Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Comfort units and systems, methods, and devices for use thereof
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Application No.: US15735538Application Date: 2016-06-11
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Publication No.: US10801750B2Publication Date: 2020-10-13
- Inventor: K. Reinhard Radermacher , Vikrant C. Aute , Yunho Hwang , Jiazhen Ling , Jelena Srebric , Jan Muehlbauer , Rohit Dhumane , Yilin Du , Daniel Alejandro Dalgo Reyes , Nicholas W. Mattise
- Applicant: University of Maryland, College Park
- Applicant Address: US MD College Park
- Assignee: University of Maryland, College Park
- Current Assignee: University of Maryland, College Park
- Current Assignee Address: US MD College Park
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2016/037103 WO 20160611
- International Announcement: WO2016/201384 WO 20161215
- Main IPC: F24H9/18
- IPC: F24H9/18 ; F24F5/00 ; F24H7/04 ; F24H7/06 ; F24H9/20 ; G05D22/02 ; G05D23/19 ; A61B5/01 ; A61B5/024 ; A61B5/053

Abstract:
Despite otherwise uncomfortable conditions in a surrounding environment, a customizable microenvironment can be created around a user to maintain a comfortable temperature and/or humidity level using a comfort unit. For example, the environment may be an office building where conditions are out of the comfortable range to save on energy or for other reasons, a factory/shop environment that is poorly conditioned, or an outdoor location with little to no conditioning. A sensing unit can monitor biometric and environmental data and can determine a comfort level of the user. The comfort unit can then dynamically respond to the determined comfort level and adjust the microenvironment to improve the user's comfort level. The comfort unit can follow the user as the user moves within the macro-environment, or can otherwise move within the macro-environment to achieve certain functions, such as recharging or spatial shifting of thermal load within the overall macro-environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180120873A1 COMFORT UNITS AND SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR USE THEREOF Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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