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US 6,318,113 B1Granted
Personalized air conditioned system
OwnerHans F. Levy, Peter G. Betzinventors
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The invention involves the personal air conditioning of individual workstations in an open office space layout. The individual workstation's air is supplied by a major air plenum located under a horizontal surface of the workstation. The conditioned air is directed by a smaller self-contained air terminal located under a floor representing a larger major air plenum or chamber. The conditioned air is supplied to the individual workstations at or near the atmospheric pressure. The multiple of smaller air terminals are the movers of the conditioned air by way of driving fans installed therein and activated as the need arises. The conditioned air is moved from the smaller air terminals by flexible air tubes to the air plenum mounted under the desk surface. A person situated at the workstation can control the direction of air emanating from the front of the personalized air outlet plenum toward the person in multiple directions. Further, the person can also control the volume of the personal air by being able to divert some of the air away from the person through a wall in the desk or through a wall of a room partition to an adjoining space. The person at the workstation has the option of dividing the main air stream either to a frontal outlet directed at the person or to an outlet away from the person to enter the general atmosphere of the work space.
A personalized air conditioned system consisting of a horizontal work surface having a back wall and being supported at a distance from a floor, a first air plenum is supported on said back wall, said first air plenum having a fan therein to generate a stream of air, said stream of air is delivered toward a second air plenum having a frontal air outlet by way of a flexible tube, said second air plenum is mounted under the surface of said horizontal work surface in such a manner so as to deliver a stream of air from said frontal air outlet of said second air plenum to a person situated in front of said horizontal work surface, said frontal outlet of said second air plenum has means for directing said stream of air emanating from said front of said second plenum in a multiple of directions, said second air plenum further has damper means for controlling the volume of the air emanating from said front of said second air plenum, said damper also is instrumental in diverting air in said first air plenum in an opposite direction to the outside environment through a vent located in said back wall.
A personalized air conditioned system having a horizontal work surface and a back wall being supported by a floor, said floor having a major air plenum or air chamber underneath said floor, a self-contained air terminal having a driven fan therein being installed in said major air plenum under said floor, said fan delivering a stream of air into a first air plenum installed on said back wall by way of a first flexible air hose, said stream of air is further delivered by way of a second flexible air hose to a second air plenum being mounted under said horizontal work surface to deliver a stream of air toward a person situated in front of said workstation, said second air plenum having means for diverting some of said stream of air in said first air plenum to an outlet in said back wall to deliver a flow of air into the general environment.
A personalized air conditioned work environment including a multiple of room dividing partition walls, each of said walls having an air plenum mounted thereon and each of the walls is assigned to a workstation, a multiple of self-contained air terminals installed in an area beneath a floor on which said partitions and said workstations are supported, said area beneath said floor representing a major air plenum, said multiple of air terminals each having a driven fan therein to deliver a stream of air by way of a flexible tube to at least one or more of each of said air plenums mounted on each of said partition walls, each of said air plenums mounted on said partition walls has means for delivering a stream of conditioned air to either side of said walls.
A method of air conditioning an open office space having a multiple of personalized air conditioned workstations therein constituting a system, comprising the steps of:
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