Patents by Inventor Ying-Nien Yu

Ying-Nien Yu 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).

  • Thermosyphon heat pipe hot water appliance
    Patent number: 4421100
    Abstract: A thermosyphon heat pipe hot water appliance combines a solar collector with a heat reservoir wherein fluid vaporized in the collector transfers latent heat to reservoir fluid, for re-transfer to fluid such as water supplied by city reservoirs, or from municipal mains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Ying Mfg. Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Nien Yu
  • Solar collector for gas heating
    Patent number: 4154222
    Abstract: Heat transfer structure comprises:A. sandwich assembly including a heat transfer plate to receive infra-red radiation or to transmit such radiation, respectively to or from skyward,B. the assembly defining an enclosed gas flow chamber at the underside of said plate, there being spaced air inlet and outlet ports respectively to and from the chamber, andC. baffling in said chamber to direct gas passing through the chamber via said ports to freely flow tortuously and with turbulence adjacent major extent of the underside of said plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: Ying Mfg., Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Nien Yu
  • Lightweight solar heater employing tubes and channels
    Patent number: 4084579
    Abstract: A solar collector comprisesA. a multiplicity of tubes to pass fluid and to receive heat, andB. channel shaped heat transfer members having flanges, the members having webs interconnecting the flanges and presented to receive solar radiation,C. the tubes clamped between and in heat transfer contact with flanges on successive of said members to form a tube and member assembly, whereby the solar heated channel members transfer heat via the tube clamping flanges to the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Assignee: Ying Mfg. Corporation
    Inventor: Ying-Nien Yu
  • Solar heat collector
    Patent number: 3943911
    Abstract: A solar heat exchanger comprises:A. a base and an extended surface thereon for facing frontwardly toward the sun,B. means communicating with said surface to conduct liquid to flow in dispersed condition adjacent said surface, andC. a sheet overlying said surface and spaced therefrom sufficiently closely to cooperate therewith for filming the flowing liquid, said sheet adapted to receive solar radiation for promoting heat transfer to the filmed and flowing liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Inventor: Ying-Nien Yu