Heating and cooling cup holder
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorMan Ju OH
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Abstract
A cooling and heating cup holder may include an inner body accommodating a drink container, a heat exchanger including an inlet formed therein while discharging air introduced by the inlet into the inner body through a blower hole, heat exchanging pins provided in the heat exchanger, a thermoelectric element having a first side entirely adhered to a rear surface of the heat exchanger, a heat radiator coupled to a second side of the thermoelectric element, an outer body forming a circulating space between the inner body and the outer body, and a blower fan transferring air to the inlet of the heat exchanger.
Claims11
A cooling and heating cup holder comprising:
- an inner body having an open upper part to accommodate a drink container, the cylindrical inner body to surround the drink container, the inner body including a blower hole formed at a side surface thereof, into which air is introduced;
- a heat exchanger including a front surface covering the blower hole at an outside of the inner body and an inlet formed at a first side surface thereof and discharging the air introduced by the inlet into the inner body through the blower hole;
- heat exchanging pins provided in the heat exchanger, each heat exchanging pin being formed in a direction parallel to a direction of the air introduced by the inlet, the heat exchanging pins having different thicknesses;
- a thermoelectric element having a first surface being adhered to a rear surface of the heat exchanger;
- a heat radiator coupled to a second side of the thermoelectric element;
- an outer body surrounding a lower surface and a side surface of an outer side of the inner body to form a circulating space for circulating air between the inner body and the outer body;
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- a blower fan provided in the circulating space to transfer air in the circulating space to the inlet of the heat exchanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.