Patents by Inventor Richard J. Jibb

Richard J. Jibb 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).

  • Heat exchanger distributor for multicomponent heat exchange fluid
    Patent number: 7163051
    Abstract: A heat exchanger distributor which facilitates homogeneous flow of a two phase multicomponent heat exchange fluid, such as a refrigerant fluid, comprising a plurality of spaced dividers, extending longitudinally through some or all of the length of the finned section of the distributor, which prevent lateral movement and agglomerization of gas bubbles and a lower threshold for flow reversal and liquid logging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Jibb
  • Biological refrigeration system
    Patent number: 7059138
    Abstract: A refrigeration system especially useful for refrigerating biological samples wherein a cryocooler, such as one employing a pressure wave from a pressure wave generator, is used to generate refrigeration for cooling liquid coolant or purging fluid, which is employed within hollow structures bordering an enclosed space of a storage unit or within the storage space of a storage unit and is subsequently cleaned of contaminants purged from the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dante Patrick Bonaquist, John Henri Royal, Bryce Rampersad, Richard J. Jibb
  • Method for providing refrigeration using capillary pumped liquid
    Patent number: 6865897
    Abstract: A method for providing refrigeration to a refrigeration load such as superconducting equipment while reducing or eliminating potential two phase instability oscillations, wherein refrigeration condenses working fluid which is evaporated from the surface of a porous wick housed in an evaporator to generate a capillary pumping force to drive the condensed working fluid to the evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Jibb
  • Dual section refrigeration system
    Patent number: 6666046
    Abstract: A refrigeration system particularly useful with a multicomponent refrigerant fluid wherein the refrigerant fluid is cooled in an upward leg of a first vertically oriented heat exchanger section and further cooled in a downward leg of a second vertically oriented heat exchanger section prior to refrigeration generation and serial recycle flow through the two heat exchanger sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Lockett, Richard J. Jibb, Vijayaraghavan Srinivasan Chakravarthy