Cooling material and device
AssigneeHubris Key Industries LLC
InventorBruce Chinquee
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Abstract
A cooling material and device which provide reduction of temperature of a nearby object such as, but not limited to, a machine, a person or an animal, as a multi-layered cooling blanket which captures a fluid, such as, but not limited to, water for absorbing heat from the nearby object and prevents dripping of the fluid or transfer of the fluid to the nearby object. The multi-layered cooling blanket may be used to cool a variety of things, such as machines, computers, vehicles, people and animals.
Claims19
A material for providing thermal cooling with reduced dripping, wicking, pooling and condensation onto a nearby object to be cooled, comprising:
- at least a first layer comprising a superabsorbent polymer (SAP), the first layer having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface is configured to be positioned nearby an object to be cooled;
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- at least a second layer having an surface layer in thermal and liquid communication with the outer surface of the first layer, and the second layer having an outer surface comprising a plurality micro-climate structures;
- thereby providing a material which absorbs liquid by the first layer in a charging phase, and which conducts thermal energy from the first layer inner surface through the second layer into the plurality of micro-climate structures in a cooling phase during which the liquid is released from the superabsorbent polymer, thereby providing cooling of a nearby object with reduced dripping, wicking, pooling and condensation onto the nearby object.
A method of manufacture of a material for providing thermal cooling with reduced dripping, wicking, pooling and condensation onto a nearby object to be cooled, the method comprising:
- affixing at least a first layer to a second layer, wherein the first layer comprises a superabsorbent polymer (SAP), the first layer has an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the first layer inner surface is configured to be positioned nearby an object to be cooled;
- wherein the second layer has an inner surface in affixed to the outer surface of the first layer, wherein the second layer inner surface is in thermal and liquid communication with the first layer outer surface;
- and wherein the second layer has an outer surface comprising a plurality micro-climate structures;
- thereby producing a material with at least two layers which absorbs liquid via the first layer in a charging phase, wherein the material conducts thermal energy from the first layer inner surface through the second layer into the plurality of micro-climate structures in a cooling phase during which the liquid is released from the SAP, thereby providing cooling of a nearby object with reduced dripping, wicking, pooling and condensation onto the nearby object.
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