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5299630 Method of rapidly heating a mass to an operative temperature, in particular a vehicle engine during cold starting  
A method of rapidly heating e.g. a vehicle engine to its operative temperature during cold starting periods. The vehicle engine is in heat exchange relationship with a section of a cooling fluid...
5290904 Heat shield  
A thermal shield comprising first and second substantially flat flame resistant covering layers adapted to overlie each other. A thermal energy absorbing material is positioned between the...
5285842 Heat recovery ventilator  
A heat recovery ventilator having a rotary wheel heat exchanger includes a unique configuration for driving both the rotary wheel heat exchanger and impellers to provide an inexpensive, compact and...
5279355 Method for the production of a heat storage means and a heat storage means adapted for the method  
For the production of a heat storage means, more particularly in the form of latent heat storage means, for vehicle heating systems run on heat from the engine, comprising a housing, which is made...
5277038 Thermal storage system for a vehicle  
A thermal storage system for cooling and/or heating the passenger compartment of a vehicle has a heat exchanger arranged for fluid communication with a vehicle engine. The thermal storage system...
5270550 Composite structure having predetermined temperature/time profiles, and method of making same  
A composite structure having predetermined temperature/time profiles is made by combining in chemically separate yet intimate thermal relation a plurality of phase change mediums which change phase...
5261482 Cooling apparatus and couplings therefor  
A cooling apparatus includes a container filled with a quantity of coolant fluid initially cooled to a solid phase, a cooling loop disposed between a heat load and the container. A pump for...
5251688 Vacuum insulating structure suitable for the transmission of thrust forces, more particularly for heat storage means in motor vehicles  
In the case of a vacuum insulating structure adapted for the transmission of thrust forces and more particularly for the heat storage means of motor vehicles in an evacuated insulating zone and at...
5249425 Venting control system for cryostats  
A cryostat in which a venting conduit is connected to a reservoir of the cryostat but no venting of cryogen within the reservoir can occur while fluid is flowing under pressure within the heat...
5245938 Solid, pliable organic compound for hot/cold thermal padding material  
An organic thermal reservoir padding material containing a hydroxyalkylcellulose compounded with an alkylene glycol yields a dry, consolidated core material. Best results are obtained in a...
5246061 Thermal storage by heavy water phase change  
Water coolant circulating in a closed loop may be cooled by passing it through a heat exchanger coil embedded within a block of heavy water ice. The ice will maintain the water, passing through the...
5239839 Thermal energy storage apparatus enabling use of aqueous or corrosive thermal storage media  
A thermal energy storage apparatus for use in refrigeration and air conditioning holdover systems is disclosed. The apparatus comprises thermal energy storage media encapsulated in a way that...
5228504 Heat exchanger  
A tube and fin heat exchanger having two adjacent fluid circuits through which compressed air and a refrigerant fluid flow so as to be in heat exchange relationship with respect to one another. In...
5222298 Method of producing a heat storage means  
In a method for the production of a heat storage means, more particularly in the form of a latent heat storage means, for vehicle heating systems run on heat from the engine, comprising a housing,...
5220954 Phase change heat exchanger  
A heat exchanger for a phase change material is provided which comprises a container holding the phase change material, a tube surrounding the container to define an annular space therebetween, and...
5217062 Heat accumulator with an enlarging expansion area  
The invention concerns a thermal storage unit with a storage container having an internal space for holding a storage medium, the internal space including a solidification zone, in which the...
5211900 Method of manufacturing an eutectic beam having multi-functional support members  
A eutectic beam, and method of constructing same, which includes a plastic housing, a eutectic solution, and a generally U-shaped evaporator tube having first and second spaced leg portions, ends...
5211671 Method of charging the salt space of a latent heat storage means  
For charging the salt space of a latent heat storage means the salt is heated to a charging temperature. The temperature is so near the maximum temperature occurring during production and during...
5211334 Motor vehicle fluid heating device with heat storage  
A vehicle heating system supplied with coolant from the engine and in the case of which there is a bypass connecting limbs of the heating circuit extending downstream from the engine and,...
5207268 High-temperature heat storage system  
To improve a heat storage system comprising a heat source, a heat storage device and a heat sink between which heat is transported by a heat transporting medium such that satisfactory storage and...
5199484 Heat storage means, more especially a latent heat storage means for motor vehicle heating means supplied with waste heat from the engine  
In the case of a heat storage means, more especially a latent heat storage means (10) for motor vehicle heating systems run on waste engine heat there is a load bearing insulation (26 28) between...
5191930 Heat regenerator  
A gas regenerator is provided having for the clean air a set of two adjacent parallel flow paths having hot and cold ends, and for the waste gas a set of two adjacent parallel different flow paths,...
5184669 Heat accumulator with chemical solid matter/gas storage reactions  
An improved heat accumulator based on chemical solid/gas storage reactions is provided. A solid/gas reaction storage material resides in a container which can be charged and discharged by means of...
5172567 Eutectic beams for use in refrigeration  
An eutectic beam which includes a plastic housing, an eutectic solution in the housing, and an evaporator tube in the eutectic solution having ends which extend outside the housing. The ends of the...
5165467 Heat storage means  
A heat storage means with an inner container, an outer container surrounding the inner container with clearance and with the formation of a preferably evacuated insulating space has two ducts...
5165466 Modular heat exchanger having delayed heat transfer capability  
A heat exchanger has a multiplicity of modules with an outer shell which is open at the top and the bottom and is joined with other modules in a stacked array. The heat exchanger has an insulating...
5163504 Container heating or cooling device and building material  
A container, having a plurality of microspheres, the microspheres containing substances, which when liberated from the microspheres, result in an endothermic or exothermic reaction or change of...
5161607 Thermal storage device for interacting with a circulating coolant in an air conditioning system  
A thermal storage device interacting with a circulating coolant in an air conditioning system is disclosed. The thermal storage device includes a hollow ball containing a liquid to be frozen by the...
5159971 Cooling medium for use in a thermal energy storage system  
An improved cooling medium for use in a thermal energy storage system is disclosed. The cooling medium comprises water, 1-fluoro-1,1-dichloroethane (HCFC-141b), as the guest molecule and a...
5143148 Thermal storage apparatus  
A thermal storage apparatus comprises a series of stacked heat exchange modules. Each module extends horizontally and comprises channels separated by corrugations. Each channel has underneath it a...
5139078 Nucleating device  
A nucleating agent for solutions comprises a metal bar, magnetic tape adhered to a surface area of the bar and particulate magnetite on the surface of the tape. The magnetic field created by the...
5119885 Element basket for horizontal rotary regenerative heat exchanger  
An improved element basket for a rotary air preheater includes a tubular structural element disposed in each of the four corners of the basket frame and extending therethrough in mutually parallel...
5115859 Regenerable non-venting cooler for protective suit  
A life support back pack 14 for use during extravehicular activity in space incorporates a cooling apparatus 20 comprised of five panels 22 each of which include in layered fashion a LCG coolant...
5100570 Cool storage compositions  
A cool storage composition that freezes at about 47° F. is composed of a 39 percent NaOH-in-water solution to which has been added an ionizable, water-soluble salt, such as KCl.
5090473 Ceramic rotary heat exchanger  
A ceramic rotary heat exchanger including a plurality of matrix segments, made of ceramics and having a honeycomb structure, being connected with each other by using an adhesion member in a disk...
5090475 Latent heat storage means employing barium hydroxide octahydrate as a storage medium  
In the case of a latent heat storage means having a storage medium consisting of or including barium hydroxide octahydrate at least the parts of the heat storage means exposed to the action barium...
5088548 Heat accumulator with expansion recesses  
To improve a storage heater, which comprises a storage container with a wall region for the introduction of heat and a storage medium arranged in this storage container, in order to maximize the...
5085790 Phase change materials and use thereof  
The invention relates to a heat transfer composition comprising at least two members selected from the group consisting of: a) strontium hydroxide octahydrato; b) lithium hydroxide...
5083605 Self-pumping phase change thermal energy device  
This invention relates to a thermal energy device for receiving and storing externally applied thermal energy. The thermal energy device includes a thermal energy receiver which is adapted to...
5082582 Nucleating device for thermal energy storage compositions  
A nucleating agent for NaOH/H 2 O solutions comprises a metal bar, magnetic tape adhered to a surface area of the bar and particulate magnetite on the surface of the tape. The magnetic field...
5074283 Thermal storage module for solar dynamic receivers  
A thermal energy storage system comprising a germanium phase change material and a graphite container.
5069199 Device suitable for producing a thermal flow inside a thermal integral block  
The invention relates to a device capable of creating heat flow within an integral thermal block of the type used for heat storage. The device has a thermal conductivity coefficient higher than...
5065592 Cold box  
A cold box comprising a freezing room, a cold-heat accumulating agent stored in the freezing room, a commodity storing room divided from the freezing room, an evaporator which forms a freezing...
5062471 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...
5060718 Precast wall with thermic regulation elements  
A prefabricated wall is constructed of pre-cast concrete in such a way as to have embedded therein (1) a plurality of heat-accumulator elements and (2) channels adapted to receive, after...
5056589 Supercooled liquid thermal generator and improved triggering device  
A self-contained manually triggerable thermal energy pack includes a flexible enclosure containing a supercooled solution capable of being triggered to begin crystallization and a triggering...
5056588 Evaporative cooling enhanced cold storage system  
The invention provides an evaporatively enhanced cold storage system wherein a warm air stream is cooled and the cooled air stream is thereafter passed into contact with a cold storage unit....
5054298 Ice-cap prevention barrier for an ice bank  
A thermally insulated ice-cap prevention barrier in an ice bank, extending across the container thereof above a brine-conducting tube bundle immersed in a phase-change material, to prevent freezing...
5054540 Thermal energy storage apparatus  
A thermal energy storage apparatus is disclosed which is adapted for use in motor vehicles to provide immediate cooling, or for use in buildings to provide local area cooling or a reduction in peak...
5048595 Rotary regenerative air preheater basket sealing  
An improved element basket for a rotary air preheater includes at least one imperforate steel sheet, tack welded to the basket exterior, completely covering one side of the basket. A distal edge...