Heater

US5896914A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ST Speicher-Technologie GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Fieback · Michendorf, DE
• Lutz Kutzker · Fürstenwalde, DE
• Thomas Kramer · Herford, DE
• Michael Matthai · Henstedt-Ulzburg, DE
• Günter Hildebrand · Meuselwitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 27, 1999
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S165/904
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a heater (1) for use in a room of a dwelling, preferably with a convection surface (3) and, in the case, for example, of a hot-water heater, with a water tank with an inlet and an outlet aperture. To obtain a design more advantageous concerning the use, the heater according to the invention has a separate closed storage chamber (7) containing a latent heat storage medium (8), the storage chamber (7) being heatable by radiation, convection or electrically.