摘要 |
<p>Apparatus for discharging static electricity from the human body by ionizing air and utilizing the flow of ions from the apparatus into the surrounding environment to discharge the body. The apparatus utilizes two power supplies (206, 207) to raise two embedded electrodes (201, 202) positioned in a horizontal plane different voltage potentials with respect to the body. The air is ionized by utilizing discharge electrodes (208, 209) of the opposite polarity positioned over each of the embedded electrodes which results in air ions being formed in a ion distribution above each embedded electrode. The embedded electrodes are positioned a predetermined distance from each other in the embedded plane. Within the region (214) between the embedded electrodes, the ions recombine to form air molecules. The ions in the distribution layers above each embedded electrode drift toward this region under attraction from each other. As the ions move, ions of the same polarity as the body are repelled into free air by virtue of the presence of the static charge on the body. In free air, they eventually drift to a grounding point within the environment. This expulsion of the ions of the same polarity as the body discharges the static electricity from the body.</p> |