F28D 2020/0065
Details
Official title: {Details, e.g. particular heat storage tanks, auxiliary members within tanks}
F28D2020/0065 (Details) appears on 567 US grants and 798 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F28D- Granted patents
- 567
- Published applications
- 798
- Assignees
- 434
- Inventors
- 1,473
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 54 | 85 |
| 2025 | 59 | 67 |
| 2026 | 33 | 52 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Controlling thermal energy storage29 Sep 2026US 12,747,873 B2Nostromo Ltd.
- Diffuser using collision of vortex rings and heat storage tank system including same15 Sep 2026US 12,736,292 B2FT Energy
- Thermodynamic cycle system with thermal plant integration1 Sep 2026US 12,723,542 B2Malta Inc.
- Energy storage device and method based on carbon dioxide gas-liquid phase change25 Aug 2026US 12,716,659 B2Exa Energy Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
- Methods for material activation with thermal energy storage system18 Aug 2026US 12,709,998 B2Rondo Energy, Inc.
- Separation and heat transfer systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309430 A1Solvcor Technologies LLC
- Thermal energy storage8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309431 A1Magaldi Power S.P.A.
- Microencapsulated phase change material slurry cooling system and method of operation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309432 A1Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Thermal storage and power generation systems and methods1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298140 A1247Solar Inc.
- Fluid reactor device and method for operating a fluid reactor device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298550 A1Dürr Systems AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sensible heat storage unit87US 4,405,010 ASanders Associates, Inc. · 1983
- Hot liquid thermal energy storage tank and method87US 4,643,212 AChicago Bridge & Iron Company · 1987
- Heat storage vessels for use with heat pumps and solar panels81US 5,941,238 A1999
- Method and apparatus for operating an improved thermocline storage unit77US 4,523,629 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1985
- High density thermal storage arrangement76US 10,345,050 B2Kelvin Thermal Energy Inc. · 2019