Inductionally heated vapor generators and other fluid systems

• US 3,388,230 A
• Filed: 02/28/1964
• Issued: 06/11/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard C. Cunningham, Wayne J. Severson
• Original Assignee: Richard C. Cunningham, Wayne J. Severson
• Inventors: Cunningham, Richard C., Severson, Wayne J.
• Application Number:
  US04/348,098
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• US Class Current: 219/630
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 49/105 using eddy currents
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/281 other than by electrical resistances or electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/06 Control, e.g. of temperature, of power
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/108 for heating a fluid
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 159/26 Electric field

Claims

6. INDUCTIONAL HEATING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH A CLOSED FLUID SYSTEM, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A BRANCHED CONDUIT NETWORK FORMING PART OF SAID SYSTEM, SAI CONDUIT NETWORK INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL CONDUIT MEANS COMMUNICATING THEREWITH, AT LEAST SAID CONDUIT MEANS BEING FABRICATED FROM A CONDUCTIVE CONTAINMENT MATERIAL, MEANS FOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING SAID CONDUIT MEANS INTO A SHORT-CIRCUITED POLYPHASAL NETWORK, SAID CONDUIT MEANS FORMING SHORT-CIRCUITED SECONDARY TRANSFORMER CONDUITWINDINGS WHEN SO CONNECTED, A POLYPHASAL LOAD TRANSFORMER HAVING A CORE STRUCTURE COUPLED TO SAID SECONDARY CONDUIT WINDINGS, A POLYPHASAL COUPLING TRANSFORMER, TUBULAR POLYPHASAL SECONDARY AND PRIMARY WINDING SYSTEM ON SAID CORE STRUCTURE AND ON SAID COUPLING TRANSFORMER RESPECTIVELY, MEANS FOR CIRCULATING A FLUIDIZABLE COOLANT MATERIAL THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF SAID TUBULAR WINDING SYSTEM, AND SUPPLY CIRCUIT MEANS FOR SAID COUPLING TRANSFORMER, INCLUDING PRIMARY WINDING MEANS THEREON.