IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0030291
(1998-02-25)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Kadle Prasad Shripad
- Bhatti Mohinder Singh
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출원인 / 주소 |
- General Motors Corporation
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
20 인용 특허 :
5 |
초록
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An improved dehumidification system for automotive use includes a rotating, wheel like heat exchanger with axially open cells that carry a water adsorbing material. Opposed ambient air and heated air flows, covering opposite halves of the wheel, continually adsorb water on one side and are recharged
An improved dehumidification system for automotive use includes a rotating, wheel like heat exchanger with axially open cells that carry a water adsorbing material. Opposed ambient air and heated air flows, covering opposite halves of the wheel, continually adsorb water on one side and are recharged on the other side. Alternating radially closed cells between the axially open cells carry no desiccant material, but receive a cross cooling flow, on the water adsorbing side of the wheel only, to remove the heat released during the water adsorption process. The desiccant recharging process on the other side of the wheel is not disturbed by the cross cooling flow.
대표청구항
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[ It is claimed:] [1.] For use in a vehicle heating and air conditioning system in which outside air at ambient humidity and temperature is forcibly drawn in and blown over an evaporator core, a system for dehumidifying and cooling the outside air before it reaches said evaporator core, comprising:a
[ It is claimed:] [1.] For use in a vehicle heating and air conditioning system in which outside air at ambient humidity and temperature is forcibly drawn in and blown over an evaporator core, a system for dehumidifying and cooling the outside air before it reaches said evaporator core, comprising:a generally cylindrical wheel having a central axis and bounded by an envelope having an inner cylindrical tunnel centered on said axis, a concentric outer cylindrical wall, and axially spaced, annular end faces, said wheel having a basic structural framework comprised of a plurality of regularly circumferentially spaced, solid, heat conductive leaves that are axially and radially coextensive with said envelope to define a plurality of individual cells, with a first set including every other one of said cells which are axially open at both annular faces, but radially blocked at both inner and outer cylindrical walls, and with a second set including those cells located between the cells of said first set and which are axially blocked at both annular faces, but radially open at both inner and outer cylindrical walls;desiccant coated, heat conductive, axially open first fins closely engaged between the leaves of each of said first set of cells;non-desiccant coated, heat conductive, radially open second fins closely engaged between the leaves of said second set of cells;means for rotating said wheel about said central axis;an outside air feed duct through which outside air at ambient temperature to be dehumidified is axially forced, said outside air feed duct being sealingly engaged with one annular face of said rotating wheel so as to be axially open only to those cells of said first set of cells that are, at any point time, located in a first sub volume of said envelope constituting approximately half the volume thereof, so that outside air flows through those cells and is dried by said desiccant coated first fins, which first fins then conduct the released latent heat of adsorption through said leaves to adjacent cells of said second set of cells;a regeneration air duct through which heated air at substantially higher than ambient temperature is axially forced, said regeneration air feed duct being sealingly engaged with one annular face of said rotating wheel so as to be axially open only to those cells of said first set of cells that are, at any point time, located in a second sub volume of said envelope constituting the remaining approximately half volume thereof, so that the desiccant in those cells is regenerated by said heated air before they rotate back into said first sub volume;a cross flow feed manifold sealingly engaged with the outer cylindrical wall of said envelope within said first sub volume only, through which ambient temperature air is forced radially into those cells of said second set of cells located in said first sub volume only, thereby removing the released latent heat of adsorption, through said second fins, and through the leaves shared with said adjacent first cells located in said first sub volume; and,a cross flow exhaust duct sealingly engaged with said wheel tunnel so as to be radially open to the those cells of the second set of cells that are located in said first sub volume but radially blocked from those cells of the second set of cells that are located in said second sub volume as well as axially blocked from the first set of cells in said first sub volume, said exhaust duct also extending axially away from one end face of said wheel so that radial cross flow air and the removed latent heat of adsorption can be discharged from said wheel.
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