Gobi Technologies Inc.

Tokitae LLC

Zeo-tech Zeolith-technologie Gmbh

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Zeo-tech Zeolith-technolgie Gmbh

Premark Feg L.l.c.

Hobart Corporation

V-zug Ag

Ralf W Schmidt

Peter K Maier-Laxhuber

Lawrence Morgan Fowler

Reiner M Wörz

Peter Maier-Laxhuber

Andreas Becky

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Clarence T Tegreene

Nels R Peterson

Shieng Liu

David J Yager

Gert Richter

Norbert Weinzierl

Fong Li Chou

Manfred Binnen

Ivan Poleshchuk

William Randal Sims

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Leo Totschnig

Harald Disch

Fong-Li Chou

Victoria E H Ellington

Reiner Wörz

Dietrich Berner

Philip A Welkhoff

Christoph Grupp

Martin Leibhard

Maximilian Ammon

Allen Jakway

Reiner W&ouml;rz

Jannik Inselkammer

Axel Rosler

Albert Johann Loichinger

Ingo Gau

Philip Andrew Welkhoff

Reinier M WÖRZ

Ernst Dober

Jürg Gisler

Janine Rother

Reiner Dipl-Ing Wörz

Gerd Richter

A sorption heat pump having an evaporator containing a working fluid to evaporate the fluid to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a vapor pathway connecting the evaporator and sorber, and a thermal control unit controlling the rate of vapor flow between the evaporator and sorber through the pathway, and being selectively operable to permit, stop and restart the flow of gas through the pathway. The pump may be used with a compartment storing temperature sensitive material. The evaporator may be positioned inside and the sorber outside the compartment, or the sorber may be positioned inside and the evaporator outside the compartment. The pump may be used in an apparatus including both cool and warm compartments, with an insulation layer in each. A method is disclosed for reusing the pump after the sorption material has been sorbed.

Thermal regulation system

A thermally insulated transport container for use with an ice battery, having an internal usable volume for freeze-free cooling of temperature-sensitive products placed therein, the usable volume having an outward usable volume portion, an internal cold storage volume sized to receive the ice battery, the cold storage volume having an inward cold storage volume portion adjacent to the outward usable volume portion to define a common interface of the usable volume and the cold storage volume, a heat-conducting liner extending about the usable volume and having a heat-conducting liner portion located between the outward usable volume portion and the inward cold storage volume portion, and a phase change material (PCM) container positioned adjacent to the heat-conducting liner portion at the common interface and in heat-conducting contact with the heat conduction liner portion, the PCM container sized to contain a phase change material.

Thermally insulated transport container

A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.

Temperature-controlled sorption system

Portage storage containers including controlled evaporative cooling systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a portable container including an integral controlled evaporative cooling system includes: a storage region, an evaporative region adjacent to the storage region, a desiccant region adjacent to the outside of the container, and an insulation region positioned between the evaporative region and the desiccant region. A vapor conduit with an attached vapor control unit has a first end within the evaporative region and a second end within the desiccant region. In some embodiments, the controlled evaporative cooling systems are positioned in a radial configuration within the portable container.

Temperature-controlled portable cooling units

A method is provided for operating a dishwasher () in the form of a batch dishwasher, which has a treatment chamber () for accommodating washware to be cleaned. Provision is made, during an adsorption phase, for air to be conducted out of the treatment chamber () through a sorption unit (), which contains a reversibly dehydratable dry material, in such a way that the dry material absorbs moisture from the air stream, wherein the air is then returned to the treatment chamber (). Provision is further made, during a desorption phase, for the dry material of the sorption unit () to be heated in such a way that moisture is desorbed from the dry material as steam. During the desorption phase, the sorption unit () is subjected to forced ventilation only to such an extent that recondensation of desorbed steam in the sorption unit () itself is effectively prevented.

Method for operating a dishwasher, and dishwasher

A cooling element with a sorption agent, that under vacuum can sorb a vapor-like working agent that evaporates from a liquid working agent in an evaporator and with a regulator organ in a working agent vapor channel between the sorption agent and the evaporator, wherein the entire cooling element is hermetically enclosed by a gas-tight multi-layer film, the multi-layer film has a flexible construction and is under vacuum so encloses the regulator organ, the working agent vapor channel and the evaporator, that the evaporator and the working agent vapor channel remain flexible and the working agent vapor can flow to the sorption agent only through the regulator organ.

Sorption cooling element with regulator organ and additional heat source

A method and devices for the solidification of aqueous substances by the direct evaporation of water from the substance and the sorption of the water vapor in a sorption agent in a vacuum system, wherein the aqueous substance and the sorption agent are evacuated from the surrounding pressure level to a system pressure of below 5 mbar (absolute) by means of a vacuum pump and the nonsorbable gases thereby suctioned by the vacuum pump are suctioned through the sorption agent. The mass of the used sorption agent is at least half the mass of the water fraction in the substance. The solidification process is realized in less than 2 min, particularly less than 20 sec. The aqueous substance is solidified in a solidification container that can be removed from the vacuum system, the vacuum system is subsequently vented, and the solidified substance removed from the vacuum system together with the solidification container.

Method and device for the rapid solidification of aqueous substances

Adsorption cooling apparatus with an intermittently heated adsorbent container ( ) containing an adsorbent ( ) that exothermically adsorbs a working medium during an adsorption phase and again desorbs at higher temperatures while heat is added during a subsequent desorption phase, and with a condenser ( ) that leads condensed working medium through a connection line ( ) into the evaporator ( ) which is in turn connected with the adsorbent through a working medium vapor line ( ), wherein the condenser ( ) is coupled to a buffer reservoir ( ) that buffers at least a part of the condensation heat of the working medium vapor and that also can again dissipate the stored heat into the surroundings even during the adsorption phase.

Adsorption cooling apparatus with buffer reservoir

A sorption cooler for cooling substances in a vessel ( ) by means of a sorption agent ( ) within a sorption agent vessel ( ), which in connected via a vapor valve ( ) to an evaporator ( ) for generation of working agent vapor, and where a part of the outer wall ( ) of the vessel ( ) is in good thermal contact with a working agent storage material ( ) and at least this part of the outer wall ( ) of vessel ( ) is at the same time a part of the boundary surface ( ) of the evaporator ( ).

Sorption cooler

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Ralf W Schmidt