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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8079408 | Pressure vessel assembly for integrated pressurized fluid system Pressure vessel assembly for a pressurized fluid system, comprises an enclosed outer casing, at least one internal tube extending within the casing, at least one fluid accumulator disposed within the at least one internal tube, and at least one cooling passage provi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7328738 | Heat exchanger An improved heat exchanger which resists fouling of the heat exchange surface by minimizing the temperature difference between the heat exchanger surface and the fluid stream in contact with the heat exchange surface. In one embodiment, a heat exchanger comprises an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7287578 | Connection between a cooled double-wall pipe and an uncooled pipe and double-pipe heat exchanger including said connection A connection between an uncooled pipe and a cooled double-wall pipe with between the walls a hollow space run through by cooling fluid let into the hollow space and taken from the hollow space through side passages connected to cooling fluid inlet and outlet ducts a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7237602 | Heat exchanger End rings are coupled with upper and lower ends of a cylindrical body tube. A plurality of first heat exchanger tubes are fitted and held in holes provided in a pair of first tube plates. A plurality of second heat exchanger tubes are fitted and held in holes provid... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226277 | Pump and method A pump for moving a liquid including stator and a permanent magnet rotor which rotates to move at least one a helical pumping member. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7191824 | Tubular charge air cooler A core for a charge air cooler comprises inner and outer concentric tubes providing an axially extending annular passageway for flow of a fluid, preferably a liquid coolant. A first inlet and a first outlet are provided at the ends of the axial annular passageway. A... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191769 | Internal combustion engine having two-stage exhaust-driven supercharger and charge air cooling between low pressure and high pressure compressors An internal combustion engine with a 2-stage charge loading includes a connection conduit with a supercharger intercooler provided between the compressors of the low pressure stage and high pressure stage. The supercharger intercooler is configured via a cooling uni... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188664 | Aluminum radiator tank with oil cooler clinch fitting The fabrication of a heat exchanger assembly by disposing a metal fitting of an oil cooler subassembly into an opening in a first tank and disposing a tubular connector into a bore in the fitting. These components are mechanically held together prior to brazing by d... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7077165 | Double pipe A double pipe has an outer pipe and an inner pipe that is formed in a spiral or wavy configuration and is held by an inner circumferential face of the outer pipe. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6968125 | Suspendable industrial electrical liquid heater An electric heater for industrial liquids comprises a plastic flat box that contains a stainless steel pressure vessel holding a number of parallel electrical heating rods. These heating rods are interlaced with shorter “I” shaped Teflon rods which generates a t... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6942017 | Intercooler An intercooler has a case through which supercharging air passes, and a heat exchanger 4 mounted inside the case which allows heat exchange between the supercharging air and a cooling fluid. A frame body 15 is provided at the circumferential edges of a... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6920917 | Double-pipe heat exchanger It is an object of the invention to provide an inexpensive double-pipe heat exchanger having high performance and comprising an inner pipe and an outer pipe which constitute a double pipe without adding a heat-transfer facilitating material such as an inner fin. In ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6722422 | Heat exchange system with improved flow velocity adjustment mechanism A heat exchange system utilizing flow reducers at 180 degree bends in the tubes includes a first set of media tubes in which heating/cooling media flows, and a set of product tubes positioned concentrically within the media tubes and in which liquid product flows in... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6568467 | Helical type heat exchanger having intermediate heating medium A heat exchanger having an intermediate heating medium has a shell of the heat exchanger, a plurality of cylindrical partition tubes each of which has an annular space therein and is closed at both end portions thereof with annular walls, the cylindrical ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6561265 | Heat exchanger having intermediate heating medium A heat exchanger having an intermediate heating medium is provided. A multiplicity of inner tubes 2 are disposed in a shell 1 of a heat exchanger 10. A low-temperature heating medium Y (water) flows in these inner tubes and a high-temperature heating medi... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6390185 | Annular flow concentric tube recuperator An annular flow concentric tube heat exchanger for heating two counter flowing fluid streams has been devised. Although capable of heating gases or liquids, the primary purpose of the invention is to function as an improved recuperator for recovering exha... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6345666 | Sublouvred fins and a heat engine and a heat exchanger having same A heat engine is constructed from sheet metal and the like. The heat engine has an outer container and inner container which contains a displacer and a power piston. A plurality of positioning members are provided to dimensionally stabilize the inner and ... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6095240 | Quadruple heat exchanger A heat exchanger having a plurality of coaxially aligned chambers for providing radiant, thermal heat transfer between a plurality of separately contained fluids within a single unit and a helical tube having at least one portion positioned within at leas... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6047767 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger is disclosed having a first chamber, a second chamber positioned inside the first chamber, and a third chamber positioned inside the second chamber. The first, second, and third chambers are in coaxial alignment. A first portion of a firs... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5568835 | Concentric heat exchanger having hydraulically expanded flow channels A cylindrical heat exchanger assembly has a plurality of spaced cylindrical heat exchangers having bulge formed circumferential passageways spiraling along the cylindrical surface of each to form a passageway for heat transfer fluid flow therethrough and ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5427655 | High capacity rapid quench boiler A quench boiler apparatus and process is disclosed wherein the hot effluent gases are indirectly cooled by contact with a central internal cold side, one or more internal bayonets and one or more waterwall tubes.... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5225161 | Integrated membrane blood oxygenator/heat exchanger A device including an integrally formed membrane oxygenator and heat exchange device positioned in a single housing. The device includes a thermally conductive body formed with a plurality of blood pathways on its surface, and a gas permeable membrane, or... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5143151 | End manifold for a heat exchanger An end manifold (2) for a concentric tube heat exchanger, the end manifold being especially suitable for treatment of viscous fluids. The end manifold has an obliquely oriented shoulder (38) which serves to direct the viscous fluid into an outlet port (30... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5120501 | Integrated membrane blood oxygenator/heat exchanger A device including an integrally formed membrane oxygenator and heat exchange device positioned in a single housing. The device includes a thermally conductive body formed with a plurality of blood pathways on its surface, and a gas permeable membrane, or... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5107919 | Air dryer for pneumatic systems An improved air dryer for pneumatic systems (10). The improved air dryer (10) employs air-to-air and an air-to-refrigerant heat exchanger portions (12-14) that are substantially parallel and coextensive. Each heat exchanger portion (12-14) is made up of a... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5097896 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger comprises concentric annular arrays of parallel feeder tubes and receiver tubes which are interconnected by generally circumferentially extending heat exchanger tubes. Each heat exchanger tube interconnects one feeder tube with a correspo... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5048597 | Leak-safe hydrogen/air heat exchanger in an ACE system In a heat exchanger system wherein a primary conditioning fluid is reactive with a fluid to be conditioned, a leak safe arrangement of concentric tubes disposed across the conditioned fluid flow path having the reactive primary fluid in a central duct sur... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4896718 | Water reservoir device containing an oil exchanger, for an automobile radiator Water reservoir device for a radiator of an automobile, comprising a water reservoir (12) communicating with an external appended receptacle (14) which contains an oil exchanger (16), the inlet and discharge pipes (58) of this exchanger passing in a seale... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4834172 | Heat exchanger A plurality of coaxially arranged, nested tubes (1, 2, 3, 4) are retained between distributor heads (8, 45). The heads and the outermost tube (1) are coupled to one another in a media-tight manner by fitting flanges to provide releasable axial connections... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4821797 | Fluid cooler A fluid cooler includes an inner shell concentrically mounted within the outer shell, both shells having corresponding circumferential contours. Radially extending heat exchange fins are provided at least on the outer surface of the inner shell and on the... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4785788 | Supercharger system for use with heat engines A three-fluid heat exchanger cools the compressed air from the supercharger by engine-cooling water and air in a radiator with coaxial-tube bundles.... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4778002 | Fluid cooler A fluid cooler includes an inner shell concentrically mounted within an outer shell, both shells having corresponding circumferential contours. Radially extending heat exchange fins are provided at least on the outer surface of the inner shell and on the ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4762166 | Method for the heating of a fluid and apparatus for carrying out the method A process and apparatus for heating a liquid in at least one vertically disposed externally heated tube on the inner surface of which the liquid flows in the form of a trickling film, characterized in that the internal space of the tube is kept under a ga... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4747447 | Heat exchanger A very simple and inexpensive heat exchanger comprises a closed vessel having thermally conducting walls and helium gas within the vessel. The helium gas is a heat transfer medium between a source of heat or cold and the vessel walls and the vessel walls ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4704877 | Apparatus and method of freezing a feed liquid A feed liquid, which can be aqueous, is frozen in tubes of a freeze exchanger by indirect cooling with a cold liquefied refrigerant to form a solid tubular shaped product. A warm liquefied refrigerant is used to indirectly melt a thin layer of the frozen ... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4705662 | Fast neutron nuclear reactor with a steam generator integrated into the vessel Fast neutron nuclear reactor of the type comprising a primary circuit integrated into a liquid metal-filled vessel and containing the reactor core, as well as means for circulating the said liquid metal and means for transferring the heat carried by the l... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4657071 | Heat exchanger incorporating an auxiliary cooling device A heat exchanger of the type incorporating an auxiliary cooling device includes an envelope with inlet and outlet windows for conducting a primary heat transfer medium through the envelope. A bundle of heat exchange tubes is mounted in the envelope with c... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4646819 | Apparatus for drying air Air drying apparatus wherein input air to be dried is passed through an air tube which contains a smaller refrigerant tube, with precooled air from the air tube being forced by baffles to flow along a tortuous path over the exterior of the air tube. The b... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4638852 | Air dryer for pneumatic systems A heat exchanger for dehumidification of compressed air. The improved heat exchanger employs an air-to-air heat exchanger portion and a air-to-refrigerant heat exchanger portion that are arranged substantially parallel and coextensive. Each of these heat ... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4566529 | Cooling device, in which converters or rectifiers or other semiconductor components are immersed in boiling liquor Cooling device for semiconductor components, including a chamber for receiving semiconductor components, boiling liquid disposed in the chamber for immersing the semiconductor components, a device connected to the chamber for supplying a cooling air to el... | 01/28/1986 |
