US 12,281,815 B2
Air treatment apparatus
Jack Cyril Biltcliffe, Bristol (GB); Jason Ryan King, Bristol (GB); Richard Thomas Coomber, Bristol (GB); Samuel Thomas Railton, Bristol (GB); Steven Eduard Peet, Bristol (GB); Samuel Douglas Clifford, Swindon (GB); Mark Niall O'Riordan, Bristol (GB); Joseph Robert Carling, Swindon (GB); George Joseph Moone, Wiltshire (GB); and Bamaby Nicholas Main, Reading (GB)
Assigned to Dyson Technology Limited, Wiltshire (GB)
Appl. No. 17/418,187
Filed by Dyson Technology Limited, Wiltshire (GB)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/053580
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/141305, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1900020 (GB), filed on Jan. 2, 2019; and application No. 1913173 (GB), filed on Sep. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0082273 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 6/04 (2006.01); C02F 1/32 (2023.01); F24F 13/20 (2006.01); F24F 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 6/04 (2013.01) [C02F 1/325 (2013.01); F24F 13/20 (2013.01); C02F 2303/04 (2013.01); F24F 2006/006 (2013.01); F24F 2006/008 (2013.01); F24F 2006/046 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air treatment apparatus comprising:
an air flow generator that is arranged to generate an air flow through the air treatment apparatus;
a moisture source that is arranged to introduce water vapour into the air flow;
a body that in use surrounds both the air flow generator and the moisture source; and
a water supply system that is arranged to provide water to the moisture source;
wherein the water supply system comprises a water tank assembly that is separable from the body such that the body surrounds both the air flow generator and the moisture source when the water tank assembly is not surrounded by any portion of the body, the water tank assembly comprising a water tank and a water pump for pumping water from the water tank to the moisture source; and
wherein the water tank comprises a tank opening and the water tank assembly further comprises a removable tank cap that is arranged to fit over and thereby occlude the tank opening, and wherein the water pump is provided on the removable tank cap.