Apparatus and method for active heat removal from a heat resistant container

• US 10,246,243 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2017
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Miller, David Lowell, Kersten, Gary, McAdams, Kendall
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Timothy
• Assistant Examiner(s): McAllister, Michael F
• Application Number:
  US15/790,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20190119029A1
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/38 with thermal insulation vacuum bottles or the like A47J41/00 ; thermal insulation of domestic water storage heaters F24H1/182
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/30 for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/182 with special features, e.g. for use in industrial environments; grounding or shielding against radio frequency interference [RFI] or electromagnetical interference [EMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 10/13 characterised by the heat-exchanging means at the junction

Abstract

A method is provided. The method comprises: receiving thermal energy at a heat resistant container; converting all or a portion of the received thermal energy into electric energy; converting the electric energy into electromagnetic energy; and radiating the electromagnetic energy.

Claims

1. A heat resistant container, comprising:

protected content;

a transmitter system;

a first heat absorber surrounding the protected content;

a thermoelectric generation system surrounding the first heat absorber and electrically coupled to the transmitter system; and

an impact resistant enclosure, part or all of which is permeable to electromagnetic spectrum in which the transmitter system transmits, where the impact resistant enclosure surrounds the thermoelectric generation system.

2. The heat resistant container of claim 1, further comprising a second heat absorber surrounding the protected content, and which is surrounded by the first heat absorber.

3. The heat resistant container of claim 2, wherein the second heat absorber comprises phase change material.

4. The heat resistant container of claim 1, wherein the first heat absorber comprises a metallic microlattice.

5. The heat resistant container of claim 1, wherein the transmitter system is configured to transmit electromagnetic energy in the ultra low frequency through millimeter wave frequency spectrum.

6. The heat resistant container of claim 1, further comprising a thermal insulator surrounding the thermoelectric generation system.

7. The heat resistant container of claim 6, wherein the thermal insulator comprises ceramic.

8. The heat resistant container of claim 6, wherein the thermoelectric generation system surrounds the first heat absorber.

9. The heat resistant container of claim 1, wherein the thermoelectric generation system is a Peltier cooling system.

10. The heat resistant container of claim 1, further comprising a power system coupled between the thermoelectric generation system and the transmitter system.

11. The heat resistant container of claim 1, wherein the protected content is a crash survivable memory system.