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  5. /Y10S 261/00 · Gas and liquid contact apparatus
  6. /Y10S 261/87
Y10S 261/87

Cooling tower power generators

Y10S261/87 (Cooling tower power generators) appears on 14 US grants and 2 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. YGeneral tagging of new technological developments
  2. Y10Technical subjects covered by former uspc
  3. Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests
  4. Y10S 261/00Gas and liquid contact apparatus
  5. Y10S 261/87Cooling tower power generators
Granted patents
14
Published applications
2
Assignees
4
Inventors
10
Latest grant
18 Jul 2017

Filings by year

Granted patentsPublished applications
Y10S 261/87: granted patents and published applications per publication year
YearGranted patentsPublished applications
197610
197730
197810
197910
198000
198100
198200
198300
198400
198510
198600
198700
198800
198900
199000
199100
199200
199300
199410
199520
199610
199700
199800
199900
200000
200100
200201
200300
200420
200500
200600
200700
200800
200900
201000
201100
201201
201300
201400
201500
201600
201710

19761986199620062017

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Heat engine18 Jul 2017US 9,708,978 B2
  • Multiple collector wind driven power generating device6 Apr 2004US 6,717,285 B2
  • Wind powered generator device9 Mar 2004US 6,703,720 B1
  • Convection towers16 Jan 1996US 5,483,798 AThe Regents of the University of California
  • Convection towers26 Dec 1995US 5,477,684 AThe Regents of the University of California
  • Heat engine27 Sep 2012US 2012/0240551 A1
  • Wind powered generator device28 Mar 2002US 2002/0036407 A1

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Tornado-type wind turbine86US 4,070,131 AGrumman Aerospace Corporation · 1978
  • Power system75US 3,936,652 A1976
  • Vortex-augmented cooling tower-windmill combination60US 4,499,034 AThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy · 1985
  • Convection towers35US 5,395,598 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1995
  • Efficiency and utilization of cooling towers28US 4,031,173 A1977

Top assignees

Documents
  • RUThe Regents of the University of California3
  • USThe United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy2
  • CECombustion Engineering, Inc.1
  • GAGrumman Aerospace Corporation1

Often classified with

  • Y02EClean energy generation and storage14
  • F03DWind motors10
  • F05BIndexing scheme relating to wind, spring, weight, inertia or like motors, to10
  • Y02BEnergy-efficient buildings9
  • Y02PLow-carbon manufacturing8
  • F03GSpring, weight, inertia or like motors6
  • B01DSeparation4
  • F01KSteam engine plants3
  • F28CHeat-exchange apparatus, not provided for in another subclass, in which the heat-exchange3
  • F02CGas-turbine plants2

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