Abstract: A method of mounting SMD components (6, 7, 8) and wire components (21, 22) on a printed circuit board (2), in which the wire components (21, 22) ae secured on the printed circuit board (2) by means of connection elements (13, 14). The SMD components (6, 7, 8) and the connection elements (13, 14) are secured by reflow soldering on the printed circuit board (2), while the wire components (21, 22) are connected by their connection wires (19, 20) to the connection elements (13, 14) by welding.

Abstract: A radiator comprising a number of parallel cooling medium pipes having fin stacks secured thereto in which a metal strip of the desired width dimensions is zigzag folded to form a stack having successive fin parts and side parts, each fin part being divided into stepwise parallel portions by additional fold areas parallel to the side parts.

Abstract: There is provided a hot water production apparatus comprising a container for water and a heat pump including a motor-compressor unit disposed in a sealed casing containing the heating fluid. The heat generated in the motor-compressor unit is transferred to the water by way of a heat pipe insulated over its portion extending between the water container and the sealed casing. The heat pipe is charged with an inert gas and an operating medium which in the range of 20.degree. to 100.degree. C. has a vapor pressure such that, at a temperature within this range, the front between the inert gas and the operating medium is situated in the portion of the heat pipe present in the water container.

Abstract: A drive comprising a rotatably journalled shaft on which a plate is mounted so that the plate cannot rotate with respect to the shaft during operation. The plate can, however, be adjusted around a pin which extends transverse to the rotatably journalled shaft, so that the angle enclosed by the plate and the shaft can be varied. The pin is journalled in a bearing block which is adjustable in the shaft direction. Each of the pistons has a piston rod with a piston rod head whose side which faces the plate is provided with a spherical surface which cooperates with a sliding body which bears against the contact surface of the plate. The side of the plate which is remote from the piston rod comprises a spherical cam which has the same center of curvature as the spherical surface of the drive rod head. The cam is supported by a surface which forms part of a structural member which is rigidly coupled to the shaft.

Abstract: A solar collector comprises a tube containing an evaporable heat transport medium and having an evaporation zone and a condensation zone arranged during operation at a level higher than that of the evaporation zone. A plurality of pieces of a liquid-absorbing material is provided in the evaporation zone in a row extending in the axial direction of the tube in order to accumulate returning condensate, adjacent pieces being spaced from each other. These pieces are mounted on a shaft that maintains the same in contact with the inner surface of the tube.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprises a primary refrigerating system and a secondary refrigerating system in heat-exchanging contact with each other. The secondary refrigerating system is connected to a reservoir containing a control gas getter which can be heated to vary the amount of free control gas in the secondary refrigerating system and thereby to control the temperature of the secondary refrigerating system. The reservoir includes an initially breakable seal for aiding in assembling the reservoir to the secondary refrigerating system.

Abstract: A solar collector comprises a flat absorber and an associated evaporation/condensation system. The evaporation zone, which is in thermal contact with the absorber, has a number of outwardly and downwardly extending protrusions which are spaced along its length and which serve for collecting heat transport medium condensate returning to the evaporation zone under the influence of gravity.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprising a freezing compartment and a refrigerating compartment which refrigerator is provided with a primary refrigerating system containing a refrigerant with a primary evaporator disposed in the freezing compartment, and a secondary refrigerating system which also contains a refrigerant with a secondary evaporator disposed in the refrigerating compartment, and a secondary condensor which is in heat-exchanging contact with the primary evaporator, which condensor has a condensation wall on whose surface the refrigerant condenses during operation, means being provided for varying the available condensation wall area, so as to control the temperature of the secondary evaporator.

Abstract: There is provided heat transport apparatus comprising a closed tube having an evaporator and a condenser with the condenser being positioned above the evaporator during operation. The closed tube includes a heat transport medium which, during operation, is vaporized in the evaporator and condensed in the condenser, the resulting condensate being returned to the evaporator. A valve is positioned in the closed tube in the condenser region for controlling the condensate return. A pressure-expansion chamber is arranged within the closed tube and is connected to the valve for closing the same when the vapor pressure in the condenser exceeds a given value. A pressure-equalization duct forms part of the valve and provides communication between the evaporator and the condenser.

Abstract: A hot-gas engine having a heat insulating lining of loose grains surrounding the hot working medium spaces of the cylinder and the regenerator housing.

Abstract: Apparatus for heat exchange between a fluid and air, having at least one heat exchanger element comprising a plurality of fluid tubes to which are secured heat transfer strips which define between them air passages having length .ltoreq. 25 mm., hydraulic diameter < 2 mm, with each element being at an angle of at most 45.degree. to the relative flow direction of the air before its entrance into the heat exchanger; at the rear of each element the strips are bent to extend in the discharge direction of the air issuing from the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An isothermal heating device comprises an annular tubular body providing a heating chamber for objects. Between the inner wall and the outer wall of this tubular body there is provided a plurality of separate ducts which are situated in a ring-shape about the heating chamber and which extend parallel to the tubular body axis. These ducts contain an evaporable heat transport medium and are in communication with each other preferably at one end of the tubular body. Such interconnection is in turn connected with a gas buffer reservoir containing an inert control gas.

Abstract: A hot-gas engine in which the transfer of heat from the heat-source to the meltable material of a heat storage reservoir is effected exclusively indirectly via the working medium in order to prevent overheating, fast corrosion and cracking of the reservoir walls.