Unit for adjusting humidification
View Patent ↗To provide a unit for adjusting humidification capable of improving inconveniences that may otherwise be caused to occur due to damages, while sustaining the humidifying ability and other performance that are to be originally achieved by the humidification adjusting unit. Around the outer surface of the exothermic member 13 are wound multiple hollow fibers 14 each having a minute diameter and having a peripheral wall with minute openings each being large enough to allow water vapor to permeate therethrough yet small enough to fail to permeate water therethrough, and the multiple hollow fibers 14 and the exothermic member 13 are inserted tightly into an extendable mesh cover tube 15 in engagement therewith. In order to perform humidification, water to be supplied to the multiple hollow fibers 14 is warmed by the exothermic member 13 to generate water vapors. Even if the multiple hollow fibers 14 would be broken or damaged, the water to be leaked from the multiple hollow fibers can be made extremely small in volume by taking advantage of the minuteness of each of the multiple hollow fibers 14 , thereby failing to cause to occur any substantial problems that may otherwise cause inconveniences due to the leakage of water.
1. A method of manufacturing a humidification element comprising:
providing a plurality of hollow fibers, wherein each hollow fiber in the plurality of hollow fibers includes a fluid carrying channel defined by a peripheral wall of the hollow fiber, wherein the peripheral wall includes minute openings large enough to allow a gas to pass therethrough yet small enough to prevent a liquid from passing therethrough; and
wrapping the plurality of hollow fibers around an exothermic member such that the plurality of hollow fibers are disposed on the outer surface of the exothermic member and a fluid does not contact the exothermic member while traveling along the fluid carrying channel.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising arranging the plurality of hollow fibers in a sheet, and wherein wrapping the plurality of hollow fibers around the exothermic member includes wrapping the sheet of hollow fibers such that a longitudinal axis of the plurality of hollow fibers is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the exothermic member.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising arranging the plurality of hollow fibers in a strip, and wherein wrapping the plurality of hollow around the exothermic member includes wrapping the strip of hollow fibers in a spiral around the exothermic member.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein wrapping the plurality of hollow fibers around the exothermic member includes wrapping the hollow fibers such that a longitudinal axis of the plurality of hollow fibers is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the exothermic member.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising connecting an end portion of the plurality of hollow fibers to a connector which is adapted for selective connection to a fluid supply system.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising disposing a perforated covering over the exothermic member and the plurality of hollow fibers.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of hollow fibers are wrapped around the exothermic member such that both ends of the plurality of hollow fibers are disposed at a common end portion of the exothermic member.