INTEGRATED HUMIDIFIER CHAMBER & LID

摘要

A blower unit for use as part of an integrated blower/humidification syst em is described. The blower unit has an outer casing, which encloses and for ms part of the blower unit, the casing including an air inlet vent. The blow er unit further includes a humidifier compartment for receiving a humidifier unit with a separate gases inlet and outlet, the compartment having a heate r base for heating the contents of the humidifier unit. The compartment also has a blower inlet port which aligns with the humidifier unit inlet in use, the blower providing a gases path through the casing between the inlet vent and the inlet port. The blower unit also includes a fan for providing a pre ssurised gases stream along the gases path, and a power supply unit for powe ring the fan. The gases path is routed over the power supply unit in order t o provide a cooling air flow.