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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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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