Refrigeration inventions 03/08

20080072609 - Process for producing slush fluid and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for producing a slush fluid wherein a liquid and solid particles are mixed together, comprising product tank (1) for storing the slush fluid (50) in its saturated condition; liquid nitrogen supply nozzle (10) provided at an upper part of the product tank (1); and compressor (15) for evacuating... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080072613 - Top plate structure for air conditioner installed at high location: In an air conditioner for installation at a high location, a plurality of parallel reinforcement ribs 35 are formed on a top plate 32 that forms a top surface of a body casing and supports and holds a fan and a fan motor. When the top plate 32 has the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080072617 - Refrigeration device: A refrigeration device comprising a body, which has lateral walls and a rear wall and a condenser that is mounted on the exterior of the rear wall of the body. Said condenser extends over at least one of the edge zones of the exterior, behind which there is a respective... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080072620 - Treating of a crude containing natural gas: A process for treating a crude containing natural gas comprising supplying the crude to a stabilization unit to obtain a gaseous stream and crude oil; supplying a compressed, gaseous stream at a low temperature to the bottom of a first column; partly condensing the first gaseous overhead stream, returning the... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20080066471 - Portable liquid oxygen unit with multiple operational orientations: A portable liquid oxygen (LOX) storage/delivery apparatus is provided, including an insulated (LOX) container having an interior, a bottom portion and a sidewall, the sidewall including a first side portion—and a second side portion, both extending between the top portion and the bottom portion, and a port system in communication... Agent: CovidienIPCounsel

20080066473 - Passenger car air-conditioning systems with adsortion heat pumps: A system and method for air-conditioning motor vehicles and, in particular, to an air-conditioning systems for motor vehicles having adsorption heat pumps. The apparatus includes a two adsorber chambers, each connected to a condenser and an evaporator via different connection elements; a vacuum shell for enclosing the adsorber chambers, the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080066479 - Interactive control system for an hvac system: An interactive system for controlling the operation of an HVAC system is provide that comprises a thermostat for initiating the operation of the HVAC system in either a full capacity mode of operation or at least one reduced capacity mode of operation, and a controller for an outside condenser unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080066480 - Vehicle air conditioner: A vehicle air conditioner comprising: an intake box provided in an inside of an instrument panel at a front part of a passenger compartment of a vehicle and having a recirculation intake, a fresh-air intake, and an intake door for opening/closing the intakes; a fan unit provided in the inside... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080066484 - Air cooling device: A vest including inflatable tubes or chambers which receive cool air from a blower box. The vest includes an outer surface and inner surface, the two surfaces joined to define a multiplicity of tubes. The tubes carry jets which may vent cool air, received from a remote cool air blower... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080066489 - Evaporator for a refrigerator and method for the production thereof: A method for producing a heat exchanger, a) a coolant pipe and a blank are provided; b) a bead that is made of a plastic adhesive is placed between the coolant pipe and the blank so as to extend in a manner that is adapted to the shape of the... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080066492 - Treating liquefied natural gas: Method of treating liquefied natural gas (1) to obtain a liquid stream (21) having a reduced content of components having low boiling points comprising expanding (3) the liquefied gas to expand to obtain expanded two-phase fluid; introducing the two-phase fluid into a column (10) below a gas-liquid contacting section (14);... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20080066493 - Treating liquefied natural gas: Method of treating liquefied natural gas (1) to obtain a liquid stream (21) having a reduced content of components having low boiling points comprising expanding (3) the liquefied gas to expand to obtain expanded two-phase fluid; introducing the two-phase fluid into a column (10) below a gas-liquid contacting section (14);... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20080066494 - Light component separation from a carbon dioxide mixture: A method of separating one or more first light components from a carbon dioxide containing gaseous mixture that contains at least 30 mole percent carbon dioxide. In accordance with the method, a feed stream composed of the carbon dioxide is cooled to effect at least in part, liquefaction of the... Agent: Praxair Technology, Inc. Law Department M1-557

20080060364 - Thermoacoustic device: A thermoacoustic device 1 is provided which has in a loop tube 2, a first stack 3a provided between a first high-temperature side heat exchanger 4 and a first low-temperature side heat exchanger 5, and a second stack 3b provided between a second high-temperature side heat exchanger 6 and a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080060365 - Refrigeration system: A refrigeration system includes an internal heat exchanger (23) capable of controlling the temperature of refrigerant flowing towards an expander (12). Upon change of the operating conditions, the internal heat exchanger (23) controls the temperature of the refrigerant to control the specific volume or the flow rate of the refrigerant,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060373 - Isolation valve and coolant connect/disconnect assemblies and methods of fabrication for interfacing a liquid cooled electronics subsystem and an electronics housing: An isolation valve assembly, a coolant connect/disconnect assembly, a cooled multi-blade electronics center, and methods of fabrication thereof are provided employing an isolation valve and actuation mechanism. The isolation valve is disposed within at least one of a coolant supply or return line providing liquid coolant to the electronics subsystem.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080060376 - Vacuum storage apparatus with sliding drawers: Provided is a modular vacuum storage apparatus and method for storing, dispensing, preserving and shipping perishable items.... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20080060377 - Composition and methods for injection of sealants into air conditioning and refrigeration systems: The use of sealants based on organosilanes for refrigeration and air conditioning systems is made possible by control of the rate of introduction and viscosity of the sealant mixture within certain ranges. An appropriate choice of organosilane sealant is made to allow effective sealing of small pinhole size leaks in... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080053108 - Thermoelectric refrigerating modules: The present invention relates to a thermoelectric refrigeration module, comprising a TEC refrigerating piece (8) having a top surface and a bottom surface, a radiator (16) closely contacted to the bottom surface of the TEC refrigerating piece (8), and a cold eliminator (18) including a brick body (4) having a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080053110 - Apparatus and methods for converting a cryogenic fluid into gas: Method and apparatus for vaporizing cryogenic fluids in which an intermediate heat transfer fluid is first heated across a heat transfer surface with ambient air, and then the heat transfer surface provides heat to vaporize the cryogenic fluid.... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20080053113 - Display case with improved sanitation: A method and system for an improved display case, comprising a display case having air flow paths for circulating air around one or more objects displayable in a display area in the display case, and one or more ultraviolet radiation elements suitably positioned within the air paths for sanitizing the... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080053117 - Cryogenic apparatus for chilling beverages and food products and process of manufacturing the same: Self-cooling food and beverage containers and processes for manufacturing such containers with cryogenic high-pressure refrigerant cooling apparatus are disclosed. A self-cooling beverage container apparatus containing a beverage or other food product, a method of storing cryogenic gases which then cool said food products, and to methods of assembling and operating... Agent: Mark D. Bowen Stearns Weaver Miller

20080053120 - Air conditioner: An air conditioner includes an outdoor unit, an indoor unit and a plurality of communication pipes. The outdoor unit including has a gas close valve, a compressor driven by a compressor motor controlled by an inverter, an outdoor heat exchanger, an electrically powered expansion valve, and a liquid close valve.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080053123 - Cooling air flow control valve for burn-in system: A burn-in oven is provided with a plurality of spaced, stacked burn-in-boards, each with a plurality of individual circuits being tested under heated conditions, and a plurality of valve trays positioned between two burn-in-boards to form a heat exchange compartment below the valve tray. Each valve tray has a plenum... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080053125 - Expansion device: To provide an expansion device which shortens cool down time when an automotive air conditioner is started under a high-load condition. An expansion device having a differential pressure control valve is configured such that a temperature-sensing actuator (shape-memory alloy spring) is disposed at an refrigerant outlet of the expansion device,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080053127 - Heat pump: A heat pump includes an evaporator 10 evaporating water; a steam compressor 1 compressing the vapor generated by the evaporator 10; a vapor supply duct 31 adapted to supply the vapor 30 compressed by the compressor 1 to steam-utilizing facility 2; a measuring device 91 for measuring a state of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080053129 - Vehicle rooftop engine cooling system and method: An vehicle rooftop cooling system includes a radiator located outside of the engine compartment of a vehicle, the radiator having a liquid coolant inside the radiator; a fan coupled to the radiator and configured to extract hot air from the radiator; a first sensor proximate to the radiator configured to... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080053130 - Geothermal cooling device: A geothermal cooling device is couplable to a ground coil formed from a thermal superconductor material. The device includes a thermal superconductor heat exchange coil, and a thermostat controller and a blower. The device uses a high thermal transfer superconductor to efficiently move heat to the earth source for the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080053131 - Indoor unit of an air conditioner: An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit casing, a front panel, and a moving mechanism. A first suction port is provided at a front surface of the indoor unit casing. The front panel is provided at the front surface of the indoor unit casing, and opens... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080053134 - Air conditioner: In the vicinity of a suction port of a drain pump in a drain pan of an air conditioner, an antibacterial agent unit having an antibacterial agent capable of being brought into contact with drain water is disposed so that the antibacterial agent unit disposed in the vicinity of the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080053136 - Flash tank design and control for heat pumps: A method includes operating a compressor of a heat pump system and is selectively providing vapor to a vapor injection port of the compressor via a vapor injection line and vapor injection valve. The method further includes determining a frost condition of a first and second heat exchanger of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080053137 - Heat exchanger: An evaporator including a refrigerant inlet header having a refrigerant inlet at one end thereof, and a plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged at a spacing longitudinally of the inlet header and each having one end joined to the inlet header. The interior of the inlet header is divided by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080053143 - Sample collector and components thereof: To provide a protective coat on a refrigerated sample collector for a corrosive environment a unitary frame includes a support unit with condenser and evaporator coils mounted to the support unit and an orifice connecting the condenser and evaporator coils. The evaporator coils, condenser coils and a restrictor are powder... Agent: Vincent L. Carney Law Office

20080053144 - Air conditioner, heat source unit, and air conditioner updating method: An air conditioner is configured by appropriating, existing refrigerant pipes, of an existing air conditioner to update indoor units and an outdoor unit of a refrigerant circuit of the existing air conditioner. The air conditioner is disposed with an updated refrigerant circuit and a mixer disposed in the updated refrigerant... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080053145 - Refrigerant composition for refrigeration systems: The present invention relates to a method of refrigeration using refrigerant composition for multistage refrigeration systems, such as a pre-cooled mixed refrigeration system with one or more phase separators. The refrigerant composition can include nitrogen; methane; ethane, ethylene, or combinations thereof; propane, n-butane, iso-butane, or combinations thereof; and neon, helium,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.