Patent Grant
11499760
The field of the invention relates to a rotating scalable heating and cooling apparatus that receives in ambient air, via ducted fans, and separates the drawn air into hot and cold states by spinning it into a self-contained vortex. More precisely, it allows the hot air (less dense) molecules to pass through the front opening while not allowing the cold air molecules to pass through. The larger dense cold air molecules have nowhere to go so they are forced onto the tip and angle of the exposed surface of the V-Cone and travels the path of least resistance down the center of the outer vortex which is creating a constant vacuum. As the main rotating spin chamber spins the airflow into a centrifugal vortex in one direction, around the horizontal tube, the air inlet tubes are positioned in such a way that the centrifugal force allows the rotating spin chamber to rotate in the opposite direction. The use of rotating magnetic levitation attachments, or the like, in combination with the on-board generators allows the invention to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. The entire invention along with the understanding how air separation on a molecular scale works, allows the invention to be scalable of any size and configuration with an incredibly high operating efficiency rate.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,952,281 issued on Mar. 27, 1934 to Ranque Georges Joseph discloses an invention that relates to a method for automatically obtaining from a compressible fluid (gas or vapor) under pressure, a current of hot fluid and a current of cold fluid, that transformation of the initial fluid into two currents of different temperatures taking place without the help of any movable mechanical instrument, merely through the work of the molecules of fluid upon one another.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,907,174 issued on Oct. 6, 1959 to Hendal Willem Pieter discloses an invention that relates to a method of operating a vortex tube within which a gas stream is expanded with gyratory motion about the tube axis to separate the gas into hot and cold fractions, and from which tube gas is discharged continuously in a manner dependent upon the particular purpose to which the tube is put, and to an improved vortex tube.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,208,229 issued on Sep. 28, 1965 to Charles Da Fulton discloses an invention that relates to improvements in vortex tubes and more specifically to the design and construction of vortex tubes capable of emitting colder and hotter streams of gas, operating more efficiently, being more compact and more cheaply manufactured, and being more readily applied to useful purposes.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,461,676 issued on Aug. 30, 1969 to Lester W. Toelke and Irven E. Hanson discloses an invention that relates to improvements in a vortex tube apparatus wherein a vortex tube converter is provided for receiving a gas from an inlet tube and converting it into a hot portion and a cooler portion.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,302,949 issued on Dec. 1, 1981 to Antonio A. Trimboli Longhetto discloses an invention that relates to heating and cooling in a controlled manner. The invention can be used, for example, for thermal conditioning of areas used for industrial purposes, and for the air-conditioning of domestic environments.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,327,728 issued on Jul. 12, 1994 to Lev E. Tunkel discloses an invention relates to vortex tubes. More particularly, the present invention relates to design and construction of vortex tubes.
The use of vortex tubes to implement systems for emitting hot and cold gas streams are well known. The above aforementioned patents use a compressed gas source, via a stationary compressor and hose, to connect to the apparatus. This limits their efficiency, size, and ability to be scaled. None of the above inventions and patents, by themself or in combination of some type, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed.
The HVAC On Demand Via High And Low Pressure Vortex Separation Apparatus With Rotating Spin Chamber is designed for heating and cooling applications for residential, commercial, industrial, maritime, and United States Military purposes. The heating and cooling device includes a plurality of ducted fans, air delivery tubes, air backflow stops, a rotating spin chamber that has a plurality of uniquely configured baffle extensions, a horizontal tube, charging generators, using magnetic levitation design attached to bearing housing or the like, a main airflow separation tube, a V-Cone and VorxScrew Assemble, a series of gear mechanisms and motors, a variable heat pump exchanger, a main turbine fan, a series of reversing tubes, and an assisting exit fan.
In its simplest form, the ducted fans when turned on take in surrounding ambient air into a series of air delivery tubes. These airflow delivery tubes have air backflow stops that keep airflow traveling in one direction in the event of a ducted fan malfunction. As soon as the airflow exits air delivery tubes, it enters a series of openings in the rotating spin chamber. As the ambient airflow enters, it is passed through a plurality of interior baffles that extend into the center of the rotating spin chamber. These baffle extensions are configured in such a way that it spins an efficient vortex of air, even at its lowest setting.
As the vortex starts spinning around the horizontal tube, the interior left wall of the spin chamber forces the vortex to travel in one direction toward the front of the unit through the main airflow separation tube. Volumes of air flow into the main airflow separation tube. This allows the apparatus to not be limited to any particular size with scaling achievable. As the vortex of air travels to the end of the main airflow separation tube, the vortex is tightened into a more compressed state as it approaches the V-Cone assembly. As this happens, it separates the air molecules into hot and cold separate states. The hot air molecules become less dense and more separated, while the cold air molecules become more dense and heavier.
This V-Cone assembly is not limited to any particular configuration or size for its purpose is to allow the less dense hot air molecules to pass through the opening while forcing the larger and more dense cold air molecules onto the exposed angular surface of the V-Cone. The cold air molecules have no where to go, so they take the path of least resistance and automatically travel in the opposite direction through the center of the outer vortex. This simple approach of allowing the hot air molecules to pass through the front opening and not allowing the cold air molecules to pass through is what separates the air into hot and cold airstreams. The more closed the V-Cone position is, the hotter the hot end gets. The cold end also simultaneously changes with temperature drop in conjunction with a more closed V-Cone position. At the same time, the faster the ducted fans are moving, it has the same effect; the hot end of the apparatus becomes hotter and the cold end simultaneously becomes cooler. This feature allows a dual temperature control system for the air based on the speed of the fans and the positioning of the V-Cone.
Once the hot air is allowed to pass though the opening, it enters a heat pump exchanger. This heat pump exchanger has a 180-degree fitting that is attached to a motor that allows it to be placed in an open or closed position. When the heat pump exchanger is in a open position it allows the hot air to be mixed with ambient air also drawn in through the device, thus conditioning the air for heating and cooling areas with ventilation while exiting the front of the unit through the main turbine fan. At the same time, the cold air enters the 180-degree fitting and reversing tubes and is redirected out the back of the apparatus. In contrast, when the heat pump exchanger is in the closed position the hot air enters the 180-degree fitting and is redirected to the back of the unit while simultaneously allowing the cold air to exit through the front main turbine fan.
As this entire process is occurring in real time while the apparatus is initially turned on, the rotating spin chamber begins to spin in the direction opposite of the interior vortex created. As the inner vortex, shown in the drawings, is spinning counterclockwise the rotating spin chamber itself rotates in a clockwise direction. Vice versa, if the inner vortex spins clockwise, the rotating spin chamber revolves counterclockwise. In these drawings, the rotating spin chamber spins in a clockwise direction from the vacuum created by the ducted fans. As the rotating spin chamber spins in this clockwise direction, the vacuum created by the ducted fans removes airflow from the trajectory of the spin chamber's revolution, thus reducing unwanted resistance and allowing it to rotate even faster. Also, since the inner vortex of the spin chamber is spinning in the opposite direction, it creates a centrifugal force which allows the rotating spin chamber to spin even faster. Further, by adding magnetic levitation attachments, or the like with bearing house placement(s), it removes unwanted friction otherwise caused by standard bearing systems. This speeds up the revolutions of the rotating spin chamber even more. The rotating spin chamber is designed in such a way that it is configured to spin at an incredible speed with the least amount of friction. This allows extremely high operating rates of efficiency. As the rotating spin chamber spins, it activates a plurality of on board electrical generators that take the otherwise wasted mechanical energy and converts it into electrical energy. This electrical energy is recycled back into the invention, via onboard power inverters, and increases the overall efficiency of the entire apparatus.
One objective of the invention is to provide a scalable heating and cooling system with limited moving parts to provide on demand temperature control settings, via high and low pressure vortex separation, with no use of any compressors, attached hoses, or refrigerants.
Also, an objective of the invention is to have pluralities of extended baffle extensions that protrude into the spin chamber, whereas each one is positioned differently than the one it precedes.
Accordingly, it is a principal objective of the invention to create an advanced rotating spin chamber that is configured in such a way to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. This will be accomplished by spinning a self-contained vortex in one direction through the center of the rotating spin chamber, while the entire rotating spin chamber spins in the opposite direction using the effect of the vacuum created by the ducted fans. This process in combination with the onboard charging generators positioned on both sides of the rotating spin chamber allow the invention to operate at maximum efficiency.
Still yet, objectives of the invention are to create a main airflow separation tube that can be scaled, which separates ambient air into hot and cold airstreams by separating hot air molecules from the cold air molecules and only allowing the less dense hot air molecules to pass through the front opening.
It is a further objective of the invention to have a scalable heat pump exchanger that allows the hot and cold air to change directions by utilizing a motor that moves a 180-degree fitting into alternate positions.
When the invention is turned on it creates hot and cold air simultaneously. Even at its lowest fan setting, the present invention can also increase the temperature with or without the use of additional electrical energy. The lowest fan speed setting slows down the airflow to some degree, nonetheless the air has temperature changes because the vortex is still being compressed by the V-Cone. As the fans spin at a constant speed, the temperature can be adjusted by compressing the vortex to make changes to the hot and cold air product. This is done by setting the V-Cone at a desired depth or height in the main airflow separation tube hot end opening. The temperature adjustment mechanism is a two-phase system: The speed of the ducted fans and the positioning of the V-Cone work in correlation with each other when applying various temperature settings. The present invention has a dual approach when addressing temperature needs by using various combinations of assembly or individual processes to change temperature settings in real time.
These and other objectives of the present invention will become readily apparent upon further review of the following specifications and drawings. The apparatus can change the temperature with combinations of various assembly or be used as individual processes.
Turning now descriptively to the drawings, similar reference characters denote like elements throughout the various views. The figures illustrate an example embodiment comprising of a high-speed fan delivery system, spin chamber, airflow gates, and rotating spin chamber.
The present invention engages by turning the ducted fans to the on position.
The ducted fans are equipped with an optional heat sensing clutch plate 5. The drive portion of a clutch plate typically rotates on a conventional engine with a pully. The other half of the clutch plate 7 rotates with the fan blade, this is called the driven portion. Since there is no pully in this fan clutch, it is constantly engaged until the temperature reaches a certain point. When this happens, the fan clutch disengages and stops the load on the fan blades. The ducted fans contain rotor blades 1, an electric motor 2 a stator 3, fan shroud 4, and an optional clutch plate 5. As air flows through the ducted fan, the blades spin in a centrifugal pattern.
The ducted fans are connected to a series of air delivery tubes 9.
Further,
As the vortex is created around the horizontal tube 19, the rotating spin chamber uses the centrifugal force of the vortex with the assisted vacuum of the ducted fans 8 as well. This creates momentum for the rotating spin chamber to spin in the opposite direction.
As the rotating spin chamber creates an interior vortex in one direction, while the chamber itself spins in the opposite direction, the interior vortex originates in the main airflow separation tube 35.
When the invention is turned on with its lowest setting, it forces a spiral motion around the main air separation tube 35 and the excess airflow has nowhere to go so it creates a backdraft suction effect at the rear of the unit 36. This backdraft is created automatically no matter what speed setting the ducted fans are on or how fast the vortex is spinning. As the airflow spins toward the front of the apparatus, the molecules in the hot air 43 when comparing volume of air introduced to the apparatus, the hot and cold air molecules share different properties. The hot air 43 molecules (Black lines) are moving at a much faster rate than the molecules of the cold air 44 (White lines). Because of this, the molecules in the hot air tend to be further apart from each other, giving the hotter air a lower density. In contrast, the cold air becomes denser with weighted molecules.
As the V-Cone 37 is slightly closed, it limits the space 38 where the air molecules can fit through the front opening to exit. For this reason, since the molecules in the hot air are less dense than the cold air, the opening only allows the hot air molecules to pass through the opening before any cold air molecules can pass through. The faster the vortex spins; the least amount of cold air molecules can enter because the less dense hot air molecules are pushed through first. This allows it to get hotter when the vortex is spinning faster and specifically when the position of the V-Cone 37 is tightened closed. Since the vortex never stops, it mostly allows the less dense (lighter or hot air) to pass through first.
Since there is no room for the larger cold air molecules to exit the front of the Vorxscrew Assembly 41 as it is adjusted more closed, there is only one place they can go. They automatically keep spinning in the same direction and are forced onto the exposed angle of 39 of the V-Cone 37. Since the cold air molecules are denser than the hot air molecules, they spin around the V-Cone 37 and follow the path of least resistance through the center of the outer perimeter self-contained vortex.
Once the spinning air arrives at the Vorxscrew Assembly 41, the V-Cone 37 and Gear Mechanism 40 forces the low pressure (cold air 44) into a reverse direction down the center of the high-pressure vortex. The cold air then enters the center of the horizontal tube 19 leading to the left side of the apparatus and the cold air exits out the back side of the apparatus.
The Vorxscrew Assembly 41 to the right of the apparatus consists of a V-Cone 37, Screw Gear Mechanism 40, a motor 42, which opens and closes the V-Cone 37 and a Screw Gear Mechanism 40. Screw gears are used for offset shafts that are perpendicular to each other that mate the gears so that when the motor 42 turns, it opens and closes the V-Cone 37. As the V-Cone 37 closes the space 38 tighter, it increases the high pressure of the vortex and the hot air 43 increases in temperature and the cold air 44 temperature drops simultaneously.
The Heat Pump Exchanger 45 contains a thermocouple 51 located directly behind the main front turbine fan that senses the temperature and controls the position of the V-Cone 37. This works in combination with any typical wall mounted thermostat and controls the temperature of the airflow that is distributed throughout the building.
The main unit comprises of all the parts mentioned above connected to create an efficient system.
Contributively, as the rotating spin chamber 27 starts to spin, it converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, via a generator 28 positioned on the left side of the rotating spin chamber 27 and a right generator 29 located on the right side of the rotating spin chamber 27. They are connected via magnetic bearings 30, or the like, at the front and back of the spin chamber that allow the spin chamber 27 to rotate in a near frictionless environment. As the rotating spin chamber 27 revolves, it turns a coil generator 31 placed on both sides that captures the mechanical energy as it spins and converts it into electrical energy.
This increases the efficiency of the entire unit by capturing energy that would otherwise be wasted. A magnetic bearing 32, or the like, is a type of bearing that supports a load using magnetic levitation without physical contact. These near frictionless bearings enable levitation from a rotating shaft and permit relative motion with low friction and limit mechanical wear. Magnetic bearings 32 support the highest speeds of any kind of bearing and have no maximum relative speed. Electrical contacts on both generators will close the circuit and enable mechanical energy from the rotating spin chamber to move electron charges into the wire of its windings 33 and convert the mechanical energy that would be otherwise be wasted into additional electrical energy which can be recycled back into the unit.
As the airflow spins toward the front of the apparatus, the molecules in the hot air 43 (Black lines) are moving at a much faster rate than the molecules of the cold air 44 (White lines). Because of this, the molecules in the hot air tend to be further apart from each other, giving the hot air a lower density. This means, that for the same volume of air, cold air has a higher rate of molecules and becomes even more dense.
As the V-Cone 37 is slightly closed, it limits the space 39 where the less dense air molecules can travel first through the front opening to exit. The air molecules in the hot air are less dense than that of cold air; the opening only allows the hot air molecules to pass through before any cold air molecules can pass through.
As stated previously, since there is no room for the denser cold air molecules to exit the front of the V-Cone 37 as it is adjusted to a closed setting 38, there is only one place they can go. They automatically keep spinning in the same direction and are forced onto the angled face of the V-Cone 37. Since the cold air molecules are more dense than the hot air molecules, they spin around the V-Cone 37 and follow the path of least resistance through the center of the separation chamber which happens to be the center of the outer perimeter vortex.
In this example, the heat pump exchanger 45 is on the open position. When in the open position, it allows the hot air to travel to the front of the unit while redirecting the cold air through a series of reversing tubes 56. These tubes allow the airflow to switch directions by changing the position of the heat pump exchanger 45.
Once the spinning vortex air hits the Vorxscrew Assembly 41, the V-Cone 37 and Gear Mechanism 40 forces the low pressure (cold air 44) into a reverse direction down the center of the high-pressure vortex. The cold air then enters the center of the horizontal tube 19 leading to the left side of the unit and the cold air exits out the back side of the unit.
The Vorxscrew Assembly 41 on the right side of the apparatus consists of a V-Cone 37, Screw Gear Mechanism 40, a motor 42, which opens and closes the V-Cone 37 and a Screw Gear Mechanism 40. Screw gears are used for offset shafts that are perpendicular to each other that mate the gears so that when the motor turns, it opens and closes the V-Cone 37.
As the V-Cone 37 closes the space 38, it increases the high-pressure of the vortex and the hot air 43 gets hotter and the cold air 44 gets colder simultaneously. The hot airflow is forced out of the main front turbine fan 52 and diverts the cold air to the back of the unit 57.
This self-containing vortex spin chamber is the heart of invention. It is not limited to any size or configuration; giving it the ability to be scaled to fit all applications.
Further noted,
Turning to all future applications of the instant invention,
Once the ducted fans 8 draw in ambient air 11 it enters the rotating spin chamber 27 and circulates around the horizontal tube 19. This creates a rotating vortex as explained above. The vortex 61 created forces circular airflow through the main air flow separation tube 35 where the variably adjustable V-Cone 37 allows the hot air 43 molecules to pass through the front and forces the cold air 44 molecules down the center of the main vortex.
As you follow the hot air up the main airflow separation tube 35 and Vorxscrew Assembly 41, note the heat pump exchanger 45 is in the closed position where it enters the 180-degree return fitting 63. As you follow the hot air down through the exit fan at the bottom 64, it loops back to the roof of the house where it is exhausted through a roof vent 65.
Also note, the cold air 44 exiting the bottom of the system. The cold air passes through another 180-degree fitting 66 and travels back to the top of the heat pump exchanger 45 where it is locked in the closed position. Since the heat pump exchanger is in the closed position, the cold air 44 flows directly to the front of the unit where it mixes with ambient air and the main turbine fan 52 at the front of the unit, which passes the cold air 44 through the duct work 67 and throughout the vent openings 68 into the house. A thermocouple 51 controls the positioning of the V-Cone motor 42 and creates a temperature based on the preferred setting of the thermostat.
In small residential applications for cooling a typical room,
In commercial applications, the present invention is scalable and can be installed on a roof of a commercial building.
Concluding,
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The instant invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and it is therefore desired that the present embodiment be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive.
This application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 63/018,221, filed Apr. 30, 2020.
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