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7610910 Method and apparatus for controlling building component characteristics  
A building component system includes a building component that is controllable between a first state and a second state in response to a sensed condition. The system may include a sensor on a first...
7518123 Heat capacitor for capillary aerosol generator  
A heat capacitor for a capillary aerosol generator comprises a phase change material that changes phases at a temperature approximately equal to a temperature sufficient to volatilize liquid...
7240725 Device for climate control of a driver's bed  
A device for climate control of a vehicle is provided which includes a coolant circuit in which coolant flows through a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator; a heat transfer medium circuit in...
7069976 Method and arrangement for controlling the temperature of the outstream flow from a heat exchanger and measuring produced heat  
Process and device for controlling the temperature of an outbound secondary flow in a secondary circuit from a heat exchanger by a primary flow in a primary circuit, via a member that regulates the...
7063138 Automotive HVAC system and method of operating same utilizing trapped coolant  
The present invention concerns a method for cooling a passenger compartment in a hybrid vehicle that operates an engine intermittently during vehicle operation. The hybrid vehicle includes an HVAC...
7007491 Thermal management system for a vehicle  
A thermal management system for a vehicle includes an engine operable to generate energy. An energy storage unit may be associated with the engine and adapted to receive and store the energy...
6996334 Boilerless steamer apparatus and method to reduce water useage  
A boilerless steamer apparatus is provided having a steamer cavity formed of a steam generating space and a cooking space, wherein the steam generating space is separated from the cooking space by...
6991028 Thermal reservoir for two-pipe hydronic air-conditioning system  
A thermal reservoir for a two-pipe hydronic air-conditioning system is disclosed. Said thermal reservoir includes a well-insulated tank for alternatively storing hot and cold water. Said thermal...
6907923 Storage tank for hot water systems  
A heat pump system includes a compressor, a heat rejecting heat exchanger, an expansion device, and a heat accepting heat exchanger. A storage tank stores the water that cools the refrigerant in...
6877549 Heat storage device  
A heat storage device comprises a heat storage tank 2 charged with a heat storage material 1 for storing the heat supplied from the outside, and a heat exchanger 3 for executing an injection...
6679321 Heat pump system  
A heat pump system using air as its heat source is disclosed. In this system, the refrigeration circuit consists of both a main refrigerant line and a refrigerant suction line. A heat accumulator,...
6606877 Vehicle air conditioner that operates during engine stops  
A vehicle air conditioner allows storing cold thermal energy in a cold thermal energy storage unit during operation of a vehicle engine to be used later during an eco-run mode of a hybrid vehicle....
6556906 Method for controlling heat flows in a motor vehicle  
A method and a device for the control/regulation of the heat flows caused by heat generators and heat consumers in a motor vehicle, at least on the basis of a momentary load state of the motor...
6330909 Vehicle air conditioning system  
In a vehicle air-conditioning system, an evaporator is disposed in an air-conditioning case to form a bypass passage through which air bypasses the evaporator, and an opening degree of the bypass...
6237854 Air conditioning automatic shut-off system  
According to the invention there is provided a temperature-controlled system for at least one temperature controlled space having at least one closeable opening leading to a non-temperature...
6213199 Temperature selectable water supply device  
A temperature selectable water supply device for one of heating and cooling water provided by a water supply system to an outlet in a structure. The device includes a main water tank including an...
6178770 Ice-on-coil thermal storage apparatus and method  
An increased capacity thermal storage apparatus for forming frozen storage liquid during a storage cycle is provided. The apparatus comprises a container for holding a pool of storage liquid. A...
6158499 Method and apparatus for thermal energy storage  
Methods and apparatus for extracting stored thermal energy using a combined internal and external melt cycle are disclosed. The present invention relates, in one aspect, to a heat exchange system...
6148626 Chiller apparatus  
A chiller apparatus capable of increasing accuracy of temperature control without large-sizing a chiller, to thereby rapidly accommodate to a large variation in temperature of a load and being...
6105659 Rechargeable thermal battery for latent energy storage and transfer  
A device for the storage and transfer of thermal energy that includes a thermal reservoir maintained at or about its freezing or melting point temperature for storing a quantity of latent thermal...
5934369 Thermal storage controller  
A thermal storage controller apparatus and methodology to establish the heat-loss of a dwelling and thereby charge the thermal storage system accordingly, and maintaining a history of the...
5896914 Heater  
The invention relates to a heater (1) for use in a room of a dwelling, preferably with a convection surface (3) and, in the case, for example, of a hot-water heater, with a water tank with an inlet...
5871041 Thermal energy storage and delivery apparatus and vehicular systems incorporating same  
A preferred thermal energy storage and delivery unit includes a chamber for containing a phase change material and one or more air channel members which pass through the phase change material for...
5826650 Devices and methods for utilization of intermittently available electric energy for heating and cooling of habitable structures  
Low-cost off-peak electric energy or electric energy from natural energy sources is used for heating of cooling of system air, which is moved in a closed circuit to heat or cool the energy storage...
5725048 Process for cooling drive components and heating the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, especially an electrically driven vehicle, and arrangement for implementing the process  
In vehicles having drive systems with a highly variable degree of heat generation but in which the total quantity of heat generated is small, the heat given off is inadequate to warm the vehicle...
5680898 Heat pump and air conditioning system incorporating thermal storage  
A heat pump and air conditioning system is provided with a thermal storage device, a variety of distribution devices for blocking or allowing flow of the system working fluid, and a controller for...
5553662 Plumbed thermal energy storage system  
A thermal energy storage system is operable in heating capacity storage and discharge modes and cooling capacity storage and discharge modes for maintaining a temperature in a vehicle compartment....
5505046 Control system for thermoelectric refrigerator  
Apparatus including a power supply (202) and control system is provided for maintaining the temperature within an enclosed structure (40) using thermoelectric devices (92). The apparatus may be...
5501268 Method of energy load management using PCM for heating and cooling of buildings  
A method of energy load management for the heating and cooling of a building. The method involves utilizing a wallboard as a portion of the building, the wallboard containing about 5 to about 30...
5448504 Apparatus for thermal analysis  
A CPU 8 computes differential data of thermal analysis data in a data memory 9a, stores the differential data in a differential data memory 9b, scans secondary differential data, and detects the...
5419388 Regenerative heat exchanger system and an operating method for the same  
A regenerative heat exchanger system includes a heat accumulator provided in an insulating vessel for accumulating heat energy, the heat accumulator having a first end and a second end opposing to...
5402844 Air conditioning apparatus  
An air conditioning apparatus intended to serve several rooms and having for this purpose a number of individual air conditioning modules. Each air conditioning module (5) serves a single room and...
5366153 Heat pump system with refrigerant isolation and heat storage  
A heat pump system in which a vapor compression refrigerant is isolated from the space being conditioned, heat pumped by the refrigeration circuit is stored and a heat transfer fluid circuit is...
5201024 Double loop heat storage space heating furnace using an air-to-air heat exchanger  
A double loop heat storage space heating furnace has a housing with an upper heat storage section containing an electrically heated heat storage brick portion and a lower section containing an...
5178206 Thermal storage control logic for storage heaters  
A method for thermal storage using an apparatus including an outdoor temperature sensor and at least one indoor zone temperature sensor, includes the steps of: estimating an average on-peak outdoor...
5165250 Air conditioning system with thermal storage cycle control  
An air conditioning system comprising a refrigerant circuit. A thermal storage device is arranged in the refrigerant circuit and can store heat and utilize the stored heat to increase heating...
5086493 Electric thermal storage boosted heat pump air heating apparatus  
An electric thermal storage heater with a heat storage brick assembly enclosed within an insulating sheath and an outer shell or housing; there is a space between the outer shell and the insulating...
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...
5044423 Method and an arrangement for disconnecting a heat exchanger charged with a heat vehicle fluid and placed in the path of exhaust gas from an IC engine  
For the disconnection of a heat transfer circuit placed in the exhaust gas flow path of an IC engine and containing a flowable heat vehicle liquid connecting with a heat absorbing means, the said...
5038850 Cooling and heat accumulating type electric cooling and heating system and a method for implementing the same  
A cooling and heating system includes a heating chamber in which is disposed a heater element on the bottom of a cooling and heat accumulating chamber, multiple convection current suppression...
4940079 Optimal control system for refrigeration-coupled thermal energy storage  
A refrigeration-coupled thermal energy storage control system includes apparatus and methodology for establishing target cooling and heating storage conditions, and selecting between cooling and...
4939419 RFQ accelerator tuning system  
A cooling system is provided for maintaining a preselected operating temperature in a device, which may be an RFQ accelerator, having a variable heat removal requirement, by circulating a cooling...
4924935 Thermal energy storage container system  
A plurality of generally rectangular PCM (phase-change material) containers for use in a TES (thermal energy storage) system wherein each container is shaped to lock-support at least one pair of...
4916909 Cool storage supervisory controller  
A system for controlling the HVAC system of a building to reduce overall electrical costs is disclosed. The system develops an energy usage and storage strategy which is a function predicted...
4804039 Process and apparatus for alternately heating and cooling a heat exchanger  
In a process and an apparatus for alternately heating and cooling a heat exchanger, the heating operation is effected by means of a steam-heated hot water-producing means and the cooling operation...
4761967 Car air conditioner with heat storage tank for cooling energy  
An air conditioner for vehicle includes a cooler cooled in a cooling circuit which includes a compressor, a heat exchanger located in the vicinity of the cooler, a thermal storage tank connected...
4742865 Method of controlling an energy recovery system  
A method is provided to control an energy recovery system to achieve an increase of the statistical average system recovery efficiency. The system includes at least one fluid accumulator tank (6,...
4738305 Air conditioner and heat dispenser  
A heating and cooling air conditioning system includes serially arranged conductive and evaporative pad heat exchangers through which circulating air to be heated or cooled is moved by a blower....
4686959 Thermal storage furnace system  
A thermal storage furnace system having a mixing means in fluid communication with both a thermal storage means and a thermal storage means bypass conduit for mixing both heated fluid from the...
4685507 Process for the staged heating of a material in a treatment apparatus and subsequent cooling thereof  
In a process for heating material in a treatment apparatus, using heating vapor, followed by cooling of the material, the condensate from the heating stage is stored in a storage container and the...
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