Patents by Inventor Hideo Kubo

Hideo Kubo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180135920
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a heat exchanger that includes a flat tube through which fluid flows. The flat tube includes a tube main body section, a connecting wall portion, and a flange portion. The tube main body section has a join portion at which an outer face at one end side of the tube main body section and an inner face at another end side of the tube main body section are joined together in an overlapping state to form a flat tube shape. The connecting wall portion extends from the one end of the tube main body section toward the inside of the tube main body section. The flange portion extends along the inner face of the tube main body section from a leading end part of the connecting wall portion toward an opposite side from the join portion, and is joined to the inner face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiteru OCHI, Hidehisa Sakai, Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9951999
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a refrigerant circulation loop configured to depressurizing the inside thereof, the refrigerant circulation loop includes, an evaporator that vaporizes a part of refrigerant by heat generated by an electronic component, a condenser that cools the refrigerant, and a pump that circulates the refrigerant, wherein a filling ratio of liquid refrigerant to a volume of the refrigerant circulation loop is configured to maintain a refrigerant circulation capability of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Osamu Aizawa, Nobuyuki Hayashi, Teru Nakanishi, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Patent number: 9949402
    Abstract: A liquid loop cooling apparatus includes: an evaporator thermally coupled to a heating element; a condenser configured to be cooled by an airflow; a pump configured to circulate a refrigerant between the evaporator and the condenser; a first piping configured to couple the evaporator and the condenser; a second piping configured to couple the condenser and the pump; and a third piping configured to couple the pump and the evaporator, wherein the first piping is arranged on a destination side of the airflow, and the second piping is arranged on a source side of the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180084670
    Abstract: An immersion cooling apparatus includes: a refrigerant tank configured to store a non-boiling fluorine-based insulating refrigerant in which an electronic device is to be immersed; a circulation passage of the fluorine-based insulating refrigerant that is located between the refrigerant tank and a refrigerant cooling device; and a sealed pump that is arranged in the circulation passage, is configured to seal a rotor shaft with an impeller and a bearing portion for the rotor shaft in a sealed case while the rotor shaft and the bearing portion are immersed in the fluorine-based insulating refrigerant, and is configured to circulate the fluorine-based insulating refrigerant between the refrigerant tank and the refrigerant cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Hideo Kubo, NAOFUMI KOSUGI
  • Publication number: 20180084671
    Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid immersion tank capable of withstanding, though made of a resin, a load of coolants and keeping dimensional accuracy. The liquid immersion tank including: a tank body being receivable of an electronic equipment and filled with a fluorine-series insulating coolant; and a fixing portion being provided on an inner wall surface of the tank body and receiving fixation of the electronic equipment, the tank body being equal to or smaller than 2% in modulus of volume change when immersed in the fluorine-series insulating coolant, and being composed of a resin material being equal to or smaller than 15×10?5/K in coefficient of linear expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshio Matsumoto, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20180020572
    Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid immersion tank of an electronic equipment, which restrains a gas from being mixed in a circulation path even when an outflow port to a circulation path exists in the vicinity of a liquid surface. The liquid immersion tank of the electronic equipment, which is disclosed in the present application, includes a tank body being receivable of the electronic equipment and being connected to the circulation path of a coolant for liquid-cooling the electronic equipment by being immersed in the liquid coolant, and an enclosure including inside an outflow port to the circulation path and receiving an inflow of the coolant overflowing from a liquid surface in the tank body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinnosuke FUJIWARA, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20180020570
    Abstract: A liquid immersion bath for an electronic device includes: a bath body that is capable of housing the electronic device, is coupled to a circulation path through which a liquid coolant which cools the electronic device immersed in the liquid coolant circulates, and includes a gas phase portion corresponding to a space free from the liquid coolant; and a container that is disposed in the gas phase portion and has a volume which changes in accordance with a pressure of the gas phase portion, wherein an inside of the container is coupled to an outside of the bath body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinnosuke FUJIWARA, Hideo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9778709
    Abstract: There is provided an evaporator including: a container including a top plate, and a bottom plate configured to be heated by an electronic component; a reinforcing member having a tubular shape extending from the bottom plate to the top plate, and configured such that a coolant is introduced inside the reinforcing member; a side opening formed in a side portion of the reinforcing member, and configured to allow the coolant to flow out to the bottom plate; and a discharge port provided in the top plate outside the reinforcing member, and configured to discharge vapor from the container, the vapor being generated by the coolant contacting the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20170280587
    Abstract: An immersion cooling device includes a refrigerant tank configured to accommodate a refrigerant liquid in which an electronic device is immersed; a seal tank configured to accommodate a sealing material and communicate with the refrigerant tank through an upper space of the seal tank, a cable connected to the electronic device being disposed in the upper portion space; and a partition member that, in a state in which a portion of the cable disposed in the upper portion space is immersed in the sealing material in a liquid state, partitions the upper portion space into a first space that is in communication with the refrigerant tank, and a second space that is in communication with an outside of the seal tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Hideo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9694433
    Abstract: A disclosed method of joining a cooling component includes joining an electronic component and a spherical shaped bottom plate of a cooling component to each other by pressing the bottom plate against the electronic component, while providing a thermal bonding material between the bottom plate and the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170127564
    Abstract: A liquid loop cooling apparatus includes: an evaporator thermally coupled to a heating element; a condenser configured to be cooled by an airflow; a pump configured to circulate a refrigerant between the evaporator and the condenser; a first piping configured to couple the evaporator and the condenser; a second piping configured to couple the condenser and the pump; and a third piping configured to couple the pump and the evaporator, wherein the first piping is arranged on a destination side of the airflow, and the second piping is arranged on a source side of the airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Patent number: 9620435
    Abstract: An evaporator includes a housing in which an evaporator chamber configured to evaporate a refrigerant is formed; a heat transfer surface provided on an inner wall of the housing and having a hot area which is a part that becomes hot due to heat transferred from a heating element to the housing; and a supply port formed in the housing, opposed to the hot area and configured to eject the refrigerant supplied from a supply pipe to the hot area, wherein a narrow groove is formed in the heat transfer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Endo, Osamu Aizawa, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20170014929
    Abstract: A disclosed method of joining a cooling component includes joining an electronic component and a spherical shaped bottom plate of a cooling component to each other by pressing the bottom plate against the electronic component, while providing a thermal bonding material between the bottom plate and the electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20160327996
    Abstract: A cooling module includes: a heat exchanger mounted on an electronic part mounted on a board, and that cools the electronic part; a leaf spring including an overhang portion and an extension portion, the overhang portion overhanging outward beyond the heat exchanger from the heat exchanger, and the extension portion extending from the overhang portion in a direction intersecting an overhang direction of the overhang portion when viewed in a thickness direction of the board; and a support member located around the heat exchanger, and fixed to the board, the extension portion bent toward the board being attached to the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: KENJI SASABE, Hideo Kubo, Tsuyoshi So, Nobumitsu Aoki, Masayuki Watanabe, Fumihiro TAWA, Yoshinori Uzuka
  • Publication number: 20160309620
    Abstract: A pump includes: an impeller including a rotary shaft and a plurality of blades extending radially from the rotary shaft, a cutout or a hole is formed in each of the blades; a casing housing the impeller therein; an inlet provided to the casing, a thermal medium flows in the casing through the inlet; and an outlet provided to the casing, the thermal medium flows out of the casing through the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Nobumitsu Aoki, Yoshinori Uzuka
  • Publication number: 20160192543
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is an air-conditioning apparatus, for an air-conditioning target space in which a rack including a device as a heat-producing object is provided and which is separated by the rack into a cold space and a hot space, that makes return air from the hot space flow in so as to cool the return air and supplies an arbitrary air volume of the supplied air which is obtained by cooling the return air to the cold space by using a supply fan. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a processor. The processor executes a process including conducting control so that a temperature of the supplied air is equal to a prescribed value that is set in advance, and adjusting an air volume of the supplied air by controlling the supply fan so that a temperature of the return air is equal to a target value that is set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Takehisa Matsuda, Akira MINEGISHI, Hideo Kubo, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, TOSHIO SUGIMOTO, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Syunsuke OHGA
  • Publication number: 20160124474
    Abstract: There is provided an evaporator including: a container including a top plate, and a bottom plate configured to be heated by an electronic component; a reinforcing member having a tubular shape extending from the bottom plate to the top plate, and configured such that a coolant is introduced inside the reinforcing member; a side opening formed in a side portion of the reinforcing member, and configured to allow the coolant to flow out to the bottom plate; and a discharge port provided in the top plate outside the reinforcing member, and configured to discharge vapor from the container, the vapor being generated by the coolant contacting the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20150334876
    Abstract: An evaporator includes a housing in which an evaporator chamber configured to evaporate a refrigerant is formed; a heat transfer surface provided on an inner wall of the housing and having a hot area which is a part that becomes hot due to heat transferred from a heating element to the housing; and a supply port formed in the housing, opposed to the hot area and configured to eject the refrigerant supplied from a supply pipe to the hot area, wherein a narrow groove is formed in the heat transfer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi Endo, Osamu Aizawa, Hideo Kubo
  • Publication number: 20150184949
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: an evaporator that vaporizes a part of a refrigerant by heat generated by an electronic component; a condenser that cools the refrigerant; a refrigerant circulation loop coupled to the evaporator and the condenser, an inside of the refrigerant circulation loop is depressurized; and a pump that circulates the refrigerant, wherein a filling ratio of the liquid refrigerant to a volume of the refrigerant circulation loop is 50% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi So, Hideo Kubo, Osamu Aizawa, Nobuyuki HAYASHI, TERU NAKANISHI, Yoshinori Uzuka, Nobumitsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20150055301
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a card-type electronic component, including: a printed circuit board on which a card-type electronic component is detachably mounted; a thermally-conductive heat transfer member, disposed facing the card-type electronic component; a press contact portion that places the heat transfer member in press contact with the card-type electronic component; and a pair of flow path portions that are disposed at both width direction sides of the card-type electronic component, that form flow paths in which coolant flows, and that support the heat transfer member so as to enable heat exchange between the heat transfer member and the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SO, Hideo Kubo, Nobumitsu Aoki, Yoshinori Uzuka