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Recipient design to contain an energy storage medium with high fusion-crystallization latent heat

US4768579A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 27, 1987
Grant dateSep 6, 1988
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 27, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E60/14
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A recipient which is filled with a storage medium which expands during phase transformation wherein the recipient is a flexible structure having a geometrical shape such that only the flexibility of the structure is required to increase its volume to compensate for the expansion of the stored medium without creating stress or stretching the walls of the structure.

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