Cooling device for clothes

Abstract

A cooling device for clothes includes a Peltier element disposed within a housing, a cooling fin formed on one surface of the Peltier element, a heat-dissipating fin formed on the other surface of the Peltier element, and a blower fan that sends air to the cooling fin and the heat-dissipating fin. The device may be mounted on clothes to cool the interior of the clothes. An air intake opening for the blower fan to introduce the outside air is opened in the housing. A cool air opening where cool air having passed through the cooling fin is exhausted and a heat dissipation opening where hot air having passed through the heat-dissipating fin is exhausted are opened in the exact opposite direction in the housing. The cool air opening has a flange which is removably joined to the inner-outer circumferential surface of an opening in the clothes.

1 . A cooling device for clothes, which is mounted in an opening portion formed in the clothes, the cooling device comprising: housing, a Peltier element in the housing, a cooling fin formed on one surface of the Peltier element, a heat-dissipating fin formed on the other surface of the Peltier element, and a blast fan configured to send air to the cooling fin and the heat-dissipating fin, wherein
 an air intake port opens in the housing to take in any one of outside air taken from an outside of a piece of clothes by the blast fan and the air existing inside a piece of the clothes,   a cool-air opening through which cool air having passed through the cooling fin is discharged and a heat dissipation opening through which hot air having passed through the heat-dissipating fin is discharged are opening in exact opposite directions in the housing,   at least one of the Peltier element or the cooling fin is arranged in a positional relation of being overlapped with the cool-air opening in a projection from the cool-air opening directed toward the heat dissipation opening,   the cool-air opening is provided at an end of a first discharging part internally including a path for the cool air,   the heat dissipation opening is provided at an end of a second discharging part internally including a path for the hot air,   each of the first discharging part and the second discharging part protrudes from a surface of the housing, and   the first discharging part is fixed to the clothes by insertion through the opening portion.   
     
     
         2 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the first discharging part has a flange around the cool-air opening, and the flange is detachably joined to an inner-outer circumferential surface of the opening portion of the clothes.   
     
     
         3 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , further comprising a reinforcing member to attach the flange to the inner and outer circumferential surfaces. 
     
     
         4 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , wherein the air intake port is formed on the surface of the housing on the same side with the cool-air opening to take in the air in the piece of clothes.) 
     
     
         5 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , wherein the air intake port is formed on the surface of the housing on the same side with the heat dissipation opening to take in the outside air. 
     
     
         6 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , including a controller configured to reverse polarity of direct current that is to be supplied to the Peltier element by the controller to switch operations of (i) forming the intake port on a surface of the housing on the same side with the cool-air opening to take in the air in the piece of clothes, and (ii) forming the intake port on a surface of the housing on the same side with the heat dissipation opening to take in the outside air. 
     
     
         7 . The cooling device for clothes according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the housing is inserted in a pocket formed in the piece of clothes, and   the pocket is formed with a mesh at least on any one surface of a side of the piece of clothes and a side of the outside air.