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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7335016 | Combustion chamber, particularly for vehicle heating device An evaporative burner, particularly for a vehicle heating device, includes a combustion chamber housing and, in the combustion chamber housing, an evaporative medium for receiving liquid fuel and for delivering fuel vapor into a combustion chamber. A heating coil ar... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331118 | Conditioning system for a vehicle and method of drying an evaporator of an air conditioning unit provided in such a conditioning system A conditioning system for a vehicle comprises an evaporator, positioned in an air conducting channel means, of an air conditioning unit, by means of which evaporator heat and/or moisture can be removed from the air to be introduced into a vehicle interior, a heating... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7216698 | Air-conditioning system An air-conditioning system for a building includes a hot water distribution circuit, a cold water distribution circuit, and several terminal air conditioning units. Each of the terminal air conditioning units includes a fan blowing air in a space of the building, a ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7060936 | Heating system for a vehicle A heating system for a vehicle includes a heater (12) with a first electric heating device (24), which can be operated to ignite an air/fuel mixture present in a combustion chamber (16), and with a second electric heating device (22) for ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7028913 | Process for humidifying the useful space in an incubator and in a controlled atmosphere incubator For humidifying a work space in a gas-fed incubator, water in a heatable pan in the floor area of an inner container surrounding the work space is evaporated with temperature-controlled heating of the interior until a predetermined temperature is reached, whereby a ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6957696 | Combination radiant and forced air climate control system A method and controller for controlling the operation of a zoned climate control system including a primary heat source, a secondary heat source, a cooling unit, and a humidifier unit. The controller is configured to receive both heating demand signals and cooling d... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6926206 | Air heating device for integration into an air-conducting housing arrangement An air heating device for integration into an air-conducting housing arrangement, particularly a housing arrangement of a vehicle air conditioner, includes a burner region, a heat exchanger region with a heat exchanger body, wherein in the heat exchanger body a comb... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6772045 | System for determining dry cleaning timing, method for determining dry cleaning timing, dry cleaning method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A system for determining dry cleaning timing, includes: a manufacturing apparatus configured to process materials assigned by a sequence of lots; an apparatus controller configured to control the manufacturing apparatus and obtaining operational conditions of the ma... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6754541 | Control system apparatus for loading a value of a system parameter and preventing change thereto after a period of time A control system for controlling an operating system stores a system parameter such as an ultimate pressure value, for an operating system. The control system allows operation of the operating system only after an initial value of the system parameter has been loade... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6726114 | Evaporative burner An evaporative burner includes an evaporative medium for feeding fuel vapor into a combustion chamber, a first heating device, having at least one ignition heating element projecting with at least its heating region into the combustion chamber for igniting fuel vapo... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6647302 | Human interface panel for boiler control system A method of analyzing information from a boiler control system includes providing a series of status modes with each status mode represented as an input condition to be tested. A relative priority structure is established among the status modes and a uniq... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6644398 | Advanced starting control for multiple zone system A system and method for controlling delivery of conditioned water to a plurality of heat exchangers includes a system controller which gathers information as to the current and future demands for conditioned water by a plurality of zone controllers associ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6622929 | Steam heating system The present invention increases the efficiency of a heat distribution system, and more specifically steam heating systems designed to maintain a constant temperature in a relatively large space by distributing the steam through pipes assembled with timers... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6591901 | Advanced starting control for heating/cooling systems A system and method for controlling delivery of either heated or cooled water to a plurality of heat exchangers includes a system controller which gathers information as to the current and future heating or cooling demands of a plurality of zone controlle... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6575233 | Combination radiant and forced air climate control system A method utilizing a controller for controlling the operation of a zoned climate control system including a primary heat source, a secondary heat source, a cooling unit, and a humidifier unit. The controller is configured to receive both heating demand si... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6467537 | Advanced starting control for multiple zone system A system for controlling delivery of conditioned water to a plurality of heat exchangers includes a system controller which gathers information as to the current and future demands for conditioned water by a plurality of zone controllers associated with t... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6453993 | Advanced starting control for multiple zone system A system for controlling delivery of either heated or cooled water to a plurality of heat exchangers includes a system controller which gathers information as to the current and future heating or cooling demands of a plurality of zone controllers associat... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6078107 | Process and device for shutting off a motor vehicle heating device A process and a device for shutting off of a motor vehicle heating device in which a liquid heat exchange medium is heated by a heating device and is delivered to a heat exchanger of the heating device by means of a circulating pump driven by an electric ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5918805 | Self-powered space heating system A self-powered, forced hot air space heating system including a boiler for generating steam, a mechanical power producing steam expander, and a heat exchanger for heating air. Steam from the boiler is supplied to the expander and the heat exchanger, which... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5460328 | Method for the automatic optimization of a heating curve A method for the automatic optimization of the heating curve of a heating controller in a heating plant is devised, whereat the heating curve is approximated by the potential function y=k.multidot.x, in which function the coefficient k a... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5369597 | System for controlling heating or cooling capacity in heating or air conditioning systems A heat pump or air conditioning system includes a process for calculating on a real time basis the capacity contribution of each of a number of heating or cooling stages. The calculated contribution is utilized to determine the number of stages that need ... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5353986 | Demand radiant heating system A demand radiant heating system includes an elongated radiant heating tube and a burner operatively connected to the tube and a fuel regulator connected to the burner for providing fuel to the burner at a plurality of fuel pressures to provide demand heat... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5253635 | Gas-fired heater A sealed combustion, low profile gas-fired baseboard heater has a heat exchanger which is U-shaped, and which has upper and lower horizontal sections. Appropriate inlets are provided for air and combustion gas, and a gas valve. The air inlet may be coaxia... | 10/19/1993 |
| 4953536 | Water heating apparatus Water heating apparatus by flow of electric current through the water from a set, for example, of eight electrodes whose surface areas for current flow are proportional to the value of two raised to the eight exponents zero to seven, that is 1 to 128. Thi... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4321962 | Sub-basement sensible heat storage for solar energy A sensible heat storage method for use in conventional buildings with basements is disclosed that permits the long term storage of solar energy at reasonable efficiency in amounts appropriate for home heating. An exchanger consisting of a plurality of clo... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4275831 | Make up air system A system for air cooling a fluid which has been heated through use in an industrial process in a plant and utilizing the air used for cooling, which has now been heated, for providing heated, make up air within a desired temperature range to that plant.... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4240499 | Balanced waste heat recovery and dissipation system A system for recovering and utilizing, to a controlled and variable extent, waste heat from a coolant fluid. The amount of heat recovery varies in proportion to the marginal costs associated therewith. Heat laden coolant passes through an interior heat ex... | 12/23/1980 |
| 3942515 | Air caloric stimulation system The air caloric stimulation system provides an adjustable air system with accurate and automatic control of the delivery and temperature of air. A thermal electric device utilizing the Peltier effect generates or absorbs heat depending on the difference b... | 03/09/1976 |
