Patent Application
20050279625
The present invention relates in general to a multifunctional oxygenated water machine, and more particularly, to an oxygenated water machine capable of converting source water provided by a public water system into potable ozonated water.
Ozone has shown itself to be an extremely useful tool in improving the quality of the drinking water that people consume. Ozone has been proven capable of killing instantly the bacteria in water, disinfecting, removing the strange scent from water, decomposing pesticides, and dissolving the residual antibiotics in meats. The use of Ozone to kill bacteria is many times faster than the use of Chlorine, and more effective than the use of ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet rays are not as effective as Ozone because in order for ultraviolet rays to kill bacteria, the light waves of ultraviolet light must pass over the bacteria. Ozone, on the other hand, is effective without the need to accurately aim any waves of light. Ozone can effectively kill bacteria both in the air and in the water, dissolve poisonous chemicals, and kill chimney bacteria.
But today, many chemicals are used by humans which cause damage to the Ozone Layer in the atmosphere by decreasing the amount of Ozone present. When the amount of Ozone present in the natural environment decreases, viruses are more numerous which adversely affects the health of both humans and animals. But fortunately, today through the use of electrical technology Oxygen may be transformed into Ozone.
The best method of applying Ozone is to dissolve the Ozone into water in order to create Ozonated water. This Ozonated water is capable of killing transiently the bacteria contained in the water, of removing any strange scent in the water, of disinfection, of decomposing pesticides and of dissolving the residual antibiotics in meats.
The safe usage of Ozone can do more than just guarantee that damage to the health of a human will be prevented. The safe usage of Ozone can even have a beneficial effect on the human body. This was affirmed by the International Ozone Association (IOA) when it stated that, breathing air with Ozone less than 0.1 PPM has a beneficial effect on the human body. Some people have even compared Ozone to a fine wine. Ozone can self-dissolve and recombine as molecular Oxygen within a few minutes. After over one hundred years of Ozone being applied there has been no fatality due to accidental Ozone poisoning. Ozone provides a substantial value to the human body and has no side effect.
This Ozonated water has been gradually accepted by most consumers today as a much better method of killing bacteria than the conventional method of adding chlorine to water. Ozone has three Oxygen atoms and is rather unstable. Because Ozone is unstable it is easy for Ozone to oxidize other elements. By utilizing this oxidation Ozone can kill bacteria immediately, dissolve pesticides, remove foul odors, and disinfect. While Ozone can have a bad odor and impair a consumer's health if its density in the air exceeds the standard, edible class electrolyzed ozonated water has no such qualities. This ozonated water has no bacteria, no color, no odor, the same sanitizing and bacteria killing effect as ozone, and a highly reactive oxidation ability. Ozonated water can even dissolve blood sugar which reduces the blood sugar level, and strengthen the immune system.
The conventional water ozonator design causes the usefulness of ozone generation to become void. This is because the conventional water ozonator design adapts a “normal-off” design. The “normal-off” design requires the ozone generator to generate ozone only after the water output control is engaged. In other words, the “normal-off” design of the conventional water ozonator does not allow ozone to be produced and mixed with the water at the same moment the water output control is engaged. The ozone density of the water initially output is very low, even close to zero, at the conventional water ozonator's initial period of ozone generation. Therefore, because of the difference between the time when the initial output water is demanded by the consumer, and the time when the ozone is initially produced and mixed with the water, the purposes of the generation of ozone is defeated by the conventional design.
Super oxygen has also been shown to be beneficial to the human body. According to many related health reports, super oxygen can activate human cells. This activation of human cells has the dual effect of promoting a higher metabolism in the human body and slowing down the aging process. Super oxygen also produces the same positive activating effect on brain cells. It is possible, therefore, that this activation effect on brain cells could help reduce the occurrences of Alzheimer's disease, and other related brain diseases. People today are more interested than ever in pursuing the use of super oxygen specifically because of these aforementioned benefits.
However, water with high oxygen content cannot be produced by a common reverse osmosis filter or other water generator or filter. Water with high oxygen content is created through a complicated process. This process includes the source water being passed through three prefilters, an ion exchange resin filter, an activated carbon filter, and a reverse osmosis membrane. The water must also pass through an acid neutralizer, a magnet & magnetic stone, four ceramic filters, and bacteria killing ozone in order for the potable water to acquire high oxygen content. It is because the equipment required for this process is so complicated that the cost to generate water with a high oxygen content is so high.
The present invention provides a multifunctional oxygenated water machine capable of converting source water provided by a public water system into potable ozonated water.
The multifunctional oxygenated water machine provided by the present invention includes a water inlet, a first filter, a second filter, a water tank, an ozone generator, a gas-water mixer, a deoxygenator, and a plurality of pipelines and control switches respectively connected therebetween. The first filter utilizing electrochemical oxidation-reduction reaction eliminates the residual chlorine, heavy metal elements, and bacteria from input water. The second filter utilizing ion exchange resin eliminates the anions and cations from the clean water and thereby produce deionized pure water. The pure water is further transported to and stored in the water tank. When the system proceeds the pure water generation, the ozone generator receives the pure water from the water tank and produces a mixture of ozone, oxygen and water and outputs the mixture to the water tank via one pipeline.
When a water delivery switch is engaged, the clean water generated by the first filter will be conveyed to the gas-water mixer. The ozone gas stored in the water tank flows to the gas-water mixer via a gas pipeline. The gas-water mixer can directly mixes input water or mixes the clean water from the first filter with the ozone gas, and thereby respectively produces high concentration electrolised ozonated water, or potable super oxygenated electrolised ozonated water and super oxygenated electrolised ion water after further processed via the deoxygenator.
These and other objectives of the present invention will become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of preferred embodiments.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
These as well as other features of the present invention will become more apparent upon reference to the drawings therein:
Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
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Before entering the multifunctional oxygenated water machine, the source water can be filtered by an external filter 10. The external filter 10 connects to the external hoses through a water inlet in order to receive the source water generated from the public water system. The external filter 10 can output preliminary clean water from the water inlet 1 through a pipeline 81 or 82. A first switch 91 is connected to the pipeline 82 and a pipeline 86 is further connected to the first switch 91.
The first filter 2 includes a filter cartridge containing copper ions, zinc ions, and activated carbon ions. The first filter 2 can further eliminate the residual chlorine, heavy metal elements, and bacteria from the entering preliminary clean water which arrived from the external filter 10. The pipeline 81 is connected between the first filter 2 and the water inlet 1. The first filter 2 further connects an output pipeline 83. Moreover, two pipelines 87 and 88 with a second switch 92 connected therebetween are respectively connected to the pipelines 83 and 86.
The second filter 3 connects to the first filter 2 via the pipeline 83. The second filter 3 can eliminate the anions and cations of the clean water in order to obtain a high purity deionized water called pure water. The second filter 3 further connects an output pipeline 89 to a third switch 93.
The water tank 4 stores the pure water generated by the second filter 3 and the ozone gas generated by the ozone generator 5. The water tank 4 connects to the second filter 3 via a pipeline 85 to the third switch 93 which controls the conveying of the pure water generated by the second filter 3. The water tank 4 further connects an output pipeline 80 to a fourth switch 94 with a pipeline 801 connected thereto.
The ozone generator 5 has an electrolytic cell which can splits water into its basic elements and then convert part of the liberated oxygen into ozone. The ozone generator 5 receives the pure water via a pipeline 89. The ozone generator 5 outputs the mixture of ozone, oxygen and water to the water tank 4 via a pipeline 891. The ozone gas stored in the water tank 4 can flow to the gas-water mixer 6 via the pipeline 80.
The gas-water mixer 6 is a pressurized gas-water mixer. Both the pipelines 86 and 801 are connects to the gas-water mixer 6 which further connects an output pipeline 802 to a water delivery switch, i.e. a fifth switch 95 with a pipeline 803 connected thereto.
The deoxygenator 7 includes an activated carbon particle or powder filter cartridge containing sliver. Two pipelines 804 and 850 with a sixth switch 96 therebetween are respectively connected to the deoxygenator 7 and the pipeline 802.
The deoxygenator 7 further connects a pipeline 806 to the pipeline 803. As such, the interconnection of the multifunction oxygenated water machine of the present invention is complete.
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Further, the water tank 4 includes a water-level detector 41. When the pure water contained in the water tank 4 is less than a predetermined level, the detector 41 outputs signal to control the third switch to be opened; therefore the pure water in the water tank 4 can be replenished.
Still further, the ozone generator 5 includes a standby current generator to hold the ozone generator 5 at a standby status when the multifunctional oxygenated water machine is turned off. This standby current generator can provide the ozone generator 5 with an optimal performance at all time and a longer lifespan.
While an illustrative and presently preferred embodiment of the invention has been described in detail herein, it is to be understood that the inventive concepts may be otherwise variously embodied and employed and that the appended claims are intended to be construed to include such variations except insofar as limited by the prior art.
