Patents Examined by Michail V Datskovskiy
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Patent number: 9210827Abstract: An automation device configured for an automation environment and for automating an industrial process includes a basic housing, a front hood, a primary heatsink for dissipating heat from a microprocessor, wherein the front hood is slottable onto the basic housing and assembles to form a closed housing which encloses the primary heatsink, the primary heatsink is rigidly connected to the basic housing on a bottom side of the basic housing via a locating bearing, the front hood includes a projecting retaining element on an inner side, a recess is arranged on a top side of the primary heatsink and into which the retaining element engages when the housing is closed, an elastic shaped element is arranged between the projecting retaining element and the recess, and the elastic shaped element absorbs oscillating forces of the primary heatsink in three spatial axes (x,y,z).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mathias Bäuml, Julia Michl, Jürgen Schmelz
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Patent number: 9204577Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow one or more fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves fanless servers installed on the server racks and introduces fan units to draw cooling air from the cold row encapsulation structure through the fanless servers on the racks.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison
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Patent number: 9203217Abstract: An inverter apparatus includes an inverter stack having casters at bottom and a switchboard for entering the inverter stack from a front side to store. The switchboard has an output relay terminal, at a storage bottom portion to store the inverter stack, extending along an entering direction of the inverter stack. The output relay terminal is attached with an output electric wire connected to a load at a rear end portion, is connected to an output terminal of the inverter stack at a front end portion, and is fastened to an output relay bar protruding downward from the bottom of the inverter stack through a fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Makoto Takano
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Patent number: 9200854Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a plate for use with a heatsink. The plate is adapted to engage with the heatsink and a fan subassembly, and comprises a first substantially planar section which is adapted to engage with the heatsink and a second substantially planar section which is adapted to engage with the fan subassembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: CONTROL TECHNIQUES LIMITEDInventor: Charles Anthony Cachia
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Patent number: 9198328Abstract: An electronics chassis for containing and supporting electronic components having different operating temperatures includes a plurality of thermally conductive walls forming an enclosure. There is a first heat dissipator in at least one of the walls having an external heat dissipator and a second heat dissipator in at least one of the walls having an external heat dissipator. There is a thermal isolator positioned in at least one of the walls to provide thermal isolation between the heat dissipators, and the thermal isolator includes a thermally insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Jay W. Kokas, Michael Maynard, Kerry R. Querns
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Patent number: 9198309Abstract: A chassis and a method of manufacturing a chassis of an information handling system are disclosed. The chassis includes a carbon-fiber composite and a plurality vents of formed in the carbon-fiber composite. Each of the plurality of vents is a channel extending through the carbon-fiber composite.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Deeder M. Aurongzeb, Travis C. North, Kyle D. Spiess
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Patent number: 9198310Abstract: A system for managing air flow computing devices in a rack includes a stall and filler elements. The stall includes a stall top panel and two side panels spaced apart from one another. The stall accommodates a rack computing system. The filler elements fill gaps between the computing devices of the rack computing systems and the panels of the stalls. An air moving system moves air from the cold aisle through cold-aisle facing air inlets of the computing devices. The filler elements inhibit air moving toward the cold aisle-facing inlets from leaking through gaps between the computing devices of the rack computing systems and the stall panels such that the filler elements inhibit air moving toward inlets in the computing devices from leaking through the gaps between the computing devices in the rack and the stall panels.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John William Eichelberg, Andrew Robert Schulz
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Patent number: 9192078Abstract: Apparatus and method for maintaining processing devices at a nominally common temperature, such as but not limited to storage devices in a multi-device networked storage enclosure. In accordance with some embodiments, an enclosed housing has a first side adjacent a cold zone with a lower ambient temperature and an opposing second side adjacent a warm zone with a higher ambient temperature. First and second processing devices are arranged within the enclosed housing so that the first processing device is adjacent the cold zone and the second processing device is adjacent the warm zone. First and second thermal interface material (TIM) modules are contactingly affixed to the first and second devices and are provided with different heat conductivities so that the first and second devices are maintained at a nominally common operational temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Anthony John Pronozuk, Shawn Jacob Noland, James Edward Dykes, William Leon Rugg
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Patent number: 9185831Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic control apparatus for a vehicle and provides an electronic control apparatus for a vehicle using a radiation board in which a radiation plate having a slide fixing structure (for example, “U” shaped) is attached onto a portion opposite to a portion which requires the radiation in a printed circuit board (PCB) and if additional radiation performance is required, a slidable radiation board which is detachable is attached/detached to directly emit heat to the atmosphere through the radiation plate and the radiation board to the atmosphere, thereby improving a radiation effect and to implement a standard platform of the radiation structure and implement an optimal radiation structure through a slidable radiation board and a manufacturing method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyung Joon Moon
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Patent number: 9184109Abstract: A thermal management system (201) is provided which includes a housing (203) equipped with a first set of apertures S1={a1, ai} (213), a second set of apertures S2={b1, . . . bj} (215) and a set of entrainment features S3={c1, Ck} (217), wherein i, j, k?1, and wherein, for any pair of adjacent apertures Pa={am, bn}, wherein am ? S1 and m ? I={1, . . . , i}, and wherein bn ? S2 and n ? J={1, . . . , j}, there is at least one entrainment feature cp ? S3 which is disposed between aperture am and aperture bn, wherein p ? K={1, . . . , k} . The thermal management system also includes a synthetic jet actuator disposed in said housing which is in fluidic communication with the sets of apertures S1 and S2 and which operates to create a synthetic jet at each aperture dr ? { S1, S2}, wherein r ? I?J.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Poynot
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Patent number: 9177732Abstract: A remote switching system for electrical switches in a cabinet provides simplified manufacture by attaching the flexible cable sheath and flexible cable to an actuator frame and slider, respectively, by means of flange elements attached to each of the sheath and cable that fit within corresponding receiving slots in the actuator frame and contained slider. A cover, which may be attached without fasteners, may then hold these flange elements within corresponding slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shawn D. Cloran, Edward Byaliy, Jerry M. Watkins, Scott B. Lasko, Christopher J. Wieloch
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Patent number: 9177731Abstract: A remote switching system for electronic switches in a cabinet provides an actuator assembly communicating through a flexible cable with a door handle. The actuator assembly on the electronic switch provides a rotatably captive threaded fastener holding the sheath of the flexible cable to the actuator assembly allow ring a simple single-point tuning of the actuator operation. This tuning may be facilitated by a visual scale showing relative positions between the actuator assembly and an internal slider communicating with the operator of the electronic switch.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shawn D. Cloran, Edward Byaliy, Jerry M. Watkins, Scott B. Lasko, James P. Miller, Christopher J Wieloch
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Patent number: 9172221Abstract: A converter building including at least one room having a solid room wall enclosing an interior space and an electrical active part contained in the interior space, the room wall having at least one opening, which is designed such that it allows a human to enter the interior space. The opening is sealable, the room wall encloses the interior space in a gas-tight manner when the opening is sealed, and the interior space contains a dielectric insulation medium including a dielectric insulation component other than air.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Peter Terwiesch, Navid Mahdizadeh, Mats Hyttinen, Goran Eriksson, Axel Kramer, Staffan Norrga, Thomas Alfred Paul, Uwe Riechert, Jan Svensson, Frans Dijkhuizen, Ingold Mathias
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Patent number: 9169845Abstract: A fan plate system can include a fan plate and may or may not include the fan. The fan plate can include one or more surfaces. The fan plate can also include a grill configured to allow air to flow into or from a fan through the grill. The one or more surfaces can be configured to connect to a first end of an outer housing of the fan. The one or more surfaces can also provide a gap between the first end of the fan outer housing and the grill when the fan outer housing is connected to the fan plate. In some embodiments, an electronic device can include a fan plate system.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin M. Takeuchi, Bruce A. Cariker
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Patent number: 9172220Abstract: A modular power control system is provided and includes a base enclosure, wherein the base enclosure and a base enclosure door, wherein the base enclosure defines a base enclosure cavity and the base enclosure door defines a base enclosure door cavity. Additionally, a module enclosure is provided and includes a module enclosure top, a module enclosure bottom, and two module enclosure sides, wherein the module enclose defines a module enclosure cavity and a module enclosure internal support, wherein the module enclosure internal support includes a module enclosure internal support rear and two module enclosure internal support sides having a first module guide channel located on one of the two module enclosure internal support sides and a second module guide channel located on the other of the two module enclosure internal support side.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Inventors: Robert Luther, Joshua Liposky
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Patent number: 9166382Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of a power distribution unit having modular components. For example, according to one embodiment, a power distribution unit can include a component portion that comprises at least two modules including outlet modules, circuit protection modules, power input modules, communications I/O modules, and display modules. Each of the at least two modules of the component portion can comprise at least one connection element and can be removably secured to one or more other of the at least two modules via the connection elements. The power distribution unit can also include a housing that defines an interior cavity. The component portion can be removably secured to the housing at least partially within the interior cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Server Technology, Inc.Inventors: Carrel W. Ewing, Andrew J. Cleveland, James P. Maskaly, Dave Greenblat, Brandon W. Ewing
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Patent number: 9165731Abstract: A protective door having push switches, access to racking unit and viewing windows is assembled with the electrical device such that the protective door encloses the electrical device with a flame proof sealing. The push switches and cutout to access racking unit are made aligned with the electrical device such that the switches of the electrical device are actuated through the push switches, racking in and out the device is possible through the cutout to access racking unit and it allows reading the rating plate, display of the electrical device through the viewing windows in the protective door even if the protective door is closed. The push switch has a push rod and a spring loaded push button assembled inside a cylinder and the push button is clamped from the front of the protective door. The push switches are arranged such that a reset switch contact with the position reset switch of the electrical device, push switches to respectively switch ON and Switch OFF the electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Manan Deb, Frank Michael Page, Sinan Meric, Gregory Brent Lee, Shylesh D. Rao
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Patent number: 9167725Abstract: A server system utilizing a backplane structure comprises first and second hard disk modules; a first backplane comprising a first wiring board comprising air vents and passive components and a second wiring board connected to a bottom portion of the first wiring board at a first angle and comprising first active components; and a second backplane comprising a third wiring board comprising second air vents and second passive components and a fourth wiring board connected to a bottom portion of the third wiring board at a second angle and comprising second active components thereon; wherein the first and second backplanes are disposed between the first and second hard disk modules; the first wiring board is directly corresponding to the first hard disk module; the third wiring board is directly corresponding to the second hard disk module; the first backplane is higher than the second backplane.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Richard S. Chen, Lawrence H. Liang, Lawrence K. W. Lam, Shen Ping
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Patent number: 9151515Abstract: An electric radiator is provided using calculating processors as a heat source and includes a heating body where the heat transfer between the heat source and the ambient air takes place; a number of processors distributed over a number of printed circuit boards forming the heat source of the radiator and a power resource carrying out calculations by external computer systems; a man-machine interface enabling the control of the calculating and calorific power supplied by the radiator; a power source stabilized for the different electrical components; and a network interface for connecting the radiator to the external networks.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Qarnot ComputingInventor: Paul Benoit
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Patent number: 9155231Abstract: A compact motor-drive unit wherein each component can be stably fixed to the unit. A motor-drive unit has a plurality of substrates each having a circuit for driving a motor; semiconductor devices mounted on the respective substrates; at least one smoothing capacitor mounted on at least one of the substrates; and a heat radiator having a heat-transferring surface adjacent to the semiconductors. The smoothing capacitor is positioned within a swept area formed by moving the first substrate arranged generally parallel to a base surface, in a counter-front direction, so that the smoothing capacitor is separated from the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Naoki Masuda, Kiichi Inaba