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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Carl T. Vuk, Denver, IA (US);
Inventor:
Carl T. Vuk, Denver, IA (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01P 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cooling system for a liquid cooled internal combustion engine having coolant passages and a heat exchanger selected to operate the engine cooling system in the region of nucleate boiling. A sensor detects the presence of nucleate boiling and a variable volume chamber has a flexible diaphragm urged on one side by controlled air pressure and responsive to the sensor maintain the coolant system pressure at a level maintaining optimum nucleate boiling to increase heat flux from the engine and reduce overall size of the system.