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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2023
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Winston Salem, NC (US);
Matthew R. Pearson, Hartford, CT (US);
Brian E. St. Rock, Andover, CT (US);
Noah Avram Meltz Weichselbaum, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Geoffrey L. Eisenhardt, Olathe, KS (US);
Yasmin Khakpour, South Windsor, CT (US);
Jefferey M. McKee, Duvall, WA (US);
B/E AEROSPACE, INC., Winston Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
An in-seat mini-bar assembly, apparatus and method of manufacture is provided. The assembly includes a housing that is insertable into a compartment of the seating module and includes a container with an interior cavity that is conductively cooled by thermo-electric elements of a micro-chiller unit mounted on a conductive rear plate that forms an exterior side of the container. A vent is configured proximate to a front section of the housing to receive outside air forward of the housing for channeling the outside air to a rear section of the housing using a duct attached to the vent at the front section. The duct is shaped for a fluidic intake of the outside air by a frontal flange having a wide cross-sectional area that is gradually tapered to a circular cross-sectional area to direct the airflow in a uniform manner.