Patents Examined by Leonard R. Leo
  • Patent number: 11085707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal heat exchanger double-tube structure of an air conditioning system having an alternative refrigerant applied thereto for heat exchange between a low-temperature low-pressure refrigerant discharged from an evaporator and a high-temperature high-pressure refrigerant discharged from an condenser, the double-tube structure including: an inner pipe having a channel through which the low-temperature low-pressure refrigerant discharged from the evaporator flows; and an outer pipe surrounding the inner pipe and having a channel through which high-temperature high-pressure refrigerant flows, wherein the inner pipe has a spiral groove forming a channel on an outer side thereof, and the spiral groove is a recessed groove for generating a vortex that increase a channel volume where high-temperature high-pressure liquid flows inward and reduces a vortex of flowing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: PYONGSAN Corp.
    Inventors: Bang-Soo Lee, Jeong-Ho Ha, Sang-Min Lee, Ki-Youl Song
  • Patent number: 11085699
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a pair of opposed walls and an interior space between the walls, and first and second areas located on opposite sides of a longitudinal axis, each adapted for thermal contact with a battery cell. Inlet and outlet ports are provided in the respective first and second areas, and a flow barrier extends along the longitudinal axis and separates the first and second areas. Fluid flow passages are defined in the first and second areas. A first crossover passage extends across the longitudinal axis from the inlet port to an inlet flow passage in the second area. A second crossover passage extends across the longitudinal axis from an outlet flow passage in the first area to the outlet port. A crossover housing is provided inside or outside the interior space and extends across the longitudinal axis, enclosing at least one of the first and second crossover passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventor: Garreth D. G. Graves
  • Patent number: 11054152
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with air introduced into a housing and a blowing fan configured to blow the air which is heat-exchanged with the heat exchanger to outside of the housing. The air conditioner may control a first and a second doors configured to open or close a first and second blowing ports provided in the housing and a guide blade configured to control paths in the housing, so that the air conditioner may blow the air of various flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ki Cho, Ki Jun Kim, Dae Dong Kim, Chang Heon Lee, Moon Sun Shin, Young Lae Jo
  • Patent number: 10995999
    Abstract: Cooling unit in which the first and second heat exchangers [13], [16] are suspended along one of their longitudinal edges respectively to one of the suspension pipes selected from first, second and third pipes, [10], [11], [12], and are capable of undergoing a substantially free elongation and/or expansion curvature below the level of the pipe suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Hamon Thermal Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Bultot, Romain Chevremont, David Gilet, Trung Luu, Pascal Malpoix, Olivier Philippart, Hanno Reuter
  • Patent number: 10974309
    Abstract: A heat exchanger tube with a tube axis, a tube wall and with ribs extending around on the tube outer side. The ribs have a rib foot, rib flanks and a rib tip, wherein the rib foot projects substantially radially from the tube wall. The rib flanks are provided with additional structural elements which are arranged laterally on the rib flank. First material projections, which extend substantially in the axial and radial direction, adjoin second material projections which extend substantially in the axial and circumferential direction of the tube, wherein the first and second material projections have a common boundary line. The axial extent of the first material projections along this boundary line is less than the axial extent of the second material projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Achim Gotterbarm, Jean El Hajal, Andreas Beutler
  • Patent number: 10955200
    Abstract: Provided are heat exchangers that have a plurality of integrally formed contiguous unit cells defining a three-dimensional lattice of repeating unit cells, and methods of forming a baffle in a three-dimensional lattice structure of a heat exchanger. The plurality of integrally formed contiguous unit cells include a plurality of pathway cells and a plurality of baffle cells integrally formed among the plurality of pathway cells. The plurality of pathway cells have a solid domain that includes interior and exterior pathway-cell surfaces that respectively contiguously define first and second furcated fluid domains for a first fluid and a second fluid to respectively flow across the plurality of pathway cells. The plurality of baffle cells have a solid domain that includes one or more furcated-pathway blinds that together provide one or more furcated-pathway baffles that contiguously define a boundary to a furcated fluid domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicolas Kristopher Sabo, Samuel Noah Miller
  • Patent number: 10946720
    Abstract: An airflow control system includes an air blower and an outlet door. The air blower is disposed on a front side in a vehicle traveling direction with respect to an inside of a cabin and disposed inside an engine compartment that houses a propulsion engine. The outlet door opens and closes an air outlet through which an air flow from an inside of the engine compartment is blown to another area on a rear side in the vehicle traveling direction with respect to the engine compartment. The air blower blows an air flow containing exhaust heat of the propulsion engine to the other area through the air outlet while the air outlet is opened by the outlet door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakane, Nobukazu Kuribayashi, Shirou Bandou
  • Patent number: 10928140
    Abstract: An improved baffle assembly for heat exchanger tubes comprising a shaft and at least one opposing pair of expanding baffles positioned coaxially on the shaft, each expanding baffle comprising a central hub portion and a plurality of extension portions each radiating outward from the hub portion at complementary oblique angles so that the central hub portions of each baffle are spaced apart along the shaft and the distal ends of the extension portions of each baffle are brought into physical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Giles Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Ward, Jr., Craig S. Yost
  • Patent number: 10917994
    Abstract: A system and method for providing and using wickless capillary driven constrained vapor bubble heat pipes for application in rack servers are disclosed. An example embodiment includes: a base structure; and a rack column supported by the base structure, the rack column in thermal coupling with a heat-generating device, the rack column containing a constrained vapor bubble (CVB) cell cluster including a plurality of cells in thermal coupling with the heat-generating device at a first end in an evaporator region and in thermal coupling with the base structure at a second end in a condenser region, each cell of the plurality of cells having a wickless capillary driven CVB heat pipe embedded in the cell, each wickless capillary driven CVB heat pipe including a body having a capillary therein with generally square corners and a high energy interior surface, and a highly wettable liquid partially filling the capillary to dissipate heat between the evaporator region and the condenser region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sumita Basu, Shantanu D. Kulkarni, Prosenjit Ghosh, Konstantin I. Kouliachev
  • Patent number: 10914525
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, for example a shell and tube flooded evaporator, has a refrigerant distributor that is positioned at an angle between the bottom of the shell and the sides of the shell, and includes an inlet that is welded to an inlet piping, where the inlet and inlet piping are in fluid communication with the refrigerant distributor, and are in a generally corresponding position orientation. Tubes of a tube bundles may extend proximate the bottom of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Pitts, Harry Kenneth Ring, Steven Erwin Meloling
  • Patent number: 10914527
    Abstract: A tube bundle heat exchanger has tubes which are held at each side in tube plates or oval-tube collecting-tube plates and are connected to these in each case by means of a weld seam. The connection of the tubes to the inlet-side tube plate or oval-tube collecting-tube plate is formed in each case by means of a conical and/or trumpet-shaped transition piece. The cross section of the transition piece reduces as viewed in the gas flow direction in such a way that the inlet-side end, as viewed in the gas flow direction, of the transition piece is connected in a buttjoint to the tube plate or oval-tube collecting-tube plate. The inner and outer contours of the transition piece and of the welded connection region are formed without gaps and comers to the tube plate or oval tube collecting-tube plate and so as to be straight and/or with a radius, measured from the outer contour, of at least 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ARVOS GMBH
    Inventor: Jiri Jekerle
  • Patent number: 10914536
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a plurality of pipe bodies arranged between two side parts. At least one side part may have at least one predetermined breaking point and at least one heat expansion compensator. The at least one side part may include at least one aperture, which may lead from the at least one predetermined breaking point to the at least one heat expansion compensator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Reinhard Heine
  • Patent number: 10914533
    Abstract: A plate for a heat exchanger includes a substantially planar body having a first end, a second end opposing the first end, a fluid surface, and an outer surface. A first cup extends from the outer surface of the body adjacent the first end of the body. A second cup extends from the outer surface of the body and is spaced from the second end of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Leo Somhorst, Petr Fabian, Stephen Joyce, Marek Bursik, Martin Sopuch, Stepan Hlavac, Jan Povysil, Durai Duraiswamy
  • Patent number: 10907907
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a heat dissipation structure. The heat dissipation structure is adapted to accommodate a fluid and thermally contact a heat source. The heat dissipation structure includes a heat conductive plate and a channel arrangement. The heat conductive plate is configured to thermally contact the heat source. The channel arrangement is located on the heat conductive plate, and the channel arrangement includes a wider channel portion and a narrower channel portion. The wider channel portion is wider than the narrower channel portion, and the wider channel portion is connected to the narrower channel portion so that the channel arrangement forms a loop. The channel arrangement is configured to accommodate the fluid and allow the fluid to absorb heat generated by the heat source through the heat conductive plate so as to at least partially change phase of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Chuan Wang, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Shan-Yin Cheng, Hsiang-Fen Chou
  • Patent number: 10900409
    Abstract: A device for controlling an air flow in a motor vehicle compartment. The device includes: a frame defining an opening; a plurality of slats extending across the frame, arranged above one another; and an actuator connected to each of the slats by a respective fastener. Each slat extends in a respective air deflection plane, and is movable via the actuator, between: a closed position, in which the slats cooperate with one another to block the passage of the air through the opening, and an open position, in which the slats allow the air to flow through the opening, the deflection planes of the slats intersecting upstream from the frame. Each fastener is mounted rotatably only on the actuator, around a respective actuating axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FLEX-N-GATE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Yann Clapie, Bertrand Thoulouze, Daniel Eichlinger
  • Patent number: 10890382
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes two titanium metal sheets, which are subjected to a heat treatment before undergoing mechanical processing, plastic working and surface modification. With these arrangements, the titanium metal sheets can be freely plastically deformed and possess a capillary force, and can therefore be used in place of the conventional copper material to serve as a material for making heat dissipation devices, and the heat dissipation devices so produced can have largely reduced weight and largely improved heat dissipation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuei-Feng Chiang, Chih-Yeh Lin
  • Patent number: 10864802
    Abstract: A flow channel located downstream of a temperature regulating device branches off into a first flow channel and a second flow channel. In the first flow channel, a windshield's-side flow channel connecting to a windshield's-side air outlet port and an adsorbent's-side flow channel connecting to an adsorbent inflow section are formed. At the time of regeneration treatment of an adsorbent, by interrupting communication between the first flow channel and the second flow channel, interrupting communication between a temperature regulating device outflow section and the windshield's-side air outlet port, and making the temperature regulating device outflow section and the adsorbent inflow section communicate with each other, the air warmed by the temperature regulating device is preferentially guided to the adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kakizaki, Subaru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10823515
    Abstract: An air-to-air aftercooler (ATAAC) configured to cool compressed air from an air compressor is disclosed. The ATAAC may comprise a header at a cold end, and a plurality of core tubes. Each of the core tubes may have a first end and a second end. The ATAAC may further comprise a plurality of grommets each connecting the second end of one of the core tubes to a slot of the header. Each of the grommets may include an inner surface contacting the core tube and an outer surface contacting the slot of the header. The inner surface of the grommet may include radially-inwardly projecting regions contacting the core tube, and depressed regions providing clearance between the grommet and the core tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph L. Kennedy, Christian Earl Sabotta, Nirag Sheth, James McCoy Voelker
  • Patent number: 10782035
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly includes a header extending in a longitudinal direction, a plurality of heat transfer tubes aligned along the longitudinal direction of the header and connected to the header, a plurality of fins secured to the heat transfer tubes, a first corrective member and a second corrective member. The first corrective member extends along the longitudinal direction of the header on a downstream side of the heat transfer tubes or the header along a direction of an air flow. The second corrective member extends along the longitudinal direction of the header on an upstream side of the heat transfer tubes or the header along the direction of the air flow. A sandwiched object is at least any one of the heat transfer tubes, the fins, and the header. The sandwiched object is sandwiched by the first and second corrective members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Kaneda, Eriko Onojima, Tomohiro Masui, Hideki Sawamizu
  • Patent number: 10724803
    Abstract: A heat pipe is provided, including a capillary body. The capillary body has a condensation portion, an evaporation portion, and a connecting portion connecting the condensation portion with the evaporation portion. The capillary body is formed by metal weaving. A cross-section of the evaporation portion is larger than that of the condensation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Lin Huang, Chiu-Kung Chen, Ti-Jun Wang, Quan Zhang