Fin-coil design for a dual suction air conditioning unit
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsSteven Kuehl, Nihat Cur, Guolian Wu
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An evaporator system that includes: a first evaporator coil at a first evaporator temperature and pressure; a second evaporator coil at a second evaporator temperature and pressure that is less than the first evaporator temperature and pressure where the first evaporator and second evaporator are configured to be thermally disjointed; and a plurality of thermally conductive spaced apart evaporator fins having a plurality of spaced apart thermal break portions positioned between the first evaporator coil and the second evaporator coil that thermally disjoin the first evaporator and the second evaporator.
Claims20
An evaporator system comprising:
- a first evaporator coil at a first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- a second evaporator coil at a second evaporator temperature and pressure that is less than the first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- wherein the first evaporator and second evaporator are configured to be thermally disjointed;
- and
- a plurality of thermally conductive spaced apart evaporator fins having a plurality of spaced apart thermal break portions positioned between the first evaporator coil and the second evaporator coil that thermally disjoin the first evaporator and the second evaporator.
An evaporator system comprising:
- a first evaporator coil at a first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- a second evaporator coil at a second evaporator temperature and pressure that is less than the first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- wherein the first evaporator and second evaporator are configured to be thermally disjointed wherein the first evaporator and the second evaporator are disjointed by a configuration chosen from the group consisting of:
- a plurality of the same thermally conductive spaced apart evaporator fins a plurality of spaced apart thermal break portions are positioned between the first evaporator coil and the second evaporator coil;
- and
- a first set of evaporator fins thermally connected with the first evaporator coil and a second, physically separated from the first set, set of evaporator fins thermally connected with the second evaporator wherein the first evaporator fin set comprises individual fins spaced apart at a greater distance from one another than the fins of the second set of evaporator fins.
An evaporator system comprising:
- a first evaporator coil at a first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- a second evaporator coil at a second evaporator temperature and pressure that is less than the first evaporator temperature and pressure;
- wherein the first evaporator and second evaporator are configured to be thermally disjointed;
- and
- a first set of evaporator fins thermally connected with the first evaporator coil and a second, physically separated from the first set, set of evaporator fins thermally connected with the second evaporator wherein the first evaporator fin set comprises individual fins spaced apart at a greater distance from one another than the fins of the second set of evaporator fins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.