Apparatus for active heat removal from a heat resistant container

• US 10,654,642 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2019
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• 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 J
• Assistant Examiner(s): McAllister, Michael F
• Application Number:
  US16/283,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20190185245A1
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 174524
• 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 vehicle recorder, comprising:

a crash survivable memory system (CSMS) comprising;

a transmitter system;

a crash protected memory system (CPMS); and

a transceiver system; and

a first heat absorber surrounding the CSMS;

a thermoelectric generator surrounding the first heat absorber to absorb and convert, at least in part, heat that passes through a thermal insulator and electrically coupled to and configured to provide power 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 generator.

2. The vehicle recorder of claim 1, further comprising a second heat absorber surrounding the CSMS, and which is surrounded by the first heat absorber.

3. The vehicle recorder of claim 1, wherein the transmitter system is configured to transmit electromagnetic energy in the ultra low frequency through millimeter wave wavelength spectrum.

4. The vehicle recorder of claim 1, further comprising a thermal insulator surrounding the thermoelectric generator.

5. The vehicle recorder of claim 1, wherein the thermoelectric generator is a Peltier cooling system.

6. The vehicle recorder of claim 4, where the thermal insulator comprises ceramic.

7. The vehicle recorder of claim 2, wherein the second heat absorber comprises phase change material.

8. The vehicle recorder of claim 1, wherein the first heat absorber comprises a metallic microlattice.