Patent 7569101 was granted and assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute on August, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A rotor replacing mechanism for rotary desiccant includes a base plate, on which a plurality of gears are mounted to form multiple support points, to and between which a rotor of the rotary desiccant is held in place. One or two of the plurality of gears may be moved to different positions to allow easy removal of the rotor from the base plate and accordingly the rotary desiccant and be replaced with a new one.