Wireless amagnetic heating module

• US 11,540,361 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2018
• Issued: 12/27/2022
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: E-Wenco S.r.l.
• Original Assignee: E-Wenco S.r.l.
• Inventors: Corrado, Ennio, Cremonesi, Chiara
• Primary Examiner(s): Ross, Dana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mills, Jr., Joe E
• Application Number:
  US16/605,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20200137840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,713 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/108 for heating a fluid
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/34 Arrangements for circulation of melts

Abstract

A non-magnetic wireless heating module is described. The module consists of a, preferably embossed, surface or plane and a dielectric surface or plane. The surface or plane is made of an inductive non-magnetic metal alloy that contains a first amagnetic metal or a first non-magnetic mixture of metals in a percentage between 85% and 99.99% by weight to the total weight and contains a second ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic metal or a second ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic mixture of metals in a percentage between 0.01% and 15% by weight to the total weight. The wireless amagnetic heating module is inserted into a chamber (for example a pipe or a portion of a pipe, a cubic container, a cistern . . . ) for the passage or storage of fluids, liquids, gases or solids; when the wireless amagnetic heating module is subjected to a variable electromagnetic field, it heats up, allowing heating, drying, passage of phase, . . . of the material in contact with it and contained in the chamber.

Claims

1. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 inserted inside a chamber 20 and composed of:

an embossed surface or plane 1 consisting of at least one layer of an inductive amagnetic metal alloy consisting of a first amagnetic metal or a first amagnetic metal mixture in percentages ranging from 85% to 99.9% by mass over the total alloy (% wt), and containing a second ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic metal or a second mixture of ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic metals in a percentage ranging from 0.1% to 15% by mass over the total alloy (% wt), and

from a dielectric surface 2 or plane transparent to electromagnetic fields.

2. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, wherein the surface or plane 1 has different types of embossing, including accordion or wave or dots.

3. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, of dimensions xyz where xy is a plane having dimensions smaller than 5 square meters and of circular or parallelepiped shape with a major axis from 1 centimeter to 1 meter, and the thickness comprised between 0.5 micrometers and 10 centimeters.

4. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, whose thickness of the plane 1 is between 0.1 micrometers to 4 centimeters.

5. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1 wherein the dielectric surface or plane 2 has the same size and shape or dissimilarity to the surface or plane 1.

6. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1 for heating or triggering reactions (such as for instance polymerization, cross-linking, catalysis or drying or favors the phase passage of the material such as melting, vaporization, sublimation) solid, fluid, liquid or gaseous material in motion or stationary status inside the chamber.

7. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1 wherein the surface or plane 1 consists of a multilayer of several sheets having a thickness from 0.1 to 500 micrometers of the same alloy or of different amagnetic inductive metal alloys.

8. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1 in which the wireless amagnetic heating module 10 is replicated in a contiguous or disjointed manner, orthogonal or transversal or parallel along the partial or entire surface of the chamber.

9. A wireless self-magnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, hit by a variable electromagnetic field generated by a solenoid covering the chamber or by one or more flat turns placed on the outer surface of the chamber.

10. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, inserted inside or on the bottom of a cylindrical or cubic or parallelepiped chamber, closed or partially open on one or more sides.

11. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric surface or plane 2 is made of poorly or entirely non-inductive material.

12. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, in which the module is perforated in one or more points, having homogeneous or inhomogeneous shapes, or which takes the form of a homogeneous or inhomogeneous mesh network.

13. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, in which the module has a lying plane oriented with angles smaller or equal to 2 steradians in each direction with respect to the plane of arrangement of the inductors.

14. A wireless amagnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1 in a flat or concave or spiral shape developed on the 3 axis or corrugator or accordion.

15. A wireless self-magnetic heating module 10 according to claim 1, wherein the inductive amagnetic alloy is applied by sputtering or analogous techniques directly on dielectric elements with thicknesses starting from 0.5 micrometers.