Patents Represented by Attorney Jeremiah S. Murray
  • Patent number: 4423768
    Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for providing for increased heat transfer efficiency f a heat exchanger by separating contiguous fluid conductive channels by means of a flexible sheet fabricated from a piezoelectric polymer. An electrode pattern of predetermined configuration is applied to one or both sides of the piezoelectric sheet and an electrical signal applied thereto in order to set the sheet into a flexual resonance condition whereupon a standing wave pattern is established to not only break up the boundary layer of fluid which adheres to each side of the sheet, but also minimizing the thickness of the laminar sub-layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Seymour Edelman, Lowell D. Ballard