| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 165110100 | WITH ALARM, INDICATOR, SIGNAL, REGISTER, RECORDER, TEST OR INSPECTION MEANS | 30 |
| 20090165990 | METHOD OF OBTAINING ACCURATELY A HEAT-DISSIPATING REQUIREMENT FOR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - A method of obtaining accurately a heat-dissipating requirement for electronic systems of a same kind uses a thermal analysis software, a passed thermal module with a fan, and a fan speed regulating device. The method includes steps of: (1) connecting the fan to the fan speed regulating device; | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100263823 | PLATE FIN HEAT EXCHANGER - A plate fin heat exchanger of the present invention includes a heat exchange part including a heat exchange part main body including layers of plural flow passages, and heat transfer members each of which is disposed within each flow passage of the heat exchange part main body to transfer the heat of fluid flowing in each of the flow passages to each partition walls opposed across the flow passage; and sensing parts connected to both the outsides of the heat exchange part respectively. Each of the sensing parts includes plural sealed spaces, and a sensor wall disposed to separate the outermost sealed space from the sealed space on the inner side thereof. The plate fin heat exchanger further includes a detection means for detecting damage of the sensor wall of the sensing part. According to such a structure, external leak of the fluid performing the heat exchange can be prevented while suppressing deterioration of performance or increase in size or weight. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100101753 | THERMAL CALIBRATING SYSTEM - The invention relates to a temperature calibrating system ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20090151890 | Method And Device For Assessing The Risk of Fluid Leakage In A Heat Exchanger With Sensor - A method and device, for a heat exchanger which is provided with gaskets, for assessing and detecting the risk of fluid leakage in the heat exchanger due to worn-out gaskets. In the heat exchanger, a heat transfer plate ( | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090145576 | MICROFLUID BASED APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THERMAL REGULATION AND NOISE REDUCTION - An actively temperature regulated microfluidic chip assembly includes a first thermally conductive body, a second thermally conductive body attached to the first thermally conductive body, a microfluidic chip encapsulated between the first and second thermally conductive bodies, and a temperature regulating element mounted to the first thermally conductive body for adding heat to or alternately removing heat from the chip. The temperature of the chip and thus the liquid contained and/or flowing therein can be regulated by measuring the temperature of the liquid and operating the temperature regulating element to establish a thermal gradient toward or alternately away from the liquid based on the measured temperature and in comparison with a desired set point temperature. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090266507 | Heat exchanger, a method of making a heat exchanger and a kit - A heat exchanger comprises a casing defining a chamber for liquid, an internal spacer inside the chamber and means for detecting the presence of the spacer. The detecting means may comprise an aperture in the casing to receive a projection on the spacer so that the projection can be seen. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090038773 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING THE ROW NUMBER ON A TUBESHEET - A device and method for identifying the tubes in a tubesheet, including locating a support element along a portion of the tubesheet with at least one means for identifying the location or condition of the adjacent tubes. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100276114 | HEAT EXCHANGER - Heat exchanger which is composed of a base plate ( | 11-04-2010 |
| 20090126899 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ABNORMALITY OF A HEAT EXCHANGER, AND THE USE OF SUCH A DEVICE - A method and a device for detecting an abnormality of a heat exchanger exchanging heat between a first fluid flow flowing in a conduit and a second fluid flow flowing along a flow path, said conduit and said flow path each having an inlet and an outlet, whereby the method comprises the steps of establishing at least one parameter representative of the temperature conditions of the heat exchanger, establishing a second fluid inlet temperature, establishing a parameter indicative of expected heat exchange between the heat exchanger and the second fluid, processing the heat exchanger temperature, the second fluid temperature and the parameter indicative of expected heat exchange for establishing an estimated second fluid outlet temperature, and employing the estimated second fluid outlet temperature for evaluating the heat exchange between the first and second fluids by comparing the estimated second fluid outlet temperature, or a parameter derived therefrom, with a reference value. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090255645 | Device and Method for Climate Control - A device for climate control includes at least one data interface for outputting first such control data for an actuator unit of an air inlet into a driver footwell such that the footwell is cooled relative to the remaining space surrounding the driver and for outputting second control data to a unit for warming the remaining space surrounding the driver such that the remaining space surrounding the driver is at least partially heated, and thus the physiological active chain that commences when the driver is drowsy is interrupted. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090321039 | TELECOM SHELTER COOLING AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A system configured to provide cooling of electronic equipment in a shelter in combination with an air conditioning (A/C) system. The system includes one or more blowers for drawing air into the shelter, a damper arrangement for controlling air exhaust. The system further includes a DC powered controller coupled to the one or more blowers, the damper arrangement, and the A/C system. The controller is configured to receive at least a first analog input signal associated with a shelter-interior temperature, a second analog input signal associated with a shelter-exterior temperature, and a plurality of alarm input signals and to generate the one or more first control signals to control blower rotational speed, the second control signal to open/close the damper arrangement, and a third control signal to inhibit/activate the A/C system based on at least the first analog input signal, or the second analog input signal, or a plurality of alarm input signals, or a combination of these. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20110220317 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING THE FLOW RATE OF HEAT TRANSFERRING FLUID FLOWING THROUGH A GROUND LOOP HEAT EXCHANGING (GLHE) SUBSYSTEM CONSTRUCTED FROM ONE OR MORE GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS (GHE) WHILE OPERABLY CONNECTED TO GEOTHERMAL EQUIPMENT (GTE) INCLUDING A REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR AND ASSOCIATED WITH A GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM - Apparatus and process for monitoring incremental changes in the inlet water temperature into and HTR across a GLHE subsystem, and in response thereto, automatically increasing or decreasing the flow rate of water flowing through into and out of the GLHE subsystem, so as to minimize the electrical energy consumption of electronically-controlled ground loop pumps employed to pump water through the GLHE subsystem. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090229784 | OPTICALLY DETECTED LIQUID DEPTH INFORMATION IN A CLIMATE CONTROL UNIT - Systems and methods for determining liquid depth information in a condensate pan of a climate control unit are provided. The systems and methods radiate a light beam into a liquid contained in a condensate pan associated with a climate control unit. The light beam is detected at a point of the condensate pan that is below a surface of the liquid. Information related to the depth of the liquid is determined based at least in part on the detected light beam. The systems and methods disclosed herein can determine if liquid depth in a condensate pan is greater than a threshold depth and can control evacuation of the liquid from the condensate pan. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090236072 | Device and method for adjusting temperature of fluid - An estimator estimates the outlet temperature of fluid at an outlet of heating tanks to which no outlet temperature sensor is provided. For a heating tank to which an outlet temperature sensor is provided, a control unit determines an manipulated variable on the basis of the outlet temperature which has been measured and a target temperature, while it determines an manipulated variable for a heating tank to which no outlet temperature sensor is provided, on the basis of the estimated temperature estimated by the estimator and a target temperature. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100258263 | OXYGEN HEAT EXCHANGER - The present invention relates to a heat exchanger for the supply of oxygen or of a gas mixture containing at least 50% oxygen, the temperature at the outlet of the exchanger not being below 300° C., it preferably being above 400° C., the oxygen or the oxygen-rich gas feeding one or more burners of a glass melting furnace, the heat of the combustion gases being used directly or indirectly to heat the oxygen or the oxygen-rich gas in the exchanger, in which the exchange power is between 20 and 300 kW, preferably between 40 and 250 kW and particularly preferably between 80 and 170 kW. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20120031581 | THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR FAULT DETECTION AND MITIGATION WITHIN A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM - A system includes a radiation sensor configured to direct a field of view toward at least one conduit along a fluid flow path into a heat exchanger. The radiation sensor is configured to output a signal indicative of a temperature of the at least one conduit. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the radiation sensor. The controller is configured to determine the temperature based on the signal, to compare the temperature to a threshold range, and to adjust a fluid flow through the fluid flow path or the at least one conduit if the temperature deviates from the threshold range. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20110024076 | MICROCLIMATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A microclimate management system ( | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110030916 | Method for optimizing thermal energy current guidance - A method for optimized thermal energy current guidance has a thermal energy source, a plurality of energy sinks and an energy circuit. In this case the amount of primary energy to be removed from the energy source is determined and a first energy sink is connected to the energy circuit and the amount of energy flow into the first energy sink is controlled. On exceeding the take up capacity of the energy sink coupled to the energy circuit, the method steps are repeated and additional energy sinks are connected. On exceeding the holding capacity of the energy sink coupled to the energy circuit the method steps are repeated and additional energy sinks are connected. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110036538 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COOLING A HEAT GENERATING COMPONENT - The invention relates to a cooling arrangement comprising a heat spreader ( | 02-17-2011 |
| 20100044004 | Fin inspection method of a heat exchanger - A fin inspection method comprising a step of having an imaging device capture an image of the core and inputting into an image processing device the image data for storage, a step of setting a first region in the image data in which an image of the entire core is captured and setting a second region in which an image of at least a portion of all of the tubes is captured so as to identify position information of the tubes, a step of setting a third region for fin detection between adjacent tubes based on the identified position information of the tubes, a step of performing binarization and noise removal in the third region to obtain an image of the fins and identifying from the image of the fins the edge position information of the fins along a long direction of the tubes, and a step of performing statistical processing of the pitch intervals based on the edge position information of the fins and judging fin defects. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110100584 | METHOD OF DETERMINING EFFECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER CAPABILITY OF A FLUID COOLANT COMPOSITION - A method of determining effective heat transfer capability of a fluid coolant composition, the method comprising the steps of: determining a critical cooling effectiveness percentage value for the fluid coolant composition; and determining whether the critical cooling effectiveness percentage value is greater than zero percent, thereby determining whether the fluid coolant composition has effective heat transfer capability; wherein the critical cooling effectiveness percentage is high enough to indicate an increased heat transfer capability of the fluid coolant composition and is low enough to substantially prevent deleterious effects on other properties of the fluid coolant composition. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110146941 | Energy Recovery Ventilator - An energy recovery heat exchanger ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20090000764 | PLATE-TYPE HEAT EXCHANGER INCLUDING A DEVICE FOR EVALUATING THE EXTENT TO WHICH IT HAS BECOME COATED IN SCALE - A plate-type heat exchanger ( | 01-01-2009 |
| 20110253340 | THERMAL CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR CLIMATE-CONTROLLED SEAT ASSEMBLIES - A climate control device includes a first and a second thermal module. The first module is configured to provide climate conditioned air to a first portion of a seat. The second module is configured to provide climate conditioned air to a second portion of the seat. A control system is provided for controlling the climate control device. The control system includes an input device for providing a set point for the system. A first control unit of the control system is provided for the first thermal module and a second control unit is provided for the second thermal module. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20090188645 | TUBE FOULING MONITOR - A method for measuring the effects of fouling of heat transfer tubes in heat exchangers where a cooling fluid at lower temperature is removing heat from another fluid at higher temperature includes placing a nonrestrictive mass flow rate and temperature measuring tube extension sensor on a tube outlet end; obtaining the tube inlet temperature for deriving the rise in fluid temperature; analytically computing the amount of heat transferred from the hot fluid to the cold fluid; from tube length, inside and outside tube diameter, analytically deriving the tube heat transfer coefficient; and determining tube fouling factor, the value of which is the fraction of the clean tube heat transfer coefficient available for transferring heat, by dividing the heat transfer coefficient by the known heat transfer coefficient of an unfouled tube. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090000763 | Heat Exchanger for a Transformer - The invention relates to a heat exchanger for a transformer for a transformer comprising a heat exchanger medium, which can be introduced into a heat exchanger element via a feed element, and can be evacuated from the heat exchanging element via a discharge element. The invention involves a first temperature measurement of a feed flow of the heat exchanger medium and a second temperature measurement of a discharge flow of the heat exchanger medium. A first opening is provided in the feed element, inside of which a first temperature probe is positioned at a predetermined location inside the feed flow during operation of the heat exchanger, and a second opening is provided in the discharge element, inside of which a second temperature probe is positioned at a predetermined location in the discharge flow during operation of the heat exchanger. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20120012275 | INTELLIGENT AIR MOVER APPARATUS - A system for cooling an electronics enclosure comprises a plurality of fan modules. Each fan module comprises, a motor for driving a fan at a variable rotational speed, a microcontroller for controlling the rotational speed of the motor, an interface for electronically communicating between the microcontroller and an infrastructure controller external to the fan module, the infrastructure controller providing a target speed to the microcontroller, a memory for storing data including speed avoidance zones, wherein when the target speed falls within one of the speed avoidance zones, the microcontroller controls the motor speed to be slightly outside the speed avoidance zone. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120018117 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR CONDITIONER - An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed in an upper part and a blow-out port formed on a lower side at a front face part, an axial-flow or diagonal-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port in the casing, in which air blown out of the fan and refrigerant are heat-exchanged. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120024493 | SERVICE WATER HEATING UNIT - The invention relates to a service water heating unit ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 165110200 | Remotely controlled inspection means | 1 |
| 20090120605 | TUBE WALKER FOR EXAMINATION AND REPAIR OF STEAM GENERATORS - The present invention comprises an improved manipulator system having a remotely actuated tube walker assembly for reciprocally moving the manipulator along a tube bundle for inspection and repair of the tubes of the tube bundle wherein the tube walker has a movable inner section and an outboard section with both sections having groups of hydraulically actuated locking fingers which are selectively engageable with the tubes of the tube bundle so that when the fingers of the outboard section are locked the fingers of the inner section are disengaged and the inner portion can be moved axially to an aligned position with new tube locations. | 05-14-2009 |
