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US 2025/0116450 A1Published application
Thermal Frame with Flange Heat Input
AssigneeAnthony, Inc.
InventorsJuan Pablo Ramirez, Juan Francisco Flores
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Abstract
A frame for a refrigerated enclosure includes a frame segment having, in cross-section, a main frame member including a base, a middle wall, and a forward flange. The forward flange of the main frame member absorbs heat from the ambient air to increase a temperature of one or more locations of the frame segment or a door of the refrigerated enclosure.
Claims20
A method of controlling condensation on a refrigerated enclosure, the method comprising:
- selecting one or more target thermal characteristics at one or more locations of a door/frame interface of the refrigerated enclosure;
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- providing a thermal frame with a forward flange having one or more physical characteristics configured to maintain the one or more target thermal characteristics.
A condensation control method comprising:
- providing, for installation in a temperature controlled enclosure, a frame assembly comprising a main frame member having a forward flange configured to extend, when installed, outside of the temperature controlled enclosure, wherein the forward flange comprises a front surface having a central region defined between a raised corner and an outer edge of the forward flange, wherein, within the central region, the front surface is non-planar, thereby, providing a heat transfer surface with more surface area in contact with ambient air than a planar surface, such that, when installed, heat from the ambient air external to the temperature controlled enclosure is conducted through the main frame member to a contact plate of the frame assembly;
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- installing the frame assembly in the temperature controlled enclosure with the forward flange extending out of the temperature controlled enclosure and in contact with the ambient air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.