公开(公告)号：US12018526B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US17337260

申请日：2021-06-02

申请人： The University of British Columbia

发明人： Lorne Whitehead ,  Michele Mossman ,  Jon Scott ,  Namamrta Musterer ,  Wesley Bowley ,  Debbie Eeltink ,  Laura Megan Ogilvie

IPC分类号： E06B9/24 ,  A01G9/14 ,  A01G9/22 ,  E04B1/80 ,  E04D13/00 ,  E06B9/262 ,  E06B9/264 ,  E04B1/74

CPC分类号： E06B9/264 ,  A01G9/1415 ,  A01G9/222 ,  A01G9/225 ,  E04B1/806 ,  E04D13/00 ,  E06B9/262 ,  E04B1/74 ,  E06B2009/2464 ,  E06B2009/2627 ,  E06B2009/2643 ,  Y02A40/25

摘要： A variable thermal insulation assembly includes a plurality of sheets of film, wherein each sheet is bonded to an adjacent sheet along a plurality of longitudinally extending regions to form a plurality of longitudinally extending cavities, wherein the plurality of flexible sheets of each of the thermal cell arrays are formed of an electrically insulative material that is coated on one side with an electrically conductive material, a controller electrically coupled to the plurality of flexible sheets and configured to apply an electric potential difference between electrically conductive material of each pair of flexible sheets such that the electrically conductive coatings of the pair of flexible sheets attract each other to cause the thermal cell array to transition from an expanded state to a compressed state.