US 12,329,557 B2
Feedback cooling system for an imaging system
Ziad Burbar, Knoxville, TN (US); and John Keller, Knoxville, TN (US)
Assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
Appl. No. 18/262,755
Filed by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/070792
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 25, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/277954, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 5, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0407743 A1, Dec. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/4488 (2013.01) [A61B 6/037 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooling system for cooling at least one component of an imaging system located in a scan room, comprising:
inlet and outlet channels in air flow communication with the component;
a return channel in air flow communication with the inlet and outlet channels, wherein a portion of warm outlet air from a component outlet flows in the return channel to provide warm recirculated air to a mixing zone in the inlet channel; and
a fan located in the inlet channel, wherein the fan draws scan room air into the inlet channel and wherein the scan room air is mixed with the warm recirculated air in the mixing zone to form mixed air wherein the mixed air flows over the component to cool the component and wherein the mixed air absorbs heat that warms the mixed air to form the warm outlet air.