US 12,140,383 B2
Thermal energy storage array
Yaron Ben Nun, Even-Yehuda (IL); Eyal Ziv, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Nadav Amir, Rehovot (IL)
Assigned to Nostromo Ltd., Even-Yehuda (IL)
Filed by Nostromo Ltd., Even-Yehuda (IL)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/842,811.
Application 17/842,811 is a continuation of application No. 16/650,509, granted, now 11,384,994, previously published as PCT/IB2018/001091, filed on Sep. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/685,147, filed on Jun. 14, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/562,562, filed on Sep. 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0316810 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. F28D 20/02 (2006.01); F24F 5/00 (2006.01); F25B 9/00 (2006.01); F28D 20/00 (2006.01)
CPC F28D 20/025 (2013.01) [F24F 5/0017 (2013.01); F25B 9/004 (2013.01); F28D 20/0034 (2013.01); F25D 2500/02 (2013.01); F28D 2020/0021 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising a plurality of thermal energy storage bricks, wherein:
said thermal energy storage bricks are interconnected for fluid communication of a heat transfer fluid flowing through said thermal energy storage bricks;
said thermal energy storage bricks comprising a phase-change medium; and
said thermal energy storage bricks are arranged in a structural arrangement which provides a function to a building serviced by the system;
each brick from said plurality of thermal energy storage bricks comprises external surfaces and non-external surfaces;
wherein the system further comprises an insulation panel designed to be attached over the plurality of thermal energy storage bricks such that said external surfaces of said each brick of the structural arrangement are surrounded by insulation panels and said non-external surfaces lack insulation panels.