With Solid Sorbent Patents (Class 62/480)
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Patent number: 11896928Abstract: Systems and methods for heat exchange during gas adsorption and desorption cycling, one method including removing heat from an adsorbent material during gas adsorption to the adsorbent material; storing the removed heat for later use during desorption of gas from the adsorbent material; heating the adsorbent material during desorption of gas from the adsorbent material using at least a portion of the removed heat; and recycling heat during the step of heating to prepare a working fluid for the step of removing heat via temperature reduction of the working fluid.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mohammed Alhashim, Calogero Migliore, Yuguo Wang, Rashid Othman, Ahmad Bahamdan
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Patent number: 11828496Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of intelligently cooling thermal loads by providing a burst mode cooling system for rapid cooling, and an auxiliary cooling system that controls the temperature of the thermal load and surrounding environment between burst mode cooling cycles. The system may be used to provide pulses of cooling to directed energy systems, such as lasers and other systems that generate bursts of heat in operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Rocky ResearchInventors: Uwe Rockenfeller, Kaveh Khalili
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Patent number: 11821654Abstract: The attic hot air recirculation system is mechanical system. The attic hot air recirculation system is configured for use with an HVAC system of a building. The attic hot air recirculation system is energy saving technology. The attic hot air recirculation system captures solar energy from the roof of the building. The attic hot air recirculation system monitors the temperature of the captured solar energy and the temperature of a chamber in the building. The attic hot air recirculation system uses the heat generated from the captured solar energy to heat a chamber in the room. When the temperature difference between the temperature of the captured solar energy and the temperature of a chamber in the building makes it thermodynamically favorable to do so, the attic hot air recirculation system transfers heat from the roof into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventor: Chad Schoppel
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Patent number: 11791510Abstract: A method of cooling a battery cell includes: atomizing a cooling fluid by driving it through a micro-nozzle at a pressure sufficient to create a jet of aerosolized liquid droplets while retaining sufficient momentum in flow of the fluid to travel from the nozzle to an outer surface of the battery cell; impinging the spray of the jet of aerosolized liquid droplets on an outer surface of the battery cell; partially evaporating the liquid droplets on the outer surface to conduct heat from the outer surface; and convecting heat from the outer surface of the battery via the cooling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Brandon Powell, Michael R Dixon, Jr., Jesse Maxwell, Rachel Carter
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Patent number: 11747066Abstract: A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Gobi Technologies Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Morgan Fowler, Peter Maier-Laxhuber, Ralf Schmidt, William Randal Sims
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Patent number: 11732935Abstract: A sorption heat pump having an evaporator containing a working fluid to evaporate the fluid to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a vapor pathway connecting the evaporator and sorber, and a thermal control unit controlling the rate of vapor flow between the evaporator and sorber through the pathway, and being selectively operable to permit, stop and restart the flow of gas through the pathway. The pump may be used with a compartment storing temperature sensitive material. The evaporator may be positioned inside and the sorber outside the compartment, or the sorber may be positioned inside and the evaporator outside the compartment. The pump may be used in an apparatus including both cool and warm compartments, with an insulation layer in each. A method is disclosed for reusing the pump after the sorption material has been sorbed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Gobi Technologies Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Morgan Fowler, Victoria E. H. Ellington, Peter Maier-Laxhuber, Ivan Poleshchuk, Reiner Wörz, Ralf Schmidt
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Patent number: 11707407Abstract: System and associated method for capturing, preserving, and transporting a bodily fluid, including a collection jar having a base body, a lid body, and a cartridge having a plunger therein and disposed in the lid body, the cartridge housing a preservative when the plunger is in a first plunger position and permitting a release of the preservative into an internal cavity of the collection jar when the plunger is in a second plunger position, and a transportation packaging having an outer container, at least one insulation foam support, at least one phase change material bottle, and at least one collection jar holding tray, where the phase change material bottle has an indented portion corresponding to an indented portion of the collection jar holding tray, and where the collection jar is configured for placement in the at least one collection jar holding tray during transportation.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Dadi, LLCInventors: Thomas Smith, Pepin Gelardi, Theodore Ullrich, Ross Sloan
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Patent number: 11656035Abstract: A heat storage and transfer system that incorporates a primary heat storage chamber or body that is thermally insulated and which in use contains a heat storing liquid or solid; and a secondary chamber external to and adjacent the primary heat storage chamber or body through which a liquid, heat transfer fluid or steam to be heated is passed in use, the system having a heat transfer mechanism to selectively transfer thermal energy from the heat storing liquid or solid of the primary heating chamber or body to the liquid or steam to be heated in the secondary chamber. The heat transfer mechanism has a drive that moves the secondary chamber from a first position that is thermally separated from the primary chamber into a second position that is substantially inserted in a void or recess within the primary chamber or body.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Inventor: Piers St John Spencer Cave
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Patent number: 11653567Abstract: A portable electrical power generation system using thermoelectric modules to produce voltage from a temperature differential. The temperature differential is maintained using a passive cooling system including a retained liquid coolant and heat from a heated fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Inventor: Gerard Campeau
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Patent number: 11644025Abstract: A compressor includes a cylinder comprising a cylinder body which has a cylindrical shape and defining a compression space for refrigerant gas, a piston configured to be reciprocated in an axial direction within the cylinder body and to compress the refrigerant gas in the compression space, and a frame in which the cylinder is received, the frame defining a gas hole, one side of the gas hole communicating with outside so that the refrigerant gas is introduced, the other side of the gas hole extending up to an inner circumferential surface so as to guide the refrigerant gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sangik Son, Youngpil Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Wooju Jeon
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Patent number: 11634094Abstract: Electrically powered accessories connected to vehicle power systems are authenticated, and connections between the accessories and the vehicle power systems are based on permissions resulting from that authentication. accessories may supply authentication information associated with an authentication level, and form a permitted connection based on the authentication level. Vehicle power systems may obtain the authentication information, obtain the authentication level, and operate a power connection according to the authentication level. Authentication information can be obtained from the component or from a user of the component through, for example, a portable device. A system may include the electrically powered component and the vehicle power system. The system may further include a remote server to process the authentication information and determine the authentication level.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: THERMO KING LLCInventors: Ryan Wayne Schumacher, Bryce Butler, Michael James Vanous, Matthew Srnec, Tracey Patterson
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Patent number: 11619426Abstract: Disclosed is an adsorption-based heat pump useful for refrigeration and cooling/heating for applications such as HVACs and chillers. Adsorption is a surface phenomenon where a solid substance (adsorbent) attracts molecules of a gas or solution (refrigerant or adsorbate) on its surface. The latent heat of the adsorbate provides the heating/cooling effect. The novel adsorption heat pump enhances heat and/or mass transfer to and from the adsorbate. One embodiment comprises at least one evaporator, at least one desorber (adsorbent heating apparatus), at least one adsorbent cooling apparatus and at least one condenser. The embodiment employs different techniques to enhance heat and/or mass transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Enersion Inc.Inventors: Hanif Montazeri, Jingyuan Hou, Arshan Singh, Bahman Lashkari, Vignesh Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 11604034Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of refrigerating a housing to a target temperature according to which: an evaporator is placed in said housing; said evaporator is placed in fluid communication with a thermochemical reactor Ri, simultaneously, the heat produced at said reactor Ri is evacuated; Characteristically, at least n>1 other thermochemical reactors are provided; I) the pressure Pevi in said evaporator after it is placed in fluid communication with said thermochemical reactor Ri, and the temperature of said thermochemical reactor Ri connected to said evaporator, are determined; II) when the temperature difference DTRi between the temperature of said reactor Ri connected to said evaporator and the equilibrium temperature TeSi of said reactive mixture contained in said thermochemical reactor Ri at the pressure Pevi of said evaporator is equal to a first predetermined differential and/or when the temperature difference DTev between said evaporator and the interior of said housing is equType: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Aleix Pubill, Laurent Rigaud, David Tadiotto, Driss Stitou, Nathalie Mazet
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Patent number: 11602077Abstract: A heat dissipation device for an electronics cooling system having an electronic component includes a housing that defines a chamber. The device further includes a first liquid, which is contained within the chamber and has a first boiling temperature. The device further includes a sorbent material immersed within the first liquid. The device further includes a second liquid, which is adsorbed by the sorbent material and has a second boiling temperature that is above the first boiling temperature. The first liquid vaporizes into a first vapor, in response to the first liquid reaching the first boiling temperature. The second liquid is desorbed from the sorbent material, in response to the second liquid and the sorbent material reaching a desorption temperature that is below the second boiling temperature. The second liquid vaporizes into a second vapor, in response to the second liquid reaching the second boiling temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Chih-hung Yen, Nicholas W. Pinto, Anne M. Dailly, Nathan Thompson
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Patent number: 11543216Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of rapidly cooling thermal loads by providing a burst mode cooling system for rapid cooling. The burst mode cooling system may include a complex compound sorber configured to rapidly absorb ammonia. The system may be used to provide pulses of cooling to directed energy systems, such as lasers and other systems that generate bursts of heat in operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Rocky ResearchInventors: Uwe Rockenfeller, Kaveh Khalili
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Patent number: 11543159Abstract: The hybrid adsorption heat pump of the present invention includes an adsorption unit 100 including an adsorption evaporator 1, an adsorption condenser 2, at least two adsorption towers 3, 4, an evaporator 5, a first condenser 7, a compressor 8, an expansion and a compression type unit 200 including a valve 9 and a four-way valve 10, and the refrigerant generated in the evaporator 5 is one of the adsorption towers 3 and 4 and the It is provided in the adsorption-type condenser 2, characterized in that it is provided to the evaporator 1 of the adsorption tower during heating operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAMJUNG TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Su Yong Lee, Sung Min Woo, Kwang Young Kim, Hyo Sang Kim
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Patent number: 11478228Abstract: System and associated method for capturing, preserving, and transporting a bodily fluid, including a collection jar having a base body, a lid body, and a plunger, the plunger housing a preservative when in a first plunger position and permitting a release of the preservative into an internal cavity of the collection jar when in a second plunger position, where the plunger moves from the first plunger position to the second plunger position by pushing the plunger into the internal cavity, and a transportation packaging having an outer container, at least one vacuum insulated panel, at least one phase change material bottle, and at least one collection jar holding tray, where the phase change material bottle has an indented portion corresponding to an indented portion of the collection jar holding tray, where the collection jar is configured for placement in the at least one collection jar holding tray during transportation.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Dadi Inc.Inventors: Thomas Smith, Pepin Gelardi, Theodore Ullrich
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Patent number: 11466814Abstract: A solid hydrogen storage device provides an improved heat-transfer efficiency by improving the contact properties between heat-exchange tubes and heat-transfer fins. The solid hydrogen storage device includes a heat-transfer fin including a plurality of tube through holes, a heating tube, and a cooling tube. The heating tube and the cooling tube respectively extend through the tube through holes, and the heating tube and the cooling tube have different coefficients of thermal expansion.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Ji Hye Park, Kyung Moon Lee, Dong Hoon Nam, Young Jin Cho, Seung Hyeon Choi, Yun Su Lee, Hoon Mo Park
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Patent number: 11413570Abstract: A rotary sorption bed system includes a rotating sorbent mass of a regenerable sorbent material, in a cycle of operation, a given volume of the sorbent mass sequentially passing through first, second, third, fourth, and fifth zones, before returning to the first zone; a process fluid stream directed through the first zone; a regeneration fluid stream directed through the third zone; and an isolation fluid stream that recirculates in a closed loop independent of the process fluid stream and the regeneration fluid stream through the second and fourth zones. The regeneration fluid stream passes through the fifth zone before passing through the third zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Munters CorporationInventors: Douglas S. Jefferson, Stephen C. Brickley
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Patent number: 11083115Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a power device of a power conditioning system. To this end, the present invention comprises: a power device; an evaporator butted to the power device; and a modularized condenser which is connected with the evaporator, placed on the power device, and equipped on the upper side of the power conditioning system. Accordingly, the present invention may easily secure a space, make it easy to install, and increase heat emission performance of the condenser so as to keep the power device at a low temperature, thereby enabling the system to be stably operated over a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Hyosung Heavy Industries CorporationInventors: Chang Woo Han, Seung Boong Jeong, Moon Ho Lee, Joon Hong Boo
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Patent number: 10964874Abstract: A portable electrical power generation system using thermoelectric modules to produce voltage from a temperature differential. The temperature differential is maintained using a passive cooling system including a retained liquid coolant and heat from a heated fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Inventor: Gerard R Campeau
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Patent number: 10864800Abstract: An air-conditioning system is provided for a motor vehicle. That system includes a vacuum enclosure having a refrigerant, a first section and a second section. The system further includes a radiator, a core and a phase change material vessel downstream from the core. A conduit and valve system operate the air-conditioning system in two modes of operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Levin, Furqan Zafar Shaikh, Danrich Henry Demitroff
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Patent number: 10859312Abstract: A portable refrigeration container is usable for cooling a bottle of drinkable fluid. It includes a tubular body, a vortex tube, an electronic programmable controller, a tank of compressed air, a battery, a Peltier device, a heat exchanger, and a removable electrical charging station. Optionally, the portable refrigeration container further includes a compressor, a dynamo, and a bracket for attachment to a bicycle frame. The optional compressor and dynamo that electrically recharges the battery, may share a single shaft that is rotatably connected to turn with a bicycle wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Inventor: Paul W. Waltzing
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Patent number: 10808972Abstract: Technologies are described herein for adsorbent-based cooling systems. A cooling system is described that allows for the refrigerant to be adsorbed into the adsorbent to prevent the freezing of the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: OxiCool Inc.Inventors: Ravikant T. Barot, Brandon K. Wilcox, David Lee Martin
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Patent number: 10668536Abstract: First subareas of a layer of powder applied on a substrate are heated locally with a process beam so as to heated, but not yet interconnect the grains of the powder in the first subareas. A temperature profile of the applied layer is evaluated proximate to the first subarea as a function of the distance from the respective first subarea and/or the time. The local thermal conductivity and/or local diffusivity are determined for the respective first subarea based on the temperature profile. Second subareas of the applied layer which at least partially overlap the first subareas are then heated locally with the process beam so as to interconnect the grains of the powder in the second subareas. A process variable of the process beam influencing heating of the second subareas is determined based on the local thermal conductivity or diffusivity previously determined for the at least partially overlapping first subarea.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Jürgen Zettner
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Patent number: 10383175Abstract: An apparatus and method for melting snow and/or ice on a vehicle comprises a precipitation sensor, a surface temperature sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, a heater, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller comprises a memory unit to store a cut off surface temperature Tc, and a set of program modules. The programmable controller further comprises a processor to execute the set of program modules. A heater control module, executed by the processor, is configured to deactivate a heater based on a surface temperature being greater than the cut off surface temperature. Further, heater control module is configured to activate the heater based on an ambient temperature being lower than freezing point of water and precipitation being present outside the vehicle, thereby melting snow and/or ice on the vehicle. The snow melts off because of heat generated by the heater upon activation.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Inventor: John Oskwarek
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Patent number: 10371424Abstract: A thermal transpiration flow heat pump includes an evaporator that vaporizes a medium, a condenser that condenses the medium, and a medium transport unit that is provided between the evaporator and the condenser. The medium transport unit includes a medium-temperature heat source portion that is placed on a side of the evaporator, a high-temperature heat source portion that is placed on a side of the condenser, and a thermal transpiration flow pump that is placed between the medium-temperature heat source portion and the high-temperature heat source portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHOInventors: Ko Kugimoto, Yasuki Hirota, Takafumi Yamauchi, Ryuichi Iwata
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Patent number: 10253595Abstract: An evaporative cooling apparatus may include a heat transfer module having a vapor passage in fluid communication with a liquid refrigerant in a first container and a heat absorbing module having a drawing liquid selected to absorb the liquid refrigerant in the second container. The heat absorbing module also has a vapor chamber in the drawing fluid that receives vapor generated during evaporation of the liquid refrigerant. The vapor chamber has a selectively permeable membrane that: (i) transports the vapor to the drawing liquid, and (ii) blocks flow of the drawing fluid into the vapor chamber. The refrigerant may be liquid water, the vapor chamber may include a selectively permeable membrane having a pore size between 1 nm and 200 nm, and the drawing fluid may be glycerol.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventor: Rocco Difoggio
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Patent number: 9765998Abstract: Technologies are described herein for cooling systems. In some aspects, a cooling system is configured to enter into a storage configuration or a winterization configuration. In the winterization configuration, refrigerant used in the cooling system is stored in an adsorbent in an adsorbent chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: OxiCool Inc.Inventors: Ravikant T. Barot, Brandon K. Wilcox, David Lee Martin
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Patent number: 9661981Abstract: A dishwasher having a washing container; a controller to control the operation of the dishwasher by means of a wash program; a desorption drying system to dry items to be washed that are arranged inside the washing container; and input means that are connected to the controller and that modify the wash program.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Egbert Classen, Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
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Patent number: 9126880Abstract: A process for separating para-xylene from aromatic compounds is presented. The process introduces throughout a first step-time interval a first mixed xylene stream into a first feed input on a first adsorptive separation unit comprising multiple bed lines. The process further introduces throughout the first step-time interval a second mixed xylene stream into a second feed input on the first adsorptive separation unit. During a first portion of the first step-time interval, the process introduces material from a feed stream used during the first step-time interval into a bed line not used to deliver a stream into, or withdraw a stream from, the first adsorptive separation unit during the first step time interval. During a second portion of the first step-time interval, the process introduces material from a purification zone into the feed stream used during the first step-time interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Jason T. Corradi, Sara A. Williams, Stanley J. Frey
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Patent number: 8850846Abstract: A self-cooling and self dispensing beverage container in the form of a keg which includes a heat exchange unit having a plurality of segments of compressed carbon disposed therein. A valve is secured to a tube attached to the REU housing for carbon dioxide to adsorbed and then desorbed by the carbon for cooling the beverage. A dispense gas canister is disposed within the container to automatically release carbon dioxide to maintain a pressure head within the container sufficient to assure dispensing of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Joseph Company International, Inc.Inventors: Mark Sillince, David Cull
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Patent number: 8770267Abstract: An adsorption module has heat medium pipes through which a fluid flows, a porous heat transferring member, and adsorbent. The porous heat transferring member is a sintered body formed by sintering a metallic material that is in a form of one of powders, particles and fibers, and has pores for allowing an adsorbed medium to pass through. The porous heat transferring member is disposed on peripheries of the heat medium pipes and bonded to outer surfaces of the heat medium pipes by sintering. The adsorbent is disposed in the pores. The porous heat transferring member further has an adsorbed medium passage for allowing the adsorbed medium to pass through. The adsorbed medium passage is located between the heat medium pipes, and extends straight and parallel to axes of the heat medium pipes.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Hisao Nagashima, Masaaki Tanaka, Satoshi Inoue, Hiroshi Mieda, Seiji Inoue, Katsuya Komaki
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Patent number: 8701425Abstract: A refrigeration air conditioning system having a moisture adsorption means regenerated by discharged condensation heat or other discharged heat of a low temperature range in the refrigeration cycle, and exerting stable cooling performance even at a dry-bulb temperature of 0° C. or less. A desiccant rotor, holds an adsorbent having pore sizes of, for example, 1-1.4 nm in a space at a predetermined temperature range of a dry-bulb temperature of 0° C. or less. Forming of frost on an evaporator is prevented by supplying the dehumidified air by the desiccant rotor to the evaporator disposed on a leeward side thereof in a freezing room as the desiccant rotor is rotated, while the adsorbent having adsorbed moisture is dried and recovers its adsorbing ability by supplying the air dried by discharged heat from a condenser on the windward side thereof to the desiccant rotor outside of the freezing room.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Morimoto, Takeshi Sugimoto, Fumio Matsuoka, Tetsuya Yamashita, Koji Yamashita, Takeyuki Maegawa
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Publication number: 20140020413Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger module with thermal management containing a titano-alumino-phosphate as adsorber, which displays a high hydrothermal stability and already desorbs the adsorbed water again under the action of low heat. By targeted action of temperature, the adsorbed water is condensed out, whereby heat energy is released. By means of the action of low heat, the condensed water can be adsorbed again as cold vapour on the adsorber, whereby heat energy is released. The heat exchanger module can be used to heat objects, appliances or rooms on the basis of the adsorption energy being released during the adsorption, as this is discharged and used further. In addition to heating, the cooling of rooms, objects and appliances is also possible, as the area surrounding the heat exchanger module is cooled due to a fall in the temperature in the heat exchanger module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Clariant Produkte(Deutschland)GmbHInventors: Silke Sauerbeck, Arno Tissler, Rolf Kurzhals
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Patent number: 8603223Abstract: A water desalination system including at least one pair of evaporators, said pair including a high pressure and a low pressure evaporator, each for evaporating saline water to produce water vapor; at least three adsorption beds in selective vapor communication with each evaporator, said adsorption beds arranged to reversibly adsorb the water vapor from the corresponding evaporator; said adsorption beds in selective vapor communication with a condenser, and in heat transfer communication with a heat source for selectively desorbing the adsorbed water vapor; said condenser arranged to condense the water vapor to desalinated water; wherein said system is arranged to sequentially connect, for a pre-determined period, each evaporator to a corresponding adsorption bed, and the heat source to the third bed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Bidyut Baran Saha, Kim Choon Ng, Anutosh Chakraborty, Kyaw Thu
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Patent number: 8544294Abstract: A subassembly for an adsorption chiller includes an adsorption component that includes a plurality of plates arranged in a stack. Refrigerant passages are defined between refrigerant sides of adjacent pairs of the plates in the stack. An adsorbent material is disposed within the refrigerant passages.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventor: Sean Garner
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Patent number: 8535486Abstract: A water desalination system includes an evaporator for evaporating saline water to produce water vapor and an adsorption means in selective vapor communication with the evaporator for reversibly adsorbing the water vapor from the evaporator. The adsorption means is in selective vapor communication with a condenser, and desorbing means for desorbing the adsorbed water vapor from the adsorption means for collection by the condenser. The condenser is adapted to condense the water vapor to desalinated water.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignees: National University of Singapore, Kyushu UniversityInventors: Kim Choon Ng, Xiao-Lin Wang, Lizhen Gao, Anutosh Chakraborty, Bidyut Baran Saha, Shigeru Koyama, Atsushi Akisawa, Takao Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20130152612Abstract: Sorption cooling systems and methods for using sorption cooling systems, particularly to control the interior climate of vehicles, buildings, appliances and other enclosed spaces. The sorption cooling systems may incorporate sorbent beds having a low thermal mass that are capable of rapid cycle times to increase the efficiency of the sorption cooling systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: Nanopore, Inc.Inventors: Douglas M. Smith, Stephen Wallace
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Patent number: 8459044Abstract: A thermochemical reactor (1) for a cooling and/or heating includes at least one reagent unit (2) which, using chemical combination, can absorb a gas stream originating from a tank and which, using the reverse chemical reaction, can desorb the gas stream due to a rise in temperature. The reagent unit (2) is disposed in a container (3) that has walls, at least some of which are equipped with diffusers (7) for distributing the gas stream. In addition, the reagent unit (2), which can be heated, is of the type that can expand during absorption of the gas stream and retract during desorption of the gas stream. Moreover, at least some of the walls are mobile walls, which can accompany the longitudinal movement of the reagent unit (2), to enable successive deformation phenomena.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: ColdwayInventors: Laurent Rigaud, Francis Kindbeiter
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Patent number: 8425674Abstract: A sorption system is disclosed that includes a sorbent material and a fluid, in which the sorbent material and fluid in combination have a pressure index of at least 1.2.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Bhupender S. Minhas, Ian A. Cody, Don E. Stratton, Sebastian C. Reyes, Charanjit S. Paur, Erick D. Gamas-Castellanos, Mohsen S. Yeganeh, Thomas F. Degnan
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Patent number: 8302425Abstract: The invention discloses a regenerative adsorption system (50). The system includes at least two reactors (60, 70) capable of operating in an adsorption mode and a desorption mode and two liquid atomization units (62, 72) respectively in fluid communication with the reactors (60, 70). The liquid atomization units (62, 72) being capable of atomizing liquid to form adsorbate vapor or to condense desorbed vapor. In operation, the reactor in the adsorption mode adsorbs the adsorbate vapor and the reactor in the desorption mode produces desorbed vapor that is condensed by the atomised liquid.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Cyclect Singapore Pte Ltd.Inventor: Hideharu Yanagi
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Publication number: 20120272671Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing loss of a cooling fluid from a boiler in an aircraft by incorporating an absorber material is provided. In some aspects, an apparatus may include a base section, a top section, a cooling fluid, and an absorber material disposed in the base section. The absorber material may be configured to retain the cooling fluid therein. The apparatus may further include a barrier disposed between the base and top sections. The barrier may be configured to retain the absorber material in the base section while allowing the cooling fluid to pass therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventor: Frank E. MILLS
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Patent number: 8293388Abstract: A thermal energy battery for cooling temperature sensitive components comprises a composite of a sorbent with ammonia, water, alcohol, amine or a fluorocarbon refrigerant absorbed thereon and incorporated on a substrate material. The composite is encased in a containment material configured to rupture or otherwise release refrigerant desorbed by the sorbent composition when internal battery pressure reaches a threshold ?P from the outside pressure, and thermal conduction means in thermal contact with the thermal energy battery and one or more temperature sensitive components for directing thermal energy therebetween to heat the composite and cool the temperature sensitive components.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Rocky ResearchInventor: Uwe Rockenfeller
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Patent number: 8099969Abstract: A system and method for air-conditioning motor vehicles and, in particular, to an air-conditioning systems for motor vehicles having adsorption heat pumps. The apparatus includes a two adsorber chambers, each connected to a condenser and an evaporator via different connection elements; a vacuum shell for enclosing the adsorber chambers, the condenser, and the evaporator, wherein the vacuum shell is not self-supporting; and one or more adsorbers housed in the adsorber chambers, wherein the adsorbers are comprised of a carrier material coated by a sorbent. The method includes using an adsorption heat pump having one or more adsorber chambers, wherein adsorption and desorption are alternated between the adsorber chambers. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung E.V., SorTech AGInventors: Hans-Martin Henning, Walter Mittelbach
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Publication number: 20120006049Abstract: A split solid adsorption cooling system is disclosed. The split solid adsorption cooling system includes a first adsorption unit, a second adsorption unit, and a shell-and-tube heat exchanger. The first and the second adsorption units are connected to each other via a first pipeline and a second pipeline of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger. While adsorption and desorption take place alternately in the first and the second adsorption units, the temperature of the first and the second pipelines is lowered, thereby decreasing the temperature of water flowing in the shell-and-tube heat exchanger. In addition, the manufacturing costs of the split solid adsorption cooling system can be lowered because the shell-and-tube heat exchanger need not be operated in a vacuum environment. Furthermore, as the shell-and-tube heat exchanger is separate from the first and the second adsorption units, the overall system volume is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Chung-Hsin Electric and Machinery Manufacturing Corp.Inventors: Yu-Ming Sun, Ting-Kuan Li, Chao-Yu Chen, Chi-Bin Wu
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Patent number: 8074470Abstract: A cooling element with a sorption agent, that under vacuum can sorb a vapor-like working agent that evaporates from a liquid working agent in an evaporator and with a regulator organ in a working agent vapor channel between the sorption agent and the evaporator, wherein the entire cooling element is hermetically enclosed by a gas-tight multi-layer film, the multi-layer film has a flexible construction and is under vacuum so encloses the regulator organ, the working agent vapor channel and the evaporator, that the evaporator and the working agent vapor channel remain flexible and the working agent vapor can flow to the sorption agent only through the regulator organ.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: ZEO-TECH Zeolith-Technolgie GmbHInventors: Peter Maier-Laxhuber, Ralf Schmidt, Reiner Wörz, Andreas Becky, Gert Richter, Norbert Weinzierl, Manfred Binnen
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Patent number: 8047010Abstract: A portable apparatus and method for providing a cooled liquid for vascular administration are disclosed. The portable apparatus includes a source of liquid for vascular administration, a cooling reservoir for receiving liquid from the source, and a sorption-based heat exchanger for cooling liquid in the cooling reservoir by a sorption-based process. The heat exchanger may include an evaporative area for receiving and vaporizing a refrigerant, a sorptive material for sorping vaporized refrigerant, and a heat exchange member for conducting thermal energy from liquid in the cooling reservoir into the evaporative area. Additional componentry may be provided for fluidly interconnecting and controlling the flow of liquid from the source to the cooling reservoir and from the cooling reservoir to a vascular interface device. Such componentry may be conveniently packaged in a sterilized manner together with at least the cooling reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Medivance IncorporatedInventors: Gary A. Carson, Marc E. Voorhees
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Publication number: 20110239692Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to process modifications and apparatus designs that are conducive towards minimizing temperature swings (?T) useful to yield operating pressures that provide work and/or refrigeration (e.g., electricity and/or refrigeration) in sorption systems. Such process modifications and designs are particularly suited to make use of waste heat in industrial process, (e.g., a chemical processing or petrochemical refining operation) in which low grade heat source(s) are used to drive the sorption system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Bhupender S. MINHAS, Ian A. CODY, Mohsen S. YEGANEH
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Patent number: 8011193Abstract: A system and method for air-conditioning motor vehicles and, in particular, to an air-conditioning systems for motor vehicles having adsorption heat pumps. The apparatus includes a two adsorber chambers, each connected to a condenser and an evaporator via different connection elements; a vacuum shell for enclosing the adsorber chambers, the condenser, and the evaporator, wherein the vacuum shell is not self-supporting; and one or more adsorbers housed in the adsorber chambers, wherein the adsorbers are comprised of a carrier material coated by a sorbent. The method includes using an adsorption heat pump having one or more adsorber chambers, wherein adsorption and desorption are alternated between the adsorber chambers. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Sortech AGInventors: Hans-Martin Henning, Walter Mittelbach