Patents Examined by Tho V Duong
  • Patent number: 11650018
    Abstract: A heat exchanger duct includes a wall having ends spaced along a central axis. An inlet manifold is positioned within a downstream portion of the duct at a radially outward location. An outlet manifold is positioned within an upstream portion of the duct at a radially outward location. At least one of the inlet and outlet manifolds extend at least 10 degrees around the circumference of the duct. A central manifold is disposed between the inlet and outlet manifolds, and radially inwardly of the inlet and outlet manifolds. Heat exchanger entrance elements extend radially inward from the inlet manifold to the central manifold, and heat exchanger exit elements extend radially outward from the central manifold to the outlet manifold. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Patent number: 11649991
    Abstract: A thermoacoustic refrigeration assembly includes a resonating tube having a first end and a second end; a first mechanical oscillator at the first end; a second mechanical oscillator at the second end; and a thermoacoustic stack sandwich disposed along a length of the resonating tube through which gas travels. The stack sandwich includes a first outboard heat exchanger on a first side of the stack sandwich facing the first mechanical oscillator, a second outboard heat exchanger on a second side of the stack sandwich facing the second mechanical oscillator, and a center heat exchanger disposed between the first outboard heat exchanger and the second outboard heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventor: Bryson Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11653471
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device is provided and includes: a temperature equalizing plate unit; at least one first vapor chamber unit and at least one second vapor chamber unit disposed on an outer surface of the temperature equalizing plate unit; at least one first tower fin set disposed on the outer surface of the temperature equalizing plate unit to sleeve the first and second vapor chamber units and partially expose the second vapor chamber unit; and at least one second tower fin set disposed on a part of a surface of the first tower fin set to sleeve the exposed part of the second vapor chamber unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: AURAS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Chen, Cheng-Ju Chang, Jyun-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11650019
    Abstract: A fluid disperser includes a plate body installed in a channel, having a first wall portion in a middle region of a first surface facing the upstream side, and provided with a plurality of holes allowing a fluid to flow in from the upstream side to the downstream side, and a second wall portion provided on the first surface and having an inner surface intersecting with a line extending from the middle region to a circumferential edge of the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Tsunoda, Shigeki Sakakura, Nobuyuki Honma, Kohei Tsurugaya
  • Patent number: 11650016
    Abstract: A heat pipe is disclosed includes a container, a container lid including a groove defined therein, a wick, and an end plug operably coupled to the wick. The end plug includes a pin extending therefrom. The groove of the container lid is configured to receive the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventors: Matthew M. Swartz, William A. Byers, John Lojek, III
  • Patent number: 11644253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooler or cooler body which in particular is adapted for cooling electronic structural units or assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BRUSA Elektronik AG
    Inventor: Ueli Wendelspiess
  • Patent number: 11643585
    Abstract: This latent heat storage body is provided with: a latent heat storage material; and a temperature-sensitive material exhibiting different functions at a temperature equal to or higher than a specific temperature and at a temperature lower than the specific temperature, in which a phase change temperature is changed by using the function of the temperature-sensitive material according to ambient temperature. This latent heat storage body is characterized in that: the phase change temperature is set, by the function of the temperature-sensitive material when the ambient temperature is lower than the specific temperature, to one among a low temperature setting and a high temperature setting having a higher temperature than the low temperature setting; and the phase change temperature is set to the other setting among the low temperature setting and the high temperature setting by the function of the temperature-sensitive material when the ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the specific temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI ENERGY SYSTEM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuju Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11629918
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for vaporizing a coolant fluid by heat exchange with a calorigenic fluid, said exchanger comprising several parallel plates defining a plurality of passages between them which are suitable for the coolant fluid or calorigenic fluid to flow, a first wave and a second wave extending between two successive plates so as to define a plurality of channels within the same passage, said first and second waves comprising two adjacent edges, at least one assembly member extending from one edge to the other so as to connect the waves to one another. According to the invention, the assembly member is forcibly engaged in at least one part of a channel of the first wave on one hand, and in at least one part of a channel of the second wave on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Guillaume Cardon, Frederic Crayssac, Philippe Grigoletto, Natacha Haik-Beraud, Frederic Rousseau, Marc Wagner
  • Patent number: 11629917
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for heat exchangers including a first outer plate, a second outer plate, and an intermediate plate. The intermediate plate is positioned between the outer plates. Fluid flow passages are formed between the intermediate plate and each of the outer plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Farbod Vakilimoghaddam, Nikola Vucenic, Kenneth M. A. Abels, Benjamin A. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11624530
    Abstract: A medium-deep non-interference geothermal heating system based on loose siltstone geology includes a water return pipe and a water inlet pipe. The system further includes a differential pressure overflow pipe, a gauge, a differential pressure controller, a first high area water return pipe, a first water return pipe, a third water return pipe, a bypass pipe, a high area water supply pipe, a second high area water return pipe, a geothermal well water return pipe, a geothermal well water supply pipe, a heat pump unit, a second water return pipe, a water supply pipe, a geothermal well water pump, a first geothermal well water supply pipe, a first geothermal well water return pipe, a second geothermal well water return pipe, a second geothermal well water supply pipe, a geothermal wellhead device, and a geothermal well that are combined for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SHAANXI XIXIAN NEW AREA FENGXI NEW CITY ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hongtao Liu, Teng Liu, Zhentao Xie, Panfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11619453
    Abstract: The present application discloses a microchannel flat tube and a microchannel heat exchanger. The microchannel flat tube includes a flat tube body and a row of channels. The flat tube body includes a first plane, a second plane, a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface and the second side surface are arranged on opposite sides of the flat tube body. The row of channels is arranged in the flat tube body. The row of channels extends through the flat tube body. The row of channels extends through the flat tube body. The row of channels at least includes a first channel, a second channel and a third channel which are arranged in a width direction. Cross-sectional areas of the first channel, the second channel and the third channel in the width direction change according to an exponential function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU SANHUA RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haobo Jiang, Li-Zhi Wang, Jian-Long Jiang, Lin-Jie Huang
  • Patent number: 11619452
    Abstract: A capillary structure of vapor chamber and the vapor chamber. The capillary structure of vapor chamber includes a sintered main body. The sintered main body has multiple perforations and multiple extension sections integrally extending from one side of the sintered main body. The extension sections are arranged at intervals or not arranged at intervals to support the sintered main body. The vapor chamber includes a first plate body and a second plate body. The first and second plate bodies are correspondingly mated with each other to together define an airtight chamber. The second plate body has a heated section and a first capillary structure. The sintered main body is correspondingly disposed in the heated section and supported on (overlapped with) the first capillary structure. By means of the extension sections, the sintered main body and the first capillary structure define therebetween a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11614289
    Abstract: An aluminum heat exchanger includes first and second plates with inner and outer surfaces, which are joined by brazing and define at least one fluid flow passage. The first and second plates each comprise a core layer of aluminum or an aluminum alloy having a melting temperature greater than an aluminum brazing temperature. The first plate also includes a first outer clad layer defining the outer surface of the first plate. The first outer clad layer is solderable to a metal layer of an object to be cooled and includes nickel or copper. A second outer clad layer is located between the first outer clad layer and the core layer and is roll bonded to at least the second outer clad layer. A manufacturing method includes brazing first and second plates, where the layers of the first plate are roll bonded and the first plate is optionally formed before brazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DANA CANADA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doug Vanderwees, Meinrad K. A. Machler
  • Patent number: 11606880
    Abstract: Disclosed are thermal management for electronic devices and, more particularly, to a thermodynamic system with bi-phase fluid circuits which self-organize internal fluid movement to transfer heat from heat absorption zones to heat dissipation zones. A thermodynamic system may include a plurality of thermal energy absorption (TEA) nodes disposed adjacent to one or more heat sources which are interconnected with one another and also a plurality of thermal energy dissipation (TED) nodes through a capillary system that encloses a bi-phase fluid. As TE is absorbed into the bi-phase fluid at individual TEA nodes local condition changes such as, for example, pressure and/or volume increases induce convection of the absorbed TE away from the individual TEA nodes. As TE dissipates from the bi-phase fluid at individual TED nodes local condition changes such as, for example, pressure and/or volume decreases further induce convection of additional absorbed TE toward the individual TED nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Wuxi Kalannipu Thermal Management Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11603003
    Abstract: One thermal control system for use during electric vehicle battery charging includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid to one of a vehicle thermal loop or a vehicle heat exchanger. Another thermal control system includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid back to the charging station. In another thermal control system, a vehicle thermal loop supplies a fluid at a first temperature to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid to a second temperature and returns the fluid to the vehicle thermal loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William M. Price, Peteris K. Augenbergs, Wulfer de Bruijn
  • Patent number: 11604035
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a heat dissipation apparatus and relates to the field of heat dissipation technologies, so as to solve a problem that heat dissipation efficiency of heat dissipation fins of an existing heat dissipation apparatus is low. In embodiments of the present invention, the heat dissipation apparatus includes a base plate, where multiple main fins are disposed on the base plate, and multiple auxiliary fins are disposed on the main fins; a gap exists between the auxiliary fins and the base plate; and a blocking structure is disposed and fastened on the base plate and/or the main fins, and the blocking structure can make cooling airflow first flow along the auxiliary fins and then flow along gaps between adjacent main fins and flow out. The present invention is mainly used in the field of communication accessories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zaizhong Xia, Yun Tang, Wen Fang
  • Patent number: 11604033
    Abstract: The notched base ring comprises a base ring sheet body including a top portion, a bottom portion, a first end connecting the top portion to the bottom portion, and a second end connecting the bottom portion to the top portion. The top portion includes a plurality of attachment lugs and defines a plurality of notches, each notch being at least partially defined by two lugs disposed on opposite sides of the notch, the top portion also including an angled top edge that is disposed at each of the attachment lugs, and the bottom portion includes a bottom support edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHERN TOOL & EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Hecimovich, John Schuetz
  • Patent number: 11602973
    Abstract: A vehicle HVAC system includes a component within a refrigerant system in a vehicle HVAC system, a vibration sensor that generates a vibration signal indicating a vibration of the component, and a controller in communication with the vibration sensor to receive the vibration signal and the refrigerant system. The controller is configured to determine whether the vibration signal corresponds to a predetermined vibration value and for adjusting the operation of the refrigerant system to minimize the system noise if the vibration signal corresponds to the predetermined vibration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Brian D. Literman, Jeffrey A. Bozeman
  • Patent number: 11592222
    Abstract: A condenser for a refrigerator according the present invention includes a heat exchange unit configured to receive at one side thereof refrigerant, which has been compressed in a compressor, to perform heat exchange between the refrigerant and air and to discharge the refrigerant, which has exchanged heat with the air, to an evaporator, wherein the heat exchange unit includes a flat tube, through one end of which the refrigerant is introduced and through a remaining end of which the refrigerant is discharged, thereby performing heat exchange between the refrigerant and the air, wherein the flat tube includes at least one bent tube portion defining plural rows of tubes, which are spaced apart from each other in an up-and-down direction, and wherein the plural rows of tubes define an intersection bent surface, which has a predetermined curvature and intersects the up-and-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taegyun Park, Juhyok Kim, Jiwon Choi
  • Patent number: 11585604
    Abstract: A tube type heat exchanger includes a core includes multiple tubes, a header plate defining an array of apertures in which said tubes are received, and a coolant jacket arranged about said core. The header plate includes a body defining a central region and an edge region circumferential to said central region. The central region defines said array of apertures. The edge region includes a flange. The header plate is connected to the coolant jacket via first and second contact areas between the header plate and the coolant jacket. The flange is outboard of the coolant jacket. The first contact area is between the flange and the coolant jacket; and the second contact area is inboard of the first contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO Marston Ltd.
    Inventors: Mario Ciaffarafa, Mark Stickland