Thermacore, Inc.

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Thermal Corporation

William G Anderson

Scott D Garner

James E Lindemuth

Kevin Horner-Richardson

Kevin H Richardson

The apparatus is a heat pipe with an internal, multiple chamber evaporator for cooling a turbine engine stator vane. The evaporator comprises leading edge, middle, and trailing edge chambers within the stator vane, with the chambers defined by structural support ribs. Each chamber is constructed with a continuous fine pore metal powder wick coating the internal surfaces of the chamber and enclosing the chamber's central vapor space, except the wick at the very trailing edge of the vane is formed by screen embedded in the adjacent powder wick. The evaporator chambers have capillary arteries which extend through the adiabatic section of the heat pipe and terminate in a condenser wick within a heat sink structure exposed to cooler air. A capillary artery also interconnects the wick of the trailing edge chamber to the wick of the middle chamber.

Heat pipe cooling for turbine stators

The apparatus is a cooling structure for reaction engine throats. The constriction in the throat is cooled by a group of heat pipes which radiate outward from the constriction to a larger diameter perimeter surface where the heat is dissipated. The entire structure can be constructed by embedding pretested heat pipes around a base structure with plasma sprayed metal.

Reaction motor structure and method of construction

The apparatus is a non-condensible gas venting device for vapor sources which can include a sonic orifice for vapor pressure reduction in high vapor pressure systems. A typical vapor source has a evaporator chamber with an evaporating wick containing liquid which is heated and produces vapor. The invention is a venting chamber connected to the evaporator chamber so that the vapor has access to the venting chamber. The venting chamber also includes a condensing wick interconnected to the evaporating wick in the evaporator chamber by a capillary capillary device through which the condensed liquid is returned to the evaporating wick. The condenser chamber is vented to a lower pressure region or vacuum so that non-condensible gas present moves out of the condenser chamber into the lower pressure while the vapor is trapped by the condensing wick and is retained in the system.

Vented vapor source

The apparatus is a combined Alkali Metal Thermal to Electric Converter (AMTEC) and a thermionic energy converter which are mated by the use of a common heat transfer device which can be a heat pipe, pumped fluid or a simple heat conduction path. By adjusting the heat output surface area of the thermionic converter and the heat input surface area of the AMTEC, the heat transfer device accomplishes not only the transfer of heat from the output of the thermionic converter to the input of the AMTEC, but also the transformation of the heat density to match the requirements of the AMTEC input. The electrical current through the combined devices is also matched by adjusting the heated surface area of the AMTEC.

Hybrid thermal electric generator

A method for the control of bluetongue disease amongst sheep by the application of O, O-dimethyl O-p-(dimethylsulfamoyl) phenyl phosphorothioate directly to the back of the animal. Such application of a chemotherapeutic dosage prevents contamination of the animal by the bluetongue virus carrying gnat (Culicoides).

Method for controlling bluetongue disease in sheep

A System and Cold Cabinet Server therefor to condition pre-packaged foods and to maintain them at serving temperature during storage and for customer access. A structural relationship of means is provided in cooperatively related bin type cabinets to combine the inherent principles of convection, absorption and recirculation to maximum advantage and to the end that heat induction from the surrounding atmosphere is minimized despite the completely open and accessible bin configuration. The Cold Cabinet is a self-sufficient entity provided with a replaceable refrigeration unit supplied with power such as an electrical plug-in, and is completely mobile; and adapted to be quickly assembled in service lines that are readily modified or broken down for storage.

System and cold cabinet server

A system and Hot Cabinet server therefor to condition pre-packaged foods and to maintain them at serving temperature during storage and for customer access. A structural relationship of means is provided in cooperatively related bin type cabinets to combine the inherent principles of convection, conduction and recirculation to maximum advantage and to the end that heat loss is minimized despite the completely open and accessible bin configuration. The cabinets are each a self-sufficient entity when supplied with power such as an electrical plug in, and each is completely mobile while in operation; and being of the same height and width configuration, they are adapted to be quickly assembled in service lines that are readily modified or broken down for storage.

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

William G Anderson