Patents Examined by Yahya Ahmad
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Patent number: 9768094Abstract: A power electronics module having a base plate, a circuit carrier arranged on the base plate and a plurality of conductor tracks which are electrically insulated from the base plate. A power semiconductor component is arranged on one of the conductor tracks, and has a load connection element. In this case, the base plate has a substantially continuous first recess and the circuit carrier has a substantially continuous second recess, wherein the first and second recesses are arranged such that they are in alignment with one another. The load connection element has a first contact device which is in electrically conductive contact with a contact area of that side of the conductor track which is averted from the base plate, a second contact device for externally making contact with the circuit carrier, and a connecting section, which extends through the first and second recesses, between the first and second contact devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co., KGInventor: Christian Walter
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Patent number: 9769957Abstract: A modular computing system for a data center includes one or more data center modules including rack computer systems. An electrical module is coupled to the data center modules and provides electrical power to computer systems in the data center modules. The data center modules do not include any internal active cooling systems and cannot be coupled with any external active cooling systems. A data center module directs ambient air to flow into intake air plenums extending along intake sides of the rows of racks, through the rows of racks into exhaust plenums extending along exhaust sides of the rows of racks, and out into the ambient environment to cool computer systems in the racks. Directed airflow can be lateral, vertical, at least partially driven by air buoyancy gradients, at least partially induced by air moving devices internal to computer systems in the rows of racks, thereof, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Chadwick Towner, Kraig Knight, John William Eichelberg, Peter George Ross
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Patent number: 9756766Abstract: Embodiments that allow for the air cooling of disk drives associated with liquid cooled nodes are disclosed. A node for performing computing operations includes a frame, a power supply coupled to the |frame|[CB1], and one or more liquid coolant-submersible motherboard assemblies. The one or more motherboard assemblies are configured to operate when submersed in a liquid coolant. The motherboard assemblies are mounted on the frame with one or more spaces between. The spaces form one or more channels between the motherboard assemblies. The frame includes an opening on at least one end of the one or more channels.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: GREEN REVOLUTION COOLING, INC.Inventor: Christiaan Scott Best
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Patent number: 9750157Abstract: A rack door is disclosed for mounting one or more power distribution units (PDUs) to the front of a server rack. An embodiment allows access to power cables when the rack door is open or closed. An embodiment provides power cable routing that allows power cables from one PDU to be connected or disconnected independently from other cables on that same PDU or on another PDU mounted to the rack door.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: ZT GROUP INT'L, INC.Inventor: Karan Mehta
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Patent number: 9750127Abstract: A circuit card assembly includes a first printed circuit board and a first electronic component mounted on the first printed circuit board. A heat transfer assembly is coupled to the first printed circuit board. The heat transfer assembly includes a first plate extending adjacent the first printed circuit board and a second plate extending adjacent the first plate. At least one of the first plate and the second plate includes an accommodation feature to accommodate the first electronic component. The heat transfer assembly further includes a first set of heat pipes between the first plate and the second plate. The first set of heat pipes is configured to remove heat from the first electronic component. At least one heat pipe of the first set of heat pipes extends adjacent the accommodation feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joo Han Kim, Michelle Ann Parziale, Jerry Leon Wright, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, Brian Patrick Hoden
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Patent number: 9739291Abstract: A dual rotating axial fan includes a first axial fan element having a first motor that rotates a first impeller, a second axial fan element having a second motor that rotates a second impeller, and a clamping element coupling the first axial fan element to the second axial fan element in series so that the first axial fan element or the clamping element can move relative to the second axial fan element.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventor: Satoshi Masuo
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Patent number: 9743560Abstract: A data center system includes an infrastructure unit including a public area and a bridge area and at least one computer room. The computer room is disposed along an extending direction of the bridge area, and a length of the bridge area is matched with a length of computer rooms arranged along the bridge area, so that a number of computer rooms may be increased according to the needs. The computer room includes a plurality of layers of data centers stacked on each other. Cold passage areas and hot passage areas of two neighboring layers of data centers form a cold air passage and a hot air passage so that cold air produced by a cooling module may be directed to each data center, and hot air in each data center may be directed to the cooling module to enable devices in each data center to operate under appropriate temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Yanchang Chen
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Patent number: 9743562Abstract: Cooling apparatuses, cooled electronic modules, and methods of fabrication are provided which facilitate heat transfer from one or more electronic components to a liquid coolant in an operational mode, and drainage of coolant therefrom in a transport mode. The cooling apparatus includes a liquid-cooled heat sink configured to horizontally couple along a main heat transfer surface to the electronic component(s). The heat sink includes a thermally conductive structure with a coolant-carrying compartment through which coolant flows, and a coolant inlet tube and a coolant outlet tube affixed to the thermally conductive structure and in fluid communication with the coolant-carrying compartment to facilitate coolant flow through the compartment. The coolant-carrying compartment has a base surface, and the coolant outlet tube extends into the coolant-carrying compartment towards the base surface to facilitate withdrawal of the liquid coolant from the compartment in the transport mode of the cooling apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Frank M. Desiano, David L. Edwards, Robert K. Mullady, Donald W. Porter, Randy Zoodsma
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Patent number: 9743561Abstract: Cooling apparatuses, cooled electronic modules, and methods of fabrication are provided which facilitate heat transfer from one or more electronic components to a liquid coolant in an operational mode, and drainage of coolant therefrom in a transport mode. The cooling apparatus includes a liquid-cooled heat sink configured to horizontally couple along a main heat transfer surface to the electronic component(s). The heat sink includes a thermally conductive structure with a coolant-carrying compartment through which coolant flows, and a coolant inlet tube and a coolant outlet tube affixed to the thermally conductive structure and in fluid communication with the coolant-carrying compartment to facilitate coolant flow through the compartment. The coolant-carrying compartment has a base surface, and the coolant outlet tube extends into the coolant-carrying compartment towards the base surface to facilitate withdrawal of the liquid coolant from the compartment in the transport mode of the cooling apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Frank M. Desiano, David L. Edwards, Robert K. Mullady, Donald W. Porter, Randy Zoodsma
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Patent number: 9742305Abstract: A frame portion is a plate-like member to which a cooler is attached for cooling an electric circuit element configured to operate for power conversion that causes generation of heat. The capacitor is a structural member disposed in a direction perpendicular to the frame portion and including a capacitor element electrically connected to the electric circuit element. The capacitor includes a first support surface and a second support surface that are external surfaces facing in opposite directions from each other and parallel to the direction perpendicular to the frame portion. The first frame and the second frame each have an end portion fixed to a connection frame. The first frame includes a first attachment surface fixed to a first support surface. The second frame includes a second attachment surface fixed to a second support surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Hirokazu Takabayashi
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Patent number: 9727100Abstract: A power unit includes a power distribution member and an interchangeable adapter configured to be deployed in an equipment rack of a distributed computing system. The power distribution member includes multiple power outlets to provide electrical power to a plurality of devices disposed in the equipment rack at a first current rating and phase type configuration, and a first connector having a plurality of first electrical contacts that are electrically coupled to the power outlets. The interchangeable adapter includes a second connector to be coupled to the first connector in which the second connector has multiple second contacts that are arranged to mate with certain ones of the first electrical contacts such that one of a plurality of different electrical power sources having a second current rating and phase type configuration is provided to the power outlets at the first current rating and phase type configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLCInventor: Alva B. Eaton
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Patent number: 9723741Abstract: A housing arrangement of a power electronics device includes one power module or several identical power modules, each module with at least one part connected to a hazardous voltage, the arrangement further including a housing part having room for at least one power module. Each power module includes an enclosure part which essentially surrounds the power module and includes electrically insulating material. All the external connections of the power module are placed on one single wall of the enclosure part. The power modules and the enclosure part of the power modules are arranged such that when the power module is installed to the housing part the power module is electrically insulated from the housing part and external connections of the power module are directed to the front side of the housing part.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: VACON OYInventors: Devin Dilley, Marc Hoffman, Dan Isaksson
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Patent number: 9723753Abstract: A cooling system for cooling an electronic component has a heat pipe defined by an inner wall and an outer wall with an intermediate fluid chamber. The heat pipe has a wall to be put in contact with a cold plate and extends away from the cold plate to define a cup shape with a fluid movement member positioned within the chamber to move the fluid from an end of the chamber adjacent to the cold plate to a spaced end of the cup shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Michael J. Andres, Robert Scott Downing
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Patent number: 9713285Abstract: According to an example, a cooling system includes a cooling fluid reservoir, a cooling apparatus in fluid communication with the cooling fluid reservoir, a chamber having a side in thermal contact with a portion of the heat generating component, in which cooling fluid delivered by the cooling apparatus is to be heated through receipt of heat from the heat generating component, a cooling plate positioned at a distance and separated from the chamber, and a cooling fluid tube connecting the chamber and the cooling plate, in which the heated cooling fluid is to flow through the cooling fluid tube to the cooling plate. The cooling plate is also to be in thermal contact with a heat exchanger that that is to remove heat from the cooling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Tahir Cader, Niru Kumari, John Franz, Cullen E. Bash, David A. Moore, Sergio Escobar-Vargas
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Patent number: 9711953Abstract: Various embodiments provide safety disconnect systems for a power system. In one aspect, a safety switch system and method for a power system, including a plurality of sequentially interlocked switches capable of being operated in a predetermined sequence to isolate one or more fuses, is provided. The described safety switch system is a convenient and sequential approach to safely remove power from a system and access associated fuses.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Bentek CorporationInventors: James Peplinski, Mitchell Schoch
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Patent number: 9693484Abstract: An apparatus for cooling an information handling system has at least one component requiring cooling. The apparatus includes a heat reservoir configured to be coupled to a chassis of the information handling system containing the component requiring cooling. A fluid reservoir is defined within the heat reservoir. A thermal fluid is disposed within the heat reservoir. A thermal conduit has a first end and a second end. The first end of the thermal conduit is coupled to the heat reservoir such that the thermal conduit is in thermal communication with the thermal fluid and the second end is coupled to the component requiring cooling such that the thermal conduit is in thermal communication with the component requiring cooling.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Austin Michael Shelnutt, Travis C. North
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Patent number: 9693489Abstract: Provided are a cooling flow channel module for a power conversion device, in which a structure of a cooling flow channel for cooling a power conversion device including an inverter or an LDC is simplified to facilitate manufacturing and assembling, and a power conversion device including the same. The cooling flow channel module includes an intake flow channel, a discharge flow channel disposed to be parallel to the intake flow channel, and a cooling pipe configured to connect the intake flow channel and the discharge flow channel and cool the heating element disposed thereabove or therebelow, wherein a plurality of cooling pipes are provided and connect a side portion of the intake flow channel and a side portion of the discharge flow channel disposed to be parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young Seop Park
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Patent number: 9693485Abstract: A cooling system of an electronic device storing apparatus of the present invention comprises: a rack including an electronic device and a plurality of placement shelves to place the electronic device; in the rack, a vaporizer having a refrigerant internally being mounted; outside the rack, a condensing part connected with the vaporizer by a laying pipe being installed; and a refrigerant adjustment means for adjusting a height of a refrigerant surface in the vaporizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Kenichi Inaba, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Akira Shoujiguchi, Arihiro Matsunaga, Masaki Chiba
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Patent number: 9684806Abstract: A rack-based information handling system (RIHS) includes a rack chassis having at least two opposing side panels which are structurally held in place by one or more segments spanning between the two opposing side panels to generate an internal volume between the at least two opposing side panels. The internal volume has structures that enable insertion and retention of information technology (IT) gear and other components of the IHS at one of a front access space and a rear access space of the rack chassis that extend between the two opposing side panels. The RIHS also includes at least one security screen that is removably affixed to opposing edges of the two opposing side panels and span across a first segment of an access space to prevent direct physical access to the IT gear or other components that are inserted within the rack chassis behind the security screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventor: Edmond Bailey
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Patent number: 9686886Abstract: A cooling mechanism includes a plurality of first circuit boards arranged in parallel with each other, one or more first fans for generating a cooling wind in a first flow path formed along the plurality of first circuit boards, and a connection board arranged orthogonally to the first flow path and at a position different from a position of the first flow path, and coupling the plurality of first circuit boards.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Okada, Toshio Asai, Hiroshi Suzuki