Patents Examined by Hans R Weiland
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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Patent number: 12326303Abstract: A method for manufacturing a counter flow total heat exchanger is disclosed. The for comprises the steps of: inserting, between a pair of rollers (210, 210a) having protrusions formed on the surface thereof, a first paper having a first width, so as to form same into a single face corrugated cardboard sheet (T) having flow paths (111c, 121c); attaching the corrugated cardboard sheet (T) to a middle region of a second paper having a second width that is wider than the first width; cutting, into a length corresponding to guide corrugated cardboards (111,121), the second paper to which the corrugated cardboard sheet (T) is attached; and cutting the second paper to form a liner (130) having triangular resin tube coupling surfaces (133) formed on both sides of the cut guide corrugated cardboards (111, 121).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: GAONTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Gil Sub Song, Eun Sook Hong, Eun Jung Hong
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Patent number: 12313281Abstract: A heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a supply air flow and an exhaust air flow includes: a heat exchange element in a prism shape; a plurality of frame bars, each of the plurality of frame bars being attached to a corresponding side of the heat exchange element, the corresponding side extending along an axial direction of the heat exchange element; and an end face plate at least partially covering an axial end face of the heat exchange element, the plurality of frame bars being joined to the end face plate. The frame bars are joined to the end face plate in such a way as to be movable in the axial direction of the heat exchange element.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Hayashi, Hajime Sotokawa, Shinya Morikawa
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Patent number: 12276462Abstract: A method of temporarily storing thermal energy via a thermal storage subsystem in a compressed air energy storage system comprising an accumulator disposed at least 300 m underground and having an interior configured to contain compressed air at an accumulator pressure that is at least 20 bar and a gas compressor/expander subsystem in communication with the accumulator via an air flow path for conveying compressed air to the accumulator when in a charging mode and from the accumulator when in a discharging mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Hydrostor Inc.Inventors: Davin Young, Lucas Thexton, Cameron Lewis
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Patent number: 12276464Abstract: A compressor module includes: a compressor; and a high-pressure gas cooler which cools gas discharged from the compressor, wherein the high-pressure gas cooler includes a plurality of gas cooler partial bodies, wherein each gas cooler partial body includes a high-pressure casing which is formed in a cylindrical container shape extending in a horizontal direction and to which the gas is introduced and a high-pressure heat exchange unit which is installed in the high-pressure casing and cools a gas passing in one direction orthogonal to a center axis of the high-pressure casing, and wherein the gas cooler partial bodies are arranged in parallel so that the center axes of the high-pressure casings are parallel to each other, the gas sequentially flows through the gas cooler partial bodies.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Yokoo
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Patent number: 12270609Abstract: A heat dissipation member includes a condensation area, an evaporation area, and a capillary structure layer. The condensation area is arranged away from a heating element of an electronic apparatus in an application state. The evaporation area is arranged close to the heating element in the application state. A capillary force of the capillary structure layer in the evaporation area is greater than a capillary force of the capillary structure layer in the condensation area.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Lianming Guo, Huajun Dong
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Patent number: 12274020Abstract: A system including a cooling element and an egress passageway is described. The cooling element is configured to provide a stream of hot air having been heated by a heat from a heat-generating structure. The hot air passes through the egress passageway toward an egress. The egress passageway includes at least one inlet through which cool air is drawn to be mixed with the hot air.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Frore Systems Inc.Inventors: Prabhu Sathyamurthy, Suryaprakash Ganti, Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy, Lumaya Ahmed, Shekhar Halakatti
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Patent number: 12264885Abstract: An anti-fouling device includes an elongated displacement body insertable in a heat exchanger tube to reduce the flow cross-sectional area in a portion of the tube. A mount is connected to the elongated displacement body for attaching the device to an end of the heat exchanger tube. The mount is configured to hold the displacement body, when inserted into the tube, in a spaced relationship to the inner surface of the tube. The device reliably reduces fouling over an extended period of time without requiring maintenance or external controls, is easily installable, and can be retrofitted to existing heat exchangers. The device mitigates fouling related issues in heat exchangers subjected to hot combustion or process gases such as those encountered in the production of carbon black, fumed silica or other particulate matter, without contaminating the product recoverable from the process gas or having an adverse influence on the properties thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Orion Engineered Carbons IP GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Kay Schmidt, Arndt-Peter Schinkel, Vitus Dorfner
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Patent number: 12253304Abstract: A method is provided for cooling a beverage in a container, the container being provided in contact with a cooling contact body thermally conductively coupled to a cooling element. The method comprises operating the cooling element and obtaining an ambient temperature of the environment outside the container and the cooling contact body. Based on the ambient temperature, a cut on temperature is defined and a temperature value indicative of a temperature of the beverage is obtained. The cooling element is operated if the temperature is larger than the cut on temperature until an end criterion is met. A higher ambient temperature may require more cooling of the beverage to ensure the temperature of the beverage is maintained between acceptable boundaries. A higher environmental temperature, requiring more cooling, means faster switching on or off. By using a switch on temperature based on the ambient temperature, more efficient cooling may be established.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Heineken Supply Chain B.V.Inventors: Michiel Adrianus Henricus Van Der Aa, Antonius Henricus Andreas Donkers
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Patent number: 12241693Abstract: A modular double V stacked dry or adiabatic heat exchanger having a bottom module with two heat exchangers arranged in a V-shape, a top module configured to rest atop and be supported by the bottom module and having two heat exchangers configured to continue and extend the V-shape formed by the two bottom heat exchangers, and a fan module configured to rest atop and be supported by the top module. The modules are factory assembled and configured to for easy shipping and connection to one-another on-site. Adiabatic pads or spray nozzles may be provided to pre-cool the air entering the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Evapco, Inc.Inventor: Tom Byrne
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Patent number: 12235051Abstract: Pipe arrangement for transporting temperature control media, comprising a base body which is produced by way of blow molding and from which at least a first channel and a second channel are formed, wherein the first channel and the second channel have a first orientation towards one another in a first section and a second orientation towards one another in a second section, wherein the first orientation is different from the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: TI AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBHInventors: Albert Boecker, Matthias Winter, Thorsten Schaefer, Florian Deibel, Mathieu Aucouturier
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Patent number: 12228349Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for a modular intercooler block that may be fabricated by way of direct metal printing and assembled to form larger intercoolers. The modular intercooler block comprises cooling fins that are spaced between first and second core headers to allow passage of an airstream. Countersunk holes are arranged on the first and second core headers and configured to receive grommets when the first or second core header is fastened to another core header comprising similarly arranged countersunk holes. A core tube extends along an undulating path from each countersunk hole in the first core header, through the multiplicity of cooling fins, to a similar countersunk hole in the second core header. The core tubes may include thin copper walls and spiraled inner passages to enhance heat transfer to the airstream passing through the multiplicity of cooling fins.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Stevens, Steve Williams
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Patent number: 12215932Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first pipe, a second pipe, a plurality of heat exchange tubes, an inlet/outlet pipe, and a first member. The first pipe has a main channel, and the heat exchange tube is connected between the first pipe and the second pipe. The heat exchange tube includes a plurality of channels disposed to be spaced apart. The plurality of channels include a first channel with a largest flow cross-sectional area and a second channel with a smallest flow cross-sectional area. The first member is located in the main channel of the first pipe to define a first flow channel and a second flow channel. The first flow channel is connected to the inlet/outlet pipe, and the second flow channel is connected to the heat exchange tube. The first member includes through-holes.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SANHUA (HANGZHOU) MICRO CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianlong Jiang, Qiang Gao, Xiaoming Zhong, Haobo Jiang, Ningjie Huang
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Patent number: 12196494Abstract: A furnace assembly for use with a gas fuel that includes a cabinet and a burner located in the cabinet that is operable to ignite the gas fuel. The furnace also includes a heat exchanger assembly in communication with the burner and open to receiving the ignited gas fuel, the heat exchanger assembly including tubes. Each tube includes a first section with an inlet, a horizontal section having a first internal diameter, and a vertical section. Each tube also includes a second section extending from the first section and having a second internal diameter less than the first internal dimeter. The second section also includes a serpentine flow path up and down in the vertical direction and an outlet. The gas fuel entering a tube stays in the tube until flowing out of the tube. The furnace also includes a blower operable to move air through the cabinet and over the heat exchanger assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.Inventors: Jianmin Zhang, Brian Russell