US 12,270,570 B2
Air conditioner for paint booth
Kozo Ishida, Tokyo (JP); Hiromitsu Nie, Kariya (JP); and Koji Sakoda, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to Taikisha Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/272,480
Filed by Taikisha Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/028873
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/024857, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-143733 (JP), filed on Aug. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0325059 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. F24F 6/14 (2006.01); B05B 16/40 (2018.01); B05B 16/60 (2018.01); F24F 3/147 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 6/14 (2013.01) [B05B 16/40 (2018.02); B05B 16/60 (2018.02); F24F 3/147 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioning apparatus for supplying air to a paint booth for painting a paint target, the air conditioning apparatus comprising:
a housing having an outlet for supplying the air to the paint booth;
an inlet for taking the air in the housing;
a humidifier for spraying humidifying mist into the air taken from the inlet; and
a plurality of plate-shaped elements disposed between the humidifier and the outlet and disposed separated from each other in a vertical direction for vaporizing unvaporized humidifying mist,
wherein each of the plurality of plate-shaped elements is arranged in an orientation upwardly inclined in an airflow direction of air flowing from the inlet toward the outlet, and wherein a lower edge of an upper element out of a pair of vertically adjacent elements is lower than an upper edge of a lower element out of the pair of elements, and
wherein the air containing the unvaporized humidifying mist contacts the plurality of plate-shaped elements, and, as a result, the plurality of plate-shaped elements trap the unvaporized humidifying air.