Patents by Inventor BRIAN RALPH ENGLER

BRIAN RALPH ENGLER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHODS AND APPARATUS USING REFRIGERANT COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING REFRIGERANT AND LUBRICANT COMPRISING PERFLUOROPOLYETHER AND NON-FLUORINATED LUBRICANT
    Publication number: 20160068731
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method to improve miscibility in refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pump or power cycle systems comprising charging a refrigeration, air conditioning or heat pump system with a refrigerant composition; wherein the refrigerant composition comprises at least one refrigerant and a lubricant comprising at least one perfluoropolyether and at least one non-fluorinated lubricant, provided that the refrigerant composition has no more than two liquid phases over the range of the composition and over a range of temperature from about ?40° C. to about +60° C. Also disclosed is a refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pump, or power cycle system containing said refrigerant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: BARBARA HAVILAND MINOR, BRIAN RALPH ENGLER, THOMAS JOSEPH LECK, GREGORY A. BELL, JON LEE HOWELL, KONSTANTINOS KONTOMARIS