Cleaning apparatus using photocatalyst
OwnerKeiji Iimurainventor
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Abstract
Cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning head, a light source and a light guide. The cleaning head has a flexible contact member including photo-activating catalyst (photocatalyst). The light source emits short wave light rays to activate the photocatalyst. The light guide transmits the light rays from the light source to the contact member(brushes). The cleaning head may have a transparent brush supporter to support a group of brushes with many photocatalyst particles. The light guide may preferably include a transparent rod and/or an optical fiber. The cleaning apparatus may be applied for a vacuum cleaner. Therefore, such dirty component can be cleaned as bacteria, molds etc. by use of the cleaning apparatus of the invention.
Claims20
A cleaning apparatus using photocatalyst comprising:
- brushing means having a plurality of brushes and a brush supporter to support said brushes;
- a plurality of photocatalyst elements;
- and
- wherein at least one of said brushes is composed of a core and said core includes a plurality of said photocatalyst elements.
A cleaning apparatus using photocatalyst comprising:
- brushing means having a plurality of brushes and a brush supporter to support said brushes;
- a plurality of photocatalyst elements;
- and
- wherein at least one of said brushes is composed of a core and a sheath to cover said core, and said sheath includes a plurality of said photocatalyst elements.
A cleaning apparatus using photocatalyst comprising:
- brushing means having a plurality of brushes and a brush supporter to support said brushes;
- a plurality of photocatalyst elements;
- said brush supporter being made of transparent material;
- a plurality of light diffusing elements embedded in said brush supporter;
- and
- wherein said photocatalyst elements are included in at least one of said brushes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.