Apparatus for rapid heating of liquids
AssigneeGenie Enterprise Ltd.
InventorsDoron Bernard MARCO, Ayelet CARASSO
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Abstract
Apparatus for rapid heating of a liquid including a heat source, a liquid flowpath defining element defining a liquid heating flowpath therein having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, a collection of flexible elongate thermal conductors located within the flowpath, the collection of flexible elongate thermal conductor portions being thermally coupled to the heat source and defining multiple liquid heating passageways through the flowpath whose configurations and cross-sectional dimensions change over time, thereby being resistant to clogging.
Claims6
1-17. (canceled)
A method for rapid heating of a liquid comprising:
- providing a liquid flowpath defining element including a bore and a heating element recess separate from and spaced from said bore, said bore defining a liquid flowpath therein, having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet;
- locating a heating element in said heating element recess;
- fixing a collection of flexible elongate thermal conductors in the form of intertwined fibers to said liquid flowpath defining element such that said collection of flexible elongate thermal conductors are thermally coupled, via said liquid flowpath defining element, to said heating element, said intertwined fibers defining multiple liquid heating passageways through said liquid flowpath defining element;
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- operating said heating element and heating said collection of flexible elongate thermal conductors, by transmitting heat from said heating element to said collection of flexible elongate thermal conductors via said liquid flowpath defining element, while directing liquid, through said liquid flowpath defining element, from said liquid inlet to said liquid outlet, thereby heating said liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.