Patents by Inventor Dennis Trieu

Dennis Trieu 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: 12120851
    Abstract: A thermal management device includes a wicking heat spreader and a boiling enhancement surface feature positioned on at least one interior surface of the wicking heat spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Trieu, Ioannis Manousakis, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Husam Atallah Alissa, Bharath Ramakrishnan, Kathryn M. Oseen-Senda, Douglas Patrick Kelley, Alexis Grace Schubert
  • Patent number: 12108568
    Abstract: A method of thermal management of a computing device includes immersing a first electronic component of the computing device in a first working fluid contained in a first volume, immersing a second electronic component of the computing device in a second working fluid contained in a second volume, and changing a pressure in the first volume to alter a boiling temperature of the first working fluid in the first volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bharath Ramakrishnan, Husam Atallah Alissa, Eric C. Peterson, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Christian L. Belady, Ioannis Manousakis, Dennis Trieu
  • Publication number: 20240322507
    Abstract: The discussion relates to busbars that are protected from unintentional contact. One example includes a liquid immersion tank and a protected automatic busbar assembly positioned in the liquid immersion tank. The protected automatic busbar assembly can include a conductor and a deployable protector biased over the conductor. The example can include a computer that includes a device controller and an electrical connector. The device controller can be configured to overcome the bias and cause the deployable protector to transition away from the conductor to allow the conductor to be engaged by the electrical connector to couple the computer to the conductor of the protected automatic busbar assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kathryn OSEEN-SENDA, Martha G. PETERSON, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20240215203
    Abstract: A thermal management device is described. The device includes a substrate having a spreader surface and a plurality of thermal features connected to the spreader surface of the substrate. At least one thermal feature includes a body having a longitudinal axis and a hollow bore having an inner diameter perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and an opening at a distal end distal from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Sreya SARKAR, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20240198252
    Abstract: A vapor recovery system comprises an inlet located at a first end of a fluid path configured to receive a fluid vapor to the vapor recovery system. The vapor recovery system comprises a condenser located on the fluid path and a scrubber located on the fluid path. The vapor recovery system comprises a composition sensor located on the fluid path between the scrubber and a second end of the fluid path. The composition sensor is configured to measure a composition of the fluid vapor. The vapor recovery system comprises an exhaust located at the second end of the fluid path configured to exhaust at least a portion of the fluid vapor from the fluid path at a composition having an amount of a working fluid below a working fluid threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Martha Geoghegan PETERSON, Dennis TRIEU, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Eric C. PETERSON
  • Patent number: 11812587
    Abstract: The description relates to cooling electronic components, such as computing devices. One example includes a rack defining a volume and multiple sealed chassis modules removably fluidly coupled to a two-phase condenser tank via a vapor coupler and a liquid coupler. Individual sealed chassis modules can contain one or more electronic components immersed in two-phase coolant that when heated by operation of the electronic components experiences a phase change from a liquid phase to a gas phase and travels to the two-phase condenser tank via the vapor coupler and is cooled in the two-phase condenser tank until experiencing a phase change back into the liquid phase. Individual sealed chassis modules can be decoupled from the two-phase condenser tank without releasing two-phase coolant and an entirety of the multiple sealed chassis modules and the condenser tank are contained in the volume of the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Patrick Kelley, Alexis Grace Schubert, Craig Steven Ranta, Kathryn Oseen-Senda, Dennis Trieu, Mark Edward Shaw
  • Publication number: 20230338948
    Abstract: A processor includes a first die, a second die connected to the first die with a microfluidic volume positioned between the first die and the second die, at least one pin fin positioned in the microfluidic volume, and a boiling enhancement surface feature positioned on a pin surface of the pin fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Eric C. PETERSON, Christian L. BELADY, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20230341910
    Abstract: A processor includes a first die, a second die connected to the first die with a microfluidic volume positioned between the first die and the second die, a wicking heat spreader positioned in the microfluidic volume; and a boiling enhancement surface feature positioned on at least one surface of the wicking heat spreader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Eric C. PETERSON, Christian L. BELADY, Dennis TRIEU, Ioannis MANOUSAKIS, Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Douglas Patrick KELLEY
  • Publication number: 20230345673
    Abstract: A thermal management device includes a wicking heat spreader and a boiling enhancement surface feature positioned on at least one interior surface of the wicking heat spreader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis TRIEU, Ioannis MANOUSAKIS, Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Douglas Patrick KELLEY, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT
  • Publication number: 20230189478
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a body with an expansion chamber therein. The body is configured to receive heat from a heat source. The expansion chamber is configured to expand a working fluid from an inlet port to an outlet port of the heat sink. An immersion system includes a heat sink and a pressurizing mechanism for pressurizing the working fluid prior to the inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas Patrick KELLEY, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Martha Geoghegan PETERSON, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20230156960
    Abstract: A method of thermal management of a computing device includes immersing a first electronic component of the computing device in a first working fluid contained in a first volume, immersing a second electronic component of the computing device in a second working fluid contained in a second volume, and changing a pressure in the first volume to alter a boiling temperature of the first working fluid in the first volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Eric C. PETERSON, Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Christian L. BELADY, Ioannis MANOUSAKIS, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20230152369
    Abstract: A device for simulating thermal loads includes a platform and a plurality of nodes supported by the platform. At least one node is a movable node connected to the platform by a movable stage to move the movable node relative to the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis TRIEU, Bharath RAMAKRISHNAN, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Robert Jason LANKSTON, II, Xudong TANG
  • Publication number: 20220408587
    Abstract: An immersion cooling thermal management system includes a heat duct thermally coupled to a heat-generating electronic component. The heat duct has an inlet at a first longitudinal end of a channel and an outlet at an opposite second longitudinal end of the channel. The heat-generating electronic component is thermally coupled with the channel longitudinally between the inlet and the outlet. The outlet of the channel is higher than the inlet relative to a direction of gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Douglas Patrick KELLEY, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Dennis TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20220354025
    Abstract: A pump tray has a liquid pump with an inlet and outlet. A blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump inlet and a blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump outlet. A chassis of the pump tray has an alignment member configured to removably engage with another device and to restrict, to a limited number of degrees-of-freedom, movement of the chassis relative to the other device (e.g., a liquid pumping unit). The blindly matable liquid couplers are so physically coupled with the chassis as to inhibit movement of them relative to the chassis. A liquid pumping unit also has a chassis defining a bay configured to receive a pump tray, a liquid inlet coupler and a liquid outlet coupler, and a reservoir fluidicly coupled with the liquid inlet coupler. A blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the reservoir outlet and a blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the liquid outlet coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastian Varela Benitez, Dennis Trieu, Brydon Gierl, Seyed Kamaleddin Mostafavi Yazdi, Cameron Turner
  • Publication number: 20220354026
    Abstract: The description relates to cooling electronic components, such as computing devices. One example includes a rack defining a volume and multiple sealed chassis modules removably fluidly coupled to a two-phase condenser tank via a vapor coupler and a liquid coupler. Individual sealed chassis modules can contain one or more electronic components immersed in two-phase coolant that when heated by operation of the electronic components experiences a phase change from a liquid phase to a gas phase and travels to the two-phase condenser tank via the vapor coupler and is cooled in the two-phase condenser tank until experiencing a phase change back into the liquid phase. Individual sealed chassis modules can be decoupled from the two-phase condenser tank without releasing two-phase coolant and an entirety of the multiple sealed chassis modules and the condenser tank are contained in the volume of the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Patrick KELLEY, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Craig Steven RANTA, Kathryn OSEEN-SENDA, Dennis TRIEU, Mark Edward SHAW
  • Patent number: 11395443
    Abstract: A pump tray has a liquid pump with an inlet and outlet. A blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump inlet and a blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump outlet. A chassis of the pump tray has an alignment member configured to removably engage with another device and to restrict, to a limited number of degrees-of-freedom, movement of the chassis relative to the other device (e.g., a liquid pumping unit). The blindly matable liquid couplers are so physically coupled with the chassis as to inhibit movement of them relative to the chassis. A liquid pumping unit also has a chassis defining a bay configured to receive a pump tray, a liquid inlet coupler and a liquid outlet coupler, and a reservoir fluidicly coupled with the liquid inlet coupler. A blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the reservoir outlet and a blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the liquid outlet coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CoolIT Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Varela Benitez, Dennis Trieu, Brydon Gierl, Kamal Mostafavi, Cameron Turner
  • Publication number: 20210352830
    Abstract: A pump tray has a liquid pump with an inlet and outlet. A blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump inlet and a blindly matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the pump outlet. A chassis of the pump tray has an alignment member configured to removably engage with another device and to restrict, to a limited number of degrees-of-freedom, movement of the chassis relative to the other device (e.g., a liquid pumping unit). The blindly matable liquid couplers are so physically coupled with the chassis as to inhibit movement of them relative to the chassis. A liquid pumping unit also has a chassis defining a bay configured to receive a pump tray, a liquid inlet coupler and a liquid outlet coupler, and a reservoir fluidicly coupled with the liquid inlet coupler. A blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the reservoir outlet and a blindly-matable liquid coupler fluidicly couples with the liquid outlet coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Sebastian Varela Benitez, Dennis Trieu, Brydon Giert, Kamal Mostafavi, Cameron Turner