Thermosyphonic Flue Type Patents (Class 165/128)
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Patent number: 11419241Abstract: A heat exchanging arrangement for a subsea electronic system, the heat exchanging arrangement including: at least one pipe having an external surface; and at least one heat exchanging element arranged inside the at least one pipe and defining at least one internal passage for conducting a dielectric fluid through the at least one pipe; wherein the at least one heat exchanging element is arranged to press laterally outwards against an internal surface of the at least one pipe to establish a heat transfer bond between the at least one heat exchanging element and the at least one pipe. A subsea electronic system including the heat exchanging arrangement is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Tor Laneryd, Thomas Gradinger, Heinz Lendenmann, Thomas Wagner, Hui Huang, Kim Missing, Mika Norolampi
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Patent number: 11348811Abstract: An exhaust structure includes an intake section which includes an inlet, an output section which includes an outlet, and a piping section coupled to the intake section and the output section at a section interface. The piping section includes a first inner diameter from the intake section to the output section, wherein one of the intake section or the output section has a second inner diameter at the section interface. The second inner diameter includes a same value as a value of the first inner diameter. A plurality of smoothing layers are configured to resist turbulence and condensation produced by a flow of one or more gasses in the intake section, the output section, and the piping section.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hsien-Chang Hsieh, Chun-Chih Lin, Tah-Te Shih, Wen-Hsong Wu, Chune-Te Yang, Yu-Jen Su
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Patent number: 10883232Abstract: A pavement striping devices for heating and applying thermoplastic material to a road surface is provided. The pavement striping device includes of: a hopper for holding a supply of particulate thermoplastic marking material in a non-molten state, an air or oil-heat transfer medium melting kettle having a series of coaxial conveyored or unconveyored conduits within, a plastic extruder for transporting the thermoplastic particulate from the hopper to the series of coaxial conveyored or unconveyored conduits with the air or oil-heat transfer medium melting kettle, a heating mechanism for heating the air or oil-heat transfer medium melting kettle and the plastic extruder to a temperature suitable for melting thermoplastic, and a means for driving the stream of molten thermoplastic through the series of coaxial conveyored or unconveyored conduits to a sprayer or extrusion die, all of which form a means by which the molten thermoplastic is directed to the pavement surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Waterblasting, LLCInventor: James P Crocker
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Patent number: 10392979Abstract: In an inner fin, a plate is made up of a top part, a bottom part, and a wall plate part, and a channel having a concave-shaped cross section and a channel having an inverted concave-shaped cross section are alternately repeated as channels of the gas by a pair of the wall plate parts facing each other. The wall plate part for each of the channels has a shape in which the wall plate part is bent left and right in a serpentine shape and projected and recessed parts thereof are alternately repeated and formed, and the recessed part of the wall plate part is formed with a chevron-shaped part made up of an upward slope part that ranges from a base part to the top part and a downward slope part that passes downward from the top part to a neighboring base part.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Tokyo Radiator MFG. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Semura, Tetsu Yokoo
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Patent number: 10366909Abstract: An exhaust structure includes an intake section including a first high thermal conductivity material, the intake section having an inlet, an output section including a second high thermal conductivity material, the output section having an outlet, and a piping section including a third high thermal conductivity material, the piping section being configured to communicatively couple the intake section with the output section. The exhaust structure provides a high thermal conductivity path from the inlet to the outlet, the high thermal conductivity path including the first high thermal conductivity material, the second high thermal conductivity material, and the third high thermal conductivity material.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hsien-Chang Hsieh, Chun-Chih Lin, Tah-te Shih, Wen-Hsong Wu, Chune-Te Yang, Yu-Jen Su
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Patent number: 10349470Abstract: A portable induction heater with a rotating head portion which can be used to rapidly, detachably connect a work coil. The portable induction heater is also provided with various other advantages detailed here.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Sarge Holdings Company, LLCInventors: Thomas M. Gough, Paul G. Astrowski, Lawrence S. Erst, Josh Gore
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Patent number: 10330393Abstract: The invention provides a modular device for latent heat storage, which is made of a conduit with a first end and a second end; and a jacket that surrounds a portion of the conduit between the first end and the second end, wherein the jacket is comprised of at least one phase change material. The invention further provides a system for latent heat storage, comprising a thermally insulated enclosure adapted to receive at least one modular latent heat storage device and a HTF, wherein the HTF flows from an upstream heat source into each of the first ends of the conduit and out of each of the second ends of the conduit comprising the at least one module to a downstream heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: David M. France, Wenhua Yu, Dileep Singh, Taeil Kim
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Patent number: 10288315Abstract: A forced convection fin tube condensing heat exchanger for supplying heat includes a shell, burner and fin tubes bundle. The burner is at the top of the shell, circular fin tubes bundle installed around the burner tightly, circularly and coaxially. The flue channel which is formed by the shell and a row of fin tubes bundle is below the burner. The flue flows along the flue channel to flue outlet. There are front and rear water manifolds at the two ends of the fin tubes. Water baffles inside the rear water manifold divide the rear water manifold into water inlet and outlet areas. The water enters the small portion of circular fin tubes bundle from water inlet area, through the front water manifold, back to the water outlet area via the main portion of the circular fin tubes bundle. The use of bent fin tube to improves efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: SUZHOU CQ HEAT EXCHANGER CO., LTDInventor: Shuqing Cui
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Patent number: 9877413Abstract: A connector system with improved thermal management is provided. A module includes a thermal dissipation system. A receptacle is provided that has a cage with thermal channels that allow air passing through the receptacle to directly remove thermal energy from the thermal dissipation system and carry the thermal energy out of the cage.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Molex, LLCInventor: Kent E. Regnier
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Patent number: 9863445Abstract: A fluid reservoir comprises a first compartment, a second compartment, a port, a drain, and a tube. The port is fluidly connected to the first compartment and positioned at a port height. The drain is fluidly connected to the first compartment and the second compartment. An entrance to the drain is positioned in the first compartment at a drain entrance height which is lower than the port height. The tube is fluidly connected to the first compartment and the second compartment. An entrance to the tube is positioned in the first compartment at a tube entrance height which is higher than the drain height.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Micheal E. Barr, Brian K. Kellogg, Bradley A. Mann
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Patent number: 9677828Abstract: An apparatus includes an inlet, an outlet, and a sheet disposed proximate a heat transfer surface, wherein the sheet is oriented in a sheet plane that is displaced from a plane of the heat transfer surface by an angle of at least 10 degrees. The apparatus also includes a plurality of tabs attached to the sheet, the tabs lying in respective tab planes, wherein the tab planes and the sheet plane intersect forming respective intersections. The intersections of the tab planes and the sheet plane are substantially parallel. The intersections of the tab planes and the sheet plane are at an angle of less than 88° to the heat transfer surface, and the plurality of tabs collectively form channels directing a fluid passing from the inlet to the outlet to impinge the heat transfer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: ZONEFLOW REACTOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLPInventor: Jonathan Jay Feinstein
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Patent number: 9555687Abstract: Provided is a cold-storage heat exchanger. The cold-storage heat exchanger includes a pair of header tanks, and tubes which are arranged in three rows with respect to the direction of the flow of air and connected at opposite sides thereof to the header tanks. A cold-storage medium is stored in the tubes that are disposed in a middle row, and refrigerant circulates through the tubes that are disposed in front and rear rows. Therefore, the cold-storage medium can effectively store cold-energy transferred from the refrigerant. When the engine of a vehicle is stopping, the cold-storage heat exchanger can discharge the cold-energy that has been stored into the passenger compartment of the vehicle, thus preventing the temperature in the passenger compartment from rapidly increasing, thereby creating pleasant air-conditioned conditions for a user, and minimizing the energy and time required to re-cool the passenger compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Hong-Young Lim, Kwang Hun Oh, Yong Jun Jee, Young-Ha Jeon, Jin Hyuck Kim, Duck-Ho Lee, Jun Young Song
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Patent number: 9534853Abstract: An apparatus includes an inlet, an outlet, and a sheet disposed proximate a heat transfer surface, wherein the sheet is oriented in a sheet plane that is displaced from a plane of the heat transfer surface by an angle of at least 10 degrees. The apparatus also includes a plurality of tabs attached to the sheet, the tabs lying in respective tab planes, wherein the tab planes and the sheet plane intersect forming respective intersections. The intersections of the tab planes and the sheet plane are substantially parallel. The intersections of the tab planes and the sheet plane are at an angle of less than 88° to the heat transfer surface, and the plurality of tabs collectively form channels directing a fluid passing from the inlet to the outlet to impinge the heat transfer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: ZONEFLOW REACTOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Jonathan Jay Feinstein
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Patent number: 9383141Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for an air bypass system for a natural draft cooling tower that employs a wet heat exchanger, a direct dry heat exchanger or an indirect dry heat exchanger to extract heat from a heated fluid, which is usually liquid or steam.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: SPX Dry Cooling USA LLCInventors: Michel Vouche, Eldon Mockry
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Patent number: 9212852Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that may include a shell; a first pipe that guides a first fluid into the shell; a tube, through which a second fluid that exchanges heat with the first fluid may pass; a second pipe, through which the first fluid is guided outside of the shell; and a base including a fastening portion to which the shell may be fastened and a support portion that supports the fastening portion. The fastening portion may have a tube hole, through which the tube may pass, and a pipe hole, through which at least one of the first pipe or the second pipe may pass, so that it is possible to increase availability of space at a side of and above the shell, and at least one of the first pipe, the second pipe, or the tube may be protected by the base, resulting in high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Junhyeon Hwang, Hongseok Choi, Changhwan Cho
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Patent number: 8978741Abstract: A device for reducing temperature variation in a plenum includes at least one pipe and a plurality of sumps containing a fluid operable to vary between a liquid state and a gaseous state depending upon a temperature of the fluid. The plurality of sumps are positioned at various locations within the plenum and the at least one pipe is in fluid communication with the plurality of sumps. In addition, the fluid, in the gaseous state, is caused to move through the at least one pipe and condense, thereby reducing the temperature at the location of the sump where the fluid was vaporized and thereby reducing temperature variation in the plenum.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ratnesh K. Sharma, Cullen E. Bash, Chandrakant D. Patel, Abdlmonem Beitelmal
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Patent number: 8844513Abstract: A device, system and method for heating fluid (air) in a flue to create a draw prior to combusting a fuel in a combustion device. The device, system and method includes a housing that may be integrated about the flue. The housing may include a heat exchanger that itself may include a heating source that may be in thermal communication with the flue and a temperature differentiation driver. The heat exchanger may operate to transfer heat energy from the heating source to a fluid constrained to a path created by the flue. The result is a pressure differential created within the flue to help draw the fluid out of the combustion device. The heat exchanger may be configured such that it may cause heat transfer to the heavier, more dense fluid contained within the ventilation system prior to combusting fuel in a combustion device, thereby causing the fluid to be relatively less dense thus creating a draw.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Inventor: John Stock LaMunyon, III
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Patent number: 8707699Abstract: The present invention relates to a natural draft cooling tower that employs an air cooled condenser. The aforementioned cooling tower operates by natural draft and achieves the exchange of heat between two fluids such as atmospheric air, ordinarily, and another fluid which is usually steam. The aforementioned cooling tower utilizes a central steam duct riser supplying steam to perimeter ducting via radial ducting.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Francis Badin, Benoit Thiry, Marc Cornelis, Michel Vouche
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Publication number: 20130202421Abstract: A wind turbine with a thermal siphoning system is disclosed. The wind turbine comprises a tower of a wind turbine, the tower having a top and a base, and a thermal siphoning system for cooling heat generating components. The thermal siphoning system is located within the wind turbine tower and comprises a liquid coolant and at least one heat generating component located near the base of the tower. The heat generating component is adapted to receive the coolant through a coolant inlet port and adapted to discharge the coolant through a coolant outlet port. The thermal siphoning system further comprises a hot coolant tube connected to the coolant outlet port of the heat generating component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Clipper Windpower, LLC.Inventor: Richard A. Himmelmann
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Patent number: 8459248Abstract: A solar water heating and cooling system including a solar energy collection assembly having a heat absorbing element, a heat exchanger and a shield. The system also includes a cooling assembly, the cooling assembly is integral with the shield. The system has a check valve in fluid communication with the solar collection assembly and the cooling assembly, and a fluid pump in fluid communication with the solar energy collection assembly. A working fluid is disposed within the solar energy collection assembly, the cooling assembly, the check valve and the fluid pump. A cooling loop is defined by the solar energy collection assembly, the cooling assembly and the check valve. When the fluid pump is off, the working fluid circulates through the cooling loop, but when the fluid pump is on, the working fluid circulates through a heating loop that is defined by the solar energy collection assembly and the fluid pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: SolarLogic, LLCInventors: Fredric Milder, Boaz Soifer, Bristol Stickney
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Patent number: 8196643Abstract: A ring heat dissipating device is mainly assembled by a ring body, a bottom plate arranged inside the ring body, and a plurality of heat dissipating fins arranged outside the ring body. The bottom plate is punched by a mold so that the bottom plate is fixed to a predetermined position inside the ring body. The heat dissipating fins are inserted into slots on an outer surface of the ring body. After trenches between the slots are punched and deformed, the heat dissipating fins are tightly riveted by the deformed trenches.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Inventor: Shyh Ming Chen
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Publication number: 20120006515Abstract: A directional thermal siphon type heat column comprises: a column body which is a sealed hollow cavity formed by a lid and a base and contains a liquid; and at least one partition element, being a hood plate fixed into the column body and extended obliquely towards the base and having a first channel formed on a side of the partition element opposite to the base and a second channel formed on one side of the partition element opposite to the lid, so as to avoid an opposite flushing occurred while the liquid inside the heat column is having a liquid/vapor phase change and prevent affecting the heat dissipation and circulation operation efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventor: Ming-Huei YAO
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Publication number: 20110203775Abstract: A system in a radio network node for regulating temperature of electronic equipment comprises the electronic equipment and a heat exchanger unit (200), comprising an evaporator unit (202), a condenser unit (203), and a first pipe (204). The first pipe (204) is arranged to connect the evaporator unit (202) and the condenser unit (203). A second fluid is flowable from the condenser unit (203) to the evaporator unit (202) in the first pipe (204). Furthermore, the system comprises a heater unit (201) arranged at the first pipe (204) and arranged to heat the second fluid in the first pipe (204) such that flow in the first pipe (204) is restricted. Furthermore, an arrangement (160) for restricting flow in a heat exchanger unit is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUB)Inventor: Klas Hedlund
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Publication number: 20110120680Abstract: An apparatus is provided for drying a gas by gradually releasing and condensing the moisture in various chambers of a column, different pressures and different temperatures thus being present in the chambers of the column. The gas to be dried is first fed into the bottom chamber, where the largest amount of the water contained in the gas is condensed, and the gas is then discharged from the bottom chamber via a nozzle. Subsequently the gas is cooled and fed into at least one more chamber located above the first chamber, where further moisture is condensed before the resulting condensate is fed via a pipe—preferably shaped like a siphon—into the bottom reservoir to prevent the gas from flowing from the chamber below into the chamber above. A process which enables a gas to be dried is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Thilo Von Trotha, Julia Raab, Ernst Sichtermann
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Publication number: 20100243210Abstract: A capillary assisted loop thermosiphon apparatus (100) has at least one evaporator (102) connected by a vapor line (104) to a condenser (106); a liquid line (108) connects the condenser (106) and the evaporator (102), the evaporator (102) is in the direction of gravity from the condenser (106) for the condenser (106) to supply liquid under gravity induced pressure to the evaporator (102), and the evaporator (102) has a vertical capillary wick (102a) in which liquid wicks in the direction of gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: John H. Rosenfeld, Kenneth G. Minnerly
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Patent number: 7770633Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plate-type heat exchanger in which a heat medium is sealed in a hollow part of an airtight structure formed in the interior of a plate-like container, and the heat medium is moved by capillary force from a condensing part to an evaporating part in the hollow part along heat-medium-guiding grooves formed in the container's inside surface portions that face the hollow part; wherein a plastic workable metal plate of specific thermal conductivity is prepared; a carving tool is used to repeatedly carve out a surface portion of the metal plate at specific intervals along the surface portion, forming a plurality of plate-like fins; and a plurality of grooves formed between these fins is used as heat-medium-guiding grooves.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Nakamura Seisakusho KabushikigaishaInventor: Hideyuki Miyahara
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Patent number: 7695808Abstract: Thermal transfer coating comprising a plurality of metal bodies and a plurality of interstitial elements disposed between and connecting the plurality of metal bodies to one another. The metal bodies comprise an inner portion comprising a first metal and an outer portion comprising an alloy comprising the first metal and a second metal. The interstitial elements comprise the alloy of the outer portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Phillip E. Tuma, Gary M. Palmgren
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Publication number: 20100000513Abstract: A device, system and method for heating fluid (air) in a flue to create a draw prior to combusting a fuel in a combustion device. The device, system and method includes a housing that may be integrated about the flue. The housing may include a heat exchanger that itself may include a heating source that may be in thermal communication with the flue and a temperature differentiation driver. The heat exchanger may operate to transfer heat energy from the heating source to a fluid constrained to a path created by the flue. The result is a pressure differential created within the flue to help draw the fluid out of the combustion device. The heat exchanger may be configured such that it may cause heat transfer to the heavier, more dense fluid contained within the ventilation system prior to combusting fuel in a combustion device, thereby causing the fluid to be relatively less dense thus creating a draw.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventor: John Stock LaMunyon, III
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Patent number: 7640967Abstract: A system (10) and method for removing heat from an engine compartment in a motor vehicle where heat generated by operation of a heat engine (12) that propels the vehicle tends to collect. Engine heat is collected in a thermofluid in a reservoir forming an evaporator (14) where the thermofluid absorbs heat sufficient to evaporate it. The vapor naturally migrates to a condenser (22) that is cooled sufficiently to condense the vapor back to liquid phase. The liquid falls by gravity back to the condenser.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLCInventors: James C. Bradley, Christina Marshall, Rodney J. Klinger, Scott A. Wooldridge, Joseph T. Penaloza
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Publication number: 20090323886Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for the removal and transportation of thermal energy from a heat source to a distant complex for use in thermochemical cycles or other processes. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a hybrid heat pipes/thermosyphon intermediate heat exchanger (HPTIHX) system that is divided into three distinct sections, namely: an evaporation chamber, a condensation chamber, and a working fluid transport section of liquid and vapor counter-current flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Mohamed S. El-genk, Jean-Michel Tournier
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Patent number: 7185610Abstract: A heated flooring module is provided for livestock stables, which includes an upper plaque, for walking on, which is essentially level; a hollowed central section, with no bottom surface, whose upper surface is equipped with at least one continuous runnel, adapted to contain a heat source that enters and exits the runnel through respective entry and exit tubular segments, with the abovementioned hollowed central section equipped with suspension elements for being suspended from resistant elements such as the bars of a horizontal grid; and an optional under-lid, all of the above arranged in such a way that, when the upper plaque is welded to the upper surface of the hollowed central section, the continuous runnel forms an enclosed circuit which contains the heat source inside, leaving the under-lid fitted into the underside of the hollowed central section.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Rotecna, S.A.Inventor: Gener Romeu Guardia
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Patent number: 7028753Abstract: An electronic device has at least one component that is capable of generating a quantity of heat. The electronic device further has an air-moving device and an air duct. The air moving device is capable of creating a flow of air that removes a portion of the quantity of heat. The flow of air enters the air duct. The air duct has a restriction chamber that includes a venturi vent in which the flow of air into the duct and through the restriction chamber creates a new flow of air into the venturi vent. The new flow of air into the venturi vent does not pass over the at least one component in the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: John R. Sterner
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Patent number: 6883593Abstract: A heat sink for free convection cooling in horizontal applications is provided. Specifically, the heat sink includes a plurality of spaced apart cooling fins, which are supported by an angled base. The cooling fins are transversely attached to the base and extend in a substantially vertical direction. In addition, the cooling fins extend beyond an outer edge of the base so that air can flow horizontally beneath the base and then vertically through the spaced apart cooling fins.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2004Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Eric Arthur Johnson, Randall Joseph Stutzman
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Patent number: 6761212Abstract: The present invention is directed to a thermosyphon heat exchanger. The thermosyphon system eliminates the need for costly and inefficient moving parts in the cooling system. The system also minimizes failures rendering the system inoperable by eliminating mechanical components subject to breakdowns that would render the system inoperable. The design of the heat exchanger coils provides for increased efficiency, reduced cost, and simplified construction and maintenance. The system further reduces the energy consumption required for cooling operation while still providing excellent cooling performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Liebert CorporationInventor: Frank E. DiPaolo
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Publication number: 20030066630Abstract: [Object] To provide a duct with high sound absorbing effect and sufficient exhausting efficiency and an electronic apparatus having the ductType: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Meguro, Hiroshi Abe, Toshiaki Hashizume
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Publication number: 20010032718Abstract: A system and method are provided for cooling transformers utilizing a fluid to air heat exchanger to cool dielectric fluid flowing through the transformer. The system includes multiple vertical cooling tubes in fluid communication with the transformer to cool the dielectric fluid. The tubes are configured to create vertical air passages such that the system utilizes natural convection air flow and thermal siphoning to cool the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Applicant: Unifin International, Inc.Inventors: Geoffrey Thomas Sheerin, Christopher C. Corke, Laurie John Brescacin
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Patent number: 6244197Abstract: Chimney-like cooling passages that have opposite outlet and inlet end regions open to ambient air also have central regions that extend through heated components of industrial furnaces. The passages preferably are defined by conduits that are oriented and configured in a manner that enables thermally induced flows of ambient air to self establish through the conduits to cool the furnace components once the furnace components become heated. The passages function like chimneys, with each having its outlet located higher than its inlet so that ambient air will effectively rise as it flows from the inlet to the outlet. The passages may provide increases in cross-sectional area somewhere along their lengths so that heated ambient air expanding in the passages is encouraged to discharge from the less restrictive, larger area outlets rather than from the smaller area inlets.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventor: Gary L. Coble
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Patent number: 6205290Abstract: An electric heater includes a receiving chamber, heat sink members, electric heating pipes and a control portion. The receiving chamber and heat sink members are formed from extruded aluminum members. The heat sink members are sequentially arranged at both sides of the receiving chamber. The electric heating pipes are placed in the receiving chamber. The control unit activates an electric power source of the electric heating pipes in order to generate heat. Heat energy from the electric heating pipes is absorbed by extruded aluminum plates that define the receiving chamber. Heat energy is conducted quickly to the heat sink members which exchanges heat by convection with ambient cool air to rapidly raise the temperature of a room.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Eastpearl Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chin-Ping Hung, Ting-Chien Lu
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Patent number: 6142215Abstract: A heat exchanger system suitable for facilitating the economical cooling of hot fluids in the vicinity of a body of water. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a vertical, or combination vertical and horizontal thermosyphonic, passive, heat exchanger column situated in a body of water and enveloped by a caisson or the like, and configured to facilitate, through percolation, enhanced circulation of seawater therethrough and effecting significant cooling of a hot, hydrocarbon well stream, or other hot fluid in the vicinity of a body of water. A vertically situated bundle of tubes forms the heat exchanger, which may include a system of staggered baffles to direct the flow of cooling seawater to effect even temperature distribution throughout the tube bundle. The present system further teaches a system for cooling high pressure, hot fluids as may be found in a deep hydrocarbon reserve offshore, utilizing a the vertical heat exchange column of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1998Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: EDG, IncorporatedInventors: Dwight C. Paulsen, Leon G. Barnett, Timothy J. Moreau
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Patent number: 5695007Abstract: A device including a side wall (3) and bottom walls (4, 5) together forming a metal vessel (2) containing a core (7) for exchanging heat between two fluids, i.e. preferably counter-flowing heating and heated fluids. The core is arranged vertically within the chamber and radiates heat towards the inner surface of the side wall through an intermediate space (24) provided between said wall and the core and filled with a fluid which is the same as or different from one of the fluids flowing therethrough. The chamber is cooled both by exposing the side wall (3) to the atmosphere and by using a thermosiphon effect to cause the fluid in the intermediate space (24) to flow through a closed circuit (30) including said intermediate space and at least one pipe (31) located outside the chamber and connected thereto at two vertically spaced points. The device may be used in oil industry exchangers.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1995Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Assignees: Faudat Concept, Ziemann-Secathen S.A.Inventors: Jean-Claude Fauconnier, Roland Jean-Marie Guidat
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Patent number: 5562155Abstract: A structure or cooling a large cylindrical storage tank has the shape of an inverted funnel and is intended to be disposed over the tank receiving the upper portion therein and internal struts are provided to separate the funnel wall from the tank wall, The separation allows the entry of air into the funnel structure so that as the structure is heated by the sun air currents will rise through the funnel exiting the chimney which will result in an inflow of air into the funnel around the walls of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Inventors: Stanley Blumberg, Anthony Wells
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Patent number: 5505254Abstract: A tube supporting device is provided for supporting closely packed tubes in a heat exchanger. The device has a support plate transversely disposed with respect to the tubes. The support plate has a plurality of holes formed therein which are penetrated by the tubes and which support the tubes against lateral movement. The holes can be a variety of shapes to create one or more gaps between the peripheral surfaces of the holes and the outer surfaces of the tubes. The gaps enhance the flow of condensate which has formed on the tubes and causes the condensate to flow to a bottom portion of the heat exchanger without moving to and collecting on the support plate. The holes also inhibit lateral movement of the tubes.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1994Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventor: Tomohiro Chiba
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Patent number: 5255736Abstract: An improved air flow enhancing stack for use with an air cooled heat exchanger designed for natural convection cooling. The stack includes a lower conical section having a larger end attached to the natural convection air exhaust from the heat exchanger and a smaller end positioned above the larger end. A central cylindrical section having a diameter equal to the diameter of the smaller end of the lower conical section is attached to the upper end of the lower conical section. An upper conical section, having a smaller end of diameter equal to the cylindrical section, is attached to the upper end of the cylindrical section and has its larger end positioned above its smaller end. A complete air enhancing stack provides improved convection cooling as compared to a conventional straight exhaust stack.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1992Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: Michael Kotlyar
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Patent number: 4918934Abstract: In a method for cooling rooms, the energy exchange between warm room air and cold air takes place through inherent convection of the air by means of a drop shaft arranged in the room, which has cooling surfaces in its upper part, at which the in-coming warm room air cools, and flows downwards owing to the specific weight difference. The cooled air leaves the drop shaft at the lower end in a laminar flow and then spreads in the room in an unbroken cool layer. The air leaving the drop shaft can also be deflected into a hollow floor. It is possible to use a fan to add to the cooled air current moved by gravity disturbing air, which then occasions turbulence.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1988Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Inventors: Georg Mayer, Friedrich H. Schmidt, Friedrich H. Schmidt
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Patent number: 4880503Abstract: This invention pertains to improvements in the design of reservoirs for hydraulic systems, by providing self regulated temperature control for hydraulic fluids. The unique features of the reservoir of my invention include; an interconnected multi-chamber design with integrated vertical heat transfer tubes, for conductive and convective heat transfer from the hydraulic fluid to the surrounding atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1989Date of Patent: November 14, 1989Inventor: Joseph Molitorisz
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Patent number: 4703889Abstract: A radiator comprising a plurality of longitudinally finned tubes formed from extruded aluminum and extending between upper and lower header pipes likewise of extruded aluminum. A water-tight joint is formed at the junction of each finned tube with the adjacent header by means of an interference fit nipple. The fins are shaped so as to define a gap between adjacent finned tubes through which air to be heated may be drawn. Such air enters a chamber defined between each adjacent pair of finned tubes and exits to the rear via louvers formed in the rear fins of the finned tubes, taking the general direction of arrows A. A degree of control of the heat output of the radiator may be achieved by rotation of a flap located at the bottom of the space between the radiator and the adjacent wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1986Date of Patent: November 3, 1987Assignee: British Alcan Aluminium LimitedInventor: Victor J. Simpson, deceased
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Patent number: 4628992Abstract: In order to cool heat generating components on an electronic assembly without contamination by particles carried in a cooling gas stream, a cold plate is disposed adjacent the assembly, defining a gap region therebetween. The cooling gas is directed in proximity to the cold plate, dissipating heat transferred from the components to the plate. To enhance overall heat dissipation of the apparatus, an aperture is defined between the gap region and the gas stream, so that a negative pressure is induced in the gap by virtue of the Bernoulli principle. This pressure difference induces convection within the gap, increasing heat flow between the components and the plate, and resulting in overall improvement in heat dissipation. Embodiments in which the gas stream flow is parallel and transverse to the cold plate are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1984Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Assignee: AT&T Information SystemsInventor: Kevin J. Kennedy
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Patent number: 4561387Abstract: A liquid cooling system for a super-charged internal combustion engine in which the turbocharger is connected to the forced circulatory cooling system effective during the operation of the engine. In order to prevent an overheating of the turbocharger after the internal combustion engine is turned off, the turbocharger is equipped with a further cooling circulatory system maintained by thermo-syphoning action. A volume expansion tank present in the cooling circulatory system of the internal combustion engine is thereby used as heat exchanger for cooling off the cooling liquid, which is constructively matched for this particular application.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1984Date of Patent: December 31, 1985Assignee: Dr. Ing.h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans Korkemeier, Walter Martschik, Josef Klieber
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Patent number: 4392048Abstract: A convector heater has a front plate 1 with a surround 2 spaced around the periphery of the front plate 1 so as to define a top, bottom and side air gap 3 between the front plate 1 and the surround 2. A back plate 4 is connected at its periphery to the surround 2 and is spaced from the front plate 1 so as to define a convection air space 7 between the front plate 1 and the back plate 4. The convection air space 7 is open to the surrounding atmoshere at the air gap 3. A heat exchanger, such as an electric heater, is disposed at the bottom of the convection air space 7 for heating air to induce a convection air flow through the convection air space 7 from the bottom air gap 3b to the top air gap 3a. A secondary air flow is induced into the air space 7 through the side gaps 3c, 3d by the main convection air flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1981Date of Patent: July 5, 1983Assignee: Societe PrlInventor: Brian Carter
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Patent number: 4363353Abstract: One exchanger unit comprises a length of exhaust pipe tube having a plurality of smaller heat exchange tubes which extend diametrically through the exhaust pipe tube. Each of the heat exchange tubes is canted slightly longitudinally of the exhaust pipe tube and the heat exchange tubes are disposed in a helical configuration to force the exhaust gases to swirl through the exhaust pipe tube. The heat exchanger units can be disposed in a furnace exhaust pipe or can be arranged between inlet and outlet plenums which are connected in a furnace exhaust pipe or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1980Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Inventor: Ronald B. Pranaitis