Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an outdoor unit equipped with a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit communicates data in a noncontact manner to an information terminal close to the outdoor unit. The controller permits the setting of data that has been input from the information terminal via the communication unit only during a fixed period of time after the outdoor unit has been turned on.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to prevent the theft of air conditioner window units by securing the air conditioner units to windows using a multi-channel clamp adapted to lock the window and air conditioner unit in place. An upward extending channel and a downward extending channel are adapted to slidably accept the top rail of an air conditioner unit and a bottom window sash. The opposing side surfaces of the channel are sufficiently sized to lock the window sash and the air conditioner unit from sliding out of place. The device features a locking thumb screw that locks a window and air conditioning unit in place by forcing the window against the side surface.
Abstract:
A single package, wall mount air conditioner including a cabinet, an evaporator coil assembly, a condenser coil assembly, and a theft deterrent system. The theft deterrent system including metal straps securing the coil assemblies to the cabinet and impeding their removal from the cabinet. The straps having boxed cross-sections and being attached by specialty fasteners requiring a non-standard tool to remove, wherein the heads of the fasteners are shielded to only permit the axial access required by the tool. The theft deterrent system further including a sensor configured to monitor a condition of the air conditioner, wherein the condition is indicative of an attempt to remove the coil assemblies from the cabinet, and to communicate an alarm signal through a speaker or to a remote monitoring station if the condition occurs. The sensor may include one or more of a plunger-type switch, a vibration sensor, or a refrigerant monitoring sensor.
Abstract:
A building is provided in which safety, comfort, and economic efficiency are improved by an enclosed structure and by shielding from an exterior. The building has a foundation 3, a wall 8 standing around the foundation 3 so as to be integrated with the foundation 3, a housing section 2 serving as an interior space arranged in a center of the foundation 3, a roof 30 covering an internal space surrounded by the wall 8, the roof 30 being supported by the wall 8 and not structurally combined with the housing section 2, and seismic isolation mechanisms 40 for suppressing vibration of the housing section 2 upon generation of earthquake. An interior of the building is formed as an enclosed space defined by the foundation 3, the wall 8, and the roof 30.
Abstract:
The invention is an environmentally friendly anti-theft security cage for outdoor air conditioner/heat pump units conceived to prevent the vandalism and theft of copper tubing from the unit and to recycle energy waste from the units protected. In addition to protecting the units from vandalism, the security cage is equipped with wind-powered generator(s) positioned to utilize the exhaust from the enclosed air conditioner/heat pump units to generate electricity. Single or multiple generators may be utilized dependent upon the capacity and number of air conditioner/heat pump units enclosed. The cage is also equipped with anti-tamper sensors connected to a microprocessor to provide an alarm system to discourage thieves.
Abstract:
There are occasions when a medical facility has the need to image subject that have been contaminated with a hazardous or communicable chemical or biological agent. Occurrences of such conditions are often too remote to justify having diagnostic scanners dedicated to such imaging. A contaminated or “hot” chamber (20) interfaces with one or more uncontaminated imaging suites or “cold” chambers (22). The hot chamber (20) includes barrier walls (16) with selectively deployable containment tubes (14) that when deployed, are sealed with the barrier wall (16) and extend from the barrier wall into the gantry of the cold chamber scanners. The tubes (14) extend the hot chamber (20) can be extended into the cold chambers (22) for imaging while remaining sealed, isolating the hot subjects from the cold imaging equipment. The imagers can thus be used for both normal clinical scanning and hot patient scanning.
Abstract:
A building protection system comprises a filtration unit, an air handling unit, an emergency exhaust subsystem, a first damper positioned between the filtration unit and the air handling unit, and a second damper positioned between the emergency exhaust subsystem and the filtration unit. The first damper is selectively opened and the second damper is selectively closed to filter outside air as it enters a building, and the first damper is selectively closed and the second damper is selectively opened to filter inside air as it is exhausted from, the building.
Abstract:
A building protection system for a building having an inlet air duct with an inlet damper operable to regulate inlet air entering the building and passing through the inlet air duct, a return air duct with a return damper operable to regulate return air, and a fan system operable to circulate a mixture of the inlet air and the return air in the building, the building protection system including: (a) a chemical sensor system operable to detect one or more chemicals in the inlet air; (b) a chemical sensor system operable to detect the one or more chemicals in the return air; (c) a radiological sensor system operable to detect one or more radioactive material in the inlet air; (d) a radiological sensor system operable to detect the one or more radioactive materials in the return air; and (e) a control system in communication with the sensor systems, and a building control system, the control system being operable to signal the building control system to close the dampers and to turn off the fan system whenever output from any of the chemical sensor systems indicates more than a predetermined level of one or more of the one or more chemicals or whenever output from any of the radiological sensor systems indicates more than a predetermined level of one or more of the one or more radioactive materials.
Abstract:
The invention provides a flap valve for controlling the air pressure within a protected space defined by walls, the flap valve including a valve frame attachable to an opening made in the walls, a valve flap, articulated at least indirectly to the frame and being subjectable to both a sealing force which forces the valve flap against the valve frame and to an opening force which lifts a portion of the flap off the valve frame; the flap valve having a first position in which the protected space is sealed off from a contaminated environment, and a second position in which air from the protected space is allowed to escape into the environment via the opening, wherein the sealing force is constituted by at least one spring at least indirectly attached to the valve flap and the valve frame.
Abstract:
In one example, an air processing system comprises an inlet portion defining a first inlet to receive internal air from a room and a second inlet to receive air external to the room. An air decontamination portion is downstream of the inlet portion. A first outlet portion to the room is downstream of the air decontamination portion. A HEGA filter is downstream of the first outlet. A first damper is downstream of the air decontamination portion and upstream of the HEGA filter to selectively direct air to the first outlet and the gas absorber. A second damper and a second outlet are downstream of the HEGA filter. The first and second dampers are configured and positionable to selectively seal an upstream side and a downstream side of the gas absorber, respectively, when not in use. Safe rooms including the system are also disclosed.