Patents Examined by Claire E Rojohn, III
  • Patent number: 11656036
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a body portion and a pair of end plates at least partially forming an enclosure with the body portion. A plurality of tubes extend through at least one of the body portion and the pair of end plates. At least one tube sheet includes a plurality of openings with a corresponding one of the plurality of tubes located in one of the plurality of openings. The tube sheet is made of a material which expands in the presence of refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tobias H. Sienel
  • Patent number: 11624561
    Abstract: A heating and/or cooling temperature adjusting apparatus disposed proximate a point of use comprising a heat exchange structure, at least one thermal mass unit comprised of a material which changes phase at a predetermined temperature, and a housing which at least partially encloses the heat exchange structure and thermal mass unit. Additionally, a plurality of thermal mass units can be employed, each with equivalent, or differing, temperature threshold points for conversion between solid, liquid or gaseous phases. The presence of the thermal mass unit at the point of use allows for the heating/cooling system to rapidly adjust the temperature of the room while simultaneously decreasing the duty cycle of the heating/cooling generator (e.g. boiler).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Marshall Cox, Ioannis Kymissis, John Sarik, David Wechsler
  • Patent number: 11624562
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a base plate; a cover overlapping the base plate; fins, each having a plate-like shape projecting from the base plate in a direction perpendicular to the base plate, located between the base plate and the cover; one or a plurality of first fin groups composed of a plurality of the fins arranged with a gap therebetween in a first direction; and one or a plurality of second fin groups composed of a plurality of the fins arranged with a gap therebetween in the first direction, and adjacent to the first fin group with a gap therebetween in a second direction. Positions in the first direction of the fins belonging to the second fin group are displaced with respect to positions in the first direction of the fins belonging to the first fin group. Each of the fines has an S-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Nakamura, Eiji Anzai, Tomoyuki Hirayama, Yutaka Hirano, Ryoichi Kato, Hiromichi Gohara, Kohei Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11614260
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first header and a second header. The second header has at least a first volume and a second volume. The second header additionally includes a bend region such that the second header has a non-linear configuration. A flow restricting element is arranged within the second header within the bend region. A plurality of heat exchange tubes is arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly coupling the first header and second header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Saito, Arindom Joardar, Robert A. Leffler
  • Patent number: 11608994
    Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes: an indoor unit and an outdoor unit that circulates a refrigerant between the indoor unit and the outdoor unit, in which the outdoor unit includes a heat exchanger that exchanges heat with the refrigerant and a housing that houses the heat exchanger, the housing includes a first plate that is provided to surround the heat exchanger, and a second plate that is provided to cover an opening formed on an edge of the first plate, has a ventilation hole through which air is circulated between inside and outside of the housing, is made of a material having greater corrosion resistance than that of the first plate, and includes a screw coupling part provided to be coupled to the first plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chungwan Yuk, Jeimin Choi, Hyeonu Park, Eunsung Jo, Kyusang Park, Buyoun Lee, Hansuk Lee, Changsoo Lim, Keunjeong Jang, Duju Hwang
  • Patent number: 11598590
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger and, more specifically, to a heat exchanger, which has a manifold coupled to a header tank, allowing easy attachment between a manifold and a header tank as well as avoidance of interference between the manifold and a support by forming a baffle-shaped fixed baffle on one length direction of the header tank to which the manifold is inserted and attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventor: Duck-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11602076
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a liquid-cooling heat dissipation device. The liquid-cooling heat dissipation device is configured to be in thermal contact with an expansion card. The liquid-cooling heat dissipation device includes a base plate, a thermally-conductive component and a heat exchanger. The base plate is configured to be mounted on the expansion card. The thermally-conductive component is mounted on the base plate. The thermally-conductive component and the base plate together form a liquid chamber therebetween. The heat exchanger is mounted on the base plate and connected to the liquid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tung-Yang Shieh
  • Patent number: 11602079
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a graphite plate, two base materials each of which is disposed adjacent to the graphite plate, and a fixing member, in which the graphite plate has a strip shape and includes a fin portion and a base portion provided at one end of the fin portion, the base material includes a hole into which the fixing member can be inserted, the fixing member is inserted into the holes of the two base materials so that the two base materials are disposed to be adjacent to both sides of the base portion in a thickness direction, the base portion is in close contact with the base material adjacent to each other on both sides of the base portion in the thickness direction, the adjacent base materials are crimped and fixed by the fixing member in a state of being in close contact with each other, and in a case where a surface roughness of the fin portion is defined as Ra1, a surface roughness of the base material is defined as Ra2, and a surface roughness of the base portion is defined as Ra3, a relationship
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryou Kuwabara, Motonori Shimamura, Naomi Nishiki, Masato Mori
  • Patent number: 11592193
    Abstract: A header includes a plurality of branch tubes and a header manifold. If refrigerant flowing into the header manifold forms a pattern of annular flow or churn flow, tips of the branch tubes inserted into the header manifold pass through a liquid-phase portion having a thickness ? [m] and reach a gas-phase portion. The thickness ? [m] of the liquid-phase portion is defined as ?=G×(1?x)×D/(4?L×ULS), where G is a flow speed [kg/(m2 s)] of the refrigerant, x is a quality of the refrigerant, D is an inside diameter [m] of the header manifold, ?L is a liquid density [kg/m3] of the refrigerant, ULS is a reference apparent liquid speed [m/s] that is a maximum value within a range of variation in an apparent gas speed of the refrigerant flowing into a flow space of the header manifold. The reference apparent liquid speed ULS [m/s] is defined as G(1?x)/?L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Onaka, Takashi Matsumoto, Kosuke Miyawaki, Hiroyuki Okano, Takanori Koike, Takeshi Hatomura, Osamu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11585612
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a pair of opposed, spaced apart heat exchanger plates defining a heat exchanger volume therebetween having an inlet and opposed outlet. A plurality of heat exchanger ribs are included within the heat exchanger volume. Each rib defines a rib body spanning the heat exchanger volume. Each rib body includes a plurality of slits therethrough to define a flow path through the heat exchanger ribs from the inlet to the outlet of the heat exchanger volume. The ribs and slits can be formed using ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM), for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 11578881
    Abstract: A heat and humidity exchanger comprises panels made up of membrane sheets attached on either side of a separator. Channels extend across each panel between the separator and the membrane sheets. The panels are much stiffer than the membrane sheets. Panels are stacked in a spaced apart relationship to provide an ERV core. Spacing between adjacent panels may be smaller than a thickness of the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORE Energy Recovery Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Warren Mullen, David Erwin Kadylak, Christopher Robert Barr, James Franklin Dean, Guy Timothy Pearson
  • Patent number: 11555653
    Abstract: A vapor/liquid condensation system includes a condensation unit and an evaporation unit. The condensation unit is connected with the evaporation unit via conduits. The evaporation unit has a liquid inlet, a vapor outlet and an evaporation chamber in communication with each other. The evaporation unit converts liquid-phase working fluid into vapor-phase working fluid, which spreads to the condensation unit. The condensation unit cools and condenses the vapor-phase working fluid into liquid-phase working fluid, which goes back the evaporation unit. After the vapor-phase working fluid enters the condensation unit, the vapor-phase working fluid is distributed and condensed into liquid-phase working fluid. Then the liquid-phase working fluid is collected and then goes back to the evaporation unit. The length of the pipeline is shortened and the pipeline pressure is lowered to avoid interruption of heat dissipation circulation and failure in heat dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Peng Chen, Yu-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 11545415
    Abstract: Heat is transferred to a cold plate from one or more subassemblies in an array of subassemblies in an electronic package. The cold plate has a thermally conductive cold plate substrate, a pressure header, a pressure passage, and one or more pressure connections. Each of the pressure connections connects through a housing opening to housing volume defined by a flexible housing in an encapsulated liquid thermal interface (LTI). The flexible housing is in physical and thermal contact with one of the subassemblies through a housing bottom and a top surface of one or more components in the subassembly. A thermally conductive fluid fills the housing volume, housing opening, pressure connections, pressure passage, and pressure header which are all in fluid communication along with one or more other connections, housing openings, and LTIs on other subassemblies. The system transfers heat from the subassemblies to the cold plate while maintaining a constant pressure/stress on each of the subassemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Gerard McVicker
  • Patent number: 11525602
    Abstract: Methods of coupling a heat exchanger into a climate control system and associated systems are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving a housing to receive the heat exchanger. The housing includes a cover panel disposed over an opening that has a projection projecting at least partially into the housing, and a first pair of conduits extending through the cover panel in a first direction. In addition, the method includes removing the cover panel from the opening, flipping the cover panel, extending a second pair of conduits through the cover panel in the first direction, and forming connections between the first pair of refrigerant conduits and the second pair of conduits. Further, the method includes covering the opening in the heat exchanger housing with the cover panel so that the projection of the cover panel projects away from the housing and encloses the connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Kilgo
  • Patent number: 11519644
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooler disposed inside a shell main body formed in a cylindrical shape, and having a first surface facing an inlet nozzle and an outlet nozzle, and a partition member fixed to the first surface, and partitioning a portion between the cooler and an inner peripheral surface of the shell main body into a first space communicating with the inlet nozzle and a second space communicating with the outlet nozzle. The partition member includes a main partition plate disposed between the inlet nozzle and the outlet nozzle in an axial direction, a first guide portion extending from an end portion of the main partition plate toward a first end surface of the shell main body, and a second guide portion extending from an end portion of the main partition plate toward a second end surface of the shell main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Yokoo, Hiroko Kitamoto
  • Patent number: 11512910
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base, fins and strip-shaped plates. The fins protrude side by side from the base, and the fins respectively include first end edges and second end edges opposite to each other. The first end edges are connected to the base. The strip-shaped plates are parallel to the base and connected to at least a part of the second end edges of the fins, and strip-shaped openings are formed between the strip-shaped plates. The base, the fins and the strip-shaped plates collectively surround chambers in a non-closed manner, and each of the strip-shaped openings is connected to the corresponding chamber. A distance between two adjacent fins of the fins is S, a width of any one of the strip-shaped openings is d, and d/S is between 0.01 and 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventor: Shwin-Chung Wong
  • Patent number: 11493279
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a slurry generator, an injector pump coupled to the slurry generator, a heat exchanger reactor coupled to the injector pump, wherein the heat exchanger reactor is adapted to subject a thermally expendable heat absorption material to a temperature above 60° C. and a pressure below 3 kPa, and wherein the expendable heat absorption material endothermically decomposes into a gaseous by-product. A vapor cycle system is coupled to the heat exchanger reactor and is operatively connected to a thermal load. A thermal energy storage system may be coupled to the vapor cycle system and the thermal load. The thermal energy storage system may isolate the heat exchanger reactor from thermal load transients of the thermal load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Douglas J. Johnson, Nicholas P. Niedbalski, Jamie S. Ervin, Soumya S. Patnaik
  • Patent number: 11486655
    Abstract: Provided is an outdoor unit of an air conditioner, including: an outdoor heat exchanger that has a height longer than a width; and an outdoor blowing fan that is disposed above the outdoor heat exchanger and blows air upward from below the outdoor heat exchanger, in which the outdoor heat exchanger includes: a plurality of radiating fins that contacts air; a gap that is formed between the radiating fins; a louver fin that is cut in the radiating fin and then bent; and a cut-out area that is formed in the radiating fin and formed at a position where the louver fin is cut, the radiating fin includes: a first zone that is disposed above the outdoor heat exchanger and disposed close to the outdoor blowing fan; and a second zone that is located below the first zone, and an area LA1 of the louver fin in the first zone is formed to be larger than an area LA2 of the louver fin in the second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangyeul Lee, Juhyok Kim, Hongseong Kim, Sungwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11480069
    Abstract: Aircraft turbine engines are controlled by complex electronic devices such as FADEC and PSS units. These devices can be adversely impacted by the engine environment including the condensing of evaporated water. Aspects of the present disclosure include unique heat exchangers to control the temperature of these electronic devices to assure their proper operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ralph Storage, Dennis Alan McQueen
  • Patent number: 11473853
    Abstract: A heat exchanger plate (1) is described comprising an edge (2), a groove (3) running along the edge (2), and a corrugated area (4) having tops (5) and valleys (6) between the groove (3) and the edge (2), wherein the tops (5) run substantially perpendicular to the edge (2) and the groove (3) comprises an external wall (7) adjacent to the corrugated area (4) and an internal wall (8). Using such a heat exchanger plate (1) it should be possible to produce a reliable plate-type heat exchanger of simple construction. To this end the external wall (7) is in form of a wavy shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Ivan Knudsen, Helge Nielsen