Heating assembly
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorsArnau Castillo, Manuel Perez Camacho, Frederik Adrian Stephan Panjer, Mudar Abu-Saymeh, Brian Mills
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Abstract
A heating assembly for a vehicle, the heating assembly comprising: a fluid conduit for carrying fluid; a heater positioned along the fluid conduit, the heater comprising a heating element configured to heat any fluid within the fluid conduit and a power source configured to supply power to the heating element; and a heat sink positioned upstream of the heating element and thermally coupling the power source to the fluid conduit, such that the fluid receives heat from the power source in use.
Claims15
A heating assembly for a vehicle, the heating assembly comprising:
- a fluid conduit for carrying fluid;
- a heater positioned along the fluid conduit, the heater comprising a heating element configured to heat any fluid within the fluid conduit and a power source configured to supply power to the heating element;
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- a heat sink positioned upstream of the heating element and thermally coupling the power source to the fluid conduit, such that the fluid receives heat from the power source in use.
A method of heating a fluid in a vehicle, the method comprising:
- flowing the fluid through a fluid conduit;
- supplying power, by a power source, to a heater;
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- heating, by a heater and using the supplied power, the fluid in the fluid conduit;
- wherein a heat sink thermally couples the power source to the fluid conduit upstream of the heater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.