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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8127559 | Core unit for refrigeration unit and refrigeration unit including the core unit A refrigeration unit is provided without impairing freshness, as before freezing, after thawing frozen subjects, and, with providing excellent color of dark colored flesh of fish/meat, especially in the case of using perishable food, such as meat or fish, for subjec... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8109100 | Magnetocaloric refrigerant The invention provides the use of a material of general formula (I): [(AyCo1-y)]u(Mn1-zCz)[(Si1-xBx)]v (I) as a magnetocaloric material, wherein the material is orthorhombic and wherein... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104293 | Magneto-caloric cooling device and method of operation A method of operating a cooling device is provided. The method includes sequentially regulating a temperature of a plurality of thermally coupled magneto-caloric elements for maximizing a magneto-caloric effect for each of the magneto-caloric elements when subjected... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099964 | Magnetic refrigerating device and magnetic refrigerating method A magnetic refrigerating device includes: a magnetic refrigerating unit including a magnetic material “A” exhibiting a magneto-caloric effect that the temperature of the material “A” is increased by the application of a magnetic field and the temperature of ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082740 | Apparatus and methods of transferring heat with a differential magneto-thermal force A method of heat energy transfer, hi one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of establishing a temperature gradient along a first direction in a heat reservoir with a medium and having a first end portion and an opposite, second end portion defining a length,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8061147 | Magnetic regenerator, a method of making a magnetic regenerator, a method of making an active magnetic refrigerator and an active magnetic refrigerator The invention provides a method of making a magnetic regenerator for an active magnetic refrigerator, the method comprising: forming a magnetic regenerator from a slurry or a paste containing a magnetocaloric material the magnetic regenerator being formed to have pl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8037692 | Thermal generator having a magneto-caloric material The present invention proposes a thermal generator which is non-polluting, has very good energy efficiency, is of simple and economical design and uses little energy, at the same time as being capable of further development, flexible and modular. In this thermal gen... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7650756 | Device and method for generating thermal units with magnetocaloric material The present invention concerns a device for generating thermal units using magnetocaloric material, with low energy consumption, evolutive, of a simple design, reliable operation, which allows to generate thermal units in a cost effective way while at the same time ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7644588 | Magnetic refrigerator The present invention relates to a magnetic refrigerator comprising separated hot and cold heat exchange units wherein a heat transfer fluid that exchanges a heat with a magnetic heat exchange unit having the magnetocaloric material pieces arranged to have a gap the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7628021 | Solid state heat pump In accordance with the invention, there are methods for transferring heat, for heating and cooling, and there is a solid state heat pump. The solid state heat pump can include a power supply that provides an electric field, a first metal layer, a dielectric layer di... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7603865 | Magnetic refrigerator A magnetic refrigerator includes independent hot heat exchange unit and cold heat exchange unit wherein separate heat transfer fluids are circulated. ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7596955 | Device for generating a thermal flux with magneto-caloric material The present invention concerns a device for generating a thermal flux with a magneto-caloric material, which is non-polluting, effective, reliable, of simple design and simple to use, economical, compact, and can be used both in large-scale industrial installations ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7581403 | Energy storage arrangement Energy is stored in the compression of a metastable degenerate Fermi electron gas contained in a compressed metallic base material subjected to a magnetic field in a high pressure cell. Heat energy is introduced to increase the energy of the compressed metastable de... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7552592 | Magnetic refrigerator In a magnetic refrigerator, a permanent magnet unit shaped like a hub is so rotated as to face an annular magnetic unit having magnetic blocks arranged in a circumferential direction. The permanent magnet unit is also arranged to be concentric with a magnetic unit a... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7536866 | Magnetic refrigerator A magnetic refrigerator has a housing, heat exchangers filled with magnetic particles having a magnetocaloric effect, a rotary drive, a rotating shaft, a magnetic field generator fixed to the rotating shaft which applies a magnetic field to or eliminates a magnetic ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7481064 | Method and device for continuous generation of cold and heat by means of the magneto-calorific effect The device (10) for continuous generation of cold and heat by the magneto-calorific effect, comprises a chamber (11), divided into two adjacent compartments (12, 13), separated by a wall (14). The chamber (11) contains a rotating e... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7481063 | Method and device for the generation of cold and heat by magneto-calorific effect The device (10), for the continuous generation of cold and heat by magneto-calorific effect, comprises a mixture of a heat exchange fluid and particles made from at least one magneto-calorific material, superconductor or phase-change material circulating thro... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7370479 | Switch cupboard with a cooling device which is subject to a rotation and cooling device for this The switch cupboard for receiving electrical and electronical components and switching elements which is subject to a rotation and which has at least one cooling device (30) with a cold emitting device part (31) placed in its inner space (23) an... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370480 | Solid state thermal apparatus A solid state thermal device for conducting heat from a source and transferring the heat to an exhaust tunnel or converter for controlling the current flow passing through the solid state device. The device includes a plurality of diode arrays which interface betwee... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357917 | Diagnostic procedures using Xe spectroscopy characterstic chemical shift to detect pathology in vivo An in vivo non-invasive method for detecting and/or diagnosing a pathological condition using hyperpolarized 129Xe spectroscopy is disclosed. Generally stated, the method includes determining the magnitude of spectral peaks which represent particular chem... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358658 | Amorphous diamond materials and associated methods for the use and manufacture thereof An electroluminescence device having improved luminescence per volt input is provided. The device can include a first electrode, a second electrode, a diamond-like carbon layer electrically coupled to at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode, and ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340919 | Method and apparatus for enhancing heat pump and refrigeration equipment A vapor compression apparatus and a method for operating a vapor compression system are provided. A working fluid is conveyed through a vapor compression system having a fluid line. A charging element is connected to the fluid line to direct an electric charge into ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329959 | Micro power generator and apparatus for producing reciprocating movement There is provided a micro power generator enhanced in efficiency and power generation output, and having an increased temperature range for operation. The micro power generator comprises: a high-temperature heat source; a low-temperature heat source; an enclosed bod... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310954 | Cryogenic system A cryogenic system includes a space formed between a cooling stage of a cryocooler unit and an element to be cooled, and a thermal joint placed in the space, wherein the thermal joint is composed of a substance that has a melting point higher than the cooling temper... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305839 | Thermal transfer device and system and method incorporating same A thermal transfer device having a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and first and second electrodes disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer. The thermal transfer device also includes a release layer disposed between t... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308008 | Magnetically controlled heat sink A system and method for controlling the temperature of a heat-generating component such as a laser. A microelectromechanical system for controlling the temperature of the heat-generating component includes a magnetic heat sink device, a temperature sensor, and contr... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295435 | Heat sink having ferrofluid-based pump for nanoliquid cooling A heat sink uses a ferrofluid-based pump assembly for controlling the direction of nanofluid flow within the heat sink. The nanofluid is thermally conductive and absorbs heat from a heat source, which is then directed away from the heat source by the ferrofluid-base... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287391 | Automated modular hyperpolarizers and related devices and methods Modular expandable hyperpolarizers include a central control module and at least one optical pumping module that can be expandable to a plurality of optical pumping modules that can be separately operated depending on the capacity demands at the production site (hos... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287390 | Optical pumping modules, polarized gas blending and dispensing systems, and automated polarized gas distribution systems and related devices and methods Hyperpolarizers for producing polarized noble gases can include: (a) a control module configured to direct the operation of a hyperpolarizer to produce polarized noble gas via spin-exchange interactions between a noble gas and an alkali metal; (b) at least one optic... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7263839 | Cooling device for MR apparatus The invention relates to a cooling method for cooling a superconducting coil assembly in a MR apparatus, wherein the superconducting coil assembly 10 is cooled using a cooling agent 41, 42 which is in thermal contact with the superconducting coil assem... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260939 | Thermal transfer device and system and method incorporating same A method of manufacturing a thermal transfer device including providing first and second thermally conductive substrates that are substantially atomically flat, providing a patterned electrical barrier having a plurality of closed shapes on the first thermally condu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253549 | Thermionic vacuum diode device with adjustable electrodes In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a Gap Diode is disclosed in which a tubular actuating element serves as both a housing for a pair of electrodes and as a means for controlling the separation between the electrode pair. In a preferred embod... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7187059 | Compressive SiGe <110> growth and structure of MOSFET devices A structure for conducting carriers and method for forming is described incorporating a single crystal substrate of Si or SiGe having an upper surface in the and a psuedomorphic or epitaxial layer of SiGe having a concentration of Ge different than the substra... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7169006 | Thermionic vacuum diode device with adjustable electrodes In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a Gap Diode is disclosed in which a tubular actuating element serves as both a housing for a pair of electrodes (92) and as a means for controlling the separation between the electrode pair. In a pre... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168255 | Magnetic composite material and method for producing the same The magnetic composite material of the present invention is used as a working substance in the magnetic refrigeration system and comprising at least two phases, including, a first phase composed of an intermetallic compound represented by a general formula: La(Fe(Co... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7141979 | Cryo head with a plurality of heat exchangers for cooling the RF coils or resonators A cryohead (1) for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements, comprising at least one detection channel for receiving NMR signals and at least one transmitting and decoupling channel, wherein different radio frequency (RF) coils or resonators (11, 12, ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127934 | Methods, systems, circuits, and computer program products for determining polarization of a gas A system for determining polarization of a gas comprises a container that contains the polarized gas. An oscillator circuit comprises an NMR coil that is positioned adjacent to the container. A pulse generator circuit is configured to generate an electrical pulse th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114340 | Method of making active magnetic refrigerant materials based on Gd-Si-Ge alloys An alloy made of heat treated material represented by Gd5(SixGe1−x)4 where 0.47≦x≦0.56 that exhibits a magnetic entropy change (−ΔSm) of at least 16 J/kg K, a magnetostriction of at least 2000 parts per... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107777 | MEMS heat pumps for integrated circuit heat dissipation A cooling mechanism within an integrated circuit includes an internal pump for circulating thermally conductive fluid within closed loop channels. The cooling channels are embedded within an integrated circuit die, such as in interlevel dielectric layers between met... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7109408 | Solid state energy converter A solid-state energy converter with a semiconductor or semiconductor-metal implementation is provided for conversion of thermal energy to electric energy, or electric energy to refrigeration. In n-type heat-to-electricity embodiments, a highly doped n* emitter regio... | 09/19/2006 |
