Air dryer including vortex tube
AssigneeVosco Vortex Technologies Ltd.
InventorSung Woo Kim
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Abstract
Provided is an air dryer that includes a compressor, an air drying chamber, a vortex tube, and an external discharge member. The air drying chamber rotates compressed air supplied from the compressor to remove moisture from the compressed air using Coanda effect and dry the compressed air, and simultaneously to accelerate and discharge the compressed air. The vortex tube divides the dried and compressed air, discharged from the air drying chamber, into cool air and hot air, and discharges the cool air and the hot air. The external discharge member collects the dried hot air and the dried cool air, discharged from the vortex tube, and discharges the dried hot air and the dried cool air at a constant pressure to the outside.
Claims19
An air dryer comprising:
- a compressor;
- an air drying chamber rotating compressed air supplied from the compressor to remove moisture from the compressed air using Coanda effect and dry the compressed air, and simultaneously to accelerate and discharge the compressed air;
- a vortex tube dividing the dried and compressed air, discharged from the air drying chamber, into cool air and hot air, and discharging the cool air and the hot air;
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- an external discharge member collecting the dried hot air and the dried cool air, discharged from the vortex tube, and discharging the dried hot air and the dried cool air at a constant pressure to the outside.
An air dryer comprising:
- a compressor;
- a first air drying chamber rotating compressed air supplied from the compressor to remove moisture from the compressed air using Coanda effect and primarily dry the compressed air, and simultaneously, to accelerate and discharge the compressed air;
- a vortex tube dividing the dried and compressed air, discharged from the first air drying chamber, into cool air and hot air, and discharging the cool air and the hot air;
- a second air drying chamber rotating the hot air discharged from the vortex tube to remove moisture from the hot air using the Coanda effect and secondarily dry the hot air, and to accelerate the hot air and discharge the accelerated hot air together with the cool air discharged from the vortex tube;
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- an external discharge member collecting the dried hot air and the dried cool air, discharged from the second air drying chamber, and discharging the dried hot air and the dried cool air at a constant pressure to the outside.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.