Patent DE-102008037476-A1 (DE)
Title: Air humidifier for installing into air channel, comprises housing that has air inlet for connecting inlet channel, air outlet for connecting outlet channel and air humidifying chamber present in flow connection with air inlet and -outlet
Inventor: MATZNER GEORG
IPC: F24F6/00
Filed: 2008-10-21
Abstract: The air humidifier comprises a housing, which has an air inlet for connecting an inlet channel, an air outlet for connecting an outlet channel and an air humidifying chamber present in flow connection with the air inlet and the air outlet, where a humidifying device formed from a water- or vapor spraying device or an evaporation humidifier is arranged for humidifying the air flowing through the humidifier. The housing has several wall elements, which are present in the area of the air humidifying chamber and are formed from side wall elements, base elements and/or ceiling elements. The air humidifier comprises a housing, which has an air inlet for connecting an inlet channel, an air outlet for connecting an outlet channel and an air humidifying chamber present in flow connection with the air inlet and the air outlet, where a humidifying device formed from a water- or vapor spraying device or an evaporation humidifier is arranged for humidifying the air flowing through the humidifier. The housing has several wall elements, which are present in the area of the air humidifying chamber, are formed from side wall elements, base elements and/or ceiling elements, contact with the air flow and have an antibacterial and/or mycotic effect. The wall element is provided with a coating, which contains antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance and is made of lacquer applied on the wall element, is made by a coated plate, and is made of hydrophilic plastic that is reinforced with glass fibers, where the antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance is compounded into the plastic, contains silver ions and colloidal silver in the form of nanoparticles and is a silver-containing biocide. The air humidifying chamber has an inner wall, which is flowed by the air flowing through the humidifier, where the inner wall has the antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance. The inner wall reverses the flow direction. Two pairs of inner walls are provided, where each inner wall of the pairs reverses the flow opposite to other inner wall of the pairs at the same angle, so that an entrance direction of air is equal to a discharge direction of air from the housing. The antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance is arranged behind the water- or vapor spraying device for humidifying the air flowing through the humidifier. A web or sieve is arranged in the humidifying chamber behind the humidifying device, has antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance by coating with silver-containing biocide or by producing a material having the silver-containing biocide, and has a honeycomb structure, where the honeycombs are flowed-through by the air and the walls of the individual honeycombs running parallel to the flow have antibacterially and/or mycotically effective substance. An independent claim is included for an air channel section for installing into an air channel or for installing into an air channel with a housing.