Patents Examined by Eric S Ruppert
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Patent number: 12383857Abstract: The apparatus includes one or more cylindrical housings connected to one another, a jacket on an outer side of a housing, an inner cylinder disposed at least in an interior of a first cylindrical housing, a heat insulation gasket, inner members, a corrosive high temperature gas inlet disposed on the heat insulation gasket, a gas and liquid phase outlet disposed at a bottom of the housing or a bottom of a last housing and a coolant inlet and outlet connected to an interior of the jacket. The heat insulation gasket seals the first cylindrical housing and a top of the inner cylinder in the interior of the first cylindrical housing. The inner members are distributed along a wall of the housing, communicate an interior of the jacket with an interior of the housing, and distribute a liquid in the interior of the jacket to the interior of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignees: WANHUA CHEMICAL GROUP CO., LTD., WANHUA CHEMICAL (NINGBO) CO., LTD.Inventors: Mingyan Song, Yifeng Chen, Xiaofei Qiao, Changhao Ke, Jingkui Wang, Haibing Jia, Nan Zhao, Jinke Jiang, Peng Liu, Tianyong Yu, Yan Song, Zaigang Yang, Wuxi Luo, Changbao Xu, Junxian Liu, Jianmao Guo
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Patent number: 12381105Abstract: A baseplate for a substrate support in a substrate processing system includes at least one coolant channel formed within the baseplate. The at least one coolant channel defines a volume within the baseplate configured to retain a coolant and follows a path configured to distribute the coolant in the volume throughout the baseplate. At least one fin is provided within the at least one coolant channel. The at least one fin extends from at least one of a top, a bottom, and a sidewall of the at least one coolant channel into the volume to increase a surface area of the at least one coolant channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Feng Wang, Alexander Matyushkin, Darrell Ehrlich, Eric Samulon
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Patent number: 12379697Abstract: A method for determining the suitability of a thermal storage medium of a thermal battery based in a locale, the method including predicting a required concentration of the thermal storage medium based on historical temperature data of the locale and predicted temperature data of the locale, wherein the required concentration of the thermal storage medium is predicted based upon a concentration of the thermal storage medium corresponding to the historical temperature data and the predicted temperature data and determining the concentration of the thermal storage medium and comparing the concentration of the thermal storage medium to the required concentration of the thermal storage medium, wherein if the required concentration of the thermal storage medium is higher than the concentration of the thermal storage medium, the thermal storage medium is said to be unsuitable.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
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Patent number: 12372307Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for transferring heat from a gaseous working medium (M2) to a heat-exchanger medium (M3) by compressing the gaseous working medium (M2), wherein the device (1) comprises: an operating line (AL), wherein the volume (V) enclosed by the operating line (AL) is divided into at least two sections, namely a first (AL-V1) and a second section (AL-V2), wherein the first section (AL-V1) is set up to hold a pressure-transfer medium (M1) and the second section (AL-V2) is set up to hold and discharge the gaseous working medium (M2), wherein at least one inlet and outlet valve (2) is provided for holding and discharging the gaseous working medium (M2), wherein a first volume delimited by the first section (AL-V1) is separated from a second volume delimited by the second section (AL-V2) by a first separating layer (T12) that can be displaced within the operating line (AL), wherein the first separating layer (T12) is arranged in such a way that pressure differences between the first (AL-Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: RIMACOMP—GmbHInventors: Martin Mayrl, Peter Mayrl
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Patent number: 12366417Abstract: A heat exchange device including a valve element component, a core body component and a connecting member having a first end and a second end, and the second end is provided with a welding section and an adjacent section; the core body component is provided with a welding matching portion; the welding section is welded to the welding matching portion, and the adjacent section is adjacent to the welding section; the outer diameter of the welding section is smaller than or equal to the inner diameter of the welding matching portion, and the outer diameter of the adjacent section is smaller than or equal to the inner diameter of the welding matching portion; and the distance between the end of the welding matching portion away from the valve element component and the end of the welding section away from the valve element component is larger than or equal to zero.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTDInventors: Bin Song, Yuan Yao, Keli Ye, Rongrong Zhang
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Patent number: 12359879Abstract: A liquid hydrogen vaporizer for performing heat exchange between liquid hydrogen and helium gas and vaporizing liquid hydrogen, comprising: a lower first column tube which is a fin tube composed of a tube through which liquid hydrogen flows and a fin assembly attached to an outer periphery of the tube; and a lower casing through which helium gas flows outside the lower first column tube, wherein the fin assembly is composed of a sleeve covered on an outer surface of the tube and a plurality of fins attached to an outer peripheral surface of the sleeve, and the sleeve is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoaki Ito
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Patent number: 12359883Abstract: A heat exchanger may comprise a primary fluid path comprising an outer shell enclosing a primary cavity through which a primary fluid may flow; and a secondary fluid path coupled to the primary fluid path comprising a secondary fluid supply conduit, a secondary fluid exit conduit, and a first heat transfer element coupled fluidly between the secondary fluid supply conduit and the secondary fluid exit conduit, wherein the secondary fluid path is configured such that a secondary fluid may flow through the secondary fluid supply conduit, the first heat transfer element, and the secondary fluid exit conduit, which are in fluid communication with one another. The first heat transfer element, and additional heat transfer elements, may be disposed in the primary cavity such that the primary fluid contacts a secondary outer shell of the first heat transfer element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventor: Jeffrey A. Wilmer
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Patent number: 12359874Abstract: A multiple mode hybrid heat exchanger apparatus is disclosed. The heat exchange apparatus includes a frame assembly having a first end wall, a second end wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, an indirect heat exchange section, a spray system, an intermediate distribution basin, and a direct heat exchange section. A vertical passage is defined by the frame assembly and the direct heat exchange section. A lower air inlet is defined by a plurality of openings in the direct heat exchange section, and the lower air inlet is configured to provide an inlet for air into the vertical passage. The apparatus further includes a cold water collection basin and a fan to induce an airflow through the lower air inlet. The multiple mode hybrid heat exchanger apparatus is selectably configured to operate in an evaporative mode, a dry mode, and an adiabatic mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jidong Yang, Zan Liu, Kathryn Pullen
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Patent number: 12352513Abstract: A heat exchanger including: a heat exchanger main body forming a flow path through which a fluid circulates; heat transfer tubes arranged side by side so as to extend in an extending direction of the flow path; and a baffle plate group having a plurality of baffle plates provided with gaps therebetween in the extending direction of the flow path while supporting the heat transfer tubes. The baffle plates are provided so as to each occupy only a portion of the flow path cross section when viewed from the extending direction of the flow path, and the baffle plates of the baffle plate group are provided such that at least a portion of mutually occupied areas do not overlap, and that the entire area of the flow path cross section is occupied by combining the mutually occupied areas, as seen from the extending direction of the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuhide Hara, Shimpei Okayasu, Satoshi Hiraoka, Kenji Kirihara, Masahiko Nagai, Kensuke Nishiura, Tatsuo Ishiguro
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Patent number: 12352500Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of manifolds and first and second pluralities of tubes that extend between different pairs of the plurality of manifolds. The heat exchange tubes each include a heat exchange portion extending along a straight direction, an outlet portion extending a transverse axis and a transition portion that connects the heat exchange portion to the outlet portion, wherein the transition portion transitions simultaneously in the transverse direction and along an offset axis, wherein the changing direction has vector components along both the transverse axis and the offset axis along the length of the transition portion. Wherein an end of the heat exchange as a jog region that comprises a bend along the offset axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Scott Kent, Robert Louis Runk
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Patent number: 12352506Abstract: A heating system including at least one thermal battery including a storage container for holding a fluid, an outlet fluid conductor through which the fluid exits the storage container, an inlet fluid conductor through which the fluid enters the storage container, a first valve interposed in the outlet fluid conductor; and a second valve interposed in the inlet fluid conductor, wherein each thermal battery is configured to be thermally chargeable and dischargeable by controlling the first valve and the second valve to allow a flow of the fluid in concert and to disallow a flow in concert.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
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Patent number: 12352512Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate-type heat exchanger having a bracket-reinforcing structure. An object of the present invention is to provide a plate-type heat exchanger having a bracket-reinforcing structure that has a reinforcing plate attached to prevent exposure of the plate-type heat exchanger in a region in which a bracket plate of an assembly of the plate-type heat exchanger and the bracket plate is connected to an external device, thereby suppressing the corrosion of the plate-type heat exchanger and improving the durability of the plate-type heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Sung Hong Shin, Wontaek Lee
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Patent number: 12345482Abstract: A tube heat exchanger for exchanging heat from a first fluid to a second fluid, comprising a tubular shell; an inner wall extending around a center axis of said tubular shell and forming a central chamber internally of said inner wall, and an annular heat exchange space extending externally of said inner wall and enclosed by said tubular shell, wherein the heat exchange space comprises a plurality of axially extending heat exchange sectors separated by radially extending separating walls, and flow paths of the first fluid and the second fluid extend in the heat exchange space, wherein adjacent heat exchange sectors communicate; and a set of flow tubes extending axially in each of said heat exchange sectors in said heat exchange space.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Marinnovation HBInventor: Ralf Blomgren
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Patent number: 12344312Abstract: A cooling system, for circulating air through an electrical system for a work machine, includes an electrical cabinet, a chassis of the wok machine, and a blower fluidly connected to the electrical cabinet and the chassis. The electrical cabinet defines an interior volume for accommodating a plurality of electrical components of the electrical system. The chassis defines a closed-loop passageway configured to receive air from the interior volume of the electrical cabinet. The blower circulates the air through the interior volume of the electrical cabinet and the closed-loop passageway of the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Eric Matthew Andris
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Patent number: 12345476Abstract: A tube bundle heat exchanger having a tube sheet, an outer shell and an interior. The heat exchanger includes a tube bundle having tubes located in the interior for fluid flow. The tubes have outside ribs and a channel is formed between adjacent ribs. The tube sheet has openings as passage points. Outer fins of the tubes project into the openings, and a joint gap is formed between an inner surface defining the opening and the outer fins of a tube located therein. The tubes are bonded to the tube sheet by joining material with the involvement of the outer fins. The bond is only formed in a first portion of the opening. The first portion is filled with joining material such that a second portion of the opening remains which is not filled with joining material, and the tube has outer fins adjacent the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AGInventors: Harald Gaibler, Achim Gotterbarm, Philipp Hofmann, Verena Obst, Michael Scheuss
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Patent number: 12345441Abstract: An air conditioner includes an air flow path configured to direct an air flow in a direction. The air conditioner also includes an evaporative cooling membrane panel disposed within the air flow path and including a face disposed at an oblique angle relative to the direction. The face is defined by microporous fibers of the evaporative cooling membrane panel. Each microporous fiber is configured to receive liquid in a fluid flow path of the microporous fiber such that the air flow over the microporous fiber generates a vapor. Each microporous fiber is also configured to release the vapor into the air flow via pores of the microporous fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Michael J Sweeney, Ryan Vetsch, David Patrick Selmser, Andrew Kim Liang Chan, Philip Thai, Nicholas Labonte
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Patent number: 12339049Abstract: A making device of ice balls comprises a refrigeration chamber unit; the refrigeration chamber unit comprises a lower half ball mold body, an upper half ball mold body and a water circulation unit; in addition, a cover plate is arranged above the refrigeration chamber unit, and a water injection hole is arranged on the cover plate; in addition, a plurality of low-temperature condensing tubes are arranged in the lower half ball mold body; in addition, the refrigeration chamber unit further comprises a thermo electric cooler, and a cold end face of the thermo electric cooler is attached to a bottom surface of the lower half ball mold body; the upper half ball mold body is arranged above the lower half ball mold body, a plurality of convection circulation holes are distributed on the upper half ball mold body, and a water inlet hole is arranged in the center of the upper half ball mold body; and the water circulation unit is arranged on the cover plate and comprises a pump, and the pump is respectively connectedType: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: AW Industries LLCInventors: Xiang-Tai Lu, Shi-Jie Wang, Wei-Yuan Huang, Zhi-Xiang Dai, Jeff Chen
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Patent number: 12339051Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet with one or more food compartments and one or more doors closing the food compartments and an ice maker located in the cabinet to produce ice. The ice maker includes a mold body for forming ice, the mold body having multiple cups, where each cup has an opening for receiving water to be frozen within the cup. The ice maker further includes a thermally conductive component located near a bottom surface of the cups. The thermally conductive component includes at least one heater that provides heat to the plurality of cups, so that the thermally conductive can distribute heat and facilitate a release of ice from the plurality of cups.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Vinayak Naik, Eric Scalf
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Patent number: 12339076Abstract: An HVAC heat exchanger with an array of tubes including one or more dead tubes is provided. In one embodiment, the heat exchanger is a microchannel heat exchanger operable to exchange heat with air in an HVAC system via refrigerant passing through the microchannel heat exchanger. The microchannel heat exchanger includes an array of flat tubes arranged between a first manifold and a second manifold. The array of flat tubes includes multiple tubes coupled in fluid communication with the first manifold and the second manifold to convey refrigerant between the first manifold and the second manifold through microchannels of the multiple tubes. The array of flat tubes also includes one or more dead tubes that do not convey refrigerant between the first manifold and the second manifold. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael F. Taras, Auston Green, Anal Prakhar Sharma
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Patent number: 12339069Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a housing wall and interior having a fluid inlet region for introducing a first fluid into the interior, and at least two partition walls substantially accommodated in the interior and connected to the housing wall at at least one connection region. The partition walls border a fluid receiving chamber, through which a second fluid flows in order to separate the fluids from one another. The partition walls are connected to one another at a joining region and also have a deformation in a joining sub-region of the joining region spaced apart from the connection region, which is provided to reduce mechanical tension in the connection region due to a temperature-dependent change in length of the joining region.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerd Kronsteiner, Gernot Woitsch