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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7389852 | Integrated heat exchanger and muffler unit An integrated heat exchanger and muffler unit (50,120,140) is provided for transferring heat between a first fluid and a second fluid, and for muffling the noise of the first fluid. The unit includes a housing (52) including a first inlet (60) f... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7309931 | Electric motor with cooling coil The invention relates to a motor part of a linear motor, i.e. the primary part or secondary part of an asynchronous or synchronous linear motor. According to the invention, it is proposed to configure a cooling coil (K), which has a meandering flat structure, from p... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7267697 | Fuel reforming inlet device, system and process A fuel reforming system includes an inlet device for a reactor having a housing defining a frustoconical interior region having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. A tube mixer having a helical divider may be optionally employed to transfer fluid into the inlet ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6910526 | Contact element and ceiling element for a heating and cooling ceiling In order to improve the heat-conducting connection between a contact element (3) and a ceiling panel (1) which are adhesively bonded to one another, the contact panel (5) of the contact element (3) is provided with an adhesive depression ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6889751 | Latent heat storage device A low volume, high capacity latent heat storage device is achieved in a construction including a salt case (12) with an optional outer jacket (10) surrounding the salt case (12) in spaced relation thereto to define an insulating space (14... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6675880 | Air heater for recovering a heat of exhaust gas A high temperature air heater including a heat transfer conduit located in higher temperature gas. The heat transfer conduit is made up of a heat transfer pipe through which the air to be heated flows and a refractory protective pipe covering the heat tra... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6394176 | Combined heat exchanger, particularly for a motor vehicle A motor vehicle combined heat exchanger has a tube bank linked to two manifolds and divided into an oil cooler having tubes for oil, and a condenser having tubes for a cooling fluid. The two types of tubes are different and possess respective hydraulic di... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6367544 | Thermal jacket for reducing condensation and method for making same A thermal jacket is provided for reducing the rate of condensation of moisture during subambient operation of a cooled heat sink. The thermal jacket includes a bonding layer positioned in substantially surrounding and overlying relation to the cooled heat... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6185742 | Cool garment A cool garment includes an inner, flexible liner including at least one pocket, a pouch for holding a phase change material having a melting/freezing temperature between 50-60° F. held in the pocket, an outer metalized skin for reflecting heat away from ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6044810 | Fan assembly including a fan guard having a void with an interior filler material disposed therein A fan assembly for a work machine includes a fan housing which has a fan guard and a fan shroud defined therein. The fan housing includes a rotationally molded, hollow exterior shell structure. The exterior shell structure is filled with a filler material... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5720339 | Refractory-composite/heat-pipe-cooled leading edge and method for fabrication A thermal protection system containing several innovative features has been developed with heat pipes embedded in a composite material. The techniques used in the fabrication of the heat pipes permit a smaller radius and a higher use temperature heat pipe... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5595171 | Apparatus for heating concrete A heating apparatus for assisting in the curing of concrete includes a heater and pump for providing a supply of heated fluid to a network of tubing arranged on the back or non-working side of a concrete form. The heated fluid is used to maintain a desire... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5454426 | Thermal sweep insulation system for minimizing entropy increase of an associated adiabatic enthalpizer A method and apparatus are disclosed for minimizing the increase of entropy of an adiabatic enthalpizer by means of a thermal sweep insulation system which surrounds at least a portion of the adiabatic enthalpizer and through which the working fluid for t... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5415222 | Micro-climate cooling garment The invention relates to a cooling garment, preferably in the form of a vest that contains pouches containing a phase change material. The pouches cover less than the surface area of the vest to thereby permit evaporative cooling to occur and to contribut... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5251282 | Electric water heater with improved insulation structure and control panel housing arrangement The external jacket structure of an electric water heater defines with the water storage tank portion thereof a hollow insulation space that horizontally circumscribes and extends across the top end of the tank. A fiberglass foam stop block member is pres... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5131458 | Modular back side radiant heating panels with spring retention devices A modular temperature controlling panel for location adjacent a rear side of a room surface and between spaced penetrable structural framing members for supporting the room surface includes: an insulating core having a contact surface for location adjacen... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5088551 | Heat exchanger for cooling hot reacting gas A heat exchanger for cooling hot reaction gas with a coolant. It rests on a gas-supply compartment (4) and has gas-conveying pipes (9) inside a jacket (1). It is separated from the gas-supply compartment by a tube sheet (6) that accommodates the gas-conve... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4723598 | Warming panel In a warming panel of a construction, wherein liquid for a heat insulating layer (3) is injected into an interior space of an outer shell structure (8) of a hollow planar construction, there is provided a buffer plate (13) or a flow guide plate (20) in th... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4694895 | Apparatus for securing a component exposed to elevated temperature to a thermally insulated wall Apparatus for securing a component exposed to a relatively high temperature of a medium on a casing wall provided with thermal insulation to protect the wall from the medium, one section of the casing wall being devoid of thermal insulation and comprising... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4678104 | Cold plate for beverage dispensing A cooling system for dispensing beverages is provided having a tubular tub open at the top and bottom and adapted to receive a cold plate. The cold plate has cooling coils cast within it and is easily disassembled from the tub. The tub has a ledge near th... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4595358 | Re-radiating heat shield A refractory block design for re-radiating a substantial amount of heat losses back to a heated product thereby substantially maintaining its required temperature. A relatively thin sheet of stainless steel, i.e. the ratio of the thickness of the sheet be... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4587105 | Integratable oxygen sensor An O2 sensor built on a silicon chip which has a SiO2 dielectric layer bridging over a depression in the surface of the chip. A ZrO2 layer overlies the bridge and a pair of spaced apart palladium electrodes are on the surf... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4535604 | Machine for making ice cream and similar cold products, having a removable ice cream-making vessel An ice cream-making machine with an ice cream-making vessel which can be inserted in and removed from a substantially cylindrical cooling chamber with a circular cross-section that is not completely closed on itself due to the presence of a slot extending... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4502531 | High-pressure vessel furnace The invention provides an apparatus and method for heating a vessel having a vessel bottom and at least one vessel side wall. The invention includes a furnace housing which is adapted to contain the vessel and which has a housing bottom and at least one h... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4467863 | Flue gas duct assembly A length of longitudinally extending duct assembly for heated corrosive gases includes an outer support duct and a substantially gas-tight liner. The liner is spaced from the outer support duct by a relatively yielding spacer material that accommodates ex... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4467179 | Portable electric baseboard heater having an integral handle A portable electric baseboard heater includes a unitary structural back plate having a central vertical portion bounded by an integral lower triangular closed box-like structure having a downwardly sloping forward surface and an integral upper triangular ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4411308 | Vaulted cover assembly to close a vertical recess in a pressure vessel The invention concerns a vaulted cover to close a vertical recess in a pressure vessel with a plurality of fittings welded to the cover for the passage of steam pipes and with heat insulation applied to the inside of the cover consisting of a thermally in... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4398596 | Plate-type heat exchangers An improvement to the plate-type heat exchangers/vaporators constituted in per se known manner by a stack of a plurality of rectangular plates each having four orifices in the vicinity of the apices of the rectangle and thus constituting juxtaposed parall... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4379369 | Drying cylinder for machines for making paper and a method for making the drying cylinder A steam heated drying cylinder for machines for making paper comprising a cylindrical shell having inner surfaces thereon. The cylindrical shell includes a center region of substantially uniform thickness, end flanges extending radially inwardly of the ce... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4376489 | Container for hazardous material A container for hazardous material has an outer shell, an inner cylindrical tank for hazardous material, resilient filler material between the shell and the tank, flexible, impervious diaphragms fixed within the tank and extending transversely to the long... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4337927 | Furnace installation particularly for the melting of ore concentrate A furnace assembly of the type used for melting of ore concentrate, wherein at least one separating wall is provided within the confines of the furnace to dip into the melt and divides the furnace space into separate melting, settling, and exhaust spaces.... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4319559 | Solar collector for heating a gaseous heat transport medium A solar collector for heating a gaseous heat transport medium comprises an open-top housing provided with a transparent cover layer formed of a plurality of adjacently arranged, substantially mutually contacting, sealed and evacuated transparent cover tub... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4306387 | Controllable insulating effects by selective interposition of insulating particles in a cavity of an energy transmission panel assembly A system for selectively interposing particulate insulating material in a cavity of a transmission or window panel assembly employs an upper aperture into the cavity through which the insulating material enters and is removed. A flow diverting means adjac... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4306616 | Refrigerated shelf for a food display counter A refrigerated shelf for a food display counter comprising a sheet of metal having an upper surface for supporting chilled food items and a cooling coil at the underside of the shelf, the coil being adapted for the flow of coolant therethrough for cooling... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4296799 | Solar water tank and method of making same A solar water tank for use in solar heating systems includes an insulated tank with flow systems comprised of a plurality of inlet and outlet tubes, heat exchangers, level switch and supplemental heating element, all assembled together with the manway cov... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4290412 | Solar collector and process for its operation The invention relates to a solar collector assembly comprising a hollow housing body that is at least partially transparent. An absorber means is contained in the housing and a vacuum pump means is connected to the housing. A particular process of operati... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4284071 | Solar oven An efficient heat insulating food heating chamber for a solar oven. The heating chamber includes a compartment and reflecting devices for concentrating solar radiation to elevate the temperature of the heating compartment. The heating compartment is defin... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4281642 | Solar collector construction A rigid, supportive cell structure disposed within an evacuated or partially evacuated space between a metallic solar collector plate with an attached fluid conduit and an outer, protective cover plate below the collector plate. The walls of the cell stru... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4261330 | Solar heat collector A solar heat collector having an elongated housing, a segmented absorber plate, inlet and outlet header pipes fluidly connected by a plurality of riser pipes for conducting heat transfer fluid through the collector, multilayered insulation for minimizing ... | 04/14/1981 |
