Patents Examined by Robert J. Hoffberg
  • Patent number: 11742640
    Abstract: A tank for a medium-voltage electrical unit that is intended to contain a gas under a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, the tank having: a structure that has uprights, panels that are secured to the uprights, the panels being set up to receive a pressure force of the pressurized gas, at least one metal reinforcing rod extending in a longitudinal direction, the reinforcing rod connecting together two uprights so as to counter a deformation of the uprights under the action of the pressure force of the gas, at least one first electrically insulating tube, wherein at least one longitudinal portion of the reinforcing rod is surrounded by the first insulating tube, and wherein an inner surface of the first insulating tube is remote from a lateral surface of the reinforcing rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: François Gentils, Jean-Michel Bonfils
  • Patent number: 11737247
    Abstract: An apparatus for cooling one or more heat generating components comprises: a sealable enclosure defining a volume for containing a first coolant and one or more heat generating components; a conduit surrounded by the volume, the conduit enabling a second coolant to enter and leave the enclosure, the conduit providing a fluid-tight seal between the first coolant and the second coolant when the first coolant within the volume surrounds the conduit; and a pump within the enclosure configured to direct the first coolant to the conduit such that heat is exchanged between the first coolant and the second coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ICEOTOPE GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Neil Edmunds, Andrew Young, David Amos
  • Patent number: 11737240
    Abstract: A heat-activated pump removes waste heat from electronic components, at a data center, circuit board, or chip level. A set of evaporators receive heat from the electronics, converting a working fluid into vapor. Piping from the evaporators to a shared condenser(s) and back form a fluid circulation system. A pressure-control valve set for a specified electronic operating temperature allows vaporized working fluid to vent into a liquid-piston chamber, where it expands adiabatically, displacing pumped liquid in a pumping stage and expelling it from the chamber through a unidirectional valve to the shared condenser(s). The condenser(s) has a heatsink transferring heat away to a flow of cooler fluid. The pumped liquid returns in a suction cycle to the chamber through another unidirectional valve. An injector valve returns jets of condensed working fluid to the evaporator in successive brief spurts responsive to periodic pressure pulses in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Hamfop Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Mudasir Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11735385
    Abstract: A medium-voltage switchgear system includes a three-phase circuit breaker having first, second and third single-phase vacuum interrupters connected between respective first, second and third single-phase inputs and first, second and third single-phase outputs. Magnetic actuators are connected to first, second and third single-phase vacuum interrupters, which are configured to receive an interrupt signal and in response, actuate the respective vacuum interrupter connected thereto into an open circuit condition. A controller circuit is connected to each of the first, second and third magnetic actuators and generates an interrupt signal in response to a detected single-phase overcurrent or fault on a single-phase circuit and interrupt that single-phase circuit on which the single-phase overcurrent or fault occurred and maintain power on the remaining two single-phase circuits over which a single-phase overcurrent or fault was not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: JST POWER EQUIPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Robert L. Hanna, Patrick R. Fischer-Carne, Daniel C. Davis, Guillermo Alvelo, Jr., Rahul M. Pawar, Haoning Liang
  • Patent number: 11735893
    Abstract: A switchgear system may include a switchgear frame, a truck and circuit breaker mounted thereon. A drive mechanism is mounted on the switchgear frame and configured to rack the circuit breaker into a) a first connected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically connected, b) a second test position where the primary circuit is electrically disconnected and secondary circuit connected, and c) a third disconnected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically disconnected, wherein said drive mechanism comprises a drive chain and shuttle configured to engage the truck and rack and fix the circuit breaker into the first connected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: JST POWER EQUIPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Robert L. Hanna, Patrick R. Fischer-Carne, Daniel C. Davis, Guillermo Alvelo, Jr., Rahul M. Pawar, Haoning Liang
  • Patent number: 11737244
    Abstract: Technologies for embedded and immersed heat pipes in automated driving system computers (ADSC) are described herein. In some examples, an ADSC can include one or more cold plates including one or more fluid channels, the one or more fluid channels being configured to circulate a first working fluid from a respective ingress point to a respective egress point; one or more processors coupled to the one or more cold plates; one or more heat pipes coupled to or embedded in the one or more cold plates and configured to collect heat from the one or more processors and transfer the heat away from the one or more processors via a second working fluid in the one or more heat pipes; and a chassis housing the one or more cold plates, the one or more processors, and the one or more heat pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Zoran Stefanoski, Yung Chang Ko
  • Patent number: 11714468
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device having a thermal diffusion structure and including a housing comprising a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a third surface vertical to the first surface and the second surface, a display exposed through at least part of the first surface, a battery arranged between the first surface and the second surface, a heating source arranged between the battery and the third surface in a direction vertical to the first surface and the second surface, and a first thermal diffusion member arranged vertically to the first surface and the second surface, the first thermal diffusion member including a first portion in thermal contact with at least part of the heating source and diffusing heat provided by the heating source to at least one second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ohhyuck Kwon, Jaeyoung Huh, Daesuk Kang, Seunghoon Kang, Boram Kim, Hongki Moon, Yoonsun Park, Kyungwoo Lee, Seungjoo Lee, Jonghoon Lim
  • Patent number: 11715939
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a distributing board having a position lock device and, more specifically, having a position lock device which can hold or release, at a specific position, an electric power device unit. The distributing board having a position lock device, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises an external case and an electric power device unit drawn into and out of the external case, and further comprises: a position setting bracket which is fixed to the external case and has convex-concave parts for setting the position of the electric power device unit; and a lock device which moves with the electric power device unit by being coupled to a portion of the electric power device unit, and which restricts or allows movement of the electric power device unit by being hooked into or released from the positions of the position setting bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanyoung Kang, Minsoo Son, Seogwon Lee, Kilyoung Ahn, Younggeun Kim
  • Patent number: 11700712
    Abstract: A technique and corresponding device to provide for a floating heat sink is disclosed. The technique includes a method that allows for insertion of an electronic component (e.g., an optical transceiver) into a cage that has a pre-installed heatsink. At the beginning phases of insertion, no friction is present between the electronic component and the heatsink. At or very near an insertion end phase (the electronic component is almost fully inserted), an actuator (e.g., roller or button) is impacted to impart a pivot motion via a lever arm to cause lowering of the heatsink toward the electronic component. A thermal interface material (TIM) may therefore be present to establish a thermal coupling between the heatsink and the electronic component. The TIM and heatsink contact the electronic component via a downward motion (caused by the pivot) to provide a nearly frictionless sliding impact to the TIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Tatt Hoong Chow, Tri Luong Nguyen, Mun Hoong Tai
  • Patent number: 11700709
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a cooling device, for cooling devices that generate heat during their operation. The cooling device includes single phase cooling plates to be attached to the devices to dissipate a majority of the heat from the devices while a first coolant is circulated through the single phase cooling plates. The cooling device also includes a unified cooling plate. The plate is directly attached on top of the single phase cooling plates. The unified cooling plate dissipates a portion of the heat transferred from the single phase cooling plates to the unified cooling plate while a second coolant is circulated through the unified cooling plate and when the first coolant is insufficient to remove the portion of the heat from at least one of the single phase cooling plates. The cooling device may be used as part of an electronic rack, a data center, and in other environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11689000
    Abstract: A switch cabinet with at least one brush strip for the conductor feed-through, the switch cabinet having a switch cabinet frame with a horizontal or vertical profile frame from which a profile web extends, wherein the brush strip is placed on a free end of the profile web with bristles extending from the profile web over the inner portion of the profile frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bodo Thielmann, Ahmet Savasci
  • Patent number: 11689001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement having at least one switch cabinet and at least one power strip, the power strip being fixed to a vertical profile inside the switch cabinet via an adapter, wherein the adapter is a hook-in adapter which has a first adapter part on the vertical profile and a second adapter part on the power strip, the power strip being hooked into the first adapter part on the vertical profile via the second adapter part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bodo Thielmann
  • Patent number: 11682885
    Abstract: A switchgear or control gear includes: a first compartment; at least one removable module; a plurality of main switchgear or control gear components; and a plurality of auxiliary switchgear or control gear components. The plurality of main switchgear or control gear components are sub-divided into a first group of components that have a lifetime greater than a threshold level and a second group of components that have a lifetime less than or equal to the threshold level. The plurality of auxiliary switchgear or control gear components are sub-divided into a first group of components that have a lifetime greater than the threshold level and a second group of components that have a lifetime less than or equal to the threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tomas Kozel, Radek Javora, Josef Cernohous, Christoph Budde, Christian Simonidis
  • Patent number: 11683911
    Abstract: A sensing device for a vehicular sensing system includes a housing having a front housing portion and a metallic rear housing portion. A first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board are disposed in the housing. The second printed circuit board is electrically connected to the first printed circuit board, which has an electrical connector for electrically connecting the sensing device to a vehicle wire harness. The second printed circuit board has circuitry thereat, with the circuitry generating heat when the sensing device is operating. The rear housing portion comprises a thermally conductive element that extends through an aperture of the first printed circuit board and is thermally coupled at the second printed circuit board. The thermally conductive element conducts heat generated by the circuitry of the second printed circuit board to the rear housing portion to dissipate the heat from the sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Wilhelm Johann Wolfgang Wöhlte
  • Patent number: 11682883
    Abstract: A power distribution system is releasably secured to a power distribution panel, and includes a circuit breaker to detect a fault condition and to automatically move a circuit breaker switch from the ON position to the OFF position. The power distribution system further includes a backplane connector to provide connection to the power distribution panel and an interconnect mechanism to connect the circuit breaker to the backplane connector when the circuit breaker is moved from a disengaged position to an engaged position with respect to the backplane connector. The power distribution system further includes a guard coupled to the interconnect mechanism and configured to cover portions of the enclosure of the circuit breaker. The guard further prevents the circuit breaker switch from moving from the OFF position to the ON position until the interconnect mechanism connects to the circuit breaker to the backplane connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jorge Humberto Palacios Rodríguez, Victor Daniel Espinosa Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 11682884
    Abstract: An external racking device for remotely racking in and racking out an electrical circuit breaker from a cabinet. The racking device includes a motor head equipped with an electric motor, the electric motor being provided with a rotating shaft ended with an adaptor, and arranged to be coupled with a racking mechanism of an electrical circuit breaker, so that when driven in rotation, the shaft, depending of rotation, trigger either the racking in or the racking out of the circuit breaker from the cabinet. The external racking device further includes monitoring means intended to enable or to disable the operation of the electric motor depending on the status of a circuit breaker to be racked in or racked out from a cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Bergier, Gergely Smeller, Marcell Soterius
  • Patent number: 11670919
    Abstract: A switchgear or control gear includes: at least one first compartment; a second compartment; a plurality of main switchgear or control gear components, the plurality of main switchgear or control gear components including a main busbar system, a three position linear or rotational movement disconnector, a circuit breaker, and a cable connection; and a plurality of auxiliary switchgear or control gear components, the plurality of auxiliary switchgear or control gear components including a disconnector drive and a circuit breaker drive. The plurality of main switchgear or control gear components are housed in the at least one first compartment. The plurality of auxiliary switchgear or control components are housed in the second compartment. The circuit breaker and three position or rotational movement disconnector are mounted vertically in the at least one first compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tomas Kozel, Radek Javora, Josef Cernohous, Pavel Vrbka, Christoph Budde, Christian Simonidis, Sebastian Breisch, Harald Staab
  • Patent number: 11658467
    Abstract: Provided is a busbar connecting device that can achieve good workability and high reliability at the same time. The busbar connecting device includes: a connection portion in which a busbar conductor and a current conductor of a bushing are connected; an insulation busbar connector covering the connection portion; a work hole communicating with the connection portion from an outside of the insulation busbar connector; and an insulating plug inserted into the work hole and sealing the insulation busbar connector, wherein a surface pressure between an inner circumferential surface of the work hole and an outer circumferential surface of the insulating plug is greater at a deep part of the work hole than at a shallow part of the work hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamada, Katsushi Nakada, Katsuki Hotta, Yasutomo Otake, Takao Tsurimoto, Shintaro Kuroaki
  • Patent number: 11646553
    Abstract: A method for installing a heavy and bulky switching module, in particular a static transfer switch, in an electrical cabinet, by way of an installation kit to make the switching module easily removable and interchangeable, regardless of its size and weight. The electrical cabinet is equipped with the installation kit including at least two support rails, extendable between an extended position outside, and a retracted position inside, the electrical cabinet, and forming two parallel rolling paths. The switching module is equipped with rollers in two parallel rows, arranged to circulate on the rolling paths to enable movement of the switching module relative to the electrical cabinet by pushing and pulling with minimal effort. A raised transport pallet is also used to facilitate handling of the switching module outside of the electrical cabinet by a simple industrial truck, without resorting to a lifting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Lionel Huber, Pierre Biegel, David Bildstein, Claudio Stammitti, Desmond Faria
  • Patent number: 11644249
    Abstract: This electronic apparatus 100 comprises a heating element 20, and a case 30. The case 30 has an opening hole 31. In order that a refrigerant COO will be sealed between the case 30 and the heating element 20, the outer periphery part of a first heating element external surface 21, which is the external surface of the heating element 20, is attached to the outer periphery part of the opening hole 31. Also, the refrigerant COO is a refrigerant that is capable of phase change from a liquid refrigerant LP-COO to a gas phase refrigerant GP-COO. As a result, it is possible to more efficiently cool the heat of the heating element 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mahiro Hachiya, Minoru Yoshikawa