Patents Examined by Robert J. Hoffberg
  • Patent number: 12267986
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cooling device, including a cooling plate and a mounting cover. A lower flow channel is provided in the cooling plate, a top of the cooling plate is provided with a water outlet and two openings. The water outlet is located between the two openings. The mounting cover is sealed on the top of the cooling plate. The mounting cover comprises a first mounting cover and a second mounting cover. The first mounting cover and the cooling plate form an intermediate flow channel, the second mounting cover and the cooling plate form a branch flow channel. The intermediate flow channel is in communication with the two branch flow channels, The first mounting cover is provided with a water inlet, and the two branch flow channels are in communication with the lower flow channel through the two openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiang-Jun Wu, Yi-Dong Ji, Cheng Han
  • Patent number: 12267980
    Abstract: A power converter system includes a printed circuit board having a first connector for receiving low voltage control signals and a second connector for receiving input voltages from one or more power generators and transmitting output voltages to a power distribution unit. Power devices are mounted onto the printed circuit board to manage the input voltages and to generate the output voltages. An enclosure is mounted around the printed circuit board and power devices. The power devices engage interior surfaces of the enclosure forming a conductive heat path between the power devices, the interior surfaces, and exterior surfaces of the enclosure. The heat path conductively transfers heat from the power devices to the exterior surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Armen Baronian, Yash Veer Singh, Piranavan Suntharalingam, Mikhail Goykhman, Galen Chui
  • Patent number: 12261417
    Abstract: A microgrid system comprising a switchgear trailer comprising a plurality of breakers configured to support generators; at least one breaker configured to support a utility source; at least one breaker configured to output power; wherein the breakers are in a parallel arrangement; a plurality of interchangeable connectors; and a common bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: VOLTAGRID LLC
    Inventor: Nathan Ough
  • Patent number: 12255117
    Abstract: A planar fin for use in a heat sink includes turbulent structures extending from the sides of the planar fin. Each turbulent structure defines a longitudinal axis and having a first edge that is parallel to the longitudinal axis and connected to a planar surface of the fin. Each turbulent structure also includes a second edge opposite the first edged and in free space. The second edge defines a periphery that varies in distance from the first edge along the length of the longitudinal axis. The periphery of each second edge is further shaped such that turbulent flow of a fluid is induced in the flow flowing over the second edge at at least a predefined flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Xu Zuo
  • Patent number: 12256517
    Abstract: A fan assembly comprises first and second fans and a first press fit stabilizer. The first and second fans comprise housings having a plurality of fastener apertures formed in a first side thereof the first housing. The first press fit stabilizer comprises a plurality of press fit tabs. The first fan is coupled to the second fan via a first press fit tab of the plurality of press fit tabs inserted into a first fastener aperture of the plurality of fastener apertures of the first housing and via a second press fit tab of the plurality of press fit tabs inserted into a first fastener aperture of the plurality of fastener apertures of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Angelito Hatol, Lorenzo Nool
  • Patent number: 12245398
    Abstract: A control-cabinet system has a base module and at least one functional module. The base module has a base housing with a first housing face and a second housing face. The functional module has a functional housing with a housing underside, where a circulation channel is arranged. Air flow may be circulated in the circulation channel, where each base connection element comprises circulation openings which are fluidically connected to the circulation channel. The functional connection element comprises coupling openings fluidically connected to an interior of the functional housing. The coupling openings are coupleable to the circulation openings, in which a fluidic connection exists between the circulation channel and the interior of the functional housing. A fluidically closed circulation circuit comprising the circulation channel and the interior of the functional housing is formed, in which air flow may be circulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Beckhoff Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Beckhoff, Peter Wittenborg, Daniel Siegenbrink
  • Patent number: 12244125
    Abstract: A transfer switch apparatus for alternately connecting an electrical load to a utility power supply and a generator includes a container which houses a selector switch and an electrical receptacle. A door is coupled to the container to open and close an opening to the container to access the electrical receptacle. The door engages the selector switch to connect a utility power supply to a load when the door is closed and to connect the electrical receptacle to the load when the door is opened. An electrical plug of a generator is couplable to the electrical receptacle to power the load and to retain the door in the open position. The door is otherwise biased to close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventor: Tim Maxim
  • Patent number: 12235056
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for completing a blind mate hydraulic connection. A device is equipped at the rear of the device with a shell holding a manifold connected internally to the device cooling system. Clearances between the shell and manifold allow the manifold to rotate in two axes to adapt to a misalignment between the manifold and a rack cooling system. The device is further provided with a cam-handle attached to the front that provides leverage against the rack for overcoming the connection forces of the blind mate. The manifold and cam-handle combine to facilitate disconnecting the device from the rack cooling system from the front of the rack and servicing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.
    Inventors: Chen An, Zichun Song, Sruti Chigullapalli, Mahesh Kumar Varrey, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 12225680
    Abstract: A monitoring-and-control drawer (138) for an electrical connection enclosure comprises a front part (300) comprising a ventilation grille (326), a back portion (348) at which a back ventilation region is provided and functional elements (362). The heat generated by the functional elements is removed by an air flow (FL1) which enters the functional unit via each air grating in the front part and re-emerges from the functional unit via the back ventilation region, having passed right through the functional unit. The back portion belongs to a base of the drawer to which the functional elements are attached and comprises a group of upstream connectors (354) connected to an electricity source, a group of downstream connectors (356) connected to an electrical load and a ventilation orifice (358) which is part of to the back ventilation region and which is located between the group of upstream connectors and the group of downstream connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Louis Linares, Olivier Wasner, Charles Gailla
  • Patent number: 12212124
    Abstract: A medium voltage switchgear or control gear includes at least one first compartment; a cable compartment; a plurality of main components; and a plurality of auxiliary components. The plurality of main components is housed in at least one part of the at least one first compartment. The plurality of auxiliary components is housed in the cable compartment. The second connector is configured to connect to the first connector to connect a cable in the cable compartment to a component of the plurality of main components. The cable compartment is configured to be disconnected from the at least one first compartment and wherein the cable compartment is configured to be spatially separated from the at least one first compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Radek Javora, Tomas Kozel, Josef Cernohous, Michal Skuci
  • Patent number: 12213287
    Abstract: A solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) includes an airgap operating mechanism including components and electronics including semiconductors and software algorithms that control the power and can interrupt extreme currents. The SSCB further includes a housing that houses the components of the airgap operating mechanism and the electronics. The housing of the solid-state circuit breaker includes a heat sink that interfaces with a natural air flow such as an existing vertical air channel inside an electrical panel. The heat sink contains a thermally conductive and electrically insulating (TC/EI) plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Guang Yang, James Edward Ferree, Solomon R. R. Titus
  • Patent number: 12213279
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes a base, a first fan and a second fan provided on one surface, a plurality of first heat-dissipating fins provided on the one surface in a first region including a region between first and second fans such that the plurality of first heat-dissipating fins are provided in the region between the first second fans, and a plurality of second heat-dissipating fins provided on the one surface and in a second region. The plurality of first heat-dissipating fins guide a refrigerant sent by one of the first and second fans toward a remaining one of the first and second fans in the first region, and the plurality of second heat-dissipating fins provided in the second region have a structure for guiding a refrigerant flowing in from the first fan or the second fan away from the first fan and the second fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kawakita, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Minami Teranishi, Miki Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 12207434
    Abstract: A cooling device cools an electronic component using a plasma actuator provided with a dielectric, a first electrode arranged on one surface of the dielectric to generate an induced flow, and a second electrode arranged on the other surface of the dielectric, in which the electronic component and a third electrode are arranged in a flow direction of the induced flow, and a voltage applied to the third electrode is a voltage that generates a potential difference, which is capable of attracting the induced flow, between the first electrode and the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Kenta Emori, Jumpei Niida, Emi Takahashi, Shigeharu Yamagami
  • Patent number: 12206223
    Abstract: An electrical distribution enclosure includes an electrically insulated panel defining an access portion of the enclosure and a load portion of the enclosure; at least one electrically insulated compartment panel positioned within the access portion; and two or more compartments within the access portion, each compartment separated from an adjacent compartment by an electrically insulated compartment panel, each of the two or more compartments having a front-accessible neutral connection, at least one front-accessible phase connection and a at least rear phase connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Rebecca Ann Waddell, Gilbert Taylor Miller, Zachary Wade Smith, Thomas Anthony Kendzia, III, Frank Allen Cowan
  • Patent number: 12207451
    Abstract: A power converter is provided. The power converter includes a housing, a heat dissipation module, and a first circuit board. The housing forms a receiving space, wherein the housing includes a first housing port and a second housing port. The heat dissipation module is detachably connected to the housing, and disposed in the receiving space. The heat dissipation module includes an inner path that communicates the first housing port with the second housing port. Working fluid enters the inner path via the first housing port. The working fluid leaves the inner path via the second housing port. The first circuit board includes a first circuit board body and a first heat source, wherein the first heat source is disposed on the first circuit board body, and the first heat source is thermally connected to the inner path of the heat dissipation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Nan Tsai, Ying-Chung Chuang, Chia-Jung Liu, Yi-Wei Chen, Han-Yu Tai, Shao-Hsiang Lo
  • Patent number: 12207442
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a housing comprising at least one composite wall comprising woven or braided carbon fibers covered with a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin, an electronic card carrying electronic components, and a heat transfer device having at least one portion facing an electronic component to be cooled of the electronic card, said heat transfer device being inserted inside the composite wall, the heat transfer device comprising at least one cooling conduit containing a cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventor: Muriel Sabah
  • Patent number: 12207443
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems comprise a heat exchanger comprising a first heat sink coupled to a first portion of a set of heat pipes, a first fan for generating a first airflow in a first direction through the first heat sink, a second heat sink coupled to a second portion of the set of heat pipes and a second fan for generating a second airflow in a second direction through the second heat sink, wherein the first heat sink is separated from the second heat sink by a gap with a distance configured to thermally isolate the first heat sink and the second heat sink and the first direction is opposite the second direction. The heat exchanger may be oriented such that the first fan and the second fan generate airflows perpendicular to a main airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Qinghong He
  • Patent number: 12185499
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to an oscillating heat pipe comprising for cooling components within a bendable electronic device. The oscillating heat pipe comprises at least one condenser region to be positioned in a first portion of the bendable electronic device and at least one evaporator region to be positioned in a second portion of the bendable electronic device. The oscillating heat pipe also comprises at least one bendable region provided between the condenser region and the evaporator region and configured to extend across a hinge of a bendable electronic device wherein at least one bendable region comprises a polymer tubing supported by a flexible helical support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Ryan Enright, Raffaele Luca Amalfi
  • Patent number: 12178007
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a first member including a first surface in contact with a cooling target, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and radiating fins protruding from the second surface; and a second member including a third surface facing the second surface, a refrigerant flows between the first member and the second member, the second member includes a first protrusion protruding from the third surface toward a space, the space existing between the radiating fins in a flow direction of the refrigerant, the first protrusion includes a first slope inclined to the third surface, the first slope includes a first end and a second end, the first end is closer to the second surface than the second end, the second end is closer to the third surface than the first end, the first end is positioned downstream in the flow direction from the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ginji Uchibe
  • Patent number: 12167569
    Abstract: A self-contained mobile high performance computing platform for cryptocurrency mining is disclosed. The self-contained mobile high performance computing platform includes a mobile cabinet, which includes wheels for easy movement and placement within, for example, a warehouse facility, a garage, a basement, an office tower, or a vehicle such as a truck or van. The cabinet is configured to enclose at least one computing apparatus, which includes computing blades immersed in an oil or other dielectric fluid for immersion cooling. The computing blades are configured to be connected to respective interface boards via connectors that are located within a tank of the dielectric fluid. Each computing blade may be individually removed or replaced, thereby enabling an inoperable or low performance computing blade to be disconnected without affecting the operations of the other computing blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DaVinci 3.0 Incorporated
    Inventors: Patrick J. Sweeney, II, John DeCarlo, Paul Nickelsberg, Ajeet Yadav, Garet Holcomb