Fca US LLC

Cosmo Tech Development, Inc.

Lawrence J Nolan

Thomas Mahany

Jerome R Pfeifer

Harvey S Fink

Michael E LaFleur

A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a reinforcing patch. The vehicle body component defines a cavity. The reinforcing patch is disposed within and attached to the vehicle body component. The reinforcing patch includes a substrate and a reinforcing body attached to the substrate. The reinforcing body has a first tab, a second tab, and a first slit between the first and second tabs. The slit is at least partially filled by the substrate.

Vehicle having reinforcement patch

Self-contained closed-loop cooling systems and related methods for rapidly cooling individual beverage containers of different sizes to a suitable target temperature, in the range of 35&deg; F. to 50&deg; F. Each system includes a chiller, a coolant circuit with a hyper-chilled supply reservoir, a refrigerant circuit for cooling the reservoir, and an electronic controller to operate the system upon operator command. The chiller is preferably formed like a barrel, with a cylindrical array of hollow chill elements arranged about a cylindrical area into which a beverage container, such as beverage bottle or can is placed. Then, very cold coolant from the coolant supply is pumped through the array of chill elements to rapidly cool the beverage container, which makes physical contact with the hyper-chilled elements, which are thus excellent heat absorbers. The chill elements are preferably separated from one another by keystone spacers, and are flexibly held in place with a plurality of coil springs. An ejection device may be provided to help remove the cooled container from the array. A housing structure is preferably provided to enclose the array of chill elements, and to support an operator interface panel. A system enclosure is provided therebelow to house the coolant supply reservoir and pump and the refrigerant circuit. The coolant in the reservoir is cooled by the refrigerant circuit, preferably down to 60&deg; F. to 100&deg; F. below the target temperature to which the container is to be cooled.

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Livonia, MI, United States of America

Lawrence J Nolan