Patents by Inventor Herbert F. Wighard

Herbert F. Wighard 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).

  • Patent number: 5813234
    Abstract: A electroacoustic cooling engine comprising a resonator pressure vessel for containing a compressible fluid, a double acting flexural disk centrally located in the resonant pressure vessel, an electromagnetic driver supported outside the vessel for driving the disk from outside the vessel, a thermodynamic element on each side of the disk and a pair of heat exchangers on opposite sides of the thermodynamic element. The electromagnetic driver linearly actuates the disk to cyclically drive a standing acoustic wave on both sides of the disk through each thermodynamic element and heat exchanger pair to generate a desired thermal response in a working fluid flowing through each heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Herbert F. Wighard