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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7946337 | Heat exchanger with vibrator to remove accumulated solids A ultrasonic transducer is associated with a heat exchanger and is operable to vibrate a tube associated with the heat exchanger to break up accumulated solids which may have formed on an outer periphery of the tube. A gas flow passes over the tube to remove the pul... | 05/24/2011 |
| RE40512 | Acoustic convection apparatus A convective cooling apparatus cools an electronic device including at least one heat-generating component and enclosed in a case having cooling medium such as air or fluid therein. The convective cooling apparatus neither attempts to increase the velocity of flow i... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7395760 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility (31) such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives (101) to prev... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7387503 | Scroll fluid machine having a fixed scroll with a heat-releasing projection In a scroll fluid machine, a fixed scroll has a fixed wrap, and an orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap which engages with the fixed wrap to form a compressing chamber between the orbiting and fixed wraps. The orbiting scroll is rotatably mounted around an eccentric... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7336486 | Synthetic jet-based heat dissipation device A synthetic jet array in a computing device, such as a mobile computing device, to dissipate heat generated by a heat generating component of the mobile computer is described. In one embodiment, a microscale synthetic jet array is integrated within a heat generating... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7289320 | Electronic device with waterproof and heat-dissipating structure An electronic device includes a housing, a spacing structure, a printed circuit board and a fan. The housing has first and second openings. The spacing structure is arranged within the housing for partitioning a space within the housing into an air channel and a rec... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284878 | Lumen regulating apparatus and process The present invention is a fluorescent light lumen regulating apparatus. More specifically, in one aspect, the present invention is a fluorescent lighting assembly for mounting at least one fluorescent lamp. In this aspect, the lighting assembly comprises a lamp hou... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7264039 | Apparatus for cleaning heat exchanger plates and a bulk material heat exchanger using the same An apparatus removing material accumulated on the exterior surfaces of adjacent heat exchanger plates arranged side-by-side in a spaced relationship in a bulk material heat exchanger and a bulk material heat exchanger incorporating the apparatus is provided. In one ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258765 | Vaporization chamber, and distillation system comprising same, providing improved temperature sensing of liquid contained in the chamber Vaporization chambers (distillation “pots”) are disclosed in which the liquid contained in such a pot is heated and circulated to establish thermal uniformity of the liquid and to route the circulated liquid past a thermally conductive member that contacts the l... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252140 | Apparatus and method for enhanced heat transfer One embodiment of the cooling module is implemented as a device having a heat sink and an integrated synthetic jet actuator. The heat sink is configured to have a channel and a jet distribution system associated with the synthetic jet actuator directs fluid flow int... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251139 | Thermal management arrangement for standardized peripherals Embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus, method and system for a thermal management arrangement in a standardized peripheral device. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242134 | Electromechanical actuator and methods of providing same An electromechanical actuator comprising an inherently conducting polymer and a conductor for conducing voltage along the polymer from a first end region thereof. The conductor is adapted for axially extending and contracting with axial expansion and contraction of ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7204615 | LED light with active cooling An LED light assembly includes a housing, an LED disposed in the housing, a heat dissipating structure and a fluid current generator. The LED is in thermal communication with the heat dissipating structure and includes a flow path surface. The fluid current generato... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7147079 | Device to prevent the formation of solid matter due to projections on an air outlet The invention relates to a device to prevent the formation of solid matter due to projections on an air outlet, for example that of an armored vehicle, located near to such projections. It comprises a shutter 1 incorporating at least two vibrating fins... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7100678 | Phase-change heat dissipating device and method for manufacturing it A phase-change heat dissipating device includes a hollow tube and a driving member connected to the tube. The tube has a vaporizing portion and a condensing portion and contains working fluid therein. The driving member includes a number of shrinkable chambers seria... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7055329 | Method and apparatus for noise attenuation for gas turbine engines using at least one synthetic jet actuator for injecting air A method enables a gas turbine engine to be operated. The method comprises channeling exhaust gases from a core engine through an exhaust assembly and past at least one flow boundary surface, and selectively operating a noise suppression system extending from the at... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7023697 | Actuation membrane for application to a card slot of a system An apparatus including an actuation membrane unit to generate air movement in a direction of a heat generating device to reduce an ambient temperature of the device. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021366 | Heat dissipation apparatus and method A heat dissipation apparatus and method for dissipating heat from a heat source includes a thermal conductive element bonding to the heat source to transfer heat energy generated by the heat source and a vibration source located on the thermal conductive element to ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013953 | Heat exchanger for wasted heat with its cleaning apparatus A waste heat recovery system includes: a tank; heat exchange pipes connected with one another in the form of a ‘S’ shape in multiple steps inside the tank and having city water flow pipes bound up into a bundle; circulation leading plates mounted between the hea... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6953083 | Condenser A condenser is provided that makes a liquid droplet of a liquid phase medium drop effectively, the liquid phase medium residing in a lower end opening of a medium passage of the condenser, thereby preventing any degradation in the performance of the condenser. In th... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6935281 | Method for cleaning combustion devices An on-line method and a device for cleaning of contamination such as caking or slag deposits from surfaces in vessels and combustion installations by means of blasting technology. An explosive gas mixture is made to detonate in the proximity of the deposits and ther... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6801430 | Actuation membrane to reduce an ambient temperature of heat generating device An apparatus including an actuation membrane unit to generate air movement in a direction of a heat generating device to reduce an ambient temperature of the device. ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6755156 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility (31) such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives (101) to prev... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6644201 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives to prevent them from ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6619383 | Vibrated-bed method and apparatus for heat exchange A vibrated bed of particles is created by vibrating a chamber. Particles are flowed to a ceiling of the chamber and cascade through a gas flowing though the chamber, exchanging heat with the gas. Particles spouted to the ceiling spread there and cascade. ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6604573 | Hydrogen occluding core A tube is provided with elastically deformable tube deforming sections (tube curved sections), and a fin is provided with the quality of spring so that the fin deforms in accordance to changes of dimension between the tubes. Accordingly, it is possible to... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6588497 | System and method for thermal management by synthetic jet ejector channel cooling techniques One embodiment of a thermal management system comprises a heated body, where a heat energy is contained within this heated body. This first embodiment also comprises an ambient fluid adjacent to an exterior surface of the heated body. Walls forming a chan... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6431073 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility (31) such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives (101) to prevent... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6405794 | Acoustic convection apparatus A convective cooling apparatus cools an electronic device including at least one heat-generating component and enclosed in a case having cooling medium such as air or fluid therein. The convective cooling apparatus neither attempts to increase the velocit... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6334480 | Cooling device with micro cooling fin A cooling device with micro cooling fins is provided. The cooling device includes a substrate, a plurality of vibrating type cooling fins extending from the substrate, and a blast fan for ventilating the substrate to cool the substrate and the vibrating t... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6321690 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives to prevent them from ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6059020 | Apparatus for acoustic cooling automotive electronics An apparatus for acoustically cooling automotive electronics in which an acoustic driver and acoustic reflector are disposed within a hollow member, such as a cross-car-beam of a vehicle. The frequency of the acoustic driver and the distance between the a... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5873408 | Method and apparatus for heat treating substances flowing along a duct The technical field of the invention is that of manufacturing heat treatment apparatuses such as furnaces for thermally cracking chemical substances, in particular hydrocarbons. The present invention provides a method of heat treating one or more fluids f... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5840130 | Cleaning of the water/steam circuit in a once-through forced-flow steam generator In a combined gas/steam power plant with a once-through forced-flow steam generator, a separation bottle (25) is connected between the evaporator (22) and the superheater (23). To clean the water/steam circuit, in the full-load or the part-load mode, a la... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5816317 | Apparatus for heat transfer from dust laden gases to fluids The present invention relates to an apparatus for heat transfer from hot particulate laden gas to a coolant fluid within a heat transfer tube. The apparatus is comprised of layers of vertically aligned strips which are offset at an angle to adjacent layer... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813451 | Apparatus for heat transfer from dust laden gases to fluids The present invention relates to an apparatus for heat transfer from hot particulate laden gas to a coolant fluid within a heat transfer tube. The apparatus is comprised of layers of vertically aligned strips which are offset at an angle to adjacent layer... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5769034 | Device, system and method for on-line explosive deslagging A device, system and method permitting on-line explosives-based cleaning and deslagging of a fuel burning facility such as a boiler, furnace, incinerator, or scrubber. A coolant, such as ordinary water, is delivered to the explosives to prevent them from ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5597417 | Method and apparatus for the percussive cleaning of objects With a method and apparatus for the percussive cleaning of objects disposed in a chamber that is under process pressure, whereby an elongated percussive element is held below and in contact with the object that is to be cleaned and percussive energy is ap... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5558156 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger has heat exchange members for performing heat exchanging with a fluid to flow along surfaces thereof. Fins are fixed, at only one end thereof in the direction of flow of the fluid, to the respective heat exchange members in a cantilevered... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5553571 | Rappable steam generator tube bank An apparatus and method of operating a steam generator tube bank are disclosed in which a water drum of a typical steam drum/water drum combination is replaced with a plurality of smaller readers to permit the use of rapping, or mechanical rappers, to cle... | 09/10/1996 |
