Article: South Korean Inventors Develop Air purifier

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 22 -- Young-Saeng Kim of Incheon, South Korea, and Chan-Jung Park of Suwon, South Korea, have developed an air purifier which includes an electric dust collecting device that electrically charges dust particles in air and collects the charged dust particles.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air purifier has a simply manufactured and assembled ionizer, which improves the charging efficiency for dust particles using multi-directional discharge and prevents electrical accidents."

An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The air purifier includes an ionizer and a collector. The ionizer includes a first electrode and at ...

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