Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure include a medical insufflation device for use on a patient body. The device includes a chamber, an ozone generator, an instrument, and a controller. The chamber is configured to receive a medical gas at least including oxygen. The ozone generator is in communication with the medical gas and configured to generate an ozonated medical gas by converting at least a portion of the oxygen in the medical gas into ozone. The instrument is configured to be introduced into the patient body. Further, the instrument is also configured to receive the ozonated medical gas from the chamber and convey the ozonated medical gas into the patient body. The controller is configured to control the device such that the ozonated medical gas conveyed to the patient body by the instrument is at a targeted amount of ozone.
Abstract:
An ozone generator unit includes a housing with a first half having a first recess and a second half having a second recess. The ozone generator unit further includes an inlet and an outlet in the housing, a first dielectric disc arranged within the first recess in contact with an inner surface of the first half, a second dielectric disc arranged within the second recess in contact with an inner surface of the second half, and a high voltage electrode, having a gas passage, arranged between the first and second dielectric discs. The high voltage electrode is spaced apart from the first and second dielectric discs using a first spacer and a second spacer to constitute a first gas chamber and a second gas chamber on either side of the high voltage electrode.
Abstract:
An oxygen allotrope generator having a tube with an electrically grounded outer surface and an electrically positive inner surface. A plurality of corona reaction plates are spaced along the interior of the tube, the plates being longitudinally inter-connected by wires and being in electrical connection with the electrically positive inner surface of the tube. An outer jacket encloses the tube and provides a second linear pass for partially ozonated gas to flow in the generator. An alternative embodiment includes external distributed ground connections at the locations of the corona reaction.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for electronic monitoring of ozone generators are provided herein. In certain configurations, an ozone generator includes ozone generation circuitry for producing ozone and a control circuit that monitors the ozone generation circuitry to determine whether or not ozone is being properly produced. The control circuit includes an AC input that receives power from an AC power supply and one or more AC outputs for providing AC output voltages to the ozone generation circuitry. The control circuit further includes one or more AC current sensors used to monitor a status of ozone production by monitoring AC current flowing into the ozone generation circuitry via the control circuit's AC outputs. The control circuit alerts a user of the status of ozone production while avoiding a need for the user to test a treatment fluid for ozone concentration and/or manually inspect or test components of the ozone generator.
Abstract:
Ozone generator cells that include two thermally conductive plates that maintain contact between various layers of the cells in the absence of a bonding agent. The cells lack aluminum-containing materials in the discharge region of the cell.
Abstract:
An ozone generating apparatus which is provided with a discharge suppressing member formed of a metal plate and covering an outer circumferential surface of a portion of a dielectric tube facing to a tube sheet, the discharge suppressing member being electrically in contact with a metal tube or the tube sheet, wherein the discharge suppressing member is formed by curling the metal plate longer than a circumferential length of the dielectric tube into a circular shape so as to have an overlapping portion, and by joining together, in the overlapping portion, a part of the metal plate placed outside and a part of the metal plate placed inside, at a near-end portion of the metal plate placed outside in the overlapping portion, and wherein the discharge suppressing member has, on the part of the metal plate placed outside in the overlapping portion, a spring portion.
Abstract:
Apparatus for the production of a product gas (eg hydrogen and ozone) comprises: a supply of reactant gas (eg oxygen and steam) (14); a pair of electrodes (24) with a space between them of less than 1 mm (28); a conduit to lead the reactant gas from the source through the space between the electrodes; a power source (26) to apply a voltage across the electrodes to dissociate the reactant gas and ultimately permit formation of product gas; and a conduit (40) to supply the product gas to an outlet. A sterilization unit for water treatment employs such apparatus and includes a fluidic oscillator to oscillate the flow of oxygen and/or ozone, and wherein said outlet comprises a plurality of orifices (42) to be submerged in said water and for the purpose of forming micro bubbles of ozone. An analyzer for detecting large organic molecules in eg air can employ the ozone generator to breakdown the large molecule into simpler and easier-to-detect-and-identify molecules.
Abstract:
A gas pipe integrated block includes a plurality of internal pipe paths. The plurality of internal pipe paths are connected to a nitrogen-free ozone generator in which a photocatalytic material for generating ozone is applied to a discharge surface, a controller (an MFC, a gas filter, and an APC), a raw material gas supply port, and an ozone gas output port. Thereby, a raw material gas input pipe path extending from the raw material gas supply port through the APC to the nitrogen-free ozone gas generator, and an ozone gas output pipe path extending from the nitrogen-free ozone generator through the gas filter and the MFC to the ozone gas output port, are formed in an integrated unit.