PORTABLE PERSONAL AIR-TREATMENT SYSTEM

• US 20190093909A1
• Filed: 11/02/2017
• Published: 03/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bonnie Iris Mcdonald Floyd, Ronald J. Monroe Sr.
• Original Assignee: Bonnie Iris Mcdonald Floyd, Ronald J. Monroe Sr.
• Inventors: Floyd, Bonnie Iris McDonald, Monroe, SR., Ronald J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,690,359 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/20 Lunch or picnic boxes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/02 Interior fittings; Means, e.g. inserts, for holding and packing articles
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 15/00 Purses, bags, luggage or other receptacles covered by groups A45C1/00 - A45C11/00, combined with other objects or articles A45C1/08, A45C3/14, A45C11/321, A45C13/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 2013/026 Inserts
• 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: F24F 5/0021 using phase change material [PCM] for storage
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/0821 the element placed in a compartment which can be opened without the need of opening the container itself
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/08221 Fasteners or fixing means for the element
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/08222 Shape of the element
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/804 Boxes
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/08 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/14 Thermal energy storage

Abstract

An air-treatment system comprises an air-intake chamber in fluid-flow communication with an air-treatment chamber and an air-exhaust chamber in fluid-flow communication with said air-treatment chamber. The air-intake chamber has an air-intake port placing said air-intake chamber in fluid-flow communication with an environment exteriorly of said air-intake chamber, said air-treatment chamber, and said air-exhaust chamber. The air-exhaust chamber has an exhaust-air port placing said air-exhaust chamber in fluid-flow communication with the environment exteriorly of said air-intake chamber, said air-treatment chamber, and said air-exhaust chamber. A canister assembly removably disposed within said air-intake chamber comprises a plurality of heat-conductable canisters each adapted for containing a heat-exchange substance. The canisters are disposed in spaced-apart arrangement permitting air flow between and around the canisters. A fan is disposed for drawing in air through said air-intake port, circulating said air between and around said canisters and exhausting said air through said exhaust-air port.

Claims

1. An air-treatment system comprising:

an air-intake chamber, an air-exhaust chamber, and an air-treatment chamber interposed between said air-intake chamber and said air-exhaust chamber,

wherein said air-intake chamber is in fluid-flow communication with said air-treatment chamber,

wherein said air-exhaust chamber is in fluid-flow communication with said air treatment chamber,

wherein said air-intake chamber comprises an air-intake port adapted for placing said air-intake chamber in fluid-flow communication with an environment exteriorly of said air-intake chamber, said air-treatment chamber, and said air-exhaust chamber, and

wherein said air-exhaust chamber comprises an exhaust-air port adapted for placing said air-exhaust chamber in fluid-flow communication with the environment exteriorly of said air-intake chamber, said air-treatment chamber, and said air-exhaust chamber;

a canister assembly removably disposed within said air-treatment chamber comprising at least one heat-conductable canister each adapted for containing a heat-exchange substance, said plurality of canisters disposed in spaced-apart arrangement so as to permit air flow between and around said canisters; and

a fan disposed for drawing in air through said air-intake port, circulating said air between and around said canisters and exhausting said air through said exhaust-air port.

2. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said fan is disposed adjacent one of said air-intake port and said exhaust-air port.

3. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said air-intake chamber and said air-exhaust chamber are defined by a first housing separating said air-intake chamber from said air-exhaust chamber.

4. The air-treatment system of claim 3, wherein said first housing is disposed in vertical alignment above said air-treatment chamber.

5. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said air-treatment chamber is defined by a second housing.

6. The air-treatment system of claim 5, wherein said second housing is disposed in vertical alignment below said air-intake chamber and said air-exhaust chamber.

7. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said air-exhaust chamber comprises a conduit adapted for routing air from said air-treatment chamber to said exhaust port.

8. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said canisters are spaced apart from a bottom-most surface of said second housing.

9. The air-treatment system of claim 1, further comprising liquid absorptive material disposed beneath said canister assembly adapted for receiving condensate falling from said canisters.

10. The air-treatment system of claim 1, further comprising a heat-exchange substance disposed within each of said canisters.

11. The air-treatment system of claim 10, wherein said heat-exchange substance comprises a phase-changeable substance in one of a solid or fluid phase that will change phase as a result of heat transfer.

12. The air-treatment system of claim 11, wherein said phase-changeable substance comprises frozen water.

13. The air-treatment system of claim 11, wherein said phase-changeable substance comprises frozen water treated with a substance that lowers the melting point of frozen water.

14. The air-treatment system of claim 11, wherein said phase-changeable substance comprises a frozen gel.

15. The air-treatment system of claim 11, wherein said phase-changeable substance comprises a wax material heated to a predetermined elevated temperature.

16. The air-treatment system of claim 10, wherein said heat-exchange substance comprises chemical reactants mixed together to produce one of an endothermic or exothermic reaction.

17. The air-treatment system of claim 1, wherein said at least one heat-conductable canister comprises a plurality of heat-conductable canisters.