Patents Examined by Claire E Rojohn, III
  • Patent number: 11448468
    Abstract: A plate for a heat exchange arrangement for the exchange of heat between a first and a second medium. The plate has a first heat transferring surface in contact with the first medium and a second heat transferring surface in contact with the second medium. The plate includes an inlet porthole for the first medium; an inlet porthole for the second medium, and an outlet porthole for the first medium. The first heat transferring surface includes a protrusion forming at least one ridge arranged to divide the heat transfer surface into at least a first region in direct thermal contact with the inlet porthole for the second medium, and a second region not in direct thermal contact with the inlet porthole for the second medium. The second region substantially surrounds the first region. The inlet porthole for the first medium is arranged in the first region, while the outlet porthole for the first medium is arranged in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Marcello Masgrau
  • Patent number: 11452239
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing boiling performance of chip surface comprising steps of mounting a heat pipe directly above the surface of the chip, and forming a porous structure for increasing the vaporization core on an upper surface of the heat pipe. Performing an enhancing treatment in boiling of the upper surface of the heat pipe by mounting the heat pipe directly above the chip makes a temperature field of the boiling surface uniform, increases the boiling area and vaporization core, strengthens the boiling heat transfer, and reduces the core temperature of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUGON DATAENERGY(BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jisheng He, Chen Wang, Peng Zhang, Hongjie Wu, Jingnan Peng, Xing Li, Zhen Sun, Xintao Cui
  • Patent number: 11439040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger for cooling an electrical device, and more specifically, to a heat exchanger for cooling an electrical device, in which the tube-type cooling path parts may be coupled in multi-stages, the assembling of the electrical device and the cooling path part during the multi-stage coupling is easy, and cooling of both surfaces of the electrical device is possible through tight coupling between the electrical device and the cooling path part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Wi Sam Jo, Jun Young Song, Sun Mi Lee, Hong-Young Lim
  • Patent number: 11435150
    Abstract: A pre-evaporative system used with an evaporative cooling apparatus is provided. The system may include a pre-evaporative media and a cooling media, each having a fiber pad with an edge coating and a distribution plate. The distribution plate operates to evenly distribute water over the entire surface. The system includes a shield with a mounting plate. The shield with the mounting plate operate to retain the pre-evaporative media and the cooling media adjacent each other; to form a seal with the distribution plate of the pre-evaporative media and with the distribution plate of the cooling media; and to shield a first water distribution pipe and a second water distribution pipe that supply water to the pre-evaporative media and the cooling media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: United Metal Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Kinkel
  • Patent number: 11430596
    Abstract: A temperature regulating device regulates temperature of the magnetic circuit component incorporated in a power converter and including a magnetic core and a coil wound around the magnetic core and includes a cooling device that cools the magnetic circuit component, a temperature estimation device that estimates a temperature of the magnetic circuit component, a target temperature determination device that determines a target temperature of the magnetic circuit component, at which a loss of the magnetic circuit component is lowered, based on a relationship between temperature and loss of the magnetic circuit component, and a cooling suppressor that, when the temperature of the magnetic circuit component estimated by the temperature estimation device is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature lower than the target temperature, suppresses the cooling of the magnetic circuit component by the cooling device so that the temperature of the magnetic circuit component reaches the target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakamoto, Naoya Kondo
  • Patent number: 11421945
    Abstract: Heatsink has a plurality of cross-connected pathways that create areas of turbulent airflow which is useful for quickly dissipating heat in the heatsink. The cross-connected pathways can include vertically extending pathways that extend from the baseplate to the top surface of the single piece of material with an increasing volume away from the baseplate toward the top surface of the single piece of material and horizontally extending pathways are oriented in a plurality of rows where a diameter of the horizontally extending pathways increases in each row of the plurality of rows from the baseplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SOFTRONICS, LTD.
    Inventor: Robert H. Sternowski
  • Patent number: 11421910
    Abstract: A single-unit air conditioner may include a housing, an outdoor heat exchanger assembly, an indoor heat exchanger assembly, a compressor, and a front panel. The housing may define an outdoor and indoor portion between a first lateral panel and a second lateral panel. The outdoor heat exchanger assembly may be disposed in the outdoor portion. The indoor heat exchanger assembly may be disposed in the indoor portion. The compressor may be in fluid communication with the outdoor heat exchanger assembly and the indoor heat exchanger assembly. The front panel may be slidably disposed on the housing at the indoor portion. The front panel may extend from a first lateral end to a second lateral end. The first lateral end may be selectively engaged with the first lateral panel. The first lateral end may include a lateral ridge directed inward toward a complementary attachment tab formed on the first lateral panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Edward Baumann, Neil Vincenti, Brian Bernard McKay
  • Patent number: 11415371
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including: rows of heat exchanging units that are superposed with one another in an air flow direction of the heat exchanger; and flat multi-hole tubes that extend from a first end toward a second of the heat exchanging units in a first direction in the heat exchanging units and that include gas-side flat multi-hole tubes. A refrigerant flows in the heat exchanging unit in the first direction. A number of the gas-side flat multi-hole tubes that are included in a front-most row heat exchanging unit on an airflow upstream side of the heat exchanger is less than a number of the gas-side flat multi-hole tubes included in a rear-most row heat exchanging unit on an airflow downstream side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Shun Yoshioka, Shouta Agou
  • Patent number: 11408691
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner. The air conditioner according to the present embodiment has a refrigeration capacity of 11 kW to 16 kW, inclusive, and uses R134a as a refrigerant circulating therein, and since a refrigerant pipe therein is made of a ductile stainless steel material having 1% or less of a delta-ferrite matrix structure with respect to the grain size area thereof, the refrigerant pipe can maintain strength and hardness as good as or better than those of a copper pipe, while also maintaining good processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Seokpyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11391474
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an air handling module. The air handling module may comprise an exchanger within a housing, a first manifold positioned on a first side of the housing and including a first pair of ports on a first end and a second pair of ports on a second end, and a second manifold positioned on a second side of the housing and including a first pair of ports on a first end and a second pair of ports on a second end. The first pairs of ports may be in fluid communication to transfer air through the exchanger and between the first and second manifolds, and the second pairs of ports may be in fluid communication to transfer air through the exchanger and between the first and second manifolds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Energy Wall LLC
    Inventor: Dustin Eplee
  • Patent number: 11391525
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a steam generator according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a plate and channels formed on the plate by an photo-chemical etching method, wherein the channels comprise: a primary heat transmission section formed in a manner of having a bent or curved flow path so as to be extended longer than the length at which one side and the other side are connected in a straight line; and a flow path resistance section, formed having a smaller width than the width of the channels formed on the primary heat transmission section and being connected to the one side of the primary transmission section in a manner of having a bent or curved flow path so as to be extended longer than the length at which an inlet and an outlet are connected in a straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Juhyeon Yoon, Young In Kim
  • Patent number: 11384947
    Abstract: A system for obtaining energy consumptions, savings and cost reduction in structures adapted for human habitation which includes the utilization of a plurality of mats including phase change material encapsulated within first and second layers of plastic material having heat transfer capability disposed within the plenum area above a ceiling of a room within a building with the amount of phase change material contained within each mat being between 0.5 lbs. and 0.67 lbs. per square foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: STASIS ENERGY GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Radzinsky, Robert Morton, Michael Cecchini
  • Patent number: 11378339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a V-shaped heat exchanger for condensing exhaust steam from a turbine. The V-shaped heat exchanger comprises primary, secondary and tertiary single-row condensing tubes placed in a V-shaped geometry. A steam supply manifold supplies the exhaust steam to lower ends of the primary tubes and steam that is not condensed in the primary tubes is collected at upper ends of the primary tubes and transported to the secondary tubes using top connecting manifolds. Steam that is not condensed in the secondary tubes is further transported to the tertiary tubes using a bottom connection manifold. The tertiary tubes are coupled at their ends with an evacuation manifold for evacuating non-condensable gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SPG Dry Cooling Belgium
    Inventors: Michel Vouche, Christophe Deleplanque
  • Patent number: 11375637
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a pipe through which cooled fluid flows and a cooling block having a first face on which the pipe is placed and a second face to which a heat emitting element is attached. The cooling block has a contact region and a noncontact region at positions where the cooling block faces the pipe. In the contact region, the first face contacts the pipe. In the noncontact region, the first face faces the pipe with a gap therebetween. The contact region is included in a projection region defined by projecting a region of attachment of the heat emitting element onto the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Mizutani, Takanori Koike
  • Patent number: 11365937
    Abstract: A collector tube for a heat exchanger having at least one flat tube, may include a base and a cover arranged opposite the base. The base and the cover may define a longitudinal duct. The base may include at least one passage having an opening configured to accommodate the at least one flat tube of the heat exchanger. The opening may have at least one wide edge and at least one narrow edge. The longitudinal duct may have, in a cross section, a diameter that is smaller than the at least one wide edge of the opening. The at least one passage may include a collar extending away from the longitudinal duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventors: Uwe Foerster, Martin Kaspar, Hicham Rouhana, Markus Wawzyniak
  • Patent number: 11359866
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including more than one fluid conductor, each of the fluid conductors is configured to receive a distinct flow of fluid and heat from only one heat source, wherein the coils are configured to be interleaved to form a structure of a single-sized lumen in which the heat source is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
  • Patent number: 11353270
    Abstract: An apparatus for dissipating thermal energy including a baseplate including a first body having a first groove and a second groove intersecting one another, the first groove and the second groove formed in and only accessible from a first side of the baseplate. The apparatus including a first heat pipe and a second heat pipe arranged and disposed to provide both an overlapping arrangement and a nonoverlapping arrangement within the first groove and the second groove of the baseplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Fritch, Jared Tower, Jens Weyant, William G Anderson
  • Patent number: 11357139
    Abstract: A cooling system for a power conversion device may include a cooler upper-part having a plurality of cooling tubes through which cooling water flows and a connecting portion connecting the cooling tubes; one or more power conversion modules mounted between the cooling tubes; a cooling fin plate formed in a plate shape with cooling fins on a side and mounted on a side of the power conversion module such that the cooling fins are mounted in the opposite directions with respect to the power conversion module; and a cooler lower-part mounted between the cooling fin plate and the cooler upper-part, having one or more open holes formed at a portion, and combined with the cooling fin plate by inserting the cooling fins of the cooling fin plate in the open holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Corporation, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hun Lee, Jae Hoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11340025
    Abstract: The heat transmission roll for a rotary cylindrical heat exchanger comprising layers formed by two superposed strips wound around the core, where the first strip (1) is corrugated transversely to form regular waves with wave crests (3) on the one side of the strip, and wave troughs (4) on the other side of the strip (4), while the second strip (2) is basically flat. Formed on all wave crests (3) of the first strip (1) are bulges (5) featuring slits (6), where one of the slit edges is formed into a tongue (7), while the second strip (2) features separate indentations (8) to accommodate the bulges (5) on the first strip (1), where the depth of the indentation corresponds to the pitch (h) of the bulge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SWISS ROTORS Spolka z o.o.
    Inventor: Józef Pstragowski
  • Patent number: 11340027
    Abstract: A tube for a heat exchanger includes a tube outer body enclosing a tube inner volume, and a corrugated insert received within the tube inner volume. The tube outer body has a pair of broad planar walls joined by arcuate end walls. The corrugated insert defines flow channels through the tube, with opening in flanks of the insert allowing for flow communication between adjacent flow channels. Bypass channels adjacent the arcuate end walls are fluidly isolated from the adjacent flow channels by the absence of such openings in the end flanks. Flow through the bypass channels is obstructed by flow blocks at one or both ends of the bypass channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Roman C. Reinhardt, Andreas F. Stolz, Marius Dornseif