Heating pipe for panel heaters
OwnerEiji Uchinoinventor
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Abstract
This invention concerns a heating pipe for panel heaters disclosed on walls, ceilings or floors to heat a room. The pipe is essentially constructed of a pipe itself, an electric heating wire running through it and aluminum granules stuffed between the two. Because of the simple structure, the production, the installment and the maintenance costs are cheap; as a matter of course, there is no additional need of a circulation pump for heating media and safety devices to watch the leak of heating media or the break of the pipe. Moreover, because spherical aluminum granules are closely packed, the heat conductivity is very good, which minimizes the heat loss and reduces the time to heat up a room. Also, the heat capacity is so small that frequency room temperature control by means of an automatic on-and-off mechanism has becomes possible.
Claims11
A heating apparatus, comprising:
- a pipe;
- an electrical resistive heating element positioned within said pipe;
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- thermally conductive aluminum spheres packed within said pipe between said electrical resistive heating element and the internal wall of said pipe.
A heat producing apparatus, comprising:
- a thermally conductive pipe;
- a nickel-chromium wire positioned within said pipe;
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- aluminum particles packed within said pipe, said aluminum particles filling the space within said pipe between said nickel-chromium wire and the inner wall of said pipe.
A heating pipe for a panel heater, comprising:
- a pipe;
- an electric heating wire;
- spherical aluminum granules;
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- said electric heating wire being passed through said pipe and said spherical aluminum granules being stuffed into space left between said pipe and said electric heating wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.