Utilizing Capillary Attraction Patents (Class 165/104.26)
  • Patent number: 11968806
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis; first and second heating elements in the chassis; and a cooling module absorbing the heat. The cooling module includes: a first vapor chamber connected to the first heating element; and a second vapor chamber connected to the second heating element. The first and second vapor chambers are placed adjacent to each other with a step therebetween. The first vapor chamber has a bridge that is a part of at least one of the two first metal plates, the bridge straddling the step and extending toward the second vapor chamber to be connected to a surface of the second vapor chamber. The bridge is not provided with the closed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Yusuke Onoue, Takuroh Kamimura, Akinori Uchino
  • Patent number: 11949132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell system (1) comprising an air compressor (5) which is used to compress an air mass flow (4) that is supplied to at least one fuel cell (3), and further comprising a cooling air path (19), via which a cooling air mass flow (7) is branched off from the compressed air mass flow (6). The cooling of the air compressor (5) in the fuel cell system (1) is further improved by an on-demand control (20) of the compressed cooling air mass flow (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Zondler, Tobias Reinhard Ott
  • Patent number: 11930621
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a thermal ground plane comprising a first and second casing with folding and non-folding regions. The thermal ground plane may also include a vapor structure and a mesh. The mesh may be disposed on an interior surface of the second casing and the mesh include a plurality of arteries extending substantially parallel with a length of the thermal ground plane. The folding region of the first casing may have an out-of-plane wavy structure. The valleys and peaks of the out-of-plane wavy structure, for example, may extend across a width of the first active region substantially parallel with a width of the thermal ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kelvin Thermal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan J. Lewis, Yung-Cheng Lee, Ali Nematollahisarvestani, Jason W. West, Kyle Wagner
  • Patent number: 11920884
    Abstract: A universal firearm shield adapted to attach to a firearm suppressor. Suppressors fail to dampen all of the effects of firearm discharge, leaving behind residual effects that may be noticeable. The shield dampens the residual effects of firearm discharge that are not captured by the suppressor. The residual effects are captured by the shield and dispersed throughout one or more interior chambers. The shield easily, quickly, and securely couples to suppressors of varying geometries due to the slidably adjustable components of the shield. The shield is configured to surround the suppressor and axially align with the suppressor. As such, the muzzle of the firearm axially aligns with the shield, the suppressor, and the barrel for an unobstructed projectile path during discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Devhold Inc.
    Inventor: Darryl S. Lee
  • Patent number: 11913725
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first casing and a second casing coupled to the first casing. The second casing includes a body having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, and a first portion and a second portion, each of the first and second portions having a different cross-sectional area. The heat dissipation device further includes a plurality of columns on the inner surface, and a first wick structure disposed on the inner surface and in the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jen-Chih Cheng
  • Patent number: 11879690
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible wick structure and a deformable heat-dissipating unit using the same. The heat-dissipating unit comprises a heat-dissipating body and a flexible wick structure. The heat-dissipating body has an upper plate, a chamber, and a lower plate. The flexible wick structure is disposed in the chamber and has a wick body and plural extension portions being able to be elastically deformed under compression; the extension portions extend outwards from a side of the wick body to carry the wick body. In addition, the extension portions and the wick body together define an axial-displacement space; the wick body or the extension portions are in contact with an inner side of the upper plate or the low plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11872660
    Abstract: A method for performance determination of a heat pipe with an arbitrary liquid flow area and prescribed geometric dimensions, an external and internal structure, a heat pipe material and a working fluid, heating and cooling surface areas, and condenser cooling conditions is provided to obtain operating and performance parameters, wherein the operating and performance parameters are temperature distribution within the heat pipe, a heat transferred via a phase change and a conduction, an axial variation of a radius of curvature of a liquid-vapor interface along the heat pipe, a vapor temperature and pressure of the working fluid, by simulating a flow and an energy transfer inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI, IHSAN DOGRAMACI BILKENT UNIVERSITESI, ORTA DOGU TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
    Inventors: Samet Saygan, Yigit Akkus, Barbaros Cetin, Zafer Dursunkaya
  • Patent number: 11859193
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to vegetative plant parts, such as from a Sorghum sp. and/or a Zea mays plant, which comprise a total fatty acid (TFA) content which comprises fatty acids esterified in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG) and fatty acids in the form of lipids other than TAG, wherein the vegetative plant parts comprise greatly increased levels of TFA, for example a TFA content of about 5% (w/w dry weight). The present invention also relates to the use of the vegetative plant parts as a feedstuff, and/or to produce a feedstuff, for animal consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NUSEED GLOBAL INNOVATION LTD.
    Inventors: XueRong Zhou, Qing Liu, Anna El Tahchy, Srinivas Belide, Madeline Claire Mitchell, Uday Kumar Divi, Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Allan Graham Green
  • Patent number: 11846470
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a partitioning board abutting inner faces of two boards, respectively. A chamber is defined between the partitioning board and one of the two boards. Another chamber is defined between the partitioning board and another of the two boards and intercommunicates with the chamber via an intercommunication port and a backflow port of the partitioning board. A pump drives a working fluid to circulate in the two chambers. Two welding channels are formed on outer faces of the two boards and surround the two chambers, respectively. The smallest distance between a channel bottom face of each annular welding channel and the inner face of a respective board having the annular welding channel is smaller than that between the inner and outer faces of the respective board. The two boards are coupled to the partitioning board along the annular welding channels by laser welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUNONWEALTH ELECTRIC MACHINE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ming-Tsung Li, Chi-Ting Yeh
  • Patent number: 11835299
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a thin vapor-chamber structure including a first cover and a second cover. The first cover has a first surface and a first clustered pattern. The first clustered pattern is disposed on the first surface, and has a plurality of first protruding stripes spaced apart from each other and extended along a first direction. The second cover has a second surface and a second clustered pattern. The first surface faces the second surface. The second clustered pattern is disposed on the second surface, and has a plurality of second protruding stripes spaced apart from each other and extended along a second direction. The first clustered pattern and the second clustered pattern are partially contacted with each other to form a wick. The lateral walls of the first protruding stripes and the second protruding stripes form a micro-channel meandering between the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kuo-Ying Lee, Che-Wei Chang, Chao-Wen Lu, Cherng-Yuh Su
  • Patent number: 11828537
    Abstract: A floating heat pipe assembly includes a floating heat pipe and a clamp collar used with the floating heat pipe. The floating heat pipe has a flattened section that has a flattened pipe size smaller than a pipe size of any other section of the floating heat pipe, so that the floating heat pipe is adjustable at the thinner flattened section for other sections of the floating heat pipe located at two opposite ends of the flattened section to displace to two positions having a height difference between them. The clamp collar is fitted on around the flattened section and includes two symmetrically arranged elastic clamping sections that elastically clamp on two opposite outer sides of the flattened section to hold the same in place, so that the sections of the floating heat pipe located at different heights do not deform to cause reduced or failed capillary action efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11815314
    Abstract: An integrated vapor chamber includes an outer shell and a plurality of composite capillary structures. The outer shell includes a flat casing and a plurality of partitions integrally formed. The flat shell includes a chamber, and the partitions are disposed in the chamber to separate the chamber into a plurality of flow channels. Each composite capillary structure is extended along each flow channel and distributed in the chamber. The composite capillary structure includes a metal mesh and a plurality of sintered powder uniformly sintered in the metal mesh. Furthermore, this disclosure also discloses a manufacturing method of the integrated vapor chamber. Therefore, the manufacturing method of the thin vapor chamber is simplified to improve the yield rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CHAUN-CHOUNG TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Hua Li, Ping-Hung He, Chia-Ling Chin
  • Patent number: 11802740
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator configured to vaporize a working fluid; a condenser configured to condense the working fluid; a liquid pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser to each other; and a vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser to each other. Each of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe and the vapor pipe includes: a pair of outer metal layers; an intermediate metal layer provided between the pair of outer metal layers; and a flow channel defined by the pair of outer metal layers and the intermediate metal layer. At least one of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe and the vapor pipe further includes a reinforcing member that is built in at least one of the pair of outer metal layers and that is higher in rigidity than the pair of outer metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11698230
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat exchanger includes: providing a porous material that has a porosity of about 30% to about 80%; forming an oxide layer on a surface of the porous material by heat treating the porous material at a temperature in a range of 600° C. to 900° C. for a time period in a range of 8 hours to 12 hours in air; and integrating the porous material into a cold side flow passage of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FUELCELL ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Lambrech, Joseph M. Daly, Andrew Skok, Kazim Naqvi, Dennis Farrenkopf, Ling Chen, Allen Adriani
  • Patent number: 11678464
    Abstract: A heat transfer device, including a sealed container defining an internal chamber having a first internal surface positioned opposite to a second internal surface, the sealed container including a first end and a second end positioned opposite to the first end; internal fins extending from the first internal surface of the internal chamber towards the second internal surface of the internal chamber, the internal fins positioned at the second end of the sealed container; a wicking structure positioned along the internal surfaces, and positioned between adjacent fins along the first internal surface such that the internal fins are in thermal communication with the wicking structure; a remote heat exchanger positioned along an external surface of the sealed container at the second end of the sealed container, the remote heat exchanger adjacent to the internal fins such that the remote heat exchanger is in thermal communication with the internal fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Qinghong He, John Trevor Morrison
  • Patent number: 11673682
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided including a structure including a skin defining an outside surface exposed to ambient cooling flow and an inside surface. The structure includes a first structural member extending from the inside surface of the skin and a second structural member extending from the inside surface of the skin; and a thermal management system including a heat exchanger assembly positioned adjacent to, and in thermal communication with, the inside surface of the skin, the heat exchanger assembly positioned at least partially between the first and second structural members of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Thomas Kupiszewski, Paul Alexander Intemann, Robert Proctor
  • Patent number: 11656034
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive-pressure-withstanding high-power flat evaporator, processing methods thereof and a flat loop heat pipe including the evaporator. The evaporator includes a housing, and reinforcing ribs and a capillary wick which are positioned inside the housing, and the arrangement of the reinforcing ribs can ensure that the strength of the whole evaporator is capable of withstanding positive pressure. The capillary wick is composed of four parts, namely, an evaporating wick, a heat insulating wick, a sealing wick and a transfer wick. Through the large permeability of the transfer wick, liquid supply with low flow resistance can be realized, the heat transfer capability of the loop heat pipe is greatly improved, and the problems of long liquid supply path and large flow resistance caused by a large-area evaporator are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF SPACECRAFT SYSTEM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Guoguang Li, Hongxing Zhang, Guanglong Man, Shuai Wang, Dongxiao Liu
  • Patent number: 11632877
    Abstract: A vapor chamber and an assembly method thereof are provided. The vapor chamber includes a mesh structure including a main body and an extension part. The main body and the extension part have a capillary-wick structure, respectively. The extension part is extended outwardly from a side of the main body and folded along an intersection between the extension part and the main body. The extension part is stacked on the main body. An overlapping area is formed by stacking the extension part on the main body, and the overlapping area fails to contact with a support structure. The main body is disposed on a first concave of the lower case. The upper case covers the lower case and is assembled with the lower case. A second concave of the upper case and the first concave collaboratively form a space. The mesh structure is accommodated within the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Shu-Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11619979
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first device housing coupled to a second device housing by a hinge. A heat spreader is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. A flexible display coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. The heat spreader and the flexible display can be coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing, respectively, at different locations. Alternatively, the flexible display can be coupled to the heat spreader at a location that is collocated with the location at which the heat spreader is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Alberto R. Cavallaro, Maninder Sehmbey, Yongho Lim, Steve Emmert
  • Patent number: 11598594
    Abstract: A thermal ground plane (TGP) is disclosed. A TGP may include a first planar substrate member comprising copper and a second planar substrate member comprising a metal, wherein the first planar substrate member and the second planar substrate member enclose a working fluid. The TGP may include a first plurality of pillars disposed on an interior surface of the first planar substrate and a mesh layer disposed on the top of the first plurality of pillars, wherein the mesh layer comprises at least one of copper, polymer encapsulated with copper, or stainless steel encapsulated with copper. The TGP may also include a second plurality of pillars disposed on an interior surface of the second planar substrate member within an area defined by the perimeter of the second planar substrate member and the second plurality of pillars extend from the second planar substrate member to the mesh layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    Inventors: Ryan John Lewis, Li-Anne Liew, Ching-Yi Lin, Collin Jennings Coolidge, Shanshan Xu, Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 11598585
    Abstract: A heat pipe comprises a tube and a wick structure. The tube includes a hollow chamber and has two sealed ends along an axial direction. The wick structure is disposed in the hollow chamber and extended along the axial direction of the tube. The wick structure has a first section near one of the sealed ends, a third section near the other of the sealed ends, and a second section between the first and third sections. The wick structure is composed of the first, the second and the third sections, and cross-sections of the first section, the second section and the third section in the axial direction are rectangles, respectively. A cross-sectional area of the first section is greater than that of the second and that of third section. The edge of each of the sections of the wick structure has a smooth form without the sectional difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Lin Huang, Chiu-Kung Chen, Sheng-Hua Luo, Ti-Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 11578927
    Abstract: A liquid flow path portion of a vapor chamber according to this invention includes a first main flow groove, a second main flow groove and a third main flow groove. A first convex array including a plurality of first convex portions arranged via a first communicating groove is provided between the first main flow groove and the second main flow groove. A second convex array including a plurality of second convex portions arranged via a second communicating groove is provided between the second main flow groove and the third main flow groove. The main flow groove includes a first intersection at which at least a part of the first communicating groove faces each second convex portion and a second intersection at which at least a part of the second communicating groove faces each first convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Takahashi, Kenro Hirata, Takayuki Ota, Taizo Hashimoto, Kiyotaka Takematsu
  • Patent number: 11569537
    Abstract: A system for thermal management and structural containment includes a first battery cell having first and second terminal ends, and a first capillary void matrix disposed about an outer casing of the first battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC
    Inventors: Avijit Bhunia, Steve Q. Cai, Olivier Sudre, Kyle D. Gould
  • Patent number: 11525635
    Abstract: A vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure. The vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure includes a main body and a capillary structure. The main body has a first plate body and a second plate body, which are correspondingly mated with each other to together define an airtight chamber and a water-filling section. A flange is disposed along an outer periphery of the main body. The water-filling section has a water-filling notch and a water-filling passage. Two ends of the water-filling passage are respectively connected with the flange and the water-filling notch to communicate with the airtight chamber. A portion of the water-filling passage that is connected with the flange is pressed to have a height equal to the height of the flange or lower than the height of the flange. The capillary structure is disposed in the airtight chamber of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Xiang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Han-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11516940
    Abstract: A middle bezel frame with heat dissipation structure includes a main body, which includes a frame portion and at least one heat-exchange portion. The frame portion is located around and connected to the heat-exchange portion. The heat-exchange portion internally has an airtight chamber, in which at least one wick structure and a working fluid are provided. With these arrangement, the middle bezel frame has enhanced structural strength while provides good heat dissipation effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Tai Weng
  • Patent number: 11497141
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device is provided. The heat dissipation device includes a container including a first plate, and a second plate spaced apart from the first plate to define an interior space, at least one filler disposed between the first plate and the second plate and configured to support the first plate and the second plate, a wick layer located on an inner wall defined in the interior space by the first plate or the second plate, and a working fluid configured to flow in the interior space in a gaseous state, and flow in the wick layer in a liquefied state, wherein the container further includes a fluoride-based polymer having a predetermined gas permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kyungha Koo, Kuntak Kim, Jihong Kim, Hongki Moon, Hajoong Yun, Haejin Lee, Seyoung Jang
  • Patent number: 11482744
    Abstract: A system for thermal management and structural containment includes a first battery cell having first and second terminal ends, and a first capillary void matrix formed in an outer casing of the first battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Avijit Bhunia, Steve Q. Cai, Olivier Sudre, Kyle D. Gould
  • Patent number: 11473847
    Abstract: A liquid flow path portion of a vapor chamber according to this invention includes a first main flow groove, a second main flow groove and a third main flow groove. A first convex array including a plurality of first convex portions arranged via a first communicating groove is provided between the first main flow groove and the second main flow groove. A second convex array including a plurality of second convex portions arranged via a second communicating groove is provided between the second main flow groove and the third main flow groove. The main flow groove includes a first intersection at which at least a part of the first communicating groove faces each second convex portion and a second intersection at which at least a part of the second communicating groove faces each first convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Takahashi, Kenro Hirata, Takayuki Ota, Taizo Hashimoto, Kiyotaka Takematsu
  • Patent number: 11473849
    Abstract: The vapor chamber includes a casing, a working fluid, a microchannel, and a wick. The casing includes an upper casing sheet and a lower casing sheet that face each other and are joined together at an outer edge so as to define an internal space therebetween. The working fluid is sealed in the internal space. The microchannel is in the lower casing sheet and in communication with the internal space so as to form a flow path for the working fluid. The wick is in the internal space of the casing and is in contact with the microchannel. A contact area between the wick and the microchannel is 5% to 40% with respect to an area of the internal space taken as a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihito Naito
  • Patent number: 11473850
    Abstract: The vapor chamber includes a casing, a working fluid, a microchannel, and a wick. The casing includes an upper casing sheet and a lower casing sheet that face each other and are joined together at an outer edge so as to define an internal space therebetween. The working fluid is sealed in the internal space. The microchannel is in the lower casing sheet and in communication with the internal space so as to form a flow path for the working fluid. The wick is in the internal space of the casing, and is in contact with the microchannel. The microchannel includes a plurality of convexes, and an area ratio of the plurality of convexes of the microchannel to an entire area of the microchannel is 5% to 40% in a plan view of the vapor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihito Naito
  • Patent number: 11453593
    Abstract: Provided is a vapor-based heat transfer apparatus (e.g. a vapor chamber or a heat pipe), comprising: a hollow structure having a hollow chamber enclosed inside a sealed envelope or container made of a thermally conductive material, a wick structure in contact with one or a plurality of walls of the hollow structure, and a working liquid within the hollow structure and in contact with the wick structure, wherein the wick structure comprises a graphene material and the hollow structure walls comprise an evaporator wall having a first surface plane and a condenser wall having a second surface plane, wherein multiple sheets of the graphene material in the wick structure are aligned to be substantially parallel to one another and perpendicular to at least one of the first surface plane and the second surface plane. Also provided is a process for producing this apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Global Graphene Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-jun Lin, Bor Z. Jang
  • Patent number: 11439046
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic rack cooling system includes a liquid manifold and a vapor manifold. The system includes a cold plate configured to mount on a processor of a piece of information technology (IT) equipment for liquid cooling. The cooling device such as the cold plate is coupled to the liquid manifold to receive cooling liquid and is coupled to the vapor manifold that receives vapor produced by the cold plate when heat generated by the processor is transferred into the cooling liquid through the cold plate. The system also includes a heat exchanger coupled to the vapor manifold to receive the vapor and configured to condense the vapor back into cooling liquid. The system also includes a fluid control unit coupled between the liquid manifold and the heat exchanger to create a heat exchanging loop, and configured to circulate the cooling liquid within the heat exchanging loop. Multiple methods of implementing the proposed thermal system and the loop design on a rack and a data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11428475
    Abstract: A cooling assembly includes walls extending around and defining an enclosed vapor chamber that holds a working fluid. An interior porous wick structure is disposed inside the chamber and lines interior surfaces of the walls. The wick structure includes pores that hold a liquid phase of the working fluid. The cooling assembly also includes an exterior porous wick structure lining exterior surfaces of the walls outside of the vapor chamber. The exterior wick structure includes pores that hold a liquid phase of a cooling fluid outside the vapor chamber. The interior wick structure holds the liquid working fluid until heat from an external heat source vaporizes the working fluid inside the vapor chamber. The exterior wick structure holds the liquid fluid outside the vapor chamber until heat from inside the vapor chamber vaporizes the liquid cooling fluid in the exterior wick structure for transferring heat away from the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Magann Rush, Daniel Jason Erno, Thomas Adcock, Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini
  • Patent number: 11421942
    Abstract: A vapor chamber that includes a housing defining an internal space, and a working medium and a wick structure in the internal space of the housing. As viewed in a plan view, the vapor chamber has a first region with a first thickness and a second region with a second thickness, the second thickness being smaller than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norikazu Kume, Takuo Wakaoka
  • Patent number: 11416040
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first device housing coupled to a second device housing by a hinge. A heat spreader is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. A flexible display coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. The heat spreader and the flexible display can be coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing, respectively, at different locations. Alternatively, the flexible display can be coupled to the heat spreader at a location that is collocated with the location at which the heat spreader is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Alberto R. Cavallaro, Maninder Sehmbey, Yongho Lim, Steve Emmert
  • Patent number: 11408684
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe evaporator includes a porous primary wick, and a nonporous envelope unseparatingly surrounding the primary wick. The primary wick and the envelope are of one-piece construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Richard, William Anderson, Richard W. Bonner, III, Devin Pellicone, Chien-Hua Chen, Greg Hoeschele, Taylor Maxwell, Dan Pounds, Dan Reist
  • Patent number: 11402158
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate working fluid; a condenser configured to condense the working fluid; a liquid pipe which connects the evaporator and the condenser; a vapor pipe which connects the evaporator and the condenser and forms a loop together with the liquid pipe; and a porous body which is provided in the liquid pipe and configured to reserve liquid-phase working fluid. The liquid pipe includes an injection inlet through which the working fluid is injected. A first end of the porous body is located between the injection inlet and the evaporator. A second end of the porous body which is opposite to the first end is located between the injection inlet and the condenser. At least a portion of the porous body which is provided between the injection inlet and the evaporator fills the inside of the liquid pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11397055
    Abstract: A vapor-chamber that includes a porous microstructure sheet with varying surface energy across different regions to optimize utilization of a working fluid. Modulating the surface energy of the porous microstructure sheet can minimize the amount of the working fluid that becomes trapped in the condenser region(s) and maximize an aggregate thin-film evaporation area of the working fluid in the evaporator region(s). The condenser region of the vapor-chamber is treated so that the internal surfaces have low surface energy. For example, the treatment may cause the condenser region to become hydrophobic to minimize the amount of fluid that becomes trapped in the condenser. The evaporator region is treated so that the internal surfaces have high surface energy. For example, the treatment may cause the evaporator region to become hydrophilic to induce the formation of large numbers of robust (e.g., dry-out resistant) thin-film evaporation sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shahar Ben-Menahem, Tzu-Yuan Lin, Michael Nikkhoo
  • Patent number: 11397057
    Abstract: A vapor chamber structure includes a main body. The main body has a chamber. The chamber has a first side, a second side and a connection body. Two axial ends of the connection body are respectively connected with the first and second sides. A first capillary structure layer is disposed around the connection body along a periphery thereof. A working fluid is filled in the chamber. The connection body serves to prevent the main body from deforming when heated and enhance the heat conduction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Sheng-Huang Lin
  • Patent number: 11397056
    Abstract: A vapor chamber structure includes a main body having multiple internal independent chambers. A capillary structure is disposed in each of the independent chambers. A working fluid is contained in each of the independent chambers. The working fluids contained in the independent chambers have different physical or chemical properties. The independent chambers are respectively in contact with different heat sources with different properties to conduct the heat. Accordingly, one single vapor chamber structure can provide complex heat conduction effect for different heat sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11371783
    Abstract: A disclosed loop heat pipe includes an evaporator configured to absorb heat from outside by a wall to evaporate a working fluid from a liquid phase to a gas phase; a condenser configured to condense a gas phase working fluid introduced from the evaporator into a liquid phase; an elastic wick configured to contact an inner wall of the evaporator by an elastic force from the elastic wick; and a wick deformation member configured to deform the elastic wick increase a contact pressure of the elastic wick against the inner wall of the evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Hirasawa, Kiyotada Katoh, Takeshi Endoh, Takashi Tanaka, Toshihiko Baba, Keisuke Ikeda, Hiroki Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11369042
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a baseplate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side being coupled to a thermosiphon, one or more electronic components being mounted on the second side. The baseplate has a two-phase heat spreading structure. In an embodiment, the heat exchanger includes a thermosiphon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Matteo Bortolato, Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin
  • Patent number: 11359869
    Abstract: A vapor chamber that includes a housing having a first sheet and a second sheet that oppose each other and are joined to each other in a peripheral region of the housing, a working liquid in an internal space of the housing, a wick structure on a principal surface of the first sheet that opposes the second sheet, and multiple pillars on a principal surface of the second sheet that opposes the first sheet. In the vapor chamber, the first sheet includes an inclined portion that is disposed along at least part of the peripheral region of the housing and is inclined in a height direction toward a joint portion with the second sheet. In addition, a first portion of the second sheet at the joint portion heightwise overlaps a second portion of the second sheet in a second region in contact with the pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Wakaoka, Yushiro Murashige
  • Patent number: 11355252
    Abstract: A representative cooling system for a nuclear reactor control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) includes an evaporation section located within or next to the CRDM and a condensation section fluidly coupled to the evaporation section. The cooling system includes a set of heat fins coupled to drive coils in the CRDM and heat pipes that extend through the drive coils and heat fins. A fluid evaporates while in the evaporation section of the heat pipes from heat generated by the CRDM and moves out of the evaporation section into the condensation section in the heat fins. The fluid cools and condensates while in the condensation section, recirculating back into the evaporation section. This passive natural circulation cooling system reduces or eliminates the number of water hoses, piping, and other water pumping equipment typically used for cooling a CRDM thereby increasing nuclear reactor reliability and simplifying nuclear reactor operation and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NUSCALE POWER, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Lobscheid, Derek Noel
  • Patent number: 11353269
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for flexible thermal ground planes. A flexible thermal ground plane may include a support member. The flexible thermal ground plane may include an evaporator region or multiple evaporator regions configured to couple with the support member. The flexible thermal ground plane may include a condenser region or multiple condenser regions configured to couple with the support member. The evaporator and condenser region may include a microwicking structure. The evaporator and condenser region may include a nanowicking structure coupled with the micro-wicking structure, where the nanowicking structure includes nanorods. The evaporator and condenser region may include a nanomesh coupled with the nanorods and/or the microwicking structure. Some embodiments may include a micromesh coupled with the nanorods and/or the microwicking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Kelvin Thermal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronggui Yang, Yung-Cheng Lee, Victor M. Bright, Chen Li, Christopher Oshman, Bo Shi, Jen-Hau Cheng, George P. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11340022
    Abstract: A vapor chamber that includes a housing; a pillar arranged in the housing; a working fluid sealed in the housing; and a wick arranged in the housing. The pillar has a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface, and pores therein. The first bottom surface is in contact with a first main interior surface of the housing and the second bottom surface is in contact with the wick. The first bottom surface has an area larger than an area of the second bottom surface. The pillar has a side surface connecting a periphery of the first bottom surface and a periphery of the second bottom surface. A cross-sectional area of the pillar decreases along a direction from the first bottom surface to the second bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo Wakaoka, Shuji Matsumoto, Takayoshi Obata, Norikazu Kume, Haruhiko Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11333443
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator that vaporizes working fluid, a condenser that liquefies the working fluid vaporized by the evaporator, a liquid pipe connecting the condenser to the evaporator, and a vapor pipe connecting the evaporator to the condenser. The liquid pipe includes two wall portions located at opposite sides of the liquid pipe, two porous bodies, each of which is continuous with and formed integrally with one of the two wall portions, and a flow passage located between the two porous bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kurashima, Yoshihiro Machida, Takahiko Kiso
  • Patent number: 11328852
    Abstract: A coil device is installed on an installation object. The coil device includes a housing accommodating at least a coil portion and a heat radiation member coming into thermal contact with the installation object. The heat radiation member includes a main body portion interposed in at least a part of a space between the housing and the installation object and a protrusion protruding from the main body portion toward the installation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taewon Kim, Kenji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11324140
    Abstract: A thin-profile composite heat dissipating structure for a heat-generating electronic device includes a heat sink and a heat pipe, the heat sink includes a first housing, a first heat dissipation liquid, and a gas. The first housing is sealed to form a first cavity, the first heat dissipation liquid and the gas are received in the first cavity. The heat pipe is connected to the first housing and a wick structure to allow the return of the condensed heat dissipation liquid by capillary action is disposed elsewhere. An electronic device using the structure is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 11320211
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device, includes a vapor chamber including a heat conduction chamber and a first wick structure, the heat conduction chamber having a recessed portion, and the first wick structure disposed in the heat conduction chamber; and a heat pipe including a pipe body and a second wick structure disposed in the pipe body, the pipe body positioned in the recessed portion of the heat conduction chamber. The first wick structure and the second wick structure are metallically bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei-Lei Liu, Xiao-Min Zhang, Jen-Chih Cheng