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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176750 | Heat exchanger An evaporator includes two header tanks and a plurality of heat exchange tubes disposed therebetween. The interior of a refrigerant inlet header section of the first header tank is divided into two spaces by a first flow diverging plate. The heat-exchange-tube-side ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8122737 | Refrigerating device comprising tubular evaporators A refrigerating device comprising a tubular evaporator which is connected to a compressor by means of a suction line. A coolant pipe of the tubular evaporator forms a plurality of serially connected tubular loops and one ascending outlet tube connecting the tubular ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8099978 | Evaporator unit An evaporator unit includes a first heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between refrigerant flowing thereinto from a refrigerant inlet and air, a bypass passage through which the refrigerant flowing from the refrigerant inlet flows while bypassing the... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7849710 | Falling film evaporator A falling film evaporator is provided for use in a two-phase refrigeration system or process system. The evaporator includes a shell having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a tube bundle having tubes extending substantially horizontally in the shell. A hood is... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7788946 | Refrigerator for grain Disclosed is a grain refrigerator provided with a receiving container, a grain storage part installed in the receiving container, for storing a grain, and an evaporator forming a cooling cycle to keep the stored grain at a low temperature, wherein the evaporator is ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779648 | Heat exchanger with enhanced air distribution A complete refrigeration system (CRS) including at least one heat exchanger which is designed to occupy an irregular volume to reduce the overall profile of the CRS. The heat exchanger may be a condenser or an evaporator, and includes a substantially solid body made... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775067 | Heat exchanger header tank and heat exchanger comprising same A heat exchanger has header tanks each including a header forming plate, a tube connecting plate, and an intermediate plate interposed between the two plates, the plates being arranged in superposed layers and brazed to one another. Each of the plates is made from a... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7730742 | Accelerated heat exchanger A heat transfer device includes a tube with a first fluid inlet and outlet and is arranged to form a plurality of parallel elongated segments. An enclosure defines a second fluid flow path over an exterior surface of the tube from a second fluid inlet to a second fl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7661276 | Evaporator An evaporator (102) provides a compact design in which thermal energy can be removed from a DUT (108) in an efficient manner. The evaporator (102) can include a cover (306) which includes both input and output apertures for providing refr... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7587911 | Compact evaporator for chiller application An evaporator including a shell having a first end and a second end. A plurality of tubes are disposed within the shell to circulate refrigerant through the shell. A plurality of shell inlets are in fluid communication with the shell to deliver a fluid to exchange h... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7472563 | Submerged evaporator with integrated heat exchanger The invention provides a submerged evaporator (14) with integrated plate heat ex-changer (4) that may operate with markedly increased capacity, where the evaporator (14) does not require more space than other known types and have a smaller filli... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7448229 | Heat exchanger of air conditioner A heat exchanger of an air conditioner comprising: at least one or more refrigerant inlets for connecting a compressor for compressing refrigerant to an expansion device for expanding condensed refrigerant via a piping and for receiving high temperature/pressure ref... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7412844 | Method and apparatus for cooling semiconductor chips A cooling apparatus for cooling a heat-generating chip mounted in a socket on a circuit board, the socket including a cradle having a standard heat-sink receiving configuration, includes an evaporator having a thermally conductive front face, a compressor in fluid c... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7386990 | Evaporator arrangement for an air conditioning system of an aircraft The present invention relates to an evaporator arrangement for an air conditioning system of an aircraft, wherein a bypass conduit is provided which can be connected such that if required at least part of the airflow bypasses an evaporator. Advantageously this makes... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7367203 | Refrigerant evaporator A refrigerant evaporator includes a tank constituted by a tank portion and a header plate. The tank portion includes refrigerant collecting portions for guiding the refrigerant passed through a first path to the ends of the tank in the right-and-left direction and r... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360373 | Vehicle air-conditioning system An evaporator placed in a vehicle compartment includes a meandering flattened pipe, a header joined with one end of the flattened pipe for introducing a compressed refrigerant from a compressor placed in an engine room, and a header joined with the other end of the ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347064 | Evaporator An evaporator operated with the carbon dioxide gas, comprises at least a unit core including a plurality of heat transmission tubes having a path with a refrigerant flowing therein, a first tank connected to an end opening of the heat transmission tubes and formed w... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347063 | Device for heat exchange A device for exchanging heat is disclosed herein. This device may be used in motor vehicle air-conditioning installations which include at least one distribution or collection chamber for a fluid, at least one flow device which is provided with at least one first fl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337630 | Compact evaporator for chiller application An evaporator including a shell having a first end and a second end. A plurality of tubes are disposed within the shell to circulate refrigerant through the shell. A plurality of shell inlets are in fluid communication with the shell to deliver a fluid to exchange h... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334431 | Evaporator and heat exchanger with external loop, as well as heat pump system and air conditioning system comprising said evaporator or heat exchanger An evaporator including an evaporating chamber equipped with a drainage. The drainage drains accumulated liquid from the evaporator's lower parts and includes an external expansion driven injector and/or an external pump. The evaporator can be used e.g. in a heat ex... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334851 | Transparent top for a refrigerator A refrigeration appliance with a cabinet having a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a top enclosing a refrigerated space. A front panel in the front wall is openable to provide access to the refrigerated space. The cabinet walls are sized to fit below a standa... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7316666 | Fluid warming cassette with rails and a stiffening member A fluid warming cassette useful in a system for warming parenteral fluids is provided. The cassette comprises a thermally conductive, flexible fluid container with a fluid channel. Rails are disposed in the fluid container near its periphery, and a stiffener is disp... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316264 | Heat pipe A heat pipe includes a tubular member, a capillary wick, and a liquid. The tubular member has a plurality of capillary ditches formed on an internal sidewall thereof. The capillary wick is disposed on the internal sidewall of the tubular member and located on openin... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7303004 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger adopts a four-pass structure, including two rows of tubes, a first upper tank portion communicating with the upper end of one of the tube rows, a second upper tank portion communicating with the upper end of the other tube row, a first lower tank po... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299967 | Method for manufacturing plate stacks, particularly coolers or cooler elements made up of plate stacks The invention relates to an innovative method for manufacturing plate stacks, particularly for manufacturing coolers or cooler elements or heat sinks at least one plate stack, with at least two plate-shaped elements made of metal, for example copper, and provided wi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289326 | Direct contact cooling liquid embedded package for a central processor unit A direct contact cooling liquid embedded package design for use with a computer central processor unit is suitable for thermal management of high heat dissipation electronic components such as server processors. The direct contact cooling liquid embedded packaged CP... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283360 | Enhanced flow channel for component cooling in computer systems An evaporator having an enhanced flow channel design for use in a computer system is described. Specifically, micro-channels of the evaporator comprise nucleation sites and different channel widths. The enhanced flow channel design improves heat transfer from a comp... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275394 | Heat exchanger having a distributer plate A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle is provided, including top and bottom headers and a core extending therebetween. The top header includes a distributor plate extending along the longitudinal axis thereof to separate the top header into first and second chambers.... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269971 | Electrohydrodynamic evaporator device An electrohydrodynamic evaporator device (EHD) has an EHD electrode. An electric field is generated upon a fluid of low conductivity inside the evaporator device and an enhanced thermal transport effect is then achieved since a thermal boundary layer near a thermal ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269967 | Method and apparatus for removing moisture from evaporator coils A method and apparatus for removing excess moisture from the evaporator coils of an air-conditioning system in which the moisture is removed from the evaporator coils by vibrating the coils. The coils may be vibrated by mechanical or acoustic devices such as solenoi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263848 | Heat pump system A heat pump is operable in a heating mode and a cooling mode and includes two identical heat exchangers. The heat exchangers alternate between operating as a condenser and an evaporator as the heat pump switches between the heating mode and the cooling mode. The hea... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257965 | Two-stage evaporation system comprising an integrated liquid supercooler and a suction vapour superheater according to frequency-controlled module technology The aim of the invention is to improve a refrigerating installation in such a way as to achieve high operating reliability, and savings in terms of energy and cost, in cooling circuits containing a cooling agent (cooling sols). To this end, disclosed is a refrigerat... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7237338 | Method for manufacturing heat-dissipating device with isothermal plate assembly of predetermined shape A heat-dissipating device with an isothermal plate assembly of predetermined shape and method for manufacturing the same are proposed. An upper plate and a lower plate with predetermined shape are provided and an accommodation groove is defined therein. A flattened ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228711 | Tubes with elongated cross-section for flooded evaporators and condensers In a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with the tubes disposed within the shell for conducting the flow of a fluid to be in heat transfer interaction with a refrigerant contained in the volume formed by the heat exchanger shell and the external surfaces of the tube bund... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222501 | Evaporator The present invention relates to an evaporator for an air conditioner of a vehicle, and the major object of the present invention is to provide the evaporator which is capable of decreasing the whole dimension of an evaporator and enhancing a heat exchange performan... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219511 | Evaporator having heat exchanging parts juxtaposed An evaporator includes a downwind-side heat exchanging part and an upwind-side heat exchanging part. In the heat exchanging part, paths are formed by partitions. In the evaporator, the flowing direction of coolant flowing in the upwind-side path is opposite to the f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201015 | Micro-channel tubing evaporator An ice cube making machine having an evaporator assembly on which ice is formed. The evaporator assembly is constructed using micro-channel tubing that provides several channels for the flow of refrigerant within the channels. Liquid refrigerant flowing through the ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198766 | Method for production of acrylic acid and apparatus for production of acrylic acid Chilled coolant is prepared by liquid coolant utilizing the latent heat generated by a gasification of liquefied propylene, for example, and this chilled coolant is used in heat exchangers which are used in a process for production of acrylic acid or acrolein. This ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195060 | Stacked-tube heat exchanger A headerless heat exchanger has a core comprised of a stack of flat tubes of rectangular cross section through which a first heat exchange fluid passes. The tubes are expanded in height at their end portions to provide spaces between adjacent plate pairs for passage... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185512 | Installation for the very long storage of products that emit a high heat flux An installation for very long term storage of products emitting a high thermal flux. The installation comprises a container (14), in which the products to be stored are placed, and an evaporator (22) surrounding the container, to evacuate the heat thro... | 03/06/2007 |
