Heating body
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing heaters suffer from inefficiencies in heat distribution, requiring longer heating times and uneven heat distribution, which affects comfort and energy efficiency.
Innovation Solution
The design features open ends of heat tubes connected to transverse connection tubes forming a common cavity filled with a working medium, allowing for heat equalization and homogeneous temperature distribution, reducing water volume, and enhancing heat yield.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional closed hollow sections are used in heaters, then structural integrity is maintained, but heat distribution becomes uneven and heating time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The heater is divided into multiple individual heat tubes instead of using a single closed hollow section. Each heat tube is filled with a working medium and can independently transfer heat, allowing for better heat distribution across the heater surface and faster heating response.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical state and distribution parameters by using open-ended heat tubes filled with working medium rather than closed sections. This allows the working medium to distribute heat more uniformly through phase change and convection, improving both heating speed and temperature uniformity.
2Use of energy by moving object
If larger water volume is used in conventional heaters, then heat capacity is increased, but thermal inertia increases and heating response time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes phase transitions of the working medium within the heat tubes to transfer heat efficiently. The working medium evaporates and condenses cyclically, providing high heat capacity without requiring large volumes of water, thus reducing thermal inertia and improving response time.
3Device complexity
If closed hollow sections are used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but heat equalization between sections is poor
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the heater into multiple independent heat tubes with open ends, each tube can equalize heat independently through the working medium. This segmentation actually simplifies the overall structure by eliminating the need for complex internal connections while improving heat equalization.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design achieves rapid heating, consistent heat output, and energy savings of up to 40% compared to conventional heaters, with improved comfort and reduced thermal inertia.
Implementation Method 1
a common cavity filled with a working medium
Implementation Method 2
heat equalization and homogeneous temperature distribution
Implementation Method 3
a heat source thermally coupled to the heat tubes
Data Source
AI summary
A heating body, having multiple heat tubes filled with a working medium and run in parallel, and which have a first end and a second end, and having a heat source, which is thermally coupled to the first and/or second end of the heat tubes. To improve efficiency, reduce heating time, and achieve a homogeneous heat distribution, the first ends of the heat tubes are open and are fluidically connected to a first transverse connection tube and/or the second ends of the heat tubes are open and are fluidically connected to a second transverse connection tube, the heat tubes and the transverse connection tubes form a common cavity filled with the working medium, and the first or second transverse connection tube is thermally coupled to the heat source in order to absorb heat from the heat source.