Patent ID: 7114266

Claim:
A housing assembly for a moisture control apparatus, comprising: a housing having first and second sides and first and second panels spaced apart from each other by an interior of the housing and traverse to said sides; a moist gas inlet provided in the first side of said housing; a dry gas outlet provided in the first side of said housing in spaced-apart relationship to said moist gas inlet; a desiccant medium provided in said housing between said moist gas inlet and said dry gas outlet; a first porous desiccant retention plate secured within said housing; a second porous desiccant retention plate secured within said housing in spaced apart relationship to said first desiccant retention plate; said first and second porous desiccant retention plates define a desiccant chamber therebetween for maintaining said desiccant medium; and a drying fan provided in said housing for generating a flow of a moist gas through said moist gas inlet, into said housing, through said first and second porous retention plates and said desiccant medium situated in the desiccant chamber, so as to be discharged from said housing through said dry gas outlet; and an arrangement for reactivating said desiccant medium comprising a regeneration gas inlet provided in the second side of said housing spaced from said first side by an interior of the housing, a regeneration gas outlet provided in the second side of said housing in spaced-apart relationship to said regeneration gas inlet, and a regeneration fan provided in said housing between said regeneration gas inlet and said regeneration gas outlet.