Unibody modular bus air conditioner

US6763668B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• CARRIER CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Peter R. Bushnell · Cazenovia, US
• Robert C. Reimann · LaFayette, US
• Christopher G. Repice · Camillus, US
• Mark Colton · Clay, US
• XuQiang Liao · Manlius, US
• Gawain Mundy · Liverpool, US
• Stephen Stopyra · Syracuse, US
• Belin Czechowicz · Town of DeWitt, US
• Suresh Duraisamy · Liverpool, US
• Timothy R. Campbell · Marcellus, US
• Dennis M. Stone · Clay, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 2003
• Grant date: Jul 20, 2004
• Expiry date: May 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S62/16
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Rather than having a frame into which, or upon which, an air conditioning system is mounted, a bus rooftop air conditioning module has a unibody which is formed partially of structural members interconnected to the tube sheets of the evaporator and condenser coils to form a structural body which supports the components of the system. In this way the coil tube sheets combine with other structural members to form the supporting body.