Structural Installation Patents (Class 165/47)
  • Publication number: 20100096102
    Abstract: A temperature conditioner has a heat exchanger having a fluid bag. The fluid bag has at least two bag walls, an inner space and at least one partitioner. The inner space is defined within the at least two bag walls. The at least one partitioner is formed between two of the at least two bag walls and partitioning the inner space for guiding a fluid held in the inner space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Gary CHIU, Naijian FU
  • Publication number: 20100096103
    Abstract: There is provided a heat exchanger and a water heater having the heat exchanger including a uniform thickness of tin plating layer on the inner surface of a water feeding pipe. The heat exchanger H includes copper pipes 8 and 10 disposed in a casing 1 as a water feeding pipe 4 and a turbulent flow generator 13 disposed in the copper pipes 8 and 10. The turbulent flow generator 13 has a copper plating layer 14 on the surface portion thereof. The tin plating layers 17 and 18 are disposed on the inner surface of the copper pipes 8 and 10 and the surface of the turbulent flow generator 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Toda, Akira Kumagai, Hiromitsu Sasada
  • Publication number: 20100090087
    Abstract: A mounting system for an industrial compression system including a first component close-coupled to a second component includes a first support for the first component. The first support is configured to resist movement of the first component in a first direction substantially horizontal relative to the first component, a second direction substantially vertical relative to the first component, and an axial direction relative to the first component. The mounting system also includes a second support for the second component. The second support is configured to resist movement of the second component in a first direction substantially horizontal relative to the second component and a second direction substantially vertical relative to the second component, wherein the second support permits movement of the second component in an axial direction relative to the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventor: William C. Maier
  • Publication number: 20100078147
    Abstract: A cooling tower module features at least one heat exchange panel, a central column, a horizontal beam extending outward from the central column, and a first side structure connected to the horizontal beam to support the horizontal beam and connected to the panel to provide support to the at least one heat exchange panel. A cooling tower facility has one or more modules. The facility can cool fluid or condense steam by interaction with ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Samyn, Miguel Paternostre, Francois Van Rechem, Ben Verbeeck, Michel Vouche
  • Publication number: 20100071868
    Abstract: HVAC units and systems, air conditioning units, and heat pumps that have micro-channel heat exchangers wherein fins are slanted, multi-tubes are oriented non-horizontally (e.g., vertically), or both, for example. Fins may be slanted downward in the direction of air flow to facilitate drainage of condensation, or may be slanted either downward or upward as appropriate to reduce air-flow restriction. Other embodiments include the heat exchangers themselves and buildings having such heat exchangers, units, or systems, as well as methods concerning such devices, such as methods of manufacture. In some embodiments, heat exchangers are used as evaporators in air conditioning units, as condensers in heat pumps, or both, as examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: NORDYNE Inc.
    Inventors: ALLAN J. REIFEL, Russell W. Hoeffken
  • Patent number: 7677238
    Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
  • Patent number: 7677237
    Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
  • Publication number: 20100058879
    Abstract: Material withdrawal apparatus and methods and systems of regulating material inventory in one or more units are provided. A material withdrawal apparatus includes a heat exchanger and a sensor. The heat exchanger includes a material inlet, material outlet, cooling fluid inlet, and cooling fluid outlet. The material inlet is coupled to the unit and the sensor is coupled to the heat exchanger to provide a metric indicative of the temperature at the material inlet; material outlet; cooling fluid inlet and cooling fluid outlet. Another embodiment of a material withdrawal apparatus includes a vessel having an outer wall, liner, fill port, and a discharge port. The liner at least partially covers the inner surface of the outer wall. The fill port and discharge port are defined in the vessel and the fill port is configured to receive withdrawn material from at least a unit. Other embodiments provide methods of withdrawing or regulating material in a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Evans, Ronald Butterfield, Charles Radcliffe
  • Publication number: 20100051246
    Abstract: A high-temperature and high-pressure corrosion-resistant process heat exchanger for a nuclear hydrogen production system decomposes sulfite (SO3) using heat from a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor to thereby produce sulfide (SO2) and oxygen (O2). The process heat exchanger comprises second and third system coolant channels, each of which is defined by a heat transmission fin, which is bent in a quadrilateral shape, and heat transmission plates, and has increased corrosion resistance thanks to ion-beam coating and ion-beam mixing using a material having high corrosion resistance. The third system coolant channel includes reaction catalysts for SO3 decomposition, and is made of a super alloy. Thus, a system differential pressure between the second and third system coolant channels can be greatly maintained at a high temperature of 900° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicants: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KOREA HYDRO AND NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngwan Kim, Jaewon Park, Minhwan Kim, Sungdeok Hong, Wonjae Lee, Jonghwa Chang
  • Patent number: 7665513
    Abstract: A heat exchanger structure of an automatic transmission stabilizing a temperature of oil is provided. A heat exchanger structure of an automatic transmission includes an automatic transmission, a first heat exchanger provided on an upstream side and a second heat exchanger provided on a downstream side, each capable of cooling oil ejected from the automatic transmission, and a thermo valve capable of supplying oil subject to heat exchange by at least one of first and second heat exchangers to the automatic transmission. When a temperature of the oil is relatively low, the thermo valve supplies oil passed through the first heat exchanger to the automatic transmission and shuts off a flow of oil from the second heat exchanger to the automatic transmission. When a temperature of the oil is relatively high, the thermo valve supplies oil passed through first and second heat exchangers to the automatic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazumichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100039767
    Abstract: An expansion tank device 14 comprises a tank installation base 16 having a cooling liquid channel 17 and an expansion tank 18 provided on the upper surface of the installation base 16. The base 16 has a communication hole 19 for holding space above the upper surface thereof in communication with the cooling liquid channel 17. The expansion tank 18 has a tank main body 21 including an upwardly bulging portion 22 having an opening at its lower end, and a bottom plate 23 joined to the lower end of the tank main body 21 for closing the lower-end opening of the bulging portion 22 and joined to the upper surface of the tank installation base 16. The bottom plate 23 is provided at a portion thereof corresponding to the communication hole 19 with a through hole 25 communicating with the communication hole 19.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Katada, Kazuo Taga, Tomotaka Ishida, Sakae Kitajo
  • Publication number: 20100032131
    Abstract: Presented herein is a portable climate control system that enables user-adjustable air temperature manipulation and is suitable for indoor and outdoor use, comprising a portable housing; at least one fan disposed on said housing for moving an air supply through the housing; a core disposed within the housing, that contains material that enables altering at least one attribute of the air supply moving through the housing; a plurality of fins, radially disposed between the housing and the core, to support the core within the housing; and an air outlet hose, disposed on the housing, for delivering the manipulated air supply from the housing to a desired location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Baby Comfort Lt.
    Inventor: Ofir Ben Aharon
  • Publication number: 20100032132
    Abstract: Personal cooling systems and related methods are disclosed. According to an aspect, a personal cooling system comprises a fluid cooling chamber defining an interior for containing cooling fluid. The system also comprises a pump including an output nozzle. The pump is adapted to displace the cooling fluid from the interior of the fluid cooling chamber through the output nozzle. Further, the system includes a fluid delivery and return structure including a heat transfer chamber adapted to be positioned in headgear such that the heat transfer chamber is positioned near one of a head and a neck of a person when the headgear is worn by the person. The structure includes pathways for delivering the cooling fluid to the heat transfer chamber such that heat from the head and neck of the person is transferred to the cooling fluid within the heat transfer chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventor: Paul Brannon Collins
  • Patent number: 7658005
    Abstract: A heat exchanger panel for a surface of a room, the panel having plate-type heat exchanger elements and having a heat exchanger pipe. The heat exchanger elements include two main surfaces facing away from each other and a peripheral surface linking the main surfaces, a fiber mat and a thin plaster layer. The plaster layer adheres to the fiber mat and the heat exchanger pipe extends at least partially within the plaster layer. The pipe has at least two connections in the area of the peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Inventor: Hans-Dietrich Sulzer
  • Patent number: 7658222
    Abstract: A storage building such as a garage of a residential house is heated to a low temperature above freezing but below that suitable for human habitation by connecting a closed loop pipe and a pump so as to pump heat transfer liquid through a portion of the pipe embedded in a cast concrete lid of a septic tank and through another portion of the pipe embedded in a cast concrete floor of the building. The simple system avoids use of a complex heat pump by using the limited heat available from the septic tank to directly heat the garage floor to a low temperature but above freezing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Rudnicki
  • Publication number: 20100025010
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus, system and like method for an electronic device includes a plurality of heat producing electronic devices affixed to a wiring substrate. A plurality of heat transfer assemblies each include heat spreaders and thermally communicate with the heat producing electronic devices for transferring heat from the heat producing electronic devices to the heat transfer assemblies The plurality of heat producing electronic devices and respective heat transfer assemblies are positioned on the wiring substrate having the regions overlapping. A heat conduit thermally communicates with the heat transfer assemblies. The heat conduit circulates thermally conductive fluid therethrough in a closed loop for transferring heat to the fluid from the heat transfer assemblies via the heat spreader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas M. Cipolla, Evan George Colgan, Paul W. Coteus, Shawn Anthony Hall, Shurong Tian
  • Publication number: 20100024324
    Abstract: A roof eaves ice melting system comprising a heater between a base panel and a cover panel is disclosed. A method of installing such a system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Ryan Meinzer
  • Publication number: 20100011795
    Abstract: Refrigerator device provided for connection to a cooling unit, and for being mounted with an open, exposed lower side, particularly for being used at a cooling device for releasing cooled air to an underlying entity of cooled goods. A number of generally parallel cooling lamellas (15) being arranged in an assembly to restrict slots for passing air to be cooled. The cooling tubes being arranged in groups 18. Under each such group a longitudinal collecting chute (19) is provided to collect condensed water from the cooling tubes and release it at one end (13). At the end of the collecting chutes (19) being supplied with condensed water, a crossing chute (16) is arranged, providing a collected release of condensed water (at 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: SPOT COOLER SYSTEMS AS
    Inventor: Jan Ragnar Stokke
  • Publication number: 20100006256
    Abstract: A heat exchanger of the present invention is for cooling a high-pressure gas, and includes: a frame in which a single curved cooling medium flow path is formed by providing a plurality of partitioning plates parallel to one another; a single curved cooling pipe that is provided inside the cooling medium flow path via a space interval, wherein a cooling medium is flowed through the cooling medium flow path, and the high-pressure gas is flowed through the cooling pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kuwano, Kanji Oomori
  • Publication number: 20100003071
    Abstract: A fluid cooled fastener assembly for use in a high temperature environment and a method of fluid cooling a fastener assembly are provided. The fastener has a coolant passage extending axially through the fastener and a coolant collector coupled to an end of the fastener. The coolant collector includes a collector opening configured to capture a portion of a cooling fluid flowing past the coolant collector and a contoured passage in communication with the collector opening and the passage in the fastener. The contoured passage is configured to accelerate the cooling fluid captured by the coolant collector and to direct it into the coolant passage in the fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS POWER GENERATION, INC.
    Inventor: Michael K. Pang
  • Patent number: 7641995
    Abstract: Please substitute the following version of the Abstract, with changes shown by strikethrough (for deletions) or underlining (for added matter). The heat exchanger (I) is provided for a heating system with integrated fuel cells (Z) for the production of electricity and with an additional burner (B). Electrical and thermal energy (E, Q) can be produced in this heating system from a gaseous fuel or from a fuel brought into the gas form by means of the fuel cells, and/or thermal energy (Q) can be produced by means of the additional burner. One part of the thermal energy present in the form of hot exhaust gases can be transferred in the heat exchanger to a liquid heat transfer medium, in particular water or an oil. The heat transfer medium is provided for heat transport for the purpose of room heating and/or process water heating. The heat exchanger forms a compact unit which is also made of a material of good thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Sulzer Hexis AG
    Inventors: Ralf Ettwein, Alexander Schuler
  • Patent number: 7637308
    Abstract: The heating plate (1) has cavities (2), in which electrically heatable heating bodies (3) are disposed. A heat exchange medium circulated by a pump (4) transmits the heat emitted by the heating bodies (3). The heating plate is designed to obtain a uniform temperature distribution using as low a volume of heat exchange medium as possible. To this end, the cavities (2) are elongate and the heating bodies (3) are bar-shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Swiss Sustainable Systems AG
    Inventors: Patrick Hofer-Noser, Jürg Zahnd, Christoph Boos
  • Publication number: 20090314007
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator unit and/or a freezer unit having an inner container for the reception of refrigerated goods and/or frozen goods, having a magnetic cooler as well as having a heat exchanger with a heat carrier medium located therein for the refrigeration of the inner space of the inner container, wherein the heat exchanger is made such that the heat transfer from the inner space of the inner container to the heat carrier medium only takes place via the wall of the inner container or only via the wall of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Mattias Wiest, Didier Siegel
  • Publication number: 20090308567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for freezing, transporting and thawing fluids, in particular sterile liquids, solutions and suspensions for the chemical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and food industries. Said device comprises a container (10) with a lid (20), a wall (40) and a base (30) and at least one heat exchanger element (50) that is operatively connected to the fluids held in the container, such that said fluids can be cooled or heated. An immersion pipe (60) is operatively connected to at least one heat exchanger element (50) via at least one sub-region of its longitudinal extension, said region preferably extending approximately from a lowest point in the container to a maximum fill level. Preferably, the immersion pipe is in direct contact with at least one heat exchanger element and can be passively heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Hans Peter Meier, Jan Hengstler
  • Publication number: 20090308568
    Abstract: A heat exchanger of a non-condensing storage type boiler for preventing condensation is provided. The heat exchanger include a heating water outflow port installed on an upper portion of the boiler, a heating water inflow port installed lower than the heating water outflow port, and an internal pipe extending spirally from the heating water inflow port and being installed in a water tube of the boiler. The internal pipe is connected to an extension pipe that extends through a re-entry outlet passing through a wall of the boiler to be connected with a re-entry inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Tae-Sik Min
  • Patent number: 7624788
    Abstract: A heat exchanger according to certain embodiments includes an outer portion formed of at least one inflatable cell and an inner portion. The inflatable cell has inner and outer surfaces that are separated from each other and at least partially support the outer portion when inflated. The outer portion defines a first interior passage configured to convey fluid. The inner portion is positioned within the outer portion, the inner portion defining a second interior passage configured to convey fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of The University of Oregon
    Inventors: George Zindel Brown, Thomas Dale Northcutt, Jeffrey Alan Kline
  • Publication number: 20090288801
    Abstract: The thermal control device comprises at least one capillary pumped diphasic fluid loop, comprising, in a known manner, an evaporator extracting the heat from a so-called hot source and connected via a vapour pipe to a condenser in which the condensation of the fluid vapour releases thermal energy transmitted to a so-called cold source, the condenser being connected via a liquid pipe to the evaporator, and the device moreover comprises at least one thermal capacitor in permanent heat exchange relationship with liquid phase fluid in said at least one diphasic fluid loop. Use in particular with space vehicles such as satellites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Astrium Sas
    Inventor: Christophe Figus
  • Publication number: 20090273761
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a cooling system of a display device are provided herein. One exemplary image display device includes a light source and an image-generation device for receiving light from the light source and generating an image. The image display device also includes a projection lens for projecting the image from the image-generation device. The image display device also includes a body for housing the light source, the image generation device, and the projection lens. The image display device also includes a cooling system coupled to the body. The cooling system may be positionable in a first position and a second position based on a configuration of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: INFOCUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Kerry Kiser, Ronald Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20090266509
    Abstract: A heat exchanger element (30) formed from an inner copper tube (32) and an outer copper tube (34). The entire outer surface of the inner tube (32) is substantially in contact with the entire inner surface of the outer tube (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Patrick Pussell
  • Publication number: 20090266507
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a casing defining a chamber for liquid, an internal spacer inside the chamber and means for detecting the presence of the spacer. The detecting means may comprise an aperture in the casing to receive a projection on the spacer so that the projection can be seen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO MARSTON LTD.
    Inventors: Jonathan Turnbull, Michael Smith, Mario Ciaffarafa
  • Publication number: 20090266510
    Abstract: A heat exchanger and related method of making is disclosed herewith. The heat exchanger may have first and second fluid reservoirs that retain a quantity of fluid and also a plurality of tubes that extend between the first and second reservoirs and circulate the fluid therebetween. First and second header plates may be retained respectively in the first and second reservoirs through which the plurality of tubes are mounted. First and second pressure reduction plates may each have a plurality of apertures that respectively encompass first and second ends of each of the plurality of tubes. The plurality of apertures may have tapered side walls that taper outwardly from the respective ends, to reduce turbulence of the fluid between the plurality of tubes and the first and second reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Brian Reynolds
  • Patent number: 7605349
    Abstract: A cooking appliance for cooking a foodstuff over a period of time including a shell having a heating cavity and a heating element to heat the heating cavity. A container is removably positionable within the heating cavity and includes a food cavity for receiving the foodstuff. A temperature probe is removably insertable into the foodstuff and a controller is mounted to the shell. The controller controls operation of the cooking appliance in a probe mode wherein the temperature probe is inserted into the foodstuff and transmits foodstuff temperatures to the controller for controlling the heating of the foodstuff, a program mode wherein the controller actuates the heating element to heat the container at a temperature for a selected amount of time and subsequently at a lower temperature and a manual mode wherein the controller actuates the heating element to heat the container at a selected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Gaynor, Yvonne Olson, Adam Steinman
  • Publication number: 20090227197
    Abstract: An air directing device for thermal management in side breathing equipment includes at least three vertical panels disposed in generally parallel relationship and horizontally spaced a fixed distance from one another. Each panel defines a fin arranged orthogonally relative to an airflow path for deflection of cooling air into side breathing equipment. At least one of the panels is an inner panel that is wider than two outer panels. The air directing device further includes at least one connection member connecting the outer panels to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Evans LEWIS, II, Joseph Charles PROULX
  • Publication number: 20090218071
    Abstract: Heat exchanger element for installation in sewage pipelines, the top side of which heat exchanger element has a heat-conducting exchange surface with heat exchanger chambers arranged on it, the heat exchanger element has in cross section a run-in gutter and run-off surfaces contiguous to the latter on both sides, and, in the region of the run-in gutter and the run-off surfaces, lines for the forward run, return run and distribution of a heat exchanger medium are arranged, the floor point of the run-in gutter, the lower region of the lines and/or the free margins of the run-off surfaces being designed as bearings for arranging the heat exchanger element in the sewage pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventor: Thomas Uhrig
  • Patent number: 7575047
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed which is built up of a series of segments, which have each a fore-run and a return collector, which are interconnected by tubular or plate-shaped, substantially parallel, heat exchanging elements, in contact with cistern water through which flows the cooling medium of the heat pump. Adjacent heat exchanging segments have flow through in a reversed direction, and the fore-run and return collectors of adjacent segments are directly side by side. An electronic control unit which controls the pump and, optional valves, as a function of signals of temperature sensors on the roof surface, is included in the cistern and/or in conduits, so that during normal operation water is fed from the cistern onto the roof, is heated, and may be returned to the cistern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: PREFA-Aluminiumprodukte GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Lackinger, Harald Neumüller, Karl-Heinz Hinrichs
  • Patent number: 7575043
    Abstract: A conveyor for moving hot material at temperatures on this order of 1000° F. or higher along a trough receiving the material has one or more cooling liquid flow vessels extending over but spaced from the outer surface of a trough inner wall to indirectly cause cooling of the inner wall. A heat transfer connection conductively interconnect the vessel and the inner trough wall such as interposed thin webs or plates, or alternatively a mass of conductive beads interposed to controllably transfer heat into the cooling liquid flow vessel. A series of wear plates are clamped to a pushing side of a helical tube of an auger type conveyor, which tube can also receive a flow of cooling liquid. The arrangement of a mass of conductive beads is usable in other applications to provide a non rigid mechanical support of a controlled thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Inventors: Richard W. Kauppila, Raymond W. Kauppila
  • Patent number: 7571758
    Abstract: A method and corresponding structure using phase change materials to control the heat flux into and out of a building through the roof To control the heat flux through the roof, phase change materials are arranged in two locations inside the roof structure. A first phase change material is used in the upper part of the roof above the insulation. A second phase change material is used in the lower part of the roof below the insulation. The melting point of the first phase change material is higher than the crystallization point of the second phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Inventor: Barbara Hildegard Pause
  • Publication number: 20090194250
    Abstract: A heat accumulator includes a thermally insulated heat storage vessel having an opening formed in a bottom wall thereof, a quantity of heat accumulating medium arranged within the vessel, and a fluid circulation tube of double tube structure inserted from the opening into the vessel and extending vertically upward toward a top wall of the vessel for introducing a fluid into the vessel or discharging the fluid out of the vessel. The heat accumulator further includes a heat-insulating layer provided on an outer peripheral surface of the fluid circulation tube and extending over at least a longitudinal portion of the fluid circulation tube extending from the bottom wall of the vessel in an upward direction to a predetermined height of the vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LRD.
    Inventor: Tomohide Kudo
  • Publication number: 20090183865
    Abstract: A cooling duct for cooling heat generating elements inside a casing with outside air includes an intake vent through which outside air taken in from outside the casing is drawn, a guiding unit configured to guide the outside air drawn through the intake vent to a first target element being a heat generating element to be cooled, a discharge vent through which the outside air guided by the guiding unit is discharged to the first target element, and a branch pipe provided in the guiding unit and configured to guide part of the outside air flowing in the guiding unit to a second target element being another heat generating element to be cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Munetoshi MIYAHARA, Jun SAWAI
  • Publication number: 20090178779
    Abstract: A heat exchanger having an arrangement of heat transfer surfaces and a pair of vertical steam/water separators structurally interconnected to one another to provide an integral support structure for the heat exchanger. The structural interconnection includes upper and lower structural members extending between the pair of vertical steam/water separators. The upper and lower structural members include headers, and an arrangement of heating surface which extends between and is fluidically connected to the headers. A structural support framework surrounds the heat exchanger for bottom support thereof, the framework providing structural support and rigidity for the heat exchanger and a means by which the heat exchanger can be picked up and lifted for placement at a desired location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: William J. White, Melvin J. Albrecht, Jason M. Marshall, Dennis R. Shiffer
  • Publication number: 20090173472
    Abstract: A portable temperature transfer stand for holding thermo-conductive laboratory devices transferring thermal energy to laboratory devices is provided as well as its methods of use. The temperature transfer stand comprises at least one supporting structure (foot) and a stable stage, both comprising a thermal conductive material. The supporting structure is in direct contact with the stage which is in direct contact with a laboratory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: BIOCISION, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Schryver, Jeffrey E. Schryver
  • Publication number: 20090165994
    Abstract: The apparatus (1) which combines a heat exchange between a liquid (8) and a heat transporting medium (7) with a static mixing of the liquid includes installed structures (2) in a jacket (3). The jacket extends longitudinally between a head end (4) and a base end (5). The installed structures form a heat exchanging and mixing structure. The heat transporting medium can be conveyed from the base end to the head end as an inner flow in tubes (21, 22) of the installed structures. The liquid can be conveyed from the head end to the base end as an outer flow. Reinforcement elements (6, 6?, 6?) are provided which stabilise the installed structures in the longitudinal direction against pressure gradients generated by the liquid. The installed structures are connected by the reinforcement elements to form a non-expandable part structure (2a) in a main region; they remain at least partly non-reinforced as a longitudinally expandable part structure (2b) and in a secondary region complementary to the main region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Patrick Bucher, Kurt Steiner
  • Publication number: 20090165993
    Abstract: An air cooled condensing tower system has a framework supporting a fan deck, a plurality of steam headers running longitudinally above the fan deck, a plurality of condensing coils extending downward and at an angle from the steam headers, and above the fan deck, a plurality of collector tubes disposed at the bottom of the condenser coils and above the fan deck. At least one substantially non-porous side wall is disposed on at least one side of the tower spanning from a height generally proximate the steam supply headers downward to a height generally proximate the fan deck. A downwardly and outwardly projecting substantially non-porous elongated upper air guide extends downwardly and outwardly from the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Jidong YANG, Glenn S. Brenneke, Eldon F. Mockry
  • Publication number: 20090159573
    Abstract: A cooling block for coupling a remote plasma source to a resistor is disclosed. As processed substrates become larger for solar panels, organic light emitting diodes, and flat panel displays, a greater amount of cleaning gas and hence, plasma from a remote plasma source, may be necessary. When large amounts of cleaning gas such as fluorine containing gas is ignited into a plasma, the temperature of the remote plasma source that ignites the plasma may become very hot. The hot plasma may transfer heat to adjacent components and to any components through which the plasma flows. By cooling the block connecting the remote plasma source to the resistor, the plasma may be cooled prior to reaching the resistor and hence, prior to reaching the processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventor: KYU OK HWANG
  • Publication number: 20090145419
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alternative single burner heat exchanger combination for a gas-fired furnace for hot air generation to be used to heat spaces in residential and commercial settings. The fuel fired furnace is compiled of the known set-up of a plurality of spaced heat exchangers wherein each heat exchanger has an inlet port for receipt therein of combustion gases. The single burner is a premix burner providing an excellent combustion of the gas-air mixture. The burner is in fluid communication with each port of each heat exchanger through a dilution zone and a distributor. Preferably, these are all airtight connected to each other as can be seen in FIG. 2. The combustion gases produced by the premix burner are mixed with secondary air flows entering the system in this dilution zone, whereby diluted combustion gases are obtained. These diluted combustion gases will then enter the heat exchangers via the distributor. The combustion gases, having a temperature of about 1600° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Dirk Ten HOEVE
  • Publication number: 20090145577
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air diverter for a vehicle cooling system. There is a need for an improved vehicle cooling system. An air diverter is provided for a vehicle cooling system having a radiator, a fan for moving air through the radiator and a cooling unit positioned in front of the radiator with respect to air moving through the radiator. The fan is surrounded by a fan shroud. The air diverter includes a collector and a conduit. The collector is positioned between the cooling unit and the radiator. The collector receives a portion of air which passes through the cooling unit. The conduit extends around an edge of the radiator and communicates air from the collector to the interior of the fan shroud while bypassing the radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Adam Joe Shuttleworth, Matthew Robert Oliver, Ronnie Franklin Burk, Dick J. Goering
  • Publication number: 20090139688
    Abstract: A bath waste assembly is that unit that occupies the lowest point in a vessel or tray used for bathing and drains away water to a sewage system, often in concert with an overflow waste drain. The horizontal portion of the waste water assembly terminates in a P-trap that separates the assembly from the rest of the drain and sewer apparatus. The horizontal pipe running from the bath drain hole to the fitting leading to the P-trap can become nearly as hot as the hot water originally entering the vessel, particularly when the bath is being used as a shower vessel. Replacement of this pipe with a copper waste water pipe wrapped with narrower copper pipe through which cold supply water runs, absorbing heat on its way to a thermostatic control valve, allows the amount of hot water balancing this cold water to be decreased automatically since the temperature of the cold water has been increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventor: Christopher Adam McLeod
  • Publication number: 20090133642
    Abstract: So as to provide a latent heat recovery-type water heater capable of certainly preventing drain generated by heat exchange from being discharged out of an exhaust portion through an outlet with entrained by a flow of combustion gas, an exhaust portion 9 is formed by an exhaust portion constituting-body 25 attached above a secondary heat exchanger 7. The exhaust portion 9 includes therewithin a deflector 26 and a distribution board 27 opposed to the deflector 26. The deflector 26 has a deflection board 30 extending substantially vertically downward from a top face 9a of the exhaust portion 9, so as to form a gap 35 between a lower end of the board 30 and a bottom face 9b of the exhaust portion 9. A flowing direction of combustion gas introduced into the exhaust portion 9 through an opening 21 of the bottom face 9b is deflected by passing through the gap 35, and the combustion gas flows toward the distribution board 27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Asakura, Shigehiro Yamamoto, Masamitu Ishikado
  • Publication number: 20090120608
    Abstract: Seal for tubular heat exchanger comprising groove with an inner edge; tongue of the diaphragm having front face extending in the radial direction and inner edge parallel to the axis of the channel; the face extending beyond the radial width of the groove in inward direction and overlapping the face of the shoulder of the channel in which the groove being provided. The tongue of the diaphragm being thus kept away from entering the groove; the diaphragm having flexibility to permit deflection of the tongue, the tongue of the diaphragm being loaded from outer side by the internal compression ring, the said internal compression ring being loaded in turn by the threaded push bolts/rods being fitted in the threaded holes on periphery of the threaded lock ring. This load is ultimately transferred to the joint between the gasket and face to achieve leak-proof joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Modi, Verravali Ramesh Nembilli, Venkatesh Murur
  • Publication number: 20090114370
    Abstract: A method for using the waste heat of a computer system with a plurality of processors comprises the following steps. Jobs in the computer system are distributed to the processors in such a way that processors of a first group of processors are operated with a high processor load and processors of a second group of processors are operated with only a minimal processor load. In another method, waste heat is dissipated from the processors by a cooling device, wherein the waste heat dissipated from the processors is regulated in such a way that the processor assumes a temperature that is greater than a given minimum temperature. In both cases, the waste heat of the processors is transferred to a device for using the waste heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: Christoph Konig