WO2014041216A1 - Dispositif réfrigérant pour aliments sans source d'énergie ni glace - Google Patents

Dispositif réfrigérant pour aliments sans source d'énergie ni glace Download PDF

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WO2014041216A1
WO2014041216A1 PCT/ES2013/000195 ES2013000195W WO2014041216A1 WO 2014041216 A1 WO2014041216 A1 WO 2014041216A1 ES 2013000195 W ES2013000195 W ES 2013000195W WO 2014041216 A1 WO2014041216 A1 WO 2014041216A1
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Stephane ESPINOSA NEED
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D3/00—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies
    • F25D3/10—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies using liquefied gases, e.g. liquid air
    • F25D3/107—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies using liquefied gases, e.g. liquid air portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally

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  • the present invention relates to a device that cools, keeps refrigerated or frozen foods, both solid and liquid or drinks inside, may have the form of bottle, glass, cylinder (straw), ice bucket, refrigerator, ice cubes, and other many more pending ways to design, and is constituted by the following elements:
  • liquids or solids liquid nitrogen, liquid argon, liquid oxygen, solid carbon dioxide, dry ice, propane, liquid helium or other gases, liquids or solids, depending on time and of the utility that is given to the device, being able to transport cold chain foods or keep them cold for a longer time.
  • a container capsule of one of the cryogenic or other non-cryogenic liquids mentioned above that may be made of one or more of these materials: Aluminum, stainless steel, copper or other metals, or an alloy of metals with the appropriate thermal conductive properties.
  • This capsule may contain a gas escape valve if necessary and this gas will leave the casing through another exhaust valve located in the base of the casing, (if necessary by the pressures to which the gas, liquid or cryogenic solid or others are subjected).
  • An insulating or refrigerant coating (liquid, solid or gas) of the cryogenic or other liquid containing capsule being the material used for said expanded polystyrene coating or some other insulating foam with similar characteristics, although it can also be rubber, air, vacuum or any other type of refrigerant or insulator.
  • the insulator or coolant used is replaced by a gas or liquid or solid chamber.
  • a plug or an insulating cap depending on whether the device is for liquids or solids, once the casing is closed, it continues to maintain its cooling qualities.
  • a spigot, valve or nozzle to recharge the coolant can be by injection or spraying.
  • the invention object of this specification works to be the capsule containing the cryogenic liquid or others at a temperature well below zero, for example: nitrogen liquefies at -196 ° C and the argon at -185.9 ° C, said capsule being introduced inside the refueling device and regulating through the insulator and the refrigerants and the connecting conduits with the embouchure the temperature that it emits towards the outside, cooling the container adjusting to the needs of the refrigerator, depending on whether it is a glass, refrigerator, ice bucket, etc. so that it gets to cool, refrigerate or freeze any food or drink.
  • an apparatus is needed whose utility is to "recharge” the cold of the products, either through valves or directly by spraying on the capsule containing the cryogenic liquid or others.
  • This apparatus would be formed by a bottle of gas or cryogenic liquid or others, with a “pressure gun”.
  • the product is introduced into the apparatus, and the latter disassembles the product and sprays on the cryogenic or other capsule, or introduces e! liquid or gas through a valve. Once the product is "recharged", the device closes the casing again and is ready to be used again.
  • the housing of the invention is disassembled through a thread, the cryogenic container being exposed, so as to spray or inject more liquid on or into the capsule so that it returns to recover its functions.
  • This apparatus serves to recharge any product that this invention entails.
  • this novel invention contributes to the state of the art a product that cools or keeps cold, refrigerated or frozen drinks or food without the need of an external power supply such as electricity, ice or snow like old refrigerators and conserving, at all times, its properties and cooling qualities.
  • the main novelty provided by this invention is to cool, refrigerate or freeze beverages or food with the following advantages:
  • the invention is intended for commercial and domestic use and covers a wide range of products:
  • ES2 008 998 14 relates to a cryogenic freezer for freezing food products or the like, which comprises: an insulated enclosure having a lower entrance and an exit higher; conveyor means for moving food products along a path from said entrance to said exit, a greater part of said path being a helical section with a plurality of overlapping floors; means for contacting the food products, moving along said path, with liquid cryogen in a lower zone generally near said inlet to initially extract a substantial amount of heat from the surface of said food products; means for producing a circulation of generally horizontal cryogen vapor in all the upper zones of said helical section, whereby a vertical temperature gradient is created within said enclosure, there being relatively warm temperatures near said outlet; and means for controlling the output of the vapor by said inlet and said outlet so that at least about 80% of the cryogen vapor generated within said enclosure leaves it by said upper outlet.
  • Document ES 2 106 976 T3 discloses a cooling apparatus having at least a first and a second cooling compartment, each compartment having its own access door, comprising a first evaporator for said first compartment, said first evaporator working at a first pressure value; a second evaporator for said second compartment, said second evaporator operating at a pressure value greater than said first pressure level; a single capacitor; a single compressor; a refrigerant circuit comprising a series of conduits for providing a flow of refrigerant in sequential form to said first and second evaporators, said condenser and said compressor; valve means in said refrigerant circuit for directing refrigerant to a selected one of said evaporators from said condenser and for preventing a flow of refrigerant to said first evaporator when refrigerant is being directed to said second evaporator in order to cool said second compartment; a check valve in the duct on the suction side of said first evaporator, to prevent the return flow
  • ES 2 289 552 T3 describes a method of cooling a product comprising N cycles of adsorption / desorption arranged under air vacuum, where N is an integer greater than 1, each cycle comprising the steps consisting of: - extracting heat from a vapor-phase refrigerant fluid in a condenser at a first pressure lower than the critical pressure of said fluid to condense said refrigerant fluid, - introducing said refrigerant fluid in liquid phase in an evaporator at a second pressure lower than the first pressure for vaporizing a portion of said refrigerant fluid and cooling the other part of said refrigerant fluid to a vaporization temperature of said refrigerant fluid at said second pressure, said vaporization temperature being decreasing from one cycle to the next cycle, said first and second pressures being chosen in each cycle so that said vaporization temperature in a cycle is each time lower than the condensing temperature of said refrigerant fluid in the next cycle at the first pressure of said next cycle.
  • Document ES 2 113 908 T3 refers to a domestic refrigerator with at least one cooling chamber that is closed with a door, in which are provided refrigerated product containers, a vaporizer and a fan that supplies it with ambient air and which is located in the natural convection current produced by the refrigerating power of the vaporizer, characterized in that the fan necessarily exchanges the cooling air both during the refrigeration activity and during the defrosting activity, in which, by the location and the formation of the containers of refrigerated products and the fan, the cooling air is transported to the sector of the walls of the refrigerator space and along the door covering all the height and width of them.
  • ES 2 296 668 T3 is an air cooling device, comprising a compressor having an inlet and an outlet, a turbo expander with a turbine wheel with which said compressor is connected to said turbo expander, a first fan mounted in a common shaft with the aforementioned turbo expander, a first dual-channel heat exchanger, a cooling chamber with a second fan and an air cooler mounted inside the chamber, a second double-shell heat exchanger, a tank of water connected with a second conduit of the second heat exchanger, and a moisture separator; wherein a first conduit of the second double-conduit heat exchanger, a The first conduit of the first dual-channel heat exchanger, the moisture separator, the turbo-expanded air cooler, and the second conduit of the first double-conduit heat exchanger are connected in series with the compressor inlet.
  • Document ES 2 188 161 T3 refers to a domestic refrigerator cooled by the Peltier effect, with an enclosure to be cooled formed by one or two thermally insulated enclosures, where the air circulates by natural convection, in which the heat that enters the enclosures is removed by evaporation of a liquid in which at least one enclosure to be cooled is cooled by two units coupled in cascade, each unit comprising two thermosyphons separated by Peltier effect granules, one of the thermosiphons of each unit for the condensation of a liquid lodged in its interior in a cold face of peltier effect granules and the other thermosyphon of each unit being arranged for the evaporation of a liquid housed therein in a hot face of the granules of Peltier effect, characterized in that each thermosiphon includes a first circuit for the circulation of the evaporated liquid to an area in which the liquid d it must be condensed, and a second circuit to return the condensed liquid to an area in
  • the removal of heat from the hot faces of the granules is arranged by the elaboration of a fluid, which is made to condense in an ambient air exchanger disposed in an elevated position with respect to the granules, the condensed fluid being arranged to return by gravity.
  • the thermosyphons contain water as a refrigerant fluid with adequate vacuum degrees, so that the evaporation takes place at the desired temperatures in each thermosyphon.
  • the food-cooling device object of the present invention is constituted from a device that cools or keeps refrigerated or frozen foods inside it, being able to have the shape of bottle, cylinder, ice bucket, bucket or refrigerator, being in any case coated with an outer casing and in the middle an insulating material as a sandwich.
  • the material of said The device can be aluminum, stainless steel, copper or an alloy of metals with good thermal conductive properties and the insulating coating of the cryogenic liquid containing capsule can be expanded polystyrene or some other insulating foam of similar characteristics, or also rubber or air.
  • the insulator used is replaced by a gas or liquid chamber.
  • the device has a mouthpiece which, in the case of having the shape of a bottle, is a neck that is plugged with a stopper, in the case of a vessel shape, an upper opening that is closed with an insulating cover and in the case of a refrigerator or an opening top that closes with lid or insulated door.
  • a valve goes out to recharge the liquid or cryogenic gas.
  • an apparatus is needed whose utility is to "recharge” the cold of the products, either through valves or directly by spraying on the capsule containing the cryogenic liquid or others.
  • This apparatus would be formed by a bottle of gas or cryogenic liquid or others, with a "pressure gun”.
  • the product is introduced into the apparatus, and the latter dismantles the product and sprays on the cryogenic or other capsule, or introduces the liquid or gas through a valve.
  • the device closes the casing again and is ready to be used again. Little by little, the container loses its cooling properties and needs to be “recharged” to recover its cooling functions.
  • the housing of the invention is disassembled through a thread, the cryogenic container being exposed, so as to spray or inject more liquid on or into the capsule so that it returns to recover its functions.
  • This apparatus serves to recharge any product that this invention entails.
  • the invention object of this specification works to be the capsule containing! cryogenic liquid at a temperature well below zero, for example: nitrogen liquefies at -196 ° C and argon at -185.9 ° C, said capsule being introduced into the refracting device and regulating through the insulator the temperature that emits towards the outside, cooling the container adjusting to the needs of the refrigerator, depending on whether it is a glass, refrigerator or ice bucket, so that it gets to cool, refrigerate or freeze any food or drink.
  • the invention is intended for commercial use! and domestic and can encompass in different embodiments a wide range of products, such as the following:
  • a preferred embodiment of the present invention is constituted from a cooling device (1) that cools or keeps the food refrigerated inside it, being able to have the shape of bottle (2), cylinder (3), bucket (4), glass ( 5), refrigerator (6) being in any case covered with an outer casing (7) and in the middle an insulating material (8) as a sandwich.
  • the material of the casing (7) said device (1) can be aluminum, stainless steel, copper or an alloy of metals with good thermal conductive properties and the insulating coating of the capsule (9) containing cryogenic liquid can be expanded polystyrene or some other insulating foam of similar characteristics, or also rubber or air.
  • the insulator used is replaced by a gas or liquid chamber.
  • the device has a mouthpiece that in the case of having the shape of a bottle (2) is a neck (11) that is plugged with a cap (12), in the case of having the shape of a cup (3) an upper opening that closes with an insulating cover (13) and in the case of a refrigerator, an upper opening that closes with a lid or an insulating door (14).

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L'invention concerne un dispositif réfrigérant pour aliments sans source d'énergie ni glace. Le dispositif peut se présenter sous forme de bouteille, de cylindre, de cuve, de seau ou de réfrigérateur, est revêtu d'une carcasse extérieure, comprend un matériau isolant monté en sandwich à l'intérieur duquel se trouve une capsule contenant un liquide ou un gaz cryogénique ; le matériau dudit dispositif pouvant être de l'aluminium, de l'acier inoxydable, du cuivre ou un alliage de métaux présentant de bonnes propriétés thermoconductrices. Le dispositif de l'invention présente une ouverture qui peut être fermée par un couvercle ou une porte isolante.
PCT/ES2013/000195 2012-09-11 2013-08-30 Dispositif réfrigérant pour aliments sans source d'énergie ni glace WO2014041216A1 (fr)

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