Carrier Corporation

Dennis M Stone

Peter R Bushnell

Robert C Reimann

Stephen Stopyra

Belin G Czechowicz

Jason D Scarcella

Suresh Duraisamy

Christopher G Repice

Mark W Colton

Timothy R Campbell

Ping Sue Vang

Thomas A Anderson

Gawain Mundy

Xuqiang Liao

Mingfei Gan

Harold P Hill, Jr

Lester G Harrington

David F Crockford

Yu H Chen

A refrigeration unit for a shipping container exposed to end loads and rack loads. The refrigeration unit has a frame, a back panel, a plurality of structural support brackets secured to the back panel, a condenser cover secured to the plurality of structural support brackets so that the condenser cover, the plurality of structural support brackets, the frame, and the back panel form a structural member sufficient to support end loads and rack loads. The refrigeration unit also has a condenser coil having a first end and a second end, a first coil support member secured to one of the structural support brackets and secured around the first end, and a second coil support member secured to one of the structural support brackets and secured around the second end. The first and second coil support members maintain the condenser coil unstressed from the end loads and rack loads.

Refrigeration unit with integrated structural condenser coil support

Rather than having a frame into which, or upon which, an air conditioning system is mounted, a bus rooftop air conditioning module has a unibody which is formed partially of structural members interconnected to the tube sheets of the evaporator and condenser coils to form a structural body which supports the components of the system. In this way the coil tube sheets combine with other structural members to form the supporting body.

Unibody modular bus air conditioner

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Cicero, NY, United States of America

Dennis M Stone