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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2018
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
Berardo Matalucci, New York, NY (US);
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Troy, NY (US);
Anna Helen Dyson, New York, NY (US);
Benjamin Pearce, East Chatham, NY (US);
Jason Oliver Vollen, South Orange, NJ (US);
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
Abstract
One or more temperature control units are distributed throughout an environment to provide localized heating and cooling. The temperature control units include a thermal storage system including one or more substances of high latent heat capacity, a heat distribution surface, a solid-state heat pump positioned between the thermal storage system and the heat distribution surface, an environmental sensing module including a proximity sensor, and unit control modules in communication with the solid-state heat pumps. The solid-state heat pumps are individually controllable so that heating and cooling can be provided simultaneously from separate heat pumps in the same temperature control unit, or separate temperature control units in the same environment. The system also senses the presence and location of an individual in the environment, and turns the distributed temperature control units on and off accordingly to provide optimum heating and cooling to the individual without heating or cooling the entire environment.