Patents by Inventor Casey Winkel

Casey Winkel 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: 20260047043
    Abstract: Immersion cooling systems, apparatus, and related methods for cooling electronic computing platforms and/or associated electronic components are disclosed herein. An immersion cooling chassis includes a first face, a second face opposite the first face, a third face disposed between the first face and the second face, the third face perpendicular to the first face, a fourth face disposed between the first face and the second face, the fourth face perpendicular to the first face and opposite the third face, and a first portion to be cooled via a first convection of a coolant fluid, the first portion including a coolant inlet defined in the third face, and a coolant outlet defined in the first face, and a second portion to be cooled via a second convection of air, the second portion including an air inlet defined in the first face between the fourth face and the coolant outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Birch, Jimmy Chuang, Yuehong Fan, Jing-Hua John He, Eric McAfee, Suchismita Sarangi, David Shia, Ming Tien, Chuanlou Wang, Peng Wei, Casey Winkel, Berhanu Wondimu, Dong-Han Wu, Jay Wu, Shaorong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20250338455
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a module to be inserted into an electronic system. The module includes a first heat exchanger at one end of the module and second heat exchanger at another end of the module. The module also includes a first vapor chamber that runs along respective integrated heat spreaders of semiconductor chips disposed on a first side of the module and a second vapor chamber that runs along respective integrated heat spreaders of semiconductor chips disposed on a second side of the module. The first heat exchanger is in thermal contact with at least one of the first and second vapor chambers, and, the second heat exchanger is in thermal contact with at least one of the first and second vapor chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Inventors: Guixiang TAN, Xiang LI, Jimmy CHUANG, Devdatta P. KULKARNI, Casey WINKEL, Evan A. CHENELLY
  • Publication number: 20250324546
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus are disclosed for cooling configuration for memory devices. An example cooling device includes a heat sink further including a longitudinal length having a left end, a right end, and a first planar orientation, a transverse height having a top, a bottom, and a second planar orientation orthogonal to the first planar orientation, and an inner side and an outer side, the outer side including at least one channel having the second planar orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sandeep Ahuja, Yuehong Fan, Qing Jiang, Chuansheng Liu, Xiang Que, Yanbing Sun, Chuanlou Wang, Casey Winkel, Yang Yao, Srinath Reddy Yerakondappagari, Gene Young, Ming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250265182
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to throttle memory bandwidth for power management. An example apparatus includes machine-readable instructions and at least one programmable circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions. The at least one programmable circuit is to determine an output power from a power management circuit of a memory, determine an input power to the power management circuit based on the output power, and based on the input power and a threshold power, adjust a bandwidth control setting of the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shekoufeh Qawami, Vijay Anand Mathiyalagan, Anna Querbach, Casey Winkel
  • Patent number: 12144110
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB) dual in-line memory module (DIMM) connector having ejectors. The ejectors have a small enough vertical profile to permit unbent liquid cooling conduits to run across the DIMM's semiconductor chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Guixiang Tan, Xiang Li, Casey Winkel, George Vergis
  • Patent number: 12131977
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a housing including a base and sidewalls. The housing is to support a circuit board. The apparatus also includes a heat sink to be supported by the housing independent of the circuit board. The heat sink is to be thermally coupled to a semiconductor package attached to the circuit board. The heat sink is to be closer to the base of the housing than the circuit board is to be to the base of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barrett M. Faneuf, Phil Geng, Kenan Arik, David Shia, Casey Winkel, Sandeep Ahuja, Eric D. McAfee, Jeffory L Smalley, Minh T. D. Le, Ralph V. Miele, Marc Milobinski, Aaron P. Anderson, Brendan T. Pavelek, Carlos Alvizo Flores, Fernando Gonzalez Lenero
  • Publication number: 20240357777
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for localized temperature control and leakage protection in a server housing are disclosed. An example system includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and at least one programmable circuit of a server disposable inside a portion of a server housing. The at least one programmable circuit are to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to identify a temperature of the server, determine a target temperature for a workload for the server, and control an actuator based on the temperature and the target temperature, the actuator to control a local flow rate of a coolant in the portion of the server housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Berhanu Kebede Wondimu, Casey Winkel, Sandeep Ahuja, Mark Angus MacDonald, Benson Dale Inkley, Mark Joseph Luckeroth, Jason Crop, Srinivasa Rao Damaraju, Casey Jamesen Carte, Laxmi Vishwanathan, Timothy Yee-Kwong Kam, Olaotan Frank Elenitoba-Johnson, Romir Desai, Kevin Mistofsky, Zhikui Ren
  • Patent number: 11917790
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of improving the thermal performance of processor-based devices. Such thermal performance improvement may include limiting the degree of tilt experienced by a semiconductor device as a thermal solution coupled to the semiconductor device is tightened to the substrate. Such thermal performance improvements may include increasing the available heat transfer area associated with a particular heat producing semiconductor device. Such thermal performance improvements may include thermally coupling one or more cool blocks thermally coupled to one or more remote heat-producing devices to a central cool block that may be cooled using a cooling medium or coupled to a central heat-producing semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar Subrahmanyam, Casey Winkel, Yingqiong Bu, Ming Zhang, Yuehong Fan, Yi Xia, Ying-Feng Pang
  • Publication number: 20240063082
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a housing including a base and sidewalls. The housing is to support a circuit board. The apparatus also includes a heat sink to be supported by the housing independent of the circuit board. The heat sink is to be thermally coupled to a semiconductor package attached to the circuit board. The heat sink is to be closer to the base of the housing than the circuit board is to be to the base of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Barrett M. Faneuf, Phil Geng, Kenan Arik, David Shia, Casey Winkel, Sandeep Ahuja, Eric D. McAfee, Jeffory L. Smalley, Minh T.D. Le, Ralph V. Miele, Marc Milobinski, Aaron P. Anderson, Brendan T. Pavelek, Carlos Alvizo Flores, Fernando Gonzalez Lenero
  • Patent number: 11842943
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an electronic system. The electronic system includes a chassis. The electronic system includes a semiconductor chip cooling component that is rigidly fixed to the chassis. The electronic system includes a packaged semiconductor chip having a lid that is contact with the semiconductor chip cooling component. The electronic system includes an electronic circuit board. The packaged semiconductor chip is electro-mechanically attached to the electronic circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barrett M. Faneuf, Phil Geng, Kenan Arik, David Shia, Casey Winkel, Sandeep Ahuja, Eric D. McAfee, Jeffory L. Smalley, Minh T. D. Le, Ralph V. Miele, Marc Milobinski, Aaron P. Anderson, Brendan T. Pavelek, Fernando Gonzalez Lenero, Carlos Alvizo Flores
  • Publication number: 20230225084
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to cool hardware. An example apparatus to cool a hardware component includes a first substrate; a second substrate couplable to a chassis, the second substrate formed of a metal; and a plurality of malleable fins coupled between the first and second substrates, the malleable fins formed of a thermally conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Shreekanth Murthy Muthigi, Casey Winkel, Chetan Maheshwari
  • Publication number: 20220117080
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a ball grid array (BGA) chip package cooling assembly includes a back plate and a bolster plate. The bolster plate has frame arms. The BGA chip package is to be placed in a window formed by the frame arms and soldered to a region of a printed circuit board. The frame arms surround the region. The printed circuit board is to be subjected to a compressive force between the back plate and the bolster plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Phil GENG, Sandeep AHUJA, Ralph V. MIELE, David SHIA, Jeffory L. SMALLEY, Casey WINKEL
  • Patent number: 11228126
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards apparatuses, methods, and systems for a connector having a housing body to couple a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) to a printed circuit board (PCB). In embodiments, the housing body includes first and second opposing ends of the connector and a first and a second latch coupled at the respective first and second opposing ends of the connector to engage the DIMM. In embodiments, the first and the second opposing ends have respective first and second heights relative to a height of the housing body to allow the DIMM to be inserted or removed at an angle when disengaged from the first and second latch. In embodiments, one or more of the latches are removably coupled to the connector and/or can be rotated into a lay-flat position to allow the DIMM to be removed at an angle. Additional embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Guixiang Tan, Xiang Li, Casey Winkel
  • Publication number: 20210321543
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a module to be inserted into an electronic system. The module includes a first heat exchanger at one end of the module and second heat exchanger at another end of the module. The module also includes a first vapor chamber that runs along respective integrated heat spreaders of semiconductor chips disposed on a first side of the module and a second vapor chamber that runs along respective integrated heat spreaders of semiconductor chips disposed on a second side of the module. The first heat exchanger is in thermal contact with at least one of the first and second vapor chambers, and, the second heat exchanger is in thermal contact with at least one of the first and second vapor chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Guixiang TAN, Xiang LI, Jimmy CHUANG, Devdatta P. KULKARNI, Casey WINKEL, Evan A. CHENELLY
  • Publication number: 20210289659
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of improving the thermal performance of processor-based devices. Such thermal performance improvement may include limiting the degree of tilt experienced by a semiconductor device as a thermal solution coupled to the semiconductor device is tightened to the substrate. Such thermal performance improvements may include increasing the available heat transfer area associated with a particular heat producing semiconductor device. Such thermal performance improvements may include thermally coupling one or more cool blocks thermally coupled to one or more remote heat-producing devices to a central cool block that may be cooled using a cooling medium or coupled to a central heat-producing semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar SUBRAHMANYAM, Casey WINKEL, Yingqiong BU, Ming ZHANG, Yuehong FAN, Yi XIA, Ying-Feng PANG
  • Patent number: 11058028
    Abstract: Technologies for managing hot spots in a compute device with use of a vortex tube are disclosed. Cold air from one or more vortex tubes can be routed to hot spots of one or more compute devices, providing effective spot cooling. This approach may allow for cooling of components that might otherwise be difficult to cool, such as components where would be difficult or impossible to cool with a heat sink. This approach may also be effective in cooling components that are downstream of a heat sink and would otherwise only be cooled by air that was already heated by the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Casey Winkel, Shaorong Zhou, Lianchang Du, Feng Qi
  • Publication number: 20210120670
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB) dual in-line memory module (DIMM) connector having ejectors. The ejectors have a small enough vertical profile to permit unbent liquid cooling conduits to run across the DIMM's semiconductor chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Guixiang TAN, Xiang LI, Casey WINKEL, George VERGIS
  • Publication number: 20210043537
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an electronic system. The electronic system includes a chassis. The electronic system includes a semiconductor chip cooling component that is rigidly fixed to the chassis. The electronic system includes a packaged semiconductor chip having a lid that is contact with the semiconductor chip cooling component. The electronic system includes an electronic circuit board. The packaged semiconductor chip is electro-mechanically attached to the electronic circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Barrett M. FANEUF, Phil GENG, Kenan ARIK, David SHIA, Casey WINKEL, Sandeep AHUJA, Eric D. MCAFEE, Jeffory L. SMALLEY, Minh T.D. LE, Ralph V. MIELE, Marc MILOBINSKI, Aaron P. ANDERSON, Brendan T. PAVELEK
  • Publication number: 20200260613
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of improving the thermal performance of processor-based devices. Such thermal performance improvement may include limiting the degree of tilt experienced by a semiconductor device as a thermal solution coupled to the semiconductor device is tightened to the substrate. Such thermal performance improvements may include increasing the available heat transfer area associated with a particular heat producing semiconductor device. Such thermal performance improvements may include thermally coupling one or more cool blocks thermally coupled to one or more remote heat-producing devices to a central cool block that may be cooled using a cooling medium or coupled to a central heat-producing semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Casey Winkel, Yingqiong Bu, Ming Zhang, Yuehong Fan
  • Publication number: 20200144748
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards apparatuses, methods, and systems for a connector having a housing body to couple a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) to a printed circuit board (PCB). In embodiments, the housing body includes first and second opposing ends of the connector and a first and a second latch coupled at the respective first and second opposing ends of the connector to engage the DIMM. In embodiments, the first and the second opposing ends have respective first and second heights relative to a height of the housing body to allow the DIMM to be inserted or removed at an angle when disengaged from the first and second latch. In embodiments, one or more of the latches are removably coupled to the connector and/or can be rotated into a lay-flat position to allow the DIMM to be removed at an angle. Additional embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Guixiang Tan, Xiang Li, Casey Winkel