Refrigerated display cabinet
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorChristophe Vallee
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Abstract
A refrigerated display cabinet is disclosed. The cabinet comprises a case comprising one or more shelves disposed between side walls of the case to form a conservation space to support and store one or more products therewithin, a duct extending from a bottom front side of the cabinet to a top front side of the cabinet via a rear side of the cabinet, and at least one heat exchanger comprising one or more headers, and a plurality of flat microchannel tubes, wherein the at least one heat exchanger is disposed within the duct on the rear side of the cabinet with the plurality of flat microchannel tubes inclined at a first predefined angle with respect to a horizontal plane such that the headers on both sides of the flat microchannels tubes are at different elevations.
Claims12
A refrigerated display cabinet comprising:
- a case comprising one or more shelves disposed between side walls of the case to form a conservation space to support and store one or more products therewithin;
- a duct extending from a bottom front side of the cabinet to a top front side of the cabinet via a rear side of the cabinet;
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- at least one heat exchanger comprising a first header disposed at a left side of a rear airflow zone and a second header disposed at a right side of the rear airflow zone, the first and second headers extending longitudinally between a front end and a rear end of a rear airflow zone, the at least one heat exchanger comprising a plurality of flat microchannel tubes which fluidically connect the first header and the second header, wherein the at least one heat exchanger is disposed within the duct on the rear side of the cabinet with the plurality of flat microchannel tubes inclined at a first predefined angle with respect to a horizontal plane such that the headers on both sides of the flat microchannel tubes are at different elevations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.