Patents Examined by Joel M Attey
  • Patent number: 11079122
    Abstract: A modular water based heating and cooling system for providing chilled or heated water to terminal devices in a building to heat/cool individual zones in the building. The system includes a flow control device in fluid communication with a riser chilled water supply line, a riser chilled water return line, a riser heated water supply line, and a riser heated water return line. The flow control device includes first control valves and second control valves. Terminal device supply lines extend from the flow control device and are connected to respective first control valves. Terminal device return lines extend from the flow control device and are connected to respective second control valves. The first control valves and the second control valves cooperate to supply required chilled water or heated water through the terminal device supply lines to terminal devices based on the cooling/heating requirements of the terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Ian Michael Casper, Dirck Lyon, Walter E. Doll, John R. Schwartz, Martin Yu, Li Li Mow, Rick Van Buren, Roberto De Paco, Jr., John Evan Bade, Cesar Serrano, Daniela Bilmanis, Satheesh Kulankara, Justin P. Kauffman, Brian Smith, Mark A. Adams, Martin L. Doll, Jr., Nicholas Staub, Richard W. Nadeau, William L. Kopko, Chris Paraskevakos, Matthew J. Shaub, Sean Gao, Christian C. Rudio, Mahesh Valiya Naduvath, Jonathan D. West
  • Patent number: 11079185
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly including an elongated tubular heat exchanger enclosure defining an interior chamber. A tube sheet is positioned within the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure separating the interior chamber into a shell side and a channel side. The interior portion is configured to removably receive a tube bundle positioned within the shell side of the interior chamber. An annular sleeve member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure. An annular elastic torsion member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger such that the sleeve member is positioned between the tube sheet and the elastic torsion member. The elastic torsion member has an inner circumference deflectable relative to its outer circumference for torsioning the elastic torsion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Jibb, David Thomas Creech, Randy Lee Eberly, Elizabeth MacLean Meacham, Henk Boekhouder, Roberto Groppi, Vincenzo Marco Brignone, Trevor Jaye
  • Patent number: 11073878
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a device that can include at least one heat source and a vapor chamber, where the vapor chamber is bigger than the at least one heat source and a portion of the vapor chamber is in direct contact with the at least one heat source, where the portion of the vapor chamber in direct contact with the at least one heat source does not include a stiffener. In an example, the device can include a first air mover on a first side of the at least one heat source and a second air mover on an opposite side of the at least one heat source. Exhaust from the first air mover can pass through a vented foot and exhaust from the second air mover can pass through a second vented foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Baomin Liu, Eduardo Escamilla, James Utz
  • Patent number: 11067343
    Abstract: A thermal compensation layer includes a metal inverse opal (MIO) layer that includes a plurality of core-shell phase change (PC) particles encapsulated within a metal of the MIO layer. Each of the core-shell PC particles includes a core that includes a PCM having a PC temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 250° C., and a shell that includes a shell material having a melt temperature greater than the PC temperature of the PCM. A power electronics assembly includes a substrate having a thermal compensation layer formed proximate a surface of the substrate, the thermal compensation layer comprising an MIO layer that includes a plurality of core-shell PC particles encapsulated within a metal of the MIO layer. The power electronics assembly further includes an electronic device bonded to the thermal compensation layer at a first surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Ercan Mehmet Dede
  • Patent number: 11067342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heat exchange. At a first point in time, in a thermal energy storing device, at least part of the previously accumulated thermal energy is discharged to a first fluid by heat exchange, and subsequently, at a second later point in time, when the first fluid has been heated to a temperature higher than the temperature of a second fluid, the second fluid receives heat energy by heat exchange with said first fluid which then circulates on the other side of a first wall that prevents the first and second fluids from mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Fabrice Chopard, Boris Chauvet
  • Patent number: 11067345
    Abstract: Passively deployable thermal management devices, systems, and methods are provided in accordance with various embodiments. For example, some embodiments include a passively deployable radiator device that may include: one or more thermally conductive layers; and/or one or more strain energy components configured to deploy passively the one or more thermally conductive layers. The one or more thermally conductive layers may include one or more carbon layers. The one or more carbon layers may include at least one or more graphite layers or one or more graphene layers. At least the one or more graphite layers or the one or more graphene layers include at least one or more pyrolytic graphite sheets or one or more pyrolytic graphene sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Roccor, LLC
    Inventors: William Francis, Michael Hulse, Steven Isaacs, Mark Lake, Greg Shoukas, Dana Turse, Mario Saldana
  • Patent number: 11060602
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a body formed into an elongate strip having upper and lower surfaces. The elongate strip is configured to contact the housing along the lower surface for conductive heat transfer from the housing to the body. Each of a plurality of cooling fins is attached to the strip and extends from one end attached to the upper surface of the strip another, free end. The device includes a first tab disposed at one end of the elongate strip, and a second tab disposed at another end of the elongate strip. The elongate strip is made from a compliant material such that the elongate strip conforms to a shape of the housing when the first and second tabs are connected to the housing and a majority of the lower surface contacts the housing. The fins are arranged to convectively dissipate heat from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Will J. Eakins, Stefan Rakuff, Andrew M. Salm
  • Patent number: 11060799
    Abstract: A vapor chamber structure includes a thin-sheet housing with a hollow interior and a composite capillary layer installed in the thin-sheet housing. The composite capillary layer is a metal woven mesh formed by weaving plural metal filaments, and each metal filament of the composite capillary layer is a steel wire having a coating layer on the exterior of the steel wire. By pulling and drawing the steel into a linear shape, a smaller wire diameter is obtained, so that the composite capillary layer will not be broken easily and can be used for making a finer woven mesh which can be installed in a thinner vapor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN MICROLOOPS CORP.
    Inventor: Chun-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 11060801
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided including an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold arranged generally parallel to the inlet manifold and being spaced therefrom by a distance. A plurality of rows of microtubes is aligned in a substantially parallel relationship. The plurality of rows of microtubes is configured to fluidly couple the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold. Each of the plurality of rows includes a plurality of microtubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abbas A. Alahyari, John H. Whiton, Matthew Robert Pearson, Jack Leon Esformes
  • Patent number: 11060796
    Abstract: A spiral heat exchanger features first spiral channels configured to form rows and columns of coiled hot fluid pathways to receive hot fluid; and second spiral channels configured to form corresponding rows and columns of coiled cold fluid pathways to receive cold fluid having a temperature less than the hot fluid. The first spiral channels and the second spiral channels are configured to alternate every other row and column so as to form a matrix of alternating rows and columns of coiled hot and cold fluid pathways separated by alternating coiled walls that act as both fluid separators and conduits through which heat is transferred between the hot fluid and cold fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FLUID HANDLING LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Lopes
  • Patent number: 11052722
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a refrigerant circuit, which has an evaporator and a condenser, and a coolant circuit, wherein the refrigerant circuit and the coolant circuit are thermally coupled to each other, in particular in the region of the evaporator and in the region of the condenser, wherein the coolant circuit has a line system having junctions, wherein a heating body, a cooling body, an outside heat exchanger, an additional heat source, a first bypass line, and a second bypass line are integrated into the line system, wherein the first bypass line bypasses the additional heat source from the cooling body to the outside heat exchanger, and/or the second bypass line bypasses the additional heat source from the heating body to the outside heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Michael Haug
  • Patent number: 11051431
    Abstract: Photonic and electronic integrated circuits can be cooled using variable conductance heat pipes containing a non-condensable gas in addition to a phase-changing working fluid. To package the heat pipe with a subassembly including the integrated circuits in a standard housing providing a heat sink contact area, the heat pipe is oriented, in some embodiments, with its axis between evaporator and condenser ends substantially perpendicular to the direction along which the integrated circuit subassembly is separated from the heat sink contact area, and a portion of the exterior surface of the heat pipe is thermally insulated, with a suitable thermal insulation structure, from the heat sink contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberto Marcoccia, Brian Robert Koch, Theodore J. Schmidt, Christopher Paul Wyland, Robert S. Guzzon, Gregory Alan Fish
  • Patent number: 11041459
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat recovery system includes a housing, a heat exchanger and a valve assembly. The valve assembly is disposed within the housing and includes a monolithic valve body, a moveable valve plate and a rotatable valve shaft. The valve body includes a bore, a valve seat surrounding the bore and trunnions integrally formed with the valve seat. The trunnions are diametrically opposed to each other and laterally extending outside of the housing. The valve plate coupled for rotation with the valve shaft between a first position allowing exhaust gas flow through the bore and the first exhaust gas passageway, and a second position allowing exhaust gas flow through the second exhaust gas passageway and preventing exhaust gas flow through the bore and the first exhaust gas passageway. The valve shaft being supported for rotation by the trunnions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventors: Brian A. Kunkel, John Stanavich, Keith G. Olivier
  • Patent number: 11044838
    Abstract: Effectively control the temperature of a control unit of a railway equipment inspecting and measuring apparatus, and install the control unit of the railway equipment inspecting and measuring on the roof of the passenger car. The first space is formed between the control unit and the heat insulating case. The second space is formed between the heat insulating case and the cover. In the first space, heat is conducted between the air in the first space and the heat exchange element by the first heat conducting member, and the first fan causes circulation of the air in the first space. In the second space, heat is conducted between the air in the second space and the heat exchange element by the second heat conducting member, and the air inside the second space is diffused by blowing the air from a suction port into the second space with the second fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH FINE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyasu Suzuki, Takeshi Kurokawa, Tomohiko Kai, Masaki Araki, Tomoya Sasaki, Takeshi Iga, Tomoharu Isozaki, Noritake Shizawa, Keishin Hamaoka, Takahiro Daikoku
  • Patent number: 11035594
    Abstract: A packaged, pumped liquid, evaporative-condensing recirculating ammonia refrigeration system with charges of 10 lbs or less of refrigerant per ton of refrigeration capacity. The compressor and related components are situated inside the plenum of a standard evaporative condenser unit, and the evaporator is close coupled to the evaporative condenser. Single or dual phase cyclonic separators may also be housed in the plenum of the evaporative condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Evapco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt L. Liebendorfer, Gregory S. Derosier, Trevor Hegg, Sarah L. Ferrari, Don Hamilton, Nicholas Hesser, Kenneth Wright
  • Patent number: 11029738
    Abstract: A serial pump includes a pump body, a first impeller and a second impeller. A first rotor chamber, a second rotor chamber and a connecting channel are formed in the pump body. The first rotor chamber has a first outlet opening, the second rotor chamber has a second inlet opening, and the connecting channel is communicated between the first outlet opening and the second inlet opening. The first impeller is pivotally arranged in the first rotor chamber, and an outer periphery of the first impeller is arranged corresponding to the first outlet opening. The second impeller is pivotally arranged in the second rotor chamber, and a center of the second impeller is arranged corresponding to the second inlet opening. Accordingly, the first impeller and the second impeller are serially arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shui-Fa Tsai
  • Patent number: 11026347
    Abstract: A configurable electronics cabinet cooling system includes a cabinet having multiple walls including at least one universal cabinet wall. The universal cabinet wall has a planar outward facing surface and multiple apertures. A heat transfer component is releasably connected to the universal cabinet wall. The heat transfer component is selected from either a conductive cooling member or a convective cooling member each adapted to be interchangeably and releasably connected to the universal cabinet wall using fasteners extending through same ones of the apertures. Each of the conductive cooling member and the convective cooling member includes a planar surface, the planar surface adapted to directly contact the outward facing surface of the universal cabinet wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SMART Embedded Computing, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzanne Marye Wong, Martin Peter John Cornes, Robert Charles Tufford
  • Patent number: 11021044
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner device of a so-called heat pump system to accurately perform efficient and comfortable heating of a vehicle interior. The vehicle air conditioner device includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 which heats air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 to a vehicle interior. A controller calculates a required heating capability TGQhtr of the heating medium circulating circuit to complement a shortage of an actual heating capability Qhp to a required heating capability TGQ of a radiator 4. The controller calculates a decrease amount ?Qhp of the actual heating capability Qhp from a difference ?TXO between a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of an outdoor heat exchanger 7 and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase in non-frosting, and adds the decrease amount ?Qhp to the required heating capability TGQhtr to execute the heating by the heating medium circulating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita, Megumi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11022069
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat recovery system includes a housing assembly, a valve assembly and a heat exchanger. The valve assembly is disposed within the housing assembly and includes a shaft and a plate. The plate is rotatable between a first position whereat exhaust gas flow through a first fluid passageway is allowed and exhaust gas flow through a second exhaust gas passageway is prevented, and a second position whereat exhaust gas flow through the second fluid passageway is allowed and exhaust gas flow through the first gas passageway is prevented. The heat exchanger assembly includes a heater core having a working fluid circulating therein. The working fluid is in thermal communication with fluid in the heater core. The housing assembly includes first and second shells attached to each other at a joint. An axis of the shaft being at the joint of the first and second shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventors: Brian A. Kunkel, John Stanavich, Keith G. Olivier, Daniel Salanta
  • Patent number: 11019750
    Abstract: A water-cooling head includes a casing, a base, a thermal conduction structure and a pump. An active space is defined by the base and the casing collaboratively. A working medium is filled in the active space. The pump includes a fixing element, a shaft and an impeller. After the fixing element is fixed, the fixing element is contacted with the base or contacted with the thermal conduction structure, and the shaft is fixed on the fixing element. Consequently, the impeller is stably rotated about the shaft, and the performance and the reliability of the water-cooling head are enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: AURAS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-An Chen, Mu-Shu Fan, Chien-Yu Chen