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Air conditioning systems for a room
Assignee: INGENIEURSBUREAU MACOMA BV A CORP OF NETHERLANDS
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Filing: 1984-06-20
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Granted: 1986-12-30
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Expires: 2004-06-20
Abstract
Abstract An air conditioning system for a room, in particular in buildings for cultivating plants or housing animals, provided with one or more heating/cooling elements of an open structure and one or more fans for circulating air along the heating/cooling elements. In the room vertical separation elements are realized, being not or hardly air permeable, such that the room is not divided in separate confined partial rooms and that in each case air can be displaced by one or more of the number of fans along one of the number of horizontal air circulation paths, determined by the positioning of the separating elements and the fans, in which air circulation paths in each case at least one heating/cooling element is provided.
Inventors
- 👤 Gerke Houwer
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 17:30
CPC Classifications
F; F24; F24F; F24F7/00; F24F7/007; A; A01; A01G; A01G9/00; A01G9/24; A01G9/246; Y; Y02; Y02A; Y02A40/00; Y02A40/10; Y02A40/25
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 25
Claim 1
Independent Claim
177 words
In a room of a building which can be employed for the cultivation of plants or to house animals, said room including walls, a floor and a ceiling and wherein an air conditioning system is provided to circulate air conditioned air therearound, the improvement wherein said air conditioning system includes at least two separation elements positioned in said room to extend in a vertical direction, each of said separation elements having opposite faces and opposite side edges, at least one of said opposite side edges being spaced from the walls of said room, each of said separation elements forming a guide for air passing thereby, and an air conditioning unit and a fan means respectively positioned adjacent the opposite faces of each of said separation elements, the air conditioning unit and fan associated with each separation element creating a horizontal flow of conditioned air around each separation element, the air conditioning unit and fan associated with each separation element being located such that adjacent air flows moving around adjacent separation elements move in parallel to one another.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
177 words
In a room of a building which can be employed for the cultivation of plants or to house animals, said room including walls, a floor and a ceiling and wherein an air conditioning system is provided to circulate air conditioned air therearound, the improvement wherein said air conditioning system includes at least two separation elements positioned in said room to extend in a vertical direction, each of said separation elements having opposite faces and opposite side edges, at least one of said opposite side edges being spaced from the walls of said room, each of said separation elements forming a guide for air passing thereby, and an air conditioning unit and a fan means respectively positioned adjacent the opposite faces of each of said separation elements, the air conditioning unit and fan associated with each separation element creating a horizontal flow of conditioned air around each separation element, the air conditioning unit and fan associated with each separation element being located such that adjacent air flows moving around adjacent separation elements move in parallel to one another.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein said separation elements are oriented in parallel with one another.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 2, wherein said separation elements are equally spaced from one another.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
38 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 2, wherein said room has opposite front and rear walls and opposite left and right walls, and wherein said separation elements extend toward said front and rear walls.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 4, wherein the opposite side edges of said separation elements are equally spaced from the adjacent front and rear walls of said room.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
38 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 4, wherein the air conditioning unit and fan associated with each separation element is located adjacent the opposite faces thereof at corresponding points between its opposite side edges.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
35 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 4, wherein one of the opposite side edges of each separation element is connected to one of the front and rear walls of said room.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
65 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 7, wherein the wall of the room to which a separation element is attached includes two openings associated with each separation element, each opening being spaced from an opposite face of the associated separation element, and wherein the air conditioning element and fan associated with each separation element is position in a respective associated opening.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 8, wherein each separation element is connected to the rear wall of said room.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 8, wherein alternate separation elements are connected to the rear wall and the front wall of said room.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
32 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 8, wherein a plurality of pairs of coplanar separation elements are connected to both the front and rear walls of said room.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
85 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 8, wherein the front and rear walls of each room include interior sides facing the separation elements in the room and exterior sides, and wherein each of said front and rear walls to which a separation element is attached includes a duct means connected to the exterior side thereof which forms an air circulation channel between the two openings in the wall which are associated with each separation element connected to the interior side thereof.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each separation element is made of a flexible, light, transparent material.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
19 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each separation element is a solid curtain.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
19 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each separation element is a fluid curtain.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
27 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each separation element extends all the way between the floor and ceiling of said room.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
20 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each air conditioning unit comprises a heating means.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
20 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein each air conditioning unit comprises a cooling means.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
35 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 17, wherein each air conditioning unit comprises adjustment means to adjust the operating temperature of the heating means independently from the other air conditioning units.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
35 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 18, wherein each air conditioning unit comprises adjustment means to adjust the operating temperature of the cooling means independently from the other air conditioning units.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
35 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of the air conditioning units comprises means to control the humidity in the air flow created by the associated fan.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
45 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 15, wherein at least one of the air conditioning units comprises means to introduce predetermined substances in suitable form into at least one of the air flows around at least one of the separation elements.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
24 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 22, wherein said predetermined substances are nutritious substances introduced in the form of aerosols.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
19 words
The room with air conditioning system as defined in claim 22, wherein said predetermined substances are pesticides against parasites.
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