Cooling system
OwnerYoshihiro Ishizakiinventor
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Abstract
A cooling system for a vehicle in which a refrigerant is compressed and subsequently expanded to lower the temperature of a portion of the interior of the vehicle as well as the temperature of a refrigerated storage compartment in the vehicle. The cooling of the two different portions of the vehicle may be independently and automatically controlled. The refrigerated storage compartment is characterized by an insulated container being detachably affixed to the vehicle with a portion of the container in contact with, a portion of the cooling system that is cooled by the passage of refrigerant therethrough.
Claims5
A system for cooling portions of a transportation vehicle, said system comprising:
- (a) compressor means for providing compressed refrigerant;
- (b) an air conditioning circuit connected to said compressor means for receiving compressed refrigerant therefrom and returning refrigerant thereto, said air conditioning circuit including condensing means and first evaporating means;
- (c) a refrigeration circuit connected to said compressor means for receiving compressed refrigerant from said compressor means and returning refrigerant thereto, said refrigeration circuit including second evaporating means and a cooling plate disposed to receive refrigerant from said second evaporating means;
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- (d) a storage container detachably affixed to said vehicle, said container including a heat conducting surface maintained in a heat exchange relationship with said cooling plate when said storage container is affixed to said vehicle, said container further including means for accumulating the low temperature conducted to said heat conducting surface from said cooling plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.