Patents Examined by Mukund G Patel
  • Patent number: 9501112
    Abstract: Mobile platforms and methods may provide for an integrated circuit such as a system on chip (SoC), a first heat spreader thermally coupled to the integrated circuit and a phase change material configuration thermally coupled to the first heat spreader. The integrated circuit may include logic to operate the integrated circuit in a performance burst mode according to a duty cycle, wherein the performance burst mode causes a phase change material to enter a liquid state within a graphite matrix of the phase change material configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daryl Nelson, Kevin Daniel, Daniel Chiang, Mark Gallina, Steven Lofland
  • Patent number: 9485865
    Abstract: A substrate spacing member includes a spacer portion which is disposed between the two substrates in contact with both edge portions thereof to keep a distance between the two substrates constant, spacer member holding portions which hold the spacer members, a frame body portion that connects the spacer member holding portions to each other, a branch portion which extends toward a predetermined position between the two substrates from the frame body portion or the spacer member holding portions, and electrode holding portions which are provided at the branch portions, and hold electrodes at the predetermined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naoki Higashikawa, Kazuyoshi Kontani
  • Patent number: 9474191
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of power semiconductor module includes a can-type cooling case that is formed with a plate spring portion that generates compressive stress in the semiconductor circuit unit, an adjustment portion that is deformed to adjust elastic deformation of the plate spring portion, and a sidewall portion to which the plate spring portion and the adjustment portion are joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Higuma, Toshifumi Sagawa, Takahiro Shimura, Hideto Yoshinari
  • Patent number: 9468997
    Abstract: An apparatus provides conductive cooling of an information handling system. The apparatus includes a panel having a vent area formed in the panel. The vent area includes a perimeter, an interior section and a plurality of ribs that extend across the interior section. The vent area further includes several openings defined by lateral spacing between the ribs. The openings extend through the panel and are configured to receive cooling airflow into the openings and to discharge cooling air flow from the openings. A conductive heat sink layer is attached to the panel. The conductive heat sink layer covers a perimeter area surrounding the vent area, with strips of the conductive heat sink layer also covering the ribs, while leaving the openings between the ribs uncovered such that the strips of the conductive heat sink layer function to conduct additional heat away from the vent area along the ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.
    Inventors: Travis C. North, Duen Hsing Hsieh, Austin Michael Shelnutt, Christopher M. Helberg, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 9464634
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for facilitating air-cooling of, for instance, one or more electronics racks within a data center. The apparatus includes an air-moving assembly and one or more flywheels. The air-moving assembly includes a shaft, one or more mechanical fans coupled to the shaft to rotate, at least in part, with the shaft, and a motor coupled to the shaft to rotatably drive the shaft. The flywheel(s) is sized and coupled to the shaft of the air-moving assembly to store rotational energy, and to facilitate, for a specified period of time, continued rotation of the shaft during interruption in power to the motor. In one implementation, the flywheel(s) is sized and coupled to the shaft to facilitate, for the specified time period, continued rotation of the shaft at a specified percentage, or greater, rotational speed of the shaft compared with shaft speed when rotatably driven by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Milnes P. David, Michael J. Domitrovits, Joshua Murphy, John V. Palmer, Sal M. Rosato
  • Patent number: 9442541
    Abstract: An air deflecting system includes an air deflector that is physically mounted against a hot air exhaust vent of a network equipment element using a rack coupling mechanism that is adjustable to accommodate a variable lateral distance of the hot air exhaust vent from the computing rack. The air deflector receives an airflow from the hot air exhaust vent at a first direction and deflects the airflow in a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Morgan Morrison Pofahl, Dolf Conrad Veit
  • Patent number: 9437992
    Abstract: Disclosed is a busbar mounted on a board and electrically connected to an external element other than the board, including: a base portion; and a conductive pin body protruding from the base portion, wherein the base portion has a fixing portion where a fixing member for fixing the board and the base portion to each other is locked, and an engagement portion that extends from the fixing portion and is engaged with the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventors: Taroh Matsumae, Yuki Nagai
  • Patent number: 9431318
    Abstract: In an electronic device, a one-side heat radiation element and a two-side heat radiation element are disposed on a surface of a substrate adjacent to a heat sink. The one-side heat radiation element has a rear-side covered conductive portion and a rear-surface molded portion on the rear-side covered conductive portion adjacent to the heat sink, and radiates heat to the substrate. A surface of a rear-side exposed conductive portion of the two-side heat radiation element adjacent to the heat sink is exposed and the two-side heat radiation element radiates heat to the substrate and the heat sink. The rear-surface molded portion controls a limit position of the one-side heat radiation element toward the heat sink due to deformation of the substrate. A heat radiation gel is filled in between the rear-side exposed conductive portion and the heat sink to radiate heat from the two-side heat radiation element toward the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Morino
  • Patent number: 9430006
    Abstract: The computing device includes an enclosure including a first structure, a second structure aligned parallel to the first structure and a third structure disposed between the first structure and the second structure, the third structure including a thermally non-conductive material, a heat generating element in contact with the third structure, and a flexible sheet in contact with the heat generating element and the second structure, the flexible sheet configured to conduct heat generated by the heat generating element away from the first structure and to a surface of the second structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Hayashida
  • Patent number: 9426934
    Abstract: A shield case 10 has, disposed upon a lateral plate 12, a first anchor part 123 for anchoring to a substrate, and a slit 127 which extends from a release edge part to a top plate 11, whereupon a leading end portion 127a thereof is formed upon the top plate 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokoyama, Hideki Kachi, Shinichi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9414526
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus is disclosed, which may include multiple heat producing units. The cooling apparatus may also have a thermal interface material (TIM) to facilitate heat transfer away from the heat producing units. The cooling apparatus may also have multiple heat sink columns located above, and designed to conduct heat away from, corresponding heat producing units, through thermally conductive contact with corresponding portions of the TIM layer. The cooling apparatus may also have a load plate located above the heat sink columns, designed to hold the heat sink columns in a relatively fixed position above the heat producing units. The TIM layer may have an initial compressed state between the heat sink columns and the corresponding heat producing units. Each of the heat sink columns may be designed so that, in operation, the corresponding portion of the TIM layer may have a further compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip V. Mann, Kevin M. O'Connell, Arvind K. Sinha
  • Patent number: 9414520
    Abstract: An immersion cooled motor controller assembly is disclosed that includes a sealed housing, a fluorocarbon cooling liquid contained in the sealed housing, and an AC/AC motor controller disposed in the sealed housing and submerged in the fluorocarbon cooling liquid, wherein the AC/AC motor controller includes a power board module adapted and configured to operate at power levels greater than 30 kW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Kris H. Campbell, Christopher J. Courtney, Joshua Scott Parkin, Charles Shepard
  • Patent number: 9412708
    Abstract: Enhanced electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection schemes of an integrated circuit in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (ICs) packages, and methods of forming the same are presented in the disclosure. An array of ESD protection devices can be formed in an interposer and placed under one or a plurality of ICs so that a hard block inside an IC on top of the interposer can be connected to an ESD protection device of the array and is protected from ESD. The ESD protection device cell of the array is connected to a Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) which can be placed inside the interposer, on the surface of the interposer, or on the surface of a printed circuit board (PCB). The ESD protection array is of generic nature and can be used with many kinds of ICs to form a three-dimensional IC package. Further embodiments of ESD protection for 3D IC package is disclosed where an ESD protection device inside a first IC 2 can be shared with another IC 1 to protect a hard block within IC 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shyh-An Chi
  • Patent number: 9402323
    Abstract: A system can include a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard and a positionable keyboard bezel, a display housing that includes a display, a hinge that pivotably connects the keyboard housing and the display housing for orienting the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing, and a positioning mechanism that positions the keyboard bezel in a first state with respect to the keyboard for a first orientation of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing and that positions the keyboard bezel in a second state with respect to the keyboard for a second orientation of the display housing with respect to the keyboard housing. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Miles Osborne, Aaron Michael Stewart, Fusanobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9392731
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus is disclosed, which may include multiple heat producing units. The cooling apparatus may also have a thermal interface material (TIM) to facilitate heat transfer away from the heat producing units. The cooling apparatus may also have multiple heat sink columns located above, and designed to conduct heat away from, corresponding heat producing units, through thermally conductive contact with corresponding portions of the TIM layer. The cooling apparatus may also have a load plate located above the heat sink columns, designed to hold the heat sink columns in a relatively fixed position above the heat producing units. The TIM layer may have an initial compressed state between the heat sink columns and the corresponding heat producing units. Each of the heat sink columns may be designed so that, in operation, the corresponding portion of the TIM layer may have a further compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Phillip V. Mann, Kevin M. O'Connell, Arvind K. Sinha
  • Patent number: 9389654
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a circuit board module include a primary cover, a secondary cover and a circuit board sandwiched between the primary cover and the secondary cover. A first set of fins or channels may be provided on a surface of the primary cover. The first set of fins or channels guide cooling air flowing on the surface of the primary cover. A second set of fins or channels may be provided on a surface of the second cover. The second set of fins or channels guide the cooling air flowing on the surface of the secondary cover. The second set of fins or channels intermates with the first set of fins or channels to form a sealed casing enclosing the circuit board. The sealed casing forms a Faraday cage to protect the circuit board from electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MERCURY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Darryl J. McKenney, Paul Zuidema, Donald Blanchet, Daniel Coolidge
  • Patent number: 9372515
    Abstract: A chassis sub-assembly for computing devices includes a first heat sink plate and a second heat sink plate. The first heat sink plate includes a first plurality of perforations and the second heat sink plate includes a second plurality of perforations. The chassis sub-assembly also includes a first computing device and a second computing device. Each of the first and second computing devices is positioned between the first heat sink plate and the second heat sink plate. The first and second computing devices are in contact with both the first and second heat sink plates, and define a channel gap between the first and second computing devices. At least some of the first and second plurality of perforations are aligned with the channel gap. The first plurality of perforations, the channel gap, and the second plurality of perforations define an airflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Evtron, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew William Mayhall
  • Patent number: 9367102
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first chamber in which a heat generator is arranged and a second chamber separated with a partition from the first chamber. The electronic apparatus is provided with a first cabinet having the partition and an isolation wall that encloses to seal the first chamber, a second cabinet enclosing the second chamber and having an intake port and an exhaust port, a thermoconductive member arranged in the first chamber and connected thermally to the heat generator and to the partition, a heat collecting-radiating member arranged in the second chamber and connected thermally to the partition, and an air blower arranged in the second chamber so as to circulate the air in the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Fujiwara, Naoyuki Ito, Toshiya Senoh, Jun Sato, Masahiko Kitagawa, Shinya Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 9367104
    Abstract: An electronic device including a main body, a supporting layer and at least one press element is provided. The main body has an inner space. The supporting layer is disposed on the main body and covers the inner space, wherein the supporting layer has at least one first opening. The press element is disposed on the supporting layer and has a chamber and at least one second opening, wherein the first opening and the second opening are connected to the chamber. When the press element is pressed and elastically deformed, air inside the chamber flows to the inner space through the first opening. When the press element is stopped being pressed and restored, air outside the chamber flows to inside the chamber through the second opening. In addition, a heat dissipation method adapted to the electronic device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Che-Jung Liu
  • Patent number: 9354668
    Abstract: In one embodiment chassis for an electronic device comprises a first section and a second section and an assembly to connect the first section of the chassis to the second section of the chassis for an electronic device, comprising a first hinge assembly to be coupled to the first section of the chassis for the electronic device, a second hinge assembly to be coupled to the second section of the chassis for the electronic device, a first rigid connecting member to be coupled to the first hinge assembly and the second hinge assembly, a first resistance element to provide a first rotational resistance between the first hinge assembly and a first end of the first rigid connecting member and a first resistance element to provide a second rotational resistance between the second hinge assembly and a second end of the first rigid connecting member. Other embodiments may be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tod A. Byquist, Peter Bristol, Michael S. Brazel, Kristin L. Weihl, Stella Latscha, Alexander D. Williams, Nicolas Kurczewski, Barry T. Dale, Robert R. Atkinson, Jr., Stephen J. Allen, Patrick S. Johnson