Patent ID: 7644983

Claim:
An evaporatively pre-cooled seat assembly comprising; a seat cushion, an auxiliary cooler for providing cooling air to said seat cushion, an evaporative cooler in fluid communication with said auxiliary cooler for providing cooled cool air thereto, said evaporative cooler including a plurality of spaced and parallel side walls closed by a top and a bottom to define tubular channels with open front and rear ends, alternate of said channels being closed at said rear ends to define dry channels with said channels between said dry channels being closed at said front ends to define wet channels, a first plurality of said dry channels defining a plurality of apertures in said side walls thereof for conveying air out of said respective dry channel and into at least one adjacent wet channel to cool the air in said adjacent dry channels, and a second plurality of said dry channels alternating with said first plurality and disposed between two of said wet channels and defining a plurality of cooler apertures in said tops thereof for conveying cooled air out of said second plurality of alternating dry channels and to said auxiliary cooler, wherein said wet channels, said first plurality of dry channels, and said second plurality of dry channels are substantially parallel and coplanar.