Apparatus and method for radiant heating and cooling for vehicles
OwnerMartin A. Alpertinventor
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Abstract
The passenger compartment of a vehicle, e.g., an automobile or other automotive vehicle, train, aircraft or watercraft, is heated or cooled using radiant heating or radiant cooling. As another option the automobile or other vehicle is heated using a low velocity blower.
Claims18
A vehicle, comprising
- a passenger or user compartment of the vehicle,
- an electrical system of the vehicle, and
- wherein the vehicle includes an exclusive cooling system configured to provide cooling of the passenger or user, the exclusive cooling system comprising
- a radiant system built in as part of the vehicle and configured to provide the sole source of powered cooling of the passenger or user compartment and powered by the electrical system of the vehicle,
- wherein the radiant system is operative to provide effective cooling of the passenger or user compartment without liquid connection to the vehicle engine and without a blower blowing air into the passenger or user compartment transmitting energy by convection in the passenger or user compartment, and
- wherein the radiant system comprises a number of electrically energizable cooling devices configured to directly radiate cooling in the passenger or user compartment during traveling operation of the vehicle.
A vehicle, comprising
- a passenger or user compartment of the vehicle,
- an electrical system of the vehicle, and
- a radiant system built in as part of a vehicle, powered by the electrical system of the vehicle and configured to provide both heating or cooling in and for the passenger or user compartment,
- wherein the radiant system is operative to provide effective heating and cooling of the passenger or user compartment without a blower blowing air into the passenger or user compartment transmitting energy by convection in the passenger or user compartment, wherein for cooling the radiant system is an exclusive cooling system configured to provide cooling of the passenger or user compartment, is the sole source of powered cooling of the passenger or user compartment and is powered by the electrical system of the vehicle, and
- wherein the radiant system comprises a number of solid state heaters, and wherein the radiant system comprises a number of solid state coolers, the solid state heaters and the solid state coolers being respectively energizable to radiate directly in the passenger or user compartment heating or cooling during traveling operation of the vehicle.
A method of heating and cooling a passenger or user compartment in a vehicle that has an electrical system, a number of radiant heating devices, and an exclusive cooling system configured to provide the sole source of powered cooling of the passenger or user compartment by using a number of radiant cooling devices, comprising selectively energizing a number of the radiant heating devices to radiate heat in the passenger or user compartment when heating is desired or selectively energizing a number of the radiant cooling devices to radiate cooling in the passenger or user compartment when cooling is desired thereby selectively to provide both heating and cooling effect by directly radiating heat in the passenger or user compartment or directly radiating cooling in the passenger or user compartment, depending on whether heating or cooling in the vehicle, respectively, said radiating heat or radiating cooling comprising providing electrical energy from an electrical source of the vehicle to a number of the radiant heating devices or a number of the radiant cooling devices, respectively, so as to directly radiate heating or cooling in the passenger or user compartment of the vehicle in response to electrical energization without using a blower blowing air into the passenger or user compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.