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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2015
Sabic Global Technologies B.v., Bergen op Zoom, NL;
Steven Marc Gasworth, Wixom, MI (US);
SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Bergen op Zoom, NL;
Abstract
In an embodiment, an enclosure comprises walls forming the enclosure, wherein the enclosure comprises an internal space; an inhibiting element disposed in at least one wall, the inhibiting element having an internal inhibiting surface exposed to the internal space, wherein the inhibiting element has a transparency of greater than or equal to 20%; and a condensing element disposed in at least one other wall, the condensing element having an internal condensing surface exposed to the internal space; wherein at least one of the inhibiting element and the condensing element comprise a phase change material configured to form a temperature differential between an internal inhibiting surface temperature and an internal condensing surface temperature over a temperature range, and wherein when the temperature differential is formed, the internal inhibiting surface temperature is greater than the internal condensing surface temperature.