Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Spaulding
Jeffrey S. Spaulding 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).
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Patent number: 10612861Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Patent number: 10225959Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidly coupled to the condenser by a condensate line. The evaporator includes a housing having an opening to the condensate line, a wick located in the housing, and a flow restrictor located in the housing configured to restrict flow of a working fluid from the condensate line onto a portion of the wick.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeremy Rice, Bill Dailey, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Patent number: 10016860Abstract: A method of assembling a thermosiphon system includes placing a base of an evaporator and a tube of a condensate line in a brazing fixture such that the base covers an aperture in a bottom of the tube with a bottom surface of the base abutting a precision machined surface of the brazing fixture, and simultaneously brazing the base and the tube while held by the brazing fixture to form a unitary body in a single brazing process, the unitary body including the evaporator and the condensate line.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeremy Rice, Huan D. Nguyen, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Publication number: 20180135917Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Patent number: 9970713Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Patent number: 9869519Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Patent number: 9709618Abstract: A computer component mounting assembly includes a carrier to support a hard drive and a data connector. The carrier is configured to slidably receive the hard drive along a first axis. The data connector includes a first connector configured to mate to pins of the hard drive, a second connector configured to mate to a SATA data connector, and a flexible cable connecting the two. The first connector includes an alignment feature to engage a corresponding alignment feature on the hard drive. The first connector is coupled to the carrier and slidable in a plane perpendicular to the first axis, and the first connector is configured such that when carrier receives the hard drive and the alignment feature engages the corresponding alignment feature the first connector moves in the plane perpendicular to the first axis to provide alignment of the first connector to the pins of the hard drive.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Michael Chi Kin Lau, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Jinal Dalal
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Publication number: 20170055377Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidly coupled to the condenser by a condensate line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Bill Dailey, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Publication number: 20170001272Abstract: A method of assembling a thermosiphon system includes placing a base of an evaporator and a tube of a condensate line in a brazing fixture such that the base covers an aperture in a bottom of the tube with a bottom surface of the base abutting a precision machined surface of the brazing fixture, and simultaneously brazing the base and the tube while held by the brazing fixture to form a unitary body in a single brazing process, the unitary body including the evaporator and the condensate line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Huan D. Nguyen, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Patent number: 9521786Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidically coupled to the condenser by a condensate line. The evaporator includes a housing having an opening to the condensate line, a wick located in the housing, and a flow restrictor located in the housing configured to restrict flow of a working fluid from the condensate line onto a portion of the wick.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Bill Dailey, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Patent number: 9463536Abstract: A method of assembling a thermosiphon system includes placing a base of an evaporator and a tube of a condensate line in a brazing fixture such that the base covers an aperture in a bottom of the tube with a bottom surface of the base abutting a precision machined surface of the brazing fixture, and simultaneously brazing the base and the tube while held by the brazing fixture to form a unitary body in a single brazing process, the unitary body including the evaporator and the condensate line.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Huan D. Nguyen, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Patent number: 9335797Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) support system includes a guide attachable to a housing of a computing assembly that includes a motherboard and a daughterboard, the guide including a locking assembly that includes a notch and a surface angled toward the notch and is biased to snap over a portion of a side edge of the daughterboard received into the notch; and a PCB support attachable to a surface of the motherboard, the PCB support including a cleft sized to support a bottom edge of the daughterboard.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Winnie Leung
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Publication number: 20160097602Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Publication number: 20160077145Abstract: A computer component mounting assembly includes a carrier to support a hard drive and a data connector. The carrier is configured to slidably receive the hard drive along a first axis. The data connector includes a first connector configured to mate to pins of the hard drive, a second connector configured to mate to a SATA data connector, and a flexible cable connecting the two. The first connector includes an alignment feature to engage a corresponding alignment feature on the hard drive. The first connector is coupled to the carrier and slidable in a plane perpendicular to the first axis, and the first connector is configured such that when carrier receives the hard drive and the alignment feature engages the corresponding alignment feature the first connector moves in the plane perpendicular to the first axis to provide alignment of the first connector to the pins of the hard drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Michael Chi Kin Lau, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Jinal Dalal
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Patent number: 9225087Abstract: A computer component mounting assembly includes a carrier to support a hard drive and a data connector. The carrier is configured to slidably receive the hard drive along a first axis. The data connector includes a first connector configured to mate to pins of the hard drive, a second connector configured to mate to a SATA data connector, and a flexible cable connecting the two. The first connector includes an alignment feature to engage a corresponding alignment feature on the hard drive. The first connector is coupled to the carrier and slidable in a plane perpendicular to the first axis, and the first connector is configured such that when carrier receives the hard drive and the alignment feature engages the corresponding alignment feature the first connector moves in the plane perpendicular to the first axis to provide alignment of the first connector to the pins of the hard drive.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Michael Chi Kin Lau, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Jinal Dalal
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Publication number: 20150174709Abstract: A method of assembling a thermosiphon system includes placing a base of an evaporator and a tube of a condensate line in a brazing fixture such that the base covers an aperture in a bottom of the tube with a bottom surface of the base abutting a precision machined surface of the brazing fixture, and simultaneously brazing the base and the tube while held by the brazing fixture to form a unitary body in a single brazing process, the unitary body including the evaporator and the condensate line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Huan D. Nguyen, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Publication number: 20140268548Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidically coupled to the condenser by a condensate line.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Bill Dailey, Jeffrey S. Spaulding
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Publication number: 20140078664Abstract: A computer component mounting assembly includes a carrier to support a hard drive and a data connector. The carrier is configured to slidably receive the hard drive along a first axis. The data connector includes a first connector configured to mate to pins of the hard drive, a second connector configured to mate to a SATA data connector, and a flexible cable connecting the two. The first connector includes an alignment feature to engage a corresponding alignment feature on the hard drive. The first connector is coupled to the carrier and slidable in a plane perpendicular to the first axis, and the first connector is configured such that when carrier receives the hard drive and the alignment feature engages the corresponding alignment feature the first connector moves in the plane perpendicular to the first axis to provide alignment of the first connector to the pins of the hard drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Michael Chi Kin Lau, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Jinal Dalal
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Publication number: 20140014303Abstract: A thermosiphon system includes a condenser, an evaporator, and a condensate line fluidically coupling the condenser to the evaporator. The condensate line can be a tube with parallel passages can be used to carry the liquid condensate from the condenser to the evaporator and to carry the vapor from the evaporator to the condenser. The evaporator can be integrated into the tube. The condenser can be constructed with an angled core. The entire assembly can be constructed using a single material, e.g., aluminum, and can be brazed together in a single brazing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Jeremy Rice, Jeffrey S. Spaulding, Huan D. Nguyen
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Patent number: 7294029Abstract: A mount apparatus for a trolling motor provides latching positions for the stowed and deployed conditions of the trolling motor. Locking the mechanism in either the stowed or deployed positions is accomplished solely by moving the shaft of the trolling motor assembly in a lever-like movement about a pivot axis which extends through the base and transmission structure of the mount apparatus. This locking procedure is accomplished without the necessity of moving the shaft in a direction which is generally parallel to its central axis. As a result, the locking movement required by an operator to latch the trolling motor in its deployed and stowed positions is ergonomically preferable to known types of systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Brunswick CorporationInventor: Jeffrey S. Spaulding