Patent ID: 9347675
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: F24F,F28D

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for enabling heat and moisture exchange, comprising: an exchanger housing including an opaque front face, an opaque rear face parallel to the front face and a pair of opaque parallel side faces collectively defining an interior channel in the form of a shallow rectangular volume wherein the opaque front face and the opaque rear face each have a surface area greater than a surface area of either of the opaque side faces; and a barrier, permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to principal constituent gases of air, disposed within the interior channel, oriented generally parallel to the opaque front face and the opaque rear face, and partitioning the interior channel into first and second sub-channels adapted to receive a source air stream and an exhaust air stream, respectively; wherein the opaque front face forms an opaque first portion of a building enclosure system that is disposed outside of the interior channel, the opaque first portion being adjacent to, generally co-planar with, and facing in a common direction as a second portion of the building enclosure system that is not formed by the housing; wherein the building enclosure system is panelized and the housing is configured as a panel element of the panelized enclosure system; and wherein the sub-channels are configured to direct the source air stream and the exhaust air stream parallel to the opaque front face and the opaque rear face within the sub-channels.