U.S. patent number RE41,812 [Application Number 11/041,926] was granted by the patent office on 2010-10-12 for electro-kinetic air transporter-conditioner. This patent grant is currently assigned to Sharper Image Acquisition LLC. Invention is credited to Shek Fai Lau, Charles E. Taylor.
United States Patent | RE41,812 |
Taylor , et al. | October 12, 2010 |
An electro-kinetic electro-static air conditioner includes a self-contained ion generator that provides electro-kinetically moved air with ions and safe amounts of ozone. The ion generator includes a high voltage pulse generator whose output pulses are coupled between first and second electrode arrays. Preferably the first array comprises one or more wire electrodes spaced staggeringly apart from a second array comprising hollow "U"-shaped electrodes. Preferably a ratio between effective area of an electrode in the second array compared to effective area of an electrode in the first array exceeds about 15:1 and preferably is about 20:1. An electric field produced by the high voltage pulses between the arrays produces an electrostatic flow of ionized air containing safe amounts of ozone. A bias electrode, electrically coupled to the second array electrodes, affects net polarity of ions generated. The outflow of ionized air and ozone is thus conditioned.
Inventors: | Taylor; Charles E. (Punta Gorda, FL), Lau; Shek Fai (Foster City, CA) |
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Assignee: | Sharper Image Acquisition LLC
(New York, NY) |
Family ID: | 22685101 |
Appl. No.: | 11/041,926 |
Filed: | January 21, 2005 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
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09186471 | Nov 5, 1998 | 6176977 | |||
Reissue of: | 09730499 | Dec 5, 2000 | 06713026 | Mar 30, 2004 | |
Current U.S. Class: | 96/89; 422/186.04; 422/186; 96/95 |
Current CPC Class: | B03C 3/08 (20130101); B03C 3/743 (20130101); B03C 3/47 (20130101); B03C 3/68 (20130101); C01B 13/115 (20130101); H01T 23/00 (20130101); B03C 3/12 (20130101); B01D 53/323 (20130101); B03C 3/32 (20130101); B01D 53/32 (20130101); C01B 13/11 (20130101); F24F 8/30 (20210101); B03C 2201/08 (20130101); B01D 2251/104 (20130101); C01B 2201/20 (20130101); C01B 2201/62 (20130101); C01B 2201/22 (20130101); B03C 2201/14 (20130101); C01B 2201/12 (20130101); F24F 8/40 (20210101) |
Current International Class: | B01J 19/08 (20060101); B03C 3/45 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | ;422/186,186.04 ;204/286 ;96/29,39,40,83,95,98 |
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