Flow Passages For Two Confined Fluids Patents (Class 165/164)
  • Patent number: 11879691
    Abstract: A counter-flow heat exchanger including a core region and a plenum region. The core region including a first set of heat exchanging passageways and a second set of heat exchanging passageways disposed at least partially therein. A plenum region is disposed adjacent opposed distal ends of the core region. Each of the plenum regions including a fluid inlet plenum, a fluid outlet plenum and a tube plate disposed therebetween. The first set of heat exchanging passageways is truncated and defines a first tube-side fluid flow path in a first direction. The second set of heat exchanging passageways defines a second tube-side fluid flow path in a second opposing direction. Each of the heat exchanging passageways extending from a fluid inlet plenum to a fluid outlet plenum. The tube plates and the core region include one of a cast metal formed thereabout each of the heat exchanging passageways or a braze bond formed between each of the heat exchanging passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Douglas Carl Hofer, Adegboyega Masud Makinde, Stephen Francis Rutkowski, Chiranjeev S. Kalra
  • Patent number: 11864347
    Abstract: A heat sink assembly for use with at least one heat-emitting component where the heat sink assembly includes a first phase change material conductively coupled to the at least one heat-emitting component and changing phase at a first temperature and a second phase change material conductively coupled to the first phase change material and changing phase at a second temperature, which is greater than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michel Engelhardt, Paul Otto Stehlik, Judd Everett Swanson
  • Patent number: 11668219
    Abstract: A system and method for treating turbine exhaust gas includes an industrial process turbine exhaust gas discharge structure, a catalytic turbine exhaust gas treatment device positioned at least partially within the industrial process turbine exhaust gas discharge structure, a pump, and at least two heat exchangers. The catalytic turbine exhaust gas treatment device is positioned at least partially within the industrial process turbine exhaust gas discharge structure. A first heat exchanger is positioned at least partially within the industrial process turbine exhaust gas discharge section structure and upstream of the catalytic turbine exhaust gas treatment device to remove heat from an the turbine exhaust gas by transferring heat to a working fluid. A second heat exchanger removes heat from the working fluid gained at the first heat exchanger. The pump drives the working fluid between the first and second heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NOOTER/ERIKSEN, INC.
    Inventors: Glen L. Bostick, Shaun P. Hennessey, Nathan Ross
  • Patent number: 11259442
    Abstract: An adjustment structure for computer water cooling includes a water-cooling head attached to a heating element of a circuit board, a water-cooling head adapter attached to the water-cooling head and provided with two water inlet and outlet connectors, and a steering adapter with two hard water pipes extended from one lateral side thereof and connected to a water cooling row connector of a water cooling row and two flexible water pipes extended from a bottom side thereof and respectively connected to the water inlet and outlet connectors of the water-cooling head adapter. The two flexible water pipes form an adjustment structure that flexibly fits the steering adapter and the two water inlet and outlet connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: American Future Technology
    Inventor: You-Chi Liu
  • Patent number: 11168399
    Abstract: A composite structural component is disclosed. The composite structural component can include a lattice structure, a casing disposed about at least a portion of the lattice structure, and a skin adhered to a surface of the casing. The lattice structure and the casing can be formed of a polymeric material and the skin can be formed of a metallic material. A method of manufacturing a composite structural component is disclosed. The method can include creating a casing of a polymeric material and creating a lattice structure of a polymeric material disposed about at least a portion of the casing. The method can include sealing the porosity of the casing and lattice structure. The method can include adhering a skin of a metallic material to at least a portion of the casing. At least one of creating a lattice structure and creating a casing comprises utilizing an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Curtis B. Carlsten, Jonathan Murrow, Erik F. Item
  • Patent number: 11110502
    Abstract: A counterflow heat transfer system comprises a heat exchanger and a flow controller arranged to convey a first fluid through the heat exchanger in a first flow direction and a second fluid through the heat exchanger in a second counterflow direction. The heat exchanger comprises at least one first thermally conductive tube conveying the first fluid and at least one second thermally conductive tube conveying the second fluid. The first and second tubes are wound around one another and in contact with one another in an entwined tubular arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: HS MARSTON AEROSPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Phillips, Berwyn Pollard
  • Patent number: 11071323
    Abstract: A battery assembly and an electronic cigarette using the battery assembly are provided. The battery assembly comprises a main body and a rear cover fixedly installed to the main body. One end of the main body is provided with a connecting portion fixedly electrically connected to an external load, and the other end thereof is provided with an inner cavity for accommodating an electronic component. The rear cover is fixedly installed to the main body and covers the inner cavity. One end of the main body far from the connecting portion is provided with an extension toward the rear cover, and the extension covers the end of the rear cover far from the connecting portion, effectively preventing the phenomenon that a housing far from the end of a suction port is damaged by impact when the electronic cigarette is dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN IVPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junwei Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11022373
    Abstract: A heat exchanger that comprises a plurality of small channels that are arranged around a cross-sectional perimeter such that the sides of the small channels are touching to create bigger channels running parallel to the small channels. To this end, embodiments of the present invention have a heat exchanger matrix where the structure of the large channels is entirely comprised by the structure of the smaller channels resulting in a more compact, more efficient heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MEGGITT AEROSPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven William James Henderson, Jenna Nicole Becker
  • Patent number: 11013271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple-tar-cabin electronic cigarette, comprising an atomizer and a battery assembly. The battery assembly supplies electricity to the atomizer. The atomizer comprises tar cabins and heaters that are arranged in a housing. The tar cabins supply tobacco tar to the heaters. After the heaters atomize the tobacco tar, the atomized tobacco tar is brought away by air that enters via an air inlet of the housing, and is smoked via a cigarette holder. The tar cabins include a first tar cabin and a second tar cabin that are mutually isolated. The heaters include a first heater that receives the tobacco tar from the first tar cabin and a second heater that receives the tobacco tar from the second tar cabin. The two tar cabins in the invention can be injected with tobacco tar of different tastes. In this way, users can enjoy cigarettes of different tastes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ALD GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Ding, Pan Li, Hao Du
  • Patent number: 10883775
    Abstract: A component that generates or requires heat includes a heat exchanger integrated with the component. The component includes a component housing holding functional parts of the component, and the heat exchanger has a heat exchanger housing formed integrally with the component housing. There is a first fluid circuit in which a first fluid flows through the component in a heat exchange relationship with the functional parts, into the heat exchanger via a first fluid inlet, through the heat exchanger, out of the heat exchanger via a first fluid outlet, and back to the functional parts of the component. The heat exchanger has a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet for connection into a second fluid circuit in which a second fluid flows from outside of the component into the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HS MARSTON AEROSPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Berwyn Pollard, Paul Phillips
  • Patent number: 10823510
    Abstract: Counter-flow heat exchanged is constructed with plenums at either end that separate the opposing fluids, the channels of which are arrayed in a checkerboard patterns, such that any given channel is surrounded by channels of opposing streams on four sides—laterally on both sides and vertically above and below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Thar Energy LLC
    Inventors: Lalit Chordia, John C. Davis
  • Patent number: 10809007
    Abstract: A heat exchanger and heat exchanger core are provided. The heat exchanger core includes a plurality of columnar passages extending between an inlet plenum of the heat exchanger core and an outlet plenum of the heat exchanger core, the columnar passages formed monolithically in a single fabrication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ramon Martinez, Nicolas Kristopher Sabo, Curt Edward Hogan, Michael Stephen Popp, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Jared Matthew Wolfe
  • Patent number: 10775106
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for heat exchange, in particular in a refrigerant circuit, with at least one first flow path and at least one second flow path, which, in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the device, are disposed coaxially with respect to one another, and each of which comprises at least one flow channel. The device is realized of a synthetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Petr Czyz, Petr Daniel, Radim Cech, Peter Heyl
  • Patent number: 10775114
    Abstract: A heat exchanger module adapted for being mounted directly to the outer surface of the housing of an automobile system component, such as a transmission or engine housing, is provided. The heat exchanger module comprises a heat exchanger fixedly attached to an adapter module. The adapter module contains one of more fluid transfer channels, interface connectors, seals and mounting holes for screws and/or bolts. In one exemplary embodiment, the adapter module is comprised of an adapter plate that is sealed with one or more shim plates, the shim plates also providing a brazing surface for brazing the adapter module directly to the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger therefore being attached to the adapter module without the use of a base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventor: Bernhard Ollier
  • Patent number: 10727149
    Abstract: A thermally superconducting radiator and a method for manufacturing the same. The thermally superconducting radiator comprises a plurality of separators and a plurality of thermally superconducting heat dissipation fins. The separators and the thermally superconducting heat dissipation fins are alternately arranged, and one end face of the separator is flush with one end face of the thermally superconducting heat dissipation fin, together forming a mounting surface suitable for mounting a power device. The thermally superconducting heat dissipation fins and the separators are fixedly connected. Replacing the conventional heat dissipation fins in the prior art with the thermally superconducting heat dissipation fins enables the thermally superconducting radiator to have a greater heat transfer rate and a more efficient fin efficiency. The fin efficiency of the heat dissipation fin is not affected by the height, which greatly improves the cooling capability of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG JIAXI OPTOELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aixing Tong, Zhengming Si
  • Patent number: 10697703
    Abstract: A multiple-stacked marine heat exchanger for cooling at least one heat source in a marine vessel having an upper marine heat exchanger with a forward beveled end and upper coolant flow tubes connected thereto, a lower marine exchanger having a forward beveled end which converges with the forward beveled end of the upper marine heat exchanger and lower coolant flow tubes connected thereto, and an ambient water passageway extending through each pair of stacked marine heat exchangers in the multi-stacked marine heat exchanger. In one situation, the beveled ends cooperate to form a stagnant pressure region near the entrance to the ambient water passageway to create an increase in pressure at the entrance to create jets of turbulent water flowing through the passageway to break up the laminar boundary layer and increase heat transfer from the coolant flow tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Duramax Marine, LLC
    Inventors: Frank E. Horvat, Joseph H. Andulics
  • Patent number: 10677505
    Abstract: An ice making machine having a refrigeration system designed for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants, and particularly propane (R-290), that includes dual independent refrigeration systems and a unique evaporator assembly comprising of a single freeze plate attached to two cooling circuits. The serpentines are designed in an advantageous pattern that promotes efficiency by ensuring the even bridging of ice during freezing and minimizing unwanted melting during harvest by providing an even distribution of the heat load. The charge limitations imposed with flammable refrigerants would otherwise prevent large capacity ice maker from being properly charged with a single circuit. The ice making machine includes a single water circuit and control system to ensure the proper and efficient production of ice. Material cost is conserved as compared to a traditional dual system icemaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Knatt
  • Patent number: 10590816
    Abstract: A coiling heat exchanger, characterized by a heat exchanger spiral consisting of a liquid shield with fins, whereby neighboring coils of the spiral of the liquid shield are spaced apart from one another by the fins and connected to one another in a heat exchanging manner and that the liquid shield is perfused by liquid, whereby gas flows between the neighboring coils of the spiral of the liquid shield along the coiling axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Carsten Ohrem, Peter Diehl, Petr Sispera
  • Patent number: 10582642
    Abstract: Examples include cooling members for electronic components and/or methods for producing cooling members. The members may include: an assembly side for an electronic component and an upper side opposite the assembly side; at least one cooling chimney extending through the cooling member away from the assembly side which leads to an outlet opening in the upper side of the cooling member; and a number of cooling channels. The cooling channels may have a smaller cross-section than a cross-section of the cooling chimney which lead from inlet openings in the upper side of the cooling member to the cooling chimney.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Franke, Peter Frühauf, Rüdiger Knofe, Bernd Müller, Stefan Nerreter, Michael Niedermayer, Ulrich Wittreich, Manfred Zäske
  • Patent number: 10545122
    Abstract: A fluidic block has a thermally conductive body with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The body has a cutout portion formed therein between the first and second ends. The cutout portion partitions the body into a first region, a second region, and a thin region between the first and second regions. The cutout portion produces a thermal break between the first and second regions. The thermal break operates to guide a heat flow between the first and second regions through the thin region. A thermally conductive chromatography tube extends through the first, second, and thin regions from the first end to the second end of the body. The tube is in thermal communication with the body. A section of the tube may run in a transverse direction across the body in the thin region of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Greg Kheyfets, Paul Keenan, Joshua A. Shreve
  • Patent number: 10514206
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including more than one fluid conductor, each of the fluid conductors is configured to receive a distinct flow of fluid and heat from only one heat source, wherein the coils are configured to be interleaved to form a structure of a single-sized lumen in which the heat source is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
  • Patent number: 10502472
    Abstract: An ice making machine having a refrigeration system designed for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants, and particularly propane (R-290), that includes dual independent refrigeration systems and a unique evaporator assembly comprising of a single freeze plate attached to two cooling circuits. The serpentines are designed in an advantageous pattern that promotes efficiency by ensuring the even bridging of ice during freezing and minimizing unwanted melting during harvest by providing an even distribution of the heat load. The charge limitations imposed with flammable refrigerants would otherwise prevent large capacity ice maker from being properly charged with a single circuit. The ice making machine includes a single water circuit and control system to ensure the proper and efficient production of ice. Material cost is conserved as compared to a traditional dual system icemaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: True Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Knatt
  • Patent number: 10493818
    Abstract: When performing dehumidification heating of a space to be air-conditioned, a refrigeration cycle device is switched to a refrigerant circuit in which a flow of a refrigerant flowing out of an interior radiator is branched, and one of the branched refrigerants is decompressed by an interior expansion valve to evaporate in an interior evaporator, while the other of the branched refrigerants flows into a high-pressure side refrigerant passage of an internal heat exchanger and is then decompressed by an exterior expansion valve to evaporate in an exterior heat exchanger. Further, in the refrigerant circuit, a flow of the refrigerant flowing out of the interior evaporator and a flow of the refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger are merged into a low-pressure side refrigerant passage of the internal heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikiharu Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 10480870
    Abstract: A heat exchanger according to the present invention comprises a heat exchange portion in which heating water flow paths where heating water flows through a space between a plurality of plates, hot water flow paths through which hot water flows, and combustion gas flow paths are adjacently and alternatingly formed, wherein the heat exchange portion comprises: a heating sensible heat portion, which surrounds the outside of a combustion chamber and comprises an area on one side of the plates, for heating the heating water using the sensible heat of the combustion gas generated by combustion of the burner; a heating latent heat portion, which comprises a partial area on the other side of the plates, for heating the heating water using the latent heat of water vapors in the combustion gas which has completed heat exchanging in the heating sensible heat portion; and a hot water latent heat portion, which comprises the remaining area on the other side of the plates, for heating direct water using the latent heat of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inchul Jeong
  • Patent number: 10415901
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly embodiment includes a plurality of laminated ceramic tape layers having at least one hole surrounded by at least one tape remainder portion. The plurality of layers is arranged in a build direction defined parallel to a counter-flow plane. Each laminated ceramic tape layer is stacked and sintered to define a ceramic core section integrally formed with a first ceramic manifold and a second ceramic manifold. The ceramic core section of the assembly includes a plurality of spaced apart counter-flow plates stacked along a stacking direction normal to the counter-flow plane and the build direction, defining a plurality of flow passages parallel to the counter-flow plane. Each flow passage is in communication with the first manifold and the second manifold. A plurality of counter-flow fins is disposed in at least one of the plurality of flow passages, between adjacent ones of the plurality of counter-flow plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Ram Ranjan, Eva Wong
  • Patent number: 10365048
    Abstract: A multiply-wound tube includes: a tube body formed by winding, into a roll, a metal plate comprising a core material layer made of a first metal material and a brazing material layer made of a second metal material having a lower melting point than the core material layer; and a joint portion that is formed at a portion of the metal plate that is wound in layers, wherein the portion of the metal plate that is wound in layers is brazed together by the brazing material layer being melted by heat from a laser projected onto the tube body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SANOH INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Srinivas Gandrothula, Takuma Endo
  • Patent number: 10260464
    Abstract: Fuel piping for a vehicle, which is fixed by clamps and routed on a vehicle body, is formed to have a circular hollow section inside and anisotropy in a wall thickness thereof in the circumferential direction. In particular, the fuel piping for a vehicle has at least one thick-wall portion in the circumferential direction and is disposed on a vehicle body so that the thick-wall portion is positioned vertically at the top or bottom, or has one thick-wall portion in the circumferential direction and is disposed on the vehicle body so that the thick-wall portion is positioned vertically at the top. In addition, the clamp for fixing to the vehicle the fuel piping for a vehicle includes a holding portion for arranging the thick-wall portion vertically at an end, and holding the fuel piping for a vehicle so as not to be turned in the circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Sanoh Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tomomatsu, Tatsuya Hoshino, Hiroyuki Okada, Satoshi Daimon, Satoshi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10183804
    Abstract: A temperature-controlled tank body having an integrated heat transfer panel is disclosed. The tank body may be mounted to a truck, trailer, or other mobile equipment and used for transporting a fluid at a temperature that is greater than that of the ambient environment. In an illustrative embodiment, the tank includes a barrel segment having a first sheet and an adjacent second sheet. The first sheet is joined to the second sheet along a first edge and a second, opposing edge. The first sheet is also joined to the second sheet at a plurality of locations between the first edge and second, opposing edge and enclosed at the ends to form a fluidly-sealed area. The tank includes a fluid inlet to facilitate pressurization of the fluidly-sealed area to generate a hydroformed cavity between the first sheet and the second sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HEIL TRAILER INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Yielding, Brian Polgrean, Nathan Langford
  • Patent number: 10147669
    Abstract: A cooler includes: a fin having a coolant inflow port; and a nozzle configured to eject the supplied coolant toward the coolant inflow port. The nozzle includes a flow passage wall, a tip end, a pressure receiving portion and a deformation portion. The tip end provides a coolant supply hole that ejects the coolant flowing through the flow passage. The pressure receiving portion is configured to be provided between the flow passage wall and the coolant supply hole, and to receive force in an ejection direction of the coolant. The deformation portion is configured to be provided either of between the flow passage wall and the pressure receiving portion and in the pressure receiving portion, and to displace the coolant supply hole in the ejection direction of the coolant in response to the force in the ejection direction of the coolant, the force being received by the pressure receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuya Takano
  • Patent number: 10139167
    Abstract: A fluid heat exchanger having an interior cavity of a housing. A tank positioned within the interior cavity has a first wall surrounding an axial passage and a second wall surrounded by a circumferential passage. Heat is transferred to both the first wall and surrounding second wall thereby heating fluid in the tank from opposing sides. The heat transfer is enhanced with a cyclonic flow of heated fluid in the circumferential passage and axial passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventor: Michael W. Courson
  • Patent number: 10112271
    Abstract: A compact heat exchanger is provided and includes a first manifold defining an inlet for receiving from a component a fluid to be cooled and an outlet for returning the cooled fluid to the component to cool the component. A second manifold is disposed spaced from the first manifold. A core extends between and fluidly communicates with the manifolds and includes hexagonal channels. Each channel is formed by mini-tubes defining respective triangular passages. A cross-section of the core defines an irregular-cross structure. The fluid enters the inlet of the first manifold, makes a first pass through the mini-tubes to the second manifold, makes a second pass through the mini-tubes to the first manifold such that the fluid is cooled across the mini-tubes, exits the first manifold through the outlet, and returns to the component to cool the component. A method of manufacturing the heat exchanger is provided also.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leo J. Veilleux, Jr., Lubomir A. Ribarov
  • Patent number: 10107490
    Abstract: An improved vaporizer for vaporizing a liquid precursor is provided. The vaporizer may include one or more channels with a relatively large wall-area-to-cross-sectional-flow-area ratio and may be equipped with one or more heater elements configured to heat the channels above the vaporization temperature of the precursor. At least some of the channels may be heated above the vaporization temperature but below the Leidenfrost temperature of the precursor. In some implementations, a carrier gas may be introduced at high speed in a direction generally transverse to the precursor flow to mechanically shear the precursor into droplets. Multiple vaporizers may be ganged together in series to achieve complete vaporization, if necessary. The vaporizers may be easily disassembleable for cleaning and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Colin F. Smith, Harald te Nijenhuis, Jeffrey E. Lorelli, Edward Sung, Kevin Madrigal, Shawn M. Hamilton, Alan M. Schoepp
  • Patent number: 10094621
    Abstract: Spiral or helical counterflow heat exchanger (9, 9?) consisting of two adjoining chambers (10,11), in which a fluid at a high temperature flows in one chamber in one direction, and in which a fluid at a low temperature flows in the opposite direction in the other chamber, characterized in that both chambers are separated by one separating plate (6?) of flat monolithic double-sided enamelled steel annealed at temperatures above 500° C., and whereby the separating plate (6?) is held by its edges in a corrosion-resistant spacer (8,8?) that imposes a fixed distance to two other flat monolithic double-sided enamelled steel plates that each define one chamber at the side that is opposite the separating plate (6?), and which prevents corrosion of the edges of the separating plate and of the two other enamelled steel plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: POLYVISION, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Wout Van De Broek
  • Patent number: 10095090
    Abstract: A duct 45 is tubular and has one opening 451 that is mounted in a position to face an inlet port provided in one side of an apparatus body and the other opening 452 that is mounted in a position to face an exhaust port provided in the other side of the apparatus body. In a tubular interior of the duct 45, a fan 43 and a radiating fin 42 are provided. The fan 43 causes outside air to flow in from the inlet port for discharge from the exhaust port, and heat caused inside the apparatus body is transmitted by a heat transfer unit to the radiating fin 42. The outside air is applied to the radiating fin 42 by the fan 43, whereby the heat caused inside the apparatus body can be discharged efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Tatsuya Nishiyama, Yoshimasa Sakishita, Tadashi Isoda, Kenji Himeno
  • Patent number: 10072893
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exchanger body comprising:—an element wound in a spiral and consisting of two sheets of heat-conducting material which define channels for a fluid between one another,—at least one distributor, and—at least one collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ATELIERS DE CONSTRUCTION DE THERMO-ECHANGEURS SA
    Inventor: Luc Prieels
  • Patent number: 10035207
    Abstract: A method for brazing a plate heat exchanger comprising a stack of heat exchanger plates (110,115) is provided with a pressed pattern of ridges (R) and grooves (G) adapted to form contact points between the plates (110, 115) and provide for interplate flow channels for media to exchange heat is provided. The interplate flow channels are in selective fluid communications with port openings (120, 130, 140, 150) provided near corners of the heat exchanger plates (110, 115).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SWEP INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventor: Niclas Bornegard
  • Patent number: 9970717
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, especially a charge-air cooler or exhaust-gas cooler, with a tube-to-tubesheet sub-assembly, in which tubes are inserted in a sealed manner by their ends into openings of two oppositely-disposed tubesheets, wherein at least one region of a housing is arranged between the two tubesheets and encompasses and outwardly seals the tubes of the sub-assembly, wherein the two tubesheets have two sides extending parallel to each other and adjoining an end region of the tubes in each case, and on which is arranged in each case a housing section which is connected to the housing, wherein on at least one of the tubesheets a seal is arranged with sealing effect between the housing and this tubesheet and/or between this tubesheet and the housing section which is arranged on this tubesheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Spasoje Ignjatovic, Juri Kandlen, Jens Richter
  • Patent number: 9962501
    Abstract: A method for warming infusion or transfusion fluids by an exothermic reaction of a reactive liquid using a warming device. The device comprises a reaction chamber and a secondary chamber. The reaction chamber and the secondary chamber are aligned end on and are abutting. The reaction chamber contains a trigger and the secondary chamber contains the reactive liquid. The exothermic reaction results when the reactive liquid contacts the trigger leading to crystallization of the reactive liquid. The secondary chamber is compressible. An inlet is positioned between the secondary chamber and the reaction chamber to allow passage of the reactive liquid. The inlet is transversely elongate relative to the flow of the reactive liquid. A frangible or removable barrier closes the inlet. A passageway for movement of said infusion or transfusion fluids extends through reaction chamber. The passageway, the reaction chamber and the secondary chamber are all flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FBE PTY LTD
    Inventors: John Robson, Mark McEwen, Robin Woolford, David Roxby
  • Patent number: 9927184
    Abstract: A spacer portion (3) of this heat exchanger (100) includes an outer peripheral portion (3a) circumferentially provided along outer peripheral edges of bonded surfaces (1a) of cores (1) and a gap portion (3b and 3c) provided in a partial region of the circumferential outer peripheral portion, and the gap portion is provided at a position where a temperature gradient on the bonded surfaces of the cores is relatively shallow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujita, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Akihiro Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9920829
    Abstract: A cooler for cooling a marine transmission gearbox by a cooling fluid. The cooler (1) comprises a cooler housing (2) which is made of plastic and a heat sink element (3) which is arranged at least partially inside a cavity (39) of the cooler housing (2) so that the heat sink element (3) is in contact with the cooling fluid, during operation. The heat sink element (3) is attachable to the gearbox housing (4) of the marine transmission gearbox in such a way that heat is transferable from the gearbox housing (4), via the heat sink element (3), to the cooling fluid. A marine transmission gearbox with such a cooler (1) is also part of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Michele Zottele, Giuliano Montagni
  • Patent number: 9827846
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery and a cooling system. The cooling system has a chiller, a radiator, and conduit and valving arranged to form a thermal circuit configured to selectively transport heat via coolant from the traction battery to the radiator. The vehicle also includes a grille shutter assembly having an opening and shutters movable to alter an effective cross-sectional area of the opening. A controller is programed to operate the shutters to change the effective cross-sectional area of the opening to increase or decrease air flow over the radiator based on a temperature of the coolant and an ambient air temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Angel Fernando Porras, Mark G. Smith, Timothy Noah Blatchley, Kenneth J. Jackson
  • Patent number: 9574828
    Abstract: Heat exchanger for exchanging heat between at least two fluids which are guided through chambers of the heat exchanger (1), wherein at least one guiding profile (11) is provided in the chambers (19,20), and the guiding profile (11) is an extruded tubular profile (12) which includes two parallel walls (13) which are connected to one another by means of two sidewalls (14). One or several dividing walls (15) extend in the extrusion direction of the tubular profile (12). One or several passages (17) are provided in the dividing walls (15) and/or in the sidewalls (14) for guiding a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Wouter Denis Ann Van Dijck, Patrick Piet A Dresen, Tom André J Potters
  • Patent number: 9528657
    Abstract: Device for filling a container with a gas under pressure, especially hydrogen in a tank of a vehicle, comprising at least one source (1, 2, 3, 6) of gas pressurized to a first pressure, called high pressure, a transfer circuit (201, 36, 13, 14, 136, 146) capable of selectively connecting the source or sources (1, 2, 3, 6) of pressurized gas to the tank to be filled, the transfer circuit comprising control members (204, 132, 142) for controlling the flow of the gas from the source or sources (1, 2, 3, 6) to the tank, the transfer circuit further including at least one cooling exchanger (9), for cooling the pressurized gas, wherein the cooling exchanger (9) comprises a hot flow circuit (99) for the pressurized gas to be cooled, a cold flow circuit (98) for a cold cooling fluid, and a refrigeration hold-over medium (5), the refrigeration hold-over medium (5) being in direct heat exchange, on the one hand, with the cold fluid of the cold circuit (98) and, on the other hand, with the pressurized gas to be cooled o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Laurent Allidieres, Thomas Charbonneau, Thomas Vinard, Sebastian-Eloy Sequeira
  • Patent number: 9343187
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR) includes a pressure vessel (12, 14, 16), a nuclear reactor core (10) disposed in the pressure vessel, and a vertically oriented hollow central riser (36) disposed above the nuclear reactor core inside the pressure vessel. A once-through steam generator (OTSG) (30) disposed in the pressure vessel includes vertical tubes (32) arranged in an annular volume defined by the central riser and the pressure vessel. The OTSG further includes a fluid flow volume surrounding the vertical tubes and having a feedwater inlet (50) and a steam outlet (52). The PWR has an operating state in which feedwater injected into the fluid flow volume at the feedwater inlet is converted to steam by heat emanating from primary coolant flowing inside the tubes of the OTSG, and the steam is discharged from the fluid flow volume at the steam outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc., BWXT Foreign Holdings, LLC, BWXT Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: Mathew W. Ales, Robert T. Fortino, Nick Idvorian
  • Patent number: 9279626
    Abstract: The plate-fin heat exchanger includes a first fluid pathway running along a first axis, a second fluid pathway running along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a blocker bar having an inlet face and an outlet face. The blocker bar inlet face coincides with a heat exchanger face. The blocker bar is at an inlet of the second fluid pathway and receives a second fluid. The outlet face of the blocker bar is at the inlet of the second fluid pathway. The blocker bar includes a set of spaced apart pores that extend from the inlet face to the outlet face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: David Berukhim, Andrew Leishman, Vahe Avanessian
  • Patent number: 9228484
    Abstract: A baffle for engine fluid cooling includes a fluid guide having a pair of side walls, a bottom wall, and a coolant fluid inlet. A channel receives a pair of heat exchangers such that one may be positioned proximate to or above a part of the bottom wall and the other may be positioned proximate to or above another part of the bottom wall. Some coolant entering the guide flows into the first heat exchanger and some coolant is passed under the first heat exchanger and subsequently into the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Van Farowe, Vasanthakumar Ganesan, Shaun Fogle, Peitong Jin
  • Patent number: 9208903
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a pressurized water nuclear reactor (PWR) includes a pressure vessel (12, 14, 16), a nuclear reactor core (10) disposed in the pressure vessel, and a vertically oriented hollow central riser (36) disposed above the nuclear reactor core inside the pressure vessel. A once-through steam generator (OTSG) (30) disposed in the pressure vessel includes vertical tubes (32) arranged in an annular volume defined by the central riser and the pressure vessel. The OTSG further includes a fluid flow volume surrounding the vertical tubes and having a feedwater inlet (50) and a steam outlet (52). The PWR has an operating state in which feedwater injected into the fluid flow volume at the feedwater inlet is converted to steam by heat emanating from primary coolant flowing inside the tubes of the OTSG, and the steam is discharged from the fluid flow volume at the steam outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: BWXT Foreign Holdings, LLC, BWT Nuclear Energy, Inc., BWXT Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert T. Fortino, Mathew W. Ales, Nick Idvorian
  • Patent number: 9151539
    Abstract: A liquid-to-air heat exchanger includes an air inlet header, an air outlet header, and a core. The air inlet header has an air inlet connection and the air outlet header has an air outlet connection. The core is connected to the air inlet header and the air outlet header. The core is angled relative to the air inlet connection and the air outlet connection. The air inlet connection and air outlet connection do not align in a straight flow path. The core is disposed at an acute angle relative to one of the air inlet connection and the air outlet connection and is disposed at an obtuse angle relative to the other of the air inlet connection and the air outlet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Steven D. Army, Donald E. Army
  • Patent number: 9097466
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, particularly for charge air or exhaust gas, performs heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid, and includes heat exchanging guides for the first and second fluids, the guides being separated from each other in a core, the core having a plurality of flow channels through which the first fluid flows, and a housing that receives the flow channels and through which the second fluid flows. The heat exchanger also includes at least one compartment lid, which is flow-connected to the flow channels, and a base that is attached to the compartment lid and that is equipped with one or more passage openings for flow channels. The compartment lid is attached to the base via one or more connections which connections are bolted connections and/or a slotted crimping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Viorel Braic, Roland Hemminger, Daniel Hendrix, Mark Schienemann, Erwin Skiba, Danijel Budimir, Jochen Kaeser
  • Patent number: 9016327
    Abstract: A pipe assembly for a district heating network, comprising a first pipe, a second pipe and, surrounding the first pipe, a first insulating layer arranged to reduce heat transfer from the first pipe outwards in a radial direction, the first pipe being arranged for a first heat transfer medium flow and the second pipe being arranged for a second heat transfer medium flow. The pipe assembly comprises a heat transfer device arranged to transfer heat from an outer surface of the first insulating layer to the second pipe, and a second insulating layer arranged to reduce heat transfer from the heat transfer device and the second pipe outwards in the radial direction, the thermal conductivity of the heat transfer device being substantially better than the thermal conductivity of the first insulating layer and the thermal conductivity of the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sampo Humalainen
    Inventor: Sampo Humalainen