Air purifier
Air purifiers have widely been utilized all over the world for providing extra ozone emission to ambient air in indoors environment. The increasing use of air purifiers results from the perception that air born dust, allergens, and micro-organisms such as germs and bacteria affect the health of persons breathing the air. Today, a large number of pollutants can be found in the air and water. Among the various harmful air pollutants that exist in the air that people breath are pollen, lung damaging dust, smoke and bacteria. Other pollutants include various organic vapors and toxic gases. The environment is often contaminated with a variety of noxious and toxic gases including carbon monoxide, methane, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and a broad variety of organic vapors. Increased use of insulation, improved building construction techniques, and closure devices such as windows and doors with tighter tolerances provides buildings with increased resistance to air infiltration. As a result, fresh exterior air is exchanged or introduced to the building in lower volumes such as through open doors, windows, and air handling systems. An air purifier provides purified clean air by removing dust, bacteria and contaminants from the air. The air purifier is provided with a dust collecting, unit to collect dust, and the like. In the dust collecting unit, dust particles electrically charged by corona discharge of an ionizer are collected by electrostatic attraction of a collector having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the charged dust particles. Air purifiers takes many forms such as a common large one, which is positioned on the floor and has a wire used for connecting the motor to the power supply, and a small-sized one, which has a plug directly connected to the main housing without the use of a wire. Because the wire of the common air purifier is likely to cause people to trip over it accidentally and the air purifier would take too much space in the house, the small-sized one is getting more and more popular. A wide variety of air purifiers are presently available on the market for removing contaminants from ambient air. These systems typically include a fan for circulating air and a mechanical filter disposed in an air path so as to filter or otherwise purify air flowing therethrough. Portable air purifiers for removing airborne particles are used in many homes and offices. Such purifiers often include a fine particle high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter. In addition to a HEPA filter, some purifiers include a carbon filter to remove odors. The carbon may be incorporated within a fibrous matrix. A filter for trapping relatively large particles may also be found in portable air purifiers. In operation, one or more fans cause air to be drawn through the filter(s) and emitted through an outlet. A typical air purifier includes a housing having a chamber mounting an ultra-violet (UV) lamp. Air is drawn into the bottom of the housing and passes through the chamber where it is exposed to UV radiation emitted from the lamp, which denatures organic proteinous particles, e.g., exterminates microorganisms, that are carried in the air. The air is then discharged from the housing top to the external environment.
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