US 12,246,117 B2
Air purification devices and systems
Uday Singh, Bloomfield, NJ (US); Steven Pirovolikos, Hempstead, NY (US); Gary DiPaolo, East Rockaway, NY (US); and Juan Bernal, Clifton, NJ (US)
Filed by Uday Singh, Bloomfield, NJ (US); Steven Pirovolikos, Hempstead, NY (US); Gary DiPaolo, East Rockaway, NY (US); and Juan Bernal, Clifton, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/410,710.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/069,250, filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0072187 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 9/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 9/20 (2013.01) [A61L 2209/12 (2013.01); A61L 2209/15 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sanitizer system, comprising:
a housing having an air intake end and an air outflow end;
a fan disposed at the air outflow end;
a cap disposed at the air intake end, the cap being coupled to an edge of the housing, the cap being spaced apart from the housing so that an intake port is formed between the cap and the housing; and
an ultraviolet (UV) lamp disposed within the housing, the UV lamp being arranged to disinfect air that enters the housing through the intake port before the air is expelled by the fan through the air outflow end of the housing,
wherein the cap includes at least one intake port that includes a first barrier and a second barrier, the first and second barriers being configured as parallelepipeds that are nested into each other and define an airflow path.