Patents Examined by Amir Jalali
  • Patent number: 11523494
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that is improved in heat dissipation efficiency of a heat generating component while avoiding an increase in the size of the electronic apparatus. A first substrate has a heat generating component mounted thereon. A heat dissipation frame is arranged opposed to and in contact with a second substrate. A flexible printed circuit electrically connects the first and second substrates. A thermally conductive member is sandwiched between the heat generating component and the heat dissipation frame such that the flexible printed circuit is pressed against the heat generating component. As heat dissipation paths from the heat generating component to the heat dissipation frame, there are formed a first heat dissipation path via the thermally conductive member and a second heat dissipation path via the flexible printed circuit and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi Odagaki
  • Patent number: 11503698
    Abstract: A flexible circuit board includes a flexible substrate, an electronic component and a heat spreader. The electronic component and the heat spreader are disposed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the flexible substrate, respectively. The heat spreader includes a copper layer which contains more than or equal to 50% copper grains by volume with (1,0,0) crystallographic orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Chipbond Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Ling Hsieh, Pei-Ying Lee, Dong-Sheng Li
  • Patent number: 11503701
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a circuit board, a heat generating component carried by the circuit board, a heat transfer rail extending along an edge of circuit board and coupled to the heat generating component, a housing covering the circuit board, and a heat transfer clamp between the heat transfer rail and the housing. The heat transfer clamp includes a flexible, heat conductive layer having a first portion in thermal contact with the heat transfer rail and a second portion in thermal contact with the housing. The first and second portions are thermally coupled, and a clamp and a compressible layer thereon extends between the first and second portions of the flexible, heat conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thompson, Marcus Ni, Voi Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11497146
    Abstract: A power module for operating an electric vehicle drive, comprising power switches for generating an output current based on an input current; control electronics for controlling the power switches including a first region, to which a first electric potential is applied, and a second region, to which a second electric potential is applied, wherein the second electric potential is higher than the first electric potential; a heatsink for discharging heat generated by the power switches and the control electronics; a shielding layer for electrically shielding the control electronics placed between the heatsink and the control electronics, such that the control electronics lies on the shielding layer, and the shielding layer lies on the heatsink; wherein the shielding layer is designed to connect the heatsink thermally and electrically to the first region, and thermally to the second region, and electrically insulate it therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Michael Sperber, Thomas Schupp, Christian Schanda
  • Patent number: 11483921
    Abstract: A holder has a holding body, a spring member, and a tensioning member. The holding body forms a cavity to receive the electronic component. A connecting section has a thermally conductive heat conductive section adjacent to the cavity. The tensioning member tensions the spring member. The spring member supports itself in a tensioned state on a counter-holding member. The spring member moves a connecting surface of the holding body to the cooling body and/or presses it against the cooling body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Holderbach, Alexander Lust, Nico Hirschlein
  • Patent number: 11470743
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takahiro Imanishi, Akihiko Makita, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Patent number: 11457545
    Abstract: This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a media-streaming device. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heat spreaders and materials with high thermal-conductivity. The thermal-control system may spread, transfer, and dissipate energy from a thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the media-streaming device to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the media-streaming device at or below multiple respective prescribed temperature thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Frédéric Heckmann, Ihab A. Ali
  • 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: 11430713
    Abstract: A member to be fastened on one side of which a member to be fixed is placed; a plate-shaped holding spring member which is disposed on the member to be fixed on one side thereof opposite to the member to be fastened; a support which extends outward of an end part of a longitudinal central part of the plate-shaped holding spring member and which has a through hole formed therein; a supporting column which is provided on the support and bends toward the member to be fastened; a fixing screw hole which is provided in the member to be fastened and disposed at a position corresponding to the through hole of the support so as to have the same axial center as the through hole; and a fixing screw which is inserted into the through hole of the support and screwed to the fixing screw hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Niki Kitahama, Ryohei Hayashi, Hirofumi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11416026
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed in the present document relate to wearable electronic devices. A wearable electronic device can be provided, according to various embodiments of the present document, comprising: a housing for accommodating electronic components; at least one band; and a connector, a relative position of which can be adjusted with respect to the band, wherein the connector comprises: a connector housing; a spur gear engaged with at least a portion of the band; a wheel disposed inside the connector housing, coaxial with the spur gear, and at least partially exposed to the outside of the connector housing; a circular plate coaxial with the wheel and of which at least a portion is inserted into a circular recess formed in the wheel; and a first pawl of which at least a portion is inserted into a recess guide channel formed in the circular plate and which engages along the inner circumferential surface of the circular recess. In addition, various other embodiments can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoungjin Ahn
  • Patent number: 11406005
    Abstract: A substrate for mounting electronic element includes: a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposed thereto, the first substrate being made of an insulating material; a second substrate made of a carbon material; at least one surface metal layer located on the first surface, including at least one mounting portion for at least one electronic element; and a bonding metal layer on the second surface. Heat conduction of the second substrate in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the at least one mounting portion is greater than heat conduction of the second substrate in the longitudinal direction of the at least one mounting portion, and a width of the bonding metal layer is greater than or equal to a maximum width of the at least one surface metal layer in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the at least one mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Kitazumi
  • Patent number: 11388812
    Abstract: An electronic controller is provided and includes a printed wiring board (PWB) on which electronics are operably disposed, a power supply configured to supply power to the electronics, a heat sink and one or more thermal conductors anchored to the PWB to assume and move between first and second connection states in first and second thermal conditions, respectively. The first connection states are characterized in that the one or more thermal conductors are thermally attached to the PWB and the power supply and thermally disconnected from the heat sink. The second connection states are characterized in that the one or more thermal conductors are thermally attached to the PWB and the power supply and to the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Darrell E. Ankney, Nicholas Wlaznik
  • Patent number: 11382206
    Abstract: An apparatus which includes: a circuit board having a radiofrequency (RF) structure at a first location thereof, the RF structure formed from a conductive trace of the circuit board; a heat carrier; and a multi-stack cooling structure coupling the circuit board and the heat carrier to each other. The multi-stack cooling structure including a first stack adjacent the RF structure at the first location and a second stack at a second location. The first stack including a dielectric layer adjacent the heat carrier, and a thermal interface material (TIM) that couples the dielectric layer and the circuit board to each other, the dielectric layer having higher thermal conductivity and higher rigidity than the TIM. The second stack including a metal layer adjacent the heat carrier, and the TIM that couples the metal layer and the circuit board to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: COMET AG
    Inventors: André Grede, Daniel Gruner, Anton Labanc
  • Patent number: 11382240
    Abstract: A data center having a hot aisle, a cold aisle, a row of server rack cabinets located between the cold aisle and the hot aisle, and a self-expanding gap filler located in a gap between adjacent elements in the data center is provided. The self-expanding gap filler includes a compressible material and an outer layer having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining an inner space, the outer layer encapsulating the compressible material within the inner space. The compressible material is configured to expand from a compressed state within the inner space of the outer layer to an expanded state within the inner space of the outer layer in response to a seal being at least partially released within the outer layer to allow air to flow into the inner space of the outer layer, whereby the self-expanding gap filler at least partially fills the gap between the adjacent elements in the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TECHNOGUARD INC.
    Inventors: Brian T. Fanning, Alfred B. Cook
  • Patent number: 11382241
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a cooling device for providing liquid cooling to a processor or a computing hardware/system includes a first cooling plate having a first liquid distribution channel integrated therein. The first cooling plate is to be positioned on a top surface of a processor to extract heat from the top surface of the processor using cooling liquid flowing through the first liquid distribution channel. The cooling device further includes a second cooling plate having a second liquid distribution channel integrated therein. The second cooling plate is to be positioned at a bottom surface of the processor to extract heat from the bottom surface of the processor using cooling liquid flowing through the second liquid distribution channel. The cooling device further includes a mounting mechanism to mount the first and second cooling plates onto top and bottom of the processor to sandwich the process in between with good thermal contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11349375
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes an electronic module and a heat sink for dissipating heat produced by the module. The module includes a printed circuit, an electronic component having a base positioned on the printed circuit, a heat transfer device connected to the printed circuit and to the electronic component for transferring heat generated by the component to the heat sink. The heat transfer device includes an upper portion extending from the printed circuit towards the heat sink from the same side of the component and a base portion connected to the upper portion and positioned in the printed circuit at least partly under the component to form, at least partly, a preferential path for the heat, from the base of the electronic component to the heat sink. The electronic component is connected at least partly by its own base to the base portion of the heat transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 11343942
    Abstract: The present application has an object of restricting a temperature rise caused by heat generated by an electronic part or a connection member mounted on a substrate, and includes a first heat conducting member that thermally couples the bus bar extended to a housing side and the housing, a second heat conducting member that thermally couples a capacitor and the housing, and a third heat conducting member that thermally couples a semiconductor element and the housing, wherein each of the bus bar, the substrate, the capacitor, and the semiconductor element is cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Kishiwada, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hiroaki Takahashi, Shogo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11324110
    Abstract: A temperature-variable standoff includes a temperature-variable electrical element. The standoff also includes a support body that supports the temperature-variable electrical element and that is configured to support a circuit board separated at a distance from another component of an electronics assembly. The support body is configured to attach to the circuit board and to project away from the circuit board with a first end proximate the circuit board and a second end spaced away from the circuit board. The standoff further includes an electrical connector supported proximate the first end. The electrical connector is configured to electrically connect within an electrical circuit of the circuit board to provide the electrical input to the temperature-variable electrical element for selectively varying the temperature thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: NSV Sarveswara Sarma A, Saravanakumar Mahalingam, Rama Kumar Mayil, Ravi Anekal Radhakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11324109
    Abstract: An electronic load device includes a main board and a load module. The main board has a plurality of first connecting ports. The load module includes a sub board and a heat-dissipating unit. The sub board has a second connecting port and a pin-hole port. The second connecting port is used for detachably connecting one of the plurality of first connecting ports. The pin-hole port is used for connecting a power component. The heat-dissipating unit has a cylindrical body and a plurality of heat-dissipating fins. The cylindrical body is defined with an outer surface and an inner surface opposite to the outer surface. The plurality of heat-dissipating fins is connected with the outer surface. When the power component is connected to the pin-hole port, the power component contacts the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CHROMA ATE INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsing Huang, Chung-Lin Liu, Chien-Jiu Chou
  • Patent number: 11322325
    Abstract: A power relay assembly is provided. A power relay assembly according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a support plate having at least one electric element mounted on one surface thereof and including a plastic material having heat dissipation and insulation properties; and at least one bus bar electrically connected to the electric element and partially embedded in the support plate. Due to these features, since heat generated from the bus bar and the electric element is dissipated to the outside through the support plate, it is possible to prevent performance deterioration due to heat and breakage of electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amogreentech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Ho Won, Seung Jae Hwang