Patents by Inventor Bruno Michel

Bruno Michel 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).

  • Publication number: 20160252278
    Abstract: Adsorption heat exchanger devices (11, 30) are provided for solid sorption refrigeration systems (1). Such a device includes a heat exchanger (12) having a plurality of projections (17) arranged for extending into an adsorbate of the system (1) in use. An adsorption structure (13, 31) is formed on the heat exchanger (12) for adsorption of said adsorbate. The adsorption structure (13, 31) comprises a plurality of elongate adsorption elements (20) extending outwardly from each of said projections (17) of the heat exchanger (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Javier V. Goicochea, Bruno Michel, Patrick Ruch
  • Patent number: 9416031
    Abstract: A desalination system (1) for producing a distillate from a feed liquid includes: a steam raising device (2) having a liquid section (5) and a steam section (6) which are separated by a membrane system (7); a membrane distillation device (3) having a first steam section (11) and a liquid section (12) which are separated by a wall (14) and having a second steam section (13) which is separated from the liquid section (12) by a membrane system (15); and a heat exchange device (4) having a first liquid section (21) and a second liquid section (22), which are separated by a wall (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Escher, Javier V. Goicochea, Ahmed S. G. Khalil, Bruno Michel, Chin Lee Ong, Stephan Paredes
  • Publication number: 20160209865
    Abstract: Electronic circuit device and method for conveying clock signal in an electronic circuit device. The electronic circuit device includes: a cooling fluid conduit network including at least one conduit, wherein the cooling fluid conduit network is configured to convey both a cooling fluid and an electromagnetic signal via the at least one conduit; a clock signal injection unit configured to inject an electromagnetic clock signal at an input location of the cooling fluid conduit network; and a clock signal collection unit configured to collect an electromagnetic clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Mircea Gusat, Bruno Michel, Thomas E Morf, Maria Soimu
  • Patent number: 9398730
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device, including a combined optical transmission and cooling fluid conduit network. The network includes at least one cooling conduit having an optical transmission medium. The network is configured to convey a cooling fluid via the at least one cooling conduit and to convey an electromagnetic signal via the optical transmission medium. The network is in thermal communication with a first set of one or more components of the electronic circuit device and in signal communication with a second set of one or more components of the electronic circuit device. The first set and second set of components are at least partly overlapping. A method for conveying optical signal in such an electronic circuit device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Mircea Gusat, Bruno Michel, Thomas E Morf, Sebastien Ragot, Maria Soimu
  • Patent number: 9337122
    Abstract: A computer program product or hardware description language (“HDL”) design structure in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of an integrated circuitry structure including generating a functional representation of at least first and second regions of the integrated circuitry structure, generating a functional representation of an optical layer comprising optical waveguides, and generating a functional representation of a heat-conductive material for transferring heat from at least the second region through the optical layer to a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Harry Barowski, Thomas Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Norbert M. Meier, Bruno Michel, Tim Niggemeier, Stephan Paredes, Jochen Supper, Jonas R. Weiss
  • Patent number: 9324032
    Abstract: A method of executing a computer application in the context of a computer model comprising the steps of retrieving computer model data from a model server, retrieving application information from an application server, and executing said application information in the context of the model in an execution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Real-Time Worlds, Ltd.
    Inventors: David Scott Jones, Russell William Kay, Michael Dailly, Luke Joseph Halliwell, Jacques Bruno Michel Menuet, Jonathan Sinclair Hughes, Oliver Norton, Jonathan Ball, William Henderson
  • Patent number: 9304533
    Abstract: Electronic circuit device (ECD) and method for conveying clock signal in an ECD. The ECD includes: a cooling fluid conduit network (CFCN) including at least one conduit adapted for conveying an electromagnetic signal, wherein the CFCN is arranged in thermal communication with a first set of one or more components of the ECD and is in signal communication with a second set, and wherein the CFCN is configured to convey both a cooling fluid in the at least one conduit and an electromagnetic signal via the at least one conduit; a clock signal injection unit configured to inject an electromagnetic clock signal (ECS) at an input location of the CFCN; and a clock signal collection unit configured to collect at an output location of the CFCN, an ECS for one or more components of the second set, wherein the ECS is conveyed via a conduit of the CFCN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mircea Gusat, Bruno Michel, Thomas E Morf, Maria Soimu
  • Publication number: 20160049360
    Abstract: An assembly includes a chip including an integrated circuit, a casing including an integrated circuit and including an upper portion formed on a side of the chip, a lower portion formed on another side of the chip, and a cooling inlet and a cooling outlet for transferring a coolant, provided in an upper surface of the casing, and forming outer sidewalls of the upper portion and inner sidewalls of the lower portion, plural through-wafer vias (TWVs) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit of the chip and the integrated circuit of the casing, and a card connected to the casing for electrically connecting the casing to a system board. The card includes an upper card connected to the upper portion of the casing, and a lower card connected to the lower portion of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: KERRY BERNSTEIN, Thomas Brunschwiler, Bruno Michel
  • Publication number: 20160049353
    Abstract: An assembly includes a chip including an integrated circuit, a casing including an integrated circuit including plural active elements and including an upper portion formed on a side of the chip, a lower portion formed on another side of the chip, and a cooling inlet and a cooling outlet for transferring a coolant, provided in an upper surface of the casing, and forming outer sidewalls of the upper portion and inner sidewalls of the lower portion, plural through-wafer vias (TWVs) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit of the chip and the integrated circuit of the casing, and a card connected to the casing for electrically connecting the casing to a system board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, Thomas Brunschwiler, Bruno Michel
  • Patent number: 9252071
    Abstract: An assembly includes a chip including an integrated circuit, a casing including an integrated circuit and having an upper portion formed on a side of the chip and lower portion formed on another side of the chip, plural through-wafer vias (TWVs) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit of the chip and the integrated circuit of the casing, and a card connected to the casing for electrically connecting the casing to a system board. The card includes an upper card connected to the upper portion of the casing, and a lower card connected to the lower portion of the casing. The upper card includes one of a photosensor, light emitting element, radio frequency (RF) antenna, and radio frequency emitter. The lower card includes an area array input/output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, Thomas Brunschwiler, Bruno Michel
  • Patent number: 9252072
    Abstract: An assembly includes a chip including an integrated circuit, a casing including an integrated circuit including plural active elements and having an upper portion formed on a side of the chip and lower portion formed on another side of the chip, plural through-wafer vias (TWVs) for electrically connecting the integrated circuit of the chip and the integrated circuit of the casing, and a card connected to the casing for electrically connecting the casing to a system board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, Thomas Brunschwiler, Bruno Michel
  • Patent number: 9219183
    Abstract: A photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar receiver includes a thermal collector, extending in a first plane and comprising an aperture; and a photovoltaic module, configured for electrical output power delivery, comprising a photo-active area that extends in a second plane at a distance from the first plane, the photo-active area being vis-à-vis the aperture, a projection of the aperture perpendicularly to the second plane corresponding to the photo-active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, EGYPT NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER
    Inventors: Werner Escher, Bruno Michel, Stephan Paredes, Rami Ghannam
  • Patent number: 9153722
    Abstract: A chip module cooling device includes two fluid circuits corresponding to inlet and outlet fluid circuits, respectively, wherein each comprises orifices and channel portions forming a tree structure, wherein branches represent the orifices, and nodes represent the channel portions, a branch linking a node to one child node only, wherein several nodes having a same parent node are sibling nodes and extends through L levels of the tree structure, with L?3, and in fluidic connection with the other of the two fluid circuits, via channel portions corresponding to leaf nodes. For each fluid circuit, channel portions corresponding to sibling nodes are parallel to each other, and are not parallel to a channel portion corresponding to a parent node of the sibling nodes; and wherein channel portions of one of the fluid circuits are parallel to and interdigitated with channel portions of the other one of the fluid circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Escher, Bruno Michel, Stephan Paredes
  • Patent number: 9110056
    Abstract: A biosensor comprising surface treated with a method for producing a monolayer of molecules on a surface, the method comprising loading a stamp with seed molecules, transferring seed molecules from the stamp to the surface, wherein transferring comprises transferring a fraction of the seed molecules loaded on the stamp to the surface and adsorbing the seed molecules to the stamp and adsorbing the seed molecules to the surface, the adsorption of the seed molecules to the stamp being stronger than the adsorption of the seed molecules to the surface, self-completing amplification of the seed molecules via an amplifying reaction to produce the monolayer on a flat surface, wherein self-completing amplification comprises producing a homogeneous area, wherein the homogeneous area comprises a monolayer of molecules on the surface, and wherein the monolayer of molecules on the surface has no diffusive component that can relocate and destroy amplification accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sergey Amontov, Emmanuel Delamarche, Bruno Michel
  • Publication number: 20150221575
    Abstract: A computer program product or hardware description language (“HDL”) design structure in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of an integrated circuitry structure including generating a functional representation of at least first and second regions of the integrated circuitry structure, generating a functional representation of an optical layer comprising optical waveguides, and generating a functional representation of a heat-conductive material for transferring heat from at least the second region through the optical layer to a heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Harry Barowski, Thomas Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Norbert M. Meier, Bruno Michel, Tim Niggemeier, Stephan Paredes, Jochen Supper, Jonas R. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20150195955
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling arrangement comprising a heat spreader (2) comprising a first surface (5), a second surface (8), at least one heat absorption chamber (9) and at least one heat dissipation chamber (10), the at least one heat absorption chamber (9) being in thermal contact with the first surface (5) and the at least one heat dissipation chamber (10) being in thermal contact with the second surface (8) and hydraulically coupled to the at least one heat absorption chamber (9). A cooling fluid (13) can be driven from the heat absorption chamber (9) to the heat dissipation chamber (10) using a plurality of flow patterns for cooling the first surface (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Urs Kloter, Ryan Joseph Linderman, Bruno Michel, Hugo E. Rothuizen, Reio Waelchli
  • Publication number: 20150176911
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling arrangement comprising a heat spreader (2) comprising a first surface (5), a second surface (8), at least one heat absorption chamber (9) and at least one heat dissipation chamber (10), the at least one heat absorption chamber (9) being in thermal contact with the first surface (5) and the at least one heat dissipation chamber (10) being in thermal contact with the second surface (8) and hydraulically coupled to the at least one heat absorption chamber (9). A cooling fluid (13) can be driven from the heat absorption chamber (9) to the heat dissipation chamber (10) using a plurality of flow patterns for cooling the first surface (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Urs Kater, Ryan Joseph Linderman, Bruno Michel, Hugo E. Rothuizen, Reio Waelchli
  • Patent number: 9064080
    Abstract: An integrated circuitry structure includes at least first and second regions. An optical layer includes optical waveguides. A heat-conductive material transfers heat from at least the second region through the optical layer to a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harry Barowski, Thomas Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Norbert M. Meier, Bruno Michel, Tim Niggemeier, Stephan Paredes, Jochen Supper, Jonas R. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20150166371
    Abstract: A desalination system (1) for producing a distillate from a feed liquid includes: a steam raising device (2) having a liquid section (5) and a steam section (6) which are separated by a membrane system (7); a membrane distillation device (3) having a first steam section (11) and a liquid section (12) which are separated by a wall (14) and having a second steam section (13) which is separated from the liquid section (12) by a membrane system (15); and a heat exchange device (4) having a first liquid section (21) and a second liquid section (22), which are separated by a wall (23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Werner Escher, Javier V. Goicochea, Ahmed S.G. Khalil, Bruno Michel, Chin Lee Ong, Stephan Paredes
  • Patent number: 9058461
    Abstract: A method in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of an integrated circuitry structure including generating a functional representation of at least first and second regions of the integrated circuitry structure, generating a functional representation of an optical layer comprising optical waveguides, and generating a functional representation of a heat-conductive material for transferring heat from at least the second region through the optical layer to a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harry Barowski, Thomas Brunschwiler, Roger F. Dangel, Hubert Harrer, Andreas Huber, Norbert M. Meier, Bruno Michel, Tim Niggemeier, Stephan Paredes, Jochen Supper, Jonas R. Weiss