A1
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paino Inc.
• Original Assignee: Paino Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Seong Tae, LEE, Kuen Gui
• Granted Patent: US 9,903,025 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/461 by electrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/46104 Devices therefor; Their operating or servicing
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/4672 by electrooxydation
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/4676 by electroreduction
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/4611 Fluid flow
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/46115 Electrolytic cell with membranes or diaphragms
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/4618 Supplying or removing reactants or electrolyte
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/46195 Cells containing solid electrolyte
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 1/04 by electrolysis of water
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 1/13 Ozone
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 13/04 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 15/08 Supplying or removing reactants or electrolytes; Regeneration of electrolytes
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 9/19 with diaphragms
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 9/73 of the filter-press type
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/36 Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis

Abstract

An apparatus for preparing hydrogen water includes: an electrolysis device configured to electrolyze water and including an electrode module formed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and an auxiliary electrode, wherein the electrolysis device is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber with the electrode module as a center; a hydrogen water discharge port configured to discharge hydrogen water including active hydrogen generated at the negative electrode of the first chamber, by being arranged in the first chamber; a spray port configured to spray water toward the negative electrode, by being arranged in the first chamber; an ozone water discharge port configured to discharge water including ozone generated at the positive electrode of the second chamber; a storage tank configured to store hydrogen water and sterilizing water in an internal space thereof, by being connected to a first flow channel connected to the hydrogen water discharge port and to a second flow channel connected to the first flow channel and receiving the hydrogen water generated in the first chamber, and by receiving the sterilizing water generated in the second chamber through a fourth flow channel connected to the ozone water discharge port; and a pump including an output end connected to the a flow channel connected to the spray port and an input end connected to a fifth flow channel connected to a bottom surface of the storage tank, wherein the spray port sprays the hydrogen water stored in the storage tank, using a pressure of the pump, faster than a flow velocity of the hydrogen water discharged through the hydrogen water discharge port.

Claims

1. An apparatus for preparing hydrogen water, the apparatus comprising:

an electrolysis device configured to electrolyze water and including an electrode module formed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and an auxiliary electrode, wherein the electrolysis device is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber with the electrode module as a center;

a hydrogen water discharge port configured to discharge hydrogen water including active hydrogen generated at the negative electrode of the first chamber, by being arranged in the first chamber;

a spray port configured to spray water to the negative electrode, by being arranged in the first chamber;

an ozone water discharge port configured to discharge water including ozone generated at the positive electrode of the second chamber;

a storage tank configured to store hydrogen water and sterilizing water in an internal space thereof, by being connected to a first flow channel connected to the hydrogen water discharge port and to a second flow channel connected to the first flow channel and receiving the hydrogen water generated in the first chamber, and by receiving the sterilizing water generated in the second chamber through a fourth flow channel connected to the ozone water discharge port; and

a pump including an output end connected to the a flow channel connected to the spray port and an input end connected to a fifth flow channel connected to a bottom surface of the storage tank, wherein the spray port sprays the hydrogen water stored in the storage tank, using a pressure of the pump, faster than a flow velocity of the hydrogen water discharged through the hydrogen water discharge port.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

centers of the spray port, the negative electrode, and the ozone water discharge port are arranged to be coaxial with one another.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the spray port sprays the hydrogen water stored in the storage tank to the negative electrode in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the hydrogen water discharged through the hydrogen water discharge port.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the fourth flow channel is connected to the storage tank by being divided into an ozone removal flow channel (D1) and a sterilizing flow channel (D2).

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the spray port sprays the hydrogen water stored in the storage tank to the negative electrode in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the hydrogen water discharged through the hydrogen water discharge port.

5. An apparatus for preparing hydrogen water, the apparatus comprising:

an electrolysis device configured to electrolyze water and including an electrode module formed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and an auxiliary electrode, wherein the electrolysis device is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber with the electrode module as a center;

an inlet port configured to supply original water to the first chamber of the electrolysis device, by being directly connected to a water source for supplying original water;

a hydrogen water discharge port configured to discharge hydrogen water including active hydrogen generated at the negative electrode of the first chamber through a first and a second flow channels, by being arranged in the first chamber;

a spray port configured to spray the hydrogen water discharged from the hydrogen water discharge port to the first chamber, by being connected to a third flow channel branched from the first flow channel; and

an ozone water discharge port configured to discharge water including ozone generated at the positive electrode of the second chamber, by being connected to a fourth flow channel,

wherein the second and the fourth flow channels supply hydrogen water including sterilizing water to a user, by being merged together.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein

centers of the inlet port and the hydrogen water discharge port are arranged to be coaxial with each other, and

centers of the spray port, the negative electrode, and the ozone water discharge port are arranged to be coaxial with one another.