Owner Rheem Manufacturing Company

Inventors Welk, Gregory M.; Stephens, Phillip W.; Missoum, Ozzie; Zhang, Qian; Haney, Jeffrey M.

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2006204625

Priority 11/222349 08.09.05 US

Filing date 31 August 2006

Wipo publication date 22 March 2007

Acceptance publication date 11 September 2008

F24H 8/00 (2006.01) Fluid heaters having heat-generating means specially adapted for extracting latent heat from flue gases by means of condensation

F24H 1/20 (2006.01) Water heaters having heat generating means, e.g. boiler, flow-heater, water-storage heater - with immersed heating elements, e.g. electric elements or furnace tubes

F28B 1/02 (2006.01) Condensers in which the steam or vapour is separated from the cooling medium by walls, e.g. surface condenser

F28D 1/047 (2006.01) Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary conduit assemblies for one heat-exchange medium only, the media being in contact with different sides of the conduit wall, in which the other heat-exchange medium is a large body of fluid, e.g. domestic or motor car radiators