US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 14 for "Air purifier and method for controlling the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,530, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Air purifier and method for controlling the same" was invented by Masafumi Sakamoto (Sakai, Japan), Tatsufumi Atsumi (Sakai, Japan) and Noriaki Taguchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The air purifier is provided with a housing having an air intake port and an exhaust port, a filter unit including a photocatalytic filter and housed in a unit housing section within the housing, a light source that irradiates the photocatalytic filter with light, an air blowing fan that generates an air flow passing through the unit housing section, and a contaminatio...