Fluid cooling apparatus

• US 3,293,868 A
• Filed: 02/16/1965
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank A. Gonzalez
• Original Assignee: Frank A. Gonzalez
• Inventors: Gonzalez, Frank A.
• Application Number:
  US04/432,944
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• US Class Current: 62/3.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 19/00 Local anaesthesia syringes therefor A61M5/00; Hypothermia A61M5/42 takes precedence; cooling blood in a bypass of the arterial system A61M1/36
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3606 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3673 thermo-electric, e.g. Peltier effect, thermocouples, semi-conductors
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/44 having means for cooling or heating the devices or media

Claims

1. FLUID COOLING APPARATUS COMPRISING A BASE, A COLLECTOR PLATE MOUNTED IN SAID BASE, GUIDE FIN MEANS ON SAID COLLECTOR PLATE IN PREDETERMINED SPACED RELATION AND ARRANGED TO FORM A CIRCUITOUS FLUID PASSAGEWAY OVER THE COLLECTOR PLATE, INLET AND OUTLET MEANS IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE FLUID PASSAGEWAY, PLATE MEANS SUPERJACENT SAID COLLECTOR PLATE ENGAGEABLE WITH THE UPPER TERMINALS OF SAID GUIDE FINS TO ENCLOSE THE PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN THE INLET AND OUTLET MEANS, AT LEAST ONE THERMOCOUPLE BELOW AND IN HEAT-DISSIPATING ASSEMBLY ENGAGEABLE WITH PLATE, AND A HEAT-DISSIPATING ASSEMBLY ENGAGEABLE WITH THE LOWER EXTREMITY OF SAID BASE, SAID ASSEMBLY INCLUDING FAN MEANS FOR DISPERSING THE HEAT GATHERED BY SAID COLLECTOR PLATE UPON ACUTATION OF SAID THERMOCOUPLE.