2387 results about "Thermal protection" patented technology

A composite thermal barrier coating system includes a honeycomb metallic structure filled with high thermal expansion ceramic hollow spheres in a phosphate bonded matrix. The composite thermal barrier coating system may be manufactured to thicknesses in excess of current thermal barrier coating systems, thereby imparting greater thermal protection. Superior erosion resistance and abrasion properties are also achieved. The composite thermal barrier coating is useful on combustion turbine components such as ring seal segments, vane segment shrouds, transitions and combustors.

The heat insulating composite aerogel material consists of silica aerogel, titania as infrared opacifier and reinforcing fiber in the weight ratio of 1 to 0.1-0.7 to 0.7-3. Its preparation process includes compounding sol with silanolate, surface modifier, titanolate, alcohol solvent, acid catalyst and alkaline catalyst in certain proportion; soaking fiber felt or prefabricated fiber part in the sol; and supercritical fluid drying. The material of the present invention has high blocking effect on solid heat transfer, air heat transfer and infrared radiation heat transfer, excellent hydrophobicity, simple preparation process, low cost, mechanical strength over 2 MPa, and wide application range, and may be used in strict heat protection condition in aeronautics, astronautics, military and civil uses.

The invention provides a silicon-aluminium aerogel composite material, comprising (1) silicon-aluminium compound aerogel and (2) inorganic fiber material. The invention further provides a method for manufacturing silicon-aluminium aerogel composite material with simple technology, comprising the steps of preparing silica sol, preparing aluminium sol, preparing silicon-aluminium compound sol, dipping sol, gelatinizing, ageing, overcritical drying, etc. With excellent high-temperature resistant performance, nice mechanical property and lower thermal conductivity at high temperature, the silicon-aluminium aerogel composite material can meet the high demand of thermal protection in respect of aviation, space flight and military affairs and can be applied to the civil heat insulation field.

Connectors for cables such as a 30-pin connector are provided. The connectors may have thermal protection circuits and may carry a power supply voltage and a ground voltage. The thermal protection circuits may disable the power supply voltage when the temperature of the connector exceeds a threshold value. The thermal protection circuits may disable the power supply voltage when liquid is detected in the connector. The thermal protection circuits may disable the power supply voltage permanently or temporarily. In one example, when a cable is reset, the thermal protection circuits may use a record of previous fault events and measurements from thermal and liquid sensors to determine whether to enable or disable the power supply voltage.

The invention relates to a high-temperature-resistant thermal insulation and heat preserving ceramic coating and a preparation method thereof. The coating is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 30-50 percent of film forming substance, 30-40 percent of high-temperature-resistant filler, 10-15 percent of hollow micro beads, 2-5 percent of thermal insulation fiber and 2-8 percent of aid and solvent. The coating has the toughness of an organic coating and the rigidity and hardness of an inorganic coating, has high adhesion, can be used at the high temperature of 400-1,200 DEG C for a long time, and is resistant to chemical reagents, acids, alkalis and oil. A coating film has high surface intensity, and can bear strong shear force without being damaged when a high-temperature pipeline is required to be connected mechanically. The coating has excellent heat preserving performance, and the surface temperature of a pipeline of 350 DEG C can be lowered to be below 100 DEG C by coating the coating outside the pipeline in the thickness of 4-6 millimeters. The coating can be widely applied to heat-resistant protection of the inner and outer surfaces of equipment such as high-temperature steam pipelines, metallurgy high-temperature furnaces, high-temperature valves, high-temperature containers and the like.

The functionality of electronic convertors for low voltage filament lamp applications, such as halogen lamps, can be increased by including auxiliary circuits. Such auxiliary circuits may include gate drive resistors; a charge pump for sustaining the DC supply; open circuit protection; short circuit protection; thermal protection; extended resetting time; latched shutdown; self-dimming; a digital (DALI) interface; and line voltage compensation.

Method and apparatus for providing thermal protection for actuators used in haptic feedback interface devices. An average energy in the actuator over a predetermined period of time is determined, and the maximum allowable current level in the actuator is reduced if the average energy is determined to exceed a predetermined warning energy level. The maximum allowable current level can be reduced to a sustainable current level if the average energy reaches a maximum energy level allowed, and the maximum allowable current level in the actuator can be raised if the average energy is determined to be below the predetermined warning energy level. Preferably, the maximum allowable current level is reduced smoothly as a ramp function.

Method and Apparatus for efficiently applying coating systems to a surface that can survive the thermal gradient that is encountered in high temperature, high heat flux environments such as a rocket engine or like using vapor or cluster deposition process such as a directed vapor deposition (DVD) approach. Method and Apparatus provides electron or other energetic beam technique to evaporate and deposit compositionally and morphologically controlled bond coats at high rate while providing a highly strain tolerant thermal barrier coating that has an improved porosity morphology between columnar grains.

The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for preparing food. The apparatus comprises a food preparation chamber (101) having an outer wall (102), an air heating system to circulate hot air (103) inside the food preparation chamber (101), air cooling system to circulate cool air (104) on said outer wall (102) outside the food preparation chamber (102), a thermal fuse system (105) to cut the electrical supply of said apparatus when the temperature of the thermal fuse system (105) exceeds a given threshold (TH), the thermal fuse system (105) being attached to said outer wall (102) outside the food preparation chamber (101), a cover element (106) placed at the proximity of said thermal fuse system (105) to protect the thermal fuse system (105) from the cool air. This invention improves the thermal protection of the apparatus.

A composite material of sandwich structure integrating loading, heat insulation and ablation and the manufacturing method are characterized in that an integrated pre-forming body is acquired by puncture and suture of the reinforcing material of a bearing layer, the reinforcing material of an ablating cover, and a heating insulation layer positioned between the two layers; an epoxy resin system and a phenolic resin system are injected simultaneously into a vacuum-pumped mould, in which the integrated forming body is pre-placed, by two sets of RTM injection systems respectively, then, the reinforcing materials of the bearing layer and the ablating layer are soaked by epoxy resin and phenolic resin respectively; and the composite material of sandwich structure integrating loading, heat insulation and ablation can be obtained by solidified molding after mould filling. The invention has the advantages that the composite material of sandwich structure integrating loading, heat insulation and ablation is put forward and can be integrally formed by one-time operation, the function of the interlayer between every layer of the composite material is enhanced greatly, the integrality is good; the stratifying and peeling of the composite can be reduced effectively, and the products have good designable property and can be widely applied to the structural parts of aerospace which need heating insulation and thermal protection.

The invention provides a thermal protection voltage-sensitive resistor module used for surge protection, which consists essentially of a metal oxide voltage-sensitive resistor, a thermal response switch, a set of thruster with a compression spring and a wedge-shaped quencher and a case. Thermal coupling exists between the thermal response switch and the metal oxide voltage-sensitive resistor. When the metal oxide voltage-sensitive resistor is overstressed, the resistor emits heat, the thermal response switch can immediately sense the heat and soften the welding point of solder with low melting point, then the welding point is forced to be quickly disconnected and part of the wedge-shaped quencher is inserted into the clearance at the breakage place of the welding point under the joint effect of the thruster with the spring and the wedge-shaped quencher and the resilient conductive connection arm, thus the quenching effect is enhanced.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for maintain the active power production of a fluid turbine and regulating the temperature of an electrical generating component by controlling the reactive power production. A thermal parameter of the electrical generating component is monitored. If the electrical generating component exceeds a thermal parameter the reactive power production of the turbine is reduced. A fluid turbine may be de-rated to further reduce an electrical generating component's thermal parameter. A fluid turbine may shut down to further reduce an electrical generating component's thermal parameter. A fluid turbine's power production is re-started when the electrical generating component returns to an acceptable thermal parameter.

This invention relates to a microclimate human body cooling system and a refrigerating system thereof. The cooling system comprises a refrigerating system, a control system and liquid cooling clothes; the refrigerating system of the cooling system is a micro steam compressed type refrigerating system, comprising a housing and a condenser, a water tank, a filter, a compressor and an evaporator which are assembled in the housing and are in sealed connection through a connecting pipe; the refrigerating fluid circularly flows therein. A micro refrigerating system is added in the system so that the low-temperature water cycles in the liquid cooling clothes to bring away the heat of the human body; the system is featured with fast starting, little volume without preparing ice blocks in advance; the system is extremely portable and is specially suitable for the thermal protection of passengers in a tank, a helicopter, a fighter, a submarine / naval craft, a racing car, a military car, an ambulance, etc.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic ground experimental wind tunnel used for knocking combustion research, and the wind tunnel provided by the invention comprises an ultrasonic premixing heater, an experimental section and a vacuum chamber, wherein the ultrasonic premixing heater comprises an injector 6, a preheating combustion chamber 1, an array nozzle module and a mixing section 3. The preheating combustion chamber adopts three components for combustion, and supplements oxygen or air after combusting hydrogen and air; and the preheating combustion chamber is designed to be in a colliding injection mode. The technique has the advantages that the combustion local high temperature can be effectively reduced, the thermal protection difficulty is reduced, the uniformity of flow field parameters such as gas mixture temperature, components and the like can be ensured, and the content of the oxygen in the gas mixture can be freely adjusted. The vacuum chamber is connected to the back of the experimental section, so that the back pressure of the experimental section can be reduced, and the design range of ultrasonic stream Mach numbers in the experimental wind tunnel is expanded.

A thermal barrier coating for an underlying metal substrate of articles that operate at, or are exposed to, high temperatures, as well as being exposed to environmental contaminant compositions. This coating comprises an inner layer nearest to the underlying metal substrate comprising a ceramic thermal barrier coating material having a melting point of at least about 2000° F. (1093° C.), as well as a thermally glazed outer layer having an exposed surface and a thickness up to 0.4 mils (about 10 microns) and sufficient to at least partially protect the thermal barrier coating against environmental contaminants that become deposited on the exposed surface, and comprising a thermally glazeable coating material having a melting point of at least about 2000° F. (1093° C.) in an amount up to 100%. This coating can be used to provide a thermally protected article having a metal substrate and optionally a bond coated layer adjacent to and overlaying the metal substrate. The thermal barrier coating can be prepared by forming the inner layer comprising the ceramic thermal barrier coating material, followed by depositing the thermally glazeable coating material on the inner layer, and then thermally melting the thermally glazeable coating material to form the thermally glazed outer layer.

Methods and systems for thermal protection of a voice coil of a loudspeaker. The method involves driving the loudspeaker based on an input signal received at an input terminal and monitoring both a voltage applied to the voice coil and a current flowing through the voice coil. From the monitored voltage and current, an estimate of temperature of the voice coil and an estimate of power dissipation in the voice coil is determined. The method includes estimating the voice coil resistance based on the monitored voltage and current and at least the estimate of temperature is determined based the estimate of resistance. A gain control signal for modulating a gain applied to the input signal is generated as a function of both the estimate of temperature of the voice coil and the estimate of power dissipation in the voice coil. This means that high power dissipation, which would over long periods lead to overheating, can nevertheless be permitted when the voice coil temperature is low enough, while at high voice coil temperatures any gain modulation applied for thermal protection can be reduced if the power dissipation level drops.

The invention belongs to the field of inorganic materials, particularly relates to a thermal protection coating with component gradient change and a preparation method. The thermal protection coating comprises two components of M1 and M2, wherein the M1 is selected from one of YSZ, lanthanum aluminate, mulite or BSAS, the M2 is selected from one of Ln2Zr2O7, Ln2Ce2O7, Ln2SiO5, Ln2Si2O7 or MoSi2, and Ln is selected from rare earth elements the atom coefficients of which are 57-71, Y or Sc. The thermal protection coating has the characteristics of good coating compactness, high bonding strength with a substrate, low thermal conductivity and the like and has favorable thermal shock resistance.

A light-emitting diode (LED) bulb has an LED within a shell. The LED bulb also includes a driver circuit for providing current to the LED. The drive circuit has a thermal protection circuit, which includes a thermistor having a positive thermal coefficient and a switching temperature. The driver circuit also includes a switch-mode power supply (SMPS) controller with an input pin and an output pin. The thermistor is connected to the input pin. When the thermistor temperature is above the switching temperature, the thermal protection circuit causes the SMPS controller to produce a signal with a second duty cycle on the output pin. When the thermistor temperature is below the switching temperature, the thermal protection circuit causes the SMPS controller to produce a signal with a first duty cycle on the output pin. The second duty cycle is higher than the first duty cycle.

Protective insert plates (54, 56) installed on a working gas face (42) of a turbine vane platform (26) provide replaceable portions of a turbine shroud for improved maintenance. The plates act as tiles, and may be formed of ceramic materials for thermal protection. Two cages (58, 60) in the vane platform slidably receive the two insert plates (54, 56) from opposite circumferential sides (36, 38) of the platform. The plates slide into the cages up to the pressure and suction sides (32, 34) of the vane airfoil (22). The plates may have proximal edges (62, 64) shaped to fit the respective pressure and suction sides of the vane airfoil. A retainer plate 66 may be attached to a flange (72) on the cooled face (48) of each platform, and may contact each insert plate with a locking device (74, 76) to prevent sliding of the plate in the cage.

A loudspeaker protection system includes a filter arrangement for defining one or more frequency bands of an audio signal, controllable amplifier / attenuator combinations coupled to the filter arrangement, and a processing arrangement coupled to control the amplifier / attenuator combinations, such as to determine audio power in at least one of the frequency bands representing relevant loudspeaker protection information used for selective audio power control in the at least one frequency band. This system has the features for a fast and / or slow thermal protection, as well as for a cone excursion protection, all for a loudspeaker in such a system.

The invention provides a silicon-aluminum aerogel composite material which comprises silicon-aluminum composite aerogel (1) and an inorganic fiber material (2), wherein the silicon-aluminum composite aerogel is prepared from a silicasol aqueous solution. The invention also provides a method for preparing the silicon-aluminum aerogel composite material, which comprises the steps of preparing the silicon-aluminum composite aerogel, dipping sol, gelatinizing, ageing, overcritically drying and the like. With excellent high-temperature resistance, good mechanical property and low thermal conductivity at high temperature, the silicon-aluminum aerogel composite material can meet the high requirement of thermal protection in the fields of aviation, aerospace and military affairs and can also be applied to the field of civil heat insulation.

The invention discloses a unitary or polybasic aerogel thermal insulation material and a preparation method of the material. The method comprises the steps of preparing sol, solidifying sol to form gel, aging and drying, or comprises the steps of preparing sol, preparing a prefabricated body, infiltrating, coagulating sol, aging and drying. The aerogel component in the thermal insulation materialdisclosed by the invention is formed in a unitary or polybasic way, and can be formed by flexibly adjusting a single component, so that the characteristic of aerogel can be given a full play to the greatest extent, the material can be used in different temperature resisting fields, and aerogel formed by different components can be used aiming at the different temperature resisting fields, so thatthe heat insulation effect of the aerogel thermal insulation material can be more high-efficiency. The production and forming method of the unitary or polybasic aerogel thermal insulation material, disclosed by the invention, is a set of technology which is complete, continuous, and low in cost, and can be used in industrial method production, the produced aerogel thermal insulation material withhigh performance is wide in application field, is wide in using temperature, can meet different using requirements of war industry fields, civil fields, heat-protection fields with special requirements, and the like.

The invention provides a keeping warm flocculus which is prepared from raw material by weight including 56%-85% fine denier fibre and / or super fine denier fibre, 0-30% hollow fibre, 5-30% felt fibre. The preparing method includes steps as follows: loosing and mixing various fibre raw material; then combing, lapping for forming fibre net; then processing disorder drafting to the felt net for forming solid net shape crossing struture; then heating and baking the felt net, at least melting surface of the felt fibre for felting surrounding fibre. The fine denier fibre can increase content of still air in the keeping warm flocculus, reduce heat quantity conduction, and can divide space in the keeping warm flocculus into smaller space for avoiding or reducing air convection, accordingly increase warm keeping property of the keeping warm flocculus; the hollow fibre can increase filling power and compress rebound property of the warm keeping flocculus; filling power and compress rebound property of the warm keeping flocculus are increased after being disorder draft.

A self-wrapping, non-woven sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members includes a non-woven elongate wall having an outer surface with opposite sides extending along a longitudinal axis of the sleeve. The sides self-wrap about the longitudinal axis to provide a tubular cavity in absence of an externally applied force. The sides are extendable away from one another under an externally applied force to expose the cavity for insertion of the elongate members, wherein the sides return to their self-wrapped configuration upon removal of the externally applied force. Further, an outer reflective layer is attached to the outer surface of the self-wrapping wall to provide enhanced thermal protection to the elongate members in the cavity.

The output current of a ballast is dynamically limited when an over-temperature condition is detected in the ballast according to one of (i) a step function or (ii) a combination of step and continuous functions, so as to reduce the temperature of the ballast while continuing to operate it.

A thermal protection material is provided. The material includes a non-woven nanotube sheet, a substrate material adjacent to the non-woven nanotube sheet, and an adhesive material positioned between the non-woven sheet and the substrate material. The thermal protection material can further include a coating that can enhance strength and oxidation protection. An apparatus for collecting the non-woven nanotube sheet and method for manufacturing the thermal protection material are also provided.

To protect spacecraft and their contents from excessive heat thermal protection systems are essential. For such thermal protection, metal coatings, ceramic materials, ablative materials, and various matrix materials have all been tried, but none have been found entirely satisfactory. The basis for this thermal protection system is the fact that the heat required to melt a substance is 80 to 100 times larger than the heat required to raise its temperature one degree. This led to the use herein of solid-liquid phase change materials. Unlike conventional heat storage materials, when phase change materials reach the temperature at which they change phase they absorb large amounts of heat without getting hotter. By this invention, then, a coating composition is provided for application to substrates subjected to temperatures above 100° F. The coating composition includes a phase change material.

A charger (1) includes a connecting portion (5) provided in an upper case (3) of the charger. The connection portion (5) includes a pair of guide rails (6) to which a battery pack (40) is slidably attached. The charger further includes between the guide rails (6) a terminal block having various terminals (12–14) as well as a slide cover (21) linearly slidable in parallel with the direction in which the battery pack slides on the charger. Under normal operating conditions, the slide cover (21) is biased to a rear position in which the cover (21) is located over and protects a terminal block (11). When the battery pack (40) is set on the charger, the battery pack abuts and slides the slide cover to a forward position in which the terminal block (11) is exposed.