Flexible cooling system for vehicles
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsGiorgio Rusignuolo, Robert A. Chopko, Greg Deldicque, Yu H. Chen, Ciara Poolman
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Abstract
A cooling unit (506) for a vehicle (200) is provided. The cooling unit includes a compressor (428) electrically connected to a power module (314), a condenser (530) operably connected to the compressor, an evaporator (536) operably connected to the compressor and the condenser, the evaporator configured to cool ambient air (520), and at least one flexible duct (208) configured to fluidly connect the evaporator with a cargo held in a cargo space of the vehicle.
Claims15
A cooling unit for a vehicle, the cooling unit comprising:
- a tarp configured to enclose and at least partially define a cargo space of the vehicle, the tarp comprising at least one slit;
- a compressor electrically connected to a power module;
- a condenser operably connected to the compressor;
- an evaporator operably connected to the compressor and the condenser, the evaporator configured to cool ambient air;
- at least one flexible duct configured to fluidly connect the evaporator with a cargo held in the cargo space of the vehicle, wherein cooling air is delivered directly to the cargo though the at least one flexible duct;
- at least one air hose fluidly connecting the compressor to ambient air outside of the tarp through the at least one slit.
A method of cooling cargo on a vehicle, the method comprising:
- cooling air with a cooling unit installed on the vehicle;
- distributing the cooled air directly to a cargo within the vehicle through at least one flexible duct, and
- exhausting air from the cooling unit through an air hose that connects the cooling unit through a slit in a tarp of the vehicle to ambient, wherein the tarp encloses and at least partially defines a cargo space of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.