Liquid Fluent Heat Exchange Material Patents (Class 165/104.19)
  • Patent number: 8793987
    Abstract: A heat exchanger plate for an evaporator includes a flow transverse distribution device. Disks of the flow transverse distribution device conduct the medium to be evaporated to the flow channel extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis. The disks include openings allowing a flow of the medium in the direction of the longitudinal axis with comparatively higher flow resistance than in the direction of the transverse axis. The number of disks arranged one behind the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis varies over the width of the heat exchanger plate in the direction of the transverse axis. On each width section, in which the entry of the medium into the disks arranged one behind the other is intended, the comparatively largest number of disks is provided one behind the other. As the distance from the entrance increases, the number decreases in the direction of the transverse axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: SteamDrive GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Berger, Peter Ambros, Axel Fezer, Jochen Orso, Harald Necker
  • Patent number: 8789578
    Abstract: A cooling structure for an electric device includes a plurality of cooling medium paths (724) through which a cooling medium for an inverter flows, an inlet (722) into which the cooling medium to be supplied to the plurality of cooling medium paths (724) flows, and a wall (726) provided between the inlet (722) and the plurality of cooling medium paths (724) to promote distribution of the cooling medium to each of the cooling medium paths (724).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Asakura
  • Publication number: 20140202658
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment wherein a fluid jetting device is utilized to jet a thermal conductive fluid for exchanging heat with the external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment via the thermal energy of the jetted thermal conductive fluid, the heat exchange means includes the external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment having relative high temperature being cooled by a fluid have relative lower temperature, and external thermal conduction interface structure of electrical equipment having relative lower temperature being heated by a fluid having relative higher temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Publication number: 20140202664
    Abstract: A system for sampling drilling fluid to identify one or more species of interest within the drilling fluid includes a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a first fluid passage and a second fluid passage. Each fluid passage has an inlet and an outlet. In addition, the system includes a supply line coupled to the inlet of the first fluid passage. Further, the system includes a return line coupled to the outlet of the second fluid passage. Still further, the system includes a drilling fluid heater having an inlet coupled to the outlet of the first fluid passage and an outlet. The system also includes a drilling fluid degasser having an inlet coupled to the outlet of the heater, a first outlet coupled to an analyzer configured to identify the one or more species of interest, and a second outlet coupled to the inlet of the second fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Patrick Schexnaider, Matthew Hay Henderson
  • Publication number: 20140202663
    Abstract: An air-liquid heat exchanger assembly for an environmental control system of an aircraft is provided including a heat exchanger configured to transfer heat between air and a liquid. The heat exchanger includes a first chamber and a second chamber arranged generally in series relative to a flow of the liquid. A movable bypass valve is operably coupled to a controller. The bypass valve is positioned between and coupled to the first chamber and the second chamber. The bypass valve is configured to control the flow of the liquid through the second chamber and a bypass conduit in response to measured operating conditions of the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Brian R. Shea
  • Patent number: 8785024
    Abstract: A heat pipe is described. The heat pipe includes a heat pipe body containing a working fluid; and a louvered cooling fin adjacent to one end of the heat pipe body, the louvered cooling fin extending outward from a surface of the heat pipe body. Air-cooled battery packs containing the heat pipe are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Taeyoung Han, Kuo-Huey Chen, Bahram Khalighi
  • Patent number: 8778063
    Abstract: Various apparatus and methods for exchanging heat from a solid to a liquid. Some embodiments pertain to removing heat from a pressure vessel in which a gas absorption reaction is occurring. Yet other embodiments pertain to pressure vessels in which hydrogen is being absorbed into a metal hydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Issam Mudawar, Milan Visaria
  • Publication number: 20140190665
    Abstract: Modular cooling apparatuses are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling apparatus includes an inlet manifold, a jet plate manifold, a plurality of jet plates, a vapor manifold, and a target layer. The inlet manifold includes a fluid distribution chamber, and a plurality of fluid distribution channels symmetrically located within the fluid distribution chamber. The jet plate manifold is coupled to the inlet manifold such that the plurality of jet plate openings is vertically aligned with respect to the plurality of fluid distribution channels. The plurality of jet plates is removably disposed in the jet plate manifold. The vapor manifold has a plurality of walls that define a vapor manifold opening and at least one outlet channel through at least one of the walls. The target layer is coupled to the vapor manifold such that the jet orifice surface of each jet plate is positioned above the target layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: Purdue University, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Matthew Joseph Rau, Mayur Prakash Gaikwad, Suresh V. Garimella
  • Publication number: 20140190668
    Abstract: Jet-impingement, two-phase cooling apparatuses having alternating vapor outlet channels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling apparatus includes a fluid inlet channel, a jet orifice surface, and a target surface. The jet orifice surface includes an array of jet orifices. The jet orifices are arranged in rows. Coolant fluid within the fluid inlet channel flows through the array of jet orifices as impingement jets. The jet orifice surface further includes a plurality of vapor guide channels positioned between the plurality of jet orifice rows and parallel to a first axis such that the jet orifice surface is defined by alternating jet orifice rows and vapor guide channels. The target surface has a plurality of surface fins extending from a surface of the target surface and parallel to a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis, wherein the jet orifice surface is positioned proximate the surface fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Joshua Sean Kuhlmann, Matthew Joseph Rau, Mayur Prakash Gaikwad
  • Publication number: 20140190669
    Abstract: A cooling head includes: a first refrigerant flow channel, provided so as to be in contact with an object to be cooled, configured to flow refrigerant; a second refrigerant flow channel configured to flow the refrigerant; and at least one communication hole, provided between both ends of the object to be cooled in the first refrigerant flow channel in a first flow direction of refrigerant in the first refrigerant flow channel, configured to allow the first refrigerant flow channel and the second refrigerant flow channel to communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki HOSHINO, Kenji FUKUZONO
  • Publication number: 20140182205
    Abstract: A rotating heat regenerator is used to recover heat from the syngas at it exits the reactor vessel of a waste or biomass gasifier. In some embodiments, three or more streams are passed through the heat exchanger. One stream is the dirty syngas, which heats the rotating material. A second stream is a cold stream that is heated as it passes through the material. A third stream is a cleaning stream, which serves to remove particulates that are collected on the rotating material as the dirty syngas passes through it. This apparatus can also be used as an auto-heat exchanger, or it can exchange heat between separate flows in the gasifier process. The apparatus can also be used to reduce the heating requirement for the thermal residence chamber (TRC) used downstream from the gasification system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: INENTEC INC.
    Inventors: Leslie Bromberg, Daniel R. Cohn, Jeffrey E. Surma, James A. Batdorf, David A. Lamar
  • Publication number: 20140182326
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) arranged to perform a heat exchange between a coolant (2) and an internal air flow (3) and comprising a bundle (8) formed by a first layer (4) and a second layer (6) through which the coolant flows, said first layer (4) being defined by a first front face (5a) and a second front face (5b) and said second layer (6) being defined by a third front face (5c) and a fourth front face (5d). At least three of the front faces (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) are different and arranged in different planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Mohamed Yahia, Bertrand Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20140174698
    Abstract: A machine for extracorporeal blood treatment comprising a machine-side fluid circuit is disclosed. The machine comprises a heat exchanger for heating cold purification fluid freshly supplied on its intake side, for which purpose used still warm purification fluid flows past its opposite discharge side for a heat exchange, and a circulation valve for changing over between a blood purification mode in which the used purification fluid is disposed of in an open fluid circuit through the discharge side of the heat exchanger into a drain and a disinfection mode in which hot disinfectant is circulated in a closed circuit. The circulation valve is connected downstream of the heat exchanger with respect to the discharge side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Kai-Uwe Ritter, Thore Heinemann, Guenter Niemetz
  • Publication number: 20140158326
    Abstract: A fluid heat exchanger includes: a heat spreader plate including an intended heat generating component contact region; a plurality of microchannels for directing heat transfer fluid over the heat spreader plate, the plurality of microchannels each having a first end and an opposite end and each of the plurality of microchannels extending substantially parallel with each other microchannel and each of the plurality of microchannels having a continuous channel flow path between their first end and their opposite end; a fluid inlet opening for the plurality of microchannels and positioned between the microchannel first and opposite ends, a first fluid outlet opening from the plurality of microchannels at each of the microchannel first ends; and an opposite fluid outlet opening from the plurality of microchannels at each of the microchannel opposite ends, the fluid inlet opening and the first and opposite fluid outlet openings providing that any flow of heat transfer fluid that passes into the plurality of microc
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: COOLIT SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Geoff Sean Lyon
  • Patent number: 8737068
    Abstract: An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure at least partially enclosed by a plurality of panels defining a compartment in which one or more electronic components are mounted and an exhaust air duct that is adapted to segregate hot air being exhausted from the compartment from cool air entering the compartment, thereby improving thermal management of the enclosure. The exhaust duct includes a lower duct section extending upward from the top panel of the compartment and an upper duct section telescoping upward from an upper end of the lower duct section. Each duct section includes four panels connected together by hinged corner fittings such that the section is collapsible. The upper duct section includes an outwardly flared portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Krietzman, Richard Evans Lewis, II, Dennis W. Vanlith
  • Publication number: 20140138055
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for recapturing and reusing heat provided in the course of fabricating a molded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Stephen B. Maguire
  • Publication number: 20140138054
    Abstract: Provided is a cooling apparatus discharging water smoothly corresponding to increase of volume density of cooling water securing a high cooling capability. The apparatus disposed on downstream side from a row of hot finish rolling mill, supplying cooling water from above toward a pass line, includes a plurality of cooling nozzles arranged parallel in a pass line direction, and an upper surface guide disposed between the pass line and the cooling nozzles, wherein a predetermined relation is satisfied when defining: a volume density of cooling water sprayed as qm(m3/(m2·sec)); a pitch of the cooling nozzle in the pass line direction as L(m); a distance between a lower surface of the upper surface guide and the pass line as hp(m); a uniform cooling width as Wu(m); and a cross-sectional area of virtual flow path of discharging water flowing in a width direction of steel sheet as S(m2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI-HITACHI METALS MACHINERY, INC., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Kobayashi, Tomofumi Hosho, Keisuke Matsuda, Yoichi Haraguchi, Yuji Ikemoto, Kenji Horii
  • Publication number: 20140141300
    Abstract: A battery pack apparatus comprising a first cell bank and a laminated cooling plate. The first cell bank includes a first tray and at least one battery cell coupled to the tray. The laminated cooling plate being in contact with the first cell bank and including a plurality of face sheets and a plurality of internal sheets. The face sheets forming a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The plurality of internal sheets forming a plurality of fluid passages connecting the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The internal sheets further formed to include fluid pathways defining the fluid passages wherein none of the fluid pathways individually defining an uninterrupted flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ECHO AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Ronning, Dennie E. Emerson, Laura M. Soverns, Christopher A. Bledsoe
  • Patent number: 8730665
    Abstract: An electronic equipment enclosure comprises a frame structure formed from a plurality of support posts and at least partially enclosed by a plurality of panels. The panels include at least side, top and back panels defining an enclosure having a top, a bottom and a rear thereof. The top panel includes an opening there through that is rectangular in shape. The equipment enclosure further comprises an exhaust air duct extending upward from the top panel of the enclosure. The exhaust air duct is rectangular in cross-section and is disposed in surrounding relation to, and in fluid communication with, the top panel opening. The exhaust air duct is adapted to segregate hot air being exhausted from the enclosure from cool air entering the enclosure, thereby improving thermal management of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Evans Lewis, II, Dennis W. VanLith
  • Patent number: 8726489
    Abstract: An adjustment method of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes: a cooling and excitation step in which work of transporting a superconducting magnet to a facility different from a facility where the superconducting magnet is to be installed, cooling a superconducting coil of the superconducting magnet with a refrigerant, and supplying a current from an external power supply for excitation is repeated until a predetermined rated current flows; a demagnetization and transportation step of demagnetizing the superconducting coil and transporting the superconducting magnet to the facility where the superconducting magnet is to be installed in a state where the superconducting coil is cooled by the refrigerant; and an installation step of installing the superconducting magnet in the facility where the superconducting magnet is to be installed and supplying a predetermined rated current from an external power supply to the superconducting coil in order to excite the superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Munetaka Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8726998
    Abstract: A BOP heating method includes operating a coiled tubing unit (CTU) using hydraulic fluid. The fluid is supplied from the CTU to an exchange tube and returned from the exchange tube to the CTU. The method includes transmitting heat from the fluid to an inner plate. Heat is transmitted from the inner plate to a BOP on which the inner plate is temporarily mounted. A BOP heating system includes a CTU configured to use hydraulic fluid, a supply tube configured to supply fluid from the CTU to an exchange tube, and a return tube configured to return fluid from the exchange tube to the CTU. A BOP heat exchange unit includes an outer plate and an inner plate, an exchange tube between the outer plate and the inner plate, and a heat spreading material between the exchange tube and the inner plate. The exchange unit lacks any electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Jim Colquhoun, Sam Robb
  • Publication number: 20140131011
    Abstract: A thermal energy transfer apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a silicon-based support module and a plurality of silicon-based plate modules. The silicon-based support module includes a plurality of grooves on a first primary surface of the support module. The plurality of silicon-based plate modules each includes a first primary surface, a second primary surface opposite the first primary surface, and a plurality of edges that are between the first and the second primary surfaces. A first edge of the edges of each plate module is received in a respective one of the grooves of the support module to attach the respective plate module substantially orthogonally to the support module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Gerald Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8723205
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity and phase transition heat transfer mechanism has an opto-luminescent phosphor contained within the vapor chamber of the mechanism. The housing includes a section that is thermally conductive and a member that is at least partially optically transmissive, to allow emission of light produced by excitation of the phosphor. A working fluid also is contained within the chamber. The pressure within the chamber configures the working fluid to absorb heat during operation of the lighting device, to vaporize at a relatively hot location at or near at least a portion of the opto-luminescent phosphor as the working fluid absorbs heat, to transfer heat to and condense at a relatively cold location, and to return as a liquid to the relatively hot location. Also, the working fluid is in direct contact with or contains at least a portion of the opto-luminescent phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: David Ramer, Jack Rains
  • Publication number: 20140124172
    Abstract: A flywheel is provided with an annular drive shaft and a stationary cooling member for directing a coolant into the drive shaft annulus. Coolant pumped through the cooling member will contact the wall of the annulus to cool the drive shaft and components thermally coupled to the drive shaft. Where the flywheel has an upright axis of rotation with the annulus opening downwardly, coolant falls from the annulus to a sump positioned below the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. VELTRI, Cody MacNeil, Aaron Lampe
  • Patent number: 8717745
    Abstract: The method of the invention makes it possible to cool electrical switchgear operating at medium voltage and high current, such as a circuit breaker. The method consists in inserting serially two heat pipes (11) inside said switchgear, putting a first end (11A) of the first heat pipe (11) in the hot portion of the hot portions (10A, 10C) of the circuit breaker (10) and a second end (11B) of the first heat pipe (11) in a portion that is cooler (10A) of the hot portions (10A, 10C). The other heat pipe (11) is put between the cooler of the hot portions (10A) and a cooler part of the circuit breaker (10). A particular application is provided for medium-voltage, high-current circuit breakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Denis Frigiere, Didier Rodrigues, Jean-Marc Willieme, Frank Jacquier
  • Publication number: 20140116650
    Abstract: A toner fixing system for fixing toner onto a receiver medium includes a liquid-supply system for providing a heating liquid. A liquid-heating system warms the heating liquid to a temperature greater than the toner glass transition temperature. A liquid-delivery system impinges the warmed heating liquid onto a surface of the receiver medium so that heat is transferred from the warmed heating liquid to the toner. This raises the temperature of the toner to a level above the toner glass transition temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Alan Richard Priebe, Donald Saul Rimai, Christopher J. White
  • Publication number: 20140116651
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat sink applicable for electromagnetic device comprises a first panel, a second panel, and a plurality of supporting structures connecting with the first panel and the second panel. Wherein the first panel, the second panel and the supporting structures together constitute a plurality of medium channels for cooling medium flowing therethrough. Wherein at least some of the medium channels are provided with openings formed on the first and/or second panels, and no close conductive loop is formed on cross section perpendicular to a medium flowing direction of the medium channels with the openings. Wherein a total area of all openings on the first panel is less than 50% of an area of the first panel, a total area of all openings on the second panel is less than 50% of an area of the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aixing Tong, Teng Liu
  • Patent number: 8710526
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity and phase transition heat transfer mechanism incorporates an active optical element. Examples of active optical elements include various phosphor materials for emitting light, various electrically driven light emitters and various devices that generate electrical current or an electrical signal in response to light. The thermal conductivity and phase transition between evaporation and condensation, of the thermal conductivity and phase transition heat transfer mechanism, cools the active optical element during operation. At least a portion of the active optical element is exposed to a working fluid within a vapor tight chamber of the heat transfer mechanism. The heat transfer mechanism includes a member that is at least partially optically transmissive to allow passage of light to or from the active optical element and to seal the chamber of the heat transfer mechanism with respect to vapor contained within the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: David P. Ramer, Jack C. Rains, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20140102672
    Abstract: An automated multi-fluid cooling system and method are provided for cooling an electronic component(s). The cooling system includes a coolant loop, a coolant tank, multiple valves, and a controller. The coolant loop is at least partially exposed to outdoor ambient air temperature(s) during normal operation, and the coolant tank includes first and second reservoirs containing first and second fluids, respectively. The first fluid freezes at a lower temperature than the second, the second fluid has superior cooling properties compared with the first, and the two fluids are soluble. The multiple valves are controllable to selectively couple the first or second fluid into the coolant in the coolant loop, wherein the coolant includes at least the second fluid. The controller automatically controls the valves to vary first fluid concentration level in the coolant loop based on historical, current, or anticipated outdoor air ambient temperature(s) for a time of year.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. CAMPBELL, Richard C. CHU, Milnes P. DAVID, Michael J. ELLSWORTH, Jr., Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Robert E. SIMONS, Prabjit SINGH, Jing ZHANG
  • Patent number: 8696927
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is heat transfer system, comprising a brazed aluminum component, and a heat transfer fluid in fluid communication with the brazed aluminum component, wherein the heat transfer fluid comprises a liquid coolant, an oxy-anion of molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, phosphorus, antimony, or a combination thereof, and a corrosion inhibitor. Also disclosed is a method of preventing corrosion in the heat transfer system, and a heat transfer fluid and additive package for use in the heat transfer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Prestone Products Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Yang, Peter M. Woyciesjes, Aleksei V. Gershun, Filipe J. Marinho
  • Publication number: 20140096938
    Abstract: The heat dissipation device is provided with a body portion, to which a heating element is thermally coupled. A coolant passage through which the coolant, which dissipates heat of the heating element, flows is provided in the body portion. A passage forming portion, which forms at least one of an inflow passage and an outflow passage, is molded integrally with the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicants: TOKAISEIKI CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KOJIMA, Kazuhiro WAKAI, Yoshiharu YOSHIDA, Toshiyo MUROYA, Yoshimitsu MASUI, Tomokazu IMAI, Tomohide TAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140090811
    Abstract: Heat exchanger (1) having a housing (9), having a first fluid port (6, 7) and having a second fluid port (7, 6), wherein the housing (9) is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the first fluid port (6, 7) and the second fluid port (7, 6) and can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, characterized in that the housing (9) is of multi-part design and is formed by a housing upper part (3) and a trough-like housing lower part (2), wherein the housing lower part (2) has a base region (7) and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region (6), wherein the housing upper part (3) or the housing lower part (2) is formed from a plastic and the respective other housing part (3, 2) is formed from a plastic, a metallic material or a fiber composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090810
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a fluid inlet and having a fluid outlet, wherein the heat exchanger is in fluid communication via the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet with a fluid circuit, having a flow-guiding element in the interior of the housing, wherein the housing is formed from a substantially planar housing upper part and a substantially trough-like housing lower part, wherein the housing lower part has a base region and an encircling side wall, wherein the housing lower part is formed by a supporting structure and an encasement and the supporting structure is at least partially surrounded by the encasement, wherein the supporting structure is formed from a metallic material, and the encasement is formed substantially from a plastic, wherein the housing upper part is formed from a plastic and the housing lower part is connected to the housing upper part substantially by means of plastic-on-plastic contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090813
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a first fluid port and having a second fluid port, wherein the housing is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the fluid ports, wherein the housing can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, wherein the housing is of multi-part design and has a housing upper part and a housing lower part, wherein the housing upper part and/or the housing lower part has a base region and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region, wherein housing the two parts are formed from a plastic or a fiber composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090809
    Abstract: A cooling device to which a heating element is joinable includes a base, a plurality of first groups of pin fins and a plurality of second groups of pin fins. The second groups and the first groups are arranged alternately in a flow direction in which a cooling medium flows through a passage of the base. A second outermost pin fin of each second group is more distant from a side surface of the base than a first outermost pin fin of each first group. Width between a side surface of the second outermost pin fin of each second group and the side surface of the base is the same as or larger than width between a side surface of the pin fin of each first group that is adjacent to the first outermost pin fin of the first group and the side surface of the second outermost pin fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Yuri OTOBE, Naoki KATO, Shinsuke NISHI
  • Publication number: 20140090812
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a first collecting box and having a second collecting box, having at least one tube arranged between the two collecting boxes, wherein a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet are provided which are arranged individually on in each case one of the collecting boxes or on a single one of the collecting boxes, wherein the tube is received at the ends in an opening in in each case one of the collecting boxes and is in fluid communication with the collecting boxes, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge whose contour corresponds to the outer contour of the tube, and in that the opening is designed such that the opening cross section narrows toward the interior of the collecting box and the tube can be inserted, under preload at the circumference, into the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Patent number: 8679365
    Abstract: Phase change materials that include oleochemical carbonates absorb and release latent heat upon changing phases from solid to liquid (melting) or from liquid to solid (solidifying). The oleochemical carbonates are prepared from oleochemical alcohols derived from animal fats and vegetable oils or other bio-based substances. These oleochemical carbonates have melting temperatures with a relatively high heat of fusion and are non-corrosive. Oleochemical carbonates can be mixed together in various proportions to adjust melting/solidification temperature ranges as required by a particular application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: James A. Kenar
  • Patent number: 8678040
    Abstract: A vertically compactable fluid transfer device (10) can include a lateral fluid transfer conduit (12) to convey a fluid transfer fluid therethrough and to be supported by particles (16) packed to a first density. Additionally, the device (10) can include a riser (14) coupled to, and in fluid communication with, the lateral fluid transfer conduit (12). The riser (14) can be vertically compactable by at least 20% while maintaining structural integrity when the lateral fluid transfer conduit lowers as the supporting particles (16) pack to a second density, which is higher than the first density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Red Leaf Resources, Inc
    Inventors: James W. Patten, Hamidreza Ghorbani, Kyle Chomyn
  • Publication number: 20140078675
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The apparatus includes a liquid-cooled cold plate and a thermal spreader associated with the cold plate. The cold plate includes multiple coolant-carrying channel sections extending within the cold plate, and a thermal conduction surface with a larger surface area than a surface area of the component to be cooled. The thermal spreader includes one or more heat pipes including multiple heat pipe sections. One or more heat pipe sections are partially aligned to a first region of the cold plate, that is, where aligned to the surface to be cooled, and partially aligned to a second region of the cold plate, which is outside the first region. The one or more heat pipes facilitate distribution of heat from the electronic component to coolant-carrying channel sections of the cold plate located in the second region of the cold plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy J. CHAINER, David P. GRAYBILL, Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Vinod KAMATH, Bejoy J. KOCHUPARAMBIL, Roger R. SCHMIDT, Mark E. STEINKE
  • Publication number: 20140069615
    Abstract: A cooler includes: a housing in a form of a frame including a first opening and a second opening opposite to each other; a first radiator including a first substrate joined to the housing—to close the first opening, and a first heat radiation unit provided on the first substrate; and a second radiator including a second substrate joined to the housing to close the second opening, and a second heat radiation unit provided on the second substrate, the first heat radiation unit—having a plurality of first fins, the second heat radiation unit having a plurality of second fins, the first fins each abutting against a tip of at least one second fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroto Kusaka
  • Publication number: 20140069614
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device and a thermal module using same are disclosed. The heat dissipation device includes at least one water block, a heat exchanger, a first metal tube and a second metal tube, and the water block and the heat exchanger are connected to one another by the first and second metal tubes. The thermal module includes, in addition to the heat dissipation device, a pump unit connected to the heat exchanger of the heat dissipation device, and a cooling fluid filled in the heat dissipation device and the pump unit. By connecting the water block to the heat exchanger via the first and second metal tubes, it is able to effectively prevent the problem of cooling fluid leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tzu-Chin Chiu
  • Publication number: 20140060778
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided to efficiently transfer heat between air and a flow of refrigerant in a reversing air-sourced heat pump system. When the system is operating in heat pump mode, a flow of air is directed through the heat exchanger and is heated by the refrigerant. A portion of the flow of air is used to de-superheat the refrigerant in a first section of the heat exchanger, and is prevented from re-heating the sub-cooled refrigerant in another section of the heat exchanger after the remaining air has been heated by the refrigerant. The same heat exchanger can be used to cool a flow of air using expanded refrigerant when the system is operating in an air conditioning (cooling) mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Bradley Engel
  • Publication number: 20140054007
    Abstract: To cool a digestion vessel (2) of a calorimeter (3) by means of a liquid coolant, a recess (4) over which the digestion vessel (2) is invented during the cooling possess and which has one or more ports (10) for a cooling liquid by means of which the inside of the digestion vessel (2) is wetted in such a way that the coolant runs down over part or the entireties of this inside of the digestion vessel (2) so as to remove the heat thereof is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: IKA-Werke Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hubert Pinhack
  • Publication number: 20140054013
    Abstract: A liquid panel assembly configured to be used with an energy exchanger may include a support frame having one or more fluid circuits and at least one membrane secured to the support frame. Each of the fluid circuits may include an inlet channel connected to an outlet channel through one or more flow passages. A liquid is configured to flow through the fluid circuits and contact interior surfaces of the membrane(s). The fluid circuits are configured to at least partially offset liquid hydrostatic pressure with friction loss of the liquid flowing within the fluid circuits to minimize, eliminate, or otherwise reduce pressure within the liquid panel assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Venmar CES, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Paul LePoudre, Kenneth Coutu, Howard Brian Hemingson
  • Patent number: 8658326
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat transfer system comprising a circulation loop defining a flow path for a heat transfer fluid, and a heat transfer fluid comprising a liquid coolant, a siloxane corrosion inhibitor of formula R3-Si—[O—Si(R)2]x-OSiR3, wherein R is independently an alkyl group or a polyalkylene oxide copolymer of 1 to 200 carbons, x is from 0 to 100, and further wherein at least one alkyl group and at least one polyalkylene oxide copolymer are present, and a non-conductive polydiorganosiloxane antifoam agent, wherein the conductivity of the heat transfer fluid is less than about 100 ?S/cm, and wherein the heat transfer system comprises aluminum, magnesium, or a combination thereof, in intimate contact with the heat transfer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Prestone Products Corporation
    Inventors: Filipe J. Marinho, Bo Yang
  • Publication number: 20140048510
    Abstract: A cooling element for use with a carafe that may be used for serving a consumable liquid such as wine. The cooling element can be inserted into the open, upper end of the carafe and the cooling element has as hollow tube that is filled with a cooling agent such as ice, and which extends downwardly into direct contact with the liquid contained within the carafe. There is a passageway that is formed between the cooling element and the carafe that allows the liquid to be poured out of the carafe without removing the cooling element from the carafe. The hollow tube is constructed of a material that has a high thermal conductivity, such as stainless steel, such that the heat exchange is efficient and the heat passes through a single thickness of the heat conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Edward Kilduff, Shane G. Blomberg, Riki Kane Larimer
  • Publication number: 20140048232
    Abstract: A beverage cooling device to cool the beverage by a cooling liquid may include a container to cool the beverage and a coil to extend into and out of the container. The beverage may be coffee. The cooling fluid may be water. The container may hold the beverage. The coil may extend through a sidewall of the container. The coil may include an input and an output and wherein the input and output extend over the sidewall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ryan Brielmann
  • Patent number: 8654532
    Abstract: A cooling coolant pipe of a server cabinet includes multiple tube bodies interconnected in series and at least one adjustable valve. In each of the tube bodies a first chamber and a second chamber that are adjacent to and separated from each other, the second chambers of the two adjacent tube bodies are in communication with each other, and a wall surface of each of the tube bodies has at least one connection port in communication with the first chamber. The adjustable valve is disposed in one of the tube bodies. The first chamber in each of the tube bodies is in communication with the second chamber in the tube body through the adjustable valve. In this way, the adjustable valve adjusts the flow rate of a cooling fluid flowing from the second chamber to the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-An Chen, Wei-Ta Shih
  • Publication number: 20140041835
    Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle battery with battery cells, and which includes a cooling body which thermally contacts the battery cells. The cooling body has channels through which a coolant flows. A coolant distributor is provided on the cooling body and includes an inflow and/or an outflow for coolant which is fluidically connected to certain channels. A first flow opening is formed at the inflow and/or outflow of the coolant distributor and extends in a direction of a main channel of the channels, the main channel being the channel which is furthest away from the inflow and/or outflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG
    Inventor: Bernhard WAHA
  • Publication number: 20140041836
    Abstract: A cooling system and method for cooling electronic components, including IC dies. The cooling system employs a cooling device that includes a composite structure having first and second plates arranged substantially in parallel and bonded together to define a sealed cavity therebetween. The first plate has a surface that defines an outer surface of the composite structure and is adapted for thermal contact with at least one electronic component. A mesh of interwoven strands is disposed within the cavity and lies in a plane substantially parallel to the first and second plates, with the strands bonded to the first and second plates. A fluid is contained and sealed within the cavity of the composite structure, and flows through interstices defined by and between the strands of the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Olantra Fund X L.L.C.
    Inventor: Franz Michael Schuette