Patents by Inventor Zenon Popinski

Zenon Popinski 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).

  • Automotive absorption air conditioner utilizing solar and motor waste heat
    Patent number: 4307575
    Abstract: In combination with the ground vehicle A powered by a waste heat generating electric motor 16, a cooling system 10 including a generator 17 for driving off refrigerant vapor from a strong refrigerant-absorbant solution, including a solar collector 12, an air-cooled condenser 30 connected with the generator for converting the refrigerant vapor to its liquid state, an air-cooled evaporator 38 connected with the condenser for returning the liquid refrigerant to its vapor state, and an absorber 18 is connected to the generator and to the evaporator for dissolving the refrigerant vapor in the weak refrigerant-absorbant solution, for thus providing a strong refrigerant solution, a pump 22 for establishing a pressurized flow of strong refrigerant-absorbant solution from said absorber through the electric motor, and thence to the collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Zenon Popinski