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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ravi Neelakantan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Benedict, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kathryn F. Murphy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mahati Chintapalli, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Stephen Meckler, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F24F 3/14 (2006.01); F24F 3/147 (2006.01); F24F 3/153 (2006.01); F24F 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F24F 3/1423 (2013.01); F24F 3/147 (2013.01); F24F 3/153 (2013.01); F24F 7/08 (2013.01); F24F 2003/1464 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method utilize one or more fans each having fan blades. The fan blades have a desiccant material on an outer surface. The desiccant material is operable to adsorb airborne moisture in an ambient airflow and desorb moisture in a heated airflow. The fan blades are operable to drive one or both of the ambient airflow and heated airflow via rotation of the fan.