Heat exchanger and aircraft including the same
AssigneePlana Co., Ltd.
InventorBraden J. KIM
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Abstract
A heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange for a heat source of a fuselage and provide thrust or thrust vectoring to the fuselage, and an aircraft including the same are disclosed. The aircraft includes a fuselage, at least one inlet provided at a side of the fuselage, at least one outlet provided at a bottom of the fuselage, and a fan unit having at least one fan disposed between the inlet and the outlet along a fluid flow direction and drawing air inward through the at least one inlet to discharge through the at least one outlet.
Claims18
A heat exchanger disposed inside a fuselage of an aircraft to perform heat exchange, the heat exchanger comprising:
- a housing;
- a medium flow path provided inside the housing through which a heat exchange medium flows;
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- at least one fan rotatably disposed inside the housing,
- wherein the fan draws air around the housing into the housing and discharges the air out of the housing, thereby promoting heat exchange between the air around the housing and the heat exchange medium flowing through the medium flow path, and providing thrust or thrust vectoring to the fuselage.
A heat exchanger disposed inside a fuselage of an aircraft to perform heat exchange, the heat exchanger comprising:
- a housing;
- a medium flow path provided inside the housing through which a heat exchange medium flows;
- a plurality of fans rotatably disposed inside the housing, the plurality of fans drawing air around the housing into the housing and discharging the air out of the housing, thereby promoting heat exchange between the air around the housing and the heat exchange medium flowing through the medium flow path;
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- at least one separation membrane provided inside or outside the housing and configured to separate airflows generated by the plurality of fans from one another or to prevent the airflows generated by the plurality of fans from interfering with one another.
A heat exchanger disposed inside a fuselage of an aircraft to perform heat exchange, the heat exchanger comprising:
- a housing having at least one suction port and at least one discharge port;
- a medium flow path provided inside the housing through which a heat exchange medium flows;
- at least one fan rotatably disposed inside the housing and configured to draw air into the housing through the at least one suction port and to discharge the air out of the housing through the at least one discharge port, thereby promoting heat exchange between the air and the heat exchange medium;
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- at least one grille member disposed at at least one of the at least one suction port and the at least one discharge port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.