Window with a ventilation device

• US 8,221,201 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2005
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Poul Christensen
• Original Assignee: Poul Christensen
• Inventors: Christensen, Poul, Harild, Jens Arboe, Madsen, Soren Møller, Herskind, Niels
• Primary Examiner(s): McAllister, Steven B
• Assistant Examiner(s): DECKER, PHILLIP
• Application Number:
  US11/665,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20100009619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,463 Days
• Field of Search: 454/196, 454/211, 454/28, 454/200, 454/222, 98/88, 49/2
• US Class Current: 454/196
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2007/026 with air flow between panes
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/10 by special construction of the frame members
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/76 by means responsive to temperature, e.g. bimetal springs
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/18 specially adapted for insertion in flat panels, e.g. in door or window-pane
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature

Abstract

A ventilation device for ventilation of a building having a double-window construction with an air space. The device communicates with the open air space and has four throttles. The first and the second throttles can selectively cut off the passage of air from the air space into a first and a second chamber, respectively, of the device. The third throttle can selectively cut off the passage of air from the first chamber and into the building. The fourth throttle can selectively cut off the passage of air between the open air space and the first and the second chamber. Temperature-sensitive actuators can activate the throttles, selectively adjusting air flow.

Claims

1. A ventilation device for ventilation of a building having an interior and an exterior comprising:

a double-window, said double window comprising at least two window glass panes and an air space, wherein said air space is between said window glass panes;

a first throttle;

a second throttle;

a third throttle;

a fourth throttle;

a first actuator is configured for actuating the first throttle, and a second actuator is configured for actuating the second throttle, the third throttle and the fourth throttle;

a first chamber wherein said first chamber is in communication with the building interior and exterior; and

a second chamber, wherein said second chamber is in communication with the building interior and exterior;

wherein said first throttle selectively controls passage of air from said air space into said first chamber, wherein said second throttle selectively controls passage of air from said air space into said second chamber;

wherein said third throttle selectively controls passage of air from said first chamber into said building interior; and

wherein said fourth throttle selectively controls passage of air between said building exterior and said first and second chamber, wherein temperature-sensitive actuators automatically control each of said first throttle, second throttle, third throttle, and fourth throttle and wherein dependent upon the temperature, 1/air from said air space will flow into the building interior or 2/air from said air space will flow to the building exterior.

2. The device of claim 1, said double window comprising a bottom frame element and an upper frame element, wherein said air space communicates with said building exterior via a first flow passage in said bottom frame element, and a third flow passage in said upper frame element;

and wherein said air space communicates with said building interior via a second flow passage in said upper frame element.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein the actuators are self-operating thermohydraulic actuators containing a liquid having a temperature expansion coefficient, wherein expansion of said liquid controls movement of at least one of said first throttle, said second throttle, said third throttle, or said fourth throttle.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein at least one actuator is located in the first chamber.

5. A device according to claim 1, wherein the device is configured as an elongate box-shaped unit for being incorporated in the upper frame element or upper frame of the double window.

6. A method of ventilating a room in a building by use of a ventilation device having at least two temperature dependent modes, the method comprising:

in a first temperature dependent mode, allowing air within an air space from beneath a first chamber and a second chamber in the ventilation device to flow into an interior of the building through the first and the second chambers via a first throttle and a second throttle; and

in a second temperature dependent mode, allowing air from the air space to flow through the first chamber to an exterior of the building by closure of the second throttle and a third throttle, and opening of a fourth throttle, simultaneously with air from the building exterior being allowed to flow into the interior of the building through the second chamber via the fourth throttle, wherein at least one actuator is configured for traveling and by which the throttles are actuated, and wherein, during a first direction of traveling, the actuator closes the fourth throttle, and, during a second direction of traveling, it closes the second and the third throttles and opens the fourth throttle.

7. A method according to claim 6, having a third temperature dependent mode wherein by partial opening of the fourth throttle air within said air space is allowed to flow between the air space and into the building interior via the first and the second chambers, simultaneously with air being allowed to flow from the exterior and into the building interior via the first and the second chambers.

8. A method according to claim 6, wherein the actuators are self-operating thermohydraulic actuators containing a liquid having a temperature expansion coefficient that determines the traveling of the throttles.