Refrigeration inventions 08/07

20070199332 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger permitting, in an efficient, simple and reliable manner and for a moderate cost, the connection in series, in parallel or according to a mixed configuration of thermal elements to one another and to an external circuit while limiting the risks of leakage and... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070199335 - Heating and defrosting methods and apparatus: A heat pump includes a compressor 1, a condenser 2, an expansion valve 3, an evaporator 4 and a heat exchanger 6a. The heat exchanger 6a is located immediately downstream of the expansion valve 3 and upstream of the evaporator 4. A controller 8 monitors one or more variables which... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070199336 - System and method of controlling environmental conditioning equipment in an enclosure: The invention relates to a system and device for controlling air-conditioning equipment, in particular to a method for controlling air-conditioning equipment in a chamber or the assembly of chambers consisting in pre-calculating at least one parameter selected between the temperature, chemical composition of the chamber or the assembly of chambers,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070199338 - Variable speed control: A variable speed control system is provided for use with a heat pump heating/cooling system having a variable speed compressor. The control system includes a remote transceiver, a second transceiver to communicate with the first transceiver, and an AC power module to communicate with the second transceiver. The AC power... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070199340 - Multi-chamber spray cooling system: The present invention uses multiple global cooling chambers for providing liquid cooling to a plurality of electronic components. The global cooling chambers utilize a non-electrically conductive fluid which is in direct contact with the components to be cooled. The system provides very effective heat transfer rates, environmental isolation of the... Agent: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.

20070199341 - Water sump structure: A water sump structure (1) is provided. A channel, trough, trench or the like is formed as or provided with an impermeable member (7) for trapping water. One or more heat exchange pipes (6) for carrying a heat exchange fluid are located, in use, so as to pass through water... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070199342 - Method of manufacturing ketchup in red, green or yellow color using liquid kimchi: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing Kimchi ketchup in red, green or yellow color by processing Kimchi in the form of dressing or sauce to be suited for use of the general public and to be selectively used depending on consumers' taste of its color. The Kimchi ketchup... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070199343 - Thermal food storage cabinet: A thermal food storage cabinet has a sealed box with a thermally insulated compartment, a freezer compartment and a refrigeration compartment, a compressor, a condenser, evaporator and thermal expansion valve. The thermally insulated compartment has a heat-conducting panel. The compressor, the evaporator and the thermal expansion valve are mounted in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070199344 - Compact cryogenic plant: A cryogenic plant having at least two direct phase separation devices such as distillation columns whose circular perimeters serve to define the perimeter of the cold box encompassing the direct phase separation devices and ancillary equipment for the process.... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070199345 - Cryogenic air separation plant with reduced liquid drain loss: A cryogenic air separation plant and method of operation wherein, after an interruption in operation, liquid from the sump of a lower pressure column and liquid from the sump of a higher pressure column is passed to a condenser, preferably an argon column top condenser, prior to the restarting of... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070193278 - Cooling device and method: A device for providing cooling to a body is disclosed. The device operates in response to a measured change in temperature of the body's skin surface over a predetermined period of time or manually in response to a perceived or anticipated change in body temperature by the user. The device... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20070193279 - Air conditioned seat device and air conditioning system using the same: An air conditioned seat device has a support member, an air blower, a skin configured to form a seating surface, an air layer member, and an air-impermeable sheet member. The support member is provided with a duct for air. The air blower takes in air from the outside and passes... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070193280 - Portable cooled merchandizing unit with customer enticement features: A portable cooled merchandising unit including a product container assembly, a door assembly, a cooling assembly, a customer enticement device, and a power unit. The product container assembly defines an interior region for containing products. The cooling assembly is connected to the product container assembly and includes a powered cooling... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070193281 - Thermoacoustic apparatus and thermoacoustic system: In a thermoacoustic apparatus including a loop tube, a standing wave and a traveling wave are generated rapidly and, thereby, heat exchange is performed rapidly and efficiently. The thermoacoustic apparatus includes a first stack 3a sandwiched between a first high-temperature-side heat exchanger 4 and a first low-temperature-side heat exchanger 5... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070193282 - Thermally coupled liquid oxygen and liquid methane storage vessel: A cryogenic propellant storage tank system and method are disclosed that thermally couple LO2 and LCH4 tanks together by using either a single tank compartmentalized by a common tank wall or two separate tanks that are coupled together with one or more thermal couplers having high thermal conductivity. Cryogenic cooling... Agent: Canady & Lortz - Boeing

20070193283 - Interrupted dc operation of thermocouple vacuum gauge: A direct current voltage to heat the sensor wire for powering and extracting a signal voltage from a thermocouple-type vacuum sensor. The direct current used produces a DC offset in the sensor output where the heating current flow is stopped for a short interval and the unbiased sensor voltage is... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070193284 - Methods for fluid separations, and devices capable of separating fluids: Wick-Containing apparatus capable of separating fluids and methods of separating fluids using wicks are disclosed.... Agent: Frank Rosenberg

20070193286 - Method for use in controlling an absorption refrigerating system, and an absorption refrigerator: The invention relates to a method for controlling a running time of an absorption refrigerating system of an absorption refrigerator, which absorption refrigerator comprises two differently tempered refrigerator compartments. The method comprises the steps of: monitoring the temperature in a first compartment; activating the refrigerating system when the temperature sensed... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070193287 - Air conditioner and method of controlling air conditioner: An air conditioner has a heat exchanger, an absorbing agent, and a controller. The absorbing agent performs an absorbing operation for absorbing moisture in passing air flowing through the heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator and a regenerating operation for desorbing moisture from passing air heated by the heat exchanger... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070193289 - Fuel cell power generation refrigerating system: A cell body receiving fuel supply to generate power, an inverter receiving output power of the cell body to convert it into ac power, and a vapor-compression refrigerating machine receiving the ac power output from the inverter as operating power and using a motor as its driving source are provided.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070193290 - Air conditioning device: An object is to improve performance and efficiency of an air conditioning device constituted of a waste heat utilization circuit in which waste heat of a heat source is utilized in heating a room to be conditioned in a heat exchanger for heating; a refrigerant circuit in which carbon dioxide... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070193292 - Air conditioning system: An air conditioning system comprising: a compressor for compressing refrigerant; a gas cooler cooling the refrigerant discharged from the compressor; an expansion valve reducing the pressure of the refrigerant flowing from the gas cooler; and a plurality of evaporators vaporizing the refrigerant flowing from the expansion valve. The evaporators are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070193291 - Cooling and climate conditioning system for a vehicle: A cooling system for a vehicle comprises a compressor for compressing refrigerant, the compressor being adapted to be driven by a power source installed in the vehicle, a condenser for receiving compressed refrigerant from the compressor, an expansion device for expanding refrigerant from the condenser, and a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070193293 - Refrigerated case advertising system and method: A refrigerated merchandiser for maintaining food product at a desired temperature. The refrigerated merchandiser includes a case having a product display area adapted to support and display the food product to be visible from the front of the case and a refrigeration system operable to supply refrigerated air to the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070193294 - Refrigeration unit condensation prevention: Apparatus, systems and methods are disclosed for efficient elimination of door and frame condensation at widely utilized commercial freezer/refrigeration display cases. The apparatus includes a local controller unit connected with an array of case sensors including an internal case temperature sensor, an external case frame temperature sensor and a dew... Agent: Harold A. Burdick

20070193295 - Food cooler with reduced condensation spillage: A food cooler provides storage of its door along the side of the cooler over a condensation tray thereby reducing the risk of condensation accumulating on the floor at the front of the cooler when the door is open for a prolonged period of time in a high humidity environment.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070193296 - Pre-cooling system for an air conditioning condenser: A pre-cooling system for use with a condenser of an air conditioning system is provided. In one embodiment, the pre-cooling system comprises a housing that is coupleable to a top of a condenser of an air conditioner wherein the condenser has a substantially-vertical exhaust. The pre-cooling system further comprises a... Agent: Attn: Ki M. Stetina Suite 250

20070193298 - Insulated shipping container: Shipping containers, and more particularly insulated shipping containers, for holding temperature sensitive products and coolant in a predetermined relationship to maintain a refrigerated or frozen condition for an extended period of time. Containers of this type can be molded from rigid polyurethane foam or other materials for shipping or transporting... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070193299 - Ice/beverage dispenser with in-line ice crusher: An ice crusher is attached to an ice dispenser or to a combined ice and beverage dispenser. The ice crusher occupies minimal space in order to fit the dispenser into an existing space on a serving counter or in a beverage dispensing area. The ice crusher may also elevate the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070193300 - Two-phase liquid cooling system with active venting: A two-phase liquid cooling system includes an active venting system for regulating an amount of non-condensable gas within the cooling system. Various venting structures may be used to remove gases from the cooling system, some of which are designed to remove the non-condensable gases and avoid removing the vapor-phase coolant.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070193301 - Expendable turbine driven compression cycle cooling system: A cooling system with a compression cooling cycle for a working fluid that passes an expendable fluid through a warm side heat exchanger for the cooling system to cause the expendable fluid to vaporise and thus absorb heat from the working fluid by way of latent heat or enthalpy of... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

20070193302 - Chilling utensil and method of use: The present invention comprises a device for chilling warm material that has a body with at least a partially hollow interior, a mouth situated on the body providing access to the hollow interior of the body. In one form, the mouth is located below the top of said body such... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070193303 - Scalable capacity liquefied natural gas plant: The current invention is related to hydrocarbon fluid processing plants, methods of designing hydrocarbon fluid processing plants, methods of operating hydrocarbon fluid processing plants, and methods of producing hydrocarbon fluids using hydrocarbon fluid processing plants. More particularly, some embodiments of the invention are related to natural gas liquefaction plants, methods... Agent: Brent R. Knight Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070186561 - Cooling apparatus: The invention relates to a cooling apparatus having a cooling structure that comprises at least one surface area for introducing heat, and a cooling member that is connected to the cooling structure in a heat-conducting manner, wherein the cooling member is moveable so as to generate an air flow by... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070186562 - Refrigerant gas recycling apparatus for cryogenic cooling device: A refrigerant gas recycling apparatus for cryogenic cooling device has a first gas storage unit for temporarily storing refrigerant gas discharged from the cryogenic cooling device, a compressor for compressing refrigerant gas stored in the first storage unit, and a second gas storage unit for storing therein refrigerant gas compressed... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070186565 - Apparatus and methods for converting cryogenic fluid into gas: An apparatus for vaporizing a cryogenic fluid comprises a heat transfer fluid closed circulation loop at least partially defined by an ambient air heat exchanger, a heater, and a vaporizer. The heat exchanger is configured to direct air downward across a plurality of heat exchanger tubes. A cryogenic fluid flows... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20070186564 - Apparatus for cryogenic fluids having floating liquefaction unit and floating regasification unit connected by shuttle vessel, and cryogenic fluid methods: Methods and systems for transportation and processing of a cryogenic fluid. The system includes a floating liquefaction unit receiving a gas from a source, a shuttle vessel for carrying liquefied gas away from the liquefaction unit, a floating regasification unit for receiving the liquefied gas from the vessel, regasifying the... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20070186563 - System and method for cold recovery: A method of cold recovery in a cold compressed natural gas cycle, the method comprising: compressing air; drying air; heat exchanging air with cold compressed natural gas from a storage vessel, in a first heat exchanger, thereby forming cooled air; heat exchanging the cooled air with liquid methane, in a... Agent: Law Office Of Michael A. Blake

20070186566 - Cryogenic fluid pumping system: The inventive cryogenic fluid pumping system comprises at least one cryogenic fluid tank (8a, 8b), a cryogenic pump (18) having an input friction loss (NPSH) and a suction line (23a, 23b) connecting said tank (8a, 8b) to said pump (18). According to the invention, the pumping system comprises pressure control... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20070186568 - Refrigeration systems having diagnostic devices: A refrigeration system is provided that includes a low voltage control circuit, a high voltage control circuit, a refrigeration system component, a contactor, a plurality of detection points, and a diagnostic device. The contactor is controlled by the low voltage control circuit to apply supply voltage from the high voltage... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070186569 - Refrigeration system and method of operating the same: A refrigeration system including a compressor, condenser, valve, and refrigeration branch, all of which is in fluid communication. The refrigeration branch includes an evaporator coil. The refrigeration system further includes a case adapted to be cooled by the evaporator coil, and a system controller operable to control one or more... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070186571 - Ice level sensing device for an automatic ice maker in a refrigerator: A device for sensing a level of ice stored in a bin of an automatic ice maker includes a bail arm and an actuator mechanism. The actuator mechanism is constituted by a shape memory alloy that, upon application of a voltage, contracts to move the bail arm to a raised... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070186570 - Icemaker system for a refrigerator: An icemaker system provided in a refrigerator is designed to reduce an amount of time required to produce ice. The refrigerator includes a refrigeration system including a number of refrigeration components and a refrigeration loop. The refrigeration loop includes an icemaker section that carries a flow of refrigerant to an... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070186572 - Refrigerant flow-amount controlling device and ejector refrigerant cycle system using the same: A refrigerant flow-amount controlling device for an ejector refrigerant cycle system includes an ejector having a nozzle for decompressing refrigerant of a first stream of a branch portion, a first evaporator for evaporating refrigerant flowing out of the ejector, a throttle member for decompressing refrigerant of a second stream of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070186573 - Methods of and systems for dual drive hvac compressor controls in automotive vehicles: The efficiency of a dual drive compressor for an air conditioner in a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor is enhanced by calculating compressor load for the air conditioner and then determining allowable engine-off time for the internal combustion engine. Once the engine is turned... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070186574 - Cooling apparatus: A process for introducing a solution into an evaporative cooling apparatus (14), said process comprising a) positioning a selectively permeable membrane (16) between a first solution (18) and a second solution (20) having a higher solute concentration than the first solution (18), such that the solvent from the first solution... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070186575 - Device for replacing heat and method for the production thereof: The invention relates to a device which is used to replace heat, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one first collecting and/or distribution device for at least one fluidic medium. The collecting and/or distribution device is fluidically connected to a plurality of through-flow devices, through which the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070186576 - Refrigerator with icemaker: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070186577 - Passively temperature-regulated shipping container suitable for biological, pharmaceutical materials or food products: Disclosed is a shipping container suitable for use for pharmaceuticals, biological materials, blood or tissues, or food products, having a double-walled multiple-chamber structure, wherein a first phase change material, with a phase change temperature between 2° to 8° C. (and in a preferred embodiment, 5°C.) in a payload chamber, and... Agent: Eric P. Mirabel Suite 100

20070186579 - Portable soft shell cooler with compartmented rack for individual meal and beverage containers: A soft thermally insulated padded shell houses a rigid rack with a series of vertical walls forming compartments. One pair of walls has a series of mating horizontal tracks to receive slide-in meal containers in a spaced vertical array. Narrow side compartments house coolant containers. Another compartment houses beverage containers.... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20070186580 - Portable thermal treatment and storage units for containing readily accessible food or beverage items and methods for thermally treating food or beverage items: A portable thermal treatment and storage unit includes a housing with a thermal treatment chamber, and ports that provide a flow path between the chamber and an environment surrounding the unit to facilitate a flow of air into the housing, through the chamber, and out of the housing. The unit... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070186581 - Compressor cooling system: A compressor system that includes a compressor, a refrigeration system, a drive member and a cooling passage. The compressor is operable to produce a flow of compressed fluid. The refrigeration system includes an evaporator, and a flow of refrigerant passes through the evaporator and is operable to cool the flow... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070186582 - Air-seperation apparatus, integrated air-separation and metal-production apparatus, and method of starting one such air-separation apparatus: The invention relates to an air-separation apparatus comprising a system of columns (DC, CM), means for supplying the apparatus at least partially with compressed air from at least one supercharger (C2), air-scrubbing and -cooling means (E, LE), means for conveying the air to a column (CM) in the system of... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20070186583 - Method of controlling liquid production utilizing an expert system controller: Method for controlling the production of one or more liquid products produced by one or more plants, that can be an air separation plant, that has a liquid storage capacity and that consumes electrical power. Linguistic values related to current liquid inventory, a rate of change of liquid inventory, projected... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070180836 - Closed-loop cycle cryogenic electronics cooling system with parallel multiple cooling temperatures: An closed single-loop low-energy/energy-independent cryocooler that removes high quantities of heat from a large area while utilizing a design that allows multiple temperatures on multiple cooled areas in parallel to allow for use on complex electronics which have different preferred operating temperatures. An energy independent design is a simple TEG... Agent: Leonid A. Shapiro

20070180838 - Method for automatically adjusting the defrost interval in a heat pump system: The present invention relates generally to a method for automatically adjusting the interval of time between defrost cycles in a heat pump system. The method includes tracking the duration of the previous defrost cycle or cycles, and dynamically adjusting the length of time before initiating the next defrost cycle.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070180840 - Vertical self-contained air conditioner: An apparatus for cooling air that utilizes a reservoir that may be filled with low temperature substances or other cooled liquid or solid material. The reservoir is thoroughly insulated and contains a vertical air duct where the air duct utilizes a battery powered fan capable of drawing in warm air... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20070180841 - System for controlling compressor of cooling system and method for controlling the same: Disclosed is a system for controlling a compressor of a cooling system. The system includes: the compressor having a driving shaft that is rotatable clockwise and counterclockwise and operated by a power of a motor outputting different torque characteristics depending on the rotational directions of the driving shaft; a selector... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070180842 - Refrigerated display merchandiser with light filter: A refrigerated display merchandiser in which is stored food products and which is ordinarily exposed to prevailing ambient light is provided with transparent sheets which function as filter media to prevent harmful light from reaching the foods stuffs. The filtering media comprises a transparent sheet affixed to the display merchandiser... Agent: The Weintraub Group. P.L.C

20070180843 - Kimchi refrigerator and control method of the same: A Kimchi refrigerator that emits light into a storage compartment, in which Kimchi is stored, to improve taste of the Kimchi and a control method of the same are disclosed. The Kimchi refrigerator according to the present invention includes an light emitting unit to emit light into the storage compartment.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070180844 - Air conditioning system: An air conditioning system to treat a latent heat load and a sensible heat load in a room includes a plurality of utilization units, a heat source unit, and connection pipes that connect between the units. The utilization units include adsorbent heat exchangers provided with an adsorbent on the surface... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070180845 - Ice cube making device for refrigerators: An ice-cube making device for use in a refrigerated cabinet is provided. The ice-cube making device is attachable to a freezer liner and thus makes efficient use of the space in the freezer cavity. The ice-cube making device includes a mechanism for extracting ice by applying a twisting torque to... Agent: Enrique J. Mora Beusse, Brownlee, Wolter, Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070180846 - Insulated container which can be evacuated, for an application to be cooled: The invention relates to an insulated container (11) which can be evacuated and has an application (12) to be cooled, in which insulated container (11) a vacuum can be built up by means of a vacuum pump (22). In order to allow the vacuum pump (22) to be switched off... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070180847 - System for maintaining materials at freezer temperatures for shipping: At least one embodiment of the inventive technology relates to a frozen environmental sample temperature control system that comprises a frozen formulation having water in an amount from substantially 87% to 78% by weight of the formulation, and salt in an amount from substantially 13% to 22% by weight of... Agent: Santangelo Law Offices, P.C.

20070180849 - Refrigeration system capable of multi-faceted operation: A storage system that has variable temperature includes one or more drawers. The one or more drawers are independently operable of one another. A heating and cooling system is in thermal communication with the one or more drawers. The heating and cooling system generates even air-flow around all sides of... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070180850 - Plastic freezable food container: An article of manufacture for making and producing a plastic three layer freezable food containers with food containers preferably made of plastic analogous to Rubbermaid and Tupperware containers. The container defines a volume with an inner surface of plastic for supporting a food product. The container defines a second wall... Agent: Jeffrey Thompson

20070180851 - Air conditioning system: An air conditioning system includes a plurality of latent heat utilization side refrigerant circuits which are connected in parallel with one another, and a plurality of sensible heat utilization side refrigerant circuits which are connected in parallel with one another. The latent heat utilization side refrigerant circuits include adsorbent heat... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070180852 - Ejector refrigerant cycle device and control method thereof: An ejector refrigerant cycle device includes an ejector that has a nozzle portion for reducing pressure of refrigerant on a downstream side of a radiator to expand the refrigerant, and a refrigerant suction port from which refrigerant is drawn by a high-velocity refrigerant flow jetted from the nozzle portion, an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070180853 - Refrigerator: There is provided a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a compressor for compressing a refrigerant, a condenser for heat-exchanging the compressed refrigerant with ambient air, an expansion member for expanding the heat-exchanged refrigerant, a condensing pipe interconnecting the condenser and the expansion member, a vaporizer for heat-exchanging the expanded refrigerant with... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070180855 - Downflow knockback condenser: An apparatus and method useful for partially condensing vapor in the upper section of a fractionation tower to separate and remove a lighter gaseous fraction from a condensed liquid component, such as nitrogen from natural gas. A downflow, knockback condenser is disclosed that utilizes a vapor riser to introduce a... Agent: Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP Attn: Docketing Dept.

20070175224 - Modular thermoelectric chilling system: In an aspect of the invention, an apparatus for providing chilling in a localized area comprises a chiller compartment and an independent cooling source thermally coupled to the chiller compartment by a thermally conductive interface. The cooling source provides a separate controllable temperature to the chiller compartment, which is adapted... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070175226 - Gas supply arrangement of a marine vessel and method of providing gas in a gas supply arrangement of a marine vessel: A gas supply arrangement of a marine vessel being adapted to carry liquefied gas in its cargo tank having an ullage space section and a liquid phase section, which arrangement utilises the gas as fuel to provide power for the vessel, the arrangement comprising a first gas supply line provided... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20070175227 - Control stability system for moist air dehumidification units and method of operation: A system and humidity control method is provided for a multi-stage cooling system having two or more refrigerant circuits that balances humidity control and cooling demand. Each refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, a vessel and an evaporator. A hot gas reheat circuit having a heat exchange coil is connected to... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070175228 - System, method, and apparatus for integrated cooling of a vehicle cabin and a personal climate system worn by an occupant thereof: A system, method, and apparatus for the integrated cooling of a vehicle and the personal climate systems worn by its occupants allows the components of the vehicle's refrigeration system to provide simultaneous cooling for both the vehicle and the occupants. A portion of the refrigerant circulated through the refrigeration system... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070175229 - Method for controlling a pulsed expansion valve: A method of controlling the duty cycle of a pulse width modulated expansion valve in order to achieve low and stable evaporator superheat is disclosed. Duty cycle is incremented/decremented if superheat is above/below a dead band, and, in a preferred embodiment, incremented/decremented if the time derivative of superheat is above/below... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070175230 - Vehicle interior cooling system: A vehicle interior cooling system (200) for a vehicle having a cabin (208) and an engine (207) for providing propulsion power generally includes a first cabin cooling system (202) driven by the engine of the vehicle having a first condenser (214). The vehicle interior cooling system also generally includes a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070175232 - Ice build-up preventor for thermal chamber ports: A system for preventing the formation of ice about a port to a contained cooling area. The system includes a support tube that is adapted to pass through the port in a wall that forms part of the cooling area. The support tube is further adapted to provide a passage... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070175234 - Method and apparatus for generating drinking water by condensing air humidity: A system and method are shown which utilize a hybrid mechanical and evaporative air conditioning system to produce potable drinking while cooling an enclosure. The system operates on direct current, making it suitable for use in areas effected by natural disaster, power outage, or simply rural locations without access to... Agent: Charles D. Gunter, Jr. Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20070175235 - Apparatus and method for bagging ice: An ice-bagging apparatus that provides an establishment with the ability to automatically and expeditiously produce, bag and store bags of ice, thus maintaining a desired supply of bagged ice and eliminating conventional methods of manual ice-bagging and reducing the likelihood of unwanted bridging of the ice.... Agent: Law Office Of Wayne Carroll

20070175236 - Portable refrigeration container: Pallet version of the portable refrigeration container including a palletised thermally insulated base (20) including seal mechanism, forklift fork receiving cavities (21) allowing ready transportability. A dismantlable wail assembly (35) comprising hinged vacuum insulated panels (35) are able to be mounted on the palletised thermally insulated base (20) and engaging... Agent: Mills Oakley Patent Attorney Martin Earley And Warren Chandler

20070175237 - Method and system for use with a consumable beverage: A system for use with a consumable beverage.... Agent: Garcia-zamor Intellectual Property Law Attn: Ruy Garcia-zamor

20070175240 - Method and apparatus for cooling a stream, in particular a hydrocarbon stream such as natural gas: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for cooling a stream, wherein the stream is cooled in a heat exchanger against a refrigerant fluid being cycled in a refrigerant circuit. The cycling of the refrigerant fluid includes: (a) feeding a first refrigerant fluid into an axial compressor; (b) compressing... Agent: Shell Oil Company