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Class Number: 165 Class Title: HEAT EXCHANGE Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 PROCESS 2 .Heating and cooling 3 ..Humidity adjusting 4 REGENERATOR 5 .Cleaning 6 .Movable heat storage mass with enclosure 7 ..With fluid handling system 8 ..Rotary heat collector 9 ...Seals 9.1 .Checker brick structure 9.2 ..Gradated flow area, heat capacity or heat resistance 9.3 ..Having gas supply or exhaust manifold structure 9.4 ..In casing 10 .Heat collector 11.1 WITH ALARM, INDICATOR, SIGNAL, REGISTER, RECORDER, TEST OR INSPECTION MEANS 11.2 .Remotely controlled inspection means 12 TIME OR PROGRAM ACTUATOR 13 AUTOMATIC CONTROL 14 .Heating and cooling 15 ..With cabin pressure control 16 ..With ventilation control 17 ..Defrosting 18 ..With control of heat storage 19 ..With gas and liquid contact fluid flow control 20 ...By humidity sensor 21 ..With humidity sensor controlling humidity 22 ..Correlation of plural zone controls and central system control 23 ..Responsive to vehicle body motion 24 ..With manual control 25 ...Manual selector modifies automatic control 26 ..Single sensor controls both heating and cooling 27 ..Selective heating or cooling 28 ...Room and ambient temperature sensors 29 ..Heat pump with supplemental heat source controlled 30 ..Opposed compensating heating and cooling 31 ..Pressure response or control 32 .Temperature or pressure 33 ..With correlated manual actuation 34 ..Branched flow of exchanging fluid 35 ...By-pass of heat exchanger 36 ....Mixture temperature sensing 37 .....With pressure response 38 ....Pressure controlled 39 ..Flow of one heat exchanging material controlled by the condition of another 40 ..Flow of heat exchanging material controlled by its own condition 41 WITH VEHICLE FEATURE 42 .Heating and cooling 43 ..Vehicle contained common power and heat supplyy 44 .Utilizing motion of vehicle 45 GEOGRAPHICAL 46 FLEXIBLE ENVELOPE OR COVER TYPE 47 STRUCTURAL INSTALLATION 48.1 .Heating and cooling 48.2 ..Solar 49 ..Radiant building panel 50 ..Room heat exchangers with central fluid supply 51 .Engine 52 ..Exchange between engine supply and exhaust lines 53 .Related to wall, floor or ceiling structure of a chamber 54 ..In a chamber connected passage traversing the structure 55 ..Projecting shield forms passage with the structure 56 ..Hollow or recess in the structure connected for exchange fluid flow 57 ...Ported to the chamber 58 HEATING AND COOLING 59 .With ventilation 60 .Gas-liquid contactor 61 .Heating and cooling of the same material 62 ..Refrigerating system conversion 63 ..Refrigeration producer 64 ..Heat generator 65 ..Heater and cooler serially arranged 66 ...Heat exchange between supply and exhaust lines 67 WITH EXTERNAL SUPPORT 68 .Legs 69 RESILIENT VIBRATION DAMPER ISOLATING EXCHANGER ELEMENT 70 WITH LEAKAGE COLLECTOR 71 WITH PURGE, OR DRAINAGE, COCK OR PLUG 72 COVERED ACCESS OPENING 73 .Cover is, or carries, heat exchanging means 74 ..Heat exchanging means projects into the covered chamber 75 .Heating or cooling means within the covered chamber 76 WITH REPAIR OR ASSEMBLY MEANS 77 .Hinge 78 .Guide 79 .Positioner or retainer for settable material 80.1 WITH RETAINER FOR REMOVABLE ARTICLE 80.2 .Electrical component 80.3 ..Air cooled, including fins 80.4 ..Liquid cooled 80.5 .Including liquid heat exchange medium 81 EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION RELIEVING OR ABSORBING MEANS 82 .Relieving or absorbing means supports temperature modifier in heat exchanger 83 ..Flexible fluid confining wall 84 WITH MEANS FLEXING, JARRING OR VIBRATING HEAT EXCHANGE SURFACE 85 AGITATOR OR IMPELLER MOTOR OPERATED BY EXCHANGE FLUID 86 MOVABLE HEATING OR COOLING SURFACE 87 .Hollow screw type impeller 88 .Rotor carrying separate chambers for two exchanging fluents 89 .Rotary drum 90 ..With means applying fluids for exchange through drum wall 91 ...With drum surface scraper 92 .Hollow strirrer or scraper 93 ..Material advancer in shelf to shelf device 94 WITH SCRAPER REMOVING PRODUCT FROM TEMPERATURE MODIFYINGG SURFACE 95 WITH CLEANING MEANS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER 96 WITH ADJUSTOR FOR HEAT, OR EXCHANGE MATERIAL, FLOW 97 .Flow reversed or crossed within temperature modifying zone 98 .Adjustable radiator face covering means 99 ..Discharge grille or diffuser 100 .Branched flow 101 ..Controls flow through parallel heating or cooling means 102 ..Tortuous and straight through branches within heating or cooling drum 103 ..By pass of heating or cooling means 104.11 INTERMEDIATE FLUENT HEAT EXCHANGE MATERIAL RECEIVING AND DISCHARGING HEAT 104.12 .Reversible chemical reaction 104.13 .Plural intermediate fluent heat exchange materials 104.14 ..Always out of direct contact with each other 104.15 .Solid fluent heat exchange material 104.16 ..Fluidized bed 104.17 ..Utilizing change of state 104.18 ..Including means to move heat exchange material 104.19 .Liquid fluent heat exchange material 104.21 ..Utilizing change of state 104.22 ...Including means to move heat exchange material in liquid state 104.23 ....By direct application of electrical energy to heat exchange material 104.24 ....By application of heat other than in heat receiving area 104.25 ....By application of mechanical energy 104.26 ...Utilizing capillary attraction 104.27 ...With pressurizing means or degassifying means 104.28 ..Including means to move heat exchange material 104.29 ...Utilizing formed bubble 104.31 ...By application of mechanical energy 104.32 ..With pressurizing means or degassifying means 104.33 ..Cooling electrical device 104.34 .Including means to move gaseous heat exchange material 108 RECIRCULATION 109.1 WITH AGITATING OR STIRRING STRUCTURE 110 WITH FIRST FLUID HOLDER OR COLLECTOR OPEN TO SECOND FLUID 111 .Separate external discharge port for each fluid 112 ..With downstream pressure or temperature modifier 113 ...Surface-type heat exchanger 114 ..With baffle at inlet to less dense fluid discharge port 115 .Trickler 116 ..Shelf to shelf 117 ..Pipe exterior to pipe exterior 118 ..Vertical cone or drum 119 WITH SOLIDS SEPARATOR FOR EXCHANGE FLUID 120 WITH IMPELLER OR CONVEYOR MOVING EXCHANGE MATERIAL 121 .Mechanical gas pump 122 ..Heating or cooling means and gas pump in housing 123 ...With injector-type gas pump 124 ...Verging gas flow 125 ....Radial flow through annular heating or cooling means 126 ....Single inlet, plural outlets 127 .....Gas pump for each outlet stream 128 THERMOSYPHONIC FLUE TYPEE 129 .Heating or cooling means within distinct flue forming enclosure 130 .Flue formed between facing second fluid containing conduits 131 .Flues formed by vertical corrugations of heat transmitter 132 HEATING OR COOLING MEANS IN OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH RESERVOIR 133 WITH COATED, ROUGHENED OR POLISHED SURFACE 134.1 WITH PROTECTOR OR PROTECTIVE AGENT 135 WITH THERMAL OR ACOUSTICAL BLOCKER 136 .Insulation and temperature modifier within barrier member 137 CONVERTIBLE 138 COMBINED 139 INTERNALLY BRANCHED FLOW, EXTERNALLY PORTED 140 THREE NON-COMMUNICATING FLUIDS 141 .Concentric flow chambers 142 SPUR TUBE PROJECTS INTO ENCLOSURE 143 PLURAL CASTING-CONDUIT UNITS<< LINE OR COMMON HEADER CONNECTED 144 LINE CONNECTED CONDUIT ASSEMBLIES 145 .In common casing 146 GRADATED HEAT TRANSFER STRUCTURE 147 .Tapered conduit means 148 RADIATOR CORE TYPE 149 .With edge cover or frame means 150 .Serially connected tube sections 151 .Side-by-side tubes traversing fin means 152 .Deformed sheet forms passages between side-by-side tube means 153 ..With tube manifold 154 NON-COMMUNICATING COAXIAL ENCLOSURES 155 .With communicating coaxial enclosure 156 .Helical conduit means 157 CASING OR TANK ENCLOSED CONDUIT ASSEMBLY 158 .Manifold formed by casing section and tube sheet of assembly 159 .With distinct flow director in casing 160 ..Longitudinal 161 ...Additional transverse baffle 162 .With support in casing 163 .Conduit coiled within casing 164 FLOW PASSAGES FOR TWO CONFINED FLUIDS 165 .Interdigitated plural first and plural second fluid passages 166 ..Stacked plates or shells form interplate passages 167 ...With plate traversing passages interconnecting alternate spaces 168 CONDUIT WITHIN, OR CONFORMING TO, PANEL OR WALL STRUCTURE 169 .Wall forms enclosure 170 .Opposed plates or shells 171 .Means spanning side-by-side tube elements 172 SIDE-BY-SIDE TUBULAR STRUCTURES OR TUBE SECTIONS 173 .With manifold type header or header plate 174 ..With internal flow director 175 ..Inlet and outlet header means 176 ...Side by side 177 TUBULAR STRUCTURE 178 .With support or flow connector 179 .Projecting internal and external heat transfer means 180 .Diverse materials 181 .With discrete heat transfer means 182 ..With means spacing fins on structure 183 ..Longitudinal extending 184 ...Helicall 185 HEAT TRANSMITTER 186 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 900 COOLING TOWERS 901 HEAT SAVERS 902 HEAT STORAGE 903 CONVECTION 904 RADIATION 905 MATERIALS OF MANUFACTURE 906 REINFORCEMENT 907 POROUS 908 FLUID JETS 909 REGENERATION 910 TUBE PATTERN 911 VAPORIZATION 912 COMBINED OR CONVERTIBLE HEAT EXCHANGE MODES 913 CONDENSATION 914 FILMING 915 FOAMING 916 OIL COOLER 917 PRESSURIZATION AND/OR DEGASSIFICATION 918 HEATED AND COOLED FOOD CABINETS AND/OR TRAYS 919 .WHEELED 920 PARTICULATE HEAT EXCHANGE 921 DEW POINT