US 12,325,051 B2
Cleaner for an ionizer, operating method thereof and ionizer cleaning system
Moon Young Ji, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/565,196.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0020422 (KR), filed on Feb. 16, 2021; and application No. 10-2021-0126519 (KR), filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258209 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B08B 1/12 (2024.01); B03C 3/74 (2006.01); B08B 5/04 (2006.01); B08B 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 1/12 (2024.01) [B08B 5/04 (2013.01); B08B 15/007 (2013.01); B03C 3/743 (2013.01); B03C 2201/04 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaner for an ionizer, the cleaner comprising:
a communication interface configured to transmit/receive information to/from the ionizer;
a cleaning member configured to move along a wire of the ionizer to remove and collect a foreign substance gathered on the wire;
a driver configured to:
drive the cleaning member, and
detect that the cleaning member starts moving from a beginning spot of the wire, reaches an ending spot of the wire or returns to the beginning spot of the wire; and
a controller configured to:
determine whether the ionizer is operating or not, and
control the driver to drive the cleaning member for the cleaning member to remove the foreign substance on the wire,
wherein the cleaning member comprises:
a cleaning cartridge including first and second bodies arranged at both sides of the wire to be spaced apart from each other when the cleaning member moves along the wire; and
a cleaning brush arranged on an inner surface of each of the first and second bodies to remove the foreign substance from the wire.