Patents Examined by Zachary Pape
  • Patent number: 11071232
    Abstract: A liquid immersion cooling apparatus includes a first receptacle in which a refrigerant liquid is accommodated, configured to include a first tank having a first sidewall, a first lid configured to cover the first tank, and a first space provided between the refrigerant liquid and the first lid, a second receptacle in which a sealing material is accommodated, configured to include a second tank having a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, a second lid configured to cover the second tank, a second space provided between the sealing material and the second lid, and configured to communicate with the first space, and a third space provided between the sealing material and the second lid, partitioned from the second space, and configured to communicate with an outside, and a heat insulator provided between the first sidewall and the second sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kento Ohga, Keita Hirai
  • Patent number: 11071235
    Abstract: Method and apparatus includes a chassis to house circuitry, the chassis having first and second surfaces and an air inlet. An airflow moving device may create an airflow in a first direction that is communicated to the chassis via the air inlet. A wall structure may have a height that extends up from a base of the wall structure in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction of the airflow, where the base of the wall structure directly contacts the first surface and forms an elongated opening along a top surface of the wall structure and in between the second surface of the chassis. The airflow may flow over the top surface of the wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip Mann, Sandra J. Shirk/Heath, Mark Plucinski, Tyler Jandt
  • Patent number: 11071229
    Abstract: An air shroud includes a main portion, an extension portion, and a first adjustable air baffle. The main portion is in physical communication with one or more cooling fans of an information handling system. The extension portion extends from the main portion. The first adjustable air baffle is in physical communication with the extension portion. The first adjustable air baffle is biased toward an extended position. When a first memory module is located within a first memory slot of an information handling system while the main portion is in physical communication with the one or more cooling fans, the first adjustable air baffle transitions from the extended position to a collapsed position in response to a force being exerted on the first adjustable air baffle by the first memory module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: White Yi-Pai Chu, Eric Shih Huai Cho
  • Patent number: 11056153
    Abstract: A memory module may include a module substrate having first and second surfaces facing away from each other, a plurality of first memories mounted over one or more of the first and second surfaces, one or more second memories and a controller each mounted over one of the first and second surfaces of the module substrate, and a plurality of batteries mounted over one or more of the first and second surfaces of the module substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Kug Lym, Jong Bum Park
  • Patent number: 11051393
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a circuit board, a heat emitting element disposed on the circuit board, a shielding can, and a middle frame, where the shielding can is connected to the circuit board, and forms a shielding space together with the circuit board; the heat emitting element is accommodated in the shielding space; the circuit board is disposed on one side of the middle frame; the middle frame is provided with an accommodating space; and the shielding can includes a top and a bottom that are disposed opposite to each other, where the bottom is configured to be connected to the circuit board, and the top is located above the heat emitting element and extends to the accommodating space. The present disclosure further provides a heat dissipation and shielding structure. The present disclosure helps make a mobile terminal and a heat dissipation and shielding structure lighter and thinner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiguo Zhang, Yingchun Zhang, Haitao Zhen, Nanbo Kang
  • Patent number: 11051432
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module (1), in particular an electronic power module for hybrid vehicles or electric vehicles, comprising: a printed circuit board (10) with at least one contact point (11); an electronic unit (20), in particular a power electronic unit, with at least one connection point (21), the connection point (21) of the electronic unit (20) being electrically connected to the contact point (11) of the printed circuit board (10) by means of at least one electrically conductive contact element (30); and a heat sink (40) with a top (41), the electronic unit (20) bearing indirectly and/or directly against the top (41) of the heat sink (40). According to the invention, at least one heat-conducting element (50) is arranged between the contact element (30) and the heat sink (40) in such a manner that a thermally conductive connection is produced between the contact element (30) and the heat sink (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Boris Adam, Wolfram Kienle
  • Patent number: 11051392
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat dissipating device disposed on a circuit board. The heat dissipating device is provided with a first glue layer, a first graphene composite heat dissipating layer, a second glue layer, a second graphene composite heat dissipating layer, and a resin layer in this order from bottom to top. Furthermore, the first graphene composite heat dissipating layer and the second graphene composite heat dissipating layer are doped with a plurality of metal particles, and the first graphene composite heat dissipating layer and the second graphene composite heat dissipating layer are respectively covered by a metal layer. The above structure is simple, space-saving, and has good thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Team Group Inc.
    Inventor: Chin Feng Chang
  • Patent number: 11051425
    Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle assembly and a pluggable module. The receptacle assembly has a receptacle housing includes walls forming a module cavity with a communication connector at a back end thereof. The receptacle assembly has a liquid cooling assembly having a liquid cooling channel coupled to the receptacle housing and a fitting in flow communication with the liquid cooling channel. The pluggable module is receivable in the module cavity and has a pluggable body holding a module circuit board and a liquid cooling assembly coupled to the pluggable body. The liquid cooling assembly includes a liquid cooling channel in thermal communication with the pluggable body and a module fitting mated with the fitting of the receptacle assembly to couple the liquid cooling channel of the pluggable module in flow communication with the liquid cooling channel of the receptacle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alex Michael Sharf
  • Patent number: 11044834
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a bottom surface and one or more mounting members that enable the housing to be mounted in a rack. The apparatus includes liquid cooling components mounted within the housing. The liquid cooling components include tubing within which a coolant may be communicated, and a heat exchange component that thermally couples a heat load within the housing to the coolant so that heat from the heat load is transferred to the coolant. The bottom surface of the housing defines a drain path. The heat exchange component is positioned in a downward direction of gravity relative to the heat load when the housing is mounted in the rack. In the event of a coolant leak, the coolant leak will occur beneath the heat load and the coolant will flow away from the heat load and exit the housing by use of the drain path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Chi Kin Lau, William F. Edwards, Jr., Justin S. Lee, Winnie Leung
  • Patent number: 11031318
    Abstract: A cooling device including an encapsulated phase change porous layer that exhibits an increased heat capacity is disclosed. The encapsulated phase change porous layer may include a sintered porous layer, a phase change material formed over the sintered porous layer, and an encapsulation material formed over the phase change material. The encapsulation material may encapsulate the phase change material between the encapsulation material and the sintered porous layer and retain the phase change material between the encapsulation material and the sintered porous layer when a fluid is flowed through or in contact with the encapsulated phase change porous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11032946
    Abstract: An electrical connector cage assembly includes a connector casing, a heat-dissipating structure, and a light-guiding part. The heat-dissipating structure is disposed on an outer side wall of the connector casing and includes a base portion and a plurality of fins protruding from the base portion and extending parallel to each other and the base portion. One of the fins protrudes relative to the base portion longer than another one, so that an accommodating space is formed above the shorter fin and extends parallel to the fins. The light-guiding part is disposed above the heat-dissipating structure. A light-guiding rod body of the light-guiding part is accommodated in the accommodating space. An electrical connector uses the electrical connector cage assembly. An electronic apparatus includes the electrical connector and an apparatus casing. A light-output portion of the light-guiding part is disposed toward a light-permeable structure of a panel of the apparatus casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: ALL BEST PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haven Yang
  • Patent number: 11032947
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a coldplate configured to be thermally coupled to a structure to be cooled and to remove thermal energy from the structure. The coldplate includes (i) first and second outer layers having at least one first material and (ii) a third layer embedded in the outer layers and having at least one second material. The first and second materials have different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs). The third layer is embedded non-uniformly in the outer layers so that different zones of the coldplate have different local CTEs. The third layer may include openings extending through the second material(s), and projections of the first material(s) from at least one of the first and second outer layers may partially or completely fill the openings. The first and second outer layers may include aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the third layer may include aluminum silicon carbide or thermal pyrolytic graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Craig H. McCordic, Joseph R. Ellsworth, Todd E. Southard, Ethan S. Heinrich, Dimitry Zarkh
  • Patent number: 11026354
    Abstract: In one aspect, a medium voltage power converter includes a cabinet having: a power cube bay to house a plurality of power cubes, each of the plurality of power cubes adapted within a corresponding enclosure and comprising a low frequency front end stage, a DC link and a high frequency back end stage, the plurality of power cubes to couple to a high speed machine; and a plurality of first barriers adapted to isolate and direct a first flow of cooling air through one of the plurality of power cubes; and a transformer bay having at least one transformer to couple between a utility connection and the plurality of power cubes, the transformer bay including a plurality of cooling fans to cool the at least one transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company
    Inventors: Enrique Ledezma, Bhaskara Palle, Rose Metzler
  • Patent number: 11026353
    Abstract: An arrangement has a housing and a power electronics circuit arranged on a housing base in the housing. A cavity with connections, which lead to the housing exterior, for supplying and discharging a cooling liquid is formed in the housing base. Cooling coils through which the cooling liquid can flow are formed on that side of the housing base which is averted from the cavity. A fan which is driven by an electric motor is arranged in the housing in such a way that the air flow of the fan is cooled by the cooling coils and then draws heat from the power electronics circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Mircea Birdeanu, Sorin Andrei, Andrei-Radu Negrila, Sebastian Taubert, Eduard Iosif Trif
  • Patent number: 11019756
    Abstract: Provided is a power conversion device including: power semiconductor elements, a support case, a heat sink, in which a plurality of boss portions are formed; a smoothing capacitor including a case member having a plurality of leg portions; and a bus bar configured to connect the smoothing capacitor and the DC input terminal, wherein, in the power conversion device in which the plurality of leg portions of the case member being respectively fixed to the plurality of boss portions of the heat sink, wherein materials and dimensions of the respective boss portions, the respective leg portions, the support case, and the bus bar are determined so that a total thermal expansion/contraction amount of the respective boss portions and the respective leg portions falls within a range of 0.9 to 1.1 relative to a total thermal expansion/contraction amount of the support case and the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Hashii, Yoshifumi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11019752
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a cooling module includes a base frame, a fluid supply channel disposed on the base frame to receive cooling fluid from an external cooling fluid source, a fluid return channel disposed on the base frame to return the cooling fluid, multiple cold plates disposed on the base frame, wherein the cold plates are to be attached to a plurality of data processing modules. The cooling module also includes multiple distribution channels to distribute the cooling fluid received from the fluid supply channel to the cold plates to exchange heat generated by the heat generating modules and to return the cooling fluid carrying the exchanged heat back to the external cooling fluid source via the fluid return channel. The base frame, the fluid supply and return channels, the fluid distribution channels, and the cold plates are integrated as a single integrated cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11013143
    Abstract: Provided is a power supply unit which is immersed and directly cooled in a coolant filled in a cooling apparatus. The power supply unit includes a unit substrate, and a voltage step-down device mounted on the unit substrate. The unit substrate includes a voltage input terminal for supplying an external power supply voltage, and a voltage output terminal. The voltage output terminal is electrically connected to a voltage input terminal of an electronic device. The power supply unit is mounted on a bottom of a cooling tank of the cooling apparatus so that the electronic device is positioned at an upper part of the power supply unit upon electrical connection between the electronic device and the power supply unit, and cooled by the coolant flowing from the bottom, or flowing from another section of the cooling tank. The unit substrate may be disposed apart from the bottom so as to form a flow channel which allows passage of the coolant between one surface of the unit substrate and the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: EXASCALER INC.
    Inventor: Motoaki Saito
  • Patent number: 11013145
    Abstract: The vapor chamber includes a casing, a working fluid, a microchannel, and a wick. The casing includes an upper casing sheet and a lower casing sheet that face each other and are joined together at an outer edge so as to define an internal space therebetween. The microchannel is in the lower casing sheet and in communication with the internal space so as to form a flow path for the working fluid. The wick is in the internal space of the casing, and is in contact with the microchannel. The microchannel has a plurality of convexes that form the flow path, an area ratio of an area of the plurality of convexes to an entire area of the microchannel is 5% to 40% in a plan view of the vapor chamber, and a height of the plurality of convexes is 5 to 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihito Naito
  • Patent number: 11005240
    Abstract: A three phase switchgear or control gear includes: at least one compartment; a plurality of components for a first phase; a plurality of components for a second phase; and a plurality of components for a third phase. The plurality of components for the first phase, the second phase, and the third phase each include a connection to a main busbar, a circuit breaker actuator, a single phase circuit breaker pole, and a cable connection. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the first phase are oriented along a first axis. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the second phase are oriented along a second axis. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the third phase are oriented along a third axis. The first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are inclined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Tomas Kozel, Radek Javora, Pavel Vrbka, Josef Cernohous, Christoph Budde, Christian Simonidis, Harald Staab, Sebastian Breisch
  • Patent number: 11006513
    Abstract: The first board section comprises a switching module with heat-generating semiconductor switches associated with a first operational temperature range. The first board section has a first conductive layer of a first thickness. The second board section comprises a plurality of capacitors mounted on a second circuit board. The second board section has conductive traces for interconnecting the capacitors as a network. The capacitors are associated with a second operational temperature range that is lower than the first operational temperature range. A thermal isolation intermediary forms a barrier between, or adjoining, the first board section and the second board section, where the first board section and the second board section are spaced part from each other by the thermal isolation intermediary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Christopher J. Schmit