MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202524067932 A) filed by Coway Co. Ltd., Chungcheongnam, Republic of Korea, on July 16, 2025, for 'water purifier.'
Inventor(s) include Cho, Sungkon; Moon, Hyoung Min; and Joo, Woo Jin.
The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a water purifier which prevents an increase in the total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration of fluid located in a purified water zone of a reverse osmosis (RO) filter. Specifically, the water purifier may include a reverse osmosis (RO) filter including a raw water zone into which raw water flows from an outside, a purified water zone for accommodating purified water generated by filtering at least a portion of the raw water located in the raw water zone, and a reverse osmosis membrane partitioning the raw water zone and the purified water zone; a pretreatment filter configured to pretreat the raw water flowing into the RO filter and having a hollow through which the pretreated raw water passes; a flow channel connected to the pretreatment filter and the RO filter and providing a passage on which the raw water and the purified water flow; an inner guide including a cylindrical inner guide partition wall inserted into the hollow of the pretreatment filter and a passage hole formed through the inner guide partition wall and communicating with the hollow; a plurality of valves connected to the pretreatment filter and the RO filter and selectively opened/closed to regulate flow of the raw water and the purified water; and a controller configured to control opening/closing of the plurality of valves based on a plurality of flow modes."
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