Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows
Abstract
The cabin cooling system includes a cooling duct positioned proximate and above upper edges of one or more windows of a vehicle to exhaust hot air as the air is heated by inner surfaces of the windows and forms thin boundary layers of heated air adjacent the heated windows. The cabin cooling system includes at least one fan to draw the hot air into the cooling duct at a flow rate that captures the hot air in the boundary layer without capturing a significant portion of the cooler cabin interior air and to discharge the hot air at a point outside the vehicle cabin, such as the vehicle trunk. In a preferred embodiment, the cooling duct has a cross-sectional area that gradually increases from a distal point to a proximal point to the fan inlet to develop a substantially uniform pressure drop along the length of the cooling duct. Correspondingly, this cross-sectional configuration develops a uniform suction pressure and uniform flow rate at the upper edge of the window to capture the hot air in the boundary layer adjacent each window.
- Inventors:
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- Golden, CO
- Broomfield, CO
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, MO (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 873546
- Patent Number(s):
- 6186886
- Assignee:
- Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, MO)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL B60H - ARRANGEMENTS OR ADAPTATIONS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING, OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-98GO10337
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- vehicle; cabin; cooling; capturing; exhausting; heated; boundary; layer; air; inner; surfaces; solar; windows; duct; positioned; proximate; upper; edges; exhaust; hot; forms; layers; adjacent; fan; draw; flow; rate; captures; significant; portion; cooler; interior; discharge; outside; trunk; preferred; embodiment; cross-sectional; gradually; increases; distal; proximal; inlet; substantially; uniform; pressure; drop; length; correspondingly; configuration; develops; suction; edge; window; capture; significant portion; solar heat; heated air; pressure drop; preferred embodiment; flow rate; inner surface; substantially uniform; boundary layer; hot air; cross-sectional configuration; upper edges; boundary layers; cabin cooling; positioned proximate; solar heated; uniform pressure; uniform flow; cooling duct; layer adjacent; upper edge; inner surfaces; exhausting heated; /454/
Citation Formats
Farrington, Robert B, and Anderson, Ren. Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows. United States: N. p., 2001.
Web.
Farrington, Robert B, & Anderson, Ren. Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows. United States.
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"Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/873546.
@article{osti_873546,
title = {Vehicle cabin cooling system for capturing and exhausting heated boundary layer air from inner surfaces of solar heated windows},
author = {Farrington, Robert B and Anderson, Ren},
abstractNote = {The cabin cooling system includes a cooling duct positioned proximate and above upper edges of one or more windows of a vehicle to exhaust hot air as the air is heated by inner surfaces of the windows and forms thin boundary layers of heated air adjacent the heated windows. The cabin cooling system includes at least one fan to draw the hot air into the cooling duct at a flow rate that captures the hot air in the boundary layer without capturing a significant portion of the cooler cabin interior air and to discharge the hot air at a point outside the vehicle cabin, such as the vehicle trunk. In a preferred embodiment, the cooling duct has a cross-sectional area that gradually increases from a distal point to a proximal point to the fan inlet to develop a substantially uniform pressure drop along the length of the cooling duct. Correspondingly, this cross-sectional configuration develops a uniform suction pressure and uniform flow rate at the upper edge of the window to capture the hot air in the boundary layer adjacent each window.},
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year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2001},
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