A fluid thermal conditioning (heating/cooling) system including a housing containing a fluid holding tank and having an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. A drive shaft rotatably supports either of a conductive plate or a plurality of spaced apart magnetic or electromagnetic plates positioned within the housing. The conductive plate can be reconfigured as an elongated conductive component supported within the housing and including a plurality of individual plates which alternate in arrangement with axially spaced and radially supported magnetic/electromagnetic plates. Upon rotation of the shaft, an oscillating magnetic field is generated for thermally conditioning the fluid.

A gas heating apparatus includes a heating element having a flat plate shape, a heat-resistant enclosure in which a space having a flat plate shape is provided, the heating element being disposed in the space with a gap provided between the heating element and the heat-resistant enclosure, a gas inlet joint connected to the heat-resistant enclosure to allow gas to flow into the space, a gas outlet joint connected to the heat-resistant enclosure to allow the gas that has passed through the space to flow out, and an induction coil disposed in parallel with the heating element on a lower surface of the heat-resistant enclosure, the induction coil inductively heating the heating element on the basis of electric power supplied.

The present disclosure discloses a dynamic equivalent circuit of a combined heat and power system, and a working method thereof. Controlled sources are used to represent a thermoelectric coupling source; equivalent inductance is used to represent a delay of a heat transmission pipeline; equivalent resistance is used to represent a heat load and a heat loss of the heat transmission pipeline; and equivalent capacitance is used to represent a heat storage water tank. A circuit model is used to uniformly represent two thermoelectric heterogeneous energy sources, and a single power simulation tool may be used to simulate a combined heat and power system, so that the simulation system has a simple structure and is easy to develop and maintain.

An apparatus, method, and device for heating water using in-line magnetic induction. The heating system utilizes eddy currents created via one or more magnetic fields acting upon a stationary ferrous core. The device can be housed within an enclosure, which can in turn be connected to any existing water line, and can be connected to basic house voltage. During operation, cold water enters the enclosure, passes through the system, and leaves the system at a desired temperature setpoint greater than the initial inlet water temperature.

A heat exchanger device for a heater a motor vehicle, having a housing with at least one fluid channel disposed therein, with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, an element generating an alternating magnetic field, and at least one, preferably metallic, flat heating element around which a fluid can flow on one or both sides, whereby at least one further flat heating element is provided, which is configured to divide the at least one fluid channel into subchannels. A heater with a heat exchanger device is also provided.

A dispenser includes: a tank; an inlet pipe connected to the tank and to supply liquid to the tank; a heater for heating liquid in the tank; an inverter printed circuit board for controlling the operation of the heater; a heat sink formed of a metal or other heat conductive material, and having a cavity; and a power semiconductor element electrically connected to the inverter printed circuit board to control power to the heater, and fixed to the heat sink to heat-exchange with liquid flowing in the cavity. The cavity of the heat sink may receive a section of the inlet pipe or may form a flow path to receive the fluid from the inlet pipe.

Separator device applicable to manual ceramic cutters, which comprises: a tilting lever (2) and an actuation cam (3) provided with a cam profile (3) with a non-uniform variation in its radius of curvature and that provides a variable relationship between the rotation of the cam and the movement of the first end of the tilting lever, depending on the rotational position of the cam, in such a way that:—when the cam (3) rotates (β1) with a certain amplitude in an initial segment of its path, the first end of the tilting lever (2) completes a movement (d1) of a certain length; and—when the cam rotates (β2), with the same amplitude as β1, but in the final segment of its path, the first end of the tilting lever (2) completes a movement (d2) that is longer than the movement (d1).

A point of use induction water heater has a water receiving space arranged between an inlet and outlet, and at least one inductor coil disposed in the water receiving space, arranged to become submerged by water flowing between the inlet and outlet. At least one conductive body is also contained in the water receiving space, and arranged to be inductively heated by the inductor coil upon driving of the coil with a current.

A continuous-flow electromagnetic-induction fluid heater in a beverage vending machine. The continuous-flow electromagnetic-induction fluid heater comprises a tubular body having a longitudinal axis, internally defining at least one channel, and including at least one inlet opening through which the fluid to be heated is fed, in use, to the channel, and one outlet opening through which the heated fluid flows out, in use, from the channel; a heating element arranged, at least partially, inside the channel; and an electric winding which is wound directly in contact around an external surface of the tubular body and which can be electrically powered to generate an electromagnetic induction field and heat, in this manner, the heating element by the effect of said electromagnetic induction field. The inlet and outlet openings are arranged at respective opposite axial ends of the tubular body in respective eccentric positions with respect to the longitudinal axis.

A water dispensing apparatus includes a hot water module configured to heat supplied water using an induction heating method, a water supply pipe configured to supply water to the hot water module, a flow rate control valve provided on the water supply pipe to control a flow rate of water supplied to the hot water module, a flow rate sensing device provided on the water supply pipe to sense the flow rate of water supplied to the hot water module, and a controller configured to increase an opening speed of the flow rate control valve when the flow rate of supplied water sensed through the flow rate sensing device is equal to or less than a set flow rate.