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Patent No.:

US 9897367 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2014

Freezing detection device

Applicant:

Tex E.g. Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Takahide Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

TEX E.G. CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

Primary Examiner:

Henry Crenshaw

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 3/00 (2006.01); F25C 1/00 (2006.01); F25D 21/06 (2006.01); F25B 5/00 (2006.01); A23L 3/36 (2006.01); F25D 21/02 (2006.01); F25D 31/00 (2006.01); G01K 7/16 (2006.01); B67D 1/08 (2006.01); G01N 25/06 (2006.01); G01N 33/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 21/02 (2013.01); B67D 1/0857 (2013.01); F25D 31/003 (2013.01); G01K 7/16 (2013.01); G01N 25/06 (2013.01); B67D 1/0859 (2013.01); B67D 1/0878 (2013.01); B67D 2210/00104 (2013.01); F25B 2700/11 (2013.01); F25D 2700/12 (2013.01); G01N 33/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

A freezing detection device to be applied to a liquid cooling apparatus including a liquid tank for storing a liquid whose freezing is to be detected and a cooling unit located inside the liquid tank to cool the liquid, the freezing detection device comprises: a temperature detecting unit located at a predetermined distance from the cooling unit; and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the liquid has frozen around the temperature detecting unit based on an output from the temperature detecting unit, the determining unit determining whether or not the liquid has frozen around the temperature detecting unit based on whether the output from the temperature detecting unit is fluctuating or not.

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