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US 8,943,851 B2Granted
Evaporative cooler including one or more rotating cooler louvers
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorDavid W. Gerlach
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Abstract
An evaporative cooler may include an evaporative cooler housing with a duct extending therethrough, a plurality of cooler louvers with respective porous evaporative cooler pads, and a working fluid source conduit. The cooler louvers are arranged within the duct and rotatably connected to the cooler housing along respective louver axes. The source conduit provides an evaporative cooler working fluid to the cooler pads during at least one mode of operation.
Claims20
An evaporative cooler, comprising:
- an evaporative cooler housing comprising a duct extending therethrough;
- a plurality of porous evaporative cooler pads;
- a plurality of cooler louvers arranged within the duct and rotatably connected to the cooler housing along respective louver axes, each of the plurality of cooler louvers comprising one of the cooler pads;
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- a working fluid source conduit that provides an evaporative cooler working fluid to the cooler pads during at least one mode of operation.
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A system that utilizes an evaporative cooler working fluid, comprising:
- an evaporative cooler comprising
- a duct that directs gas through the evaporative cooler from a duct inlet to a duct outlet;
- a plurality of porous evaporative cooler pads;
- a plurality of cooler louvers that are arranged within the duct and rotate along respective louver axes, each of the plurality of cooler louvers comprising one of the cooler pads;
- and
- a working fluid source conduit that provides the working fluid to the cooler pads during at least one mode of operation;
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- a thermodynamic system that receives the gas from the duct outlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.