US 12,343,456 B2
Disinfecting and virus inactivating device, air-conditioning apparatus including disinfecting and virus inactivating device thereon, and disinfection and virus inactivation method
Akane Nomura, Tokyo (JP); Akinori Shimizu, Tokyo (JP); Yasuhiro Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); Seiro Yuge, Tokyo (JP); and Koji Ota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/692,839
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 24, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/034958
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/047508, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0261454 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. A61L 9/22 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01); A61L 9/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 9/122 (2013.01) [A61L 2/20 (2013.01); A61L 2/24 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/15 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01); A61L 2209/111 (2013.01); A61L 2209/134 (2013.01); A61L 2209/16 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disinfecting and virus inactivating device that performs disinfection treatment or inactivation treatment in a target space that a moving body enters and exits, the disinfecting and virus inactivating device comprising:
a locus detection module configured to detect a movement locus of locations on portions of furniture provided in the target space where the moving body comes into contact with the portions of the furniture;
a substance generating module configured to generate a particular substance for use in the disinfection treatment or the inactivation treatment; and
a transmission module configured to generate an air flow and transmit the particular substance generated by the substance generating module to the movement locus,
wherein the locus detection module includes an infrared-ray detection module configured to detect infrared rays emitted from a heat source, and is configured to detect the movement locus of the moving body in the target space based on a result of detection by the infrared-ray detection module,
temperatures of moving bodies are classified into a plurality of temperature zones based on the result of detection by the infrared-ray detection module, including a high temperature zone and a low temperature zone, and either one or both of the substance generating module and the transmission module are operated such that disinfection/virus-inactivation has a greater disinfection/inactivation effect on a movement locus of one moving body whose temperature falls within the high temperature zone, than on a movement locus of another moving body whose temperature falls within the low temperature zone, and
the transmission module is configured to direct the air flow containing the particular substance from the movement locus of a moving body whose temperature falls within the high temperature zone to the movement locus of a moving body whose temperature falls within the low temperature zone.