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US 10,712,056 B2Granted
Solar cooling system
AssigneeSolar Snow Corporation
InventorHarold Finkleman
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Abstract
Some aspects of the invention provide an air cooling system. The air cooling system may include a solar energy gathering component that drives a cooling system. The air cooling system may include an absorption cooling system or a thermoelectric cooling system. The cooling system may include a solar collector matched with an air venting system. The cooling unit may hang on the inside of a window or on another vertical surface and utilize the heat and/or radiation from the sun to activate a cooling mechanism that, in turn, provides cooling via the cooling system.
Claims34
An air cooling system comprising:
- a cooling element configured to generate cooling when driven by energy, the cooling element comprising an absorption cooling system that generates cooling through an absorption cooling process driven by heat;
- a solar energy gathering component operatively coupled to the cooling element and configured to absorb solar radiation to generate energy to drive the cooling element to generate cooling, the solar energy gathering component comprising a solar heating component operatively coupled to the cooling element and configured to absorb solar radiation to generate heat to drive the cooling element;
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- an electrical connecting device for connecting the air cooling system to a back-up electrical energy source,
- wherein the absorption cooling system comprises:
- a boiler operatively coupled to the solar heating component and configured to absorb heat generated by the solar heating component to cause refrigerant to vaporize out of a solution of refrigerant and absorbent;
- a condenser functionally connected to the boiler and configured to cause the vaporized refrigerant to condense into liquid refrigerant;
- an evaporator functionally connected to the condenser and configured to cause the liquid refrigerant from the condenser to evaporate;
- an absorber functionally connected between the evaporator and the boiler and configured to absorb the evaporated refrigerant from the evaporator back into the solution of refrigerant and absorbent;
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- an electrical heating element operatively coupled to the electrical connecting device and the boiler, wherein the electrical heating element is configured to generate heat to drive the absorption cooling system to generate cooling when driven by the back-up electrical energy source without solar generated energy from the solar heating component,
- wherein the cooling element and the solar energy gathering component are integrated to form a cooling unit adapted to be suspended adjacent to an interior-facing side of a window, and
- wherein the solar energy gathering component is at least semi-transparent to allow at least some light that has passed through the window to pass through the cooling unit when the cooling unit is suspended in the window.
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