By Application Of Mechanical Energy Patents (Class 165/104.25)
  • Patent number: 11340023
    Abstract: A pump assisted heat pipe may combine the low mass flow rate required of latent heat pipe transfer loops with a hermetically sealed pump to overcome the typical heat pipe capillary limit. This may result in a device with substantially higher heat transfer capacity over conventional pumped single-phase loops, heat pipes, loop heat pipes, and capillary pumped loops with very modest power requirements to operate. Further, one or more embodiments overcome the gravitation limitations in the conventional heat pipe configuration, e.g., when the heat addition zone is above the heat rejection zone, the capillary forces are required to transfer the liquid from the heat rejection zone to the heat addition zone against gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Triad National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Reid, Robert A. Zimmerman, Cody M. Williams, Morgan T. Biel, Stephen J. Obrey, Todd A. Jankowski, Justin Simpson, Martin J. Ward, Lydia Wermer
  • Patent number: 11273925
    Abstract: A method for cooling a hybrid electric aircraft propulsion system comprises transporting a coolant through a two-phase pumped loop (TPPL) in thermal contact with an electrical machine and a plurality of power modules to be cooled, where the TPPL includes: a parallel arrangement of cold plates; an evaporator; a condenser; a first control valve; a liquid receiver; and a pump. A sensor positioned upstream of the cold plates, and in some cases upstream of the liquid receiver, measures pressure and/or temperature of a return stream of the coolant and transmits measurement data to a first controller electrically connected to the first control valve. The first controller regulates flow of a first liquid stream through the first control valve based on the pressure and/or temperature measured by the sensor, thereby keeping the return stream at a temperature within a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Paul O'Meallie, Daniel G. Edwards, Douglas J. Snyder
  • Patent number: 11164146
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an enclosure that includes a plurality of mounting features that are configured to receive information handling systems; an information handling resource configured to store and update a data structure that includes information regarding the information handling systems that are received in the enclosure; and a display configured to display inventory information for the enclosure based on the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: James Don Curlee, Steven Embleton, Joshua Scott Keup, Ben John Sy
  • Patent number: 11116112
    Abstract: A cold energy recovery apparatus for a self-powered data centre is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a fluid storage tank having at least a pair of inlet and outlet, the inlet configured to receive a coolant; and a heat exchanger arranged in the tank, the heat exchanger having a pair of inlet and outlet, the inlet configured to receive liquefied natural gas. The apparatus is operable to permit the coolant to flow from the inlet to the outlet of the tank causing the coolant to be in fluid contact with the heat exchanger, in which the coolant is progressively cooled to a lower temperature by heat transfer to the liquefied natural gas via fluid contact with the heat exchanger. The liquefied natural gas is vaporized into natural gas due to the heat transfer and is directed out from the outlet of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KEPPEL OFFSHORE & MARINE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE PTE LTD
    Inventors: Aziz Amirali Merchant, Anis Altaf Hussain, Sreekala Kumar, Abul Bashar Md Masum Reza, Peter Francis Bernad Adaikalaraj, Jackson Tee
  • Patent number: 11056736
    Abstract: A device has a shield boxes with a plurality of batteries installed, an inner wall of the shield box has a condenser pipe filled with coolant, a cylinder rotatably connects with an inner bottom of the shield box, an upper end of the cylinder has a circular groove arranged coaxially with the cylinder, the circular groove is sealed and rotated to connect with a circular block, a water inlet end and a water outlet end of the condenser pipe are both sealed and penetrated through the circular block, a heat insulation plate is arranged in the cylinder, the heat insulation plate divides the cylinder into two insulation chambers of the same size, an upper end of the cylinder is provided with two through holes communicating with the circular groove, a driving device for driving the cylinder to rotate is installed in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Gong Zhu
  • Patent number: 10875770
    Abstract: A method and system for cooling sulfuric acid aqueous solutions (H2SO4) belonging to the field of chemical processes, which is part of a contact process for production of sulfuric acid with or without energy recovery. The method comprises absorption of SO3, which produces heated concentrated sulfuric acid and indirectly cooling the hot acid. The method uses a sulfuric acid-inert coolant. A cooling step comprises an intermediate indirect acid-fluid cooling and a second fluid-water or fluid indirect cooling step—third fluid, wherein when the process is of the type with energy recovery. A third step includes energy recovery, steam generation. A system to perform the method, which works next to the SO3 absorption tower comprises an acid cooling loop consisting of an intermediate acid-fluid heat exchanger; a second fluid-water heat exchanger, and when the process is of the type with energy recovery, said equipment further includes a steam generation boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NC Engenharia Industria E Comercio Ltda
    Inventor: Nelson Perella Clark
  • Patent number: 10794383
    Abstract: A system for managing the flow of fluids within a closed-loop system includes a pump controller and a variable-speed pump in communication with a conduit circuit including at least one one pressure-independent control valve (PICV). By using PICVs instead of conventional, two-way, two-way, pressure-dependent valves, the pump controller can monitor system needs and adjust the the speed of the variable-speed pump to more efficiently deliver pressure to the system without overshooting flow requirements, leading to less energy consumed and less cost incurred. A method method of variable-speed pumping including the use of PICVs is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: James M. Pleasants Co., Inc.
    Inventor: James Christopher Edmondson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10720881
    Abstract: An assembly includes a photovoltaic module including a solar cell and a cooling system including a heat pipe adapted to dissipate heat from the solar cell. A method includes dissipating heat from the solar cell using the heat pipe. The photovoltaic module may be disposed on a vehicle to convert solar energy into electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Hadi Malek, Daniel Boston, Jacob Mathews, Brett Stephens
  • Patent number: 10645842
    Abstract: Heat transfer devices and methods for making the same that include a first enclosure having at least one inlet port; a second enclosure having a bottom plate and one or more dividing walls to establish channels, at least one internal surface of each channel having rib structures to create turbulence in a fluid flow; and a jet plate connecting the first enclosure and the second enclosure having impinging jets that convey fluid from the first enclosure to the channels, said impinging jets being set at an angular deviation from normal to cause local acceleration of fluid and to increase a local heat transfer rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Pritish R. Parida
  • Patent number: 10644557
    Abstract: A stator used for a motor, the motor and a ventilation cooling method for the motor. The stator includes concentrated windings, and at least two wedge blocks are arranged at the gaps between the adjacent concentrated windings. The at least two wedge blocks are distributed on the concentrated windings in a staggered manner to form a first ventilation path. Therefore, the concentrated windings can be cooled effectively, the concentrated windings are effectively constrained in the circumferential direction by means of the at least two wedge blocks, the service life of the motor is further prolonged, and the reliability of the motor is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenshou Fan, Xiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10605541
    Abstract: A cool storage system comprising which includes a plurality of heat pipes. Each of the heat pipes has a lower evaporator section, a hybrid evaporator/condensing section, and an upper condensing section. The hybrid evaporator/condensing section positioned between the lower evaporator section and the upper condensing section. Each of the heat pipes contains a selected amount of a heat transfer fluid adapted to transfer heat from the lower evaporator section to the hybrid evaporator/condensing section and the upper condensing section through a vapor/condensation cycle, or the heat transfer fluid is vaporized in the hybrid evaporator and condensed in the upper evaporator section. A thermal storage medium is provided in thermal engagement with the hybrid evaporator/condensing section. A heat source is located in said lower evaporator section, and a cooling source, located in said upper condensing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ying Zheng, Chien-Hua Chen, Howard Pearlman, Richard Bonner, III, William G. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10563299
    Abstract: A drying roller includes: a cylindrical member for drying a separator original sheet, with hot water which is supplied into the cylindrical member and ejected from inside the cylindrical member, the separator original sheet being wrapped on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member; and a discharge pipe for discharging the hot water toward one inner end surface of the cylindrical member, the heating medium being discharged at a position where a distance to the one end surface of the cylindrical member is longer than a distance to the other inner end surface of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiko Shin, Koichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10519815
    Abstract: A compact energy cycle construction that operates as or in accordance with a Rankine, Organic Rankine, Heat Pump, or Combined Organic Rankine and Heat Pump Cycle, comprising a compact housing of a generally cylindrical form with some combination of a scroll type expander, pump, and compressor disposed therein to share a common shaft with a motor or generator and to form an integrated system, with the working fluid of the system circulating within the housing as a torus along the common shaft and toroidally within the housing as the system operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Shaffer, Bryce R Shaffer
  • Patent number: 10491077
    Abstract: A motor structure includes a housing, a cover, an air collecting structure fixed to the cover, and a cooling fan. The cover defines a plurality of inlet holes. The air collecting structure defines a plurality of through holes aligned with the inlet holes of the cover, so as to provide a path for allowing a central portion of the air current generated by the cooling fan to enter the housing. The housing defines a plurality of communication holes and a plurality of outlet holes for allowing the air which has entered the housing to flow thereout. In addition, the present invention provides another path so that an outer portion of the air current can flow along the outer surface of the housing to reduce the temperature of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Inventor: Wen-San Chou
  • Patent number: 10470339
    Abstract: A system, including a first pipeline and a second pipeline, where the first pipeline includes a first steam pipe, a first liquid pipe, and an evaporation section connected between the first steam pipe and the first liquid pipe, and the second pipeline includes a second steam pipe, a second liquid pipe, and a heat exchanger connected between the second steam pipe and the second liquid pipe. Two pairs of quick connectors are respectively connected between the first steam pipe and the second steam pipe and between the first liquid pipe and the second liquid pipe. The loop heat pipe includes a valve and a nozzle that are configured for vacuum pumping. Refrigerant is provided inside the loop heat pipe. A capillary structure is provided inside the evaporation section to provide a capillary suction force to enable the refrigerant to circulate in the loop heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaofeng Peng, Zhijian Li, Honghui Liu, Shanjiu Chi
  • Patent number: 10436519
    Abstract: Provided is a cocurrent loop thermosyphon system and method for operation thereof. The system includes a first rising tube having first and second ends; a condenser having first and second ends, with the first end connected to the second end of the first rising tube; a return tube having a first end connected to the second end of the condenser; a second rising tube having a first end connected to a second end of the return tube; a pump that pumps liquid within the second rising tube; and an evaporator having a first end connected to the second end of the second rising tube. The second end of the evaporator outputs vapor created by a change in state of the liquid to the first end of the first rising tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventor: Jon P. Longtin
  • Patent number: 10428687
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a rotating component for a turbine engine. The rotating component defines a surface and includes a heat pipe positioned on the surface of the rotating component or within the rotating component. The heat pipe includes a working fluid and an outer perimeter wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Daniel J. Laborie
  • Patent number: 10384318
    Abstract: Modular thermal truss plates carry heat in multiple directions. Framing around an array of flat heat pipes provides mechanical and thermal connections to other truss plates, and a base, such as a satellite, thereby supporting thermally active equipment. Walls sandwich banks of flat heat pipes and may bond to a honey comb, metal core conducting heat between multiple walls. Each bank of flat heat pipes passes heat best in one direction, and may be formed of corrugated copper sheets spaced apart by a metal mesh, such as an expanded metal or screen, also stamped or otherwise formed into a corrugated configuration. Joining methods (e.g., brazing, soldering, etc.) increase stiffness, pressure containment, and strength, by binding the two layers of metal sheet to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Thermal Management Technologies
    Inventors: J. Clair Batty, Blake Rusch, Scott Schick
  • Patent number: 10358908
    Abstract: A wellbore tool includes a cooling section positioned within the tool for the purpose of maintaining the temperature sensitive components within their rated operating temperature range. The cooling section includes an evaporator, compressor, condenser, power device, expansion device. The compressor is positioned within the condenser. The components whose temperatures are to be maintained are in thermal contact to the evaporator. The cooling process is based upon the vapor compression cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Vierko Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Philip Kusmer, Nicolas Alejandro Wolk
  • Patent number: 10345052
    Abstract: An evaporator includes a housing having a liquid inlet interface, a liquid outlet interface, and a vapor outlet interface. The evaporator also includes, according to various embodiments, a porous media disposed in the housing and having a porous wall that defines a conduit. The conduit defined in the porous media may be in fluidic communication between the liquid inlet interface and the liquid outlet interface of the housing. Also, fluidic communication between the conduit defined in the porous media and the vapor outlet interface of the housing may be through the porous wall of the porous media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wei-Lin Cho
  • Patent number: 10295271
    Abstract: A thermal management loop system may include an accumulator, an evaporator in fluid receiving communication with the accumulator, a condenser in fluid receiving communication with the evaporator, and a rotary separator in fluid receiving communication with the condenser. Gas exiting the rotary separator may recirculate back to the condenser and liquid exiting the rotary separator may flow to the accumulator. The thermal management loop system may be a dual-mode system and thus may be operable in a powered-pump mode or a passive-capillary mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary A. Adamson, Wei-Lin Cho
  • Patent number: 10277096
    Abstract: A component for an electrical machine is disclosed. The component is a stator and/or a rotor. The component includes a core, a magnetic field-generating component, and an oscillating heat pipe assembly. The core includes a plurality of slots and the magnetic field-generating component is disposed in at least one slot of the plurality of slots. The oscillating heat pipe assembly is disposed in the core and the at least one slot of the plurality of slots. The oscillating heat pipe assembly is in contact with the core and the magnetic field-generating component. The oscillating heat pipe assembly includes a dielectric material, and where the oscillating heat pipe assembly has an in-plane thermal conductivity higher than a through-plane thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Karthik Kumar Bodla, Joo Han Kim, Yogen Vishwas Utturkar
  • Patent number: 10254021
    Abstract: The cooling systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to cooling electronic equipment in data centers or any other applications that have high heat rejection temperature and high sensible heat ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Inertech IP LLC
    Inventors: Gerald McDonnell, Ming Zhang, John Costakis, Earl Keisling
  • Patent number: 10257963
    Abstract: A system for immersion cooling computing system equipment includes a container containing a volume of immersion cooling fluid. At least one heat generating computing system equipment component and a liquid-liquid heat exchanger are disposed in the volume of immersion cooling fluid. A manifold system is disposed between the heat generating computing system equipment component and the liquid-liquid heat exchanger to direct a flow of immersion cooling fluid between the heat generating computing system component and the liquid-liquid heat exchanger and to isolate the flow of immersion cooling fluid from a bulk amount of immersion cooling fluid. The flow of immersion cooling fluid and the bulk amount of immersion cooling fluid constitutes the volume of immersion cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: CGG SERVICES SAS
    Inventors: Cemil Ozyalcin, Edward Joseph Barragy, Laurent Clerc
  • Patent number: 10199907
    Abstract: A wet cavity electric machine includes a stator core having stator poles formed by a post and a wire wound about the post to form a stator winding, with the stator winding having end turns, a rotor having two rotor poles and configured to rotate relative to the stator and a channel for liquid coolant to flow through the rotor to at least one nozzle, and liquid coolant sprays from the at least one nozzle at least a portion of the stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Lanchao Lin, Hao Huang, Xiaochuan Jia
  • Patent number: 10132574
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to rotary heat exchangers configured to transfer heat to a heat transfer medium flowing in substantially axial direction within the heat exchangers. Exemplary heat exchangers include a heat conducting structure which is configured to be in thermal contact with a thermal load or a thermal sink, and a heat transfer structure rotatably coupled to the heat conducting structure to form a gap region between the heat conducting structure and the heat transfer structure, the heat transfer structure being configured to rotate during operation of the device and flow a heat transfer medium in a substantially axial direction through the heat transfer structure. In example devices heat may be transferred across the gap region from a heated axial flow of the heat transfer medium to a cool stationary heat conducting structure, or from a heated stationary conducting structure to a cool axial flow of the heat transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Koplow
  • Patent number: 10048729
    Abstract: A server includes a tray that has a front portion and a back portion. A motherboard is disposed in the front portion of the tray and the motherboard is coupled to a heat sink. A fan is disposed in the back portion of the tray. A hard drive is disposed between the motherboard and the fan and the hard drive is operatively connected to the motherboard. The server also includes a heat pipe that has a body longitudinally bounded by an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is coupled to the heat sink, while the outlet is coupled to the fan. The body of the heat pipe extends past the hard drive. A power supply is also disposed in the tray and is operatively connected to the motherboard, the fan, and the hard drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Robert Michael Kinstle, Kevin Schlichter, Seitu Barron
  • Patent number: 10024408
    Abstract: A hybrid torque converter that includes a torque converter and an electric motor disposed within a common casing, with no intervening casing, where both the torque converter and the electric motor are completely immersed in a common circulating fluid that cools both the torque converter and the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: New Hybrid Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10018426
    Abstract: Composite heat pipes, methods of assembling composite heat pipes, sandwich panels having one or more composite heat pipes, methods of assembling sandwich panels, radiator panels, methods of assembling radiator panels, spacecraft, and methods of assembling spacecraft are disclosed. Composite heat pipes include an elongate conductive casing and one or more fiber reinforced composite layers operatively coupled to one or more lateral sides of the elongate conductive casing. Sandwich panels include two spaced-apart face-sheets, a core positioned between the two spaced-apart face-sheets, and one or more composite heat pipes. Spacecraft include a body and two radiator panels operatively coupled to the body opposite each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Richard W. Aston, Anna Maria Tomzynska
  • Patent number: 10006720
    Abstract: A cooling system that includes a substrate having a metallic face, at least one microporous wick formation in thermal communication with the metallic face, and a liquid delivery head positioned in complementary opposition to the metallic face, the liquid delivery head having at least one nozzle for directing a liquid towards the metallic face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC
    Inventors: Avijit Bhunia, Qingjun Cai, Chung-Lung Chen
  • Patent number: 9991765
    Abstract: A cooling device for an electric motor includes at least one closed capillary tube, within which a cooling fluid is located and which is introduced into an opening of a lamination stack of the electric motor such that the capillary tube is connected to the lamination stack to conduct heat and partially projects out of the lamination stack, such that the capillary tube has a cold end disposed outside and a hot end disposed inside the lamination stack. The cooling fluid and the degree of filling of the capillary tube with the cooling fluid is chosen such that an input of heat from the lamination stack into the capillary tube leads to evaporation of the cooling fluid, and the cold end of the capillary tube is cooled such that vapor produced during the evaporation condenses and heat input into the capillary tube is dissipated out of the capillary tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Esteban Grau Sorarrain, Christian Jäkel, Mario Koebe, Matthias Kowalski, Christoph Lehmann, Andrey Mashkin, Olga Plotnikova, Carolin Schild
  • Patent number: 9959945
    Abstract: A high temperature gas cooled reactor steam generation system (1) includes a nuclear reactor (2) that has helium gas as a primary coolant and heats the primary coolant by heat generated by a nuclear reaction that decelerates neutrons by a graphite block, a steam generator (3) that has water as a secondary coolant and heats the secondary coolant by the primary coolant via the nuclear reactor (2) to generate steam, a steam turbine (4) that is operated by the steam from the steam generator (3), and a generator (5) that generates electricity according to an operation of the steam turbine (4). Moreover, the system (1) includes pressure adjustment means for setting a pressure of the secondary coolant in the steam generator (3) to be lower than a pressure of the primary coolant in the nuclear reactor (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Minatsuki, Yorikata Mizokami, Sunao Oyama, Hiroki Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9902507
    Abstract: Disclosed is artificial satellite including: a mounting structure supporting equipment-bearing walls; a launcher-adapter rigidly connected to the mounting structure; a first radiator; and at least one first system for transporting heat by a fluid, including at least one duct having a first heat-exchange section and a second heat-exchange section, the second heat-exchange section being capable of being in thermal contact with the first radiator. The first heat-exchange section is in thermal contact with at least one portion of the launcher-adapter. Also disclosed is a method for filling a tank of propellant gas of the artificial satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Andrew Nicholas Walker
  • Patent number: 9810073
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a cooling channel through which cooling air is passed, and a swirl portion provided at an entrance of the cooling channel so as to form a swirl flow in the cooling air. The turbine blade may increase cooling performance of a root unit, improve the stiffness of the root unit, and increase the internal heat transfer efficiency of a blade unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: DOOSAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES & CONSTRUCTION Co., LTD
    Inventor: Sung Chul Jung
  • Patent number: 9800119
    Abstract: A cooling system of an electromechanical actuator is provided. The cooling system includes a housing and a stator located within the housing and defining a central bore. A first body including a sleeve portion is configured to extend into the central bore of the stator, with the first body defining a first chamber including a first cavity within the sleeve portion and a second cavity fluidly connected to the first cavity. A heat sink is provided in thermal communication with the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Derick S. Balsiger, Ravi Adimula
  • Patent number: 9648781
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment wherein a fluid jetting device is utilized to jet a thermal conductive fluid for exchanging heat with the external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment via the thermal energy of the jetted thermal conductive fluid, the heat exchange means includes the external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment having relative high temperature being cooled by a fluid have relative lower temperature, and external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment having relative lower temperature being heated by a fluid having relative higher temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 9587828
    Abstract: A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) (10) including: an economizer (12) configured to heat a working fluid by extracting heat from a flow of flue gas (20). The HRSG includes a diluting fluid injector arrangement (60) configured to inject a diluting fluid (50) effective to dilute a concentration of a gaseous corrosive when compared to an undiluted concentration of the gaseous corrosive in the flow of flue gas. The HRSG also includes a preheater (18) configured to preheat the diluting fluid prior to injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Zaher El Zahab, Gerald J. Feller
  • Patent number: 9585291
    Abstract: Water condensate is captured from the exhaust of a generator utilized to provide power to a data center, and the captured water is then utilized for data center purposes such as adiabatic cooling. The exhaust of electrical power generators is passed through a condenser to obtain water condensate from such exhaust. The water condensate is stored in water storage units and is utilized to provide supplemental cooling to the data center. Sporadic usage of water can enable the water storage to be refilled between uses, since water condensate can be obtained from exhaust almost continuously. The level of water is monitored and the level of processing performed by the data center is adjusted to avoid emptying such water storage units. Historical climatological data is utilized to estimate the water required. Additionally, short and long-range weather forecasts can be optionally taken into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian L. Belady, Sean M. James
  • Patent number: 9564787
    Abstract: A motor includes an impeller including a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction and fixed to a shaft between a cover portion and an armature. The cover portion includes at least one cover portion through hole arranged to axially overlap with the blades. A cylindrical portion includes at least one cylindrical portion through hole arranged to radially overlap with the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Jumpei Kitamura, Kazuya Ichimura
  • Patent number: 9446850
    Abstract: An aircraft includes at least one wall delimiting a first zone (I) of the aircraft which is thermally insulated from the outside of the aircraft and a second zone (E) contained within the aircraft which is not thermally insulated with respect to the outside of the aircraft and a heat exchanger inside which a heat transfer fluid circulates, wherein the wall includes at least one duct inside which the heat transfer fluid circulates so as to act as a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Yves Durand
  • Patent number: 9281728
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator device having axial first cooling channels, and second and third cooling channels. The third cooling channels are arranged in the first cooling channels and extend at least substantially along an entire axial length thereof. The stator device is configured for inflow and outflow of a liquid cooling medium at least partially through the second cooling channels and for the liquid cooling medium to be conducted through the third cooling channels. A rotor is arranged on a rotor shaft for rotation around a rotational axis. Limiting elements are mounted on the stator device axially on both sides to thereby bound an internal rotor space which is in communication with axial ends of the first cooling channels of the stator device to thereby establish an internal air-cooling circuit from the internal rotor space through the first cooling channels and back into the internal rotor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Büttner, Klaus Kirchner, Michael Müller
  • Publication number: 20150124406
    Abstract: A heat-receiving device includes: a plurality of heat receivers into which a refrigerant flows; a series path that comprises a connection path connecting adjacent heat receivers among the plurality of heat receivers, that connects the plurality of heat receivers in series, and into which the refrigerant flows; a bypass path that is not connected to the plurality of heat receivers, and into which the refrigerant flows; a branch path that connects the connection path and the bypass path, and into which the refrigerant flows; and a throttle valve that is provided in the connection path on an upstream side with respect to a connection point of the connection path and the branch path, and that reduces a flow rate at which the refrigerant flows into the connection path as a temperature of the refrigerant flowing into the connection path decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun TAGUCHI, Masaru KASE
  • Publication number: 20150060019
    Abstract: A pulsating multi-pipe heat pipe having its metal pipes arranged in-parallel and bent in snake-shaped loop, is capable of making the working fluid flow through the pulsating multi-pipe heat pipe, enhance the pressure difference therein so as to improve its heat-dissipating effect and successfully overcome the problems of horizontal action when the heat pipe is laid in horizontal position. This is done by attaching at least a chambered connector in the metal pipes having their cross-sectional areas greater than the total cross-sectional areas of the metal pipes or furnishing at least a pair of communicative penetrating holes at the side-by-side adjacent pipe walls making the working fluid create cross-flow within the pulsating multi-pipe heat pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: CHIH-YUNG TSENG
  • Patent number: 8944150
    Abstract: A heat dissipating device includes a chamber with an evaporation portion and a condensation portion, the chamber including a refrigerant. The chamber further includes an evaporation portion scraping brush provided corresponding to the evaporation portion, the evaporation portion scraping brush being able to sweep relative to an inner surface of the evaporation portion. A refrigerant liquid film is formed on the inner surface of the evaporation portion. Since the fluid refrigerant is uniformly applied to an inner surface of the evaporation portion to form a liquid film, the heat dissipating ability of the heat pipe heat dissipating device is improved, and the heat dissipating uniformity of the heat pipe heat dissipating device is enhanced. A heat dissipating method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 8921702
    Abstract: In one possible implementation, a thermal plane structure includes a non-wicking structural microtruss between opposing surfaces of a multilayer structure and a thermal transport medium within the thermal plane structure for fluid and vapor transport between a thermal source and a thermal sink. A microtruss wick is located between the opposing surfaces and extends between the thermal source and the thermal sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: William B. Carter, Peter D. Brewer, Adam F. Gross, Jeffrey L. Rogers, Keith V. Guinn, Alan J. Jacobsen
  • Publication number: 20140332186
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for devices, methods, and programs for heat dissipating utilizing flow of refrigerant. An example heat dissipating device includes a conductive chamber to receive a fluid refrigerant, and the conductive chamber itself includes an evaporation portion having an interior layer and an exterior layer that is in contact with a heat generating unit, a condensation portion, and a rotatable brush that is configured inside of the conductive chamber to have an axis that is parallel to the interior layer of the evaporation portion and that is further configured to sweep across the interior layer of the evaporation portion to form a thin film of the fluid refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Hao WANG
  • Patent number: 8863821
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for devices, methods, and programs for heat dissipating utilizing flow of refrigerant. An example heat dissipating device includes a conductive chamber to receive a fluid refrigerant, and the conductive chamber itself includes an evaporation portion having an interior layer and an exterior layer that is in contact with a heat generating unit, a condensation portion, and a rotatable brush that is configured inside of the conductive chamber to have an axis that is parallel to the interior layer of the evaporation portion and that is further configured to sweep across the interior layer of the evaporation portion to form a thin film of the fluid refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Hao Wang
  • Publication number: 20140262158
    Abstract: Provided is a modular pumped loop cooling apparatus including a cooling module and a pumping module, wherein the pumping module has an inlet coupling for mating with a corresponding outlet coupling of the cooling module when the cooling module is placed atop the pumping module. The modular pumped loop cooling apparatus is provided as a standalone unit that can be coupled to any one of a plurality of heat sinks having different heat loads. The cooling apparatus is therefore scalable to accommodate a wide range of cooling applications so that the apparatus does not have to be redesigned to accommodate a particular system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8833435
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a heat sink assembly are described. The assembly includes a two-phase heat sink, a condenser, and a pump. The two-phase heat sink may include flow micro-channels that accommodate the flow of boiling coolant and cross-connect channel(s) that at least partially equilibrate a pressure field for the boiling coolant. The condenser receives coolant from the heat sink and removes heat. The pump drives coolant through the assembly. In one aspect, the assembly is a closed system for the coolant. In another aspect, the condenser includes first and second plates and a heat exchange surface there between. Coolant flows from the heat sink and through the plates. The gaseous coolant passes the heat exchange surface. In one aspect the gaseous coolant flows opposite to the direction coolant flows. In one aspect, at least one of the plates includes dummy channel(s) for insulating part of the plate(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Pipeline Micro, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Determan, Scott W. C. H. Lee, Abel Manuel Siu Ho, Seri Lee
  • Patent number: 8752616
    Abstract: A system includes a primary evaporator facilitating heat transfer by evaporating liquid to obtain vapor. The primary evaporator receives a liquid from a liquid line and outputs the vapor to a vapor line. The primary evaporator also outputs excess liquid received from the liquid line to an excess fluid line. A condensing system receives the vapor from the vapor line, and outputs the liquid and excess liquid to the liquid line. The excess liquid is obtained at least partially from a reservoir. A primary loop includes the condensing system, the primary evaporator, the liquid line, and the vapor line, and provides a heat transfer path. Similarly, a secondary loop includes the condensing system, the primary evaporator, the liquid line, the vapor line, and the excess fluid line. The secondary loop provides a venting path for removing undesired vapor within the liquid or excess liquid from the primary evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Inc.
    Inventors: Edward J. Kroliczek, James Soekgeun Yun, David C. Bugby, David A. Wolf, Sr.