U.S. patent application number 12/458404 was filed with the patent office on 2011-01-13 for air-conditioning clothes used in car.
Invention is credited to Tong-Bou Chang, Deng-Maw Lu, Siou-Ci Syu, Wen-Yu Yeh.
Application Number | 20110005236 12/458404 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 43426401 |
Filed Date | 2011-01-13 |
United States Patent
Application |
20110005236 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chang; Tong-Bou ; et
al. |
January 13, 2011 |
Air-conditioning clothes used in car
Abstract
An air-conditioning clothes system used in car, which has an
air-conditioning device having a cooling unit and with
air-conditioning clothes to be worn by the driver and passengers.
The air-conditioning clothes include, in its interior, a pipe duct
having air openings. The air-conditioning device is connected
through connection pipe ducts to the air-conditioning pipe duct of
the clothes so that cold air is driven by a convection fan located
at the cooling end of the cooling unit of the air-conditioning
device. When it is hot, cool air is delivered into the
air-conditioning pipe duct of the air-conditioning clothes and is
blown from the air openings to the ambient environment. When it is
cold, warm air produced by a heating end converted by the cooling
unit and driven by the convection fan to be dispersed into the
ambient environment through the air openings provided on the
air-conditioning pipe duct of the clothes.
Inventors: |
Chang; Tong-Bou; (Yung-Kang
City, TW) ; Lu; Deng-Maw; (Yung-Kang City, TW)
; Yeh; Wen-Yu; (Yung-Kang City, TW) ; Syu;
Siou-Ci; (Yung-Kang City, TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
ROSENBERG, KLEIN & LEE
3458 ELLICOTT CENTER DRIVE-SUITE 101
ELLICOTT CITY
MD
21043
US
|
Family ID: |
43426401 |
Appl. No.: |
12/458404 |
Filed: |
July 10, 2009 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
62/3.5 ;
62/419 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 13/0025 20130101;
B60N 2/5635 20130101; B60N 2/5692 20130101; B60H 1/00264
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
62/3.5 ;
62/419 |
International
Class: |
F25B 21/02 20060101
F25B021/02; F25D 17/08 20060101 F25D017/08 |
Claims
1. An air-conditioning clothes used in car, which is formed by an
air-conditioning device in cooperation with air-conditioning
clothes, wherein: said air-conditioning device is provided with a
cooling unit within a frame body, a convection fan with respect to
the cooling unit being provided on the frame body, and connection
pipe ducts being connected on the frame body for communication;
said air-conditioning clothes is worn on user's body, in which an
air-conditioning pipe duct is built in the interior, a number of
air openings being provided on said air-conditioning pipe duct,
tube couplers with respect to the connection pipe ducts of the
air-conditioning device being provided on the outside of said
air-conditioning clothes.
2. An air-conditioning clothes used in car as claimed in claim 1,
wherein said cooling unit is thermoelectric cooling chip.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] This invention relates to an air-conditioning clothes used
in car, particularly to a novel air-conditioning clothes applied in
a compact and light-weighted car of plain type such that driver and
passengers can get either cooling or heating effect according to
different demand in the driving course.
[0003] 2. Brief Description of Prior Art
[0004] Accompanying with the change of high-technology industries
with each passing day, each item of product renders the features of
light-weight, slim, short and compact as sales appeal. Moreover, it
happens that land becomes narrow and people dense everywhere in the
world due to increasingly growing population. Land available is
becoming smaller and smaller so that design of car in modern world
is apt to become compact and convenient. Moreover, the fuel cost
nowadays stays in high, even the situation of fuel depletion might
be happened in the future, accordingly plain car having
light-weight and compactness is becoming the future trend. For
example, an Indian company--Tata will launch a plain type of car
recently on the market, which remarkably reduce oil consumption by
means of simple interior decoration and equipment so as to achieve
the object of compactness and light-weight.
[0005] Air conditioning system plays an important role in achieving
the object of compactness and light-weight of car. Inasmuch as the
air-conditioning system of car conducts temperature regulation for
the whole car cabin, the affected space range by air-conditioning
is bigger. Thus, the load of air-conditioning becomes large such
that the concerned air conditioning system has bigger volume and
weight accordingly. In view of the influence by the set-up of this
air-conditioning system, car is unable to be made compact as well
as light-weight. In other words, this car not only has bigger
energy-consumption, but also has bigger fuel consumption during
drive course.
[0006] Therefore, car of some maker is not equipped with
air-conditioning system in order that the volume of car might be
shrinked and energy as well as fuel consumption might be reduced.
However, the interior of car is a closed cabin the internal
temperature of which is apt to become relatively hot when driving
in hot region and irradiated by sunshine, even to influence the
passenger's health. On the other hand, the temperature in the car
cabin will go down sharply to make passenger feel uncomfortable
when it is subject to double influence by ambient low temperature
and by the blowing of cold air resulted from car driving in cold
region. At any rate, air-conditioning equipment is still an
indispensable item either in hot or cold region. How to set-up
air-conditioning equipment on a compact, light-weighted car of
plain type is a critical issue of car industries nowadays.
[0007] FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing a structure of prior art.
As shown in the figure, an air-conditioning device used on
motorcycle is essentially provided, in which a compressor (32) is
driven by the engine (31) adjacent to it through a belt (311), the
compressor (32) being connected by the cyclic tubings (321), (322),
which extends along the pedal to the front body, to an evaporator
(33) provided in the interior of body lower portion, an expansion
valve (34), a receiver (35) and a condenser (36). The evaporator
(33) is provided with a blower (331) having an external wind hood
so that the outside air passing through the evaporator (33) is
delivered by the blower (331) to the discharge pipe duct. The
refrigerant within the tubings can absorb the heat contained in the
air so as to obtain required cooled air by the exhaust of heat
contained in the air. The refrigerant leaving the evaporator (33)
is compressed by the compressor (32) and is delivered to the
condenser (36). In the above cycle operation, the receiver (35) is
used to maintain the refrigerant quantity and to eliminate water
content in refrigerant, and the expansion valve (34) is used to
limit the flow rate of refrigerant. When driver of motorcycle wears
the air-conditioning clothes (37) and the air-conditioned helmet
(38), the automatic gas-tight female coupler (391) assembled on the
tube end of the flexible pull-out tube (39) is drawn to couple with
the male couplers (371), (381) so as to get air condition effect
during the driving of motorcycle.
[0008] Although the above motorcycle air-conditioning device
possesses expected effectiveness of providing air-conditioning
effect during driving for motorcycle rider, but it has been found
in practical application that the above structure is applied only
on motorcycle, not on car. Additionally, the design of the above
structure has refrigeration components including evaporator,
expansion valve, receiver and condenser. Accordingly, this
structure will cause bigger volume and weight which renders the car
unable to achieve the object of compactness and light weight and
makes the car consume more energy and fuel. Thus, this motorcycle
air conditioning device still has space for improvement on its
total structure design.
[0009] In view of the above facts, inventor of this invention
unveils an air-conditioning clothes used in car according to the
research and improvement conducted on conventional structure and
shortcomings, based on profound experience in R&D and
manufacturing in relevant field, with a purpose to achieve better
performance value in practical application.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0010] The present invention relates to an air-conditioning clothes
used in car, which is essentially provided with an air-conditioning
device having a cooling unit and with air-conditioning clothes to
be worn by driver and passengers. The air-conditioning clothes, in
its interior, includes an air-conditioning pipe duct having a
number of air openings thereon. The air-conditioning device is
connected through connection pipe ducts to the air-conditioning
pipe duct of the air-conditioning clothes so that cold air driven
by a convection fan arranged at the cooling end of the cooling unit
of the air-conditioning device, when weather gets hot, is delivered
into the air-conditioning piping of the air-conditioning clothes
and is blown out from the air openings to the ambience of the
driver and passengers. On the other hand, when weather gets cold,
warm air passing through the heating end converted by the cooling
unit and driven by the convection fan is dispersed around the
ambience of the driver and passengers through the air openings
provided on the air-conditioning pipe duct of the air-conditioning
clothes. Thus, the air-conditioning clothes can be applied in a
plain type car having compactness and light-weight feature without
built-in air-conditioning system of compressor type in the interior
such that driver and passengers can get either cooling or heating
effect according to different demand in the driving course. It can
increase more practical effectiveness in the integral embodiment
and usage thereof.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] FIGS. 1 is a schematic view showing the structure of the
present invention.
[0012] FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing the using state of the
present invention.
[0013] FIG. 3 is a schematic view of prior art.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0014] The technical content, object and effectiveness of the
present invention will become more apparent by the detailed
description of preferred embodiments of the present invention in
conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
[0015] Firstly referring to FIGS. 1 of a schematic view of the
structure of the present invention, the present invention is formed
by an air-conditioning device (1) in cooperation with
air-conditioning clothes (2), wherein:
[0016] the air-conditioning device (1) is provided with a cooling
unit (12), which can be a thermoelectric cooling chip, within a
frame body (11). A convection fan (13) with respect to the cooling
unit (12) is provided on the frame body (11), and connection pipe
ducts (14) are connected on the frame body (11) for communication
use;
[0017] the air-conditioning clothes (2) can be worn on user's body,
in which air-conditioning pipe duct (21) is built in the interior.
A number of air openings (211) are provided on the air-conditioning
pipe duct (21). Tube couplers (22) with respect to the connection
pipe ducts (14) of the air-conditioning device (1) are provided on
the outside of the air-conditioning clothes (2).
[0018] With this structure, as shown in FIG. 2 of a schematic view
of the using state of this invention, the air-conditioning device
(1) can be installed on a plain car having compactness,
light-weight feature without built-in compressor type
air-conditioning system in the interior. Then, the air-conditioning
clothes (2) should be worn on each body of driver and passengers,
and the connection pipe ducts (14) of the air-conditioning device
(1) are coupled with the tube couplers (22) of the air-conditioning
clothes (2). As the weather is hot, the air-conditioning device (1)
is activated such that the cooling end of the cooling unit (12) is
in a low temperature state. By means of rotation of the convection
fan (13), cold air is delivered through the connection pipe ducts
(14) to the air-conditioning pipe duct (21) of the air-conditioning
clothes (2), and then is blown out from the air openings (211)
provided on the air-conditioning pipe duct (21) so as to cool down
the ambience of driver and passengers. On the other hand, when
weather gets cold, a hot end is converted by the cooling unit (12)
to raise temperature. Similarly by means of rotation of the
convection fan (13), warm air passing through the hot end is
dispersed into the ambience of driver and passengers so as to
achieve a heating effect.
[0019] The above embodiment and drawings are not used to limit the
structural aspect of dimension of the present invention.
Appropriate variations or modifications conducted by the person
with general acknowledge in this art is regarded to be still within
the scope of the invention.
[0020] Based on the foregoing, it is apparent from the element
constitution and the implement embodiment that the air-conditioning
clothes of the present invention, when compared with conventional
structure, is essentially provided with an air-conditioning device
having a cooling unit, and with air-conditioning clothes to be worn
by driver and passengers. The air-conditioning device is connected
through connection pipe ducts to the air-conditioning pipe duct of
the air-conditioning clothes. When weather gets hot, the cold air
can be driven by means of the convection fan in cooperation with
the cooling end of the cooling unit, and is delivered through the
connection pipe ducts to the air-conditioning pipe duct of the
air-conditioning clothes, and then is blown out from the air
openings provided on the air-conditioning pipe duct so as to cool
down the ambience of driver and passengers. On the other hand, when
weather gets cold, a hot end is converted by the cooling unit (12)
so as to raise temperature. Similarly by means of rotation of the
convection fan, warm air passing through the hot end is dispersed
around the ambience of driver and passengers so as to achieve a
heating effect. In this manner, the present invention can be
applied in a plain car having compactness and light-weight feature
without built-in air-conditioning system of compressor type in the
interior such that driver and passengers can get either cooling or
heating effects according to different demands in the driving
course. It can increase more practical effectiveness in the
integral embodiment and usage thereof.
[0021] Summing up above, the above embodiments of this invention
can reach expected effectiveness, and the specific structure
disclosed herein has yet not seen in the prior art of the same
category of product, even has not been opened to the public before
application.
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