Patents Examined by Zachary Pape
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Patent number: 11917796Abstract: A module is provided for housing electronic devices and a liquid coolant. The module comprises: a housing defining a sealable internal volume for containing the electronic devices and the liquid coolant, the sealable internal volume having a base; a substrate in the sealable internal volume approximately parallel to the base, one of the electronic devices being mounted on a side of the substrate proximal the base; and a heat sink device, comprising a receptacle part defining an internal volume that is arranged to receive the liquid coolant and accumulate the liquid coolant therein. The heat sink is mounted such that the one of the electronic devices or a component that is thermally conductively coupled to the one of the electronic devices is at least partially within the internal volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Iceotope Group LimitedInventors: Nathan Longhurst, Jason Matteson, David Amos
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Patent number: 11917791Abstract: The invention relates to a heat dissipation device comprising a support (10) and a heat sink (12) designed to be cooled by an air flow passing through the sink (12), the support (10) having a first housing inside which the sink (10) is held, the support (10) being further configured to accommodate an electronic control module (2) designed to be cooled by the sink (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Ismaƫl Franco, Mickaia Rabenja, Johan Kaes
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Patent number: 11903164Abstract: A heat dissipation apparatus includes a heat-conducting plate, where a liquid channel is disposed on a first surface of the heat-conducting plate; a mounting base, where an accommodation cavity configured to accommodate a partial area that is in the heat-conducting plate and that includes a second surface is disposed on the mounting base. The first surface and the second surface are disposed opposite to each other. A pressing plate is configured to fasten the heat-conducting plate in the accommodation cavity. The pressing plate is detachably and firmly connected to the mounting base, a sealing cavity is formed between the pressing plate and the first surface of the heat-conducting plate, and the sealing cavity is configured to accommodate the liquid channel A liquid inlet connector and a liquid outlet connector that are connected to the liquid channel are disposed on the pressing plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinhu Gong, Gaoliang Xia
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Patent number: 11889663Abstract: An immersion dual-cycle multi-mode liquid cooling regulation system and method for a data center comprises data center cabinets, a microchannel condensation heat exchanger, a plate heat exchanger, waste heat recovery devices, a cooling water storage tank, a fluorinated liquid storage tank, a liquid pump, a fluorinated liquid, pipelines, and pipeline valves. The system switches between single-phase and two-phase circulation loops according to the working power consumption of a server and the thermophysical property of a cooling working medium, and realizes flexible adjustment and control according to the cooling demand of the cabinet, the load magnitude and the working environment, thus avoiding the waste of resources caused by different loads in the data center; and cooling water flows through the waste heat recovery devices to recover heat, to reduce the electricity consumption of the system and greatly improve the utilization efficiency of cooling capacity.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Xu Liu, Ao Li, Jiangfeng Yao, Zilong Deng, Chengbin Zhang
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Patent number: 11889659Abstract: Provided is a liquid-cooled case which can disperse a cooling liquid by means of a jet cooling technique in an immersed system to dissipate heat uniformly and improve the heat dissipating efficiency. The liquid-cooled case includes cover plates; main boards; a liquid inlet unit, wherein the liquid inlet unit includes a liquid inlet tube and a liquid inlet, the liquid inlet is formed in the case, and one end of the liquid inlet tube is imported into the case through the liquid inlet; and a liquid outlet unit, wherein the liquid outlet unit includes a liquid outlet tube and a liquid outlet, the liquid outlet is formed in the case, and one end of the liquid outlet tube is exported out of the case through the liquid outlet. The liquid-cooled case further includes flow guide blocks which are arranged on the cover plates or the main boards.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: China Jiliang UniversityInventors: Lijuan Qian, Zhitao Jiang, Chenlin Zhu, Fang Zhou, Zheng Wang
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Patent number: 11882670Abstract: In one embodiment, an immersion cooling system includes a container to contain first coolant received from a first cooling source and server chassis at least partially submerged into the first coolant. Each server chassis includes an electronic device and a cooling plate attached thereon to extract at least a portion of heat generated by the electronic device. The cooling plate includes an inlet port to receive second coolant from a second cooling source, a coolant channel to distribute the second coolant, and an outlet port to return the second coolant back to the second cooling source. The cooling system further includes a return manifold to be coupled to the second cooling source, the return manifold having one or more manifold return connectors respectively coupled with the server chassis and to receive and return the second coolant from the server chassis back to the second cooling source.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventor: Tianyi Gao
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Patent number: 11877429Abstract: A power converter apparatus for a vehicle includes: a cooling block provided with a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet, and with two cooling baths connected to the refrigerant inlet in parallel and each having a shape open to an outside, the cooling block being configured to allow refrigerants passing through the two cooling baths to be merged prior to being discharged through the refrigerant outlet; two cooling plates, wherein each of the two cooling plates covers an opening of an associated one of the cooling baths to provide a cooling chamber and includes a plurality of cooling fins protruding into the cooling chamber; and two cooling tubes, wherein each of the cooling tubes is coupled to the cooling block to provide a space for accommodating a power module between the cooling tube and an associated one of the cooling plates.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Ok Geun Ha, Sung Jun Yoon
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Patent number: 11877425Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to a heat spreader for an autonomous vehicle computing device. The heat spreader includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface. The top surface of the heat spreader is thermally conductive. The top surface of the heat spreader includes a section that is sized and shaped to align with a heat generating component (e.g., on a printed circuit board assembly). The top surface of the heat spreader is configured to receive heat from the heat generating component. The bottom surface of the heat spreader includes externally integrated fins. The heat spreader is configured to dissipate the heat from the heat generating component such that the heat from the heat generating component flows from the top surface to the externally integrated fins on the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Kaida Chen, Zoran Stefanoski, Srinivasa Rao Damaraju, Cathy Yoon
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Patent number: 11871536Abstract: A cooling system for a heat-generating electronic device includes a cold plate module, a flow channel, and a fin arrangement. The cold plate module includes a base plate and a top cover. The flow channel is for a liquid coolant and extends between an inlet connector and an outlet connector. The liquid coolant flows along a flow direction. The fin arrangement is located between the base plate and the top cover. The fin arrangement is thermally coupled to the flow channel and is eccentrically located relative to the cold plate module.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Yu-Nien Huang, Cheng-Yu Wen, Hung-Yuan Chen
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Patent number: 11871546Abstract: A cooling system for data centre, which data centre includes a plurality of servers associated to form a rack, each server being provided with one or more heat generating means. The system includes a plurality of first heat exchange circuits and second thermosyphon circuits. The overall configuration of the system being such that the second thermosyphon circuits are in fluid communication with each other according to a parallel connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: WIELAND PROVIDES SRLInventors: Franco Provenziani, Filippo Cataldo
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Patent number: 11864362Abstract: This power supply device is provided with: a first heat-generating component; a case; a resin material; a circuit board; a second heat-generating component; and a heat dissipation casing. This power supply device is additionally provided with a heat transfer member which has a first portion that is arranged to be in contact with a first outer surface of the case and a second portion that is arranged to be in contact with a second outer surface of the case, and which has a higher thermal conductivity than the case. The second heat-generating component is arranged in contact with the heat transfer member; and the heat transfer member dissipates the heat of the first heat-generating component and the second heat-generating component by being arranged in contact with a wall surface that constitutes the heat dissipation casing.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Yamashima, Shinya Kimura
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Patent number: 11864352Abstract: A novel and useful system wiring apparatus and related techniques that address the need to feed power and electronic signals to and from a sample board between the cold, low pressure region in a vacuum chamber and outside room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The wiring apparatus balances electrical resistance with the thermal conductivity of the power and signal conductors. Printed flexible cables are used having an annular sealing region which together with O-rings provide vacuum sealing while allowing electrical signals to pass between integrated circuit(s) inside the vacuum chamber and equipment outside the chamber. A thermal anchor is placed along the printed flexible cable to maintain a desired temperature along the cable. The printed flexible circuits are multilayer with two outer layers serving as an RF shield while two inner layers comprise the signal lines which typically require shielding, electrical isolation from each other and from external electromagnetic fields.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: EQUAL 1 LABORATORIES IRELAND LIMITEDInventors: Hans Haenlein, Dirk Robert Walter Leipold, Ali Esmailiyan
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Patent number: 11856738Abstract: Disclosed is a power conversion device comprising: a case; a switching unit comprising a plurality of switches which are disposed on one side of the case; a transformer disposed on one side of the case; and a clip for fixing the plurality of switches. The clip comprises: a body part which is fixed to the case; and elastic parts which extend from the body part and are for pressing the plurality of switches to the case. The body part comprises a plurality of first through holes into which screws are coupled. And the first through holes are disposed between two adjacent elastic parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Shin Young Jang
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Patent number: 11852957Abstract: This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a security camera. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heatsinks and thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivities. The thermal-control system may transfer and spread energy from a high thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the security camera to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the security camera at or below prescribed temperature thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ihab A. Ali, Arun Prakash Raghupathy, Mark Benjamin Kraz, Kok Yen Cheng, Chi-Ming Lin
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Patent number: 11856734Abstract: A set of electronic package elements intended to be mounted on an electronic board having a component to be cooled including: a chassis, a heatsink fixed by a retaining piece inside the chassis, a cover configured to be fixed on the chassis so as to retain the electronic board in the package. The heatsink is configured to be fixed on the electronic board while maintaining a predetermined distance between a lower face of the heatsink and the component. The cover is configured to be able to be fixed by a fixing point to the heatsink. The retaining piece is connected to the heatsink so as to allow the heatsink a translational movement relative to the chassis in three orthogonal directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Jean-Philippe Bekaert, Gilles Le Roy
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Patent number: 11856730Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-cooled integrated cabinet, which belongs to the technical field of servers, and comprises a main body. A power distribution module is provided at the upper end of the main body, and multiple computing power modules which constitute a computing power center are parallelly provided on one side of the lower end of the main body; cooling fans stacked on top and bottom in multiple layers are arranged on the other side thereof; the computing power module is cooled by a liquid-cooled module, and the liquid-cooled module is a front and rear drawing structure relative to the main body. The cooling fan bears 8%-12% of the heat dissipation capacity. A cold plate shell in the liquid-cooled module contacts and conducts heat with a chip in the computing power module.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CMOTION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Changjiang Ge, Minghui Sun, Hao Peng, Bin Yang, Zhenhui Li
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Patent number: 11849539Abstract: Embedded cooling systems and methods of forming the same are disclosed. An embedded cooling system includes a PCB having a first major surface opposite a second major surface and power device stacks embedded within the PCB between the first major surface and the second major surface. Each power device stack includes a first substrate and a second substrate, and an electrical insulation layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The embedded cooling system further includes a power device coupled to the first substrate of each power device stack and heat pipes having a first end and a second end spaced a distance apart from the first end. The first end is embedded within the PCB substrate and the second end extends outside of the PCB substrate. The second substrate of the one or more power device stacks is coupled to the one or more heat pipes.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 11844191Abstract: An apparatus and heat management mechanism are described. The apparatus includes an outer casing enclosing at least one heat generating electronic structure, such as a plurality of electronic components included on at least printed circuit board, the outer casing having an inner surface and an outer surface. The apparatus and the heat management mechanism further include a heat dissipation structure thermally coupled to the heat generating structure or printed circuit board, the heat dissipation structure forming an open-ended columnar channel, the open-ended columnar channel allowing air to flow within the heat dissipation structure in a direction parallel to a surface of the heat generating structure or printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Darin Ritter
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Patent number: 11844197Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include an electronic device package having a first surface, a heat conductive structure having a second surface, a reservoir structure positioned between the first surface of the electronic device package and the second surface of the heat conductive structure, and a thermal interface material disposed within the reservoir structure between the first surface of the electronic device package and the second surface of the heat conductive structure to place the first surface in thermal communication with the second surface. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Raymon S. Anglin Williams
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Patent number: 11839055Abstract: A heat-conducting assembly includes a middle frame and a heat-conducting structure. The middle frame is plate-shaped, having a first side surface and a second side surface that are opposite to each other, and being provided with a first through hole through which the first side surface communicates with the second side surface. The heat-conducting structure includes a heat dissipation part and a conducting part. The heat dissipation part is fastened to the second side surface, and the conducting part extends into the first through hole. The conducting part includes a conductor being connected to the heat dissipation part and a heat insulator which is fastened in the first through hole through the heat insulator, and is in contact with a heat source, which is close to one end that is of the first through hole and that is located on the first side surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongfu Sun, Guo Yang, Quanming Li