Liquid heaters and vaporizers inventions 06/09

20090159017 - Hot water supply apparatus: A hot water supply apparatus including: a hot-water supply pipe for guiding hot water generated by a hot-water generator to a hot-water supplying terminal; two hot-water supply temperature sensors for detecting water temperature in the hot-water supply pipe; a temperature control unit for adjusting a temperature of the hot water... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090159018 - System and method for controlling liquid level in a vessel: A system includes sensors configured to measure parameters related to a vessel including liquid level, gas flow rate, pressure in the vessel, temperature of the vessel, and feed-liquid flow rate. A signal processing unit receives sensor output signals and generates a first filtered output signal representative of liquid level, a... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090151652 - Gas water heater with harmful gas monitoring and warning functions and the method of monitoring and warning: A gas water heater with a warning function, the gas water heater being disposed in a facility and comprising: a gas water heater main body including a controller having a warning cell; and a gas detecting unit separate from the main body and disposed at an indoor monitoring point of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090151653 - Water heater with condensing flue: A water heater has a burner positioned below a vertical centrally located flue with heat exchange capacity enhanced by a multiplicity of rectangular metal fins which are welded on the inside of the vertical central flue. The central flue extends upwardly within a water tank. The central flue transitions to... Agent: Stiennon & Stiennon

20090151654 - Water heater: There is provided an indoor mounting water heater in which combustion exhaust gas is discharged to the outdoors via an exhaust duct, wherein a decrease in draft force caused when the number of burner groups to be burned is reduced by a capacity changeover mechanism to decrease the combustion capacity... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090151655 - Heat tube assembly: A heat tube assembly includes a tank mounting flange, a first heat tube and a second heat tube. The U configuration first heat tube has a first end and a second end. The first end and the second end are mounted in spaced relation to the mounting flange. A mounting... Agent: Donald V. Tomkins C/o Tomkins Law Office

20090151656 - Controlling cooling flow in a sootblower based on lance tube temperature: A cleaning system and method for cleaning heat transfer surfaces in a boiler using a temperature measuring system for measuring and monitoring wall temperature of an annular wall of the tube of a lance of one or more sootblowers. Controlling a flow of steam or other fluid through the tube... Agent: International Paper Company

20090145373 - Geyser: The invention provides a geyser (210) for heating water in domestic or industrial applications. The geyser (210) includes a first end section (212), a second end section (214), and a central section (216) between the first and second end sections. The central section (216) includes a plurality of modular components... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090139465 - High pressure hot gas generating device: A high pressure hot gas generating device comprises a combustion furnace; an interior of the combustion furnace having a combustion chamber; a lower side of the combustion furnace having an ash exhausting opening; an upper side of the combustion furnace having a high pressure hot gas output tube; a fuel... Agent: Kuan-lun Li

20090139466 - Hot water apparatus: A hot water apparatus comprises a main body thereof connected to each of water distribution devices 31, 32, and 33 via plumbing 2 and a remote controller 20 for remotely controlling the main body of the hot water apparatus 10. The main body of the hot water apparatus 10 comprises... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090139467 - Steam generator and controlling method thereof: A steam generator and a controlling method thereof are disclosed. The steam generator includes a housing for containing water, a heater for heating the water in the housing, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the heater according to an inner pressure of the housing.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090139468 - Control of a recovery boiler or alike: Method and system for controlling the operation of a recovery boiler or another boiler having a furnace wherein the operation is monitored by monitoring sensors, the sensors converting the acquired electromagnetic radiation to electrical signals which are conducted to image processing which forms an image of an object, such as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC