Abstract: A liquid delivery system includes an air elimination assembly disposed in a pathway between a liquid source and a recipient. As its name suggests, the air elimination assembly removes gas from the liquid as it flows between an input port and output port of the air elimination assembly. A magnitude of pressure at the gas output port of the air elimination assembly is controlled to expel gas from the liquid passing from the input port to the output port. The gas expelled from the liquid is outputted from the gas output port. The liquid delivered to the recipient is void of any gases.

Abstract: A kinetic heat sink has a stationary member mountable to a heat-generating component, and a rotatable structure coupled with the stationary member across a gap. The stationary member has a heat spreader formed from a plurality of layers that includes a given layer having a radial heat spreading element and an axial heat spreading element. The radial heat spreading element has a first radial thermal conductance. The axial heat spreading element has a second radial thermal conductance. The first radial thermal conductance is greater than the second radial thermal conductance. The axial heat spreading element has a first axial thermal conductance. The radial heat spreading element has a second axial thermal conductance. The first axial thermal conductance is greater than the second effective axial thermal conductance. At least a portion of the axial heat spreading element is radially inward of at least a portion of the radial heat spreading element.

Abstract: A heat-dissipating apparatus has a base structure, a rotating structure, and stationary fins. The base structure has a first heat-conducting surface and a second heat-conducting surface to conduct heat therebetween. The first heat-conducting surface is mountable to a heat-generating component. The rotating structure rotatably couples with the base structure and has a movable heat-extraction surface facing the second heat-conducting surface across a fluid gap. The rotating structure has rotating fins that channels a heat-transfer fluid when the rotating structure rotates from a region of a thermal reservoir in communicating with the rotating structure to another area of the thermal reservoir. The stationary fins extend from the second heat-conducting surface or the housing and are in the path of fluid flow between two areas of the thermal reservoir.

Abstract: A kinetic heat sink has a stationary portion with a first heat-conducting surface and a second heat-conducting surface to conduct heat therebetween. To cool heat generating devices devices, the stationary portion is mountable to a heat-generating component and has a first plurality of fins extending therefrom. The kinetic heat sink also has a rotating structure rotatably coupled with the stationary portion. The rotating structure is configured to transfer heat received from the second heat-conducting surface to a thermal reservoir in thermal communication with the rotating structure. The rotating structure has a movable heat-extraction surface with a second plurality of fins extending toward the first plurality of fins. At least a portion of the first plurality of fins preferably are interdigitated with at least a portion of the second plurality of fins.

Abstract: A rack server has a base supporting a plurality of circuit elements, and a kinetic heat sink in direct contact with at least one first circuit element. The direct contact is configured to produce a heat-conduction relationship between the at least one first circuit element and the kinetic heat sink. The kinetic heat sink has a radial side spanning 360 degrees. The rack server also has a member for radially directing air from the kinetic heat sink. The member has an exhaust port spanning no more than about 180 degrees of the radial side, and the kinetic heat sink is configured to exhaust air from no more than about 180 degrees of the radial side. The exhaust port faces at least one second circuit element and is configured to direct air toward the at least one second circuit element.

Abstract: A base and a rotating structure together form a kinetic heat sink. The rotating structure has a movable heat extraction surface and plurality of rotating fins in thermal contact with the movable heat extraction surface. Each of the plurality of rotating fins has a radially outermost rotating fin-edge. The kinetic heat sink also has a plurality of stationary fins in thermal contact with the base. The plurality of stationary fins circumscribes the rotating fins. Each of the stationary fins has a stationary fin-edge that is its most radially inward portion. This plurality of stationary fin-edges and the plurality of rotating fin-edges form a circumferential fluid gap radially outward of the plurality of rotating fins. At least a portion of the stationary fin-edge of one or more of the stationary fins diverges from at least a portion of the rotating fin-edge of at least one of the rotating fins.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a heat-generating component includes a stationary base structure and a rotating structure. The stationary base structure is mountable at the first heat-conducting surface to or near the heat-generating component. The stationary base structure has a first and second heat-conducting surface to conduct heat therebetween. The rotating structure is rotatably coupled to the stationary base structure. The rotating structure has a heat-extraction surface facing the second heat-conducting surface across a spatial gap. As a result of the rotating structure rotatably moving, the rotating structure substantially transfers the heat from the second heat-conducting surface to a thermal reservoir communicating with the rotating structure. In addition, as a result of the rotating structure rotatably moving, at least two surfaces of the rotating structure and/or the stationary base structure generate a thrust and an opposing thrust to vary and/or maintain the spatial gap.