Abstract: A cold plate structure in a two-phase cooling system is provided. The cold plate, where the cold plate structure has at least one microchannel with a cross-sectional area along a radial direction, wherein the cross-sectional area expands in a first direction that is substantially tangential to the radial direction and expands in a second direction that is substantially tangential to the radial direction and substantially tangential to the first direction.

Abstract: An outdoor unit includes: a lower heat exchanger having a first heat-transfer tube; an upper heat exchanger provided above the lower heat exchanger, including a first-row heat-exchanger core and a second-row heat-exchanger core, and a second heat-transfer tube; and a reinforcing member supporting the upper heat exchanger, wherein the reinforcing member includes a first supporting tab supporting the bottom of the second-row heat-exchanger core; a second supporting tab supporting the lower side surface of the second-row heat-exchanger core and formed integrally with the first supporting tab; a third supporting tab providing a gap between the first-row heat-exchanger core and the second-row heat-exchanger core and formed integrally with the first supporting tab; an engaging tab holding the first heat-transfer tubes and formed integrally with the third supporting tab; and an engaging tab holding the second heat-transfer tubes and formed integrally with the third supporting tab.

Abstract: A system and related method that provides, but is not limited thereto, a thin structure with unique combination of thermal management and stress supporting properties. An advantage associated with the system and method includes, but is not limited thereto, the concept providing a multifunctional design that it is able to spread, store, and dissipate intense thermal fluxes while also being able to carry very high structural loads. An aspect associated with an approach may include, but is not limited thereto, a large area system for isothermalizing a localized heating source that has many applications. For example it can be used to mitigate the thermal buckling of ship deck plates, landing pad structures, or any other structures subjected to localized heating and compressive forces.

Abstract: A flow path member includes a flow path which has an inlet and an outlet in a base made of ceramics, and a low resistance portion whose surface resistance is less than 1×107 ?/sq in at least a part of the flow path.

Abstract: A heat exchanger in the form of a honeycomb with a plurality of rectangular or otherwise polygon in cross-section passages which share common walls with adjacent passages. Two or more flow paths each comprises a plurality of serially connected passages. Each flow path passes through the heat exchanger in a helical pathway, thus through one passage in a first vertical stack of passages, then through a lower passage in an adjacent second vertical stack of passages, then through a lower passage in the first vertical stack, then through a lower passage in the second vertical stack and in this helical manner to the outlet from the heat exchanger. Thus, the flow path comprises alternate passages in each vertical stack, and another flow path comprises the alternate passages in at least one of the vertical stacks not taken up by the first flow path, whereby the flow paths at least partially overlap each other thereby providing both counter-flow and co-flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-mode thermal management assembly with a selectable coolant flow path, and in particular to an assembly that selectably removes latent and/or sensible heat. Coolant (working fluid) is routed through openings in the bottom of the thermal management assembly. The assembly can have two heat exchangers (coolers), each having side-by-side vertical paths whereby coolant both enters and exits from the heat exchangers at their respective bottoms. Plumbing is provided that can be selected to route coolant for one of the user selected cooling modes. Valves allow the user to select at least between a combination mode (latent cooling with sensible reheat) and a sensible only cooling mode. In the combination mode, the latent heat exchanger cools and dehumidifies, and the sensible heat exchanger partially reheats the air while requiring no additional work to be done on the system by external power consuming devices.

Abstract: A stacking-type header according to the present invention includes: a first plate-shaped unit having a plurality of first outlet flow passages formed therein; and a second plate-shaped unit stacked on the first plate-shaped unit, the second plate-shaped unit having a distribution flow passage formed therein, the distribution flow passage being configured to distribute refrigerant, which passes through a first inlet flow passage to flow into the second plate-shaped unit, to the plurality of first outlet flow passages to cause the refrigerant to flow out from the second plate-shaped unit, in which the distribution flow passage includes a branching flow passage including a straight-line part perpendicular to a gravity direction, and in which the refrigerant flows into the branching flow passage through a part between both ends of the straight-line part, passes through both the ends, and flows out from the branching flow passage through a plurality of end portions.

Abstract: A fluid circulation conduit 1 for use as a heating device in electrical household appliances, includes an element for creating turbulence in the fluid circulating in its inner volume 2. Application of the device is to electrical household appliances equipped with a heating device.

Abstract: The clothing having a frontal land and a rear land includes: a thermal storage unit provided on at least one portion of the frontal land of the clothing; and a planar thermoconductive sheet located in a planar between the frontal land and the rear land, the planar thermoconductive sheet having a thermal conduction path to the thermal storage unit, and the planar thermoconductive sheet being higher in thermoconductivity than the frontal land and the rear land. The planar thermoconductive sheet includes a resin component and graphite particles. Basal plane of each graphite particle is parallel to the direction of the plane of the planar thermoconductive sheet.

Abstract: Embodiments of an invention disclosed herein relate to apparatuses and processes related thereto including modifications of support members that significantly reduce the magnitude of stress at junctions between the support members and the shell walls of the apparatuses.

Abstract: A tube-to-header sealing system for a heat exchanger comprises a pair of mating header plates, each header plate having a wall with a plurality of openings therein and including a continuous depression along the circumference of each header plate opening which forms one-half of an O-ring groove. Each of a plurality of O-rings is positioned in each O-ring groove and the header plates are secured together such that the header plate plurality of openings are aligned and trap each of the plurality of O-rings in O-ring grooves. A plurality of spaced-apart tubes each having a tube end secured in an opening in the wall of the header to form a tube-to-header joint are expanded outwardly to provide sufficient O-ring deformation to obtain a seal. In service, the resiliency of the O-ring seal allows for expansion and contraction of the tubes without the build-up of high stresses at the tube-to-header joint.

Abstract: A plate flatness adjusting device includes at least one tendon, an accommodation portion, and a tensile strength adjuster. The at least one tendon penetrates a through-hole of a plate and has lateral ends protruding outside of the plate. The accommodation portion accommodates the lateral ends of the at least one tendon. The tensile strength adjuster is coupled to the accommodation portion to adjust a tensile strength of the at least one tendon. The adjusted tensile strength adjusts a degree of flatness of the plate.

Abstract: A heat store for storing at least 100 MWh of thermal energy of a relatively warmer gas in a charging state and for giving off thermal energy to a relatively colder gas in a discharging state is provided. In the charging state, the heat store has at least one inflow surface, provided with inflow openings, for introducing the gas, and at least one outflow surface, provided with outflow openings, for discharging the gas after giving off heat to a granular heat storage medium, wherein the inflow surface is formed at least in certain portions into a channel which is surrounded, in particular completely, by the outflow surface, and wherein an intermediate space in which the granular heat storage medium is arranged is defined between the inflow surface and the outflow surface.

Abstract: A thermal management system that provides cooling to an electronic device is disclosed. The thermal management system includes a surface having a plurality of extended elements thermally coupled to the surface, a plurality of vibrator assemblies configured to generate a cooling flow across the surface, and a mounting structure disposed atop the plurality of extended elements of the surface to position the plurality of vibrator assemblies relative to the surface. The mounting structure is configured to orient each of the plurality of vibrator assemblies to the surface at an angel, such that the cooling flow generated by the plurality of vibrator assemblies impinges on the extended elements at an angle.

Abstract: A method for heating and cooling building interiors with a boiler and/or chiller of fluid travelling in a closed loop includes temperature transducers located at the inlet and outlet of the boiler and/or chiller. A Variable Frequency Drive pump and closed loop piping for transporting the fluid is necessarily provided. The temperature transducers at the outlet and inlet of the boiler and/or chiller are electrically connected to a PLC or pump logic control device for receiving information from the transducers and altering the speed and/or frequency of operation of the pump or set of circulating pumps to create an ideal temperature differential of about 20 degrees C. between the outlet and the inlet.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck is described with independent zone cooling that leads to reduced crosstalk. In one example, the chuck includes a puck to carry a substrate for fabrication processes, and a cooling plate fastened to and thermally coupled to the ceramic puck, the cooling plate having a plurality of different independent cooling channels to carry a heat transfer fluid to transfer heat from the cooling plate.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat exchanger, comprising a casing with a structure of a hollow box and a heat transfer unit accommodated in the casing, wherein the heat transfer unit is so arranged that flat plates are alternately folded back in opposite direction along a fold-back line, a first flow passage and a second flow passage are alternately formed in multiple layers between the flat plates, a first opening and a second opening being communicated with the first flow passage are provided on the casing, a third opening and a fourth opening communicated with the second flow passage are provided on the casing, end portions of the flat plates adjacent, as positioned at the end portion of the fold-back line, to the first flow passage and the second flow passage of the heat transfer unit are crushed and adhered, and edges of the end portions are welded together.

Abstract: A heat transfer cell includes first and second heat transfer plates which have first and second heat transfer areas, and first and second flanges bent from the first and second heat transfer areas so as to have a height difference with respect to the first and second heat transfer areas. The first and second heat transfer plates are joined into a cell body so as to be opposite to each other in a mirror image, and the cell body having a first fluid passage therein, weld lines formed along the first contacting each other and along the second flanges contacting each other, and external recesses formed outside the heat transfer areas for second fluid passages intersecting with the first fluid passage at a right angle.

Abstract: An HVAC controller may include a user interface, along with a memory for storing a recurring programmable schedule having two or more time periods. The user interface may be configured to allow manual modification by a user of the recurring schedule stored in the memory, wherein the user can associate an HVAC-off control mode with any of the two or more time periods. In the HVAC-off control mode, the HVAC controller may not cycle the HVAC unit on regardless of the temperature of the air in the inside space. The HVAC controller further may include an output that is configured to issue operational commands to the HVAC unit in accordance with the programmable schedule.

Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided which can reduce a pressure drop of a refrigerant by replacing a portion or all of baffles of a related art heat exchanger with guides having a specific configuration. The heat exchanger may include a plurality of tubes in which a refrigerant may flow; a plurality of heat dissipation fins into which the plurality of tubes may be inserted, the plurality of heat dissipation fins allowing heat exchange between the refrigerant and a fluid; at least one header coupled to at least one side of the plurality of tubes, the at least one header forming a flow space for the refrigerant; and at least one guide provided inside of the at least one header to partition the flow space and to guide the refrigerant from the at least one header to the plurality of tubes. The at least one guide may include a support provided inside of the at least one header, the support having an opening formed therein, and a movable part movably provided to open and close the opening.