Dehumidification device and dehumidification method

    公开(公告)号:US11007475B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-18

    申请号:US15552235

    申请日:2016-02-16

    摘要: To provide a dehumidifying device and dehumidifying method each of which allows absorbed water to be efficiently extracted from a stimuli-responsive polymeric moisture absorbing material or a polymeric moisture absorbing material containing a stimuli-responsive polymeric moisture absorbing material, a dehumidifying device of an embodiment of the present invention includes (i) a stimulus providing section configured to provide an external stimulus to a stimuli-responsive polymeric moisture absorbing material or a polymeric moisture absorbing material containing a stimuli-responsive polymeric moisture absorbing material and (ii) a transfer section configured to transfer water released by the polymeric moisture absorbing material.

    Dehumidification device
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10252213B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-09

    申请号:US15504711

    申请日:2015-08-27

    摘要: Provided is a dehumidification apparatus with good energy efficiency. A moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24), which absorbs moisture and swells at a temperature not higher than a predetermined temperature sensitive point, while shrinking and releasing condensed water at a temperature higher than the temperature sensitive point as a result of phase transition, is formed so as to be divided into a plurality of segments which are made apart from each other during dehydration. A rotation motor (21) is used to move the moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24) between a moisture absorption region (14a) and a dehydration region (14b). In the dehydration region (14b), the moisture absorbing material (polymeric moisture absorbing material 24) is heated by the heater (25).

    Dehumidification device
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10195563B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15504671

    申请日:2015-08-13

    摘要: A dehumidifying device configured such that a dehumidifying material having absorbed moisture can efficiently release moisture. The dehumidifying device carries out dehumidification with a polymeric moisture-absorbing material that (i) exhibits hydrophilicity in a temperature range equal to or lower than a temperature sensitive point which is a given temperature and (ii) exhibits hydrophobicity in a temperature range higher than the temperature sensitive point. The dehumidifying device includes: a substrate to which the polymeric moisture-absorbing material is fixed; a heat generating member which heats, to the temperature range higher than the temperature sensitive point, the polymeric moisture-absorbing material that has absorbed moisture; and a moisture absorbing unit motor which rotates the substrate, so that the moisture, which has been absorbed by the polymeric moisture-absorbing material that is heated to the temperature range higher than the temperature sensitive point, is released as a waterdrop by a centrifugal force.

    Humidity controlling apparatus
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10099173B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US15122423

    申请日:2015-06-11

    摘要: A humidity controlling apparatus comprising: a moisture absorption unit including a base material rotatable about a rotation shaft and a macromolecular moisture absorbent provided in a layer on an outer periphery of the base material; and a heat source partially heating the moisture absorption unit, the macromolecular moisture absorbent having a hydrophilic state capable of absorbing moisture in the air and a hydrophobic state which releases the moisture sorbed in the hydrophilic state, the macromolecular moisture absorbent having a nature such that when temperature rises, the macromolecular moisture absorbent changes from the hydrophilic state to the hydrophobic state, and when the temperature falls, the macromolecular moisture absorbent returns from the hydrophobic state to the hydrophilic state, requires small thermal energy and can efficiently control humidity.

    Humidity controller
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11383201B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US16639479

    申请日:2018-01-11

    摘要: To reduce loss due to water evaporation and to efficiently release moisture from a moisture absorbing portion, in the humidity controller according to the present invention, a moisture absorbing portion (2) is formed to include at least two gel sections each with a different thermal conductivity and to release absorbed moisture from an exposed surface (31) that is a specific region exposed outside and that is disposed on the surface opposite to a heater (5) on the basis of heating by the heater (5).