Refrigeration – Automatic control – Preventing – removing or handling atmospheric condensate
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-29
2011-03-29
Norman, Marc E (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Automatic control
Preventing, removing or handling atmospheric condensate
C062S272000, C165S133000, C165S181000, C165S913000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07913499
ABSTRACT:
A heat exchanger having a plurality of heat exchanging aluminum fins with hydrophilic condensing surfaces which are stacked and clamped between two cold plates. The cold plates are aligned radially along a plane extending through the axis of a cylindrical duct and hold the stacked and clamped portions of the heat exchanging fins along the axis of the cylindrical duct. The fins extend outwardly from the clamped portions along approximately radial planes. The spacing between fins is symmetric about the cold plates, and are somewhat more closely spaced as the angle they make with the cold plates approaches 90°. Passageways extend through the fins between vertex spaces which provide capillary storage and communicate with passageways formed in the stacked and clamped portions of the fins, which communicate with water drains connected to a pump externally to the duct. Water with no entrained air is drawn from the capillary spaces.
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Ma Yonghui
North Andrew
Thomas Christopher M.
Weislogel Mark M.
Norman Marc E
Orbital Technologies Corporation
Stiennon & Stiennon
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