Lithic wireless warming table and portable heaters
OwnerMichel Duguay, Philippe Faucherinventors
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Abstract
A method and system for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, in which thermal energy is stored in a sensible heat storage. Thermal energy from the sensible heat storage is optically guided, and eventually also thermally conducted through a thermal energy propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area. A flux of thermal energy is controlled through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area
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A system for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, comprising:
- a sensible heat storage to generate thermal radiation;
- optically guiding means defining a thermal radiation propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area;
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- an adjustable control of a flux of thermal radiation through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area.
A system for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, comprising:
- a sensible heat storage sub-system to generate thermal radiation;
- a thermal energy transport sub-system comprising thermally conducting means and optically guiding means defining a thermal energy propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the selected area;
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- an adjustable control of a flux of thermal energy through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area.
A system for supplying thermal energy to at least one selected area of a tabletop, comprising:
- a sensible heat storage sub-system disposed under the tabletop to generate thermal radiation;
- a thermal radiation wave guiding sub-system defining a thermal radiation propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system underneath the tabletop to said at least one selected area of the tabletop;
- an adjustable control of a flux of thermal radiation through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the at least one selected area of the tabletop to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to said at least one selected area of the tabletop.
A system for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, comprising:
- a sensible heat storage sub-system to generate thermal radiation;
- a thermal radiation wave guiding sub-system comprising a series of optically guiding means defining a thermal radiation propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the selected area, said series of optically guiding means comprising a thermally insulated first hollow core waveguide to propagate and couple thermal radiation into a second hollow core waveguide serving as a radiator near the selected area, the second waveguide forming part of a waveguide resonator having at least one infrared-transparent surface portion through which infrared light is radiated to warm up people or food in the selected area;
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- an adjustable control of a flux of thermal energy through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area.
A method for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, comprising:
- storing thermal energy in a sensible heat storage;
- generating thermal radiation from the sensible heat storage;
- optically guiding the thermal radiation through a thermal radiation propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area;
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- controlling a flux of thermal radiation through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area.
A method for supplying thermal energy to a selected area, comprising:
- storing thermal energy in a sensible heat storage;
- generating thermal radiation from the sensible heat storage;
- thermally conducting and optically guiding thermal energy through a thermal energy propagation path from the sensible heat storage to the selected area;
- and
- controlling a flux of thermal energy through the propagation path from the sensible heat storage sub-system to the selected area to control the amount of thermal energy supplied to the selected area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.