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US 10,794,625 B2Granted
Cooling apparatus and cooling method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiki Nagamine, Naohide Hashimoto, Fumiaki Aono, Yasuo Mizushima
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Abstract
A first exemplary aspect is a cooling apparatus including: a heat insulator covering at least a part of a target object a supply pipe connected to a space between the heat insulator and the target object; a crusher configured to supply a sublimable coolant powder to the supply pipe; and an air cooler configured to jet gas to the supply pipe so that the coolant powder flows therethrough.
Claims10
A cooling apparatus, comprising:
- a heat insulator covering at least a part of a target object;
- a supply pipe connected to a space between the heat insulator and the target object;
- a coolant supply unit configured to supply a sublimable coolant powder to the supply pipe;
- and
- a first gas jetting unit configured to jet gas to the supply pipe so that the coolant powder flows through the supply pipe.
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A cooling method, comprising:
- supplying a sublimable coolant powder to a supply pipe connected to a space between a heat insulator and a target object;
- jetting gas into the supply pipe so that the coolant powder flows through the supply pipe;
- cooling the target object by making the coolant powder flow through the space;
- and
- discharging the gas that has flowed through the space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.