Axis Of Conduit Is Curved (e.g., Helical Or Serpentine) Patents (Class 126/656)
  • Patent number: 8915242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for collecting and utilizing energy generated by the sun, comprising a layered construction provided with a substrate layer and a cover layer comprising a curable mortar, wherein there is arranged on the substrate layer a tube system through which a fluid can be transported in order to regulate the temperature in the tube system, this tube system being at least partially embedded in the mortar, and wherein the mortar of the cover layer comprises insulating granules, cement, water and additives. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a layered construction for a device for collecting and utilizing energy generated by the sun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: M=ECO2 cvba
    Inventors: Manu Nys, Johan Vermeiren, Kristof Vermeiren
  • Patent number: 8746237
    Abstract: This invention relates to solar engineering. The solar collector, which comprises a closed enclosure and an absorber 5 with channels for a liquid heat carrier, is designed in the form of a cylindrical portion having radius R1 and an axis coinciding with the axis of the central cylindrical portion 1 of the enclosure. The absorber 5 consists of thin-walled, interconnected modules. The modules are provided with bulges on the rear side thereof, in which channels with slots are made for arranging pipes forming heat-carrier flowing channels. In addition, the absorber can be designed in the form of a storage tank. The shape of the collector is optimized in such a way that the axes of the two lateral cylindrical portions 2 thereof are remote at distance L and the central cylindrical portion 1 is as remote as possible from a plane 3 tangential to the lateral cylindrical portions 2 at a distance H having the defined ratio of geometric parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventor: Boris Ivanovich Kazandzhan
  • Publication number: 20140102439
    Abstract: An apparatus for amplifying the solar energy by recycling the greenhouse gas has developed to heat up the gas passing through the sealed container. The apparatus of amplifying the solar energy is comprising: a body made of metal with opened top forming a container; the upper and lower metal meshes disposed in the container with a vertical distance from the bottom for forming a space; a metal pipe formed a coiled shape to dispose between upper and lower metal meshes to contact with the upper and lower metal meshes and having one inlet and the other outlet for passing through the side wall of the container; and two transparent panels for transmitting the sun beams, which are disposed over the upper metal mesh to seal the container space inside of the body. Further, the body has a gas-charging valve disposed on a side wall to charge the sulfur hexafluoride SF6 to the sealed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Yong Lee
  • Publication number: 20130186388
    Abstract: A solar collector for heating and transferring fluids, having an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold through which fluid is respectively transferred into and out of the solar collector; and a plurality of polymer tubes each connected between the inlet and outlet manifolds, the polymer tubes having co-extruded concentric inner and outer tube layers, wherein the outer tube layer is composed of a harder polymer than the inner tube layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: BOSS POLYMER TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventor: Norman Mills
  • Patent number: 8360053
    Abstract: A sunlight collecting heat receiver includes: a heat-exchange heat receiving tube which receives sunlight collected by heliostats and transfers the sunlight to a heat carrier, wherein the heat-exchange heat receiving tube includes an outward-flow heat receiving tube which is disposed on the upstream in a sunlight incident direction and an inward-flow heat receiving tube which is connected to the outward-flow heat receiving tube through a U tube and is disposed on the downstream in the sunlight incident direction, and wherein the outward-flow heat receiving tube and the inward-flow heat receiving tube are arranged so as to be deviated from each other in the transverse direction perpendicular to the height direction when seen in the sunlight incident direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8161964
    Abstract: A direct accumulation tank, defining a closed volume (2), comprising an inlet (3) for filling the tank with a fluid, and an outlet (4) for emptying the tank of the fluid, and exhibiting an upper surface (Ia) exposed to solar rays. The upper surface (Ia) exhibits a plurality of reliefs (5, . . . 5n) for defining a greater surface extension exposed to the solar rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: G.F. S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giorgio Gaiti
  • Patent number: 8046849
    Abstract: The shower heated by solar energy comprises a platform (2), to a base (2a) of which is connected a piping (3) containing a water supply. A tubular body (4) is connected superiorly to the platform (2), bearing a shower head (5) at a top thereof. The platform (2) internally exhibits a plurality of conduits (7) for retaining water, which plurality of conduits (7) is exposed to solar rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: G.F. S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giorgio Gaiti
  • Patent number: 7744362
    Abstract: A temperature control system (100) includes a heating system (1), a cooling system (2) and a control unit (3). The heating system has a heated fluid. The heated fluid is heated by a solar energy for increasing the mold temperature. The cooling system has a cooled fluid. The cooled fluid cools for decreasing the mold temperature. The control unit controls the heating system and the cooling system to be opened or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsin-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20080256700
    Abstract: The shower heated by solar energy comprises a platform (2), to a base (2a) of which is connected a piping (3) containing a water supply. A tubular body (4) is connected superiorly to the platform (2), bearing a shower head (5) at a top thereof. The platform (2) internally exhibits a plurality of conduits (7) for retaining water, which plurality of conduits (7) is exposed to solar rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: G.F. S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giorgio Gaiti
  • Patent number: 7013887
    Abstract: The absorber pipe (1), especially for a parabolic collector for a solar heat collecting apparatus, is described. The absorber pipe (1) includes central metal pipe (3), a glass sleeve tube (2) surrounding the nine so that an annular space (4) is formed between them and an expansion compensating device connecting the central metal nine and a glass-metal transitional element (5) on a free end of the sleeve tube (2). The expansion compensation device (10) connects the metal pipe and sleeve tube, so that they can slide relative to each other, and includes folding bellows (11) for that purpose. Furthermore it also includes a connecting element (15), which has either a cylindrical or a conical section (17,18,18?) and which connects an interior end of the folding bellows with the metal pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kuckelkorn, Fritz-Dieter Doenitz, Nikolaus Benz
  • Patent number: 6637427
    Abstract: A radiant energy absorber (39) having an absorber tube (40) formed with V-shaped grooves (41) in its outer surface to enhance energy collection. The radiant energy absorber (39) may also include an inner tube (43) and a helically extending wire (48) in the annular space between the inner tube (43) and outer tube (40) which defines a helically extending flow passage along which the medium flowing into the absorber is constrained to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: Allan James Yeomans
  • Patent number: 6119683
    Abstract: A solar heat collecting apparatus wherein a heat-absorbing plate for absorbing the solar radiation is installed in a vacuum vessel, the solar heat accumulated in the heat-absorbing plate is transmitted to a working medium in a pipe connected to the heat-absorbing plate, an upper surface layer for passing the solar radiation irradiated on the heat-absorbing plate therethrough and reflecting the infrared radiation emerging from the heat-absorbing plate is formed on the upper surface of the heat-absorbing plate, a lower surface layer for reflecting the infrared radiation emerging from the heat-absorbing plate is formed on the lower surface of the heat-absorbing plate, a space-diving film is formed between the lower surface of the heat-absorbing plate and the bottom surface of the vacuum vessel, a reflection layer is formed on the bottom surface of the vacuum vessel, a film for passing the solar radiation and reflecting the infrared radiation is provided between the upper surface of the heat-absorbing plate and t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Kokusai Gijutsu Kaihatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsaku Nakauchi
  • Patent number: 5096730
    Abstract: The present invention provides sour cream formulated with microparticulated protein which serves as a replacement for all or part of the fat and/or oil normally found in sour cream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: John Labatt Limited/John Labatt Limitee
    Inventors: Norman S. Singer, Joseph Latella, Shoji Yamamoto