A vacuum insulated cabinet structure includes panels having sheet metal outer side walls and polymer inner side walls. The polymer inner side walls are heat-sealed to a layer of polymer material laminated to a flat sheet metal blank to form vacuum cavities. The blank is then bent along fold lines to form a cabinet structure.

A sealed system and a method of assembling the sealed system include installing an expansion device such as an electronic expansion valve (EEV) between an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor heat exchanger. Before or after the expansion device is installed, a predetermined stop position of an adjustable valve is determined, e.g., based on the sealed system capacity. A removable motor assembly moves the adjustable valve to the predetermined stop position and the adjustable valve is permanently fixed within the expansion device, e.g., by removing the motor assembly and/or melting a locking member positioned within the expansion device.

A method of designing a buffer system for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, configuring a heat exchanger to define a first inlet and a first outlet fluidly coupled to each other and a second inlet and a second outlet fluidly coupled to each other, configuring the first inlet to receive air from first and second air sources that are selectively fluidly coupled to the first inlet, configuring the second inlet to receive air from a third air source fluidly that is coupled to the second inlet, and configuring the first outlet to provide cooled pressurized air to multiple fluid-supplied areas that are located remotely from one another and that are fluidly coupled to the first outlet, the multiple fluid-supplied areas including a bearing compartment of a gas turbine engine.

An air-conditioning cabinet can have an outer boiler, an inner chamber with an inner chamber height, a cover, a bottom where the cover and bottom are separated by a distance that defines the inner chamber height, an inner boiler having a foot movably coupled to the inner boiler, where the inner boiler is arranged in the outer boiler, where the inner boiler height is less than the inner chamber height and where the foot is movably coupled to the inner boiler in such a manner that the inner boiler height is variable. Also, moving a position of the foot on the inner boiler can arrange the inner boiler such that the inner boiler is supported on the cover of the outer boiler and the foot is supported on the bottom of the outer boiler, and the foot can be fixed in the position.

Utility routing for door-mounted operations are disclosed. An appliance may include a cabinet and one or more doors connected to the cabinet. An apparatus may have a mounted position on the door. An operation apparatus may be enabled, supported, or otherwise made operable in part by closed-looped conveyance of one or more operating mediums. The apparatus has an unmounted position wherein the apparatus is separated from the door while maintaining the closed-loop conveyance of the one or more operating mediums.

A vacuum insulated door structure includes a first wall having a first edge and a barrier layer, a second wall having a second barrier layer and a second edge coupled to the first wall member proximate the first perimetrical edge. The second wall includes at least four inner side walls and a back wall that defines a second wall offset. At least one tubular member extends between the first wall member and the second wall offset, wherein an inner conduit surface of the tubular member provides fluid communication between the first wall outer facing surface and the second wall outer facing surface. A cavity insulation material is disposed within a cavity volume defined between the first and second walls, wherein the cavity volume is hermetically sealed, and wherein the cavity volume includes an at least partial vacuum.

A method of making integrated adsorption and heat exchanger devices for solid sorption refrigeration systems (1). An integrated adsorption and heat exchanger device comprises a solid material having formed therein both a porous adsorption structure, which is pervious to an adsorbate of said system, and a heat exchanger structure, which is impervious to said adsorbate, for heat exchange with the porous adsorption structure in operation of the system.

A manufacturing method of a heat conducting device includes following steps: providing a first plate, which includes a plate body and at least a heat conducting element, wherein the plate body has at least an inserting end disposed corresponding to the heat conducting element and defining a tube, and the heat conducting element is mounted at the tube; providing a second plate, which has a first opening end; disposing a first wick structure on an internal wall of the heat conducting element and a bottom surface of the plate body; disposing a second wick structure on an internal wall of the second plate; and connecting the plate body to the first opening end so as to connect the first plate and the second plate to form a chamber. Accordingly, the heat conducting device has a higher heat conducting efficiency.

A refrigerator includes a vacuum insulated cabinet structure having side walls that are formed from a tube that has been folded/deformed into a structure having an O shape with vertically enlarged front and rear openings. The interior of the tube may be filled with silica powder or other filler, and a vacuum is formed within the tube. An insulated rear panel may be utilized to close off the rear opening of the vacuum insulated cabinet structure.

An exemplary modular container system is provided that includes couplings that may, in one embodiment, be implemented as integrated or interfaced receptacles and corresponding inserts that allow accessory items to couple with a compartment, which may be referred to as a wet box, and used as a container that holds items. The accessories may include, for example, a second compartment or dry box for holding items that need to be kept dry, a fishing rod holder, a shelf, a cutting board, a cup holder, a chair or seating platform, one or more dollies, or virtually any needed accessory.