Automatic emitter point cleaners
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsSteven Bernard Heymann, Aleksey Klochkov, Juan Guerrero, Edward Anthony Oldynski, Gee Kuen Chong
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Abstract
Automatic emitter point cleaners are disclosed. An automatic emitter point cleaning system includes: a fan configured to direct a stream of air through an air path; a point emitter configured to produce at least one of positive ions or negative ions within or proximate to the air path; a brush; a first gear coupled to the brush and configured to move the brush into contact with the point emitter; a second gear to engage the first gear; and a motor to actuate the second gear such that the second gear actuates the first gear to move the brush past the point emitter.
Claims19
An automatic emitter point cleaning system, comprising:
- an emitter point configured to produce at least one of positive ions or negative ions within or proximate to an air path;
- an emitter frame configured to hold the emitter point in or proximate to the air path;
- a brush;
- a motor coupled to the brush to actuate the brush to move past the emitter point;
- a sensor configured to detect when the brush is in a predetermined position with respect to the emitter frame;
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- a processor configured to control the motor to execute a cleaning process by moving the brush around the emitter frame and to determine the cleaning process is finished when the brush is in the predetermined position.
An automatic emitter point cleaning system, comprising:
- a fan configured to direct a stream of air through an air path;
- an emitter point configured to produce at least one of positive ions or negative ions within the air path;
- an emitter frame configured to hold the emitter point in the air path;
- a brush positioned in a same plane as the emitter point and configured to physically clean the emitter point;
- a motor configured to cause the brush to clean the emitter point;
- a sensor configured to detect when the brush is in a predetermined position with respect to the emitter frame;
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- a processor configured to control the motor to execute a cleaning process by moving the brush around the emitter frame and to determine the cleaning process is finished when the brush is in the predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.