Combustion – Timer – programmer – retarder or condition responsive control – By combustion or combustion zone sensor
Patent
1989-04-28
1990-12-11
Price, Carl D.
Combustion
Timer, programmer, retarder or condition responsive control
By combustion or combustion zone sensor
431100, F23N 508
Patent
active
049766066
ABSTRACT:
A high output, narrow band thermally energized radiation source comprises a rare earth oxide radiator member that has a cross-sectional dimension in the range of five to thirty micrometers, the rare earth oxide radiator member, when heated to about 1700.degree. C., having a concentrated radiated flux over the 400-2500 nanometer wavelength range such that at least 50% of the radiated flux is within a spectral band that is less than 400 nanometers wide.
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Price Carl D.
TPV Energy Systems, Inc.
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