Patents by Inventor Bruno Agostini

Bruno Agostini 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: 12196497
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device is provided herein. The heat dissipation device includes an evaporator chamber at least partially filled with a working fluid to be evaporated when being heated by a heat source; at least one condenser chamber for receiving evaporated working fluid and for condensing the evaporated working fluid, wherein the condenser chamber is interconnected with the evaporator chamber in a fluid conductive manner; and at least one air fin element interconnected between the condenser chamber and one of a further condenser chamber and a side wall of the heat dissipation device; wherein the air fin element has a triply periodic surface providing air fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Bruno Agostini, Andrey Petrov
  • Patent number: 12156378
    Abstract: A vapor chamber includes a bottom cover, a top cover, a crate element, and at least one porous pillar. The bottom cover is configured to receive waste heat from an electronic component. The top cover is arranged on the bottom cover, and the bottom cover and the top cover are formed such that a vapor cavity configured to accommodate a liquid is formed between the bottom and top cover. The crate element is configured to provide mechanical strength to the vapor chamber, and has at least one compartment. The compartment(s) are formed by at least three side panels that are connected to each other, where the at least three side panels extend from the bottom cover to the top cover. The porous pillar(s) are configured to transfer the liquid from the top cover to the bottom cover and are arranged in the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20240353293
    Abstract: A method for testing a two-phase cooling device is provided. The cooling device has a housing surrounding a cavity and a cooling medium within the cavity. The method includes controlling a temperature of ambient air of the cooling device such that the cooling medium within the cavity transitions from its liquid state to its solid state and/or from its solid state to its liquid state, while monitoring a first temperature of the cooling device, determining whether the monitored first temperature fulfills a predetermined criterion, and determining that the cooling device is overfilled with the cooling medium if the predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Oleksandr SOLOGUBENKO, Daniele TORRESIN, Andrey PETROV, Bruno AGOSTINI
  • Publication number: 20240334662
    Abstract: A vapor chamber for cooling a heat source is provided. The vapor chamber includes a cavity between a baseplate and a condenser wall, the cavity containing a cooling medium, wherein the baseplate has an evaporator side towards the cavity and an attachment side opposite to the evaporator side for attaching the heat source, wherein the baseplate is adapted for transferring heat from the attachment side to the cavity, such that cooling medium evaporates at the evaporator side and condenses at the condenser wall, and wherein the vapor chamber further includes a channel, which is at least partially connected to the baseplate, with an inlet below a liquid level of the cooling medium and an outlet above the liquid level and which provides a bubble pump for transporting the liquid medium from the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Andrey Petrov, Bruno Agostini
  • Patent number: 12068174
    Abstract: In one embodiment a power semiconductor module includes a substrate having a first substrate side for carrying an electric circuit and having a second substrate side being located opposite to the first substrate side. The second substrate side has a flat surface and is adapted for coming in contact with a cooler. A cooling area that is surrounded by a connecting area is located at the second substrate side. A first casing component of the cooler is connected to the second substrate side at the connecting area and a second casing component is connected to the first casing component such that a cooling channel for providing the cooling area with cooling fluid is provided between the first casing component and the second casing component. A cooling structure can be welded to the cooling area at the second substrate side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Fabian Mohn, Bruno Agostini, Thomas Gradinger, Juergen Schuderer
  • Patent number: 12066255
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a blank for a heat-transfer device that includes a vapor chamber enclosed by a body of the heat-transfer device, and a charging tube connected to the vapor chamber, wherein a part of the charging tube protruding from the body has at least one unsealed sealing zone with an oblong flow area, where a width of the charging tube exceeds a height of the charging tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20220260322
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a blank for a heat-transfer device that includes a vapor chamber enclosed by a body of the heat-transfer device, and a charging tube connected to the vapor chamber, wherein a part of the charging tube protruding from the body has at least one unsealed sealing zone with an oblong flow area, where a width of the charging tube exceeds a height of the charging tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20220254653
    Abstract: In one embodiment a power semiconductor module includes a substrate having a first substrate side for carrying an electric circuit and having a second substrate side being located opposite to the first substrate side. The second substrate side has a flat surface and is adapted for coming in contact with a cooler. A cooling area that is surrounded by a connecting area is located at the second substrate side. A first casing component of the cooler is connected to the second substrate side at the connecting area and a second casing component is connected to the first casing component such that a cooling channel for providing the cooling area with cooling fluid is provided between the first casing component and the second casing component. A cooling structure can be welded to the cooling area at the second substrate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Fabian Mohn, Bruno Agostini, Thomas Gradinger, Juergen Schuderer
  • Publication number: 20220196337
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device is provided herein. The heat dissipation device includes an evaporator chamber at least partially filled with a working fluid to be evaporated when being heated by a heat source; at least one condenser chamber for receiving evaporated working fluid and for condensing the evaporated working fluid, wherein the condenser chamber is interconnected with the evaporator chamber in a fluid conductive manner; and at least one air fin element interconnected between the condenser chamber and one of a further condenser chamber and a side wall of the heat dissipation device; wherein the air fin element has a triply periodic surface providing air fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Bruno Agostini, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20220196338
    Abstract: A heat-transfer device includes a bi-porous wick having at least one layer including a micro-porous body and tubular macro-pores, and a dense casing enclosing the wick, wherein the body and the macro-pores are fluidically interconnected and are at least partially overlapping inside the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Daniele TORRESIN, Bruno AGOSTINI, Andrey Petrov
  • Patent number: 11369042
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a baseplate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side being coupled to a thermosiphon, one or more electronic components being mounted on the second side. The baseplate has a two-phase heat spreading structure. In an embodiment, the heat exchanger includes a thermosiphon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Matteo Bortolato, Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin
  • Publication number: 20220192050
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a vapor chamber for cooling an electronic component. The vapor chamber includes a bottom cover for receiving waste heat from the electronic component, a top cover, wherein the bottom cover and the top cover are formed such that a vapor cavity for accommodating a liquid is formed between the bottom cover and the top cover, a crate element for providing mechanical strength to the vapor chamber, wherein the crate element has at least one compartment, which is formed by at least three side panels being connected to each other and extending from the bottom cover to the top cover, and a top recess facing the top cover and a bottom recess facing the bottom cover, and at least one porous pillar for transferring the liquid from the top cover to the bottom cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20210385973
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator having an enclosure with a heat receiving side and side walls with openings forming an evaporator chamber, the evaporator chamber including a primary capillary structure adjacent to the heat receiving side of the enclosure and extending to the side walls of the evaporator chamber, a plurality of grooves in the primary capillary structure, each of which extends from an opening in one of the side walls to an opening in an opposite side wall, the plurality of grooves transporting vapor from the primary capillary structure to the openings; and a condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Oleksandr SOLOGUBENKO, Daniele TORRESIN, Andrey PETROV, Bruno AGOSTINI
  • Patent number: 11197392
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method which is suited for manufacturing a 3D-vapor chamber in a defined and efficient manner. Especially, the present method provides a solution for providing a vapor chamber having an evaporator and a condenser made from a first part and a second part, wherein continuity of internal structures is given which in turn provides an efficient working behaviour of the vapor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Matteo Bortolato
  • Publication number: 20210125898
    Abstract: The application relates to a vapor chamber for cooling a heat source, the vapor chamber includes an evaporator proceeding in a first plane and the vapor chamber includes at least a first condenser and a second condenser, wherein the first and second condenser are internally coupled to the evaporator, wherein the first condenser proceeds in a second plane, and the second condenser proceeds in a third plane, wherein the second plane and the third plane are arranged in an angle to the first plane, wherein at least one air fin is provided, wherein the at least one air fin proceeds in a fourth plane, and wherein the first condenser and the second condenser are internally coupled to the air fin, and wherein the evaporator, the first condenser, the second condenser and the air fin form a common internal volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Bruno Agostini, Andrey Petrov
  • Publication number: 20210125894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a two-phase heat transfer device for dissipating heat from a heat source, for instance a power semiconductor module, by a heat transfer medium, wherein the two-phase heat transfer device includes a main body, wherein the main body is formed by a body material and includes a multi-dimensional void network, wherein the multi-dimensional void network includes voids and is adapted for containing the heat transfer medium, wherein the multi-dimensional void network is adapted such that a flow of the heat transfer medium along a path through the main body is based on a variation in capillary action exerted by the multi-dimensional void network on the heat transfer medium along the path. Further the invention relates to a power semiconductor module comprising the above two-phase heat transfer device for heat dissipation and to a method for producing the above two-phase heat transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Andrey Petrov, Jacim Jacimovic, Moritz Boehm, Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin
  • Publication number: 20210095931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vapor chamber (10), comprising a sealed casing (12) which comprises two main walls, wherein a first main wall is an evaporator wall (14) and a second main wall is a condenser wall (16), wherein the two main walls are connected by side connections (18, 20) to form a sealed volume (21) inside the two main walls and the side connections (18, 20), wherein a plurality of pillars (22) is provided in the sealed volume (21) such, that the pillars (22) connect the evaporator wall (14) and the condenser wall (16), wherein the pillars (22) have a first contact area (24) to the evaporator wall (14) and a second contact area (26) to the condenser wall (16), and wherein the pillars (22) further comprise an intermediate cross section area (28) being arranged between the first contact area (24) and the second contact area (26), wherein the extension of the intermediate cross section area (28) is smaller compared to the extension of both of the first contact area (24) and the second contact area (26
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Matteo Bortolato, Bruno Agostini, Andrey Petrov, Daniele Torresin
  • Publication number: 20200329584
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a baseplate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side being coupled to a thermosiphon, one or more electronic components being mounted on the second side. The baseplate has a two-phase heat spreading structure. In an embodiment, the heat exchanger includes a thermosiphon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Matteo Bortolato, Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin
  • Publication number: 20200315064
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method which is suited for manufacturing a 3D-vapor chamber in a defined and efficient manner. Especially, the present method provides a solution for providing a vapor chamber having an evaporator and a condenser made from a first part and a second part, wherein continuity of internal structures is given which in turn provides an efficient working behaviour of the vapor chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Bruno Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Matteo Bortolato
  • Patent number: 10674630
    Abstract: A heat exchange device may be based on a pulsating heat pipe and a cooling arrangement. The heat exchange device may include a plurality of pipes to provide fluid paths between a first fluid distribution element and a second fluid distribution element. Each pipe of the plurality of pipes may include a group of channels. Each of the first and second fluid distribution elements may include a plate of a first type. Each plate of the first type may include openings for providing alignment functionality for the plurality of pipes. The first fluid distribution element may include a plate of a second type that may include openings for providing fluid paths between the pipes. The plate of the second type may be positioned on a side of the plate of the first type of plates of the first fluid distribution element that is opposite to the second fluid distribution element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Francesco Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Bruno Agostini, Mathieu Habert, Francesco Moraschinelli, Antonello Antoniazzi