120 results about "Joule effect" patented technology

Power connector modules are provided that can be plug connectors, receptacle connectors, or a system of plug and receptacle connector modules and optionally other modules, that mate together. Each connector has an uncoupled contact feature. The uncoupled contacts have exposed surfaces to dissipate heat resulting from Joule effects. The uncoupled contacts for the plug connector converge to form a blade structure at one side. The uncoupled contacts for the receptacle connector form a receiving section that engages the blade structure of the plug connector when the plug connector and receptacle connector are used together.

The invention provides a system and method for testing mechanical properties of a conductor material at a high-temperature vacuum environment. According to the system and the method, the problems that the high-temperature strain is difficult to test, the sample heating efficiency is low, and the like are solved. The system comprises a high-temperature strain test subsystem, a temperature control subsystem and a loading subsystem; and a stretch process is carried out in a vacuum environmental chamber, and a sample is loaded by virtue of a mechanical test machine. According to the method, a Joule effect is adopted, a material is put into the vacuum environmental chamber, the normal temperature absolute vacuum degree can reach 0.025Pa, low voltage and high current are introduced to the conductor material so as to rapidly heat the sample, the loading is carried out after reaching a target temperature, meanwhile, data collection is carried out on a high-temperature deformation field by virtue of a DIC strain test technique so as to obtain a strain field of a whole sample scale distance section and a displacement-load curve of the sample, and subsequent processing is carried out so as to obtain high-temperature tensile/compression modulus and tensile strength of the sample. The system and the method have the advantages of high heating speed, uniform temperature field, high deformation measurement precision and the like.

power module having electronic power components, the module comprising a soleplate constituting a heat exchanger for dumping the power dissipated by the Joule effect in said power components, wherein said soleplate has a face that is provided with a skin of aluminum alloy, said skin being covered in an insulating layer of aluminum oxide obtained by anodizing said skin, said insulating layer constituting a substrate on which metallized tracks are made in order to receive said electronic components, the other face of said soleplate being in contact with a cooling fluid.

A method and installation for energy densification of a material to obtain pyrolytic oils for energy. The method includes preconditioning the material by heating and drying to raise the material temperature close to 100° C. and a relative humidity not exceeding about 10%; pyrolyzing the material that is subsequently caused to flow through a substantially hermetic reactor containing at least one transfer screw or vibrating tube heated by the Joule effect, the material heated progressively in the range of 300° C. to 850° C., the electrical power passing through the transfer screw or the vibrating tube for providing heating regulated as a function of the material in order to obtain the desired temperature level during the transit time of the material through the reactor; extracting pyrolysis gas from a high portion of the reactor for rapid recondensation in a vertical condenser; and recovering pyrolytic oils from a low portion of the vertical condenser.

The invention relates to acoustic lining for an aircraft, which can cover a leading edge, such as an air inlet in the nacelle of a propulsion unit, said lining comprising: (i) from the inside outwards, a reflective layer (28), at least one cellular structure (30) and an acoustically resistive structure (32) having a pre-determined proportion of open surface; and (ii) at least one frost treatment system in the form of at least one heating layer (46) comprising open zones through which acoustic waves can pass, which co-operate at least partially with the open zones in the acoustically resistive structure. The invention is characterized in that the acoustically resistive structure (32) includes at least one structural layer (36) with openings (38) and in that said at least one heating layer (46) is disposed under the structural layer (36).

The invention relates to a thermal flow sensor comprising:

• • a support,
  • at least one element intended to be vibrated relative to the support,
  • suspension means for said vibrating element relative to the vibrating element,
  • means for heating the vibrating element,
  • means for electrostatic excitation of the vibrating element so as to vibrate it at its resonance frequency,
  • piezoelectric gauges for detecting the resonance frequency variation of the vibrating element, the gauges forming means for heating the vibrating element by Joule effect and the suspension means comprising two beams formed by nanowires so as to reduce the heat losses from the vibrating element toward the support.

An apparatus and process are provided for multi-frequency induction heat treatment of workpieces including gears. High frequency power is applied to an induction coil that surrounds the workpiece so that a high frequency magnetic field couples with the workpiece to inductively heat the workpiece. A C-core inductor is coupled to a coil that has low frequency power applied to it. The workpiece is inserted in a gap in the C-core inductor magnetic circuit so that it experiences low frequency Joule effect heating when the low frequency current is applied to the coil coupled with the C-core inductor. Alternatively the workpiece may be inserted around the C-core inductor when the workpiece has an opening.

An electric household appliance having a casing (2); a compartment (3) housed inside the casing (2) and facing an opening (4); a door (5) fitted to the casing (2) and movable between an open position and a closed position; and a locking device (6); the locking device (6) having a box body (7) fixed to the casing (2), alongside the door (5); latch means (8, 13) fitted to the box body (7) to move between a lock position locking the door (5), and a release position releasing the door (5); and an actuating device (11) for selectively moving the latch means (8, 13) between the lock position and the release position, and which has at least an electrically conducting resistance wire (16) made of a shape-memory alloy and designed to vary in length alongside a variation in temperature, and electric power devices (18) for powering the resistance wire (16) and producing a controlled Joule-effect variation in temperature.

A process for manufacturing a flexible heating sheet comprising two outer layers made of plastic material and a metal foil ribbon, arranged sinuously between the outer layers and acting as an electrical heating conductor using the Joule effect, includes a) printing a first face of a metal foil strip with a sinuous ribbon pattern and a second face with a pattern in an anti-bond lacquer complementary to the sinuous ribbon pattern, b) masking the first face of the metal strip by extrusion with a metal support film using a first extruded layer made of plastic, c) slicing the metal strip masked with the support film from the second face as far as the first extruded layer along the delimitation lines of the sinuous ribbon pattern and the complementary pattern, d) covering the second face of the metal foil strip with a second extruded layer made of plastic, e) covering the second face of the foil strip coated by extrusion using a first layer of glue with a first outer layer with a plastic film, f) separating the support film from part of the metal foil strip corresponding to the complementary pattern and bonding to the first extrusion layer, and g) covering the face of part of the metal strip forming the sinuous ribbon, released after separation from the support film, using a second layer of glue with a second outer layer made of plastic.

An integrated sensor device including a first die, housing a sensor element to detect a quantity external to the sensor device and transduce the external quantity into an electrical sensing signal; a second die mechanically coupled to the first die so that the first and second dies are stacked on one another along one and the same axis; and at least one heater of a resistive type integrated in the first die and/or in the second die, having a first conduction terminal and a second conduction terminal configured to couple respective first and second conduction terminals of a signal generator for causing an electric current to flow, in use, between the first and second conduction terminals of the heater and generate heat by the Joule effect. It is possible to carry out calibration in temperature of the sensor element.

The invention relates to the realization of synthesis of organic compounds or abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gas-solid fluidised bed photocatalytic reactor with improved illumination efficiency. The photoreactor consists of a two-dimensional fluidized bed catalytic reactor with two walls transparent to ultraviolet radiation, by an illumination system bases on a matrix of LEDs positioned near its external walls, and heated for Joule effect inside the catalytic bed to monitor the reaction temperature. Surprisingly, through the choice of a suitable catalyst and fluidized bed photoreactor operating conditions both total and partial oxidation reactions can be achieved with high activity and selectivity. Even more surprisingly, the value of the illuminated catalyst surface area per unit irradiated volume reaches values in the order of 10⁶ m⁻¹, significantly higher than those of microreactors, amounting to 250,000 m⁻¹ and slurry reactors with values in 8500-170000 m⁻¹.

The photocatalytic system reported in the present invention is shown to have high illumination efficiency due to the use of UV-LEDs, which, ensuring a direction of light irradiation direction orthogonal to the emission point, minimize the dispersion of photons.

A plant for the accumulation and transfer of thermal energy, which plant has an accumulation device of the kind with a bed of fluidizable solid particles. The plant further has for each accumulation device:

• • electric resistor means arranged within the casing and thermally connected with the bed of particles, which electric resistors are configured for transmitting thermal energy generated by Joule effect to the particles and they are fed by exceeding electric energy from wind or photovoltaic source; and
  • heat exchange means, also thermally connected with the bed of particles and which can be selectively actuated to receive thermal energy therefrom,

the overall configuration being such that the thermal energy is transferred from the resistor means to the fluidizable solid particles of the bed and from the fluidizable solid particles to the heat exchange means.

An installation for pyrolyzing divided solids, such as waste plastics, rubbers, or elastomers. The installation has a device for making divided solids suitable for facilitating pyrolysis by a pyrolysis reactor. The reactor inlet is leak-tightly connected to the preconditioning device and has at least one heating transfer member for transferring the divided solids within the reactor while also pyrolyzing the solids. The member is a conveyor screw or a vibrating tube, and being made of a material that is associated with means for heating it by the Joule effect. The preconditioning device includes liquefaction means for bringing the substance to the outlet of the preconditioning device in a liquid state at an outlet temperature, and a regulator for regulating the temperature of the substance at the outlet from the preconditioning device as a function of a temperature representative of an inlet temperature of the reactor.

The invention relates to an air data probe with an induction heating function and a temperature control method thereof. A system is provided, the system includes an air data probe with an induction coil and an induction power generator. In some examples, a pitot tube has an induction coil with a straight tube portion and an induction coil with a tip or tapered portion. The induction power generator provides a high frequency alternating current signal to one or more induction coils. The induction coils generate an alternating magnetic field inside the conduction portion of the pitot tube aroundthe induction coils so that heat is co-generated by the joule effect and hysteresis effect caused by eddy current. The control system independently controls the signals, which includes frequency, current and voltage and are applied to the respective induction coils.

A thermal flow sensor comprising at least one first element (2) suspended with respect to a support, said first suspended element (2) being of an electrically conductive material, first means (6) for biasing said suspended element (2) and first means (8) for measuring the variation of the electric voltage at the terminals of the suspended element (2), said first suspended element (2) being formed by a nanowire and said first biasing means (6) are formed by an alternating current source the intensity of which provides heating of the first suspended element (2) by Joule effect.

Thermal pattern sensor comprising a matrix of several lines and columns of pixels, each pixel comprising at least one pyroelectric capacitance formed by at least one portion of pyroelectric material arranged between a lower electrode and an upper electrode, wherein a first of the lower and upper electrodes forms an electrode for reading the pixel, and moreover comprising a plurality of electrically conductive portions each capable of Joule effect heating, independently of the other electrically conductive portions, of the portions of pyroelectric material of the pyroelectric capacitances of the pixels of at least two adjacent lines of pixels associated with the electrically conductive portion, and arranged facing at least a part of the surface of the reading electrodes of each of the pixels of the lines associated with the electrically conductive portion.

The invention relates to a method of control implemented in a variable speed drive for controlling the deceleration of an electric motor (M) in the case of electrical power outage. The method of control comprises:

• • a step of determining the Joule-effect losses to be applied to the electric motor (M) and to the variable speed drive according to a deceleration ramp to be applied to the electric motor (M) during an electrical power outage,
  • a step of determining the flux reference (φ_ref) as a function of the said Joule-effect losses to be applied to the electric motor (M) and to the variable speed drive.

A structural element of a means of transport comprising a resistive heater for defrosting operations, wherein the resistor has conduction terminals coupled to respective terminals of a voltage generator adapted to cause a current flux through the resistor. The resistor includes one or more conductive paths of partially reduced graphene oxide or partially oxidized graphene configured to generate, when travelled by the current flux, heat by Joule effect.