Wearable with temperature control
AssigneeCube Recovery Company
InventorsAaron Young, Paul Marquis
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Abstract
A wearable device having a body-to-liquid heat exchanger, configured to exchange heat between a user’s body and a liquid, the body-to-liquid heat exchanger comprising a conformal bladder defining a serpentine portion of a liquid-flow path; a first conduit placing an inlet to the liquid-flow path in fluid communication with an outlet of a liquid-to-ambient-air heat exchanger; a second conduit placing an outlet of the liquid-flow path in fluid communication with an inlet of the liquid-to-ambient-air heat exchanger; and the liquid-to-ambient-air heat exchanger coupled to the first conduit and the second conduit.
Claims21
A wearable heating or cooling device, comprising:
- a bladder configured to be positioned adjacent an organism, the bladder defining part of a working liquid flow path;
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- an air-to-liquid heat exchanger fluidically coupled to the bladder, the air-to-liquid heat exchanger comprising:
- a pump configured to circulate a working liquid through the working liquid flow path;
- a body made of a polymer;
- a first metal heat exchanger having a plurality of protrusions positioned in a portion of the working liquid flow path inside the body;
- a Peltier device having a first side adjacent the first metal heat exchanger and a second side opposite the first side;
- a fan or blower coupled to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and configured to force air along an air flow path;
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- a second metal heat exchanger adjacent the second side of the Peltier device, the second metal heat exchanger having a plurality of protrusions positioned in the air flow path of the fan or blower.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.