MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641089617 A) filed by Ashok Leyland Limited on July 23, 2026, for Modular Climatic Test Rig And Method For Validating Rotating Cooling Components Under Simulated Conditions.
Inventors include Balakrishnan D; Gopi Kannan N; Manthiramoorthy G; Manikandan R; and Obuli Karthikeyan N.
The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.
Abstract: A modular climatic test rig (100) for validating a rotating cooling component includes a test chamber (102) defining a controlled air path, and a modular test mounting interface (104) for removably mounting a test article including a fan (106) and motor (108). An aerodynamic load emulator (110) includes a variable open-area array (112) for adjusting flow resistance and a distributed face-mapping sensor array (114) for measuring pressure or velocity across an effective flow area. A perimeter leakage emulator (116) establishes a controllable bypass flow path. A climatic conditioning subsystem (118) includes a hot blower (120), mistifier (122), and dust injection mechanism (124). A flow measurement module (126) measures volumetric flow. A controller (130) controls the variable open-area array (112) and perimeter leakage emulator (116) in closed loop to match a stored target pressure-drop-versus-flow characteristic and controls the climatic conditioning subsystem (118) to achieve predetermined setpoints. Reference: (FIG. 1)
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