Patents by Inventor Robert Baldauff

Robert Baldauff 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).

  • Architecture and operational modes of pump-augmented loop heat pipe with multiple evaporators
    Patent number: 12429288
    Abstract: A pump-augmented Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) includes a conventional LHP evaporator/reservoir assembly; one or more additional evaporators; a condenser; a condenser bypass; and a pump upstream of the condenser and condenser bypass and configured to pump fluid generally toward the one or more additional evaporators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Dmitry Khrustalev, Timothy Holman, Robert Baldauff
  • Hybrid loop heat pipe with integrated magnetically levitating bearingless pump
    Patent number: 12173965
    Abstract: A hybrid capillary and mechanically pumped loop heat pipe (HLHP) includes a fluid loop having an evaporator thermally coupled to a heat load, a condenser thermally coupled to a heat sink, a reservoir, and one or more magnetically levitating pumps configured to pump fluid through the loop thereby improving heat transport capacity and system stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Gabriel Goodwin, Evan Hyde, Jesse Maxwell, Kwok Cheung, Robert Baldauff, Triem Hoang
  • Architecture and Operational Modes of Pump-Augmented Loop Heat Pipe with Multiple Evaporators
    Publication number: 20210396477
    Abstract: A pump-augmented Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) includes a conventional LHP evaporator/reservoir assembly; one or more additional evaporators; a condenser; a condenser bypass; and a pump upstream of the condenser and condenser bypass and configured to pump fluid generally toward the one or more additional evaporators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Dmitry Khrustalev, Timothy Holman, Robert Baldauff
  • Hybrid Loop Heat Pipe with Integrated Magnetically Levitating Bearingless Pump
    Publication number: 20210302104
    Abstract: A hybrid capillary and mechanically pumped loop heat pipe (HLHP) includes a fluid loop having, an evaporator thermally coupled to a heat load, a condenser thermally coupled to a heat sink, a reservoir, and one or more magnetically levitating pumps configured to pump fluid through the loop thereby improving heat transport capacity and system stability without compromising maintenance-free, long life operation of a conventional loop heat pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Gabriel Goodwin, Evan Hyde, Jesse Maxwell, Kwok Cheung, Robert Baldauff, Triem Hoang