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US 9,989,271 B1Granted
Air conditioning with thermal storage
OwnerCalvin Beckerinventor
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Abstract
An air conditioning system has an air conditioning thermal storage that includes one or more thermal plates. The one or more thermal plates have a first side and a second side separated by a thermally conductive plate (e.g. metal such as aluminum or copper). The first side of each of the one or more thermal plates has a primary input orifice and a primary output orifice. The second side of each of the one or more thermal plates has a secondary input orifice and a secondary output orifice. The first side of each of the one or more thermal plates is fluidly isolated from the second side of each of the one or more thermal plates providing for thermal conduction between such. The thermal plates are at least partially immersed in a material (e.g. antifreeze, vegetable beetroot) for storing cold heat.
Claims19
An air conditioning system comprising:
- a compressor;
- an outside air handler in fluid communications with the compressor;
- a thermal storage having thermal plates, the thermal plates having a first cover sheet separated from a separation sheet and a second cover sheet at an opposing side of the separation sheet and separated from the separation sheet, a primary input orifice of the first cover sheet of thermal plates is in fluid communications with the outside air handler and a primary output orifice on the first cover sheet of thermal plates is in fluid communications with the compressor;
- an inside air handler has an input and an output;
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- a fluid pump has a pump input and a pump output, the pump input is in fluid communications with a secondary output orifice on the second cover sheet of thermal plates and the pump output is in fluid communications with the input of the inside air handler, the output of the inside air handler in fluid communications with a secondary input orifice on the second cover sheet of thermal plates;
- edges of the first cover sheet are fluidly sealed to edges of the separation sheet and edges of the second cover sheet are fluidly sealed to the edges of the separation;
- whereas when the compressor runs, a first refrigerant is compressed into a liquid, cooled by the outside air handler and flows into the primary input orifice of the first side of thermal plates where the first refrigerant then evaporates, extracting heat from a material within the thermal storage and the evaporated refrigerant returns to the compressor, and
- whereas when cooling is needed, the pump operates and circulates a second refrigerant from the secondary output orifice of the second side of thermal plates into the inside air handler where the second refrigerant extracts heat as it evaporates into a gas and the refrigerant in gaseous form returns to the thermal storage where the second refrigerant condenses back into a cold liquid.
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A method of cooling comprising:
- cooling and compressing a first refrigerant into a liquid state using a compressor and outside air handler;
- flowing the first refrigerant in the liquid state through an input orifice of a first side of one or more thermal plates, the first side of one or more thermal plates interfaced to and separated from a second side of one or more thermal plates by a sheet of metal, the thermal plate(s) being situated within a thermal storage that is at least partially filled with a material;
- a primary input orifice of the first side of thermal plates is in fluid communications with the outside air handler and primary output orifice of the first side of thermal plates is in fluid communications with the compressor;
- extracting heat from the material by the first refrigerant as the first refrigerant changes state from the liquid into a gas within the first side of the thermal plate(s);
- the first refrigerant, in gaseous form, exiting the first side of the thermal plate(s) through a primary output orifice of the first side of thermal plates for returning to the compressor;
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- flowing a second refrigerant through an inside air handler, the second refrigerant in liquid form extracts heat from air flowing through the inside air handler, thereby evaporating the second refrigerant;
- flowing the second refrigerant after evaporation into the second side of the thermal plate(s) through a secondary input orifice;
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- cooling the second refrigerant within the second side of the thermal plates, the second refrigerant exiting the second side of the thermal plate(s) through a secondary exit orifice for returning to the inside air handler.
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An air conditioning thermal storage comprising:
- one or more thermal plates, the one or more thermal plates having a first side and a second side, the first side of each of the one or more thermal plates has a first cover sheet having therein a primary input orifice and a primary output orifice, the second side of each of the one or more thermal plates has a second cover sheet having therein a secondary input orifice and a secondary output orifice;
- the first side of each of the one or more thermal plates is fluidly isolated from the second side of each of the one or more thermal plates by a separation sheet, while the first side of each of the one or more thermal plates is in thermal conduction with the second side of each of the one or more thermal plates by way of the separation sheet;
- the edges of the first cover sheet and the separation sheet are sealed except for the primary input orifice and the primary output orifice for preventing leakage;
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- the edges of the second cover sheet and the separation sheet are sealed except for the secondary input orifice and the secondary output orifice for preventing leakage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.