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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171741 | Electrically conductive shield for refrigerator A cryogenic magnet system, comprising a cryogenic vessel (1) housing a magnet winding, a vacuum jacket (3) enclosing the cryogenic vessel and a refrigerator (4) at least partially housed within the vacuum jacket and thermally linked (6) t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171742 | Pressure wave generator A pressure wave generator (40) for driving one or more cryogenic refrigerator systems. The pressure wave generator (40) comprises a housing with one or more inlet/outlet ports (57,58) through which generated pressure waves of gas may pass throug... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8127560 | Machined spring with integral retainer for closed cycle cryogenic coolers A retainer and spring with threaded end are machined from a single piece of material for threading to a piston in a closed cycle cryogenic cooler. Since the machined retainer and spring are a unitary part, they cannot rub against each other during operation of the p... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117850 | Refrigeration apparatus having warm connection element and cold connection element and heat pipe connected to connection elements A heat pipe arranged between warm and cold connection elements is intended to be filled at least partially with a refrigerant, which can be circulated in the heat pipe by a thermosiphon effect. The parts of a device, particularly in superconducting technology, which... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8079224 | Field integrated pulse tube cryocooler with SADA II compatibility A unitary pulse tube expander for removable attachment to a SADA II coldfinger and insertion within a Dewar assembly. The regenerator of the pulse tube expander is encased in a regenerator sleeve and a cold cap to create a unitary pulse tube expander that may functi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074457 | Folded cryocooler design A compact cryocooler includes a gas compression piston (304) supported for reciprocal linear translation along a first longitudinal axis (308) and a gas displacing piston (362) supported for reciprocal linear translation along a second longitudi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069676 | Water vapor distillation apparatus, method and system A fluid vapor distillation apparatus. The apparatus includes a source fluid input, and an evaporator condenser apparatus. The evaporator condenser apparatus includes a substantially cylindrical housing and a plurality of tubes in the housing. The source fluid input ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069675 | Cryogenic vacuum break thermal coupler A novel thermal coupler apparatus and method to couple a cryocooler or another cooling device to a superconducting magnet or cooled object allows for replacement without a need to break the cryostat vacuum or to warm up the superconducting magnet or other cooled obj... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065882 | Compositions containing fluorine substituted olefins Disclosed are the use of fluorine substituted olefins, including tetra- and penta-fluoropropenes, in a variety of applications, including connection with blowing agents, foams, foamable compositions, foaming methods, heat transfer compositions and methods, propellan... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8037693 | Method, apparatus, and system for cooling an object A method for cooling an object includes coupling a cooling device to the object, wherein the cooling device includes at least one thermoacoustic engine and a plurality of gas diodes, generating acoustic power with the thermoacoustic engine, channeling acoustic oscil... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033120 | Compositions and methods containing fluorine substituted olefins The use of pentafluoropropene (HFO-1225) and tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234) in refrigeration equipment is disclosed. These materials are generally useful as refrigerants for heating and cooling, as blowing agents, as aerosol propellants, as solvent composition, and a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8015831 | Cryocooler split flexure suspension system and method A cryocooler in which two independently moving flexure systems are split across a single magnetic structure, decreasing package size and increasing resistance to cantilevered mass sag due to external forces. A series of concentrically oriented flexure coupling shaft... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7997088 | Hybrid spool valve for multi-port pulse tube The problems of reducing the torque required to turn the valve, eliminating wear dust, and extending the life of the valves in Gifford McMahon (G-M) type multi-port pulse tube refrigerators are solved by using a rotary spool valve having radial clearance to control ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7937955 | Solar and wind hybrid powered air-conditioning/refrigeration, space-heating, hot water supply and electricity generation system A system for environmental control includes a hybrid wind and solar energy collection subsystem; a temperature control subsystem having a thermo-mechanical engine; an electrical generating subsystem; a sensor for detecting an environmental condition; and a controlle... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7779640 | Low vibration cryocooler Disclosed are a low vibration cryocooler and a method of reducing vibration in a cryocooler. The cryocooler can be a Stirling class cryocooler includes at least one motor that drives a mass, the motor having a main drive winding and a separate trim winding. A motor ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7654096 | Reduced torque valve for cryogenic refrigerator A rotary valve unit which reduces the torque required to turn the valve disc, and the amount of wear dust that is blown into the cold head, using differential gas forces to keep the valve disc in contact with the valve seat, and which enables larger diameter valve d... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7631505 | Wearless valve for cryorefrigerator An improved method of reducing wear dust and torque required to turn a multi-port rotary disc valve utilizes a thrust bearing to hold the valve seat and/or valve disc such that they are not in contact with each other, or have light contact each other. ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7628022 | Acoustic cooling device with coldhead and resonant driver separated An acoustic cooling device is provided. A coldhead and an acoustic power source of the acoustic cooling device are separated by way of a long tube connecting them to enable the cold tip to be installed in a remote location where a traditional unitary system would no... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7614240 | Control method for pulse tube cryocooler Method of controlling a pulse tube cryocooler in which the power input to the acoustic source is varied to maintain temperature of a refrigeration load or a temperature that is at least referable to the temperature of the refrigeration load, at a set point temperatu... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7603866 | Thermoacoustic apparatus In order to reduce the time until an acoustic wave is generated and perform heat exchange smoothly in a stack, a thermoacoustic apparatus 1 includes a first stack 3a sandwiched between a first high-temperature-side heat exchanger 4 and a ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600386 | Pulse tube cryogenic cooler A pulse tube cryogenic cooler, includes: a pressure vibration generating device configured to generate pressure vibration in operation gas; a regenerator connected to the pressure vibration generating device; a pulse tube connected to the regenerator; a phase contro... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7600385 | Pulse tube cryogenic cooler A pulse tube cryogenic cooler, includes a cold storage device cartridge whose high temperature end is connected to a pressure change source; a pulse tube whose low temperature end is connected to a low temperature end of the cold storage device cartridge via a stage... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594406 | Regenerator and cryogenics pump The invention has an object to provide a regenerator and cryogenics pump using a regenerator material which fulfills such requirements as specific heat, thermal conductivity, manufacturing easiness, strength, hardness, chemical stabilization and low cost instead of ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7568351 | Multi-stage pulse tube with matched temperature profiles Convection losses associated with different temperature profiles in the pulse tubes and regenerators of multi-stage pulse tubes mounted in helium gas in the neck tube of a MRI cryostat are reduced by providing one or more of thermal bridges, and/or insulating sleeve... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7555908 | Cable drive mechanism for self tuning refrigeration gas expander A refrigeration device includes a gas displacing piston (362) movable within a gas expander cylinder (364). The volume of a gas expansion space (362) is varied as the gas displacing piston (362) is moved over an expansion stroke range. Th... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7549296 | Low temperature cryocooler regenerator of ductile intermetallic compounds A multi-stage cryocooler having a relatively low temperature stage to cool to less than about 15K and having a regenerator including a ductile intermetallic compound including one or more rare earth elements and one or more non-rare earth metals. ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549295 | Three track valve for cryogenic refrigerator A multi valve two-stage pulse tube type GM refrigerator having a rotary valve that comprises one track for flow to the regenerator and two tracks for flow to the pulse tubes where the valve has two high pressure ports to the pulse tubes located on a single track and... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7509814 | Compact integrated buffer for pulse tube refrigerator A range of buffer volume/pulse tube volume ratios for two-stage hybrid GM type pulse tube cold-heads that are designed to produce refrigeration at 4 K are provided. The ranges of volume ratios for the first and second stages provides a good balance between the ineff... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7500366 | Refrigerator with magnetic shield A magnetic shield is mounted in its own vacuum enclosure in a regenerative type expander comprising a vacuum enclosure, magnetic material in a cold regenerator, and a magnetic shield, where the magnetic shield surrounds the magnetic material. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7497084 | Co-axial multi-stage pulse tube for helium recondensation A two-stage pulse tube refrigerator having a compact design, low vibration and low heat loss is provided where at least the 2nd stage is co-axial but preferably, both stages are co-axial with the second stage pulse tube being central and the first stage p... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497085 | Refrigerating machine using the stirling cycle A cooler machine using the Stirling cycle and comprising: at least one compressor with a compressor piston movable in a compression cyclinder; a regenerator with a regenerator piston movable in a regeneration cyclinder placed at a given angle relative to the compres... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7490473 | System and method for predicting component failures in magnetic resonance imaging machine The method includes obtaining input data representative of a first parameter of a cryogenic medium in a cryogenic cooling system is provided. The method further includes calculating an expected value representative of a second parameter of the cryogenic medium in th... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487643 | Loop type thermo syphone, heat radiation system, heat exchange system, and stirling cooling chamber A natural circulation circuit includes an evaporator surrounding a heat radiating portion of a Stirling refrigerating machine to absorb heat of the heat radiating portion through evaporation of a coolant, a condenser arranged to be higher than the evaporator to cond... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7464556 | Magnetic resonance apparatus with phase-aligned coupling-in of working gas pressure pulses A magnetic resonance apparatus comprising a superconducting magnet coil disposed in a cryostat, and a refrigerator for cooling same comprising a compressor (1) for compressing a working gas, and a high-pressure line (2) and a low-pressure line (3 | 12/16/2008 |
| 7437878 | Multi-stage pulse tube cryocooler with acoustic impedance constructed to reduce transient cool down time and thermal loss The cool down time for a multi-stage, pulse tube cryocooler is reduced by configuring at least a portion of the acoustic impedance of a selected stage, higher than the first stage, so that it surrounds the cold head of the selected stage. The surrounding acoustic im... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434408 | Method for cooling an article using a cryocooler and cryocooler A stationary point is set on a cold end of a cryocooler. An article is mounted on the stationary point to be cooled via the stationary point. In this case, the article can be cooled up to an extremely low temperature with isolation of vibration to the article. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434409 | Pulse tube cooler having ¼ wavelength resonator tube instead of reservoir An improved pulse tube cooler having a resonator tube connected in place of a compliance volume or reservoir. The resonator tube has a length substantially equal to an integer multiple of ¼ wavelength of an acoustic wave in the working gas within the resonator tube... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434407 | No-vent liquid hydrogen storage and delivery system A hydrogen storage and delivery system is provided having an orifice pulse tube refrigerator and a liquid hydrogen storage vessel. A cooling system, coupled to the orifice pulse tube refrigerator, cools the vessel and abates ambient heat transfer thereto in order to... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415830 | Method and system for cryogenic cooling According to one embodiment, a method for improving heat transfer between a cold finger of a cryogenic cooler and a Dewar includes forming an annulus between the cold finger of the cryogenic cooler and the Dewar by inserting the cold finger into the Dewar. The cold ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415829 | Piston compressor A piston compressor comprises a piston (12) which oscillates in a cylinder (14). A compressed-gas supply arrangement is provided which comprises a compressed-gas accumulator (34), a compressed-gas supply line (18) between a compressed-gas... | 08/26/2008 |
