Patent ID: 8992649
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A62C,B33Y,F28F,H02K

Abstract:
1. An enclosure, comprising: a housing having a cavity and a first opening in a first wall of the cavity; a first porous media coupled to the first opening, wherein the first porous media comprises a plurality of channels, wherein air passes through the plurality of channels between the cavity and an exterior of the housing; a first air displacement system positioned within the housing and proximate to the first porous media, wherein the first air displacement system, in conjunction with the first porous media, creates a pressure differential to force the air through the first porous media; and a first tubular element coupled to the first porous media, wherein the first porous media cools the cavity by passing the air to the exterior of the housing, and wherein the plurality of channels of the porous media is manufactured using fuse deposition techniques and computational fluid dynamics to control a pore size and a shape of each of the plurality of channels within the porous media, wherein the pore size and the shape of each of the plurality of channels arrest a flame and thereby contain an explosion within the housing, while also providing a flow of the air, driven by the first air displacement system, through the plurality of channels in the absence of the explosion within the housing.