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US 2019/0234674 A1Published application
Cooling apparatus and cooling method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiki NAGAMINE, Naohide HASHIMOTO, Fumiaki AONO, Yasuo MIZUSHIMA
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Abstract
A first exemplary aspect is a cooling apparatus 100 including: a heat insulator 70 covering at least a part of a target object 80; a supply pipe 30 connected to a space 81 between the heat insulator 70 and the target object 80; a crusher 21 configured to supply a sublimable coolant powder to the supply pipe 30; and an air cooler 22 configured to jet gas to the supply pipe 30 so that the coolant powder 42 flows therethrough.
Claims10
A cooling apparatus, comprising:
- a heat insulator covering at least a part of a target object;
- a supply pipe connected to a space between the heat insulator and the target object;
- a coolant supply unit configured to supply a sublimable coolant powder to the supply pipe;
- and
- a first gas jetting unit configured to jet gas to the supply pipe so that the coolant powder flows through the supply pipe.
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A cooling method, comprising:
- supplying a sublimable coolant powder to a supply pipe connected to a space between a heat insulator and a target object;
- jetting gas into the supply pipe so that the coolant powder flows through the supply pipe;
- cooling the target object by making the coolant powder flow through the space;
- and
- discharging the gas that has flowed through the space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.