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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2005
John S. Hsu, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Curtis W. Ayers, Kingston, TN (US);
Chester Coomer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Laura D. Marlino, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
John S. Hsu, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Curtis W. Ayers, Kingston, TN (US);
Chester Coomer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Laura D. Marlino, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A method for cooling vehicle components using the vehicle air conditioning system comprising the steps of: tapping the hot liquid refrigerant of said air conditioning system, flooding a heat exchanger in the vehicle component with said hot liquid refrigerant, evaporating said hot liquid refrigerant into hot vapor refrigerant using the heat from said vehicle component, and returning said hot vapor refrigerant to the hot vapor refrigerant line in said vehicle air conditioning system.