Local cleaning system for constructing clean shielded space with no need for dedicated partition wall, using charged air shower unit providing ion wind and local exhaust device

• US 7,052,531 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2003
• Issued: 05/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takashi Kishioka
• Original Assignee: Takashi Kishioka
• Inventors: Kishioka, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiesa, Richard L.
• Application Number:
  US10/405,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20040187681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 55D/IG.29, 55D/IG.36, 55D/IG.18, 96/97, 96/88, 95/78
• US Class Current: 96/88
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 2201/14 the gas being moved electro-kinetically
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/025 Combinations of electrostatic separators, e.g. in parallel or in series, stacked separators, dry-wet separator combinations
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/12 characterised by separation of ionising and collecting stations
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/14 characterised by the additional use of mechanical effects, e.g. gravity B03C3/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/29 Air curtains

Abstract

A local cleaning system which uses a charged air shower unit for forming a shield curtain by means of an ion wind, and a local exhaust device for exhausting the air containing dirt and dust settled down on the floor by the ion wind to construct a clean shielded space with no need for a dedicated partition wall. With this local cleaning system, the charged air shower unit provides negative charges for gas molecules, and dirt and dust, floating microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters, for electrically neutralizing them, and leads the gas molecules and foreign matters which have lost the charges and which Brownian motion is suppressed, by means of the ion wind for effectively sucking them into the local exhaust device or air cleaner. Because a charged air curtain including an invisible ion wind provides a shield plane, a clean shielded space can be constructed with no need for a dedicated partition wall.

Claims

1. A local cleaning system constructing a shielded space with which movement of air from external space is practically blocked at boundary region, comprising:

a charged air shower unit which forms a curtain-shaped ion wind region, and a local exhaust device receiving the flowing air attributed to the ion wind,

at least one said boundary region being comprised of said ion wind region,

wherein said charged air shower unit comprises a discharge electrode acting as cathode;

two plate-shaped anodes which surfaces are opposed with a spacing being given; and

an insulating frame which insulates the discharge electrode from the anodes, and maintains the relative positions of the discharge electrode and the anodes,

said anode being in contact with said frame only at the edge portions,

if the region of said anode that is on the back thereof and between said edge portions is called a rear flat plate region, the rear flat plate region being opposed to said frame with an insulating space being given therebetween, and

said rear flat plate region and the region of said frame that is opposed to the rear flat plate region are connected with a stud bolt.

2. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.

3. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said discharge electrode is fixed on a conductive discharge electrode supporting member which is provided at the top of said frame, through an insulating sheet,

a slot for prevention of creeping discharge being formed in the portion of said frame where said discharge electrode supporting member is fixed,

said slot being penetrated from the discharge space for said discharge electrode to the space outside said frame, and being provided in the frame at the middle of said discharge electrode supporting member and said anode.

4. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 3, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.

5. A local cleaning system constructing a shielded space with which movement of air from external space is practically blocked at boundary region, comprising:

a charged air shower unit which forms a curtain-shaped ion wind region, and a local exhaust device receiving the flowing air attributed to the ion wind,

at least one said boundary region being comprised of said ion wind region,

wherein said discharge electrode is fixed on a conductive discharge electrode supporting member which is provided at the top of said frame, through an insulating sheet,

a slot for prevention of creeping discharge being formed in the portion of said frame where said discharge electrode supporting member is fixed,

said slot being penetrated from the discharge space for said discharge electrode to the space outside said frame, and being provided in the frame at the middle of said discharge electrode supporting member and said anode.

6. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 5, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.

7. A local cleaning system constructing a shielded space with which movement of air from external space is practically blocked at boundary region, comprising:

a charged air shower unit which forms a curtain-shaped ion wind region, and a local exhaust device receiving the flowing air attributed to the ion wind,

at least one said boundary region being comprised of said ion wind region,

wherein said charged air shower unit comprises an ion wind blowing direction adjusting mechanism for changing the direction of blow of said ion wind, and

wherein said charged air shower unit comprises a discharge electrode acting as cathode;

two plate-shaped anodes which surfaces are opposed with a spacing being given; and

an insulating frame which insulates the discharge electrode from the anodes, and maintains the relative positions of the discharge electrode and the anodes,

said anode being in contact with said frame only at the edge portions,

if the region of said anode that is on the back thereof and between said edge portions is called a rear flat plate region, the rear flat plate region being opposed to said frame with an insulating space being given therebetween, and

said rear flat plate region and the region of said frame that is opposed to the rear flat plate region are connected with a stud bolt.

8. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said discharge electrode is fixed on a conductive discharge electrode supporting member which is provided at the top of said frame, through an insulating sheet,

a slot for prevention of creeping discharge being formed in the portion of said frame where said discharge electrode supporting member is fixed,

said slot being penetrated from the discharge space for said discharge electrode to the space outside said frame, and being provided in the frame at the middle of said discharge electrode supporting member and said anode.

9. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 8, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.

10. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.

11. A local cleaning system constructing a shielded space with which movement of air from external space is practically blocked at boundary region, comprising:

a charged air shower unit which forms a curtain-shaped ion wind region, and a local exhaust device receiving the flowing air attributed to the ion wind,

at least one said boundary region being comprised of said ion wind region,

wherein said charged air shower unit comprises an ion wind blowing direction adjusting mechanism for changing the direction of blow of said ion wind, and

wherein said discharge electrode is fixed on a conductive discharge electrode supporting member which is provided at the top of said frame, through an insulating sheet,

a slot for prevention of creeping discharge being formed in the portion of said frame where said discharge electrode supporting member is fixed,

said slot being penetrated from the discharge space for said discharge electrode to the space outside said frame, and being provided in the frame at the middle of said discharge electrode supporting member and said anode.

12. The local cleaning system as set forth in claim 11, wherein said charged air shower unit and said local exhaust device are disposed such that dirt and dust, microorganisms, odor constituents, and other foreign matters in the air are involved in said ion wind generated by the charged air shower unit, and led to the local exhaust device for exhaust.