IP Library Granted Patent US 8,299,403
Granted Patent B2
US 8,299,403 · App. 12/298,192 · Granted Oct 30, 2012

Heat resisting vacuum insulating material and heating device

Assignees: National University Corporation Tohoku University; Panasonic Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,299,403
App. No.
12/298,192
Granted
Oct 30, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A heating device includes a heat resisting vacuum insulator ( 4 ) wound around the outer periphery of an electric heater ( 3 ) disposed along the outer wall of an exhaust pipe ( 1 ), wherein the electric heater ( 3 ) has a resistance heating element and a heat resisting electric insulator covering this resistance heating element, and the heat resisting vacuum insulator ( 4 ) includes a hollow platy covering material air-tightly sealed thereinside by a metal seat ( 5 ) having a heat resisting temperature of at least 100° C., and a fibrous or granular filling material ( 6 ) filled in the hollow portion of this covering material and having a heat resisting temperature of at least 100° C., the inside of the covering material being kept in a vacuum state.

Claims (18)

1. A heating device, wound around the body and/or exhaust pipe of a vacuum device and capable of heating an outer wall of the body and/or exhaust pipe of the vacuum device to 100° C. or above, the heating device comprising:

an electric heater disposed along the outer wall of said body and/or exhaust pipe of the vacuum device; and

a heat resisting vacuum insulator wound around an outer periphery of said electric heater,

wherein said electric heater has a resistance heating element and a heat resisting electric insulator covering said resistance heating element, and

wherein said heat resisting vacuum insulator comprises a hollow platy covering material air-tightly sealed thereinside by a metal sheet having a heat resisting temperature of at least 100° C. and a fibrous, granular or micro-balloon-shaped filling material filled in the hollow portion of said covering material and having a heat resisting temperature of at least 100° C., and the inside of said covering material is kept in a vacuum state.

2. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein insulating material made up of an inorganic material is provided between said heat resisting vacuum insulator and said electric heater.

3. The heating device according to claim 2 , wherein said insulating material is made up of quartz, glass not containing boron or calcium silicate and formed in a fibrous or granular shape.

4. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is a metallic resistance heating element or carbon-based resistance heating element which is a wire-shaped or planar item or a patterned planar item.

5. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is:

(i) a carbon-based resistance heating element which is a sheet-shaped item made up of polyacrylonitrile carbon fibers, natural fiber-based carbon fibers or pitch-based carbon fibers, or

(ii) a metallic resistance heating element which is a wire-shaped or planar item or a patterned planar item, and which is made up of iron-chromium-based stainless steel, iron-chromium-nickel-based stainless steel, nickel-chromium alloy, copper-nickel alloy or tungsten alloy.

6. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat resisting insulator of said electric heater is an organic macromolecular material having a heat resisting temperature in normal use not lower than the heating temperature of said electric heater.

7. The heating device according to claim 6 , wherein said organic macromolecular material is polyimide, polyamide imide, polysulphone, polytetrafluoroethylene or polyfluorvinylidene.

8. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is a carbon-based resistance heating element which is a sheet-shaped item made up of polyacrylonitrile carbon fibers, natural fiber-based carbon fibers or pitch-based carbon fibers.

9. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is a metallic resistance heating element which is a wire-shaped or planar item or a patterned planar item, and which is made up of iron-chromium-based stainless steel, iron-chromium-nickel-based stainless steel, nickel-chromium alloy, copper-nickel alloy or tungsten alloy.

10. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is a carbon-based resistance heating element which is made up of polyacrylonitrile carbon fibers, natural fiber-based carbon fibers or pitch-based carbon fibers.

11. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the resistance heating element of said electric heater is a metallic resistance heating element which is made up of iron-chromium-based stainless steel, iron-chromium-nickel-based stainless steel, nickel-chromium alloy, copper-nickel alloy or tungsten alloy.

12. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat resisting vacuum insulator has a thickness of 0.5 to 20 mm.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 5, 2011
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025590/0554 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2008
From: OHMI, TADAHIRO; SHIRAI, YASUYUKI; KOBAYASHI, SADAO; WAKAYAMA, YOSHIHIDE; UEKADO, KAZUTAKA
To: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOHOKU UNIVERSITY; MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022246/0201 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-120470 · Apr 25, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
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