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US 10,866,015 B2Granted
Turbine cooling fan
OwnerJames Thomas Clementsinventor
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Abstract
Embodiments are provided for a cooling fan that has a vortex tube, an air turbine, and one or more fan blades. The vortex tube is capable of being supplied with compressed air and splitting the compressed air into a cold stream and a hot stream. The cold stream can spins said air turbine with attached fan blades, causing said fan blades to spin and blow cold air.
Claims13
A fan comprising:
- a vortex tube, said vortex tube exhausting, a hot air stream and a cold air stream;
- an air turbine that is configured to be spun by said exhausted cold air stream;
- a compressor configured to generate compressed air;
- a heat exchanger configured to cool air;
- at least one fan blade, wherein said at least one fan blade is connected to said air turbine, wherein compressed air is configured to flow from said compressor through said heat exchanger before flowing through said vortex tube, in the vortex tube the air is split into said hot and said cold air streams, said cold air stream is exhausted from said vortex tube and spins said air turbine, and said spinning air turbine spins said at least one fan blade.
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