Temperature control apparatus for controlling the temperature of objects

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11235737-B2
Application number	US-201916449662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2019
Priority date	Jun 25, 2018
Publication date	Feb 1, 2022
Grant date	Feb 1, 2022

Abstract

A temperature control apparatus for controlling the temperature, in particular for the drying, of objects, in particular vehicle bodies, having a housing, in which a cooling zone having a cooling chamber that defines a longitudinal direction is accommodated. The cooling chamber is assigned at least one cooling-air temperature control device, by means of which temperature-controlled cooling air can be produced, which can be fed to the cooling chamber. In the longitudinal direction, the cooling zone comprises a supply chamber on one longitudinal side of the cooling chamber, in which supply chamber the cooling-air temperature control device is arranged.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A temperature control apparatus for controlling a temperature of objects, comprising:
a) a housing, in which a cooling zone having a cooling chamber that defines a longitudinal direction is accommodated;
wherein
b) the cooling chamber is assigned at least one cooling-air temperature control device, by means of which temperature-controlled cooling air can be produced, which can be fed to the cooling chamber,
further wherein
c) the cooling zone comprises a supply chamber in the longitudinal direction on one longitudinal side of the cooling chamber, in which supply chamber the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is arranged, and
d) the supply chamber comprises a conditioning chamber and a pressure chamber connected fluidically thereto, wherein the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is arranged in an equipment region of the conditioning chamber and is connected fluidically on its outlet side to the pressure chamber, wherein the pressure chamber is physically arranged between the cooling chamber and the conditioning chamber and is connected fluidically to the cooling chamber by one or more air injection nozzles.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the conditioning chamber comprises an intake region, to which an inlet side of the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is fluidically connected and to which air can be fed.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one or more filter units, through which the temperature-controlled cooling air can flow, are arranged between the conditioning chamber and the pressure chamber.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the conditioning chamber comprises a discharge region, to which an outlet side of the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is connected and which is separated from the pressure chamber by a filter wall which comprises one or more filter units.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure chamber extends substantially over the length of the cooling chamber in the longitudinal direction.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein at least one blower, by means of which air can be delivered to the at least one cooling-air temperature control device, through the at least one cooling-air temperature control device and then into the cooling chamber as temperature-controlled cooling air, is arranged in the supply chamber.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one cooling-air temperature control device comprises a heat exchanger arrangement.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the heat exchanger arrangement comprises a hot-water heat exchanger and a cold-water heat exchanger, or is designed as a combined heat exchanger for hot water and cold water.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling chamber is constructed with the aid of one or more cooling zone modules, of which at least one is designed as an equipment module, in which the at least one cooling-air temperature control device can be accommodated, and/or at least one is designed as a discharge module and/or at least one is designed as an intake module.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the discharge module comprises a discharge region, to which an outlet side of the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is connected and which is separated from the pressure chamber by a filter wall which comprises one or more filter units.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the intake module comprises an intake region, to which an inlet side of the at least one cooling-air temperature control device is fluidically connected and to which air can be fed.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the supply chamber is formed on both sides of the cooling chamber.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure chamber is positioned between the cooling chamber and the conditioning chamber such that, a first side of the pressure chamber is bound by a first wall which also bounds the cooling chamber, and a second side of the pressure chamber is bound by a wall which also bounds the conditioning chamber.

Assignees

• Eisenmann Se

Inventors

• Moll Mathias
• Erhardt Reiner
• Eberhard Günter

Classifications

• F26B21/35

  Temperature; Pressure · CPC title

• F26B21/50

  Ducting arrangements from the source of air or other gases to the materials or objects being dried · CPC title

• B05D3/007 Primary

  After-treatment · CPC title

• F26B25/12

  Walls or sides; Doors · CPC title

• F26B19/00

  Machines or apparatus for drying solid materials or objects not covered by groups F26B9/00 - F26B17/00 · CPC title