Polymerized Metal Catalyst Air Cleaner
AssigneeAmericair Corporation
InventorsJim Woods, Gregory Inns
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Abstract
An air filtration system has a housing. The housing has an inlet, a filter unit, an outlet, and a fan that pulls air into the inlet, pushes the air through the outlet, and has the air pass through the filter unit. The filter unit has a first metallic plate, a second metallic plate and a frame unit. The first and second metallic plate (a) is coated with a dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer layer, and (b) respectively has a first and second plurality of apertures. The second apertures do not align with the first apertures when the first and second plates are properly positioned in the housing. The frame unit ensures plates are properly positioned in the housing.
Claims20
An air filtration system comprising:
- a housing (a) having an inlet, a filter unit, and an outlet, and (b) subjected to the influences of a fan, wherein the fan pulls or pushes air (i) into the inlet, and (b) through the outlet, and has the air pass through the filter unit;
- the filter unit has
- a first metallic plate (a) comprises copper, (b) having a first plurality of apertures wherein at least one of the first plurality of apertures has a strand, and (c) has a coated layer of a dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer material;
- and
- a second metallic plate (a) comprises copper, (b) having a second plurality of apertures wherein at least one of the second plurality of apertures has a strand, (c) has a coated layer of the dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer material;
- a frame unit
- (a) secures the first metallic plate at a first position in the housing,
- (b) secures the second metallic plate at a second position in the housing,
- (c) ensures, when the first and second metallic plates are securely positioned in the housing,
- (i) the first metallic plate is adjacent to the second metallic plate and wherein a portion of the first metallic plate contacts or is within 20 millimeters from the second metallic plate and
- (ii) each aperture of the second plurality of apertures misaligns at a misalignment value of at least 40% or is not aligned with an aperture of the first plurality of apertures.
An air filtration system comprising:
- a housing (a) having an inlet, a filter unit, and an outlet, and (b) subjected to the influences of a fan, wherein the fan pulls or pushes air (i) into the inlet, and (b) through the outlet, and has the air pass through the filter unit;
- the filter unit has
- a first expanded metal metallic plate (a) is a material selected from the group consisting of copper, copper plated steel and a copper alloy, (b) having a first plurality of apertures wherein at least one of the first plurality of apertures has a strand, and (c) has a coated layer of a dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer material;
- and
- a second expanded metal metallic plate (a) is a material selected from the group consisting of copper, copper plated steel and a copper alloy, (b) having a second plurality of apertures wherein at least one of the second plurality of apertures has a strand, (c) has a coated layer of the dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer material;
- a frame unit
- (a) secures the first expanded metal metallic plate at a first position in the housing,
- (b) secures the second expanded metal metallic plate at a second position in the housing,
- (c) ensures, when the first and second expanded metal metallic plates are securely positioned in the housing,
- (i) the first expanded metal metallic plate is adjacent to the second expanded metal metallic plate and wherein a portion of the first expanded metal metallic plate contacts or is within 20 millimeters from the second expanded metal metallic plate and
- (ii) each aperture of the second plurality of apertures misaligns or is not aligned with an aperture of the first plurality of apertures.
Method of making an electronic air filter comprising:
- obtaining a first metallic plate comprising copper and having a thickness of 10 microns to 10 millimeters and a second metallic plate comprising copper and having a thickness of 10 microns to 10 millimeters;
- creating a first pattern of slits through the first metallic plate's thickness and a second pattern of slits through the second metallic plate's thickness and expanding (a) the first slitted metallic plate to form a first aperture metallic plate and (b) the second slitted metallic plate to form a second aperture metallic plate wherein when the first aperture metallic plate and the second aperture metallic plate are properly aligned and positioned in the electronic air filtration device then the apertures in the first aperture metallic plate and the apertures in the second aperture metallic plate misalign or do not align with each other;
- applying a dielectric conducting and antimicrobial agent polymer material to the first and second aperture metallic plates;
- and
- positioning the first and second coated, aperture metallic plates into an electronic air cleaner device so that static electricity is generated on the first and second coated, aperture metallic plates when air passes the first and second coated, aperture metallic plates, and the first and second coated, aperture metallic plates captures air borne particulates from the air.
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