Generator enclosure air intake with damper
AssigneeStewart & Stevenson LLC
InventorsBrian Sharp, Jason Robison, Chris Harvell
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Abstract
A system includes a generator and an enclosure surrounding the generator, the generator having an air intake and an inside surface. The system also includes an air intake housing affixed to the inside surface of the enclosure and fluidly connected to the air intake, the air intake housing terminating in an air intake housing inner plate positioned at inner edge of the air intake housing. The air intake housing inner plate has a plurality of air intake holes. In addition, the system includes a damper, the damper abutting the air intake housing inner plate, the damper having a plurality of damper holes. The damper is adapted to slide along the air intake housing inner plate.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a generator;
- an enclosure surrounding the generator, the generator having an air intake, an inside surface, and an outside surface;
- an air intake housing affixed to the inside surface of the enclosure and fluidly connected to the air intake, the air intake housing terminating in an air intake housing inner plate positioned at an inner edge of the air intake housing, the air intake housing inner plate having a plurality of air intake holes;
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- a damper, the damper abutting the air intake housing inner plate, the damper having a plurality of damper holes, the damper adapted to slide along the air intake housing inner plate.
A method comprising:
- supplying an air intake control system;
- electrically connecting an exterior temperature sensor to the air intake control system, the exterior temperature sensor positioned outside an enclosure, wherein a generator is positioned within the enclosure;
- electrically connecting an interior temperature sensor to the air intake control system, the interior temperature sensor positioned within the enclosure;
- electrically connecting a mechanical electric actuator to the air intake control system;
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- mechanically connecting the mechanical electric actuator to a damper, the damper having damper holes, the damper abutting an air intake housing inner plate, the air intake housing inner plate having air intake holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.