Patents Examined by Jose O Class-Quinones
  • Patent number: 11262140
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a heat sink body having a plurality of stacked fins and a mounting base including a heat dissipation plate. A first surface of the heat dissipation plate is connected to a lower portion of the heat sink body. A protrusion protruding away from the heat sink body is disposed on a portion of a second surface of the heat dissipation plate opposite to the first surface. The protrusion is formed by stamping or bending the heat dissipation plate away from the heat sink body from the first surface of the heat dissipation plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Tyco Electronics AMP Guangdong Ltd.
    Inventors: WenYu Liu, Hongqiang Han, Jinsheng Lai, Yan Lee, Lei Liu
  • Patent number: 11248852
    Abstract: A system may include a thermal source, a thermal sink and heat-rejecting media comprising a thermal cable, the thermal cable comprising a main length comprising a flexible graphite layer rolled into a cylindrical shape covered on the outside thereof by a thermally-insulating layer of the same cylindrical shape, a first termination at which the flexible graphite layer thermally couples to the thermal source, and a second termination at which the flexible graphite layer thermally couples to the thermal sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Travis C. North
  • Patent number: 11236945
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core tube extending in a shell space, several tubes wound around the core tube, and a liquid distributor. The liquid distributor is arranged above the tubes in the shell space and applies a liquid phase of a first medium to the tubes. The liquid distributor has distributor arms projecting in the radial direction from the core tube, an annular channel extending above the distributor arms in a circumferential direction of the shell and a collector tank formed by the core tube. The annular channel and the collector tank are each designed to collect the first medium. The distributor arms form at least one first container and at least one second container separated from the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Heinz Bauer, Florian Deichsel, Marcus Lang, Juergen Spreemann, Manfred Steinbauer
  • Patent number: 11215408
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a heat conducting plate and a heat sink. The heat conducting plate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The heat sink is coupled to the first surface of the heat conducting plate. The heat sink includes a first peak portion, a second peak portion, a valley portion and a first curved surface. The first peak portion and the second peak portion are adjacent to each other. The valley portion is located between the first peak portion and the second peak portion. The first curved surface is coupled between the first peak portion and the valley portion. An extension line perpendicular to a corresponding tangent line of the first curved surface passes between the first peak portion and the second peak portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AVERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jui-Hung Kao, Yu-Chin Liu, Wen-Tse Yan
  • Patent number: 11209224
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed and includes a plate portion including a plurality of internal passages extending between an inlet and an outlet and at least one means for providing fluid communication between at least two of the plurality of internal passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wililam P. Stillman, Michael A. Disori, Dave J. Hyland, Carl R. Verner
  • Patent number: 11209223
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a stack of flow conduits. Each flow conduit is configured to conduct a fluid. Parting sheets separate adjacent flow conduits in the stack, providing heat transfer between them. Each of the flow conduits includes vanes extending along a vane path and between top and bottom parting sheets. The vanes are separated from one another, thereby creating flow channels. Each flow conduit also includes a plurality of flow modifiers, each adjacent to a corresponding leading edge of a corresponding vane, so as to cause a disrupted portion of a fluid flow to be incident upon the corresponding leading edge. Each of the flow modifiers includes an aerodynamic portion and a gap portion. The aerodynamic portion extends from at least one of the top and bottom parting sheets. The aerodynamic portion does not connect the top and bottom parting sheets due to the gap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Streeter, Roberto J. Perez
  • Patent number: 11209225
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a hollow heat exchanger main body that is enclosed in a radiant tube, and a heat conductor that is disposed on outer periphery of the heat exchanger main body. The heat exchanger performs heat exchange between a first gas flowing in between the radiant tube and the heat exchanger main body and a second gas flowing in hollow interior of the heat exchanger main body, and the heat exchanger comprises a turbulence flow generation promoting unit configured to promote generation of a turbulence flow from the first gas flowing in between the radiant tube and the heat exchanger main body, the turbulence flow generation promoting unit being disposed on the outer periphery of the heat exchanger main body without welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Iwata, Kazuaki Hara
  • Patent number: 11193684
    Abstract: Air conditioner units and methods for operating air conditioner units are provided. A method includes determining a benchmark control signal corresponding to a predetermined speed of a fan of the air conditioner unit. The method further includes activating a heating unit of the air conditioner unit. The heating unit includes a plurality of heater banks. The method also includes activating the fan while the heating unit is active and measuring a control signal to the fan after activating the fan. The method further includes comparing the measured control signal to the benchmark control signal, and disabling one of the plurality of heater banks when the measured control signal is less than the benchmark control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Scott Shaffer
  • Patent number: 11181323
    Abstract: An example heat-dissipating device with enhanced interfacial properties generally includes a first heat spreader configured to be thermally coupled to a region configured to generate heat, a second heat spreader, an interposer thermally coupled to at least one of the first heat spreader or the second heat spreader, at least one interfacial layer including a graphene material disposed on at least one surface of the interposer, and a phase change material disposed between the at least one interfacial layer and at least one of the first heat spreader or the second heat spreader and thermally coupled to at least one of the first heat spreader or the second heat spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean Charles Andrews, Jorge Luis Rosales, Victor Adrian Chiriac
  • Patent number: 11175102
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled cold plate for removing heat from a heat-generating component is disclosed. The liquid-cooled cold plate includes a lower heat transfer plate with a flat component contact surface constructed to make thermal contact with the heat-generating component, and a plurality of parallel turbulator channels, holding a plurality of turbulators, the channels having walls that extend away from the component contact surface. The liquid-cooled cold plate also includes a lid forming a liquid tight seal with the lower heat transfer plate. The lid has an inlet end with an inlet port in fluid connection with an inlet channel manifold that allows for fluid communication between the plurality of parallel turbulator channels and the inlet port. The lid also has an outlet end with an outlet port in fluid connection with an outlet channel manifold that allows for fluid communication between the plurality of parallel turbulator channels and the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Chilldyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Merrill Harrington, Carl Eugene Tedesco
  • Patent number: 11168948
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of plate-shaped fins disposed at intervals, and a plurality of heat transfer tubes disposed to be inserted into through holes of the fins in a direction perpendicular to the fins. In each of the fins, a starting hole is formed between adjacent through holes, and the starting hole serves as a start point of bending of the fins and has a vertex portion at a bending portion of each fin which is close to an edge thereof. In each of the fins, a cut is made to connect the other edge of the fin and a side of the starting hole which is located opposite to the vertex portion of the starting hole. The above each fin is bent at the vertex portion of the starting hole, by opening the cut from the starting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ugajin, Yusuke Adachi, Hiroaki Makino, Hiroshi Omura
  • Patent number: 11162721
    Abstract: A gas-liquid separation device for a vehicle includes: a housing of which an upper surface is opened and a lower surface is closed; a cover disposed on the upper surface of the housing, and the cover having an outlet disposed at a center region of the cover and an inlet disposed at a portion spaced apart from the center region; an exhaust pipe of which an upper end is connected to the outlet; a guide pipe having a cylinder shape with an upper surface opened and having a gas refrigerant flow space; a mounting cap disposed on the lower surface of the housing; and a refrigerant guider disposed on the cover inside the housing to prevent a liquid refrigerant from flowing into the gas refrigerant flow space among a refrigerant flowing into the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, DOOWON CLIMATE CONTROL CO., LTD., HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Wan Je Cho, Namho Park, Jae Yeon Kim, Yeon Ho Kim, Seoyoung Oh, Chul Min Kim, Young Chul Kim, Jae Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11165111
    Abstract: A thermal barrier to maintain the temperature of a battery. The barrier includes elements with respectively cold and hot PCM materials, and elements, thermal isolators, arranged at least in case of some between two of the PCM material elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Fabrice Chopard, Cédric Huillet, Fanny Geffray, Dragisa Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 11150034
    Abstract: A water-cooling radiator is disclosed, comprising a heat adsorption unit and a heat radiation unit, wherein the heat adsorption unit comprises an outer shell, a bottom shell, a water path cover plate and a heat adsorption soleplate which are successively connected from top to bottom; a liquid inlet pipe and a liquid outlet pipe both communicated with the heat radiation unit are arranged on the bottom shell, and a pump is arranged between the heat radiation unit and the liquid inlet pipe; a third water cavity is defined by the heat adsorption soleplate and the water path cover plate, a heat sink set arranged in the third water cavity and a first water passage hole extending in a direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the heat sink set. The novel water-cooling radiator of the disclosed can improve the heat radiation effect, and facilitate for mounting, connecting, and maintaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN BINGDIAN INTELLIGENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fengqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11150036
    Abstract: Air-cooled condensers and air-cooled condenser streets for condensing exhaust steam from a turbine are disclosed. An example air-cooled condenser street includes one or more rows of V-shaped heat exchangers. Each row includes a main steam manifold to introduce exhaust steam into tube bundles that are placed in an inclined position such that condensate formed in the bundles flows back by gravitation to the main steam manifold. Top steam manifolds are connected to the upper end of respectively each of the tube bundles of the air-cooled condenser street. The series of parallel top steam manifolds are forming a support assembly for supporting one or more fan decks. The fan decks support a plurality of fans to induce an air draft in the V-shaped heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SPG Dry Cooling Belgium
    Inventors: Francis Badin, Christophe Deleplanque, Michel Vouche
  • Patent number: 11149966
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing with air inlet and air outlet. A heat exchanger in the casing exchanges heat with air sucked through the air inlet, an air-sending fan blows the heat exchanged air through the air outlet, and a vertical air-directing plate in the air outlet sets a vertical air flow direction in which the heat exchanged air is blown. The casing has a front panel, a bottom panel, and a forward-facing panel connected to the bottom panel at an angle. The air outlet extends from the bottom panel to the forward-facing panel; a lower corner at which joins the bottom panel and an air-outlet side walk; and a forward-facing corner joins the forward-facing panel and the air-outlet side wall. The lower corner and the forward-facing corner each have an edge removed. A forward-facing corner edge-removal dimension smaller than a lower corner edge-removal dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Shishido, Mitsuhiro Shirota, Shogo Namatame
  • Patent number: 11125429
    Abstract: A finned heat sink, folded from a single piece of plate material, includes a base part and a plurality of fins. The base part includes a plurality of fin extensions and at least one support element. The support element includes bridging parts bridging the inter-fin distances, wherein the bridging parts comprise length reducing parts to thereby reduce those inter-fin distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Gwendolyn Anita Luiten, Mark Johannes Antonius Verhoeven, Patrick Zuidema, Joris Jan Vrehen
  • Patent number: 11118847
    Abstract: A finned heat exchanger tube, including a tube, a plurality of fins, and a plurality of outer casings. The tube includes an elongated hollow body having a wall. The plurality of fins is disposed on the wall of the tube along the longitudinal axis of the tube; the plurality of fins each includes a plurality of hollow protrusions, and corresponding hollow protrusions of the plurality of fins form a plurality of microchannels parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The plurality of outer casings encircles the plurality of fins, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI POWER EQUIPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Huang, Kaiyun Zheng
  • Patent number: 11110773
    Abstract: A seat air-conditioning device provided in a compartment of a vehicle that supplies air generated by a blower includes a pad wrapped in the skin and a ventilation sheet which is formed in a thin plate shape and supplies air to the seated passenger. An internal space is formed in the pad. The pad includes a seating side communication part that communicates the internal space with the seating surface of the skin, and a blower side communication portion that communicates the internal space with the blower. The ventilation sheet is disposed in the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Kawashima, Hironobu Murakami, Takahisa Fujii
  • Patent number: 11104201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-zone air conditioning system for vehicles (1) with several air conditioning zones (2), in particular for buses, characterized thereby that an air temperature control unit (3) is implemented to generate simultaneously warm air and cold air, wherein the cold air across a cold air duct (5) and the warm air across a warm air duct (6) extend separated from one another as a double conduit over the length of the vehicle (1) and that decentralized air mixing units (4) with at least one air outlet (20) are disposed along the double conduit and that the air outlets (20) are assigned to the air conditioning zones (2) of the vehicle (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Martin Hötzel, Gerald Richter, Tobias Haas, Martin Schulze