Patents Issued in January 23, 2014
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Publication number: 20140020847Abstract: A flexible carrier mount for mounting of a carrier substrate when the carrier substrate is detached from a product substrate, detachment means being provided for debonding the product substrate with bending of the carrier substrate. A device for detaching a carrier substrate from one product substrate in one detachment direction having: a carrier mount flexible in the detachment direction for mounting the carrier substrate, a substrate mount for mounting the product substrate, and detachment means for debonding the carrier substrate from the product substrate with bending of the carrier substrate. A method for detaching a carrier substrate from a product substrate in one detachment direction with the steps: mounting the product substrate with a substrate mount and mounting the carrier substrate with a carrier mount flexible in the detachment direction and debonding the carrier substrate from the product substrate with bending of the product substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Jürgen Burggraf, Daniel Burgstaller
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Publication number: 20140020848Abstract: An extendable handled tool may include: a shaft; a hollow shaft extension encompassing the shaft and configured to move axially on the shaft so that the shaft moves in and out of the hollow space in the shaft extension; a locking collar attached to the shaft extension, the locking collar configured to rotate on the shaft; a tooth connected to the locking collar such that the tooth rotates with the locking collar; and a locking ring mounted on the shaft, the locking ring configured to fit with the tooth to rotate between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the locked position prevents the shaft extension from moving axially with respect to the shaft and the unlocked position permits the shaft extension to move axially with respect to the shaft. A method of extending a handle on a tool may also be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: SPX CorporationInventors: Michael WHITE, Robert Jensen
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Publication number: 20140020849Abstract: Disclosed are an evaporator, an evaporation method, and a substrate processing apparatus, which can increase the concentration of generated vapor of an organic solvent and efficiently heat the organic solvent. The evaporator includes a fluid tube, a liquid organic solvent supply device for supplying the organic solvent liquid to one end of the fluid tube, and heating units for heating the fluid tube. The fluid tube has a cross section that increases from the one end to the other end. When the organic solvent liquid supplied to one end of the fluid tube is heated, the organic solvent vapor is discharged from the other end of the fluid tube. The substrate processing apparatus includes the above-described evaporator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Mikio NAKASHIMA, Yuji KAMIKAWA
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Publication number: 20140020850Abstract: A Floating Salt Farm is a system which uses extracted seawater to reliably and regularly produce substantial amounts of crystallized salt and bittern through the evaporation process. The seawater used for the evaporation process of the Floating Salt Farm can be 1) seawater affected by volcanic activities, 2) seawater affected by spring water from thermal springs, and 3) seawater extracted from specific water depths and from specific offshore locations. The crystallized salt and bittern to be produced are affected by placing contents, such as volcanic rocks, inside the evaporator tank with the seawater during the evaporation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: JAE HYUN LIM
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Publication number: 20140020851Abstract: An insulated glass assembly providing a simple and effective construction for installing a modular assembly inside the insulated glass assembly. The insulated glass assembly may include a spacer frame configured to support the modular assembly, such as a modular blind or shade assembly. The modular assembly may include a head rail module and a control operator module that may be captured by the spacer frame. For example, the spacer frame may capture the head rail module near the upper portion or the lower portion of the insulated glass blind assembly, and may capture the control operator module on a side adjacent to the head rail module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: ODL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Allen Christopher Ouzts, Benjamin Patrick Hummel, Michael Shane Eveland, Marc Richard Spetoskey
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Publication number: 20140020852Abstract: A window shutter unit (1) is for external mounting on a building. The window shutter unit comprises a plurality of hollow slats (2) mounted in a shutter frame. An air outlet opening (20) delivers ventilation air to a room in the building. A fresh air inlet system comprises air inlet openings (10) in the hollow slats (2), and a first air flow passage (8) from the individual slat to a common flow passage (9) leading to the air outlet opening (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Venetian Solar APSInventor: Stefan Thielemann
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Publication number: 20140020853Abstract: An overhead vertical closure, such as an overhead coiling door is described. A plurality of bumpers are spaced and fixed along the sides of the closure to center the curtain between the support brackets. In a first preferred embodiment, the geometry of the bumper is such that the vertical side and the extending sides meet in one or more obtuse angles. In a second preferred embodiment, the geometry of the bumper is such that the vertical side and the extending sides meet in a radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: CIW ENTERPRISESInventors: Tom Balay, Brian Reklaitis
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Publication number: 20140020854Abstract: An unlocking assembly for a feedback window curtain set, which is applicable for use in a window curtain set provided with a self-rewinding curtain having an automatic and feedback mechanism. When the curtain has been released to its lowermost position, the unlocking assembly for the entire unit unlocks a locking device. Free ends of lower sections of the pull cords pass through the underside of the counterweight pendulum rod to enable the pull cords to add to an unlock travel distance. The displacement length of the unlock travel distance is used to actuate a locking device of a winding unit, which enables unlocking the locked state of the curtain. Accordingly, when the curtain is released to any height, an unlocking operation can be effected at any time that rewinds the entire system, thus avoiding danger from the pull cords being exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Hsien-Te HUANG
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Publication number: 20140020855Abstract: A portable work screen apparatus including a semi-rigid screen and at least two supports, each having an attachment device, the attachment device having a magnet for, in use, releasably connecting the screen to a surface proximal to a workpiece, wherein the at least two supports are spaced apart, such that, in use, the screen is extending therebetween and is flexed to a desired configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: BAE Systems plcInventors: Mark Wayne Phillips, William Brian Spencely
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Publication number: 20140020856Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide technology for regenerating pulp having high quality with compact pulp regenerating equipment and less energy. In the pulp regenerating method of the present invention, pulp slurry containing 1.5 wt % or more of a solid component including waste paper pulp is separated into a long fiber fraction and a short fiber fraction by using an outward type slit screen including an opening portion having a slit width in the range of 0.1 mm to 0.3 mm. The solid component ratio of the long fiber fraction and the short fiber fraction is in the range from 10:90 to 60:40, and the difference in Canadian Standard Freeness of the long fiber fraction and the short fiber fraction is in the range of 100 ml to 300 ml.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicants: AIKAWA IRON WORKS CO., LTD., NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shisei Goto, Takaharu Noda, Hiroki Ohtake, Tatsumi Hosaka
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Publication number: 20140020857Abstract: A method for making a dry pulp comprising the steps of (i) forming a dispersion in water of a pulp comprising polymeric fibers having a tenacity of at least 20 g/dtex, (ii) filtering the dispersion to form a mass of wet pulp having a solids content of from 5 to 60%, (iii) freezing the wet pulp until the mass is at least 95% frozen, (iv) subliming the water from the frozen mass by subjecting the frozen mass to vacuum of less than 4.5 Torr until the final moisture content of the pulp is no greater than 5% and (v) warming the pulp to ambient temperature under vacuum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Mark F. Teasley
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Publication number: 20140020858Abstract: Compositions and methods related to new wet strength resins are provided. By using functionally-symmetrical cross-linkers and mono-functional modifiers, and separating the steps of reacting a prepolymer with the cross-linkers from the reaction of intermediate cross-linked prepolymer with epichlorohydrin, new wet strength resin products are provided having improved properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Clay E. Ringold, Cornel Hagiopol, Dexter C. Johnson
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Publication number: 20140020859Abstract: A tire vulcanizing mold manufacturing method for manufacturing of a mold including a vent mechanism, and a tire vulcanizing mold manufactured using such method are disclosed. Blades each with anchor portions are mounted on a plaster mold with only the anchor portions embedded in the plaster mold. A portion of each blade mounted on the plaster mold is covered with a cover layer made of a destructible fire-resistant material. Molten metal is poured over a surface of the plaster mold to cast a mold to which the shape of the surface is transferred and in which each blade is buried. The anchor portions protruding from the surface of the mold are removed, and the cover layer is removed to form a slit around the blade. A vent opening forming member is removed to form a vent opening. The slit and the vent opening communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Enokido
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Publication number: 20140020860Abstract: When user face information and user air-conditioning information are stored in advance via a portable information terminal and a face of a user is located within a face recognition range of an indoor imaging device, an indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus recognizes the face. In addition, when it is determined that the face of the user corresponds to the face of a first user represented by first user information stored in advance, the indoor unit of the air-conditioning apparatus blows conditioned air that satisfies a first user air-conditioning environment represented by first user air-conditioning information set for the first user toward the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20140020861Abstract: A cooling system for a subterranean power line may include a cooling tube configured to house a fluid. Heat generated by the subterranean power line may be radiated and/or conducted to the cooling tube and absorbed by the fluid within the cooling tube. As the fluid heats up, it may change phase from a liquid to a gas. The hot gas may rise to a heat-exchanging condenser configured to dissipate the heat and condense the fluid back into a liquid. The cool, condensed liquid my return from the heat-exchanging condenser to the cooling tube. Risers, gas transport tubes, pressure regulation systems, fluid storage tanks, and other components described herein may increase the efficiency of the cooling system and/or otherwise improve the viability of the cooling system for subterranean power lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: ELWHA LLCInventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
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Publication number: 20140020862Abstract: A thermal exchange system using a thermal transport fluid and including a heat releasing heat exchanger, a heat receiving heat exchanger and a second heat exchange unit. The thermal exchange system is operable in heating mode and in a cooling mode in which ambient air is respectively heated and cooled in the second heat exchange unit. Switching between the heating and cooling modes changes an outside path through which the thermal transport fluid moves between the heat releasing heat exchanger, heat receiving heat exchanger and second heat exchange unit while preserving inside paths through which the thermal transport fluid moves inside each of the the heat releasing heat exchanger, heat receiving heat exchanger and second heat exchange unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Marcel Turcotte
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Publication number: 20140020863Abstract: The add-on heat sink includes an elongate base having a plurality of fins extending from a surface thereof. A magnetic layer is disposed on the bottom of the base, which permits the add-on heat sink to be installed on any ferromagnetic heated surface. The magnetic layer is composed of either a polymer matrix having a plurality of thermally conductive structural components and a plurality of magnetic particles dispersed therein, or a thermally conductive polymer having magnetic particles dispersed therein. Alternatively, if the heated surface is not ferromagnetic, the heat sink may be magnetically attached by adhesively attaching mating magnetic and ferromagnetic pads to the heat sink and to the heated surface. This configuration allows the add-on heat sink to be installed with minimal footprint. Optionally, a fan may be magnetically attached to the heat sink to cool the heated surface by both conduction and convection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventor: MUHAMMAD A. HAWWA
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Publication number: 20140020864Abstract: A homogenisation device which is in particular suitable to homogenise a temperature distribution in a fluid stream exiting a heat exchanger comprises a body with a fluid flow passage extending there through. The homogenisation device further includes a flow control device which is disposed in the fluid flow passage and which is configured to induce a swirl in an outer layer of a fluid stream flowing through the fluid flow passage, while the flow characteristics of a core layer of the fluid stream remain substantially unaffected by the flow control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Andreas WICK
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Publication number: 20140020865Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes a heat exchanger main body in which a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series relative to a refrigerant flowing direction and an air flowing direction, the heat exchanger main body including on one side thereof an external connection portion configured to supply at least refrigerant and on the other side thereof a communicating portion configured to communicate the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, and a bypass flow path extending from the one side to the other side of the heat exchanger main body, configured to bypass the first heat exchanger, at least one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger includes a pair of tank sections disposed at an interval, and a plurality of first heat transfer tubes configured to connect a pair of tank sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Toru Kawamata, Satoshi Kamimura
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Publication number: 20140020866Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger, especially oil cooler for vehicles, comprising a heat exchanging element with a first terminal plate closing the heat exchanging element on one of its sides and with at least one opening provided with a socket for inlet or release of a fluid into or from the heat exchanger element, at least a first gasket carrier plate, with a first lateral face being arranged adjacent to the first terminal plate and a second lateral face being arranged opposite to the first lateral face, at least one passage opening leading from the first to the second lateral face for taking up at least one socket of the first terminal plate, at least a first sealing element, being arranged between the first terminal plate and the first gasket carrier plate, completely encircling the circumferential edge of the at least one passage opening on the first lateral face and sealing the passage opening between the first terminal plate and the first gasket carrier plate, at least a second sealingType: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: Jens Bluetling, Werner Buntz, Jochen Salzmann
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Publication number: 20140020867Abstract: A thermal transfer device comprising a thermal transfer surface and a passageway for conducting a thermal transfer fluid from an inlet to an outlet while passing in thermal contact with the thermal transfer surface. The passageway has at least two spiral passages and a connection channel connecting the at least two spiral passages to permit flow of the heat transfer fluid from a first spiral passage to a second spiral passage; thereby forming a path for the flow of the thermal fluid from the inlet, through the passageway, along the first spiral passage to the connection channel, then along the connection channel to the second spiral passage, and then to the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: AAVID THERMALLOY, LLCInventor: Marco Moruzzi
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Publication number: 20140020868Abstract: A heat exchanger enables an efficient and uniform cooling and/or heating of liquids, in particular of blood. The heat exchanger includes an elongated, substantially cylindrical, housing, a plurality of capillaries, which are fastened inside the housing by means of partitions so that they are substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis of the housing and mutually placed in defined distances from, while the housing contains an inlet and an outlet of the cooling/heating liquid and a finishing element at each end. The element contains an input, or output of the cooled/heated liquid and includes inside the housing at least one laminarizer in the form of a partition with a plurality of openings, always one opening for each capillary, the diameter of the opening being bigger than the outer diameter of the capillary, and laminarizer is placed so that capillaries go through the centre of the opening in the laminarizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: UNIVERZITA KARLLOVA V PRAZA LEKARSKA FAKULTA V PLZNIInventors: Lukas Bolek, Jiri Dejmek, Jiri Ruzicka, Jiri Benes, Zuzana Petrankova
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Publication number: 20140020869Abstract: Apparatus and methods for removing unwanted heat generated by apparatus such as personal computer systems and other appliances. The apparatus comprising a thermally conductive surface to which heat from heat-generating components is communicated via a heat transmitting means such as a heatpipe. The apparatus can then be cooled by contacting cooling apparatus to the thermally conductive surface. Also described are liquid cooling apparatus suitable for contacting to apparatus having thermally conductive surfaces and a method for cooling a plurality of computer systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Niall Thomas Davidson
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Publication number: 20140020870Abstract: A heat dissipation module includes a centrifugal fan and a heat dissipation fin array. The centrifugal fan includes at least one axial air inlet and a radial air outlet, wherein the radial air outlet is defined between a first sidewall and an opposite second sidewall with a tongue potion. The heat dissipation fin array is located at the radial air outlet of the centrifugal fan. The heat dissipation fin array and the radial air outlet substantially share an equal length L. The heat dissipation fin array has a middle wind stop section which is closer to the second sidewall than the first sidewall. The wind stop section has a length ranging from about 0.1 L to about 0.42 L.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.Inventors: Yun-Jeng Lin, Ming-Hsien Lin, Yu-Hsun Lin
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Publication number: 20140020871Abstract: A heat sink with a built-in fan includes a heat radiation base, a heat radiation fin module and a fan. The heat radiation base has a plurality of spaced grooves formed on an inner side thereof for engagement of heat radiation fins of the heat radiation fin module. The heat radiation fins are respectively inserted in the grooves of the heat radiation base and compressed in the grooves by stamping so that the heat radiation fins are connected to the heat radiation base. The fan is located inside the heat radiation fin module and surrounded by the plurality of heat radiation fins. When the heat radiation base absorbs heat, the fan is started to dissipate heat quickly. At least one heat conduction pipe is connected between the heat radiation base and the heat radiation fin module to enhance the heat dissipation efficiency of the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Tsung-Hsien Huang
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Publication number: 20140020872Abstract: An aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling system and an aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling method in which a fluid in a pipe installed in aircraft or spacecraft can be cooled efficiently so that the amount of fluid required for cooling the fluid can be reduced. A fluid cooling system includes a feed line that feeds a fluid from a storage tank to a pump, and a cooling section that expands a propellant having traveled through the pump, feeds the propellant to the outer periphery of the feed line so as to cool the propellant in the feed line, and discharges the expanded propellant outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Osamu Kitayama, Keitaro Ishikawa, Yorichika Mihara, Taichi Aoyama, Shinji Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140020873Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for aircraft heat shield assemblies. In this regard, a heat shield assembly is provided comprising a heat shield having an aperture, the aperture comprising an end portion and an insertion portion, the insertion portion having a width larger than the end portion, a spacer comprising an upper portion, an undermount flange and a gap between the upper portion and the undermount flange, wherein a surface of the gap is engaged with the heat shield, and wherein the undermount flange has a width less than the insertion portion of the aperture and greater than the width of the end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua Craig Houser, Katrina Lynn King
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Publication number: 20140020874Abstract: An inexpensive heat exchanger is disclosed, wherein the heat exchanger is made up of a plurality of plates and each plate has at least one channel defined in the plate. The plates are stacked and bonded together to form a block having conduits for carrying at least one fluid and where the exchanger includes an expansion device enclosed within the unit. The plates include construction to thermally insulate the sections of the heat exchanger to control the heat flow within the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Phillip F. Daly, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche
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Publication number: 20140020875Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for transferring heat to a first stream from a second stream in a hydrocarbon process. The process can include passing the first stream through at least one generally vertically-orientated tube in an exchanger. An interior surface of the at least one generally vertically-orientated tube may form one or more curved irregularities where the first stream, prior to entering the at least one generally vertically-orientated tube, may include a mixture of a gas including hydrogen and at least one or more C1-C3 hydrocarbons, and a liquid including one or more C4-C13 hydrocarbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Phillip F. Daly, Kenneth D. Peters
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Publication number: 20140020876Abstract: A heat exchanger system is described that includes an inlet and an outlet for a first fluid and a heat exchanger between the inlet and the outlet wherein the first fluid circulates, wherein the heat exchanger comprises at least one deflector to guide the flow of a second fluid. A method is also described to exchange heat between a first and a second fluid using free convection velocity field to create forced convection in the heat exchanger of a heat exchanger system. A method to exchange heat between a first and a second fluid comprising providing a heat exchanger system between the first and the second fluids, said heat exchanger system comprising a heat exchanger wherein the first fluid circulates and increasing the flow turbulences of a second fluid around the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Framo Engineering ASInventors: Julien Rolland, Stig Kaare Kanstad
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Publication number: 20140020877Abstract: There is provided a heat exchanger element and a heat exchanger which are smaller, lighter in weight, and lower in cost than conventional heat exchange bodies, heat exchangers and the like. In the honeycomb structure, t?0.2, ?>100, 20?t×??250, and 10,000??×? are satisfied when thermal conductivity of a material for the partition walls is taken as ? [W/K˜m], and, regarding a cell structure of the honeycomb structure, a wall thickness of the partition walls is taken as t [mm], and a cell density is taken as ? [cells/sq.in.].Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshio SUZUKI, Yuta MATSUNO, Hiroharu KOBAYASHI, Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140020878Abstract: Systems and methods for a protective casing are provided. In at least one embodiment, a protective casing includes a flexible insulation layer configured to inhibit thermal energy from conducting from an external side of the flexible insulation layer to an internal side of the flexible insulation layer. The protective casing also includes a microlattice layer abutting the internal side of the flexible insulation layer, the microlattice layer configured to distribute thermal energy that passes through the flexible insulation layer substantially throughout the microlattice layer. Further, the protective casing includes a heat absorbing material that impregnates the microlattice layer, the heat absorbing material configured to absorb the thermal energy in the microlattice layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: David Lowell Miller, Gary Kersten, Wendell A. Frost
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Publication number: 20140020879Abstract: A heat sink includes a plurality of fins. Each of the plurality of fins includes a fin body and a bent part located on one side of the fin body. The bent part of each of the plurality of fins includes an extension piece slanted relative to the fin body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: CHIH-HAO YANG, LI-KAN YEH
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Publication number: 20140020880Abstract: A removable radiator fin assembly adapted to removably receive a radiator pipe. The removable fin assembly includes a first plurality of fins and a second plurality of fins having collar flanges sized to receive a radiator pipe. The fins are received on first and second spacer rods, respectively and are hingedly connected by a hinge rod such that the first and second plurality of fins are pivotally movable about the hinge rod between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the first and second plurality of fins are positionable over the radiator pipe. In the closed position, the collar flanges of the first and second plurality of fins substantially surround the radiator pipe. A fin clamp secures the first and second plurality of fins together in the closed position about the radiator pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Gordon B. Fanberg, Robert A. Fransen
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Publication number: 20140020881Abstract: A composite article (1; 10; 40) comprises a plurality of inclusions (5) of a magnetocalorically active material embedded in a matrix (4) of a magnetocalorically passive material. The inclusions (5) and the matrix (4) have a microstructure characteristic of a compacted powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Vacuumschmeize GmbH & Co. KGInventors: George Werner REPPEL, Matthias KATTER
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Publication number: 20140020882Abstract: A heat sink for LED lighting formed of an aluminum material includes: a mounting face part having an LED element mounted on a surface thereof; a first fin part extending in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face part; and a second fin part extending in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face part and extending in a direction intersecting the first fin part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Haruyuki KONISHI, Haruyuki Matsuda, Yoshikazu Mukai, Makoto Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140020883Abstract: A flow module or plate reactor includes one or more sectioned or un-sectioned heat exchanger plates. Each sectioned heat exchanger plates has a plurality of sections, each of which has a heat exchanger inlet and a heat exchanger outlet configured to flow one or more fluids therein in a first direction. The flow module or plate reactor includes one or more thermocouples and/or sensors and a regulating valve positioned either downstream of each of the heat exchanger outlets or upstream of one of the heat exchanger inlets. The flow module or plate reactor includes one or more serpentine configured process flow channels which have a channel inlet point and a channel outlet point which define a line oriented in a second direction which is at an angle of ninety degrees relative to the first direction. The flow module or plate reactor includes one or more flow plates and/or reactor plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE ABInventors: Rolf Christensen, Tommy Norén
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Publication number: 20140020884Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for removing heat from a rack of information technology equipment may include a sidecar indoor air to liquid heat exchanger that cools air utilized by the rack of information technology equipment to cool the rack of information technology equipment. The system may also include a liquid to liquid heat exchanger and an outdoor heat exchanger. The system may further include configurable pathways to connect and control fluid flow through the sidecar heat exchanger, the liquid to liquid heat exchanger, the rack of information technology equipment, and the outdoor heat exchanger based upon ambient temperature and/or ambient humidity to remove heat generated by the rack of information technology equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mark D. Schultz
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Publication number: 20140020885Abstract: A method aspect for removing heat from a data center may use liquid coolant cooled without vapor compression refrigeration on a liquid cooled information technology equipment rack. The method may also include regulating liquid coolant flow to the data center through a range of liquid coolant flow values with a controller-apparatus based upon information technology equipment temperature threshold of the data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Timothy J. Chainer, Hien P. Dang, Pritish R. Parida, Mark D. Schultz, Arun Sharma
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Publication number: 20140020886Abstract: Lubricant fluid compositions which include a base oil fluid medium which contains thermally conductive filler particles and a thixotropic shear thinning viscosifier. The shear thinning viscosifier allows the particles to be suspended within the lubricant fluid composition when at rest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Joshua Charles Falkner, Jonathan J. Brege
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Publication number: 20140020887Abstract: A safety valve for use in a subterranean well can include a housing assembly having a flow passage extending longitudinally through the housing assembly. An outer diameter of the housing assembly is eccentric relative to the flow passage. A well tool can include a magnetic coupling between magnet devices. One magnet device includes a series of magnets which are unequally spaced circumferentially about the other magnet device. Another safety valve can include a longitudinally extending flow passage, a closure device which selectively permits and prevents flow through the flow passage, and an outer diameter which is eccentric relative to the flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: James D. VICK, JR., Jimmie R. Williamson, JR., Bruce E. SCOTT
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Publication number: 20140020888Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a casing head and a tubing hanger disposed within the casing head and supported by a first retaining feature of the casing head. The tubing hanger is configured to support a tubing string. The system also includes a guide string hanger disposed within the casing head and supported by a second retaining feature of the casing head independent of the first retaining feature. The guide string hanger is configured to support a guide string.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Cameron International CorporationInventors: David Joseph Hanlin, Bradley Mitchell Mandziak
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Publication number: 20140020889Abstract: Apparatus facilitating successive installation of casing sections endwise in a well, that includes hanger structure sized for installation at a well head, the hanger structure having a vertical through opening via which successive casing sections are installable vertically in the well, the hanger structure having vertically spaced shoulders for landing casing sections, there being adjustable structure for enabling controllable adjustment of hanger length, whereby uncemented casing weight is applied on the hanger structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: David M. Miller
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Publication number: 20140020890Abstract: A sampling assembly of a single packer assembly may have more guard drains than sampling drains. The single packer assembly having the sampling assembly may be deployed in a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation, and the single packer assembly may be deployed on a wireline cable or another deployment or conveyance. The number and the area of the sampling drains, the number and the area of the guard drains, and the positions of the sampling drains and the guard drains may be designed so that the guard drains which are operational may provide a fluid intake rate exceeding a predetermined threshold if one of the guard drains is congested and/or blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Pierre-Yves Corre, Stephane Metayer, Alexander F. Zazovsky, Stephen Yeldell, Darya Mustafina
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Publication number: 20140020891Abstract: A steam-assisted gravity drainage or cyclic steam injection method for recovering oil from a development region of an underground reservoir, further employing water injection along one or more peripheral side edges of the development region via a horizontal well or wells to thereby bound the development region on at least one side edge thereof, and preferably along two or more side edges, with water to thereby reduce steam loss from the development region and thus reduce steam-to-recovered oil ratio (SOR). The water may be combined with diluents. In a preferred embodiment, the water which is injected into the horizontal well or wells comprises produced water recovered from said reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: SUNRISE OIL SANDS PARTNERSHIPInventors: Derek LAMB, Lawrence J. FREDERICK
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Publication number: 20140020892Abstract: A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet formed at a bottom thereof and a gate slidably affixed at the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering the outlet to second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container is a ten foot ISO container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: PlNCH FLATBED, LLCInventors: John OREN, Joshua OREN
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Publication number: 20140020893Abstract: A method using a propping fluid comprising a first carrier fluid and a plurality of propping agents and a spacer fluid comprising a second carrier fluid and an expandable filler material. The method introduces the propping fluid into a fracture in a subterranean formation and introduces the spacer fluid into the fracture. Then the expandable filler material is exposed to an expanding agent that causes the expandable filler material to expand and press against the adjacent propping agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Paul Smith, Jonathan Worley, Dave B. Allison, Kembe Dane Kleinwolterink
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Publication number: 20140020894Abstract: A wellhead is provided. In one embodiment, the wellhead includes a plug for sealing a side passage of the wellhead. The plug may include an outer member, an inner member extending through the outer member and coupled to the outer member with at least one degree of freedom of movement relative to the outer member, and a moveable seal disposed around the outer member. In some embodiments, the moveable seal is configured to seal against the side passage in response to being moved on the outer member by the inner member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Dennis P. Nguyen, David Anderson, Delbert Vanderford
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Publication number: 20140020895Abstract: A variety of methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one embodiment a method a cementing in a subterranean formation comprising: providing a set-delayed cement composition comprising water, pumice, hydrated lime, and a set retarder; foaming the set-delayed cement composition; activating the set-delayed cement composition; introducing the set-delayed cement composition into a subterranean formation; and allowing the set-delayed cement composition to set in the subterranean formation. Additional methods, foamed set-delayed cement composition, and systems for cementing are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Kyriacos Agapiou, Thomas Jason Pisklak, Samuel J. Lewis, Peter James Boul, Pauline Akinyi Otieno, Lance Everett Brothers
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Publication number: 20140020896Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for conducting multiple successive same-location firings of a number of shaped charges carried by a perforating gun that is lowered into the wellbore and precisely positioned to align its charges with the penetration created by the first fired-charges in order to produce deeper and larger diameter penetrations that result in enhanced hydraulic fracturing of the reservoir and increased gas production from the completed well.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Al-Waleed Abdullah AL-GOUHI