Coldmate Portable Mini Cooler

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Coldmate Portable Mini Cooler
Freshman Engineering Clinic II, Spring 2003 Mid
Term Presentation
A Product Overview

• Ian Callahan
• Ulrich Schwabe
• Jeff Batten
• Ryan McDevitt

Team 3
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Overview

• Corporate Profile and Business Opportunity
• Product Development Mission Statement
• Acquiring Customer Needs Data
• Customer Needs
• Metrics and House of Quality
• Thermal Testing
• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Efficiency
• Test Plan
• Instrumentation
• Future Work

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Corporate Background

• Haier is a large company originated in Japan.
  They focus on manufacturing appliances such as
  refrigerators, air conditioners, laundry
  machines, televisions and much more.
• Haier America was created in 1999 as the
  marketing division for the Haier International
  Group. The main headquarters of the company is
  the landmark Haier Building in New York City.
  This location houses the corporate offices,
  showrooms, and research development labs.
• Concentrating on working their way into the
  American market they are offering cheap yet
  reliable products
• The dormitory sized fridge can not be larger than
  1.5 cubic feet
• It must not use more than 60W during any time of
  operation
• There is a large enough market, totaling about
  100-500 thousand units a year.

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Mission Statement

• To create a compact cooling device that draws
  little power.
• Business goals are to have this ready for
  production by the end of the spring semester of
  2003. The cost should be in the low to mid range.
  The quality should be of the highest obtainable
  under the given constraints.

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• Primary target - College students.
• Secondary target - Small apartment and office
  owners.
• Constraints - The overall volume of the product
  can not exceed 1.5 cubic foot and must draw fewer
  than 60 watts.
• The success or failure of this product will
  affect our stakeholders.

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Vision Statement

• To develop a mid-sized cooling device that draws
  less than 60 watts of power and is smaller than
  1.5 cubic foot.

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Customer Needs
   
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Target Specifications

• What is a spec?
• What is a metric?

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Metrics
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House of Quality

• What is it?
• Why do we have it?

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House of Quality
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Thermal Testing

• First Law of Thermodynamics for the Coldmate
  Portable Mini Cooler
• The Efficiency of the Coldmate can be found by

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Test Plan and Instrumentation
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Thermal Testing
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Future Work

• Some of our Future work will include
• Finding the Inner volume
• Maximum Stress on Hinges
• Noise of Fan
• Power Consumption
• Maximum Stress on Latch
• Variations in Temperatures