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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
David A. Aaron, Baltimore, MD (US);
Frank T. Morrison, Anne Arundel, MD (US);
Assignee:
Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc., Jessup, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 3/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 3/02 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a planned array tubes and circuits in a cooling coil for a thermal storage unit to maintain at least some of the vertical aisles between adjacent circuits or sets of circuits to provide communication through the coil to present more ice-contact surface area to the heat transfer fluid for maintenance of a fluid temperature at about the desired output temperature and to provide a circuit having a means to monitor and control termination of the ice build in a thermal storage unit.