Patents Assigned to Nuventix, Inc.
  • Synthetic jet cooling system for LED module
    Patent number: 7932535
    Abstract: An LED assembly is provided herein. The assembly comprises a thermally conductive housing (201), wherein a portion of said housing is equipped with a plurality of fins (203); an LED (205) disposed in said housing; and a synthetic jet actuator (207) adapted to direct a synthetic jet onto said portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghavendran Mahalingam, Samuel Heffington
  • Thermal management system for LED array
    Patent number: 7819556
    Abstract: A device, comprising (a) a chamber having a liquid disposed therein, (b) an LED array having a first surface which is in contact with said liquid, and (c) at last one actuator adapted to dislodge vapor bubbles from said first surface through the emission of pressure vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel N. Heffington, Raghavendran Mahalingam, Lee M. Jones, Stephen Darbin
  • Thermal management system for LED array
    Patent number: 7784972
    Abstract: A device, comprising (a) a chamber having a liquid disposed therein, (b) an LED array having a first surface which is in contact with said liquid, and (c) at last one actuator adapted to dislodge vapor bubbles from said first surface through the emission of pressure vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel N. Heffington, Raghavendran Mahalingam, Lee M. Jones, Stephen Darbin
  • Synthetic jet ejector with viewing window and temporal aliasing
    Patent number: 7768779
    Abstract: A device (103) is provided which comprises (a) a housing (115) equipped with a viewing window (253); (b) a diaphragm (301), visible through said viewing window; (c) an actuator (126) adapted to vibrate said diaphragm at an operating frequency; and (d) a strobe light (121).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel N. Heffington, Michael D Wilcox, Randall P. Williams, Robert T. Reichenbach
  • Thermal management system for card cages
    Patent number: 7760499
    Abstract: A system is provided herein which comprises (a) a plurality of circuit boards (207); (b) a plurality of slots (205), wherein each of said slots is adapted to provide power to a circuit board coupled thereto, and wherein each of said circuit boards is coupled to one of said slots; and (c) a thermal management card (209) disposed in one of said slots, said thermal management card containing at least one synthetic jet ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Darbin, Samuel N. Heffington, John Stanley Booth, Raghavendran Mahalingam
  • Synthetic jet heat pipe thermal management system
    Patent number: 7607470
    Abstract: A thermal management system (201) is provided which comprises a first heat spreader (205) comprising a heat pipe material, a plurality of fins (217) disposed on said first heat spreader, and a synthetic jet actuator (209) adapted to direct a synthetic jet between at least a pair of said plurality of fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ari Glezer, Raghavendran Mahalingam, Samuel Heffington
  • Thermal management system for distributed heat sources
    Patent number: 7606029
    Abstract: A thermal management system (201) is provided herein which comprises a plurality of heat sources (203), a heat exchanger (205), a plurality of heat pipes (207) in thermal communication with said heat exchanger, and a synthetic jet actuator (211) adapted to direct a synthetic jet upon or across a surface of said heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghavendran Mahalingam, Ari Glezer