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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2018
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Paul Raymond Mueller, Hayward, CA (US);
Jaime Andres Ocampo Villegas, Foster City, CA (US);
Goutham Shanmuga Sundaram, Foster City, CA (US);
Rahul Subramanian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system may effectively provide and/or substantially maintain adjacent thermal zones that have different temperatures and/or humidities from one another. The HVAC system may include a duct network including zonal ducts each having a zonal duct exit configured to create aerodynamic profiles that result in a thermal zone. A thermal zone may be characterized by a volume having a temperature and/or humidity which may differ from an adjacent thermal zone, such that a temperature and/or humidity gradient exists at a thermal zone boundary between adjacent thermal zones, and such that diffusion of the temperature and/or humidity between the adjacent thermal zones is aerodynamically inhibited, or otherwise minimized.