Heat Radiators Patents (Class 237/70)
  • Patent number: 11753189
    Abstract: A heater apparatus configured to provide heat to at least one component of a spacecraft. The heater apparatus comprises a combustion chamber for a hypergolic propellant, and a heat radiator configured to radiate heat from the combustion chamber towards the at least one component to be heated. A spacecraft comprises at least one component to be heated and a heater apparatus configured to heat the at least one component to be heated. A method for heating at least one component of a spacecraft. The method comprises generating heat in a combustion chamber for a hypergolic propellant, and radiating at least a portion of the heat towards the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ArianeGroup GmbH
    Inventor: Erich Werth
  • Patent number: 11454392
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for indirect heating by radiation in the form of a radiant housing having two front walls and two side walls and comprising at least one heat source, the radiant housing having front walls joining one another such that the housing has a lenticular shape in cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: DREVER INTERNATIONAL S.A.
    Inventors: Alexandre Lhoest, Olivier Pensis
  • Patent number: 9599336
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a blower assembly couplable to a source of fuel, and a longitudinally elongated housing having a lateral upstream edge, a lateral downstream edge, and a slot formed in the downstream edge. The housing encloses a combustion chamber comprising a generalized cylinder with cross-section having an arcuate portion and a straight portion, the arcuate portion defined by the lateral upstream and downstream edges of the housing. The burner assembly also includes an elongated burner head assembly, the elongated burner head assembly having a first end coupled to the blower and a second end disposed within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Midco International, Inc.
    Inventors: Qinlai Yu, Stan Beinarauskas
  • Patent number: 9157394
    Abstract: A hanger for suspending a liner within an exhaust duct of a gas turbine engine exhaust system comprises a connector assembly, a cable and a bracket. The connector assembly is for connecting to an exhaust duct of the gas turbine exhaust system. The cable extends from the connector assembly and is configured to extend into the exhaust duct. The bracket is for connecting to an exhaust duct liner of the gas turbine exhaust system. The bracket is connected to the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Donald W. Peters
  • Patent number: 9022298
    Abstract: A system may include a tube through which hot fluid is transported from one end to another, wherein the tube radiates heat energy and transfers heat energy to surrounding air by convection. The system may also include a reflector that reflects the radiated heat and a hood that captures the heat energy from the surrounding air through convection, wherein the hood radiates the captured heat energy. The reflector may include a bi-involute curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Reznor LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Catteau, Gerald Capaldini
  • Patent number: 9022299
    Abstract: A radiator having a sealed flow path through which electrically heated fluid is arranged to pass. A control unit is provided in the radiator which is arranged to control operation of the radiator. The radiator also has a receiving unit arranged to receive at least one operation instruction from a remote control unit in use. The receiving unit is arranged to pass the at least one operation instruction to the control unit so that, in use, the radiator is controllable by the remote control unit. Also, an inlet pipe supplies water to a heater by a pump. The water then passes through a pipe comprising an inverted U-bend which controls air at the top of the bend. The radiator comprises a sealed system that plugs into the mains. Different radiators are able to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Basic Device Limited
    Inventor: Gary Jones
  • Patent number: 8893708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable boiler for a hot mat, which comprises: a water reservoir, one side of which has an inlet pipe for introducing water circulating through the hot mat, and which stores the water; a heat transfer unit in which the water discharged from the water reservoir flows along a flow channel pipe to be heat exchanged, wherein the water is discharged to the hot mat via an outlet pipe formed at one side thereof; a heating unit which burns the fuel gas fed from a fuel tank to heat the water in the heat transfer unit; and a housing which forms the outer appearance of the boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Eurohousing Corporation
    Inventor: Ho Yong Cho
  • Patent number: 8757509
    Abstract: A method for controlling a boiler includes firing a boiler, and monitoring a temperature deviation between a boiler temperature and a heating temperature profile over time. If the temperature deviation exceeds an allowable deviation, the boiler is shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Anderson, Richard Simons, Henry Troost, Emil Costea
  • Patent number: 8720109
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for killing pests in an affected area includes a heat exchanger unit and an electric heater. The heat exchanger unit is placed within the affected area and is coupled to a faucet. The heat exchanger unit is configured to receive a flow of water from the faucet and to emit heated air by transferring heat from the flow of water to air flowing through the heat exchanger unit. The electric heater further heats the air emitted by the heat exchanger unit to a target temperature greater than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Technologies Holdings Corp.
    Inventors: Timothy S. O'Brien, Eric P. Camenga
  • Publication number: 20140124587
    Abstract: The present concept is a modulating burner system which includes a speed control responsive to inputs received from a thermostat, the speed control modulating a blower which provides combustion air and a vacuum proportional to the speed of the blower. The modulating burner system further includes a gas amplifying valve in communication with the vacuum via a vacuum conduit, the gas amplifying valve providing modulated combustion gas responsive to the vacuum; wherein modulated combustion air and gas communicated to a burner for continuously variable firing rates of 50 to 100% of the maximum firing rate. The modulating burner system further includes a damper for smoothing out vacuum spikes and fluctuations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: Pat Caruso
  • Patent number: 8637791
    Abstract: A heating system for heating an interior room may include a radiator member for generating heat, a wall member being positioned in a space relationship to the radiator member and a device member being positioned between the radiator member and the wall member. The device member will have two inner radiant barriers of silver aluminized material protected by paint or lamination. The device member may include an attachment member to attach the device member to the wall member, and the device member may include an inclined surface. The device member may include a horizontal surface, and the device member may include an inclined surface and a horizontal surface. The inclined surface may extend to an edge of the horizontal surface, and the device member may include a substantially flat back surface. The attachment member may be a layer of adhesive, and the attachment member may cover the perimeter of the back surface of the device member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventors: James B. Goldsmith, John Douglas Tolmer
  • Publication number: 20130284818
    Abstract: A method of controlling a heating system includes: obtaining, from a power supply source, information specifying an output modulation period during which power consumption by a heat pump unit is to be reduced; and controlling, based on the information obtained in the obtaining, an amount of heat generated by the heat pump unit. In the controlling, the heat pump unit is caused to generate a first amount of heat per unit time in a period other than the output modulation period, and generate a second amount of heat per unit time during the output modulation period, the second amount of heat being less than the first amount of heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Hayashida, Shinichi Takasaki
  • Publication number: 20130256423
    Abstract: A heating system includes a refrigerant boiler including a heat source for heating a refrigerant from a liquid state to a vapor state, a boiler outlet and a boiler inlet; a heat exchanger in fluid communication with the refrigerant boiler, the heat exchanger including a upper manifold having a heat exchanger inlet coupled to the boiler outlet, a lower manifold having a heat exchanger outlet coupled to the boiler inlet and a plurality of tubes connecting the upper manifold and the lower manifold, wherein refrigerant passes from the upper manifold to the lower manifold via gravity; and a fan moving air over the heat exchanger to define supply air for a space to be heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Richard G. Lord, Michael F. Taras, Alexander Lifson, Eugene Duane Daddis, JR., Ludgina Fils Dieujuste, Kenneth J. Nieva
  • Patent number: 8382004
    Abstract: A floor heating system includes a flooring substrate having a heating or cooling element in heat transfer relationship therewith. A heat spreader is in heat transfer relationship with the flooring substrate. The heat spreader includes a layer of flexible graphite material. A floor covering overlies the layer of flexible graphite material. Temperature variations across an exposed surface of the floor covering are reduced by the presence of the flexible graphite heat spreader, thus providing an improved and more uniform heating to the floor and to the room with which the floor is associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: GrafTech International Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Erick Rollo Asmussen, Robert A. Mercuri, Julian Norley, Martin David Smalc, Matthew G. Getz
  • Patent number: 7810740
    Abstract: A plurality of the recessed portions are formed in an array on the opposite surface side of the semiconductor substrate and a second conductive type semiconductor region composed of a second conductive type semiconductor is formed at bottoms of a plurality of the recessed portions to obtain photodiode arrays arranged in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi Shibayama, Masayuki Ishida, Takafumi Yokino
  • Publication number: 20090308942
    Abstract: A heating system for heating an interior room may include a radiator member for generating heat, a wall member being positioned in a space relationship to the radiator member and a panel member being positioned between the radiator member and the wall member. The panel member may include an attachment member to attach the panel member to the wall member, and the panel member may include an inclined surface. The panel member may include a horizontal surface, and the panel member may include an inclined surface and a horizontal surface. The inclined surface may extend to an edge of the horizontal surface, and the panel member may include a substantially flat back surface. The attachment member may be a layer of adhesive, and the attachment member may substantially cover a back surface of the panel member. The attachment member may only cover a portion of the back surface of the panel member. The panel member may encapsulate air for insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: James B. Goldsmith, John Douglas Tolmar
  • Patent number: 7600696
    Abstract: A hot water supply system having a hot water supply system body. An operation box is inserted into a window opened in a front panel of the hot water supply system body, and a box cover having an opening to which an operation unit in a front center region of the operation box is fitted is mounted onto a front surface of the operation box. The box cover overhangs to an outside of an outline of the operation box and has a size making it possible to cover a gap between the operation box and the window from the front. A dent sized to corresponding to a size of the box cover is formed on a portion of the front panel, which includes a spot where the window is opened, and a backside corner portion of an outer edge of the box cover enters into the dent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Rinnai Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Hotta
  • Patent number: 7523873
    Abstract: A closed heating system drawing external power from a small electric generator. The heating system contains a hydraulic fluid drawn through restrictors and pumped through a heat transfer means attached to a means for circulating a heated fluid through a household.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Inventor: Walter R. Lopes
  • Patent number: 7506851
    Abstract: A radiator mounting system for allowing access to the area behind a wall mounted radiator includes a radiator that has a top pipe and a bottom pipe attached to and separated from each other. A pair of bracket assemblies mounted to the radiator pivotally couples the radiator to a vertical wall surfaces. The bracket assemblies are spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Inventor: Nigel Tooze
  • Patent number: 7401743
    Abstract: A hydronic baseboard heater for use with PEX tubing has a hold-down bracket which is snapped into the baseboard enclosure to engage the tube of the finned tube element and provide additional support when flexible PEX tubing is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Slant/Fin Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Brown, George Weintraub
  • Publication number: 20080073442
    Abstract: A radiant heating system is provided that includes a first manifold, a second manifold, a heat source, and a circulator. The first manifold includes, an outlet port, a first heat distribution port receiving a heat transfer medium from the heat distribution system, and a supply port. The second manifold includes an inlet port, a second heat distribution port supplying a heat transfer medium to a heat distribution system, and a return port. The heat source transfers heat to the heat transfer medium and includes an intake port and an outtake port. The intake port is operably coupleable with the return port to receive the heat transfer medium from the second manifold. The outtake port is operably coupleable with the supply port to supply the heat transfer medium to the first manifold. The circulator is adapted to force the heat transfer medium from the first manifold to the second manifold and includes a first circulator port and a second circulator port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventor: Horst K. Wieder
  • Publication number: 20070295828
    Abstract: Design the device Steam baseboard to use for steam heating. Water is not easy to get out and water creates the noise and does not easy to get out of the system. Water prevents the heating. We convert the hot water heating baseboard to steam baseboard by using the John's pipe and John's effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: John Yuming Liu
  • Patent number: 7293606
    Abstract: A heat exchanging apparatus including a gas fuelled flameless heater and a heat exchanger loop. The heat exchanger loop includes a heat absorbing section which is contained within the flameless heater so that the flameless heater provides a heat source for the heat exchanger loop, and the heat exchanger loop further includes a heat transferring section for transferring heat from the heat exchanger loop to a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: 391854 Alberta Limited
    Inventors: Maurice Rene Benoit, Denis Benoit
  • Patent number: 7111623
    Abstract: A direct vent fireplace includes a heat deflecting baffle comprised of a base member attached to the front top edge of the fireplace and an extension member telescopically attached to the base member. Each end of the extension member includes a vertical flange with a track. The base member includes a vertical flange which is received in the track along with a catch means to permit selective movement of the extension member from a retracted position to a fully extended position or to positions there between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Jeffrey Grant Designs, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Michael G. Brennan
  • Patent number: 7090142
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement in a hot air aggregate comprising a cover (2) having a built-in fan (3), an enclosed chamber (4) after said fan (3) which extends into a conically formed, front portion (5), to which a burner unit (7) having an enclosed burner (9) supplied with a gas flow and a nozzle (10) are provided via a connecting coupling sleeve (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Inventor: Lennart Rantzén
  • Patent number: 6938828
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for heating fluid in a pipe system, comprising: a first burner for heating pipes of the fluid circuit; a feed for air and/or fuel for causing combustion of this mixture by the burner; a second burner for heating a head of a generator for generating electrical energy; and an outlet pipe for discharging flue gases from the second burner into the space where the first burner is situated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Enatec Micro-Cogen B.V.
    Inventors: Erwin Johannes Maria Waalders, Ronald Hubertus Theodorus Maria Hezemans, Michel Martinus Willen Van Wezel, Cornelis Aplhonsus Waltherus Baijens, Jozef Johannes Maria Luttikholt, Gerardus Jacobus Josephine Beckers
  • Patent number: 6926077
    Abstract: A foldable heat radiation board includes a plurality of elongated and narrow plate-like members with fluid tube embedding grooves provided therein, and the plate-like members are combined with each other in a quadrangular plan configuration. Fluid tubes are embedded in the embedding grooves, and a heat radiation sheet is attached to the entire surface on the front surface side, while a back surface material is attached to the entire or partial surface on the back surface side. A plurality of contact portions in which the end portions of adjacent plate-like members contact each other are set as folding portions, and a fluid tube outlet opening portion in the end portion of one of the plate-like members and a fluid tube inlet opening portion in the end portion of the other of the plate-like members are provided so as not to oppose each other but to be shifted from each other, this portion being set as a fluid tube passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Functional Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuga, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6834710
    Abstract: A pivot assembly for the damper vane of a hot water baseboard heater. The pivot asembly has a base which slides into the channels of the damper vane and a projection which snaps into a hole on a respective support bracket of the baseboard. Fingers of the projection spread on one side of the bracket while a pair of resilient arms of the pivot assembly are braced against the other side of the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Slant/Fin Corporation
    Inventors: George Weintraub, Stephen Pulaski
  • Patent number: 6786422
    Abstract: A heating assembly for variably heating ambient air within a building. The heating assembly includes an elongated heating conduit. There may also be a plurality of heating assemblies 20 interconnected to each other to form a heating system for the building. If a heating system is employed, then the plurality of heating conduits will be interconnected to each other in such a manner as to define a common exhaust. A burner is connected to the inlet of the heating conduit. A fuel regulator is connected to the burner for providing fuel to the burner at a low fuel pressure, which defines a low heating temperature, and a high fuel pressure, which defines a high heating temperature. A vacuum device is connected to the exhaust of the heating conduit or conduits for pulling the air into the inlet and through the heating conduit to provide a negative pressure within the heating conduit during the heating of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Detroit Radiant Products Co.
    Inventors: Joseph B. Wortman, Donald Scott Fleet
  • Patent number: 6776227
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for heating and preventing freeze-off of wellhead equipment utilize radiant heat from a flameless heater to heat fluid in a heat exchanger, such as a tank or finned radiator. A pump is used to circulate the heated fluid through a conduit loop deployed in thermal contact with the equipment to be heated, such that the heat from the fluid is transferred to the equipment, maintaining it at sufficient temperature to prevent freeze-off. The apparatus and method may also be used for other purposes, such as for circulating heated fluid through a liquid-cooled engine to facilitate cold weather starting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Rodney T. Beida, Darcy R. Zelman
  • Patent number: 6736329
    Abstract: A heating unit for heat-transfer fluid for a central heating installation including a tubular external wall, a first end wall and a second end wall forming a substantially cylindrical space; a first tubular internal partition located substantially concentrically within the tubular external wall and forming a first annular space between the tubular external wall and the first internal partition; a second internal partition having a diameter smaller than the first internal partition located substantially concentrically within the first internal partition and forming a second annular space between the first internal partition and the second internal partition; a central pipe located inside the second internal partition, the second annular space being in communication with the central pipe adjacent to the first end wall and in communication with the first annular space adjacent to the second end wall; an inlet orifice opening out of the first annular space adjacent to the first end wall; an outlet orifice in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Inventor: Ernest Doclo
  • Publication number: 20030230396
    Abstract: A pivot assembly for the damper vane of a hot water baseboard heater has a base which slides into the channels of the damper vane and a projection which snaps into a hole on a respective support bracket of the baseboard so that fingers of the projection spread on one side of the bracket while a pair of resilient arms are braced against the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: SLANT/FIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: George Weintraub, Stephen Pulaski
  • Patent number: 6648236
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of heating water for consumption, preferably but not exclusively water heated by solar energy, and more specifically the invention refers to a heat storage device which is characterized substantially by a special and innovative arrangement and conformation of the storage tanks that the device is made up of, as well as of the pipes connecting the same. The heat storage device according to the present finding comprises two or more superposed tanks (S) featuring a substantially horizontally developed geometrical shape and containing a liquid that is suitable to store heat, each one of said tanks being connected to the immediately adjacent tank/tanks through at least one end-pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Inventor: Vittorio Tacchi
  • Patent number: 6626234
    Abstract: A coil modulator apparatus for use in connection with heat transfer coil assemblies found in commercial heating and air conditioning units is used to divert passage of water flow in certain sections of each tube in the coil assembly. The coil modulator apparatus comprises an inner valve, having valve ports in the sides of the valve, that rotates within an outer housing. Apertures in the outer housing connect with each tube in the bank of tubes so that there is an aperture in the outer housing that connects with both the downstream tube section and the upstream tube section of each tube. A portion of the water that collects in the modulator then flows back out of the modulator and into each of the downstream sections of every tube in the coil assembly. Another portion of the water in the modulator is diverted from the bank of tubes so that it flows out of the bypass tube of the modulator and directly back to the return feed of the coil assembly unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventor: Robert Peter Koenig
  • Patent number: 6619557
    Abstract: A system for the thermoregulation of a room, including radiant panels, wherein the radiant panels are built up from thin rectangular cross-section channel elements which are assembled side-by-side, by inserting them by extremities thereof into slits made in two manifolds for feeding them with thermovector liquid. The radiant panels and frame element are endowed with complementary lock elements and with hinge elements for hinging a radiant panel on the frame elements. The hinge elements include hinged hydraulic fittings, and the frame elements are endowed with hydraulic fitting elements for a connection to a thermovector liquid feed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bonura, Marco Bonura, Vanessa Bonura, Francesca Di Franco
  • Publication number: 20030164402
    Abstract: The invention concerns a heating unit comprising a tubular wall (1) and first and second end walls (2, 3). A first annular space (6) is located between the tubular wall (1) and a first tubular partition (4). A second annular space (7) is located between the first partition (4) and a second tubular partition (5) inside the first partition (4). An immersion heater (25) is mounted in the central channel (8) formed by the second partition (5). The second space (7) communicates with the central channel (8) near the first end wall (2) and with the first space (6) near the second end wall (3). An intake orifice (13) emerges into the first space (6) near the first end wall (2) and an outlet (14), in the second end wall (3) emerges into the central channel (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventor: Ernest Doclo
  • Patent number: 6609664
    Abstract: A heating panel system comprises a cylindrical hot water pipe. The pipe is in a linear configuration. A plurality of rigid fins is provided. The fins have apertures. The apertures allow the fins to be positioned over the pipe. In this manner inlet openings are formed. The inlet openings are of an enlarged size beneath the pipe and outlet openings. The pipe and outlet openings are of a reduced size above the pipes. In this manner the flow of heated air between the fins and across the pipe is increased due to venturi configuration of the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Inventor: Ashok Y. Tamhane
  • Patent number: 6575379
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a frame structure with far infrared heating function, wherein a far infrared electro-thermal plate is mounted on the back of the canvas, and an energy chamber extends backwards from the back of the frame, and the energy chamber has a plurality of ventilation holes on its top and bottom rims to enable the air convection through the ventilation holes under the drive of heat generated from the electro-thermal plate and accumulated in the energy chamber to heat the room. Thus the fresco has double effects of both indoor decoration and electro-thermal heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Inventor: Claire Wang
  • Patent number: 6557774
    Abstract: A non-pressurized hydronic space heating system for circulating heated fluid through coils placed within a dwelling or structure. The system includes a heat tank for heating liquid, and piping connected to the heat tank for receiving the heated liquid and circulating the liquid throughout coils and back to the heat tank. The heat tank is positioned above the coils. The system includes a releasing means for releasing air contained within the piping. The releasing means or auxiliary fluid isolation ballast allows for the release of air within the piping so that continued circulation of the liquid throughout the system may occur and so that the fluid within the system is isolated from the atmosphere to seal the system from introduction of air bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventor: Gregory A. Krueger
  • Publication number: 20030042321
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of heating water for consumption, preferably but not exclusively water heated by solar energy, and more specifically the invention refers to a heat storage device which is characterized substantially by a special and innovative arrangement and conformation of the storage tanks that the device is made up of, as well as of the pipes connecting the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventor: Vittorio Tacchi
  • Patent number: 6474561
    Abstract: A heat supply system is provided which enables use of small pipes with the same diameter for both feed branch pipes and return branch pipes, thus reducing the initial cost and also suppressing heat emission loss. The heat supply system comprises a heat exchanger 1, a feed main pipe 2, a return main pipe 3, a feed branch pipe 4 connected to the feed main pipe 2, a first return branch pipe 5 for directing the flow of a heat medium to an edge section in the downstream side of the feed branch pipe 4, a plurality of load pipes connected in parallel to a section between the feed branch pipe 4 and the first return branch pipe 5 each having a load member 7 provided thereon, and a second return branch pipe 6 connected to a section between an edge section in the downstream side of the first return branch pipe 5 and the return main pipe 3, said heat supply system having a plurality of branch pipe paths 11 including therein the feed branch pipe 4, first return branch pipe 5, load pipe 8, and second branch pipe 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Inventor: Noboru Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20020134427
    Abstract: A thermosyphon radiator comprising a sealed panel containing a reservoir of water in a lowermost part of the panel and a heating member, e.g., a hot water pipe, extending through the lowermost part of the panel, the member being at least partially immersed in the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Nkole Enock Tayali, Alan Reginald Shiret
  • Publication number: 20020084337
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a central heating system (10) for heating rooms of one or more buildings (2) with a pipeline network with supply and return lines (18, 20), at least one flow limiter (26) arranged in the pipeline network, a fluid as thermal medium in the pipeline network, several heating circuits (32) each connected to the pipeline network via circuit supply and return lines (24, 30), each circuit having a temperature control valve (28) for regulation/control of room temperature and at least one heating element (22). The invention is characterized in that a flow limiter (26) is inserted into each circuit supply or return line (24, 30), associated with each heating circuit (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventor: Albert Bauer
  • Patent number: 6299071
    Abstract: In a hydronic heating system having a boiler hot supply water line and boiler return water line, a main hot supply water circulation loop from the boiler supply water line to the boiler return water line and one or more satellite stations in series along the main loop, for a satellite station: a satellite injection water connection and a satellite return water connection along the main loop; a satellite distribution station including one or more satellite heating loops; a satellite supply header and satellite return header at opposite ends of the satellite heating loops; a satellite station pump having an input and an output for pumping satellite water from the satellite return header to the satellite supply header so that satellite water flows through the satellite heating loop(s); a satellite injection water line from the satellite injection connection to the satellite pump input; a satellite return water line from the satellite pump output to the satellite return connection along the main loop; and a therm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Stadler Viega, LLC
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6227451
    Abstract: A radiant heater system of the type having an radiant energy emitter conduit, the radiant heater system comprising an emitter extending at least partly through the area to be heated. The radiant heater system further including a burner for burning fuel thereby forming combustion products, said burner connected to an inlet end of the emitter to inject thermal energy into the emitter and an exhaust end of the emitter serving to exhaust combustion products. The radiant heating system further including an air intake sleeve for controlling the amount of combustion air available to said burner, and a blower sized to provide dilution air communicating with said burner wherein the dilution air cools the combustion products proximate said inlet end thereby reduces the emitter temperature proximate said inlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: Pat Caruso
  • Patent number: 6138662
    Abstract: The invention provides a radiant heater comprising a radiative heating element (15, 16); a housing (1), the underside of which is recessed to receive the radiative heating element (15, 16), the radiative heating element being disposed beneath the housing (1) such that its upper half is wholly within the recess, and at least a portion of its lower half protrudes downwardly from the recess; the recess having a heat reflective surface (5a, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6b, 6c) for reflecting heat radiation from the radiative heating element (15,16) in a downwards direction; the housing (1) having means (9) enabling the attachment thereto of a reflective skirt (19) for focusing the radiation emitted from the radiative heating element (15,16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Philomena Joan Jones
    Inventor: David Mervyn Jones
  • Patent number: 6006998
    Abstract: An apparatus, based on a heat pipe, is provided for heating a building having at least one enclosed space that is bounded by a wall. The apparatus includes a plurality of passive heat transfer modules distributed along a dimension of the building and a hot source. Each passive heat transfer module includes a closed volume filled with two-phrase heat transfer fluid, at least one evaporator located outside of the enclosed space, downwardly directed heaters formed from a condenser tube, and an adiabatic circuit connecting an outlet of the evaportor and an inlet of the condenser tube. The heaters are spaced from the evaporator and located inside and at a top of the enclosed space to be heated. The hot source is located outside of the enclosed space to be heated but in heat exchange relationship with the evaporator. The hot source includes a lagged duct for the flow of a gas stream at high temperature and the adiabatic circuit passes through the wall of the enclosed space to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Societe Generfeu
    Inventor: Michel Rerolle
  • Patent number: 5950720
    Abstract: Ceiling radiators for the heating or cooling of rooms, with a compact design preferably made of a powder-coated, X- or similar shaped, aluminum, extruded profile. The radiator is of light weight and has high resistance to deformation, and is available up to 12 meters in overall length, with a maximum circular diameter up to 350 mm. The radiator includes a heating pipe having four curved radiant surfaces integrally molded to the pipe, with attachment rails. The heating-pipe ends are equipped with internal screw threads for tube connections and pipe compensators. In one economical design, a directly-heated radiant pipe has twelve radiant surfaces arranged around it on six radiant plates, and includes four attachment rails. The invention produces a broad, all-round radiation on the surrounding room surfaces and furnishings, so that heat encirclement is produced with optimum comfort to people underneath it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventor: Uwe Klix
  • Patent number: 5479912
    Abstract: Space heating appliance of the radiant tube type has sheet metal or other shield formations mounted in the tube to extend downstream of fan induced gas flow from side edges of the mouth of a fluid fueled burner head which projects into the tube to feed hot gases into the flow so as initially to separate that infeed from the general flow along the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Ambi-Rad Limited
    Inventor: Simon Dunne
  • Patent number: RE37636
    Abstract: A demand radiant heating system includes an elongated radiant heating tube and a burner operatively connected to the tube and a fuel regulator connected to the burner for providing fuel to the burner at a plurality of fuel pressures to provide demand heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Detroit Radiant Products Company
    Inventors: Joseph B. Wortman, Cory A. Weiss