Rectifying antenna and method of manufacture
    4.
    发明授权
    Rectifying antenna and method of manufacture 有权
    整流天线及制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US07091918B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-15

    申请号:US10904121

    申请日:2004-10-25

    IPC分类号: H01Q13/10

    摘要: In accordance with the present invention, an aperture rectenna is provided where the substrate is transparent and of sufficient mechanical strength to support the fabricated structure above it. An aperture antenna is deposited on the transparent substrate and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diode is constructed on top of the aperture antenna. There is an insulating layer between the aperture antenna metal and the metal ground plane optimized to maximize the collection of incident radiation. The top of the structure is capped with a metal ground plane layer, which also serves as the DC connection points for each rectenna element.

    摘要翻译: 根据本发明,提供一种孔径整流天线,其中基板是透明的并且具有足够的机械强度以支撑其上方的制造结构。 在透明基板上沉积孔径天线,并且在孔径天线的顶部上构造金属 - 绝缘体 - 金属(MIM)二极管。 在孔径天线金属和金属接地平面之间存在绝缘层,该绝缘层被最优化以最大限度地收集入射辐射。 该结构的顶部用金属接地层覆盖,该层还用作每个整流天线元件的直流连接点。

    Phase change material storage heater
    7.
    发明授权
    Phase change material storage heater 失效
    相变材料储存加热器

    公开(公告)号:US5687706A

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-18

    申请号:US428905

    申请日:1995-04-25

    摘要: A storage heater for storing heat and for heating a fluid, such as water, has an enclosure defining a chamber therein. The chamber has a lower portion and an upper portion with a heating element being disposed within the enclosure. A tube through which the fluid flows has an inlet and an outlet, both being disposed outside of the enclosure, and has a portion interconnecting the inlet and the outlet that passes through the enclosure. A densely packed bed of phase change material pellets is disposed within the enclosure and is surrounded by a viscous liquid, such as propylene glycol. The viscous liquid is in thermal communication with the heating element, the phase change material pellets, and the tube and transfers heat from the heating element to the pellets and from the pellets to the tube. The viscous fluid has a viscosity so that the frictional pressure drop of the fluid in contact with the phase change material pellets substantially reduces vertical thermal convection in the fluid. As the fluid flows through the tube heat is transferred from the viscous liquid to the fluid flowing through the tube, thereby heating the fluid.

    摘要翻译: 用于储存热量并用于加热诸如水的流体的储存加热器具有在其中限定室的外壳。 腔室具有下部和上部,其中加热元件设置在外壳内。 流体流过的管具有入口和出口,两者都设置在外壳的外部,并且具有将入口和出口互连的部分,其通过外壳。 相变材料颗粒的密集填充床设置在外壳内并被粘性液体如丙二醇包围。 粘性液体与加热元件,相变材料颗粒和管道热连通,并将热量从加热元件传递到颗粒,并从颗粒转移到管中。 粘性流体具有粘度,使得与相变材料颗粒接触的流体的摩擦压降基本上降低了流体中的垂直热对流。 当流体流过管道时,热量从粘性液体传递到流过管道的流体,从而加热流体。

    Photocatalytic air disinfection
    8.
    发明授权
    Photocatalytic air disinfection 失效
    光催化空气消毒

    公开(公告)号:US5933702A

    公开(公告)日:1999-08-03

    申请号:US988814

    申请日:1997-12-11

    申请人: D. Yogi Goswami

    发明人: D. Yogi Goswami

    IPC分类号: A61L9/20 B01D53/86 F24F3/12

    摘要: A method for disinfecting an air stream containing microorganisms including the steps of providing an air stream containing microorganisms having a relative humidity greater than about 40%; and contacting the air stream with a photocatalyst having a predetermined band gap energy in the presence of a source of photons having a wavelength corresponding to the band gap energy of the photocatalyst, so that at least a portion of the microorganisms in the air stream are destroyed by photocatalyfic oxidation. Devices embodying the method of the invention are disclosed, such as stand-alone devices and devices incorporated into the HVAC systems of buildings, including the air supply registers. Photocatalyst-coated filter media capable of trapping bioaerosols are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于消毒含有微生物的空气流的方法,包括以下步骤:提供含有相对湿度大于约40%的微生物的空气流; 并且在具有对应于光催化剂的带隙能量的波长的光子源的存在下,使气流与具有预定带隙能量的光催化剂接触,使得空气流中的至少一部分微生物被破坏 通过光催化氧化。 公开了体现本发明方法的装置,诸如并入装置的建筑物HVAC系统中的独立设备和装置,包括空气供应寄存器。 还公开了能够捕获生物溶胶的光催化剂涂覆的过滤介质。

    Contact resistance-regulated storage heater for fluids
    10.
    发明授权
    Contact resistance-regulated storage heater for fluids 失效
    接触式电阻调节储液加热器

    公开(公告)号:US5694515A

    公开(公告)日:1997-12-02

    申请号:US370265

    申请日:1995-01-09

    摘要: A storage fluid heater for heating a fluid, employs a heat storage unit, a heating element thermally coupled to the heat storage unit, and a heat recovery tube thermally coupled to the heat storage unit. The recovery tube is made from a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion so that as the average temperature of the heat storage unit near the heat recovery tube increases, the surface area of gaps between the heat recovery tube and the storage unit increases, causing the contact resistance between the heat storage unit and the heat recovery tube to increase. The temperature of the fluid flowing within the heat recovery tube is thereby limited to a predetermined maximum. A structure that relieves excess pressure when the flow of fluid through the tube is stopped has an expansion tank connected to the fluid inlet of the tube.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于加热流体的储存流体加热器,采用热存储单元,与该蓄热单元热耦合的加热元件,以及与热存储单元热耦合的热回收管。 回收管由具有热膨胀系数的材料制成,随着热回收管附近的蓄热单元的平均温度升高,热回收管与储存单元之间的间隙的表面积增加, 蓄热单元与热回收管之间的接触电阻增加。 因此,在热回收管内流动的流体的温度被限制在预定的最大值。 当通过管的流体流动停止时减轻过压的结构具有连接到管的流体入口的膨胀罐。