Apparatus for heating and/or cooling a compartment
US5335719A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 7, 1992 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 7, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF24F2203/1084
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus for heating and/or cooling a cab, for example a motor vehicle passenger compartment, communicating with a supply duct for supplying air to the compartment and an exhaust air duct for exhausting air from the compartment. The apparatus includes at least two sorbent reactors provided with a sorbent such as zeolite or the like, each reactor having a reaction chamber. First and second air streams alternately flow through each of the reaction chambers such that while the first air stream is flowing through the first reactor and undergoing adsorption in the selected reaction chamber, the second air stream is simultaneously flowing through the other reactor where desorption takes place, thereby allowing for continuous heating or cooling of the cab.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.