Personal forced air climate control device
AssigneeComfy Personal Climate Control, Inc.
InventorJAMEY DEERING
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Abstract
The invention involves a personal climate control system for heating and cooling the body of a user, and method for providing personal comfort in the form of body heating or cooling to a user of the device. The personal climate control system includes a heat exchanger assembly and a robe assembly coupled together with a tubing assembly. A heat exchanger assembly is utilized to provide conditioned air under pressure to a tortuous path of internal tubing embedded within a piece of clothing worn by the user.
Claims12
A fabric article for heating and cooling comprising:
- a first fabric panel;
- a second fabric panel, secured to the first panel;
- a length of hollow tubing passing between the first panel and the second panel, the hollow tubing defining an inlet adapted for connecting to a pressurized air supply, the tubing further comprising a plurality of opening allowing for the passage of air in a space defined between the first and the second fabric panels;
- wherein, when a supply of pressurized non-ambient temperature air is introduced into the tubing inlet, the pressurized air flows through the interior of the hollow tubing and passes through the plurality of openings, thereby providing a temperature adjusting airflow through the fabric article.
An apparatus for regulating a user's temperature comprising:
- a first fabric panel;
- a second fabric panel secured to the first panel;
- a length of hollow tubing positioned between the first panel and the second panel, the hollow tubing defining an air inlet connecting to a pressurized air supply, the tubing further comprising of the plurality of opening allowing the passage of air from the interior of the tubing to an exterior of the tubing;
- a peltier apparatus for providing a source of pressurized air at a desired temperature, the pettier apparatus directing the selected temperature of pressurized air to the inlet;
- wherein, when a supply of pressurized air is introduced into the tubing inlet, the pressurized air flows the length of the hollow tubing and passes through the plurality of openings, and by providing a temperature adjusting airflow through the fabric article.
A process relating an individual temperature comprising steps of:
- supplying a first fabric panel;
- supplying a second fabric panel reversibly secured to the first fabric panel;
- placing a length of hollow tubing between the first panel and the second panel, the hollow tubing defining inlet connecting, to a pressurized and temperature control air supply, the tubing further comprising a plurality of openings while at least a portion of the tubing to allow for the flow of air from the interior of the tubing to an exterior of the tubing;
- supply a peltier apparatus for providing a source of pressurized and temperature controlled air at a desired temperature to the length of hollow tubing;
- wherein when a supply of pressurized air is introduced into the tubing,
- the pressurized air flows along he length of the hollow tubing and passes through the pluralities of openings, thereby providing a temperature adjusted airflow through the fabric article formed by the first and second fabric panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.