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US 12,662,268 B2Granted
Heat exchanger and airplane comprising same
AssigneePlana Co., Ltd.
InventorsBraden J. Kim, Sang Hyun Jung
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Abstract
A heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange for a heat source of a fuselage and provide thrust or thrust vectoring to the fuselage, and an aircraft including the same are disclosed. The aircraft includes a fuselage, at least one inlet provided at a side of the fuselage, at least one outlet provided at a bottom of the fuselage, and a fan unit having at least one fan disposed between the inlet and the outlet along a fluid flow direction and drawing air inward through the at least one inlet to discharge through the at least one outlet.
Claims19
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- at least one inlet provided at a side of the fuselage;
- at least one outlet provided at a bottom of the fuselage;
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- a heat exchanger comprising a fan unit having at least one fan disposed between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet along a fluid flow direction and drawing air inward through the at least one inlet to discharge through the at least one outlet.
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An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- a heat exchanger disposed inside the fuselage;
- at least one inlet formed in a side portion of the fuselage and guiding fluid from outside the fuselage to the heat exchanger;
- and
- at least one outlet formed in a bottom portion of the fuselage and guiding the fluid, heat-exchanged in the heat exchanger, to the outside of the fuselage;
- wherein the heat exchanger provides thrust or thrust vectoring to the fuselage by discharging the fluid, drawn into the interior of the fuselage through the at least one inlet, through the at least one outlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.