Ultraviolet treatment chambers with forced-orientation lamp and socket assembly
AssigneeHanovia Limited
InventorsOliver Lawal, Seth Kacur
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Abstract
A lamp mounting assembly that mounts a UV lamp within a flow control structure includes a mount assembly that mounts at an end of the flow control structure. The mount assembly includes a conductor housing receiving opening extending therethrough. A socket base structure includes a socket base and a conductor housing extending outwardly from the socket base. The conductor housing is sized to be received by the conductor housing receiving opening of the mount assembly. A lamp socket is connected to the conductor housing to allow an electrical connection between the lamp socket and a power source. The lamp socket has a lamp engaging surface arranged offset from vertical when mounted to the flow control structure.
Claims17
An ultraviolet (UV) water purification system, comprising:
- a flow control structure comprising a first end, a second, opposite end and an elongated axis that passes between the first and second ends, the flow control structure including a UV water purification chamber that receives a fluid during a purification operation;
- a lamp mounting assembly configured to mount a UV lamp at least partially within the flow control structure, the lamp mounting assembly comprising:
- a mount assembly mounted at the first end of the flow control structure, the mount assembly comprising a conductor housing receiving opening extending therethrough;
- a socket base structure including a socket base and a conductor housing extending outwardly from the socket base, the conductor housing received by the conductor housing receiving opening of the mount assembly;
- a lamp socket connected to the conductor housing to allow an electrical connection between the lamp socket and a power source, wherein the lamp socket has a mitered lamp engaging surface;
- alignment structure to align the socket base structure and the lamp engaging surface at a predetermined rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure;
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- a UV lamp comprising a socket connector having a mitered socket engaging surface, wherein (i) the mitered lamp engaging surface defines a mitered leading edge of the lamp socket, (ii) the mitered socket engaging surface defines a mitered leading edge of the UV lamp, and (iii) the mitered lamp engaging surface and the mitered socket engaging surface define opposite, congruent angles θ1 and θ2 to the elongated axis of the flow control structure when the UV lamp is mounted within the flow control structure and force a mounted UV lamp to adopt a fixed rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure.
A lamp mounting assembly that mounts a UV lamp within a flow control structure comprising an elongated axis, the lamp mounting assembly comprising:
- a mount assembly that mounts at an end of the flow control structure, the mount assembly comprising a conductor housing receiving opening extending therethrough;
- a socket base structure including a socket base and a conductor housing extending outwardly from the socket base, the conductor housing sized to be received by the conductor housing receiving opening of the mount assembly;
- a lamp socket connected to the conductor housing to allow an electrical connection between the lamp socket and a power source, wherein the lamp socket has a mitered lamp engaging surface;
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- alignment structure to align the socket base structure and the lamp engaging surface at a predetermined rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure, wherein the mitered lamp engaging surface (i) defines a mitered leading edge of the lamp socket, (ii) is disposed at an angle θ1 to the elongate axis if the flow control structure when the UV lamp is mounted within the flow control structure, and (iii) forces a mounted UV lamp to adopt a fixed rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure.
A UV lamp comprising a socket connector having a mitered socket engaging surface, wherein the mitered socket engaging surface (i) defines a mitered leading edge of the UV lamp, (ii) is disposed an angle θ2 to the elongated axis of the flow control structure when the UV lamp is mounted within the flow control structure, and (iii) forces a mounted UV lamp to adopt a fixed rotational orientation about the elongated axis of the flow control structure to automatically align the UV lamp so that an amalgam spot of the UV lamp is located approximately at a bottom position of a circular cross-section of the UV lamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.