With Thermal Or Acoustical Blocker Patents (Class 165/135)
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Publication number: 20150083376Abstract: A pouch containing a gas is formed by drawing a first elongated sheet of gas-impermeable material from a supply of the material in a drawing direction. The sheet has a transverse profile perpendicular to the drawing direction that includes a channel. A second sheet of material is drawn, such that a first portion of the first sheet and a first portion of the second sheet are substantially parallel to each other. The gas is injected between the first portion of the first sheet and the first portion of the second sheet. First and second lengths of the first and second sheets are sealed to each other, where the first and second lengths are substantially parallel to the drawing direction, to form first and second side edges of the pouch. Third and fourth lengths of the sheets are sealed to each other to form first and second end edges of the pouch.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventor: Hamburgen Hamburgen
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Publication number: 20150075098Abstract: A method and apparatus of reducing heat loss and cooling loss from a bank building caused by automatic teller machines, night drop vaults, and cash deal drawers. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Dale CONRATH
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Publication number: 20150047816Abstract: This patent represents the method in which the condensation is avoided in a thermal insulated envelope. The maintaining of warm vapors in a warm zone of a vapor-impermeable insulation lids to the elimination of condensation phenomenon. This is realized by extending the properties of Vapor Impermeable Insulations (VII) to the entire surface of a wall or by creating a Non-Permissive Insulation Assembly (NP-IA). Through the fact that this configuration of insulations makes it possible the avoidance of condensation in any situation in which is applied a difference of temperatures, occurs the utility of enunciating a principle to avoid condensation as fundamental method for designing enclosures. Also, is justified the record of a reference temperature towards which can be defined the terms warm and cold in relation to an optimal temperature for development of human activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventor: MARIUS RADOANE
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Publication number: 20150013948Abstract: A flexible conduit insulated to prevent unwanted heat transfer. The conduit is insulated by a jacket-like component that creates a space between the conduit and the jacket, where the gap can be filled with air or some other insulating material. The jacket is sealed to the flexible conduit by sealing components that are configured to slide along end cap portions of the flexible conduit. Because the conduit is flexible, it can couple two other conduits that move relative to one another such that fluid can flow from one area to another via the flexible conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventor: Vaughn V. Barnes
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Publication number: 20140376191Abstract: Provided are an insulation sheet and an electronic apparatus using the same. The insulation sheet includes: a radiating layer that spreads and radiates heat generated from a heat generating component of an electronic apparatus; and an insulating layer that suppresses the heat saturated in the radiating layer from being delivered to the outside of the electronic apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: Seung Jae HWANG
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Patent number: 8910704Abstract: An outer peripheral sealing surface of an inner surface of a core plate of a header tank is configured into a loop and extends along an outer peripheral edge portion of the core plate and clamps a packing in cooperation with an outer peripheral end portion of a tank main body of the header tank. A transition section of the outer peripheral sealing surface connects between a primary section and a secondary section, which are located in two different planes, respectively, and the plane of the secondary section is the same as a plane of a boundary portion sealing surface held between two tube connecting surfaces in the core plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Mizuno, Ryutaro Nozaki, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Ryuji Shirakawa, Shuhei Yamazaki, Syunji Itou
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Publication number: 20140362532Abstract: A thermally conductive body includes an insulating sheet, a first graphite sheet provided on a first surface of the insulating sheet, and a second graphite sheet provided on a second surface that is a reverse side of the first surface of the insulating sheet. Compressibility of the insulating sheet is lower than compressibility of the first graphite sheet and compressibility of the second graphite sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Kazuhiko Kubo, Masafumi Nakayama
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Publication number: 20140352646Abstract: There are provided a heat-insulating member which enhances a thermal efficiency of an engine to enhance fuel efficiency, and a structure of a combustion chamber for the engine. A heat-insulating member 1 includes a substrate 5, an insulating porous layer 3, and a surface dense layer 2. The substrate 5, the insulating porous layer 3 and the surface dense layer 2 are formed of a ceramic material. The surface dense layer 2 has a porosity of 5% or less. Furthermore, the insulating porous layer 3 has a larger porosity than the surface dense layer 2. The substrate 5 sufficiently has a mechanical strength to exist in a self-supported manner. The heat-insulating member 1 is fixed to a piston 14 by mechanical fixing such as screwing or chemical fixing such as brazing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Tomita, Mikiya Ichimura, Shigeharu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8893771Abstract: An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the expansion region from the heat exchange region to improve efficiency of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Phillip F. Daly, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche
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Publication number: 20140338390Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling element (1) for use in a cooling device (11), comprising a front face and a rear face and four side faces. The cooling element (1) is characterised in that the rear face of the cooling element (1) is substantially planar and the front face has reinforcing elements, wherein the reinforcing elements prevent deformation of the cooling element (1) during cooling and freezing. The invention also relates to a cooling device (11), in particular a freezer, comprising at least one cooling circuit, wherein the cooling circuit has a compressor, an evaporator, and a condenser. The cooling device (11) also has a closable cooling space (15) that comprises a plurality of cooling space side walls, a cooling space base, a space for cooling goods (17), and at least one cooling element (1) according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Dometic S.a.r.l.Inventors: Admilson Pinto, Andreas Hoffmann, Uwe Schramer
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Patent number: 8863894Abstract: In a silencer, holes are disposed in one row with intervals to each other along one direction, holes forming the one row are disposed in a plurality of rows in a direction perpendicular to the one direction, and positions of the holes in adjacent rows are shifted in the one direction and disposed in a zigzag pattern. A disposition interval of the holes of an outer edge hole row forming one row in at least two sides opposite to each other in the silencing porous plate is set to be larger than a disposition interval of the holes of a row inside the outer edge hole row.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Eigo Kato, Toyosei Aota, Hideyuki Morita
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Publication number: 20140287375Abstract: A heat insulation structure, which has a cylindrical side wall part formed in a multilayer structure, includes: a cooling gas supply port provided in an upper portion of a side wall outer layer disposed in an outer side of the side wall part; a cooling gas passage provided between a side wall inner layer disposed in an inner side of the side wall part and the side wall outer layer; a space provided in an inner side of the side wall inner layer; a plurality of blowout holes provided in the side wall inner layer for distributing cooling gas from the cooling gas passage to the space; a buffer area continuously provided in the cooling gas supply port and the cooling gas passage; and a throttle part configured to reduce a cross-sectional area of a boundary surface between the buffer area and the cooling gas passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.Inventors: Tetsuya KOSUGI, Motoya TAKEWAKI, Hitoshi MURATA, Masaaki UENO
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Publication number: 20140263746Abstract: A system includes a gasification feed injector. The gasification feed injector includes a tip portion disposed at a fluid exit region of the gasification feed injector, and a tip cap coupled to the tip portion of the gasification feed injector and configured to serve as a thermal barrier for the tip portion during gasification reactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Danielle Yarber Archangel
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Publication number: 20140260362Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger, a method for manufacturing the same, a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) including the same, and a method for defrosting and checking operations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: In Sook JUNG
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Publication number: 20140263747Abstract: A system includes a gasification feed injector. The gasification feed injector includes a tip portion that has an outer wall and a feed outlet, and an injection axis of the gasification feed injector extends through the feed outlet of the tip portion. The gasification feed injector also has at least one fastener extending radially from the outer wall relative to an injection axis of the gasification feed injector through the feed outlet of the tip portion. An attachment location of the at least one fastener is located away from the feed outlet of the tip portion. The system also includes a heat shield, which includes a tile radially disposed on the at least one fastener and radially secured to the outer wall via fastening the tile to the at least one fastener. In addition, the tile wraps around a distal end portion of the tip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Cillian Gerard Brown, Wade Albert Taber, Daniel Adrian Corral
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Publication number: 20140262169Abstract: Insulation (10), especially for vehicle components, for example, exhaust systems such as particle filters and SCR systems, has a plate-like component (12). The insulation can be fasted especially simply and rapidly and in an especially cost-effective manner, by welding. The insulation (10) has, in addition, at least one separate support (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Eberspächer Exhaust Technology GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Markus NEU
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Patent number: 8833435Abstract: A method and system for providing a heat sink assembly are described. The assembly includes a two-phase heat sink, a condenser, and a pump. The two-phase heat sink may include flow micro-channels that accommodate the flow of boiling coolant and cross-connect channel(s) that at least partially equilibrate a pressure field for the boiling coolant. The condenser receives coolant from the heat sink and removes heat. The pump drives coolant through the assembly. In one aspect, the assembly is a closed system for the coolant. In another aspect, the condenser includes first and second plates and a heat exchange surface there between. Coolant flows from the heat sink and through the plates. The gaseous coolant passes the heat exchange surface. In one aspect the gaseous coolant flows opposite to the direction coolant flows. In one aspect, at least one of the plates includes dummy channel(s) for insulating part of the plate(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Pipeline Micro, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Determan, Scott W. C. H. Lee, Abel Manuel Siu Ho, Seri Lee
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Patent number: 8833437Abstract: An apparatus for generating steam within a heat exchanger. In one aspect, the invention can be a heat exchanger comprising: a shell having an inner surface forming a cavity, the shell comprising an inlet for introducing the shell-side liquid into the cavity and an outlet for allowing the vapor to exit the cavity; a tube bundle comprising a plurality of tubes for carrying a tube-side fluid located in the cavity and having a longitudinal axis; a shroud circumferentially surrounding the tube bundle and positioned between the tube bundle and the inner surface of the shell so that an annular space exists between the shroud and the inner surface; an opening in a bottom portion of the shroud that forms a passageway between the annular space and the tube bundle; and an opening in a top portion of the shroud that forms a passageway between the annular space and the tube bundle.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Ranga Nadig
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Publication number: 20140238648Abstract: A method of making a lightweight thermal shield that includes obtaining a mold having a shaped support screen with a molding surface configured to allow the passage of air and moisture therethrough, and with the mold being adapted for drawing a vacuum from behind the support screen. The method also includes applying a wet insulation material onto the molding surface of the support screen and drawing a vacuum to withdraw moisture through the support screen and consolidate a layer of insulation material on top the molding surface. The method further includes removing the consolidated layer of insulation material from off the molding surface, installing the consolidated layer of insulation material into an outer shell layer, and drying the consolidated layer of insulation material within the outer shell layer to form a lightweight core insulation layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Brian C. Lehr, Jeffery L. Barrall, John S. Forry
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Publication number: 20140216697Abstract: Thermally shielding body having at least one temperature-resistant fastening point, comprising a thermally shielding plate made from aluminium, wherein the thermally shielding plate made from aluminium has a cut-out in the region of at least one fastening point, wherein a metal-plate element with greater heat resistance is arranged in the cut-out, which metal-plate element is connected in a material-to-material manner to the thermally shielding plate at the edge of the cut-out or of the metal-plate element, wherein the at least one heat-resistant fastening point in arrange on the metal-plate element with greater heat resistance, and at method for producing the thermally shielding body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Ralf Krus
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Publication number: 20140202668Abstract: A shielding device includes a perforated inner sheet metal layer; an outer sheet metal layer and a hollow space delimited by the perforated inner sheet metal layer and the outer sheet metal layer. A plurality of metallic hollow bodies are provided in the hollow space, wherein the minimum diameter of the hollow bodies is greater than the perforation of the inner sheet metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: FEDERAL-MOGUL SEALING SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Ralf Krus
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Patent number: 8778066Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum pump exhaust pipe of a chemical vapor deposition apparatus, wherein two ports of the vacuum pump exhaust pipe are respectively connected to a vacuum pump outlet and a scrubber, and anti-sticking inner pipes are installed inside the exhaust pipe and closely contacted with inner walls of the exhaust pipe. The present invention also relates to a vacuum pump of the chemical vapor deposition apparatus. Blockage hardly occurs in the vacuum pump exhaust pipe of the chemical vapor deposition apparatus and the relevant vacuum pump according to the present invention to solve problems of the easily found blockage in the exhaust pipe, wasting the manpower and the time for clearing the exhaust pipe and the effect to the uptime of the chemical vapor deposition apparatus in the prior arts.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Peng Chen
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Patent number: 8776870Abstract: Disclosed is a device whereby the thermal conductance of a multiwalled nanostructure such as a multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) can be controllably and reversibly tuned by sliding one or more outer shells with respect to the inner core. As one example, the thermal conductance of an MWCNT dropped to 15% of the original value after extending the length of the MWCNT by 190 nm. The thermal conductivity returned when the tube was contracted. The device may comprise numbers of multiwalled nanotubes or other graphitic layers connected to a heat source and a heat drain and various means for tuning the overall thermal conductance for applications in structure heat management, heat flow in nanoscale or microscale devices and thermal logic devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Chih-Wei Chang, Arunava Majumdar, Alexander K. Zettl
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Publication number: 20140190035Abstract: This application discloses devices, articles, and methods useful for producing lyophilized cakes of solutes. The devices and articles provide for a method of freezing liquid solutions of the solute by the top and the bottom of the solution simultaneously. The as frozen solution then provides a lyophilized cake of the solutes with large and uniform pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicants: BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA, BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Wei Y. Kuu
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Publication number: 20140166248Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-insulating material, in particular in the form of a solid foam, based on silica particles of submicron porosity, this material incorporating two different ranges of porosities, advantageously including a first range consisting of (macro)pores with diameters of between 10 microns and 3 mm, and a second range consisting of submicron pores with diameters greater than 4 nm and less than 300 nm, the pore volume of said submicron pores being at least 1 cm3/g and the mass per unit volume of said insulating material being less than 300 kg/m3, and also relates to the process for obtaining the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVERInventors: Alexandra Dekoninck, Nikolai Denkov Denkov, Ivan Igorov Lesov, Slavka Stoyanova Tcholakova, Konstantin Nikolaev Golemanov
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Patent number: 8746961Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for increasing the temperature of a substance which is initially in an at least partly solidified state in a container, where at least one heat exchanger is arranged in the container. One object is to obtain that the temperature of a substance may be changed relatively fast. This is obtained by having pumping means for displacing the substance, exchanging heat between a heat exchanger and the substance, displacing substance with the pumping means for increased heat exchange between the heat exchanger and the substance, as well as stirring the substance with the pumping means by displacing the substance inside the container. When the substance is displaced, then not only stagnant substance is in contact with the heat exchanger for heat exchange. The amount of substance in contact with the heat exchanger is thereby greatly increased, and the heat transfer is less dependent on thermal conductivity of the substance.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Aarhuskarlshamn Denmark A/SInventor: Anders Kromand Hansen
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Publication number: 20140151014Abstract: The invention relates to a system for regulating temperature of an electronic component, the system comprising: a local heater for heating the electronic component; a heat pipe for cooling the electronic component; and a heat sink for dissipating heat from the heat pipe; wherein the electronic component is adhered to an end of the heat pipe, and the heat sink is adhered to another end of the heat pipe. The invention also relates to a method for regulating temperature of an electronic component by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventor: Yang Zhang
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Publication number: 20140151002Abstract: An electromotive drive system, especially an electric wheel hub drive, for example, for an electric and/or hybrid vehicle. In order to protect heat-sensitive components of the electric motor against heat input stemming from a friction brake, the drive system includes a shielding device (1) having a coolant line (2, 2a, 2b) for cooling the shielding device (1) with a coolant. A shielding device (1), to an electric and/or hybrid vehicle as well as to a production method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Tobias Vogler, Raphael Fischer
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Patent number: 8734005Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for increasing the temperature of a substance which is initially in an at least partly solidified state in a container, where at least one heat exchanger is arranged in the container. One object is to obtain that the temperature of a substance may be changed relatively fast. This is obtained by having pumping means for displacing the substance, exchanging heat between a heat exchanger and the substance, displacing substance with the pumping means for increased heat exchange between the heat exchanger and the substance, as well as stirring the substance with the pumping means by displacing the substance inside the container. When the substance is displaced, then not only stagnant substance is in contact with the heat exchanger for heat exchange. The amount of substance in contact with the heat exchanger is thereby greatly increased, and the heat transfer is less dependent on thermal conductivity of the substance.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Aarbuskarlshamn Denmark A/SInventor: Anders Kromand Hansen
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Publication number: 20140140897Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device, which includes an outer layer, an inner layer that is at least in part disposed within the outer layer, and a loose-fill insulation disposed in the volume between the outer layer and the inner layer, where a piece of fiber mat is disposed between the outer layer and the inner layer and forms a barrier that at least partially prevents the loss of the loose-fill insulation from the volume between the outer layer and the inner layer and a manufacturing method that includes placing a loose-fill insulation into the volume of space between an inner layer and an outer layer and positioning a piece of fiber mat between the outer layer and the inner layer to form a barrier that at least partially prevents the loss of the loose-fill insulation from the volume of space between the outer and inner layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Ruth Ann Latham, William V. Alcini, Michael A. Golin, Michael Joseph Torzewski, Steven A. Freis, Mark Ernest Kluesner, Gabriel S. Salanta, Stephen Joe Myers
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Publication number: 20140140900Abstract: A molded three-dimensional insulator that is suitable for use in an end cone region of a pollution control device and a method of making the insulator are described. The insulator includes ceramic fibers that have a bulk shrinkage no greater than 10 weight percent. The ceramic fibers can contain alumina and silica and can be microcrystalline, crystalline, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Carl J. Braunreiter, Javier E. Gonzalez, Michael Patrick M. Mandanas
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Publication number: 20140124177Abstract: Heatshield with at least one hole, characterised in that an embossment pattern is arranged around the hole, whereby the embossment pattern comprises of a plurality of protruding elongated elements extending or radiating essentially perpendicular to the perimeter of the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: AUTONEUM MANAGEMENT AGInventors: Marco Antonio dos Reis, Michael Hartmut Kiessig, Mark Melnykowycz, Marcos Antonio P. Sacramento
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Patent number: 8708034Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner for attempting to improve on the corrosion of the outdoor unit. The air conditioner of the present invention for performing a cooling operation and a heating operation by switching a four side valve, that includes an outdoor side heat exchanger operating as a condenser during the cooling operation and an evaporator during the heating operation, and having fins and heat transfer tubes, wherein the outdoor side heat exchanger is placed on a baseboard which configures a lower portion of a chassis of the outdoor unit, comprises the fins and the heat transfer tubes of the outdoor side heat exchanger that are constructed with aluminum or aluminum alloy, and the baseboard that is constructed with Zn—Al plated steel board or Zn—Al—Mg plated steel board.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tadashi Saito, Hisashi Ueno
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Publication number: 20140102678Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus with a heat insulation structure, where the apparatus includes an object to be heat-insulated and also includes a heat insulation closed layer disposed between the object to be heat-insulated and a heat source. The heat insulation structure adopted in the present invention specifically is a heat insulation closed layer, where the heat insulation closed layer performs heat insulation protection through a closed space between the object to be heat-insulated and the heat source, rather than performing heat insulation mainly through a physical material with a small heat conduction coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Zou, Liechun Zhou, Xijie Wu, Jun Yang
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Publication number: 20140083659Abstract: Methods and a system for shielding cooling tubes in a radiant syngas cooler. The heat shields may prevent direct contact between heated syngas and the cooling tubes. The heat shield may be mounted to a header that also attaches to the cooling tubes. The heat shield may also be separated from the cooling tubes or, alternatively, the heat shield may be coated onto the cooling tubes. Furthermore, prolonged exposure to the heated syngas may corrode the heat shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Judeth Brannon Corry, James Michael Storey
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Patent number: 8662149Abstract: A cryogenic fluid vaporizer using ambient air comprising a conduit through which the fluid is passed having an outer finned tubular sleeve which includes a thermal insulation barrier between the conduit and the outer finned tubular sleeve. A fan may be included to provide an increased rate of heat transfer from the air to the outer surface of the fins of the tubular sleeve. The combination of the externally finned area and the insulating thermal barrier prevents the information of ice or frost on the exterior surface of the fins during the transfer of heat from the ambient air to the cryogenic fluid providing a frost-free cryogenic ambient air vaporizer for continuous operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Inventors: Robert E. Bernert, Jr., Robert E. Bernert, Sr.
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Publication number: 20140049881Abstract: An electrical equipment cabinet encloses a rack supporting equipment and cables connected to the electrical equipment. The rack and the cabinet define a gap between the rack and at least one side wall of the cabinet. The cabinet includes a thermal barrier fitting within the gap and defining a channel for cables. The thermal barrier includes a bracket connecting to the cabinet a channel side wall extending from the bracket, and a hinged panel connected to the channel side wall. The equipment cabinet may utilize a plurality of the thermal barriers to eliminate warm air bypass routes within the cabinet that deteriorate the cooling effect of air blowing across the equipment from front to back of the cabinet. Temperatures sensors and fens may be incorporated into the cabinet for additional temperature control. The thermal barriers and the control system may be part of a kit used retrofit existing cabinets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Optical Cable CorporationInventors: Deborah A. Chambers, Ian J. Timmins, Sumio Seo, James Yanik, Deborah A. Chambers, Sterling A. Vaden
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Patent number: 8646515Abstract: A cover ferrule is provided, including a hexagonally shaped head portion, a joint shield portion provided at an upper surface of the head portion, and a stein portion extending downwardly from a first end proximate a lower surface of the head portion to an opposed second end thereof. The joint shield portion includes a central opening, coaxially aligned with respect to central openings of the head and stem portions and with a central axis of the cover ferrule, and a plurality of extension members extending radially outwardly with respect to the central axis of the cover ferrule and defining arc portions connecting respectively adjacent extension members of the joint shield portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Blasch Precision Ceramics, Inc.Inventors: Edwin L. Collins, III, Jeffrey J. Bolebruch
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Publication number: 20140034274Abstract: A heat transfer inhibitor system to minimize the heat transfer through the structural opening closures with an interior and an exterior panel such as windows, doors and skylights that are the weak links in interior insulation. By moving a stream of constant temperature air through a space between the external panel and the interior panel, the temperature differential between the exterior surface of the internal panel and the interior is minimized thus reducing the load and maintenance costs on heater/AC systems. It also reduces the required size and costs of installations. Minimizing the resistance to flow of air through the system with butted tubing joints secured with plastic straps and molded deflectors at a specific angle enhance the cost effectiveness of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventor: Melvin E. Shaffer
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Publication number: 20140020874Abstract: An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the sections of the heat exchanger to control the heat flow within the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Phillip F. Daly, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche
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Publication number: 20140020873Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for aircraft heat shield assemblies. In this regard, a heat shield assembly is provided comprising a heat shield having an aperture, the aperture comprising an end portion and an insertion portion, the insertion portion having a width larger than the end portion, a spacer comprising an upper portion, an undermount flange and a gap between the upper portion and the undermount flange, wherein a surface of the gap is engaged with the heat shield, and wherein the undermount flange has a width less than the insertion portion of the aperture and greater than the width of the end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua Craig Houser, Katrina Lynn King
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Patent number: 8631858Abstract: An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Phillip F. Daly, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche
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Publication number: 20140007588Abstract: A thermal radiation shield comprises a first mounting base and a ring section. The first mounting base is disposed at a first axial end of the ring section for securing the shield ring section within a generally annular cavity defined at least in part by a hot fluid flow path boundary wall, and a radially adjacent and spaced apart cold fluid flow path boundary wall. The ring section is configured to substantially block a line of sight between the hot fluid flow path boundary wall and the cold fluid flow path boundary wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul K. Sanchez, Jorge I. Farah
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Publication number: 20140007589Abstract: A corrugated shield comprises a mounting base and a corrugated ring section. The mounting base is disposed at an aft end of the ring section for securing the shield ring section within a generally annular cavity. The generally annular cavity is defined at least in part by a hot fluid flow path boundary wall, and a radially adjacent and spaced apart cold fluid flow path boundary wall. The corrugated ring section is configured to substantially block a line of sight between the hot fluid flow path boundary wall and the cold fluid flow path boundary wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Alisha M. Zimmermann, Christina A. Stenman, Conway Chuong
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Patent number: 8596050Abstract: A sound attenuating heat exchanger for an internal combustion engine includes a housing, a barrier wall and a fin. The housing includes an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet. The exhaust inlet is connected to the exhaust outlet by an exhaust flow passage. The coolant inlet is connected to the coolant outlet by a coolant flow passage. The barrier wall fluidly separates the exhaust flow passage from the coolant flow passage. The fin extends from the barrier wall into the exhaust flow passage, and includes a resonator adapted to attenuate sound waves traveling through exhaust gas within the exhaust flow passage. The barrier wall and the fins are adapted to exchange heat energy between the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust flow passage and coolant flowing through the coolant flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: David W. Gerlach, Duane C. McCormick
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Patent number: 8596486Abstract: A washing liquid tank for a vehicle, includes a vertically extending wall (1) that divides the tank into a first chamber (2) including at least one liquid filling opening (4) in the lower portion thereof, and a second chamber (3) including at least one pumping opening (5) in the lower portion thereof, the second chamber having a wall that is common with a reheating body (6), the first and second chambers communicating together through a communication opening (7) formed in the lower portion of the wall (1) in order to allow the filling of the second chamber (3). The tank is characterized in that the second chamber has a volume lower than that of the first chamber and in that the first and second chambers (2, 3) further communicate together via an air passage (8) provided at the upper portion of the second chamber (3).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignees: Peugeot Citroen Automobiles SA, Tristone Flowtech Solutions (TFS)Inventors: Sylvain Merour, Ghislain Gaudiau, Gerard Jeuffe, Nicolas Magnier
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Patent number: 8597385Abstract: Methods and a system for shielding cooling tubes in a radiant syngas cooler. The heat shields may prevent direct contact between heated syngas and the cooling tubes. The heat shield may be mounted to a header that also attaches to the cooling tubes. The heat shield may also be separated from the cooling tubes or, alternatively, the heat shield may be coated onto the cooling tubes. Furthermore, prolonged exposure to the heated syngas may corrode the heat shield.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Judeth Brannon Corry, James Michael Storey
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Patent number: 8596338Abstract: A separable liquid-cooling heat-dissipation module has a first flow pipe, a second flow pipe, and a plurality of heat conduction blocks. The second flow pipe is set on a top end of the first flow pipe. A bottom end of the second flow pipe has a gap, so that a heat-insulating structure is formed between the first flow pipe and the second flow pipe. The heat conduction blocks are installed on both sides of the first flow pipe and the second flow pipe. A combination of the first flow pipe, the second flow pipe, and the heat conduction blocks provides a modular heat-dissipation structure and also achieves effects of heat-dissipation and energy-saving.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Inventec CorporationInventors: Chien-An Chen, Yi-Ling Chen
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Patent number: 8590603Abstract: An aircraft heat exchanger that exchanges heat between fluid, like air, to be warmed and a medium, like a liquid, to be cooled has a first path that encounters the fluid to be warmed and carries the medium at a first temperature. A second path carries the medium at a second temperature adjacent to the first path. An insulation gap is disposed between the first path and the second path so that heat exchange between the first and second path is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: George E. Wilmot
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Publication number: 20130307268Abstract: A specific electrical generator powered by an external combustion steam engine that functions through the initial combustion of various potential fuel sources to consequently generate steam from an internal working fluid that drives an electric motor or alternator to generate electricity is provided. The steam is then condensed to return to its liquid form in order to again be heated into steam through further combustion. The all-in-one electric generator combusts the fuel provided within the generator and incinerates such fuel in a manner and in an environment to effectively eliminate the potential for appreciable resultant levels of nitrogen and/or sulfur oxides. The combustion fuel may be any type of material, such as used vehicle or equipment oil, waste vegetable or cooking oil, diesel, gasoline, syngases, natural gases, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventor: Thomas V. Thillen