Patents Examined by Joel M Attey
  • Patent number: 11168620
    Abstract: A gas supply system includes a first tank, a first path into which a first gas generated by vaporization of a first low-temperature liquefied gas flows, a gas boosting mechanism being disposed in the first path, a second path that is a path configured to extract the first low-temperature liquefied gas from the first tank, a pump and a vaporization mechanism being disposed in the second path and a reliquefaction path that is a path configured to liquefy at least part of the first gas extracted from an upstream side of the gas boosting mechanism in the first path and to cause the liquefied first gas to flow into an upstream side of the pump in the second path, a cooling heat exchanger configured to cool the first gas by a second low-temperature liquefied gas or a second gas being disposed in the reliquefaction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Kanei, Kenji Nagura
  • Patent number: 11172592
    Abstract: A pump driven coolant filling device and corresponding methods are configured for adding liquid coolant to a coolant circuit for removing heat. The device and methods may be used with liquid coolant circuits on electronic components, or in other industries that utilize liquid coolant. The device includes a base having an integrated pump for circulating coolant to the cooling circuit. A disposable container of coolant may be attached to the base using a threaded connection. The device includes a handle with a switch for controlling operation of the pump in some embodiments. A coolant circuit includes quick connect couplings configured for attachment to corresponding hoses extending from the base. During use, a cooling circuit may continue operation while adding coolant to the cooling circuit using the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Rouchon Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Mounioloux
  • Patent number: 11156405
    Abstract: A heat transfer plate comprises at least one first port hole area and opposing front and back sides, first and second planes defining the extension of the plate. Each first port hole area comprises a first port hole defined by an annular first inner edge of the plate, with the first inner edge consisting of first and second sections. Each first port hole area further comprises an annular first inner port portion extending along the first and second sections. The first inner port portion comprises, as seen from the front side of the plate, a number ?1 of first support projections along the second section of the first inner edge, each first support projections comprising a first top portion extending in the first plane. The plate extends, within the first inner port portion and outside first support projections, at a distance ?0 from the first and second planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Blomgren
  • Patent number: 11160197
    Abstract: A heat dissipation unit includes a main body having a first and a second plate member, which are closed to each other to together define an airtight chamber in between them. A working fluid is filled in the airtight chamber, and a first wick structure layer and a holding-down thin layer are provided between the first and the second plate member and superimposed in the airtight chamber. With the holding-down thin layer and the first wick structure layer being superimposed in the airtight chamber, the first wick structure layer is closely and flatly attached to the second plate member without warping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Hsieh, Wei-Te Wu
  • Patent number: 11150025
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a heat exchanger configured to be positioned around and coupled to a multi-axis gimbal. The heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to receive fluid containing heat generated by an equipment package carried by the gimbal. The heat exchanger also includes multiple heat rejection interfaces configured to reject the heat from the fluid into surrounding air in order to cool the fluid. The heat exchanger further includes an outlet configured to provide the cooled fluid from the heat exchanger. The heat rejection interfaces of the heat exchanger extend around the heat exchanger and are configured to reject the heat from the fluid regardless of a direction in which the gimbal is pointing the equipment package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Kirk A. Miller, Gary J. Schwartz, Aaron M. Dossman, Mark A. Michnevitz
  • Patent number: 11149940
    Abstract: A process and a device are described for producing high purity and high temperature steam from non-pure water which may be used in a variety of industrial processes that involve high temperature heat applications. The process and device may be used with technologies that generate steam using a variety of heat sources, such as, for example industrial furnaces, petrochemical plants, and emissions from incinerators. Of particular interest is the application in a thermochemical hydrogen production cycle such as the Cu—Cl Cycle. Non-pure water is used as the feedstock in the thermochemical hydrogen production cycle, with no need to adopt additional and conventional water pre-treatment and purification processes. The non-pure water may be selected from brackish water, saline water, seawater, used water, effluent treated water, tailings water, and other forms of water that is generally believed to be unusable as a direct feedstock of industrial processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Greg Naterer, Zhaolin Wang, Edward Secnik
  • Patent number: 11143457
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a duct having an inflow port and an outflow port; a core part; and a fix plate. The core part includes: a plurality of cooling plates, each of which having a first plate portion and a second plate portion stacked with each other; and a plurality of spacer plates. The fix plate is formed in a frame shape corresponding to open form of the inflow port and the outflow port, and is fixed to the inflow port and the outflow port. A tank is fixed to a side of the fix plate opposite from the duct. The core part has a unification part that unites a part of the spacer plate and a part of the cooling plate opposing the spacer plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Hata
  • Patent number: 11147185
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a plurality of fins arrayed in a first direction, and a heat pipe having a first extension extending in the first direction. A second direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction, a third direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction and the second direction, and when the heat pipe is viewed in the third direction, the heat pipe has a second extension spaced from the first extension in the second direction and extending in the first direction, and a joint which interconnects the first extension and the second extension and which is curved. The fins include a plurality of first fins arrayed along the first extension and the second extension and a second fin disposed around a position of the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sugawara, Keiichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11136104
    Abstract: A ship comprises: a tank; a multistage compressor for compressing a boil-off gas discharged from a storage tank and comprising a plurality of compression cylinders; a first heat exchanger for heat exchanging a fluid, which has been compressed by the multistage compressor, with the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank and thus cooling the same; a first decompressing device for expanding a flow (“flow a1”) partially branched from the flow (“flow a”) that has been cooled by the first heat exchanger; a third heat exchanger for heat exchanging, by “flow a1” which has been expanded by the first decompressing device as a refrigerant, the remaining flow (“flow a2”) of “flow a” after excluding “flow a1” that has been branched and thus cooling the same; and a second decompressing device for expanding “flow a2” which has been cooled by the third heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Chul Lee, Yoon Kee Kim
  • Patent number: 11137215
    Abstract: There is provided a flat heat pipe that is not easily deformed in spite of a reduction in thickness and can maintain high heat transport capacity. A flat heat pipe 100 includes a container 130 in which a cavity 130S is formed by plates 110 (110a, 110b) made of metal and disposed substantially in parallel with each other, working fluid that is enclosed in the cavity 130S, and a wick structure 150 that is inserted into the container. The wick structure 150 includes a first sheet-like member 140, and hollow protruding portions 170 protruding in a height direction of the container 130 are formed on the first sheet-like member 140.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Toratani, Yoshinori Nakamura, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hirofumi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11134560
    Abstract: The present disclosure presents a heat exchange plate with slotted airfoil fins for a printed circuit heat exchanger. In the present disclosure, a herringbone streamlined slot is arranged on a fin so that a part of the heat exchange fluid can flow through a channel of the slot and flow out from the tail of the fin. In such a way, the perpendicular hitting on the fin can be prevented, thereby prevent forming of the stagnation area, mitigating phenomenon of substantial flow resistance in this area and, in turn, reducing the pressure drop of channel. Meanwhile, the slotted area could substantially increase the heat exchanging area and thus improve the heat exchanging performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Guihua Tang, Xiaolong Li, Siqi Wang, Yuanhong Fan, Danlei Yang
  • Patent number: 11118799
    Abstract: An outside air handling unit and method for delivering conditioned air to individual heating/cooling zones of a building regardless of whether heating/cooling in needed. The outside air handling unit includes a liquid supply line which is connected to and draws liquid from a chilled supply line of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Ian Michael Casper, John R. Schwartz, Rick Van Buren, John Evan Bade, Justin P. Kauffman, Brian Smith, Mark A. Adams, Martin L. Doll, Jr., Nicholas Staub, Richard W. Nadeau, Matthew J. Shaub, Sean Gao, Christian C. Rudio, Jonathan D. West
  • Patent number: 11117445
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning device includes a compressor, a radiator, an outside heat exchanger, an evaporator, a first decompressor, a second decompressor, a switching portion, and a controller. The radiator exchanges heat between a refrigerant discharged from the compressor and air. The outside heat exchanger exchanges heat between outside air and the refrigerant flowing out of the radiator. The evaporator is exchanges heat between the refrigerant flowing out of the outside heat exchanger and the air flowing through the radiator. The switching portion switches between a series dehumidifying-heating mode and a parallel dehumidifying-heating mode. The controller is configured to control the switching portion to switch from the parallel dehumidifying-heating mode to the series dehumidifying-heating mode when the amount of the refrigerant oil flowing from the outside heat exchanger to the compressor is insufficient in the parallel dehumidifying-heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Kyuto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yoshiharu Endo
  • Patent number: 11110775
    Abstract: An airflow turning device with airflow control channels for an outlet of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) case that directs airflow to a plurality of different vehicle outlets. The airflow control channels extend from an inner upstream side of the outlet to an outer downstream side of the outlet. Different ones of the plurality of channels have different lengths to generate a varied pressure drop at the outer downstream side in response to airflow blown into the plurality of channels from the inner upstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholaus Spunar, Paul Laurentius
  • Patent number: 11116105
    Abstract: A liquid-cooling termination structure having temperature sensing function is disposed on a liquid-cooling system which is used for performing a heat dissipating operation to a heat source of equipment. The liquid-cooling termination structure includes a water cooling head and a temperature sensing unit. The water cooling head is formed with an adhering surface used for being adhered on the heat source. The temperature sensing unit includes a sensing terminal, and a signal transferring cable extended from the sensing terminal. The sensing terminal is combined with the water cooling head from the exterior of the water cooling head, and the signal transferring cable is connected to the equipment for obtaining the temperature of the heat source through the water cooling head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: SHANGHAI LUYAO ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Long, Li Liu, Tong-hu Xia
  • Patent number: 11105556
    Abstract: Portage storage containers including controlled evaporative cooling systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a portable container including an integral controlled evaporative cooling system includes: a storage region, an evaporative region adjacent to the storage region, a desiccant region adjacent to the outside of the container, and an insulation region positioned between the evaporative region and the desiccant region. A vapor conduit with an attached vapor control unit has a first end within the evaporative region and a second end within the desiccant region. In some embodiments, the controlled evaporative cooling systems are positioned in a radial configuration within the portable container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Tokitae, LLC
    Inventors: Fong Li Chou, Philip A. Eckhoff, Lawrence Morgan Fowler, Shieng Liu, Peter K. Maier-Laxhuber, Nels R. Peterson, Ralf W. Schmidt, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Reiner M. Worz, David J. Yager
  • Patent number: 11098961
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a dual loop coolant system used to control an engine temperature. In one example, cooling capacity is transferred from a low temperature loop to a heat exchanger, and cooling capacity stored in the heat exchanger is transferred to a high temperature loop (e.g., an engine coolant loop). The flow of coolant from the dual loop coolant system to the heat exchanger may be regulated responsive to a temperature of the coolant in each of the low temperature loop and the high temperature loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ravi Gopal
  • Patent number: 11098954
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for transferring thermal energy between a first working fluid and a second working fluid. The heat exchanger has an outer shell that has a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. A set of tubes each extend within the outer shell and between the first and second ports, such that the first working fluid can flow in parallel through the tubes. A plenum space extends within the outer shell and between the third and fourth ports, and surrounding the tubes. The second working fluid is to flow through the plenum space. The heat exchanger has a central core region, a first transition region that extends between the first port and the central core region, and a second transition region that extends between the second port and the central core region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CONFLUX TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD
    Inventor: Michael Fuller
  • Patent number: 11092392
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transparent heat exchanger includes a first transparent substrate optically attached to a heat source, one or more fins to transfer heat from the heat source, the one or more fins comprising transparent material and further comprising one of a manifold coupled to the first transparent substrate or a facesheet coupled to the first transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Christopher R. Koontz, David Filgas
  • Patent number: 11092389
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes and a header tank. The header tank includes a core plate and a tank body. The core plate includes a tube connection surface and a receiving portion that houses an end portion of the tank body. The receiving portion includes a bottom wall and an inner wall that connects the bottom wall to the tube connection surface. The tube connection surface and the inner wall are connected to a rib. The rib is located between adjacent two tubes and inclined with respect to a longitudinal direction of the tubes. The rib includes one end connected to the tube connection surface and an other end connected to the inner wall. The tubes includes lateral ends in the width direction, and a clearance, which has a specified dimension, is defined between the inner wall and the lateral ends in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Uno, Takuya Mitsuhashi