Abstract: The invention provides a combination of a kit for air filtration and an air-conditioning unit, including an air-conditioning unit of the type installed inside a room, having a front, back, top, bottom and side walls, and a compartment having an air intake port, air outlet aperture and means for engaging with a wall of the air-conditioning unit, so as to form a single body when engaged, the compartment being sized to enclose a power source and an air filter attached at its air inlet to the port for propelling filtered air through said aperture into the air-conditioning unit.

Abstract: A water collection and dispensing machine having a primary housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, an air blower structured to draw air into the primary housing through the air inlet and push air out of said primary housing through the air outlet. The water collection and dispensing machine further includes an evaporator coil structured to cycle a cold refrigerant liquid therethrough, the evaporator coil being disposed in line with the air inlet so that the air drawn into the primary housing through the air inlet passes thereover and moisture therefrom condenses on an exterior surface of the evaporator coil so that it may be collected in the form of water droplets, filtered to eliminate contaminants, and dispensed for convenient consumption by a user.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a dust removing device which enables dust having stuck to its filters to be automatically removed without fail and prevents the removed dust from sticking again to the filters is to be provided. It is equipped with a sliding device 6 (motor 6) for sliding in a prescribed direction filters 5 arranged between an air intake port 121 and a heat exchanger 3, and with cleaners 7 to remove dust having stuck to the filters 5, automatically cleans the filters 5 and prevents the removed dust from being brought out of the cleaners 7.

Abstract: The present invention related to a refrigeration dehydration apparatus for efficient and cost-effective dehydration of a variety of gases, in particular natural gas to very low dewpoint without solid ice/gas-hydrate deposition. The present invention provides a low-cost dehydration apparatus universally applicable to both terrestrial and off-shore NG exploitation.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a dust removing device which enables dust having stuck to its filters to be automatically removed without fail and prevents the removed dust from sticking again to the filters is to be provided. It is equipped with a sliding device 6 (motor 6) for sliding in a prescribed direction filters 5 arranged between an air intake port 121 and a heat exchanger 3, and with cleaners 7 to remove dust having stuck to the filters 5, automatically cleans the filters 5 and prevents the removed dust from being brought out of the cleaners 7.

Abstract: A condenser, for cooling a gas flow containing a vapor to promote condensation of the vapor, has a generally cylindrical chamber. Gas is admitted at one end of the chamber and is given a swirl component of velocity. The gas then travels axially along the length of the chamber, and passes radially through poles into the bore of a separator. The swirl velocity of the gas flow tends to through water droplets radially outwards, where they can drain down the inside of a casing defining the chamber. The separator can include a skirt portion separating the main chamber from a water collection compartment. Cooling to cause condensation is provided by an external jacket, preferably having a coolant flowing through it in a helical fashion.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a first connecting unit and a second connecting unit. The first connecting unit is forwardly protruded by a predetermined length from the front surface of the front panel and has a hinge shaft on an end thereof. This first connecting unit rotatably holds the intake grille to the front panel and allows the intake grille to be opened at a wide angle. The second connecting unit is provided on the inner surface of a bent portion formed along the side of the intake grille and has a hole to receive the hinge shaft.

Abstract: The present invention related to a refrigeration dehydration apparatus for efficient and cost-effective dehydration of a variety of gases, in particular natural gas to very low dewpoint without solid ice/gas-hydrate deposition. The present invention provides a low-cost dehydration apparatus universally applicable to both terrestrial and off-shore NG exploitation.

Abstract: An integrated system to filter air, cool air, cool water, and heat water by coupling a filter box with compressors and heat exchangers.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet for enclosing a refrigerating compartment, the cabinet having a door for providing access to the refrigerating compartment, a user interface operatively connected to the cabinet having a display for displaying refrigerator function selections and a plurality of buttons for selecting refrigerator functions and a control unit operatively connected to the user interface and adapted to control a plurality of refrigerator functions. The control unit can be adapted for determining refrigerator filter information and displaying refrigerator filter information, the refrigerator filter information can include a date associated with the refrigerator filter.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air-conditioning device for a motor vehicle having a blower for feeding air through an air-conditioning housing, in which a cooling heat exchanger, a heating heat exchanger, and airflow control elements are arranged. The air-conditioning device and the heat exchangers have their greatest dimension in the transverse direction (y direction) of the vehicle. In order to provide a space-saving and cost-effective system, the blower is arranged laterally on the air-conditioning housing, and an air filter having approximately the same transverse dimension as the cooling heat exchanger is arranged in the air stream between the blower and cooling heat exchanger.

Abstract: An air filter assembly for a motor vehicle has a filter housing and an air filter disposed in the housing. The housing has a liquid outlet downstream of the filter and a filter bypass passageway is provided for enabling liquid entering at an air inlet to flow past the filter and exit through the outlet.

Abstract: A grille includes a frame base for mounting in the air input port of a room air-conditioner, the frame base having a latticed screen, a front recessed portion in front of the latticed screen, a plurality of stop rods spaced around the front recessed portion, and two peripheral flanges of different widths at two sides for mounting, and a flexible filter element inserted into the front recessed portion of the frame base and secured to the latticed screen by the stop rods.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system is constructed to include a full-heat heat exchanger, the full-heat heat exchanger having a first inlet and a second inlet arranged at right angles, a first air filter unit connected to the first inlet of the full-heat heat exchanger and adapted to filter air passing through the first inlet of the full-heat heat exchanger, the first air filter unit being formed of a primary coarse particle wire gauze filter, a HEPA (high efficiency particulate air filter) core, an active carbon coated wire gauze filter, and an optical catalytic wheel, and first fan means disposed in front of the full-heat heat exchanger and adapted to draw outside air into the first air filter unit.

Abstract: In an air conditioner equipped with an air cleaner, a front panel is provided with three air inlets: a first air inlet located on the front face of the front panel, a second air inlet located on the top face thereof, and a third air inlet located therebetween. Each of the first and second air inlets has an opening/closing unit including louvers, and an air cleaner is arranged on the inside of the third air inlet. At the time of cooling/heating operation and at the time of dehumidifying operation, the first and second air inlets are opened and closed by the opening/closing unit, by which the amount of air passing through the air cleaner is changed, thereby utilizing the air cleaner effectively.

Abstract: A low profile evaporator unit suitable for mounting on the ceiling of a small bus. The unit includes a cabinet containing an evaporator coil and a return air intake opening in the floor of the cabinet. A blower is mounted in the cabinet directly over the opening. A grill is non-removably mounted over the floor opening and a filter receiving tray is integrally joined to the grill so that the grill forms the bottom wall of the tray. Limited access is provided to the tray such that an air filter can pass into and out of the tray without removing the grill from the housing. Elongated narrow slits are also provided in the grill which further restrict access to the interior of the cabinet.

Abstract: A water collection and dispensing machine having a primary housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, an air blower structured to draw air into the primary housing through the air inlet and push air out of said primary housing through the air outlet. The water collection and dispensing machine further includes an evaporator coil structured to cycle a cold refrigerant liquid therethrough, the evaporator coil being disposed in line with the air inlet so that the air drawn into the primary housing through the air inlet passes thereover and moisture therefrom condenses on an exterior surface of the evaporator coil so that it may be collected in the form of water droplets, filtered to eliminate contaminants, and dispensed for convenient consumption by a user.

Abstract: An evaporator is placed on an insulator, and the insulator, together with the evaporator, is made to easily be withdrawn out of a cooling case. Upper and lower edge portions of an air filter are freely guided and supported by a guide portion provided on an upper surface of the insulator and an upper guide portion provided on a lower surface of a top plate portion of the cooling case.

Abstract: An air conditioning installation is supplied with an activated carbon filter for cleaning the air to be supplied to the interior of a motor vehicle. A device is provided for cleaning the air filter and the air therein by heating, and air laden with by-products may be driven out of the filter by means of a cleaning airflow. The activated carbon is in physical contact with a temperatureregulated or temperature controlled heating device, with which the activated carbon and the air present in the filter can be heated, while the cleaning airflow flows through the filter.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a case accommodating an evaporator having a core portion and a lower tan disposed at a bottom of the core portion. The case has a recess portion disposed at an upstream air side of the evaporator, and a covering wall is formed to extend upwardly from the bottom of the recess portion to cover only the lower tank at an immediately upstream air side. When air passes through the evaporator, alien substances contained in air collide with the evaporator and fall to be deposited in the recess portion. Therefore, the deposition of the alien substances do not directly adhere to the lower tank of the evaporator to prevent the evaporator from being corroded.

Abstract: A heat exchanger coil has its fins coated with a photocatalytic semi-conductor material in such a manner that its fins may then be illuminated by UV light to activate the material so as to cause the oxidation of organic pollutants which are on the fin coils themselves or in the air passing therethrough. A preferred photocatalytic semi-conductor material is titanium dioxide, which may be applied to the fin stock prior to the fabrication of the coil.

Abstract: An air conditioner which includes therein a dust collecting device having a high voltage unit coupled to a power supply and discharge and dust collecting electrodes each coupled to the high voltage unit, and which has an air cleaning function for collecting by means of the dust collecting device dust contained in external air sucked by rotation of a fan thereby to exhaust the air thus cleaned to an outside. The air conditioner further includes a microcomputer control section (dust removing control section) which executes a dust removing mode for heating a heater provided at the dust collecting electrode to remove dust adhered to the dust collecting electrode, in which the dust removing control section executes the dust removing mode after stopping the operation of the air conditioning function.

Abstract: An air conditioner equipped with an air cleaner. In the air conditioner, a dust collector is arranged in an air path located behind a heat exchanger. A dust collecting electrode of the dust collector is combined with a heater for self-cleaning. An opening, which communicates the air path located behind the heat exchanger with the outside, is provided above the dust collector. An open-and-close valve, which is closed during the air conditioning operation and opened in the case where the air cleaning operation is carried out while the air conditioning operation is stopped, is provided at the opening. The dust collector does not interrupt the flow of air during the air conditioning operation and also in the case where the air cleaning operation is carried out while the air conditioning operation is stopped.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a discharge electrode. The discharge electrode is arranged at a location spaced by a distance between the discharge electrode and a dust collecting electrode or greater. The discharge electrode also is positioned in a main stream of an air flow caused by a cross flow fan. The dust collecting electrode is provided at a location outside the main stream of the air flow and downstream of the discharge electrode relative to a direction of the air flow.

Abstract: An air conditioner having at least more than one releasable electric dust collectors for collecting foreign objects such as dust and the like floating in the air sucked into a body of the air conditioner, the air conditioner comprising at least more than one accommodation member disposed at an air suction side of a body to accommodate at least more than one electric dust collector and rotatable in the body at a predetermined rotary angle (.English Pound.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a suction grille member for opening and closing suction inlets of a main body and at least one pair of electric dust collectors installed behind the suction grille member for convenient attachment or detachment for cleaning, the air conditioner comprising: a suction grille member coupled to the main body by means of a plurality of hinge parts for being horizontally opened or closed in the opening and closing method; and at least one accommodating member fixed behind the suction grille member for accommodating and supporting the electric dust collectors as soon as the suction grille member opens, whereby the electric dust collectors are pulled out to a side for cleaning and are returned to their original positions in convenience.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an electric dust collector arranged between an evaporator and a heat shield plate. This electric dust collector includes a discharge electrode and a dust collecting electrode. The discharge electrode is applied with a positive polarity of high direct current voltage from a high voltage power source, while the dust collecting electrode is supplied with a negative polarity of high direct current voltage. Accordingly, the dust charged through plus electric discharge by the discharge electrode is attracted onto the dust collecting electrode or a casing thereof.

Abstract: A cooling unit has a cooling casing for forming an air passage, and a cooling heat exchanger disposed in the cooling casing. The cooling casing is composed of upper and lower cases detachably connected to each other in an up-down direction on a connection portion therebetween. The lower case has a first end surface on the connection portion at an inside of the cooling casing, and a protrusion portion protruding toward the upper case from the first end surface. On the other hand, the upper case has a second end surface contacting the first end surface on the connection portion, and a recess portion into which the protrusion portion is fitted. Further, a step portion downwardly stepped from the first end surface is formed in the lower case on an inside of the protrusion portion at a position proximate to the opening portion. Thus, a space is formed under the second end surface of the upper case.

Abstract: A split air conditioner unit having a distributor located indoors for delivering refrigerant to a plurality of evaporator flow circuits. The distributor is connected to an outdoor condenser by a refrigerant line containing an expansion device. A strainer is located at the entrance to the distributor that homogenizes the expanded two phase mixture so that refrigerant of equal quality is delivered to each of the evaporator flow circuits.

Abstract: An apparatus for concentrating a suspension consisting of a hollow cylinder in which one or more tubes of a constant outward diameter extend in axial direction, in the wall of each tube at least one filter being mounted forming the only direct connection between the interior of the tube and the interior of the cylinder. Two or more of such apparatus can be connected in series in order to form a cascade.

Abstract: A system for drying humid air to be used for ventilating a space defined by an enclosing covering, wherein said covering contains a first conduit system for circulating a cooling fluid, and a second conduit system for circulating humid air to be dried. At least part of said first system is in heat exchanging contact with said second system so as to cause condensation of water vapor contained in the humid air flowing in said second conduit system. Means are preferably provided for collecting the condensed water.

Abstract: A falling film freeze exchanger having a plurality of spaced apart vertical freeze tubes secured in, and penetrating, an upper and a lower tube sheet; a cover above the upper tube sheet; a shell around the tube sheets and connected thereto, with said cover supported by the shell; the upper ends of the freeze tubes desirably extending above the upper tube sheet and, optionally, the lower ends of the freeze tubes not being enclosed by the shell; a conduit to deliver a liquid feed stream into a feed box between the upper tube sheet and the cover; a conduit to deliver a cooling fluid around the tubes inside of the shell between the upper and lower tube sheets; and, a conduit to remove cooling fluid therefrom.

Abstract: Installation for storing continuously generated cold and for the intermittent release of at least a portion of the stored cold, with a storage container for a mixture of cold water and ice, by a cooling device for delivering ice continuously to the storage container, and with means for removing cold water intermittently from the storage container and for cycling it to an apparatus to be cooled and then for recycling it back to the storage container.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling system compressed air dehumidifiers includes an inner body forming a dehumidifying passage provided with a cooler, an outer body surrounding the inner body and forming a precooling passage along the outer periphery of the inner body, an air supply port opened in the outer body through which compressed air is led into the precooling passage from one end thereof, a communicating hole opened in the inner body to guide the air led into the precooling passage out through its other end into the dehumidifying passage through one end thereof, and a plurality of heat transmitting pipes extending through the precooling passage in order to form an air-flow passage which guides the compressed air out of the other end of the dehumidifying passage to an air discharge port provided in the outer body.

Abstract: A device for chill-drying a gas comprising a gas/gas heat-exchanger and a gas/cooling medium heat-exchanger located within a pressure vessel such that the heat-exchangers define channels between themselves and the walls of the vessel, which channels connect a gas outlet at the bottom of the gas/gas heat-exchanger with a gas inlet at the top of the gas/cooling medium heat-exchanger. The pressure vessel is cylindrical and the gas/gas heat-exchanger has a curved surface lying against the inner surface of the pressure vessel, and a planar surface abutting against the gas/cooling medium heat exchanger which has a rectangular cross-section and its corners remote from the gas/gas heat exchanger abutting against the walls of the pressure vessel.

Abstract: A cooling system for a combustion engine with a radiator wherein a plurality of cooling medium pipes are arranged in one plane, the pipes being connected by strips of gauzes, with air ducts between the strips or in the gauzes having a hydraulic diameter (d.sub.h) of less than 2 mm, the length (L) of said ducts being less than 25 mm, and L/d.sub.h <25. The radiator is preceded by a dirt collector consisting of a thin zigzag-folded air-transmitting layer with ducts having a hydraulic diameter of less than 2 mm.

Abstract: A chilling system advances products through a conveying tube and simultaneously chills the products using the fluid-conveying medium itself. Conveyance is effected through hydraulic pressure without the application of direct mechanical forces to the products whereby to minimize the instances of damage thereto, and product advancement is carried out on a continuous, first-in, first-out basis with a uniform, readily predictable rate of discharge.