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US 5,444,991 AGranted
Engine cooling apparatus
OwnerWilliam L. Coxinventor
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Abstract
An engine cooling apparatus positioned between a coolant radiator and air conditioning condenser of an associated automotive vehicle, with the cooling apparatus including a plurality of nozzle members between the condenser and radiator structure, with a fluid control operative through a control relay to effect actuation of a pump to direct fluid flow to the nozzle members upon sensing a predetermined coolant temperature within the radiator.
Claims1
An engine cooling apparatus comprising in combination,
- a condenser panel, and
- a cooling radiator, with the apparatus further including a reservoir container, and
- a fluid pump, with a first fluid delivery conduit arranged in fluid communication with the reservoir container and the fluid pump, and
- a second fluid delivery conduit arranged in fluid communication between the fluid pump directing fluid from the fluid pump, and
- the second fluid delivery conduit including a first fluid supply conduit and a second fluid supply conduit extending from the second fluid delivery conduit, with the first fluid supply conduit and the second fluid supply conduit extending between the condenser panel and the radiator, and
- a temperature sensor mounted into the radiator, and a control unit in operative communication with the temperature sensor, and the control unit arranged in operative communication with the fluid pump to effect actuation of the fluid pump upon the temperature
- sensor detecting a predetermined elevated temperature within the radiator, and
- the first fluid supply conduit includes a plurality of first nozzle members, and the second fluid supply conduit includes a plurality of second nozzle members, with each of the first nozzle members and each of the second nozzle members including a first nozzle end and a second nozzle end, with the first nozzle end arranged in facing relationship relative to the radiator, and each of the second nozzle ends arranged in facing relationship relative to the condenser panel, and
- the first nozzle end includes a first outlet port, and the second nozzle end includes a second outlet port, and the first nozzle end and the second nozzle end are of a concave configuration, and
- the first nozzle members each include a plurality of deflection cups, with each deflection cup of said deflection cups positioned in adjacency relative to one of said nozzle ends of said first nozzle end and said second nozzle end, and the deflection cup including a concave surface and a pour spout oriented between the first nozzle members and the second nozzle members, and each pour spout having an overflow conduit arranged in fluid communication between the pour spout and a second nozzle member nozzle end of said first nozzle end and said second nozzle end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.