Back to results
US 4,542,851 AGranted
Air conditioner for a coating booth
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorZyouzi Itou
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An air conditioner for a coating booth wherein for the purpose of feeding the air into the coating booth at a predetermined temperature and humidity there are provided devices for heating the recirculating water in the storage tank to the dew point temperature and devices for electrical controlling to automatically keep the temperature and humidity of the air to predetermined values.
Claims9
An air conditioner for a coating booth comprising:
- means for drawing air through a filter;
- first means for heating the filtered air;
- means for atomizing steam into said heated air;
- means downstream from said means for atomizing for humidifying said heated air, said means for humidifying including wet walls and recirculating water flowing on said wet walls;
- a storage tank for said recirculating water;
- second means for heating said recirculating water in said storage tank;
- and
- dew point temperature control means sensitive to a dew point temperature in said coating booth and operatively connected to said second means for heating for maintaining a predetermined dew point temperature in said coating booth.
5 more elements
A method for conditioning the air for a coating booth comprising steps of:
- cleaning the air by a filter;
- heating the filtered air by a plate fin coil;
- atomizing steam into said heated air;
- humidifying the heated and atomized air by a wet wall including recirculating water;
- reheating the humidified air;
- controlling the heating of the filtered air to a predetermined temperature;
- controlling the temperature of the atomized air to a predetermined temperature;
- and
- controlling the temperature of the recirculating water according to a dew point temperature in the coating booth.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.