US 12,140,327 B2
Top-mounted air conditioner used in enclosure cooling
Ridge Altman, Greensburg, PA (US); Jeffrey S. Palmer, Greensburg, PA (US); and Jamshaid Ullah, Shenzshen (CN)
Assigned to Ice Qube, Inc., Greensburg, PA (US)
Filed by Ice Qube, Inc., Greensburg, PA (US)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/572,352.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/215,117, filed on Jun. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/135,420, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0244689 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 1/02 (2019.01); F24F 1/022 (2019.01); F24F 1/03 (2019.01); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 13/22 (2006.01); G07D 11/10 (2019.01); G07F 9/10 (2006.01); G07F 19/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 1/022 (2013.01) [F24F 1/02 (2013.01); F24F 1/03 (2019.02); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 13/222 (2013.01); G07D 11/10 (2019.01); G07F 9/105 (2013.01); G07F 19/205 (2013.01); F24F 2221/52 (2013.01); F25B 2600/07 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioner, comprising:
an outer housing comprising two or more sides comprising an ambient side intake and return and a bottom side that defines an enclosure side intake and return, wherein the outer housing contains therein one or more of a condenser, a compressor, coils, and a fan;
one or more rainwater drains disposed in at least one of the two or more sides of the outer housing beneath the one or more of the condenser, the compressor, the coils, and the fan;
the one or more rainwater drains being disposed proximate to an interface between the at least one of the two or more sides of the outer housing and the bottom side of the outer housing including the enclosure side intake and return, and being configured to transmit rainwater that enters the outer housing through the outer housing to ambient; and
one or more condensation drains disposed in the outer housing proximate to the enclosure side intake and return, the one or more condenser drains being configured to transmit condensation from within the outer housing to an exterior location via one or more conduits.