Personal cooling device

• US 6,192,702 B1
• Filed: 04/05/1999
• Issued: 02/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kotaro Shimogori
• Original Assignee: Kotaro Shimogori
• Inventors: Shimogori, Kotaro
• Primary Examiner(s): McDermott, Corrine
• Assistant Examiner(s): JIANG, CHEN WEN
• Application Number:
  US09/286,172
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• Field of Search: 622/593, 624/06, 624/572, 624/20
• US Class Current: 62/259.3
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2007/0063 for cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 1/04 Arrangements for portability
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 5/0017 using cold storage bodies, e.g. ice
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/082 disposed in a cold storage element not forming part of a container for products to be cooled, e.g. ice pack or gel accumulator
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/08 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/14 Thermal energy storage

Abstract

A PERSONAL COOLING DEVICE that may be slung about the neck of a wearer for providing personal cooling under various conditions and wherein the device may be stowed about the waistband of a garment of the user of the device when not used for cooling purposes.

Claims

1. A personal cooling device comprising the combination of:

a tapered body member forming an open topped housing containing a switch actuated, motor operated fan adapted to be battery energized and having a platform positioned over said fan and adapted to receive a coolant member thereon and a cap member adapted to receive said coolant member releasably secured to said open topped housing for ease of access into said housing.

2. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the side walls of said body member are apertured to permit ambient air being drawn into said housing.

3. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 2, wherein said cap member is apertured to allow the passage of air from the interior of said housing upward and outward therefrom.

4. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 3, wherein said platform is apertured to allow the passage of air therethrough and said body member has opposed tether retaining means whereby a tether may be secured thereto for placing said personal cooling device around the neck of a user thereof.

5. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 4, wherein said cooling device has a clip member whereby same may be clipped onto the waistband of a garment worn by the user thereof.

6. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 5, wherein said body member and said cap member are of molded plastic.

7. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 6, wherein said coolant comprises a gel pack congruently configured to fit within said housing member on said apertured platform.

8. The personal cooling device in accordance with claim 7, wherein said personal cooling device is conically shaped and the terminus thereof is a switch for actuating said motor operated fan.

9. A personal cooling device comprising the combination of:

a body member having an upper wide-mouth portion forming a recess and a lower conically shaped portion, said upper wide-mouth portion having a retaining means within said recess and being adapted to retain a coolant member in releasable fashion thereon;

a fan blade operatively disposed within said recess and below said retaining means, said housing contiguous to said fan blade having spaced apertures communicating to the ambient atmosphere; and

said lower conically shaped portion housing a motor operatively connected to said fan blade and being adapted to receive batteries in energizing relationship to said motor, switch and circuitry means for energizing said motor and a cap member releasably associated with said wide-mouth portion of said body member, said cap member adapted to retain said coolant member in releasable fashion therein.