Ultrasonic fog generator

• US 7,810,742 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Zvi Levi
• Original Assignee: Zvi Levi
• Inventors: Levi, Zvi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gorman; Darren W
• Application Number:
  US11/751,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20080290189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• Field of Search: 239/102.1, 239/102.2, 239/290, 239/294, 239/300, 239/302, 239/318, 239/337, 239/338, 239/340, 239/346, 239/350, 128/200.14, 128/200.16, 128/200.21, 261/30, 261/81, 261/DIG.48
• US Class Current: 239/102.2
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/205 using vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic or piezoelectric atomizers
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/2055 Holders or dispensers for solid, gelified or impregnated insecticide, e.g. volatile blocks or impregnated pads
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/14 using sprayed or atomised substances including air-liquid contact processes
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 17/0615 spray being produced at the free surface of the liquid or other fluent material in a container and subjected to the vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0012 Apparatus for achieving spraying before discharge from the apparatus

Abstract

An ultrasonic fog generator including a container including therein an ultrasonic nebulizer and a liquid, the ultrasonic nebulizer operative to vibrate at very high frequencies and thereby break down the liquid into a fog including tiny vapor particles, the container having an exit opening for the fog to pass therethrough, and a driver and a driving fluid, the driver being operative to cause the driving fluid to flow past the exit opening and draw out the fog through the exit opening without the driving fluid substantially entering the container.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic fog generator comprising:

a container comprising therein an ultrasonic nebulizer and a liquid, said ultrasonic nebulizer operative to vibrate at very high frequencies and thereby break down the liquid into a fog comprising tiny vapor particles, said container having an exit opening for said fog to pass therethrough;

a driver and a driving fluid, said driver being operative to cause said driving fluid to flow past the exit opening and draw out said fog through the exit opening without said driving fluid substantially entering said container, wherein said driver is positioned facing a closed rear face of said container and said exit opening is positioned on a front face of said container opposite said rear face, wherein said front face of said container comprises a wall extending from side faces of said container, and said exit opening is formed through said wall.

2. The ultrasonic fog generator according to claim 1, wherein said ultrasonic nebulizer vibrates in a frequency range of 1.5-2.5 MHz.

3. The ultrasonic fog generator according to claim 1, wherein said ultrasonic nebulizer is operative to break down the liquid into fog comprising tiny vapor particles of 1-50 microns in diameter.

4. The ultrasonic fog generator according to claim 1, wherein said driver uses positive pressure to drive the driving fluid past the exit opening and drive the fog out of the container.

5. The ultrasonic fog generator according to claim 1, wherein said container is sufficiently closed to prevent direct light from impinging on the liquid.

6. The ultrasonic fog generator according to claim 1, wherein said driving fluid flows from said driver over side faces of said container spanning an entire length of said container.