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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Ireland Ltd., Dublin, IE;
Inventors:
John Daly, Tralee, IE;
Nick Jeffers, Delgany, IE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B 29/10 (2006.01); F03G 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03G 7/065 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49826 (2015.01);
Abstract
A device, comprising a flow controller. The flow controller includes a body having walls that define a channel within the body, and a passive flow control valve. The passive control valve has a moveable member that includes a thermal shape memory material, the moveable member configured to change an aperture size in the channel in response to a reversible temperature-induced shape transformation of the thermal shape memory material.