Patent ID: 7561403

Claim:
A static eliminator ionizing air blown onto an electrified object to be processed and eliminating static electricity from the object, the eliminator comprising: an air guiding member supplying the ionized air by a fan and provided with a boss portion at a center portion of the air guiding member; an outer electrode provided on said air guiding member; and an electric discharge module including a holder having a cylindrical portion fitted outside said boss portion and a radial wall portion integrally formed with said cylindrical portion and opposing a radial end face of said boss portion, the holder being detachably mounted on said boss portion and a discharge electrode protruding from an inward base end portion toward the outer electrode on said air guiding member in an outer-radial direction and attached to said holder, said electric discharge module being detachable and attachable by rotating said electric discharge module relative to the boss portion by hand; wherein the electric discharge module can be detached and attached by hand to facilitate replacement of said electric discharge module; and a high-voltage applying terminal being elastically deformable in a detaching/attaching direction of said electric discharge module and contacting the inward base end portion of said discharge electrode is provided on the radial end face of said boss portion.