Atomizer system
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsHironobu Oshima, Hiroyuki Matumori
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Abstract
An atomizer system has a first pressure accumulation tank 7 for storing high-pressure air generated by a compressor 6, to which a second pressure accumulation tank 28 is connected via an air tube 3, so that the second tank 28 is charged with the high pressure air. The tube 3 has a sealing valve 26 which is removably connected with the second tank 28. The tank 28 is connected to a regulator which may reduce the pressure of the air supplied from the second tank 28 to a predetermined low pressure level. With the second tank 28 disconnected from the first tank 6, the low-pressure air is provided to an atomizer 11 for atomization of medicine in inhalation treatment.
Claims12
An atomizer system comprising:
- a main unit operative to charge a portable unit with an amount of pressurized air, said main unit including:
- an air compressor for generating pressurized air,
- a first pressure accumulation tank for storing a volume of pressurized air generated by said compressor, and
- at least one air tube for conducting said pressurized air air from said first pressure accumulation tank to an air outlet;
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- a portable unit which includes:
- a second pressure accumulation tank for accepting an air charge from said first pressure accumulation tank, said second pressure accumulation tank having at least one sealing valve which is detachably connectable to said air outlet of said first pressure accumulation tank,
- a regulator for decompressing the high-pressure air stored in said second pressure accumulation tank to reduce the pressure thereof and to generate low-pressure air having a predetermined pressure, and
- at least one atomizer communicating with said regulator on the downstream side thereof for atomizing liquid by means of said low-pressure air.
An atomizer system comprising:
- a movable main unit which includes:
- an air compressor for generating high-pressure air,
- a pressure accumulation tank for storing a volume of high pressure air generated by said compressor,
- at least one regulator for reducing the pressure of said high-pressure air in said pressure accumulation tank to a predetermined low pressure,
- a multiplicity of air outlets communicated with said regulator for delivering said low-pressure air stored in said regulator,
- a multiplicity of valves mounted in said air outlets, one for each air outlet, for controlling the flow of air that passes through said air outlets, and
- at least one atomizer for atomizing liquid by means of said low-pressure air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.