Patents by Inventor Gary Dee Lang

Gary Dee Lang 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).

  • Impingement cooler
    Patent number: 6334330
    Abstract: A cooling tunnel system that includes a conveyor for carrying objects through a tunnel chamber. The conveyor enables a cooling fluid to pass therethrouqh and about the objects. A plurality of slot means feeds the cooling fluid to the conveyor means. Each slot means includes at least one aperture for enabling vapor flow onto and about the objects. A plenum adjacent the plurality of slot means distributes the cooling fluid. And at least one fan in the tunnel chamber causes a flow of the cooling fluid into the plenum and through the slot means with sufficient velocity to impinge upon and cool the objects and to recirculate the cooling fluid within the tunnel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Praxair, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Dee Lang, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Yeu-Chaun Simon Ho
  • Impingement cooler
    Publication number: 20010013227
    Abstract: A cooling tunnel system that includes a conveyor for carrying objects through a tunnel chamber. The conveyor enables a cooling fluid to pass therethrouqh and about the objects. A plurality of slot means feeds the cooling fluid to the conveyor means. Each slot means includes at least one aperture for enabling vapor flow onto and about the objects. A plenum adjacent the plurality of slot means distributes the cooling fluid. And at least one fan in the tunnel chamber causes a flow of the cooling fluid into the plenum and through the slot means with sufficient velocity to impinge upon and cool the objects and to recirculate the cooling fluid within the tunnel chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Gary Dee Lang, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, Yeu-Chaun Simon Ho