Patent ID: 7104082
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. An advanced control of humidity and temperature system for allowing a user to conveniently and efficiently and independently control temperature and humidity levels of a space comprising, in combination: a space to have air humidity and temperature regulated; an air handler having a temperature regulation element and a fan and a housing with the element and the fan being contained with the housing, with the housing having an inflow opening and an outflow opening; an inflow manifold having a generally hollow configuration for allowing the passage of gases there through with the manifold having an intake end and an outflow end being coupled to the air handler, with an ambient air intake stub located at the outermost end of the intake end, the ambient air intake stub having a outermost grill and a filter and an innermost damper, the damper being mechanically controlled, the intake end of the manifold also having a return air stub with a outer grill and an inner filter, the intake end of the manifold having a desiccant inflow connection stub with a mechanically controlled damper and a desiccant bypass inflow connection stub with a mechanically controlled damper; an outflow manifold having a generally hollow configuration for allowing the passage of gases there through with the outflow manifold having an intake end being coupled to the air handler and an outflow end having a stub with the outflow end being coupled to the interior of a room in said space, with a mechanically controlled damper being located within the outflow manifold, the outflow manifold having a desiccant supply stub having a mechanically controlled damper located near the air handler and a desiccant temperature control return stub having a mechanically controlled damper located between the air handler and the interior of a room in said space; a desiccant unit having a housing with an upper processing chamber and a parallel lower regeneration chamber with each chamber being separated from the other chamber by an interior wall with the interior wall having a wheel aperture there through, with the unit having a desiccant wheel coupled to an axle, with the axle coupled to the interior wall to position the wheel within each of the chambers, the wheel having a drum portion and a pair of outermost flanges and two flat parallel faces forming a thickness there between, with a plurality of desiccant treated air passageways being perpendicular to the flat faces and forming a plurality of passageways through the thickness of the wheel to allow the passage of gases there through, the wheel drum having a linked chain coupled there to, the wheel also having a round ring seal, with each chamber having a plurality of wheel seal mounting portions with each mounting portion having a plurality of spring mounted seats, the interior wall having a plurality of surface seals to contact the wheel face to provide a seal between the chambers, the desiccant unit having an electro-mechanical motor and a motor axle and a sprocket sized to mate with the linked chain to provide a means for turning the wheel about the wheel axle, the upper processing chamber having a Y-shaped inflow stub and a Y-shaped outflow stub with one branch of the Y-shaped inflow stub coupling to the desiccant supply stub of the outflow manifold and the other branch of the Y-shaped inflow stub coupling with the desiccant inflow connection stub, with the desiccant inflow connection stub further having a plurality of dampers and grills and filters, and one branch of the Y-shaped outflow stub being coupled to the desiccant temperature control return stub of the outflow manifold, with the wheel located at about the midpoint of the chamber, with an electro-mechanical blower located between the wheel and the Y-shaped inflow stub with the upper processing chamber having a gas pressurizing aperture connected there into, the lower regeneration chamber having an inflow stub coupled to a duct that communicates with an air source and an outflow stub that communicates with outside of the space to exhaust gases, with the inflow stub having a filter and a gravity damper located there at and the outflow stub having a regeneration blower located there at with the regeneration chamber having a gas mixture tube, the unit having a gas valve assembly, the assembly having a pressurized mixing chamber, a threadedly adjustable gas valve with a gas nozzle being located within the pressurized mixing chamber and a gas inflow pipe and a gas outflow pipe, the gas inflow pipe is coupled to an existing gas supply with the inflow pipe also coupled to a line gas valve with the gas inflow pipe also coupling the gas line valve and the pressurized mixing chamber with the gas inflow pipe entering the mixing chamber and there coupling with the threadedly adjustable gas valve with a gas outflow pipe being coupled to the mixing chamber and passing into the regeneration chamber of the unit and there ending with a gas burner, the gas burner providing a source of heat to the gasses passing through the wheel and thereby regenerating the desiccant located on the surfaces of the wheel; a bypass duct having a hollow tubular configuration with a inflow end and an outflow end, the inflow end having T-shaped end with one side of the T having a mechanically controlled damper and coupling with a space and the other side of the T having a mechanically controlled damper being coupled to the Y-shaped outflow stub of the processing chamber of the desiccant unit with the bypass duct running to and coupling to the intake manifold at the bypass inflow connection stub.