Patent · US Expired

Air humidifier

US4686069A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Eltex Elektrostatik Gesellschaft mbH · DE

Inventors

Ernst August Hahne · Allschwil, CH
Hermann Kunzig · Weil am Rhein, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 17, 1986
Grant date	Aug 11, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 17, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S261/80
WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The air humidifier has a blower (2), the current of air that is generated by which is blown through a plate (3) with a medium that is permeable to air and that releases moisture in order to humidify the air. An electrostatically negatively charged high-voltage electrode (5) is positioned upstream and another (4) downstream of the plate (3).

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