Patents Examined by Jon T Schermerhorn
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Patent number: 10306802Abstract: A heat sink for cooling an integrated circuit device includes a body having a first side and a second side. A fluid inlet opening is formed in the second side of the body for receiving pressurized fluid from a fluid source. A plurality of impingement openings are formed in the first side of the body. At least one fluid delivery channel is provided and configured to deliver pressurized fluid from the fluid inlet opening to the plurality of impingement openings for generating a plurality of fluid streams expelled from the plurality of impingement openings. A plurality of fluid diverters are formed on the first side of the body and arranged generally between each of the plurality of impingement openings for diverting a flow of fluid around each of the plurality of impingement openings.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: John Ditri, Joseph W. Hahn, Michael K. McNulty
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Patent number: 10288198Abstract: This connection plug (14A, 14B; 14) includes a connecting plate (18) equipped with at least a passage channel (46) centered on a central axis (X46), at least one fluid coupling element (20A, 20B) able to be fluidly coupled with an external fluid coupling element of a cold plate. The fluid coupling element is movable (M1), in a housing of the connecting plate, with respect to the passage channel of the connecting plate for misalignment compensation of the fluid coupling element while being in fluid communication with the passage channel. This connection plug also includes a support member (22) able to be fixed with respect to an internal channel (16) for a fluid communication between the internal channel and the passage channel. The connecting plate (18) is movable (M2) with respect to the support member (22) along a principal axis (T) transverse to the central axis (X46) of the passage channel (46).Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: STAUBLI FAVERGESInventors: Alain-Christophe Tiberghien, Christophe Durieux, Frederic Morel
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Patent number: 10274999Abstract: A water-cooling device includes a liquid reservoir main body having a heat exchange chamber, a pump having a stator and a rotor and a heat exchange component connected with the liquid reservoir main body. The heat exchange chamber is for a cooling liquid to pass through. The rotor is connected with an impeller and exposed to the cooling liquid in the heat exchange chamber. The stator is integrally embedded in the liquid reservoir main body by embedded injection molding. The stator is isolated from the heat exchange chamber. According to the design of the water-cooling device, the structural strength of the liquid reservoir main body is enhanced and a waterproof effect for the stator is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian-Wu Yin, Rong-Xian Zhang
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Patent number: 10274264Abstract: A system for cooling a device includes a heat sink comprising a substrate having a plurality of fins arranged thereon, a fan positioned to direct an ambient fluid in a first direction across the heat sink, and a first synthetic jet assembly comprising one of a multi-orifice synthetic jet and a plurality of single orifice synthetic jets. The first synthetic jet assembly is configured to direct the ambient fluid in a second direction across the heat sink, wherein the second direction is approximately perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mehmet Arik, Yogen Vishwas Utturkar
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Patent number: 10274263Abstract: A system for cooling a device includes a heat sink comprising a substrate having a plurality of fins arranged thereon, a fan positioned to direct an ambient fluid in a first direction across the heat sink, and a first synthetic jet assembly comprising one of a multi-orifice synthetic jet and a plurality of single orifice synthetic jets. The first synthetic jet assembly is configured to direct the ambient fluid in a second direction across the heat sink, wherein the second direction is approximately perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mehmet Arik, Yogen Vishwas Utturkar
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Patent number: 10240515Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular a supercharging air cooler for a motor vehicle engine, comprises a housing (11) provided with a heat exchange bundle (3), a collector (13) of a cooling liquid circulating in the heat exchange bundle (3), and a collector plate (15) forming a side wall of the heat exchanger housing (11) and of the cooling liquid collector (13). The collector plate (15) is provided with orifices (27) communicating with the cooling liquid circulation pipes of the bundle (3). The collector plate (15) comprises a flat connecting part (33a, 35a) fixed to the cooling liquid collector (13) opposite edges of the orifices (27). The flat connecting part (33a, 35a) is contiguous to at least one of the edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Nicolas Vallee, Yoann Naudin
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Patent number: 10240803Abstract: A computer room air conditioner (CRAC) unit includes a housing having an inlet configured to receive IT air and an outlet configured to exhaust treated air. The CRAC unit further includes a heat exchanger supported by the housing and disposed between the inlet and the outlet of the housing and at least one fan module supported by the housing. The at least one fan module is configured to draw IT air into the housing through the inlet, direct IT air through the heat exchanger, and exhaust treated air through the outlet. The CRAC unit further includes an airfoil frame secured to the housing at the inlet of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventor: Daniele Marchetti
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Patent number: 10239165Abstract: Disclosed herein is an eyebrow coil jacket, a heat control apparatus of a reactor using the eyebrow coil jacket, and a method for manufacturing the heat control apparatus of the reactor. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an eyebrow coil jacket that is capable of increasing the heat control area of the reactor even when applied to a large-sized reactor so that a heat control amount of the heat control apparatus is improved 20% more than when a half pipe coil is used, a heat control apparatus of a reactor using the eyebrow coil jacket, and a method for manufacturing the heat control apparatus of the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Kyou Ha, Suk Soo Lim, Tae Jung Kim, Jin Kee Lim, Kyung Hyun Kim, Kyung Won Ryu, Joong Chul Lom
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Patent number: 10222106Abstract: A condenser having passages of varying geometry for cooling of fluid. The condenser apparatus includes substantially parallel tubes each defining a channel and having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, the first end having a greater hydraulic diameter than the second end. Inlet and outlet manifolds are provided. The tubes may be oriented substantially vertically with the inlets above the respective outlets. A heat exchanger core comprises the tubes and substantially horizontally oriented fin material connecting the tubes. The tubes may receive a relatively higher temperature vapor or vapor and liquid mixture into the inlets of the tubes, around the tubes coolant flows substantially horizontally to remove heat from the tubes, and relatively cooler saturated liquid is discharged from the outlets. In one embodiment, the tube's channel splits into multiple channels to reduce the hydraulic diameter and increase the surface area ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Charles Edward Kusuda, Arun Muley
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Patent number: 10225952Abstract: A first fluid is heated in a preheating section and passes into an evaporator coupled to a first electronic component. Operational heat from the first electronic component vaporizes the first fluid. A second fluid passes into a cold plate coupled to a second electronic component. Operational heat from the second electronic component heats the second fluid. First and second portions of the second fluid output from the cold plate pass through first and second routes, respectively. The first portion becomes thermally coupled to the preheating section and the second portion bypasses the preheating section. Heat transfer from the first portion to the preheating section causes the heating of the first fluid in the preheating section.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Timothy J. Chainer, Pritish R. Parida
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Patent number: 10215502Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a block for separately conducting first and second fluids, and a box. The block may have flat tubes through which the first fluid is flowable and each of which may have a narrow tube side and a wide tube side. The box may have a base, the flat tubes being guided into the base via corresponding through-openings in the base. Each through-opening may have at least one raised edge, with at least one narrow edge side and at least one wide edge side, surrounding the corresponding flat tube. The wide edge side may be higher than the narrow edge side. The two may transition into one another via an inclination with a recess that may have a height lower than that of the narrow edge side. A contact surface edge may have a height lower at the recess than at the narrow edge side.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Juergen Kaiser, Boris Kerler, Alexander Meiser, Wael Nassar, Martin Paarmann
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Patent number: 10215497Abstract: A heat exchanger including a stacking block, including: a first plate surface; a second plate surface opposite to the first plate surface; and first and second flow path plates including respective plural first and second through holes that have a standard shape. The first through holes are arranged to line up in a standard array pattern in a first direction in which a first flow path causes a first fluid to flow. The second through holes are arranged in the first direction in the same standard array pattern as the first through holes. Each of the first through holes have an area with a same overlap with the second through holes positioned on both sides of the first through holes, in the first direction. The first flow path is formed by the first and second through holes being mutually joined in the first direction, in the areas of overlap.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Noishiki, Yohei Kubo, Sayaka Yamada
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Patent number: 10215505Abstract: A heat transfer plate and a plate heat exchanger are provided. The heat transfer plate includes an edge portion extending along an edge of the heat transfer plate and being corrugated so as to include alternately arranged ridges and valleys as seen from a first side of the heat transfer plate. The ridges and valleys extend perpendicularly to the edge of the heat transfer plate, a first one of the ridges having a top portion extending in a top portion plane, and a first one of the valleys, which is adjacent to the first ridge, having a bottom portion extending in a bottom portion plane. The top portion of the first ridge and the bottom portion of the first valley are connected by a main flank and end, just like the main flank, at an end distance from the edge of the heat transfer plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE ABInventor: Fredrik Blomgren
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Patent number: 10212858Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow server fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves utilizing a raised sub-floor design of a data center room.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLCInventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison
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Patent number: 10208714Abstract: A heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first medium and a second medium has a body comprising a pair of header plates, a pair of distribution plates, and a pair of case body lateral panels. Input and output header plates have a plurality of orifices, with a flow path assembly extending between each input header plate orifice and the corresponding output header plate orifice. Each flow path assembly includes at least one chamber assembly, having a corresponding medium directing component, disposed between a pair of tubular segments. Input and output distribution plates have a plurality of orifices. A first medium inlet side tank engages with the input header, a first medium output side tank engages with the output header plate, a second medium inlet side tank engages with the input distribution plate, and a second medium output side tank engages with the output distribution plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: MIKUTAY CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Nitta, Takeyoshi Nitta
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Patent number: 10209013Abstract: A distributor for use in a vapor compression system includes an enclosure configured to be positioned in a heat exchanger having a tube bundle including a plurality of tubes extending substantially horizontally in the heat exchanger. At least one distribution device formed in an end of the enclosure positioned to face the tube bundle, the at least one distribution device configured to apply a fluid entering the distributor onto the tube bundle. The enclosure has an aspect ratio between about ½:1 and about 10:1.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Jeb W Schreiber, Justin P Kauffman, Michel Oskamroux
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Patent number: 10212859Abstract: A cooling mechanism of high mounting flexibility includes a heat sink including a heat sink body defining an accommodation portion and position-limit sliding grooves and stop blocks fastened to the heat sink body, heat pipes positioned in the position-limit sliding grooves and stopped against the stop blocks, each heat pipe having a hot interface accommodated in the accommodation portion and an opposing cold interface positioned in one position-limit sliding groove, heat transfer blocks each defining a recessed insertion passage for accommodating the hot interfaces of the heat pipes and an opposing planar contact surface for the contact of a heat source of an external circuit board, and an elastic member elastically positioned between the heat sink and the heat transfer blocks.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: ADLINK TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Hsiu-Ling Yu, Hsuan-Chan Chiang
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Patent number: 10203159Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of first and second fluid passages defined by a pair of opposing first fluid passage walls and a plurality of first fluid diverters disposed between the first fluid passages walls. The second fluid passages are defined by a pair of opposing second fluid passage walls and a plurality of second fluid diverters disposed between the second fluid passage walls. An ejector is integrated into the heat exchanger assembly. The ejector includes: an integral ejector passage, wherein the integral ejector passage is a first fluid passage; a primary inlet configured to receive a hot fluid; an outlet nozzle configured to eject the hot fluid; a secondary inlet configured to receive a cold fluid, wherein the secondary inlet is in fluid communication with a second fluid passage; and a mixing section in fluid communication with the outlet nozzle and the secondary inlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Michael Zager, Roberto J. Perez, Michael Doe
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Patent number: 10202017Abstract: In this vehicular air-conditioning device, an inner wall surface along a width direction of an air-conditioning casing is provided with guide portions each extending in a vertical direction. The guide portions are recessed on the outside in the width direction, forming recesses with respect to the inner wall surface. When an evaporator is inserted from above the air-conditioning casing and assembled inside, second seal portions of side plates disposed on side surfaces of the evaporator are respectively inserted into the guide portions, whereby the evaporator is guided along the vertical direction. The guide portions further include an entry portion disposed at an upper end portion of a first guide wall and expanding in a direction away from a second guide wall. Thus, the evaporator can be inserted into the air-conditioning casing from above in a preferable manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya Chiba
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Patent number: 10087813Abstract: A heat exchanger allows efficient heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid which flows inside the heat exchanger. A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger main body housed inside a case where a first fluid flows and which houses a second fluid therein. The heat exchanger main body has a plurality of first passages such that the first fluid flows across the inside of the heat exchanger main body. In a side view from one direction, the heat exchanger main body has a shape that is left-right symmetric about the central axis of the case and of which the upstream side protrudes farther in the upstream direction toward the center. The first passages extend parallel to the central axis of the case, and are formed to be longer as they are disposed closer to the center of the heat exchanger main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirohisa Okami, Hisayuki Kato