WILLIAM E ANDERSON
Vehicle Board in Lancaster, PA

5442910, Aug 22, 1995

Mar 21, 1994

8/215427

William G. Anderson - Lancaster PA

Thermacore, Inc. - Lancaster PA

F02K 1100

60266

The apparatus is a cooling structure for reaction engine throats. The constriction in the throat is cooled by a group of heat pipes which radiate outward from the constriction to a larger diameter perimeter surface where the heat is dissipated. The entire structure can be constructed by embedding pretested heat pipes around a base structure with plasma sprayed metal.

5579576, Dec 3, 1996

Apr 21, 1995

8/426072

William G. Anderson - Lancaster PA

Thermacore, Inc. - Lancaster PA

B23P 1500

298892

The apparatus is a cooling structure for reaction engine throats. The constriction in the throat is cooled by a group of heat pipes which radiate outward from the constriction to a larger diameter perimeter surface where the heat is dissipated. The entire structure can be constructed by embedding pretested heat pipes around a base structure with plasma sprayed metal.

5975841, Nov 2, 1999

Oct 3, 1997

8/943626

James E. Lindemuth - Reading PA
William G. Anderson - Lancaster PA

Thermal Corp. - Georgetown DE

F01D 2508

415114

The apparatus is a heat pipe with an internal, multiple chamber evaporator for cooling a turbine engine stator vane. The evaporator comprises leading edge, middle, and trailing edge chambers within the stator vane, with the chambers defined by structural support ribs. Each chamber is constructed with a continuous fine pore metal powder wick coating the internal surfaces of the chamber and enclosing the chamber's central vapor space, except the wick at the very trailing edge of the vane is formed by screen embedded in the adjacent powder wick. The evaporator chambers have capillary arteries which extend through the adiabatic section of the heat pipe and terminate in a condenser wick within a heat sink structure exposed to cooler air. A capillary artery also interconnects the wick of the trailing edge chamber to the wick of the middle chamber.

5492570, Feb 20, 1996

Jul 5, 1994

8/270690

Kevin Horner-Richardson - Lancaster PA
William G. Anderson - Lancaster PA

Thermacore, Inc. - Lancaster PA

H01L 3700

136200

The apparatus is a combined Alkali Metal Thermal to Electric Converter (AMTEC) and a thermionic energy converter which are mated by the use of a common heat transfer device which can be a heat pipe, pumped fluid or a simple heat conduction path. By adjusting the heat output surface area of the thermionic converter and the heat input surface area of the AMTEC, the heat transfer device accomplishes not only the transfer of heat from the output of the thermionic converter to the input of the AMTEC, but also the transformation of the heat density to match the requirements of the AMTEC input. The electrical current through the combined devices is also matched by adjusting the heated surface area of the AMTEC.

5566751, Oct 22, 1996

May 22, 1995

8/446502

William G. Anderson - Lancaster PA
Kevin H. Richardson - Lancaster PA
Scott D. Garner - Lititz PA

Thermacore, Inc. - Lancaster PA

F28D 1500

16510427

The apparatus is a non-condensible gas venting device for vapor sources which can include a sonic orifice for vapor pressure reduction in high vapor pressure systems. A typical vapor source has a evaporator chamber with an evaporating wick containing liquid which is heated and produces vapor. The invention is a venting chamber connected to the evaporator chamber so that the vapor has access to the venting chamber. The venting chamber also includes a condensing wick interconnected to the evaporating wick in the evaporator chamber by a capillary capillary device through which the condensed liquid is returned to the evaporating wick. The condenser chamber is vented to a lower pressure region or vacuum so that non-condensible gas present moves out of the condenser chamber into the lower pressure while the vapor is trapped by the condensing wick and is retained in the system.