Droplet evaporation based self-cleaning humidification device
AssigneeFemtofab Co., Ltd.
InventorSanghyun Lee
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a self-cleaning evaporation type humidification apparatus. The self-cleaning humidification apparatus is a floating drop evaporation type humidification apparatus of a new concept using a super hydrophobic surface, which provides safe humidification and does not require maintenance and repair, such as cleaning, by naturally or forcedly evaporating floating drops through control of the floating drops in the super hydrophobic surface based on the self-cleaning function, virus reproduction inhibition function, and water-repellant function of the super hydrophobic surface.
Claims5
A self-cleaning humidification apparatus based on droplet evaporation, comprising:
- an evaporation plate for being supplied with water;
- water supply means for supplying the water to a surface of the evaporation plate;
- water movement means for moving the water supplied to the surface of the evaporation plate from a first side of the evaporation plate to a second side of the evaporation plate;
- evaporation acceleration means for accelerating an evaporation of the water on the surface of the evaporation plate;
- and
- water discharge means formed at a location where the movement of the water is terminated in the evaporation plate,
- wherein the evaporation acceleration means comprises a heater for heating the evaporation plate, a fan for forcedly moving air around the surface of the evaporation plate, an infrared radiation device or microwave radiation device for supplying radiation heat to the water on the surface of the evaporation plate, or a combination of two or more of the heater, the fan, and the infrared radiation device or microwave radiation device, and
- wherein the surface of the evaporation plate is made of super water-repellant-processed aluminum.
A self-cleaning humidification apparatus based on droplet evaporation, comprising:
- an evaporation plate for being supplied with water from a first side, having a surface of a specific inclination so that the supplied water moves by gravity;
- water supply means for supplying water to a surface of the evaporation plate;
- evaporation acceleration means for accelerating an evaporation of the water on the surface of the evaporation plate;
- and
- water discharge means formed at a location where the movement of the water is terminated in the evaporation plate,
- wherein the evaporation acceleration means comprises a heater for heating the evaporation plate, a fan for forcedly moving air around the surface of the evaporation plate, an infrared radiation device or microwave radiation device for supplying radiation heat to the water on the surface of the evaporation plate, or a combination of two or more of the heater, the fan, and the infrared radiation device or microwave radiation device, and
- wherein the surface of the evaporation plate is made of super water-repellant-processed aluminum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.