US 12,029,838 B2
Apparatus and system for air cleaning
Mohit Sharma, Pyrmont (AU); Robert Brian Seaman, Balmain (AU); and Abigail Maude Thomas, Balmain (AU)
Filed by VBreathe Pty Ltd, Pyrmont (AU)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/084,995.
Application 18/084,995 is a continuation of application No. 17/248,673, filed on Feb. 2, 2021, granted, now 11,534,522.
Application 17/248,673 is a continuation of application No. 16/471,133, granted, now 10,946,113, issued on Mar. 16, 2021, previously published as PCT/AU2017/051174, filed on Oct. 25, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016905336 (AU), filed on Dec. 22, 2016; and application No. 2017901850 (AU), filed on May 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0124810 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A61L 9/12 (2006.01); A61L 9/04 (2006.01); F24F 8/108 (2021.01); F24F 11/39 (2018.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01); F24F 8/24 (2021.01); F24F 110/10 (2018.01); F24F 110/20 (2018.01); F24F 110/64 (2018.01)
CPC A61L 9/122 (2013.01) [A61L 9/048 (2013.01); F24F 8/108 (2021.01); F24F 11/39 (2018.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01); A61L 2209/133 (2013.01); A61L 2209/14 (2013.01); F24F 8/24 (2021.01); F24F 2110/10 (2018.01); F24F 2110/20 (2018.01); F24F 2110/64 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system including:
an air filtering and treatment apparatus; and
executable instructions stored in a memory of a remote device, wherein execution of the executable instructions by a processor of the remote device configures the remote device to be in wireless communication with the air filtering and treatment apparatus via a communication interface;
wherein the air filtering and treatment apparatus includes:
a housing having an air inlet, an air outlet, an air passageway between the air inlet and the air outlet, and a fan arranged to urge air through the air passageway between the air inlet and the air outlet;
a sensor configured to measure an air quality parameter of the surrounding air environment;
a controller coupled to the sensor and configured to send an air quality alert, using a communications module, to the remote device based on the air quality parameter;
wherein the housing includes a filter arranged to filter air passing through the air passageway, and a receptacle located toward the air outlet relative to the filter,
wherein the receptacle is adapted to a hold a treatment composition such that an evaporable vapour associated with the treatment composition is able to accumulate in a headspace of the receptacle, the receptacle including at least one aperture located at a side thereof, and
wherein at least a portion of the air passageway is shaped such that air flows substantially perpendicularly past the at least one aperture of the receptacle such that a pre-determined amount of the evaporable vapour is entrained into the filtered air released from the air outlet.