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[RC] Equipedic and Research on Phase Change Material - Candace Kahn

Hi All,

    For those of you who like the scientific and reports etc - a short search on the internet produced the info below  info on phase change materials:

   For those who hate the scientific let me explain what I understand is the concept behind phase change material.  It's based on physics (yikes! - I took physics in high school and the best thing about physics was the wonderful guys that sat beside and behind me - what a fun class - never got the physics part - LOL).  Well anyway when you drop an ice cube in water it turns the water cold.  You think it turns cold because the ice is cold and therefore makes the water cold - right?  Nope, wrong.  When you put the ice in the water it draws the heat  from the water to melt the ice.  When the heat is removed from the water it becomes cooler.  Voila (took French too) the concept - the phase change material in the Equipedic Pad draws the heat from the horse's back and therefore the back is cooler.  It works.

http://www.deltathermal.com/technology.htm

http://www.mcttc.com/successes/Gateway.html

http://www.navysbir.brtrc.com/SuccessStories/TriangleResearchDevCorp.pdf

http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/ASEN/asen5519/1999-Files/presentations/ben-mottinger.pdf

The following link is for Holofiber and the technology behind it:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=holofiber&OS=holofiber&RS=holofiber

With Warm Regards,
Candy
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Candace Kahn
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