US 11,753,316 B2
Electrolyzed water generator and electrolyzed water generation system
Kenichiro Inagaki, Shiga (JP); Shunsuke Mori, Osaka (JP); Minoru Nagata, Shiga (JP); Mami Kuroda, Kyoto (JP); and Tetsuya Maekawa, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/47,869
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed May 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/019203
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 15, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/225414, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-100662 (JP), filed on May 25, 2018; application No. 2018-100672 (JP), filed on May 25, 2018; and application No. 2018-100683 (JP), filed on May 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0155509 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. C02F 1/461 (2023.01); C02F 1/467 (2023.01)
CPC C02F 1/46109 (2013.01) [C02F 1/4672 (2013.01); C02F 1/46104 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46133 (2013.01); C02F 2201/4611 (2013.01); C02F 2201/46115 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. An electrolyzed water generation system comprising:
an electrolyzed water generator comprising:
an anode;
a cathode; and
a cation exchange membrane provided between the anode and the cathode and being in contact with at least one of the anode and the cathode, wherein a gap in which a flow of water occurs is present between the cation exchange membrane and the at least one of the anode and the cathode;
a controller that controls the electrolyzed water generator;
a flow path that supplies the water to the electrolyzed water generator;
a pump that supplies the water to the flow path; and
a flow path change mechanism that is switched to intermittently supply the water from the flow path to the electrolyzed water generator, wherein:
the controller intermittently applies a voltage between the anode and the cathode, and
during a period where the voltage is not applied, the controller causes the pump and the flow path change mechanism to supply the water from the flow path to the electrolyzed water generator.