Patent ID: 6908501

Claim:
An air conditioner device, comprising: a freestanding vertically elongated housing; a base near a lower portion of said housing adapted to support said vertically elongated housing when said base is placed on a substantially horizontal surface within a room; an inlet and an outlet defined in said housing to allow air to enter and exit said housing; an ion generator disposed in said housing to ionize air moving between said inlet and said outlet, said ion generator comprising: a wire-shaped emitter electrode; a collector electrode that is removable through an upper portion of said housing, from a resting position within said housing to a location external to the housing, to thereby allow said collector electrode to be cleaned; and a source of high voltage to provide a potential difference between said emitter and collector electrodes; a free-floating cleaning member engaging said wire-shaped emitter electrode, said cleaning member adapted to frictionally remove debris from said wire-shaped emitter electrode as said cleaning member is moved along said wire-shaped emitter electrode; and a lifting arm operably associated with said collector electrode and operably engageable with said cleaning member in order to move said cleaning member along said wire-shaped emitter electrode as said collector electrode is being removed through said upper portion of said housing.