Patents Examined by Jose O Class-Quinones
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Patent number: 10827647Abstract: The invention provides a liquid-cooling device, including a shell, wherein the shell includes a top plate, a bottom plate, a front plate, a rear plate and two opposite side plates, and form an accommodating space. At least one water inlet pipe is disposed on the top plate of the shell and communicates with the accommodating space. At least one water outlet pipe is disposed on the front plate of the shell and communicates with the accommodating space. A plurality of heat-dissipating fins is disposed in the accommodating space. A partition plate is disposed in the accommodating space. The partition plate forms at least two flow passages in the accommodating space.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Shi-Wen Lin, Tsung-Ching Lin, Wei-Chi Liu
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Patent number: 10808592Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle is provided to improve fuel efficiency by implementing an integrated structure of exhaust gas heat recovery function and thermoelectric generation function. The heat exchanger allows exhaust gas that is flowed into the heat exchange generator in the cold start mode of the vehicle to pass through the exhaust gas heat recovery component side and thermoelectric generation component side. Therefore, the temperature of the coolant rapidly increases, thereby reducing the engine warm-up time, and electricity is generated through thermoelectric module, thereby maximizing the fuel efficiency improvement.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jong Ho Seon, Kwang Min Choi, Byung Wook Kim, Hoo Dam Lee, Jin Woo Kwak, Ho Chan An
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Patent number: 10801781Abstract: A tube for use in a heat exchanger including a base portion, an upper portion spaced from and opposing the base portion, and a partitioning wall extending between the base portion and the upper portion to divide a hollow interior of the tube into a first flow channel and a second flow channel. The partitioning wall includes a plurality of windows spaced from each other in a longitudinal direction of the tube to provide fluid communication between the first flow channel and the second flow channel. At least one of the windows includes a tabbed portion of the partitioning wall bent to extend into one of the first flow channel or the second flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Orest Alexandru Dziubinschi, Brennan Sicks, James Smitterberg, Greg Whitlow
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Patent number: 10793778Abstract: A cooler for cooling product pursuant to a distillation process, including a first substantially enclosed housing with an inlet proximate a first end for receiving product from a distillation unit, and an outlet proximate a second end for discharging cooled product, and a first auger substantially enclosed within the housing for driving the product from the inlet to the outlet, the auger having a helical blade circumscribing a perforated central hollow shaft for transmitting cooled gas into the housing to help cool product within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION, INC.Inventors: Roy W. Hill, Jerry Scott Long, Tracy Thompson
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Patent number: 10788273Abstract: Shell-and-tube equipment includes baffles supporting the tubes, each baffle having seats for receiving the tubes shaped so as to receive one or more tubes in at least one free play condition and in a locking condition; each baffle is displaceable with respect to the tube bundle between an assembly position and a working position; in the assembly position the tubes can be received by the baffles in the free play condition while in the working position the tubes are locked.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Casale SAInventor: Enrico Rizzi
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Patent number: 10782079Abstract: A three-dimensional pulsating heat pipe includes a pipe member and a connecting member. The pipe member is coiled around an axis to form a plurality of loop portions, and the loop portions are arranged in order along the axis so as to form a three-dimensional coiled structure. The three-dimensional coiled structure has a heat receiving section, and the pipe member has different effective pipe cross-sectional areas on two opposite sides adjacent to the heat receiving section. The connecting member is connected to two ends of the pipe member, such that the connecting member and the pipe member together form a closed loop.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Chih-Yung Tseng, Kai-Shing Yang, Shih-Kuo Wu
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Patent number: 10782074Abstract: A heat exchanger includes one or more hot medium flow regions and one or more cooling medium flow regions. Hot medium bars border the one or more hot medium flow regions and cooling medium bars border the one or more cooling medium flow regions. At least one cooling medium bar of the cooling medium bars is joined to a pair of partition sheets. The at least one cooling medium bar includes a base, a first leg, and a second leg. The first leg and the second leg each extend from the base. A cavity is provided between the first leg and the second leg. The cavity is in fluid communication with a first cooling medium flow region of the one or more cooling medium flow regions via an opening provided between the first leg and the second leg.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: API Heat Transfer, Inc.Inventors: Ian T. Miller, Nathan L. Sieger
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Patent number: 10775106Abstract: The invention relates to a device for heat exchange, in particular in a refrigerant circuit, with at least one first flow path and at least one second flow path, which, in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the device, are disposed coaxially with respect to one another, and each of which comprises at least one flow channel. The device is realized of a synthetic material.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Petr Czyz, Petr Daniel, Radim Cech, Peter Heyl
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Patent number: 10731927Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange section and a second heat exchange section that includes a refrigerant flow path independent of the first heat exchange section. Each of the first and second heat exchange sections includes a fixed support supporting heat transfer plates from one end side in an arrangement direction, and a moving support supporting the heat transfer plates at a first support position on the other end side of the arrangement direction. The moving support is moved from the first support position to a retracted position separated in the arrangement direction to form a first removal region between the first support position and a second retracted position, and the heat transfer plates are removed through the first removal region. The first removal region and the second removal region of the second heat exchange section are overlapped with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Tomoaki Takeda
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Patent number: 10712098Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes a first loop heat pipe including a first evaporator, a first condenser, a first liquid pipe, and a first vapor pipe forming a first loop together with the first liquid pipe, a second loop heat pipe including a second evaporator, a second condenser, a second liquid pipe, and a second vapor pipe forming a second loop together with the second liquid pipe, and a connecting part to connect the first condenser and the second evaporator. The first loop and the second loop are separate and independent from each other. The first loop heat pipe, the second loop heat pipe, and the connecting part are integrally formed by a metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Nobuyuki Kurashima
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Patent number: 10704842Abstract: An end tab for a heat exchanger frame includes a plate, an end, an expansion portion, and a bent portion. The plate has a first width, and the end has a second width larger than the first width. The expansion portion increases the width from the first width to the second width. The bent portion connects the plate and the end and includes at least one window.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yilin Tian
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Patent number: 10697703Abstract: A multiple-stacked marine heat exchanger for cooling at least one heat source in a marine vessel having an upper marine heat exchanger with a forward beveled end and upper coolant flow tubes connected thereto, a lower marine exchanger having a forward beveled end which converges with the forward beveled end of the upper marine heat exchanger and lower coolant flow tubes connected thereto, and an ambient water passageway extending through each pair of stacked marine heat exchangers in the multi-stacked marine heat exchanger. In one situation, the beveled ends cooperate to form a stagnant pressure region near the entrance to the ambient water passageway to create an increase in pressure at the entrance to create jets of turbulent water flowing through the passageway to break up the laminar boundary layer and increase heat transfer from the coolant flow tubes.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Duramax Marine, LLCInventors: Frank E. Horvat, Joseph H. Andulics
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Patent number: 10690333Abstract: Disclosed are a heat dissipating frame structure having higher heat dissipation efficiency than the prior arts and a fabricating method thereof. Namely, the heat dissipating frame structure comprises a metal plate assembly, a part of which contacting with a heating element, and a plastic composition combined with the metal plate assembly to through the metal plate assembly receive the heat generated from the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: MENTOR TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Li Fu Chen
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Patent number: 10690389Abstract: A CO2 refrigeration system for an ice-playing surface comprises an evaporation stage in which heat is absorbed from an ice-playing surface. CO2 compressors in a compression stage compress CO2 refrigerant subcritically and transcritically. A gas cooling stage has a plurality of heat-reclaim units reclaiming heat from the CO2 refrigerant. A pressure-regulating device is downstream of the gas cooling stage, to control a pressure of the CO2 refrigerant in the gas cooling stage. A reservoir is downstream of the pressure-regulating device for receiving CO2 refrigerant in a liquid state. A controller operates the pressure-regulating device to control the pressure of the CO2 refrigerant in the gas cooling stage as a function of the heat demand of the plurality of heat-reclaim units, the controller causing the pressure of the CO2 refrigerant to reach a transcritical level as a function of a heat demand of the plurality of heat-reclaim units.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: TOROMONT INDUSTRIES LTDInventor: Serge Dube
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Patent number: 10681841Abstract: A water-cooling heat dissipation device suitable for computer includes a pump housing, an upper cover, a motor module and a heat exchange member. The pump housing forms a pump chamber. A side of the upper cover has at least one positioning portion. A side of the motor module has at least one assembly portion that is correspondingly disposed with respect to the positioning portion. A stator set is received in the interior of the motor module. The heat exchange member is correspondingly combined with the pump housing. The heat exchange member forms a heat exchange chamber, and the heat exchange chamber is in communication with the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: EVGA CORPORATIONInventor: Tai-Sheng Han
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Patent number: 10670309Abstract: A thermo-magnetic cooling system and an electronic apparatus including the thermo-magnetic cooling system are described. The thermo-magnetic cooling system includes a heat source and a liquid cooling device. Heat emitted from the heat source is transferred to the liquid cooling device and fluid circulates in the liquid cooling device to dissipate heat. The fluid is a magnetic fluid that can be magnetized and demagnetized. A part of the liquid cooling device is provided with an external magnetic field so as to magnetize the magnetic fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiao He
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Patent number: 10652993Abstract: A thermoelectric cooling system includes at least one thermoelectric cooling module and an electronic circuit. The at least one thermoelectric cooling module is arranged in at least one zone. The electronic circuit is electrically coupled to at least one of the thermoelectric cooling modules. Each of the thermoelectric cooling modules includes a first plate, a sink, a plurality of thermoelectric elements, and a second plate. The thermoelectric elements are coupled to the first plate and the second plate. The first plate is arranged to be thermally coupled to a first surface. The sink is arranged to be thermally coupled to an environment and is configured to dissipate heat by evaporating a liquid from the sink to the environment. The second plate is arranged to be thermally coupled to the sink.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.Inventor: Joshua E. Moczygemba
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Patent number: 10648744Abstract: Heat transfer devices and methods for enclosing a heat source and facilitating convective heat transfer from the heat source. A heat transfer device includes an outer wall having an outer surface exposed to an environment of the heat transfer device and defining an outer shape of the heat transfer device, and an inner wall defining a flow passage through the heat transfer device. The outer wall and the inner wall collectively define an internal volume that is configured to house the heat source. The flow passage includes an inlet configured to receive a fluid from the environment, and an outlet configured to exhaust the fluid from the flow passage that includes a core region extending between the inlet and the outlet and configured to deliver the fluid from the inlet to the outlet and allow heat to exchange between the fluid within the core region and the internal volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Christopher C. Veto, Ernest E. Bunch
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Patent number: 10608305Abstract: A counterflow heat exchanger for battery thermal management has a base plate, a cover plate and manifold cover. The base plate includes alternating first and second longitudinal fluid flow passages. The cover plate is sealed to the base plate to enclose the first and second fluid flow passages, and includes a first fluid opening and a plurality of second fluid openings arranged at spaced apart intervals across a width of the cover plate. The manifold cover includes an embossment surrounded by a peripheral flange which is sealed to the cover plate and surrounds at least the plurality of second fluid openings. The interior of the embossment defines a manifold chamber in flow communication with the second fluid openings in the cover plate. The top of the manifold cover has at least a second fluid opening in flow communication with the plurality of second fluid openings through the manifold chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Dana Canada CorporationInventors: John G. Burgers, Benjamin A. Kenney
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Patent number: 10598443Abstract: Embodiments of a thermal management system are provided herein. In some embodiments, a thermal management system may include a base plate; and a plurality of three dimensional fins coupled to the base, wherein each of the plurality of three dimensional fins comprises a first portion extending away from the base in a first direction and a second a portion extending away from the first portion in a second direction different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Karthik Kumar Bodla, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock