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US 12,650,234 B2Granted
Heating system
AssigneeIntellihot, Inc.
InventorsSridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
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Abstract
A heating system including a thermal battery including an opening, a storage container configured to hold a first fluid therein, the opening configured to expose the first fluid to atmospheric pressure; and a fluid conductor disposed through the first fluid from an inlet point at the storage container to an outlet point at the storage container, the fluid conductor configured to receive a second fluid at a first temperature at the inlet point and to supply the second fluid at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.
Claims4
A heating system comprising:
- (a) a first fluid conductor configured to carry a working fluid upstream of an expansion valve;
- (b) an evaporator disposed in an airstream and thermally connected to said first fluid conductor by a mode of convection, wherein said mode of convection is configured to be aided by a single blower;
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- (c) a second fluid conductor connecting said first fluid conductor to said evaporator, wherein the expansion valve is interposed in said second fluid conductor and the working fluid upstream of said expansion valve is configured to be received at said evaporator through said expansion valve and said second fluid conductor,
- wherein said first fluid conductor and said evaporator are positioned so that convective heat transfer from said first fluid conductor to said airstream lowers a temperature of the working fluid in said first fluid conductor upstream of the expansion valve, and said evaporator subsequently absorbs at least as much heat from the airstream as was lost from the working fluid, thereby compensating for the heat loss.
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