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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442277 | Process for the removal of volatile compounds from mixtures of substances using a micro-evaporator A process for the removal of at least one volatile compound from a reactive or unreactive mixture of substances with the aid of at least one micro-evaporator, the micro-evaporator displaying channels for carrying the mixture of substances having a hydraulic diameter... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7223296 | Hydrogen generation system and fuel cell system having the same A hydrogen generation system may include a burner unit that generates combustion gas and a combustion gas passage through which the combustion gas generated by the burner unit flows. A reformer, having a reforming catalyst, generates a reformed gas containing hydrog... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7051793 | Cooler for electrical components The invention relates to a novel design of a cooler in the form of a heat pipe, with a housing in which an interior space closed to the outside is formed to hold a liquid, vaporizable coolant or heat-transport medium. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028763 | Cooling arrangement and method with selected surfaces configured to inhibit changes in boiling state Heat transfer in coolant circuits, as in an internal combustion engine for example, can be beneficially enhanced by maintaining the coolant in a nucleate boiling state, but undesirable transitions to a film boiling state are then possible. The disclosed coolant circ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7000691 | Method and apparatus for cooling with coolant at a subambient pressure An apparatus includes heat-generating structure disposed in an environment having an ambient pressure, and a cooling system for removing heat from the heat-generating structure. The cooling system includes a fluid coolant, structure which reduces a pressure of the c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6748759 | High efficiency heat exchanger A heat exchanger for a medium condenser having a plurality of vertical cooling fins having extra length extended both upwardly and downwardly from an ordinary portion of medium coil path for greatly increasing the cooling efficiency thereof, and a drip-drop type wat... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6550532 | Fuel evaporator A fuel evaporator (1) includes an evaporation chamber (11) to prepare a fuel gas FG by evaporating a liquid fuel FL with heat, a fuel injector (40) to supply a liquid fuel to the evaporation chamber, a plurality of heating medium tubes (12) to lead a comb... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6495749 | Hybrid combustion power system Hybrid combustion power systems comprising multiple direct energy conversion devices are disclosed, which devices (12, 14, 16) are preferably combined with a Rankine cycle containing a steam turbine (114), where combustion air (A) may be continuously preh... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6431262 | Thermosyphon radiators A thermosyphon radiator comprising a sealed panel containing a reservoir of water in a lowermost part of the panel and a heating member, e.g. a hot water pipe, extending through the lowermost part of the panel, the member being at least partially immersed... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6371199 | Nucleate boiling surfaces for cooling and gas generation This invention provides heat transfer systems and methods of cooling surfaces and heating liquids which employ surfaces including a minimum density of discrete, nucleation sites having a conical cross-section tapering to a minimum predetermined depth. The... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6234242 | Two-phase thermosyphon including a porous structural material having slots disposed therein The present invention provides a two-phase thermosyphon (100) that includes a sealed housing (105). The housing (105) includes a first outer surface, a second outer surface opposite the first outer surface, a first inner surface, and a second inner surfac... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6227288 | Multifunctional capillary system for loop heat pipe statement of government interest A Multifunctional Capillary System is located within and between a single compensation chamber (CC) and the evaporator of a loop heat pipe. It provides: vapor-liquid interface control for all gravity states from the micro-gravity condition of space (near ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6170500 | Retrievable cane A retrievable cane disclosed includes a cane body to which there is attached a retrieval line that is anchored at a lower end and extends from the inside of the cane body at the lower end up through the cane body out through the rear of the cane body belo... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6056044 | Heat pipe with improved wick structures An improved planar heat pipe wick structure having projections formed by micromachining processes. The projections form arrays of interlocking, semi-closed structures with multiple flow paths on the substrate. The projections also include overhanging caps... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5951820 | Method of purifying an organometallic compound An organometallic compound represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## or the general formula (II) R-M2 -R (II) is evaporated, and then passed through the inner tube of a heat exchanger to be pr... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5918665 | Method of thermal coupling an electronic device to a heat exchange member while said electronic device is being tested A temperature control system includes an electro-mechanical subassembly having an enhanced thermal interface, which comprises: an electronic device which has a face that dissipates heat; a heat exchange member which has a face that mates with the heat dis... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5765631 | Fluid circulation apparatus A fluid circulation apparatus comprises a body part (2) in the shape of a dihedron with, on a first face of the dihedron, at least one opening for input/output of this fluid covering over the opening in a leaktight way. The bulb projects with respect to t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5737923 | Thermoelectric device with evaporating/condensing heat exchanger A thermoelectric heat transfer system having a thermoelectric device and a heat exchanger with an evaporating surface and a condensing surface. A working fluid is sealed within the heat exchanger. The thermoelectric device includes a thermally conductive ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5697430 | Heat transfer tubes and methods of fabrication thereof Metallic tubes (10,10') for boiling have an outer surface (12) for contacting a refrigerant and an inner surface (14) for contacting a liquid heat transfer medium to be chilled. The outer surface (12) has a plurality of radially outwardly extending helica... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5644608 | Cooling system for spent fuel pool The performance of a compact heat exchanger in which a flow of air is employed to cool a flow of water can be enhanced by spraying water as a fine mist into the stream of coolant air. The water droplets, preferably less than 100 microns in diameter, coat ... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5544696 | Enhanced nucleate boiling heat transfer for electronic cooling and thermal energy transfer A micro consideration of the phase change or boiling cooling of an electronic part is disclosed including focus on a heat exchanging problem that is encountered in the use of this phase change cooling in the presence of realistic flow rates and energy dis... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5488642 | Cooling system for spent fuel pool A system for cooling water from a spent fuel pool of a nuclear power generating plant. The system includes a heat exchanger in which a flow of air is employed to cool a flow of pool water. The performance of the heat exchanger is enhanced by spraying wate... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5398519 | Thermal control system A thermal control system in which a boiling liquid refrigerant is vaporized by heat addition from the system electronics. The pressure on the boiling liquid refrigerant and the vaporized refrigerant thereover is maintained constant so that the temperature... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5390729 | Refractory element Cooling liquid flowing through cooling-liquid passages cools in heat-transmission manner an inner layer on an inner surface of an impermeable intermediate layer and is directed through a piping to an interface between the intermediate and outer layers, wh... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5379610 | Refractory element Cooling liquid flowing through cooling-liquid passages cools in heat-transmission manner an inner layer on an inner surface of an impermeable intermediate layer and is directed through a piping to an interface between the intermediate and outer layers, wh... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5333682 | Heat exchanger tube A tube for use in a heat exchanger where heat is transferred between a fluid flowing through the tube and a fluid flowing around the exterior of the tube and where the fluid external to the tube boils during the heat exchange process. The tube has one or ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5329785 | Refractory element Cooling liquid flowing through cooling-liquid passages cools in heat-transmission manner an inner layer on an inner surface of an impermeable intermediate layer and is directed through a piping to an interface between the intermediate and outer layers, wh... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5325913 | Module cooling system An apparatus is provided for cooling electronic components mounted on a cuit board. The circuit board is placed in thermal contact with a heat sink enclosure that has an interior cavity and a release opening that provides a path from the interior cavity ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5311931 | Mist supercooling of a heated surface A method for the efficient cooling of a cavity-bearing surface is disclosed. The method includes the provision of an extra-fine coolant mist to the surface to be cooled wherein the surface has at least two projections and at least one cavity therebetween.... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5295533 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid comprises a moving partition member for heat transmission between the first fluid and the second fluid, a housing partitioned by the moving partition member into a first chamber... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5271454 | Method and apparatus for removing heat generated in a spacecraft Heat is removed from a spacecraft under zero gravity and under various accelerations, by a heat exchange contact between a cooling liquid or coolant and an evaporant or medium to be evaporated. The coolant flowing in at least one liquid cooling circulatio... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5261602 | Partial oxidation process and burner with porous tip A partial oxidation process and a novel burner are provided for simultaneously introducing two or three separate feedstreams into a free-flow partial oxidation gas generator for the production of synthesis gas and fuel gas, or reducing gas. The reactant f... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5161610 | Evaporation heat exchanger, especially for a spacecraft An active cooling circuit through which cooling liquid circulates, is connected to an evaporation heat exchanger for cooling said cooling liquid when it has begun to warm. For this purpose, a housing encloses an evaporation chamber into which an evaporati... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5158742 | Reactor steam isolation cooling system A reactor steam isolation cooling system includes a containment building surrounding a reactor pressure vessel having a reactor core for generating reactor steam. An isolation pool is disposed outside the containment building and is vented to the atmosphe... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5150749 | Heat exchanger apparatus, particularly for hybrid heat pumps operated with non-azeotropic work fluids Heat exchanger apparatus which includes a substantially horizontal countercurrent heat exchanger of the shell-and-tube type, particularly for hybrid heat pumps operated with non-azeotropic work fluids. The apparatus further includes fluid distributor with... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5148859 | Air/liquid heat exchanger An air/liquid heat exchanger having a refrigerant spray providing evaporative cooling.... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5131233 | Gas-liquid forced turbulence cooling A cooling system employs a cooling liquid and a cooling gas in a combined thermodynamic cycle to overcome the flow resistance of dense assemblies of heat generating components and to improve heat transfer by inducing turbulence, thereby reducing the effec... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5129446 | Air/liquid heat exchanger An air/liquid heat exchanger having a tube that reinforces the heat exchanger's core and header plates and also sprays a liquid onto the core for evaporative cooling.... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5097892 | Air/liquid heat exchanger with ram pressure evaporative cooling An air/liquid heat exchanger for aircraft having ram pressure powered evaporative cooling.... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5036909 | Multiple serpentine tube heat exchanger A multiple serpentine tube heat exchanger having side-by-side arranged serpentine-shaped passageways each extending across the core and a mixing chamber connecting one such passageway to at least one other. The passageway constituting the back of the heat... | 08/06/1991 |
