Abstract: A control circuit for controlling a UV light source configured to emit UV light into a purifying chamber of a device for purifying a fluid, the control circuit comprising a driver configured to provide the UV light source with a drive current; a fluid flow sensor configured to determine whether a flow of a fluid through the purifying chamber is present and generate a flow signal indicative thereof; a light sensor configured to measure radiant flux of light emitted from the UV light source and to generate a radiant flux signal comprising data pertaining to the measured radiant flux; a memory comprising a reference radiant flux; and a processor configured to: activate the UV light source upon the flow signal being indicative of presence of flow of fluid through the purifying chamber, during the UV light source being active: determine the drive current for the driver based on the measured radiant flux comprised in the radiant flux signal and the reference radiant flux.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 14, 2020
Publication date:
July 14, 2022
Applicant:
Watersprint AB
Inventors:
Mathias Lindqvist, Linda Kokkola, Sebastian Ekholm
Abstract: Invention regards a light-emitting diode (LED)-based system for purifying a fluid flowing through a pipe, said system comprising means for mounting the system on the pipe, a housing, a pliant carrier structure comprising a plurality of LEDs arranged flush with a first surface (7) of the structure (8) and configured to emit radiation in UV range, wherein, when the system is pipe-mounted, said structure is detachably arranged within the housing, and said structure (8) adopts a substantially tubular shape within the housing with said first surface delimiting a purifying chamber (9), wherein said purifying chamber is in fluid communication with the pipe so that the fluid flowing through the pipe passes, prior to being dispensed, through the purifying chamber where it is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the energized LEDs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 7, 2017
Assignee:
WATERSPRINT AB
Inventors:
Ola Hansson, Kenneth M Persson, Tord Wingren, Lars Montelius