Clothes care apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJee Yong Kim, Yong-Joon Jang, Sang Yeon Pyo, Hong Kwan Cho
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Abstract
A disclosed embodiment provides a clothes care device which can improve service life, is not influenced by humidity, and can resolve odor problems. A clothes care device, according to one aspect of the present invention, comprises: an air blower; a flow path through which air, which is made to flow by the air blower, moves; and a deodorizing module for purifying the air which is made to flow by the air blower. The deodorizing module comprises: a ceramic filter provided inside the flow path; and an ultraviolet light emitting unit provided on the outside of the flow path so as to face the ceramic filter.
Claims17
A clothes care apparatus comprising:
- a blower to cause air to flow;
- a flow path through which the air caused to flow by the blower moves;
- and
- a deodorization module configured to purify the air caused to flow by the blower,
- wherein
- the deodorization module includes:
- a ceramic filter provided inside the flow path, and
- an ultraviolet light emitter outside of the flow path and facing the ceramic filter, and configured to emit ultraviolet light having an intensity corresponding to a current that is applied to the ultraviolet light emitter and that is adjustable in accordance with an intensity of air volume caused to flow by the blower,
- the ceramic filter includes a base material and a catalyst applied on a surface of the base material,
- a density of the base material is 0.5 g/ml to 3.0 g/ml and a moisture content of the base material is 5% or less,
- the catalyst includes a photocatalyst or a thermal catalyst, and
- the deodorization module is configured so that a flow rate of air passing through the ceramic filter is adjustable to 0.5 to 3.0 m/see to obtain a catalytic efficiency being 80% or more.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.