Thermal Processes and Apparatus

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2024

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[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 14 4910974    Automatic ice making machine
  Inventors: Yasuo Hara

  2. 9 9335081    Ice maker and ice making method using the same
  Inventors: Juhyun Son; Wookyong Lee; Donghoon Lee; Dongjeong Kim

  3. 8 9234689    Ice maker
  Inventors: Juhyun Son; Wookyong Lee; Donghoon Lee; Dongjeong Kim

  4. 7 9581372    Ice maker
  Inventors: Donghoon Lee; Wookyong Lee

  5. 6 11296648    Solar panel racking system and devices for the same
  Inventors: Roland Jasmin; Jun Liu; Steve Mumma; Boutros Abou Chacra; Clifford Schrock

  5. 6 5725051    Heat exchanger
  Inventors: Wessel Bart Veltkamp

  5. 6 6561480    Motor operated valve
  Inventors: Yasuo Komiya; Seiichi Nakano; Hideki Sekiguchi; Tokuji Yatsui

  8. 5 10041682    High efficiency solid fuel burning stove with optimized burning conditions and low level of emission
  Inventors: Taylor Myers; Ryan Fisher; Stanislav I Stoliarov

  8. 5 10622935    Rail-mounted bottom clamp for mounting solar panels to roofs and the like
  Inventors: Jun Liu

  8. 5 11560042    Heat pump refrigerant loop arrangements
  Inventors: Jeffrey Paul Brown; Manfred Koberstein; Loren John Lohmeyer, III; Rachael Shey

  8. 5 3835294    High pressure electric fluid heater
  Inventors: D Krohn; S Culbertson

  8. 5 5451352    Method of forming a diamond composite structure
  Inventors: Arnold J. Cook

  8. 5 7131487    Use of adjusted evaporator section area of heat pipe that is sized to match the surface area of an integrated heat spreader used in CPU packages in mobile computers
  Inventors: Je-Young Chang; Eric Distefano

  8. 5 7285153    Method and equipment for feeding two gases into and out of a multi-channel monolithic structure
  Inventors: Tor Bruun; Bjørnar Werswick; Kåre Kristiansen; Leif Kåre Grønstad

  8. 5 8938932    Rail-less roof mounting system
  Inventors: Stuart Wentworth; Claudia Wentworth

  8. 5 9234688    Ice maker
  Inventors: Juhyun Son; Wookyong Lee; Donghoon Lee; Dongjeong Kim

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Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 26 10908578    Temperature control system and methods for operating same
  Inventors: David A. Johnson; Valerie Jean Johnson; John Edward Dumar

  1. 26 10921768    Temperature control system and methods for operating same
  Inventors: David A. Johnson; Valerie Jean Johnson; John Edward Dumar

  1. 26 11156978    Intelligent ventilation control for optimizing HVAC operations
  Inventors: David A. Johnson; Valerie Jean Johnson; John Edward Dumar

  1. 26 9447985    HVAC control system and methods for operating same
  Inventors: David A. Johnson

  5. 25 10871756    Temperature control system and methods for operating same
  Inventors: David A. Johnson; Valerie Jean Johnson; John Edward Dumar

  6. 19 9014791    System and method for managing thermal issues in gas turbine engines
  Inventors: Timothy James Held

  7. 18 10113535    Dispatchable combined cycle power plant
  Inventors: William M. Conlon

  7. 18 8869531    Heat engines with cascade cycles
  Inventors: Timothy James Held

  9. 17 10024198    Heat engine system including an integrated cooling circuit
  Inventors: Timothy James Held; Jason D. Miller

  9. 17 10077683    Mass management system for a supercritical working fluid circuit
  Inventors: Cameron Close

  9. 17 10267184    Valve network and method for controlling pressure within a supercritical working fluid circuit in a heat engine system with a turbopump
  Inventors: Brett A. Bowan; Michael Louis Vermeersch

  9. 17 10472994    Systems and methods for controlling the pressure of a working fluid at an inlet of a pressurization device of a heat engine system
  Inventors: Vamshi Krishna Avadhanula; Timothy James Held; Jason D. Miller; Katherine Hart

  9. 17 10724805    Charging system with a high temperature thermal energy exchange system and method for charging heat storage material of the high temperature thermal energy exchange system with thermal energy
  Inventors: Till Andreas Barmeier; Volker Seidel; Henrik Stiesdal

  9. 17 10934895    Heat engine systems with high net power supercritical carbon dioxide circuits
  Inventors: Timothy James Held; Joshua Giegel

  9. 17 11187112    Systems and methods for generating electricity via a pumped thermal energy storage system
  Inventors: Timothy James Held

  9. 17 7900450    Thermodynamic power conversion cycle and methods of use
  Inventors: Michael Gurin

  9. 17 8099198    Hybrid power generation and energy storage system
  Inventors: Michael Gurin

  9. 17 8616323    Hybrid power systems
  Inventors: Michael Gurin

  9. 17 8783034    Hot day cycle
  Inventors: Timothy James Held

  9. 17 8857186    Heat engine cycles for high ambient conditions
  Inventors: Timothy James Held

  9. 17 9062898    Carbon dioxide refrigeration cycle
  Inventors: Timothy James Held; Michael Louis Vermeersch; Tao Xie

  9. 17 9316404    Heat pump with integral solar collector
  Inventors: Michael Gurin

  9. 17 9341084    Supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle for waste heat recovery
  Inventors: Tao Xie; Michael Louis Vermeersch; Timothy James Held

  9. 17 9458738    Heat engine and heat to electricity systems and methods with working fluid mass management control
  Inventors: Timothy James Held; Stephen Hostler; Jason D. Miller; Michael Louis Vermeersch; Tao Xie

  9. 17 9638065    Methods for reducing wear on components of a heat engine system at startup
  Inventors: Michael Louis Vermeersch; Brett A. Bowan; Swapnil Khairnar

  9. 17 9759096    Supercritical working fluid circuit with a turbo pump and a start pump in series configuration
  Inventors: Michael Louis Vermeersch

  9. 17 9863282    Automated mass management control
  Inventors: Katherine Hart; Timothy James Held

  9. 17 9874112    Heat engine system having a selectively configurable working fluid circuit
  Inventors: Josua Giegel

 
 
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