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US 11,241,932 B2Granted
Adsorption system
AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsEvelyn N Wang, Hyunho Kim, Xiansen Li, Shankar Narayan, Sameer R. Rao, Ari Samuel Umans, Sungwoo Yang
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Abstract
An adsorption system can be used as part of a climate control system in a vehicle or in any other space requiring heating or cooling. The adsorbent system can include an enclosure, a plurality of layers arranged in a stack inside the enclosure, and a vapor channel inside the enclosure.
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An adsorption system comprising:
- an enclosure, wherein the enclosure has corrugations;
- a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers are arranged in a stack inside the enclosure;
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- a vapor channel inside the enclosure, wherein the vapor channel is an integrated vapor channel positioned inside the enclosure between the plurality of layers arranged in the stack and the corrugations.
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An adsorption system comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers are arranged in a stack inside the enclosure;
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- a vapor channel inside the enclosure
- wherein the plurality of layers includes repeated layers of a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer made of a thermally conductive material, wherein the first layer and the second layer are brazed to the third layer wherein the third layer is over-sized in comparison to the first layer and the second layer, and the third layer is bent to contact to an external heater.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.