Patents Examined by Leonard R. Leo
  • Patent number: 9341418
    Abstract: Cooling apparatuses and coolant-cooled electronic assemblies are provided which include a thermal transfer structure configured to couple to and cool one or more electronic components. The thermal transfer structure includes a thermal spreader, and at least one coolant-carrying tube coupled to the thermal spreader. The coolant-carrying tube(s) includes multiple tube lengths disposed substantially in a common plane, and an out-of-plane tube bend. The out-of-plane tube bend is couples in fluid communication first and second tube lengths of the multiple tube lengths, and extends out-of-plane from the multiple tube lengths disposed in the common plane. The first and second tube lengths may be spaced apart, with a third tube length disposed between them, and the coolant-carrying tube(s) further includes an in-plane tube bend which couples in fluid communication the third tube length and a fourth tube length of the multiple tube lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amilcar R. Arvelo, Mark A. Brandon, Levi A. Campbell, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Randall G. Kemink, Eric J. McKeever
  • Patent number: 9335102
    Abstract: The invention describes a plate heat exchanger 1 comprising two modules 1a and 1b. The two modules 1a and 1b are cuboidal and in each case are closed off to the outside by cover sheets 5. The two modules 1a and 1b are arranged such that cover sheets 9a and 9b of the same size are directly adjacent. The two cover sheets 9a and 9b form the contact surface between the two modules 1a and 1b of the plate heat exchanger 1. The two contact surfaces 9a and 9b are joined to one another via a suitable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jorg Dietrich, Reinhold Holzl
  • Patent number: 9328651
    Abstract: The tank main body of a header tank of a condenser has slits formed in a circumferential wall thereof at positions between opposite end surfaces of the circumferential wall and heat exchange tubes at the opposite ends. Plate-shaped closure members are inserted into the slits from the outside of the tank main body and joined to the circumferential wall of the tank main body. Drain openings are formed in the circumferential wall of the tank main body at positions on the outer sides of the closure members as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the tank main body. A portion of a surface of each closure member which faces outward in the longitudinal direction of the tank main body forms a portion of a peripheral edge of the corresponding drain opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KEIHIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouta Arino
  • Patent number: 9328974
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for cooling particulates are provided. The apparatus can include one or more coils at least partially disposed within a cylindrical housing. The one or more coils can include a plurality of tubulars connected by return bends disposed at one or more ends thereof. The apparatus can further include a support grid at least partially disposed within the housing and secured to one or more inner surfaces of one or more sidewalls thereof. The support grid can include a plurality of cross members formed of a series of concentric cylinders connected together by a plurality of radially disposed gussets. An outermost concentric cylinder can be disposed proximate the one or more inner surfaces of the one or more sidewalls, and at least one of the one or more coils can be secured to at least one of the cross members, at least one of the gussets, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Lloyd Edward Cizmar, William E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 9316449
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (such as a radiator) that provides for a consistent tank-to-header joint location. The tank generally includes at least two indentations and at least one isolator having a base at least partially disposed in one of the indentations and a coupler extending from the base for coupling the tank to at least one other component of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Richardson Cooling Packages, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Richardson, Brian Meier
  • Patent number: 9315280
    Abstract: A heat pipe has an evaporator portion, a condenser portion, and at least one flexible portion that is sealingly coupled between the evaporator portion and the condenser portion. The flexible portion has a flexible tube and a flexible separator plate held in place within the flexible tube so as to divide the flexible tube into a gas-phase passage and a liquid-phase artery. The separator plate and flexible tube are configured such that the flexible portion is flexible in a plane that is perpendicular to the separator plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Jay H. Ambrose, Rolland Holmes
  • Patent number: 9312201
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device for a heat-generating component includes at least one helically-shaped air tube having a length. The at least one air tube is thermally coupled to the heat-generating component to dissipate heat from the heat-generating component. Other embodiments of the heat dissipation device and methods for dissipating heat from a heat-generating component are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gorm Gamborg, Kristian Silberbauer, Carsten Nommensen Tingskov
  • Patent number: 9307678
    Abstract: A low thermal resistance cooler module includes a heat-transfer base member defining a recess and multiple elongated, curved locating grooves, flat heat pipes set in the elongated, curved locating grooves with respective hot interfaces thereof suspending in the recess and respective cold interfaces thereof bonded to the heat-transfer base member, a heat-transfer block fixedly mounted with the hot interfaces of the flat heat pipes in the recess of the heat-transfer base member for transferring waste heat from a heat source of an external circuit board by direct contact, and connection plates respectively connected between the heat-transfer block and the heat-transfer base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ADLINK TECHNOLOGY INC
    Inventor: Li-Jie Yu
  • Patent number: 9285173
    Abstract: A first header tank of a condenser serves as a condensation section outlet header section. A second header tank has lower end upper ends respectively located below and above the lower end of the first header tank. A portion of a second header tank located below the lower end of the first header tank serves as a super-cooling section inlet header section. The second header tank also serves as a reservoir section. The interior of the condensation section outlet header section of the first header tank communicates, through a communication section, with a portion of the interior of the second header tank, which portion is located above the lower end of the first header tank. A flow velocity reducing member is provided in the second header tank so as to reduce the flow velocity of liquid-phase dominant refrigerant which flows into the reservoir section through the communication section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: KEIHIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouta Arino, Teruyuki Nagafuji
  • Patent number: 9279395
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger comprises connection points for the exhaust gas flow, for connecting the exhaust gas heat exchanger to an exhaust gas supply line for supplying a hot exhaust gas and an exhaust gas withdrawal line for withdrawing the exhaust gas flow cooled in the exhaust gas heat exchanger. The exhaust gas flow flows through the exhaust gas heat exchanger in a bundle of exhaust gas guiding pipes in a flow direction. The exhaust gas heat exchanger is provided with at least one coolant supply connection and at least one coolant withdrawal connection. Coolant is guided in a coolant channel in the exhaust gas heat exchanger, inside which it flows around the bundle of exhaust gas guiding pipes. The coolant channel comprises at least two regions which differ in terms of the flow direction of the exhaust gas flow by divergent flow directions of the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Götz Lorenz, Tibor Kollet, József Mercz, László Strébl, Gyula Tóth
  • Patent number: 9273913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) having a tube bundle (10) with a large number of tubes wound around a central pipe (100), a shell (20) enclosing the tube bundle (10) and defining a shell space (200) surrounding the tube bundle (10), and a liquid distributor (30) having distributor arms (300) for distributing a liquid (F) into the shell space (200) and onto the tube bundle (10), and drain pipes (340) for supplying the distributor arms with liquid (F). The distributor arms (300) are connected in a flow-guiding manner to a ring channel (400) positioned along the periphery of the shell (20). For degassing liquid (F), central pipe (100) is connected in a flow-guiding manner to the distributor arms (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Manfred Steinbauer, Christiane Kerber, Jurgen Spreemann, Luis Matamoros
  • Patent number: 9272777
    Abstract: A cooling system using one or more heat pipes rotating about a central axis to transfer heat energy from one medium to another. The heat pipes are oriented within a rotating member such that the axis of the heat pipe is non-coaxial with that of a central axis of the rotating member. Centrifugal forces are used to assist the movement of the working fluid within the heat pipe. The cooling system also includes heat pipes associated with a planetary carrier assembly and supplemental heat exchangers for use in aircraft and other machinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Monte A. McGlaun, K. Myron Jackson
  • Patent number: 9273908
    Abstract: According to the present invention, the method of heat transfer in a direction, which is reverse to natural convection, includes introduction of an additional pumping substance into the heated area. The pumping substance is incapable to be dissolved in the heat-transfer agent and its boiling temperature is lower than the boiling temperature of the heat-transfer agent. The heat-transfer agent is heated up, the pumping substance evaporates and the vapor pressure of the pumping substance is used to force the hot heat-transfer agent to flow along the branches of the circulating loop. The device for heat transfer in a direction reverse to the natural convection characterized in that its design incorporates technical means intended for vapor condensation of the pumping substance as well as technical means intended for draining that condensate from the condensation area to the evaporation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Uniwersytet Warminsko—Mazurski w Olsztynie
    Inventors: Daniel Chludzinski, Jurij Dobrianski, Michal Duda, Janusz Piechocki, Marek Samsel, Robert Wojcik
  • Patent number: 9243855
    Abstract: A cooling structure for cooling a heat generating element allows cooling fluid to circulate around the heat generating element or a base material with the heat generating element disposed thereon. The cooling structure is provided with a vortex-flow generating portion which extends in a direction intersecting a circulation direction of the cooling fluid, and which generates a vortex flow depending on the flow rate of cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke Koizuka, Tatsuomi Nakayama, Ichiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9243850
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the rotary high density heat exchangers. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to rotary high density heat exchangers that contain one or more fan blades where each fan blade contains heat exchanging surfaces on the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventors: John Carl Bastian, John David Jude
  • Patent number: 9230881
    Abstract: A heat sink for dissipating a thermal load is disclosed that includes one or more heat sink bases configured around a central axis of the heat sink so as to define an interior space, at least one heat sink base receiving the thermal load, a thermal transport connected to the at least one heat sink base receiving the thermal load so as to distribute the thermal load in the heat sink, and heat-dissipating fins connected to each heat sink base, the heat-dissipating fins extending from each heat sink base into the interior space of the heat sink, each heat-dissipating fin shaped according to the location of the heat-dissipating fin with respect to the location of the thermal load and the location of the distributed thermal load in the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jimmy G. Foster, Sr., Donna C. Hardee, Don S. Keener, Robert R. Wolford
  • Patent number: 9217608
    Abstract: A diagonal gasket support (22) in a heat exchanger cassette adapted for a heat exchanger having a contact-free flow channel (28), where the cassette (11, 29) comprises two plates (12) of the same type, where each plate is provided with a corrugated pattern having a plurality of ridges (19) and valleys (20), characterized in that the diagonal gasket support (22) comprises a plurality of indentations (23) and protrusions (24) positioned adjacent each other along a diagonal gasket groove (21). The advantage of such a diagonal gasket support is that a contact-free support at the diagonal gasket is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Joakim Krantz, Magnus Svensson
  • Patent number: 9182180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping device comprising two end plates (2, 7), springs (1), and tension rods (8), wherein the springs (1) are arranged on a supporting element to distribute clamping forces on one or more flow module plates, one or more reactor plates, one or more heat exchanger plates, or combinations thereof, which plates (6) are placed between the two end plates (2, 7). The present invention relates also to a method for opening and closing a plate reactor or a flow module, and uses of the clamping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Alfa Laval Corporate AB
    Inventors: Kasper Höglund, Tommy Norén, Magnus Lingvall
  • Patent number: 9163829
    Abstract: A moving bed heat exchanger (155) includes a vessel having an upper portion (200), a lower portion (210) with a floor (272) including a discharge opening therein, and an intermediate portion (205). The vessel directs a gravity flow of hot ash particles (140) received thereby from the upper portion (200) through the intermediate portion (205) to the floor (272) of the lower portion (210) of the vessel, where the hot ash particles (140) are collected. Tubes in the intermediate portion (205) of the vessel direct a flow of working fluid in a direction substantially orthogonal to the direction of the gravity flow of the hot ash particles (140) through the intermediate portion (205) of the vessel such that heat from the hot ash particles (140) is transferred to the working fluid thereby cooling the hot ash particles (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Robert V. Jacobs, Glen D. Jukkola, George D. Mylchreest, Bard C. Teigen, Richard E. Waryasz, Laurie Ferguson, John E. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9163880
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembled from multiple heat exchanging tubes. Each of the multiple heat exchanging tubes is formed as a flattened tube of 0.5 mm in thickness by press work or bending work of a stainless steel plate member having a thickness of 0.1 mm. Each of the multiple heat exchanging tubes is structured to have multiple lines of sequential wave crests and multiple lines of sequential wave troughs formed on each of flattened faces of the heat exchanging tube. The multiple lines of the sequential wave crests and the multiple lines of the sequential wave troughs are arranged to have a preset angle ? relative to a main stream of an air flow. The lines of the sequential wave crests and the lines of the sequential wave troughs are symmetrically folded back about folding lines arranged at a preset interval W along the main stream of the air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, WAKI FACTORY INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Shikazono, Tsunehito Wake, Shiro Ikuta