Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Smetana

Bruce A. Smetana has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7788939
    Abstract: An azeotrope spray cooling system for utilizing an azeotrope coolant for improving the performance of a spray cooling system. An azeotrope coolant is utilized within a two-phase thermal management system for thermally managing one or more heat producing devices. The characteristics of the azeotrope coolant may be adjusted for various types of thermal management applications by altering the components of the azeotrope coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Donald E. Tilton, Bruce A. Smetana, Angela R. Maehren, Philip W. Appel, Randall T. Palmer
  • Patent number: 7679234
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure an apparatus includes a means for converting a first type of electrical power to a second type of electrical power. The apparatus also includes a means for spraying a coolant on the means for converting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Bruce A. Smetana, Tom D. Weir
  • Patent number: 7643910
    Abstract: A spray chamber valve control system for ensuring that coolant is sufficiently available at the intakes of pumps in a spray cooled environment regardless of the attitude, acceleration or deceleration of a spray chassis. The spray chamber valve control system includes a spray chassis with an interior portion for spray cooling electronic devices, a plurality of valves positioned within the inner corners of the spray chassis, and a control unit in communication with the valves for controlling the operation thereof. The control unit ensures that at least one valve is open at all times. The control unit also provides a recovery routine for when only one valve is open during a valve state change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Gustafson, Bruce Smetana, Jeffery Weiler
  • Publication number: 20080028782
    Abstract: An azeotrope spray cooling system for utilizing an azeotrope coolant for improving the performance of a spray cooling system. An azeotrope coolant is utilized within a two-phase thermal management system for thermally managing one or more heat producing devices. The characteristics of the azeotrope coolant may be adjusted for various types of thermal management applications by altering the components of the azeotrope coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Donald E. Tilton, Bruce A. Smetana, Angela R. Maehren, Philip W. Appel, Randall T. Palmer
  • Patent number: 7019337
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described. One exemplary aspect provides a power semiconductor device including a semiconductive substrate having a surface; and a power transistor having a planar configuration and comprising a plurality of electrically coupled sources and a plurality of electrically coupled drains formed using the semiconductive substrate and adjacent the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Publication number: 20050230746
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described. One exemplary aspect provides a power semiconductor device including a semiconductive substrate having a surface; and a power transistor having a planar configuration and comprising a plurality of electrically coupled sources and a plurality of electrically coupled drains formed using the semiconductive substrate and adjacent the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Richard Eden, Bruce Smetana
  • Publication number: 20040135168
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described. One exemplary aspect provides a power semiconductor device including a semiconductive substrate having a surface; and a power transistor having a planar configuration and comprising a plurality of electrically coupled sources and a plurality of electrically coupled drains formed using the semiconductive substrate and adjacent the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 6737301
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described. One exemplary aspect provides a power semiconductor device including a semiconductive substrate having a surface; and a power transistor having a planar configuration and comprising a plurality of electrically coupled sources and a plurality of electrically coupled drains formed using the semiconductive substrate and adjacent the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 6710441
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Isothermal Research Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Publication number: 20020195662
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 6447270
    Abstract: A liquid pump with a brushless motor constructed to be received within a liquid reservoir of a cooling system to deliver liquid coolant under pressure to a manifold assembly through which the coolant is discharged onto various electronic components to cool them. The pump has a pumping assembly, a rotor, a stator and an electronic control circuit which controls the operation of the pump and each of which is immersed in liquid coolant in the pump housing to cool them as the coolant flows through the pump. Further, because each component within the pump can be exposed to the liquid in the pump, no sealed enclosures are needed for the pump as a whole or for any component therein and the pump can be received directly in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignees: Walbro Corporation, Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Schmidt, Bruce A. Smetana, Thomas T. Weir
  • Publication number: 20020105009
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Publication number: 20020093062
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described. One exemplary aspect provides a power semiconductor device including a semiconductive substrate having a surface; and a power transistor having a planar configuration and comprising a plurality of electrically coupled sources and a plurality of electrically coupled drains formed using the semiconductive substrate and adjacent the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Publication number: 20020076851
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Publication number: 20020071293
    Abstract: Power semiconductor switching devices, power converters, integrated circuit assemblies, integrated circuitry, power current switching methods, methods of forming a power semiconductor switching device, power conversion methods, power semiconductor switching device packaging methods, and methods of forming a power transistor are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Richard C. Eden, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 6104610
    Abstract: An EMI shielding fluid control shroud is adapted for use in spray cooling EMI producing or EMI sensitive components. The EMI shielding shroud, carried between a printed circuit board and a spray plate, defines an interior spray cavity which prevents interference with coolant spray directed at one or more heat-generating, EMI producing or sensitive components, such as integrated circuits. The size and shape of the shroud provide control over the flow and direction of the coolant spray and result in better cooling of the components carried on the printed circuit board and partially enclosed by the shroud. The shroud provides an EMI shield which prevents passage by EMI in either direction, while allowing coolant fluid to exit through the EMI shielding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Bruce A Smetana
  • Patent number: 5842137
    Abstract: A subscriber unit for a wireless digital telephone system is disclosed. An equalizer for receiving I and Q samples is disclosed which is in the form. The I and Q samples are complex sample pairs provided at a frequency. The equalizer receives a training signal in the form of complex I and Q sample pairs. A training signal is affected by undesirable characteristics that might be present in the I and Q samples. A comparator compares the actual input training signal with the desired output to obtain a set of weighting coefficients for the equalizer to produce the desired output. A frequency correction circuit provides a corrected frequency signal for the frequency of the sample pairs from the weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: David N. Critchlow, Graham M. Avis, Sandra J. K. Earlam, Karle J. Johnson, Bruce A. Smetana, Gregory L. Westling, Eric Paneth, Moshe Yehushua
  • Patent number: 5719444
    Abstract: A packaging and cooling system for one or more semi-conductor devices provides a casement defining a die chamber carrying a peripherally positioned power board with pre-attached multi-functional power pins communicating to medially positioned dies. The power pins provide not only improved power supply but also provide heat transfer from and mechanical support for the die. The die with an attached power supply plane and heat spreader is flip mounted on the power pins. The casement defines channels for coolant between the power board and dies and outwardly of the heat spreader. A closed cooling system provides a fluidic coolant to an input plenum from which it is sprayed into the die chamber channels for evaporative cooling therein on both sides of contained dies and about the power pins with subsequent recovery and recycling. The asymmetrical architecture within the die chamber allows less restricted thermal expansion of the various components than would result from common symmetrical architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Donald E. Tilton, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 5713327
    Abstract: A liquid fuel injection device for internal combustion engines provides an elongate peripheral injector housing defining a cylindrical medial chamber with a fluid plenum having a fluid inlet at a first end and plural fluid exit ports at a second end that is carried within a combustion chamber of an engine cylinder. The plural exit ports are spacedly arrayed in both circumferential and axial directions and may be angularly oriented in the injector housing. The medial chamber of the injector housing rotatably carries an atomizer casement defining an internal chamber with plural circumferentially spaced inlet orifices at a first end which communicates with the fluid plenum of the first end of the injector housing and plural spray orifices at the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Donald E. Tilton, Bruce A. Smetana
  • Patent number: 5177741
    Abstract: In a wireless digital telephone system, a circuit for determining in a subscriber unit whether a particular RF channel is of the type designated by the base station to be either a control channel or a voice channel and for determining whether the channel is in the transmit or receive mode; the circuit utilizing the duration of an AM hole to determine the type of the channel and utilizing a unique word for determining the mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: International Mobile Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David N. Critchlow, Graham N. Avis, Sandra J. K. Earlam, Karle J. Johnson, Bruce A. Smetana, Gregory L. Westling, Eric Paneth, Moshe Yehushua