Patents Examined by Leonard Leo
  • Patent number: 6223814
    Abstract: Heatsink structures for integrated circuit chips, chip packages, printed wiring boards and the like are disclosed. The heatsink structures according to the present invention have thin flexible cooling fins which move and vibrate under the flow of a cooling fluid. In one embodiment, the fins comprise a thin metal film, such as copper or aluminum, which is laminated to a thin polymeric layer. The polymeric layer provides resilience and elasticity to the metal film and the cooling fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Larry L. Moresco, Vivek Mansingh
  • Patent number: 6216773
    Abstract: An evaporator (20) of the stacked plate, straight flow type achieves multi pass flow while locating the inlet (28) and outlet (30) adjacent to one another, without the use of embedded inlet or outlet pipes, and with only two basic plate shapes. A standard plate (32), included in all plate pairs but for the last plate pair at the far end, has a pair of identical protruding cups (34, 36), one of which (34) is open to the flow tube formed by the pair of facing plates, and the other of which, (36) is discrete from both the flow tube and the other cup (34). When stacked and aligned, the main cups (34) make up a header pipe (48) that is open to the flow tubes, one at both the top and bottom. Each header pipe (48) is adjacent to an entirely discrete transfer pipe (50). A next to last special plate (40) has an identical pair of cups (34, 36) at the bottom end, but a single, wider cross over cup (42) at the top end, which is open to the header pipe (48) and transfer pipe (50) a the top side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven R. Falta
  • Patent number: 6213196
    Abstract: A double heat exchanger for a vehicle air conditioner combining a condenser and a radiator has a corrugated condenser fin and a corrugated radiator fin integrally formed and having the same fin pitch. Each of the condenser and radiator fins has plural upper folds, plural lower folds and plural wall portions each of which connects one of the upper folds and one of the lower folds next to each other. An inclination angle of each of the wall portions of the condenser fin is made different from that of each of the wall portions of the radiator fin. As a result, a height of the condenser fin becomes different from that of the radiator fin while maintaining a radius of curvature of each of the upper and lower folds of the condenser fin equal to that of each of the upper and lower folds of the radiator fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Ozaki, Takaaki Sakane, Kenichi Kachi
  • Patent number: 6209628
    Abstract: A ratio (Nc/Lc), in a condenser core portion, of the number of louvers to a width of a condenser cooling fin, and a ratio (Nr/Lr), in a radiator core portion, of the number of louvers to a width of a radiator cooling fin satisfy that the ratio in one core portion, out of the condenser and the radiator core portions, a required radiation amount of which is larger than that of the other core portion is larger than the ratio in the other core portion. Thus, in the core portion having a small required radiation amount, the number of louvers relative to the width of the cooling fin is small thereby decreasing the heat transfer ratio. However, by this, the air flow resistance in this core portion decreases thereby increasing an air flow amount. Thus, the radiation amount of the core portion of which required radiation amount is large increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Sugimoto, Shinobu Suzuki, Takaaki Sakane, Yasutoshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 6209202
    Abstract: A folded tube and method of making the same for a heat exchanger includes a base, a top spaced from and opposing the base, a first side interposed between the base and the top along one side thereof, and a second side interposed between the base and the top along another side thereof. The folded tube includes at least one of the base and the top having at least one internal web having an initial web height and being compressed to extend the at least one internal web to a final web height greater than the initial web height and defining a plurality of fluid ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene E. Rhodes, Greg Whitlow, Wen F Yu
  • Patent number: 6206086
    Abstract: A multi-pass tubeside shell and tube heat exchanger comprises: a shell having flanged ends; a removable tube bundle having a fixed tubesheet at one end and a floating tube sheet at the opposite end; a false tube sheet bolted to the floating tubesheet and having a passage hole aligned with each tube in the floating tubesheet to direct the flow of tube fluid; and a bonnet having a flange bolted to the outer portion of the false tubesheet. The use of the false tubesheet and attachment of the bonnet to the outer portion thereof maximizes available tube space. With the removal of the bonnet, and the false tubesheet, the bundle can be conveniently removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: R. P. Adams Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Paul M. McKey
  • Patent number: 6202737
    Abstract: The invention concerns a heat exchanger assembly for a motor vehicle comprising a main exchanger with a body mounted between two manifolds, whereto is assembled at least a secondary exchanger mounted between two manifolds such that a common air stream (F) can pass through the respective exchanger bodies. Each of the main exchanger manifolds is provided, at one end, with a projecting base forming a housing for a pin of the second exchanger, and at another end, with a projecting lug whereon can be locked a clip removably fitted on the secondary exchanger. Another secondary exchanger can be assembled in the same manner on the secondary exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Valeo Thermique Moteur
    Inventor: Christian Mahe
  • Patent number: 6202738
    Abstract: An assembled structure of laminate plates, wherein a plurality of spaces exists between peripheries of the laminated plates. Thus, the outer surface of the structure is enlarged for improved radiation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Minebea Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Tanaka, Katsuyuki Moritsugi
  • Patent number: 6199623
    Abstract: A tissue chuck for use with a chuck holder for preparing a tissue sample for sectioning in a cryostat or the like, includes a base, having a tissue mounting surface and a heat transfer surface, and a plurality of fins for transferring heat from the heat transfer surface. Each fin terminates in a fin end, and each fin end is in spaced relation to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventor: James W. Franks
  • Patent number: 6196301
    Abstract: A device for injecting pressurized fluids into a multiplate heat exchanger, comprising a leaktight chamber (2) provided with an arrangement for feeding and discharging a first pressurized fluid, a plate pack (1) placed in the chamber (2) and including channels for the flow of this first fluid mixed with a second pressurized fluid, and at least one nozzle (21) for injecting the second fluid. The nozzle (21) is connected to a pipe (22) for feeding the second fluid and to a pipe (24) for discharging the particles deposited on a filter unit placed inside the nozzle (21) downstream of the point where the two pipes (22, 24) join the nozzle (21) with respect to the direction of flow of the second fluid. The invention also relates to a method for cleaning such an injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Packinox
    Inventor: Dominique Sabin
  • Patent number: 6196306
    Abstract: A side refrigerant outlet passage and a side refrigerant inlet passage are provided between first and second protruding portions of a side plate and an end plate, which are joined to one another. The side plate has base portions protruding in an opposite direction of the end plate, and a pipe joint including an outlet pipe and an inlet pipe is joined to the base portions of the side plate. Accordingly, a strength of joining portions between the side pate and the pipe joint is improved, and simultaneously processing cost of the pipe joint is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yasukazu Aikawa, Tomohiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6196300
    Abstract: A heat sink comprising a conductive plate (1) to be applied onto the surface to be cooled, the thickness of which gradually increases from the edges (4) towards a central portion (5) according to a curvilinear profile (6) having an upwardly turned concavity, so that an air flow hitting the plate is deflected towards its edges with a substantially horizontal outlet direction. The conductive plate (1) has preferably arranged thereon a plurality of cooling fins (7) extending in a substantially radial way from the central portion (5) to the edges (4) of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Maurizio Checchetti
  • Patent number: 6192583
    Abstract: A heat exchanger tube is composed of a metal outer tube having an inner profile and a metal inner tube having an outer profile, wherein the profiles are in an undercut engagement with each other so that the inner and outer tubes are in rigid abutment and at least one longitudinal channel, formed between the outer tube and the inner tube is provided for leak detection and the heat exchanger tube may be manufactured by designing the profile so that the inner and outer tubes may be screwed or slid into one another to provide a rigidly abutting configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Spiro Research B.V.
    Inventor: Franciscus Roffelsen
  • Patent number: 6189491
    Abstract: A steam generator which is both suitable for a horizontal mode of construction and offers the advantages of a continuous steam generator. According to the invention, a steam generator has at least one continuous heating surface disposed in a duct where hot gas circulates in a substantially horizontal direction. The heating surface consists of a plurality of parallel and almost vertical pipes which are used to circulate a fluid, and is configured in such a way that the fluid circulating in a tube heated to a greater temperature than the following tube of the same continuous heating surface has a higher flow rate than the fluid circulating in the following tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 6189603
    Abstract: A double heat exchanger includes a radiator having a radiator tank and a radiator core portion, and a condenser having a condenser tank and a condenser core portion. The radiator tank and the condenser tank are integrally connected by a connection portion protruding from the radiator and the condenser tanks toward the radiator and condenser core portions. Therefore, the connection portion is cooled by air passing through the radiator and condenser core portions. Thus, the connection portion restricts heat from the radiator tank from being transmitted to the condenser tank through the connection portion, thereby preventing heat-exchanging capacity of the condenser from being decreased in the double heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Sugimoto, Norihisa Sasano, Satomi Muto, Takaaki Sakane, Etuo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6186221
    Abstract: A combined cycle system has a gas turbine for generating an exhaust gas stream and a heat recovery steam generator with a housing for defining a horizontal exhaust gas flow path for the exhaust gas stream. Positioned within the housing is a heat recovery assembly having vertical rows of horizontally oriented heat transfer tubes transverse to the direction of gas flow and spaced apart in the direction of the gas flow path. The heat transfer tubes are supported by a plurality of vertical support plate assemblies oriented parallel to the exhaust flow path. Each support plate assembly has a plurality of coplanar support plate segments, each support plate segment supporting less than three rows of heat transfer tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond L. Beauregard, Thomas P. Mastronarde
  • Patent number: 6176303
    Abstract: A radiator includes a plurality of flat tubes in which refrigerant flows, corrugated fins each of which is disposed between adjacent the flat tubes, and a header tank disposed at both end sides of each flat tube in a longitudinal direction of the flat tubes. A plurality of insertion holes into which the flat tubes are inserted are formed in a tank portion of the header tank, and each of the insertion holes has a hole width approximately equal to a tank width of the header tank in a width direction perpendicular to both of the longitudinal direction of the flat tubes and an extending direction of the header tank. The tank portion of the header tank is integrally formed from extruding or drawing, and the insertion holes are formed by shaving the tank portion after the extruding or drawing. Thus, the insertion holes can be readily provided in the tank portion integrally formed from the extruding or the drawing, and pressure tightness and manufacturing workability of the header tank can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Ken Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6173493
    Abstract: A modular heat exchanger includes a plurality of tubular modules formed from an aluminum extrusion. Each extruded tube has a generally rectangular cross section, a through bore extending longitudinally therethrough between parallel opposite faces, and parallel longitudinal V-grooves in the faces, all formed in the extrusion process. Each face includes a plurality of parallel fins which are cut into the grooved face in a direction transverse to the grooves. The fins have a generally saw tooth structure so as to increase the turbulence of the air flow through the heat exchanger. Unslotted end faces on the tubes include groove portions which are filled with weld material in both the tube joining process and the end tank welding process, thereby providing an all-welded aluminum heat exchanger of substantially enhanced strength. In another embodiment utilizing an all-welded construction, extended unslotted end faces are cross bored and sealed to provide fluid supply in lieu of the end tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Inventor: Robert F. Dierbeck
  • Patent number: 6170565
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising tubes (4) for configuring a first heat exchanger (A) and tubes (5) for configuring a second heat exchanger (B), the tubes (4) and (5) being disposed upstream and down stream of a direction that air is flown, fins (6) disposed between the tubes (4), (5), and ends of the respective tubes (4), (5) connected into the respective tanks (2), (3), wherein the fins (6) have louvers (7A), (7B), which are formed into a group of louvers (7A), (7A) formed on the fins disposed in the first heat exchanger (A) and a group of louvers (7B), (7B) formed on the fins disposed in the second heat exchanger (B), these two groups having a different shape of louvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Kunihiko Nishishita
  • Patent number: 6164371
    Abstract: The present invention constitutes a plate heat exchanger for three heat exchanging fluids. The heat exchanger includes at least one core of plates with heat exchanging plates (1-4), at least two end plates (5) and inlets and outlets (6) for the heat exchanging fluids, each one of the heat exchanging plates (1-4) being provided with six port holes (11-16). The plate heat exchanger has port holes (11-16) that are pairwise aimed for the flowing through of the respective heat exchanging fluids where the port holes (11-16) in every such pair are situated on both sides of a heat transferring part in such a way that a straight line drawn between the centers of the port holes (11-16) divides the heat transferring part into two similar parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Alfa Laval AB
    Inventors: Klas Bertilsson, Ralf Blomgren, Ingvar Lindholm, Claes Stenhede