Microwave water heater

Claim 1

A water heater assembly of the type primarily designed for domestic use, said water heater assembly comprising: water storage means including a tank, inlet means interconnected between a water supply and the interior of said tank, outlet means interconnected between the interior of said tank and a desired point of water delivery; insulation means mounted on the exterior of said tank in at least partially surrounding relation thereto; microwave generator means connected to said storage means and disposed to direct wave energy to the water within said tank, regulating means interconnected in current regulating position between a current source and said microwave generator, temperature sensing means mounted on said storage means in temperature sensing disposition relative to the water within said tank and in current regulating relation to said microwave generator; safety means interconnected to said regulating means and disposed in direct heat conducting relation to said tank, so as to sense the temperature thereof; said assembly further comprising distribution means mounted on the interior of said tank, said distribution means comprising a plate element having apertures formed therein and disposed substantially uniformly in said plate so as to define fluid communication therethrough between opposite sides of said plate, said plate element disposed in transverse relation relative to water flow between said inlet means and said outlet means, said plate being configured and disposed to allow water, issuing from said water inlet to pass through said apertures in a dispersed fashion so as to be distributed evenly throughout said tank, whereby wave energy directed to the water from said microwave generator causes temperature increase therein.