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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7316261 | Heat exchanging system of ventilating device A heat exchanging system of a ventilating device includes: a heat exchanging housing communicating with an outdoor air passage and an indoor air passage; a rotational shaft rotatably supported at one side of the case of a ventilating device; and a heat exchanging el... | 01/08/2008 |
| 6889750 | Ventilation system An apparatus for ventilation systems which include an element for the transfer of heat from warm exhaust air (taken from inside a building) to cooler exterior fresh air which is drawn into the building. During a defrost cycle, interior air may circulate through both... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6684637 | Parallel slot heat exchanger A heat exchanger in which a fluid and a surface transfer thermal energy effectively with a smaller pressure drop than is conventionally realized. In a preferred embodiment, gas at one end of a piston flows into a piston chamber and passes radially through... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6675871 | Heat exchanger, method of heat exchange and vehicle drive device having heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a honeycomb rotor, a drive unit and a gas movement device. The honeycomb rotor has at least two heat exchange passages and at least two purge zones provided respectively between the at least two heat exchange passages. The drive ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6622780 | Method for thermally regenerating the heat exchanger material of a regenerative post-combustion device In order to regenerate the heat exchanger material located in the various segments of a housing section (2) of a regenerative post-combustion device (1), air is heated in the combustion chamber (8) of this post-combustion device (1) by a burner (9), is di... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6422298 | Air preheater rotor construction A method for constructing a rotor of an air preheater having a plurality of diaphragm plates dividing the rotor into a number of wedge-shaped compartments. Each compartment includes compartment components such as a rotor shell plate, a hot end rotor angle... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6290685 | Microchanneled active fluid transport devices An active fluid transport device (10, 40, 54, 60) that includes a layer (12) of polymeric material. The layer (12) has a structured surface (13) that includes a plurality of substantially discrete flow channels (16). The flow channels (16) have a minimum ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6199392 | Air conditioning system An energy conserving air conditioning system having a superior dehumidification capacity has been developed, by raising the processing temperature of regeneration air for regenerating a desiccant material in a desiccant-assisted air conditioning system. T... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6145582 | Heat accumulator block for regenerated heat exchanger A heat accumulator block for regenerative heat exchangers has a heat exchanger of a plurality of heat exchanger plates arranged substantially parallel to one another for formation of flow channels. A dirt collector is arranged upstream of a side of the he... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6131644 | Heat exchanger and method of producing the same A heat exchanger comprises a gas casing formed with a gas chamber filled with a refrigerant gas, and a heat exchanging unit received in the gas chamber of the gas casing. The heat exchanging unit has a plurality of regenerative plates each made of a mater... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6091061 | System for reducing radial leaks in a regenerative air heater for thermal equipment The invention relates to a system for reducing radial leaks in an air heater for thermal equipment, the heater being of the type including a rotor fitted with a plurality of heater elements supported by diaphragms, a stator constituted by a leakproof meta... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6062296 | Regenerative heat recovery unit comprising heat accumulators tiltably movable to have a valve function A heat recovery unit comprising a case (1), which encloses at least one regenerative heat accumulator (5), whereby the casing (1) has a supply air opening (10), an exhaust air opening (15), an exterior air opening (20) and a under-air opening (25), and wh... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6035926 | Rotary, regenerative heat exchanger having hydraulic motor motion A rotary, regenerative heat exchanger includes an inner cylindrical hub (2) provided in a vertical position, a rotor (1) containing a heat exchange medium, first attachment members (30) for attaching the rotor to the hub, and a stationary casing (6) surro... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5965097 | Rotary device for catalytic cleaning of gaseous effluents The invention relates to a cleaning device wherein polluted effluents are passed into a cage (2) where a partitioned ring (1) of vertical axis, containing a charge (M) of a solid material exhibiting a large heat exchange surface and, against the inner wal... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5899261 | Air preheater heat transfer surface A heat exchange element for an air preheater has first and second heat transfer elements arranged to form channels for the passage of a heat exchange media having a main flow direction. Each of the heat exchange plates has parallel straight ridges and fla... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5893406 | Regenerative heat exchanger Modular heat exchange baskets for rotary regenerative air preheaters have radially extending tie bars which are positioned at each of the top and bottom side edges of the basket and which tie together the inboard and outboard end frames. These tie bars ar... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5820836 | Rotating catalytic cleaning device for polluted effluents A process of cleaning a gas and a rotating catalytic gas cleaning device including a crown of vertical axis driven into rotation in a cage. The crown has an annular catalyst bed covering its inner wall and an annular thermal load, outside the catalytic be... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5803158 | Air preheater heat transfer surface An air preheater has heat transfer elements with a first series of corrugated elements having longitudinally oriented, mutually parallel corrugations formed generally continuously across the lateral direction. Positioned on either side of each of the corr... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5762128 | On-line regenerative air preheater fouling sensing system A fouling sensing system monitors fouling of a rotary regenerative preheater having a housing and a rotor rotatably mounted therein. An emitter for emitting energy is positioned at one of the faces of the rotor and emits energy through the rotor. A sensor... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5746269 | Regenerative heat exchanger Herein disclosed is a regenerative heat exchanger comprising a cylindrical core casing and a stack body core formed by a plurality of circular mesh plates each having fluid passage holes and stacked on one another to form fluid passageways. The stack body... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5740856 | Rotary regenerative heat exchanger with multiple layer baskets The modular heat exchange baskets for a rotary regenerative air preheater which normally have a single stacked array of heat exchange plates, are constructed with heat exchange plate support bars intermediate the top and bottom surface. The basket then ha... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5664620 | Rotary regenerative heat exchanger The rotor of a rotary regenerative air preheater is constructed for the loading of the heat exchange basket modules into the sectors of the rotor in a radial direction through the periphery of the rotor. The heat exchange basket modules are arranged in a ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5643538 | Heat transfer and thermal cleaning rotary device applied to gaseous effluents A heat transfer device includes a ring having a vertical axis that can rotate inside a cage. The ring is inwardly provided with partitions. A permanent circulation of gaseous effluents is established on one hand between an effluent delivery pipe and a cen... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5590705 | Device for generating a hot air flow The present invention relates to a device generating a hot air flow, including an air source generating an air flow at its outlet (17), a heating system (13) generating heat energy and heat-exchange elements (27) capable of storing heat energy generated b... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5538073 | Balanced dual flow regenerator heat exchanger system and core driving system A gas turbine engine includes a gas generator having a compressor, a first turbine member, and a combustor member between the compressor and the first turbine member for increasing the temperature of the fluid medium to be worked upon by the engine. A sec... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5535813 | Offset support-pedestal housing panel In an air preheater with a large lower cold end center section and a smaller, upper hot end center section, the connecting plate duct assemblies on both the hot and cold end are made the same height rather than to have cold end connecting plate duct assem... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5489532 | Automatic test apparatus for antimicrobial drugs An automatic test apparatus for use in a test method to determine antimicrobial drugs. The test apparatus comprises a first aluminum, electrically heatable block with holes for the insertion of test containers and a separate, second cooling aluminum block... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5485877 | Rotary regenerative heat exchanger The heat exchange baskets for a rotary regenerative air preheater are loaded radially into the rotor rather than axially from the duct end. The rotor is divided into sectors by diaphragms, and support gratings are provided in each rotor sector with the ba... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5465781 | Elastomer bed A high performance, low cost, regenerator/heat exchanger matrix or bed. The bed consists of numerous stretched elastomer sheets separated by spacers and stacked. The resulting matrix is of the parallel plate type with high porosity, and narrow, uniform, u... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5092241 | Impression cylinder arrangement of an intaglio machine for a web-fed printing The arrangement has a device for cooling the impression cylinder (2) with a plurality of continuous metal belts (6) which run over two drums (4, 5) which partially wrap the impression cylinder (2) and are carried along by the latter during its rotation. T... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5004041 | Heat transfer system without mass transfer A heat transfer system comprising a pair of zones positioned at respective locations of differing temperatures between which heat is transferred. Each zone has a solid surface which slidably engages the surface of a solid cylindrical element. The cylindri... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4986346 | Moving belt radiator heat exchanger A rolled belt heat exchanger utilizes the increased heat transfer due to a large, extended surface belt. Heat is transferred from a heated roller to the belt, and then allowed to radiate to space as the belt follows a generally flattened oval path away fr... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4981169 | Flexible acoustic baffle for staggered tube banks A corrugated-shaped acoustic baffle unit for insertion into a tube bundle of a tubular-type heat exchanger having parallel staggered tubes to prevent flow-induced vibrations in the heat exchanger. The baffle unit is formed of at least two helical-shaped s... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4880049 | Heat transfer system without mass transfer A heat transfer system comprising a pair of zones positioned at respective locations of differing temperatures between which heat is transferred; a first element one surface of which conducts heat; a second element, one end of which communicated with one ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4754806 | Reciprocating heat exchanger A heat exchanger for reclaiming energy from an exhaust airstream. The exchanger includes a porous metal element suitable for absorbing heat from the exhaust airstream, means for reciprocally moving the porous element back and forth transversely to the exh... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4669685 | Passive thermal radiator for earth orbiting satellite An earth orbiting satellite (10) having an interior portion (22) supporting heat generating elements (26) and an exterior portion (12) having a thermal radiator (20) for heat radiated by these elements, is provided with reflectors (34s, 34c) in the annulu... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4121654 | Dry cooling tower A gas-liquid heat exchange device that utilizes a plurality of heat absorbent discs mounted on a horizontal axis and adapted to be rotated between a liquid and a gas stream to transfer heat from the liquid to the gas. The discs are imparted a rotational f... | 10/24/1978 |
