Patents by Inventor Nobuya NAKAE

Nobuya NAKAE 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: 11841183
    Abstract: A cooling unit includes a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a tank defining a tank chamber that stores a refrigerant, the tank including an outer tank surface and an inner tank surface, and a pump defining a pump chamber, the pump including an outer pump surface and an inner pump surface. The pump chamber is spaced away from and outside of the tank chamber. A portion of the outer tank surface and a portion of the outer pump surface are directly adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction. The pump chamber accommodates a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant. An upper end of the tank chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction is positioned higher than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11582883
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate with a first refrigerant channel through which refrigerant flows, and a pump to circulate the refrigerant. The cold plate includes a bottom wall and an upper wall. A lower surface of the bottom wall is in contact with a heating element. The upper wall is located in contact with the bottom wall. A lower surface of the upper wall and an upper surface of the pump directly oppose each other. A lower surface of the pump is exposed to an outside of the cooling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11523540
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling plate with a bottom wall portion with a lower surface which contacts a heat-generating component, a top wall portion which covers an upper surface of the bottom wall portion, a side wall portion which couples the bottom wall portion and the top wall portion, and an internal space which is surrounded by the bottom wall portion, the top wall portion, and the side wall portion to define a first cooling medium flow passage. The bottom wall portion includes blades on the upper surface. An inlet port or an outlet port is on one end side of the first cooling medium flow passage. An inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion includes a first bent portion which is bent convex inward between ends of the blades and the at least one of the inlet port and the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Patent number: 11497148
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling assembly which includes a cold plate extending in a first direction, a pump and a tank on one side of the cold plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a partition extending in the first direction and covering the cold plate on one side in the second direction. The cold plate and the partition define a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The pump includes a pump chamber in which an impeller is housed, the impeller moving the refrigerant. The tank includes a tank chamber in which the refrigerant flows. The pump chamber and the tank chamber communicate with each other through a first tank hole portion. The partition includes a first hole portion through which the first refrigerant flow path and the tank chamber communicate. The first tank hole portion is provided on one side in the first direction with respect to the first hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11470743
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takahiro Imanishi, Akihiko Makita, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20220316787
    Abstract: A cooling unit includes a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a tank defining a tank chamber that stores a refrigerant, the tank including an outer tank surface and an inner tank surface, and a pump defining a pump chamber, the pump including an outer pump surface and an inner pump surface. The pump chamber is spaced away from and outside of the tank chamber. A portion of the outer tank surface and a portion of the outer pump surface are directly adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction. The pump chamber accommodates a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant. An upper end of the tank chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction is positioned higher than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Nobuya NAKAE
  • Patent number: 11397039
    Abstract: A cooling unit has a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, and a tank and a pump disposed above the cold plate in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction. The tank has a tank chamber which stores a refrigerant. The pump has a pump chamber in which a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant is accommodated, and an upper end of the tank chamber in the first direction is positioned at an upper side than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11252837
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate including a lower surface to be in contact with a heat-radiating component, and a first coolant passage in which a coolant flows, a radiator including fins to perform cooling and pipes each defining a second coolant passage in communication with the first coolant passage, a pump to circulate the coolant, a first tank joined to one end of each of the pipes, and a second tank to join another end of each of the pipes to the pump. The radiator is provided on the cold plate, and the pump is adjacent to the second tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya Nakae, Akihiko Makita, Hidenobu Takeshita, Tomotsugu Sugiyama, Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Patent number: 11236738
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate including a lower surface to be in contact with a heat-radiating component, and a first coolant passage in which a coolant flows, a radiator including fins to perform cooling, and a second coolant passage in which the coolant flows, and a pump connected to each of the first coolant passage and the second coolant passage to circulate the coolant. The radiator is provided on the cold plate. The pump is adjacent to the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya Nakae, Akihiko Makita, Hidenobu Takeshita, Tomotsugu Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20210368651
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate with a first refrigerant channel through which refrigerant flows, and a pump to circulate the refrigerant. The cold plate includes a bottom wall and an upper wall. A lower surface of the bottom wall is in contact with a heating element. The upper wall is located in contact with the bottom wall. A lower surface of the upper wall and an upper surface of the pump directly oppose each other. A lower surface of the pump is exposed to an outside of the cooling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Nobuya NAKAE
  • Patent number: 11147187
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takahiro Imanishi, Akihiko Makita, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20210282298
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Nobuya NAKAE, Takahiro IMANISHI, Akihiko MAKITA, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 11109510
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate including a first refrigerant channel through which refrigerant flows, a radiator including fins and pipes defining second refrigerant channels communicating with the first refrigerant channel, a pump to circulate the refrigerant, a first tank coupled to one end of each of the pipes, and a second tank coupling another end of each of the pipes and the pump. The radiator is located on the cold plate. The pump is adjacent to a side of the cold plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuya Nakae
  • Publication number: 20210204453
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling assembly which includes a cold plate extending in a first direction, a pump and a tank on one side of the cold plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a partition extending in the first direction and covering the cold plate on one side in the second direction. The cold plate and the partition define a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The pump includes a pump chamber in which an impeller is housed, the impeller moving the refrigerant. The tank includes a tank chamber in which the refrigerant flows. The pump chamber and the tank chamber communicate with each other through a first tank hole portion. The partition includes a first hole portion through which the first refrigerant flow path and the tank chamber communicate. The first tank hole portion is provided on one side in the first direction with respect to the first hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Nobuya NAKAE
  • Publication number: 20210136958
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling plate with a bottom wall portion with a lower surface which contacts a heat-generating component, a top wall portion which covers an upper surface of the bottom wall portion, a side wall portion which couples the bottom wall portion and the top wall portion, and an internal space which is surrounded by the bottom wall portion, the top wall portion, and the side wall portion to define a first cooling medium flow passage. The bottom wall portion includes blades on the upper surface. An inlet port or an outlet port is on one end side of the first cooling medium flow passage. An inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion includes a first bent portion which is bent convex inward between ends of the blades and the at least one of the inlet port and the outlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Nobuya NAKAE, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 10959353
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided with a cooling unit that includes a cold plate extending in a first direction; a pump and a tank disposed on one side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction of the cold plate; and a partition member extending in the first direction and covering the cold plate on one side in the second direction. The cold plate includes a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows in the first direction. The pump includes a pump chamber where a rotating body is accommodated. The tank includes a tank chamber storing the refrigerant and a first tank hole part communicating with the pump chamber. The partition member, including a first hole part that communicates the first flow path and the tank chamber, is provided on one side in the first direction with respect to the first hole part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 10917995
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a cold plate; a radiator; a pump; a first tank; and a second tank. The cold plate has a first cooling medium flow passage. The radiator has fins and pipes forming a second cooling medium flow passage. The pump circulates a cooling medium. The first tank is coupled to one ends of the pipes. The second tank couples the other ends of the pipes to the pump. The radiator is disposed on the cold plate. The cold plate has a bottom wall portion, a top wall portion, a side wall portion, an internal space, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The bottom wall portion has blades, and an inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion has a first bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20200214170
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate including a first refrigerant channel through which refrigerant flows, a radiator including fins and pipes defining second refrigerant channels communicating with the first refrigerant channel, a pump to circulate the refrigerant, a first tank coupled to one end of each of the pipes, and a second tank coupling another end of each of the pipes and the pump. The radiator is located on the cold plate. The pump is adjacent to a side of the cold plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Nobuya NAKAE
  • Publication number: 20200214176
    Abstract: A cooling device includes: a cold plate; a radiator; a pump; a first tank; and a second tank. The cold plate has a first cooling medium flow passage. The radiator has fins and pipes forming a second cooling medium flow passage. The pump circulates a cooling medium. The first tank is coupled to one ends of the pipes. The second tank couples the other ends of the pipes to the pump. The radiator is disposed on the cold plate. The cold plate has a bottom wall portion, a top wall portion, a side wall portion, an internal space, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The bottom wall portion has blades, and an inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion has a first bent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Nobuya NAKAE, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200146181
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Nobuya NAKAE, Takahiro IMANISHI, Akihiko MAKITA, Takehito TAMAOKA