Methods and apparatus for human motion controlled wearable refrigeration

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posted on 2018-08-07, 00:00 authored by Fabio Semperlotti, Mihir Sen

A wearable, portable, self-contained refrigeration/cooling garment may effectively convert the energy of human movement into heat flux. The heat flux can then used to actively control the temperature of the human body or of part of it. In one example of the present disclosure, the garment is a type of footwear powered by the wearer's ambulation.

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Patent Number

US 9936763 B2

Other Application

14/727,384

USPTO Link

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=9936763

Inventor

Fabio Semperlotti Mihir Sen

Inventor from Local Institution

Fabio Semperlotti Mihir Sen

Assignee

University of Notre Dame Du Lac

Date Modified

2018-08-07

Language

English

Claims

13

Prior Publication Number

US 20150335096 A1

Publisher

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Cooperative Patent Classification Codes

A43B 7/005 (20130101); A43B 13/10 (20130101); A43B 13/125 (20130101)

Contributor

Fabio Semperlotti|Mihir Sen

International Patent Classification Codes

A43B 7/02 (20060101); A43B 7/04 (20060101); A43B 13/12 (20060101); A43B 7/00 (20060101); A43B 13/10 (20060101); A43B 7/06 (20060101)

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