Interdigitated Plural First And Plural Second Fluid Passages Patents (Class 165/165)
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Patent number: 10875078Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a corrugated fin element for a heating register or for another heating device, through which corrugated fin element a flow can pass, to a corrugated fin element produced according to such a method, and to a heating register designed with such corrugated fin elements, wherein the corrugated fin elements are produced by unfolding.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: DBK DAVID + BAADER GMBHInventors: Jürgen Prokop, Wolfgang Werling, Didier Lehmann, Rupert Jäger
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Patent number: 10845130Abstract: A heat exchange system for commercial kitchen installations, having a dedicated plenum to receive combustion emissions separate from cooking emissions, where the plenum has a heat exchange structure that efficiently and directly draws heat from the combustion emissions. The plenum heat exchange structure reduces the air volume that a ventilation hood covering the kitchen appliances needs to process and filter, while concurrently obtaining heat from combustion emissions without interference from cooking emission effluents such as grease, smoke, or particulate matter. Heat drawn out of the combustion emissions can be stored in a thermal reservoir for powering other parts of the commercial kitchen or other uses. The diverted airstream from combustion emissions, once passed through the heat exchange structure, can further ventilate through an additional heat exchanger, to provide tempered air to an interior location, such as the commercial kitchen via an air supply duct in the cooking emission ventilation hood.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: STREIVOR, INC.Inventor: Jeffrey S. Lambertson
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Patent number: 10782052Abstract: A micro environmental control system that can remove or add 30W from or to the near range personal microenvironment of a user. For cooling, the ?X uses a micro vapor compression system during the un-occupied period to freeze a phase-change-material in a thermal storage module. A fan then moves air over the phase-change-material to deliver cooled air. Heating is delivered by a small electric heater integrated into a condensing unit. The resulting system is inexpensive to build and uses a limited amount of energy.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYInventor: Hussein Ezzat Khalifa
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Patent number: 10774745Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for a turbine engine (1), the assembly including: a casing (20) extending along a longitudinal axis (X-X?) of the turbine engine (1), a surface heat exchanger (100) arranged along an inner edge (22) of said casing (20) and including a plurality of cooling fins (110) extending radially inwards and longitudinally, and a central body (30) partially concentrically arranged within said casing (20), said casing (20) and the central body (30) defining between one another an annular air channel (Va), the width (hVa) of which is substantially constant in the region of the heat exchanger (100). The assembly is characterized in that the fins (110) are distributed over more than 180° of the inner edge (22) of the casing (20) and in that the mean height ((hMOV) of the fins (110) is more than 5% of the width (hVa) of the annular air channel (Va) in the region the heat exchanger (100).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFY ENGINESInventors: Josselin David Florian Regnard, Laurent Louis Robert Baudoin, Hélène Monique Orsi
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Patent number: 10772235Abstract: A heat sink and its manufacturing method. The heat sink includes a base and plural heat pipes. The base has a first surface, plural parallel heated areas concavely formed on the first surface, a protrusion disposed between any two heated areas and protruding in a direction towards the first surface, and at least one notch formed on each protrusion. A first protrusion portion and a second protrusion portion are formed at the top of the protrusion and the top of notch respectively. The heat pipes are embedded into the heated areas respectively in the lengthwise direction, and the heat pipes at the notches of the protrusions are attached and in contact with each other. The notch of each heat pipe may be compressed and deformed, so that the heat pipes are in contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: COOLER MASTER TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Yu-Te Wei
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Patent number: 10739077Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core defining a first passageway configured for a first fluid to flow through and a second passageway configured for a second fluid to flow through. The core includes a plurality of unit cells coupled together. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells includes a sidewall at least partly defining a first passageway portion, a second passageway portion, a plurality of first openings for the first fluid to flow through, and a plurality of second openings for the second fluid to flow through. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells is configured to enable the first fluid to combine and divide in the first passageway portion. Each unit cell is further configured to enable the second fluid to combine and divide in the second passageway portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: William Dwight Gerstler, Daniel Jason Erno, Michael Thomas Kenworthy, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Nicolas Kristopher Sabo
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Patent number: 10670347Abstract: Plate assemblies configured for use in heat exchangers are provided. The plate assemblies may include one or more plates defining an inlet end, an outlet end, and flow channels configured to receive a flow of fluid from the inlet end and direct the fluid to the outlet end. The flow channels may be defined by protrusions, grooves, and/or orifices defined in flow plates, and spacer plates may separate the plate assemblies from one another. The flow channels may be interconnected such that for each of a plurality of intermediate positions along the flow channels, a plurality of flow paths are defined. Thus, in an instance in which a blockage occurs in one of the flow channels, flow may be prevented through only a portion of the flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventor: Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
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Patent number: 10527362Abstract: A one-piece heat exchanger manufactured using an additive manufacturing process is described. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of channels formed therein. At least some of the plurality of channels may be configured to provide structural support to the heat exchanger to reduce its weight. Different coolant media may be used in a first set and a second set of the plurality of channels to provide different types of cooling in an integrated one-piece heat exchanger structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: David L. Vos, Ryan M. Alderfer, Matthew Daniel Miller
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Patent number: 10520263Abstract: A heat exchanging system includes one or more heat exchanging portions, wherein each heat exchanging portion includes an optimized internal fin structure. The optimization of the optimized internal fin structure includes receiving existing heat exchanging system information, analyzing exterior fluid flow around the one or more heat exchanging portions as a heat flux analysis, determining boundary conditions of a heat flux distribution based on the heat flux analysis, receiving material properties of the one or more heat exchanging portions, and designing the optimized internal fin structure based on the existing heat exchanging system information, the boundary conditions of the heat flux distribution, and the material properties of the one or more heat exchanging portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Danny J. Lohan, Ercan M. Dede
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Patent number: 10504814Abstract: A device can comprise a plurality of layers stacked and bonded on one another, wherein at least one layer of the plurality of layers comprises: a first active region comprising first pin portions positioned in a first planar arrangement; and a second active region comprising second pin portions positioned in a second planar arrangement, wherein the second planar arrangement is different from the first planar arrangement. The device can also comprise a conformable layer adjacent to at least one of the plurality of layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Mark Delorman Schultz
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Patent number: 10493693Abstract: Additively manufactured monolithic structures for containing and directing flows of fluids are described herein, which can achieve high contact area between fluids and solids while maintaining uniform flow conditions and requiring low applied pressures to yield desired flow rates, for use in heat exchangers, chromatography columns, catalytic converters, etc. An exemplary monolithic structure comprises a plurality of tiled unit cells having a same shape, where the tiled unit cells are integrally formed as a single component. The tiled unit cells are arranged to define one or more interior regions of fluid flow, one or more inlets to each interior region of fluid flow, and one or more outlets to each interior region of fluid flow. The structures and methods of tiling herein are suited to additive manufacturing technologies such as projection stereolithography, multiphoton lithography, etc.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: David Robinson
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Patent number: 10443868Abstract: Disclosed are various turbulent, corrosion-resistant heat exchangers used in desiccant air conditioning systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: 7AC Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter F. Vandermeulen, Mark Allen, Arthur Laflamme
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Patent number: 10327358Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for fluid connections in modular cooling systems for cooling electronic components installed in equipment racks. A cold plate is positioned adjacent to a support manifold in a mated position, where the cold plate comprises a plate connector. The plate connector comprises a plate outer sleeve and defines a central passageway. The support manifold comprises a manifold connector, which comprises a manifold outer sleeve and defines a central passageway. An outer surface of the manifold outer sleeve is positioned adjacent to an outer surface of the plate outer sleeve. A cam is rotated about a pivot pin and engages with a plate retainer to secure the cold plate against the support manifold, and the central passageway of the plate connector is connected in fluid communication with the central passageway of the manifold connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Laurence A. Harvilchuck, Alex Carl Worrall
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Patent number: 10319396Abstract: A plurality of transducer bars may be concurrently translated from a first orientation to a second orientation by a translation system that has first and second plates. The first plate can have a plurality of first notches with each first notch shaped to hold a transducer bar in a horizontal orientation. The second plate can have a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Glenn Johnson, Kevin Mayer, Peter Gunderson
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Patent number: 10201116Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing that at least substantially encapsulates an interior space, and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack in the interior space. The data center can further include a cooling system. The cooling system includes a conduit that is disposed in the interior space of the rack housing and a fluid that flows through the conduit, wherein heat is transferred from air in the interior space to the fluid to produce cooled air in the rack housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, Matthew David Striffler, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 10151497Abstract: An indirect evaporative cooler core is manufactured from a continuous sheet of hydrophobic material. Flocking is provided on at least a partial surface area of at least one side of the sheet, to render the flocked surface area wettable. Air flow guiding structures are formed upon at least one of the first side and the second side of the sheet. Fold lines are defined in the sheet defining plates extending between adjacent fold lines. Slits are formed along the fold lines. Accordion pleating the sheet at the fold lines forms alternating wet and dry passages between the plates, the wet passages formed between opposing wettable surfaces, the dry passages formed between non-flocked surfaces, and the accordion pleating causes the slits in the folds to open and form air inlets and outlets in communication with the air flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Seeley International Pty LtdInventors: David Mark Swindon, Nan Chen, Shaun Mahoney, Robert William Gilbert
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Patent number: 10143995Abstract: This monolithic reactor is an adaptable and scalable, flow-through reaction containment apparatus embodied as a one-piece monolithic block of material that retains re-configurability to improve reaction processing. This apparatus increases operational flexibility, adaptable design, and vastly simplifies construction of tubular reaction-containment configurations. Internally, the monolithic block comprises one or more closely spaced, functional voids which operate as fluid channels that can be configured in various geometric arrangements. The apparatus is widely scalable, provides high thermodynamic efficiency, manufacturing simplicity, and affordability for varied operations through additive manufacturing, and has a compact physical footprint.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: University of Alaska FairbanksInventor: Jonathan Walter Kamler
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Patent number: 10121725Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there are provided heat dispersing articles, assemblies containing same, methods for the preparation thereof, and various uses therefor. In one aspect of the present invention, there are provided heat dispersing articles. In another aspect of the present invention, there are provided methods for producing the above-referenced articles. In yet another aspect of the present invention, there are provided assemblies containing the above-referenced articles. In still another aspect of the present invention, there are provided methods for making the above-referenced assemblies. In yet another aspect, there are provided methods to dissipate the heat generated by portable electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbHInventors: Yuan Zhao, Mulugeta Berhe, Daniel Maslyk, Scott Timon Allen
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Patent number: 10094620Abstract: A stacked-plate heat exchanger may include a high-temperature (HT) coolant circuit, a low-temperature (NT) coolant circuit, heat exchanger plates stacked upon one another and through which two coolants and a medium to be cooled may flow, and an obstruction configured to force a deflection of one of the coolants in the low-temperature coolant circuit. The two coolants may have different temperature levels in the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits. The heat exchanger plates may include a partition wall separating the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits from each other. The high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits may include a central HT coolant inlet and a central NT coolant outlet, respectively, adjacent to the partition wall and together forming a teardrop shape separated by the partition wall. The HT coolant inlet may have a part-circle-like shape and the NT coolant outlet may have a triangular shape, each having one side formed by the partition wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Marco Renz, Bernd Schmollinger, Henning Schroeder, Volker Velte
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Patent number: 10010984Abstract: A method for the production of a heat exchanger is provided, particularly a sorption heat exchanger, in which several components of the heat exchanger have a ferrous based material, such as pipes, the pipes finishing the bottoms, and the bottoms and the pipes enclosing the housing components are coffered and then soldered. In one method, which reliably realizes the soldering of the joints with different widths, a brazing foil is introduced during the coffering of the components of the heat exchanger formed of steel or stainless steel between the joints of the components of the heat exchanger, and then the joints are filled with a low-melting solder and soldered without flux material.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hans-Heinrich Angermann, Steffen Brunner
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Patent number: 9958216Abstract: The application relates to a heat exchanger and a connecting system for the heat exchanger. This subject matter includes a housing formed by a top part and a bottom part and a first connecting element and a second connecting element connected to these top and bottom parts. Specific embodiments of the subject matter are shown in which the connecting elements connect the housing top part and bottom part by a positive and/or material connection. The advantages of each embodiment over prior approaches are too numerous to include in this abstract, but will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art when reviewing the full specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: BEHR GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Caroline Schmid, Michael Moser, Nikolaus Daubitzer, Holger Schroth, Heiko Neff, Dominique Raible, Anton Kierig, Thomas Schiehlen, Nic Sautter, Stefan Hirsch
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Patent number: 9920530Abstract: Light-weight, heat-managing structures feature open-cell lattice, honeycomb, and/or corrugated (prismatic) arrangements in their substructures, combined with heat pipe/heat plate arrangements for managing heat to which the structures are subjected. The structures are well suited to aerospace applications and may be employed in the leading edge of wings or other airfoil-shaped components; gas turbine engine components; rocket nozzles; and other high-heat, high-stress environments.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: Haydn N. G. Wadley, Douglas T. Queheillalt
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Patent number: 9921000Abstract: Plate assemblies configured for use in heat exchangers are provided. The plate assemblies may include one or more plates defining an inlet end, an outlet end, and flow channels configured to receive a flow of fluid from the inlet end and direct the fluid to the outlet end. The flow channels may be defined by protrusions, grooves, and/or orifices defined in flow plates, and spacer plates may separate the plate assemblies from one another. The flow channels may be interconnected such that for each of a plurality of intermediate positions along the flow channels, a plurality of flow paths are defined. Thus, in an instance in which a blockage occurs in one of the flow channels, flow may be prevented through only a portion of the flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventor: Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
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Patent number: 9891001Abstract: A hybrid closed circuit heat exchanger having a dry indirect section and an evaporative indirect section. The evaporative indirect section has multiple sub-sections. An evaporative fluid distribution system is configured to selectively distribute evaporative fluid over all, part, or none of the sub-sections. A process fluid flow path control system is configured to selectively direct the process fluid through one or more sub-sections. The process fluid flow path control system may send all of the process fluid through two or more sub-sections in equal amounts or in different amounts. There is preferably no evaporative heat exchange section bypass flow path.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Evapco, Inc.Inventors: Tom W. Bugler, Jennifer Jane Hamilton
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Patent number: 9797662Abstract: A modular system for heat exchange between fluids includes a plurality of open elements that, by means of two end plates, are connected together. An open element is constituted of a folded and sealed sheet material that is arranged in a frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignees: Pleat AS, Sperre Coolers ASInventors: Stein Oddvar Sægrov, Otto Godeset, Rune Myklebust
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Patent number: 9645618Abstract: An electronic device has a housing, at least one actuator attached to the housing, and a deformable skin having air pores. The actuators are attached to both the housing and the deformable skin to impart a motion that causes a varying amount of separation. A thermal exchange cavity is defined by the housing and the deformable skin. A skin oscillation controller is contained with the housing and is electrically connected to the at least one actuators that vary a volume of the thermal exchange cavity by deforming the deformable skin, causing an exchange of ambient air through the air pores to convectively cool the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Alberto R. Cavallaro, Morris B. Bowers, Paul B. Crosbie, Martin R. Pais, Maninder S. Sehmbey
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Patent number: 9638476Abstract: The invention relates to a plate-shaped heat exchanger for a cooling device comprising at least one heat exchanger package, in particular for a motor vehicle, consisting of a plurality of openings for accommodating a pipe conducting a coolant, wherein each opening is surrounded by an passage and a plurality of projections are distributed between the passages for the heat exchange with the medium to be cooled. In order to allow a high performance increase of a cooling device, yet a low increase in pressure loss of the charge air, a plurality of projections are arranged around an passage, wherein the projections have a shape that assures deliberate heat conduction from the projections to the passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Boris Kerler, Steffen Grözinger, Mehmet Tosun, Christian Schnepf, Florian Schmidt, Hans-Joachim Krauss, Vinko Lukcin, Stéphanie Larpent
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Patent number: 9631865Abstract: A method and apparatus for the liquefaction of natural gas or conversion of other gases to liquids that uses nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser machined structures on surfaces of heat exchangers. The heat exchanger has metal plate and plate fin surfaces with increased surface area to volume ratio from the nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser machined structures on its surfaces. Heat transfer and cooling are accelerated by exposing the gas to nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser nanomachining structures. Fluid refrigerant flows through the structures in the heat exchanger metal plate and plate fins, and exchanges heat with refrigerant flowing through the structures.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Inventor: Victor Rivas Alvarez
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Patent number: 9541333Abstract: A stacked heat exchanger, in particular ferritic welded heat exchanger for high temperature applications, is provided that has stack plates that are held between cover plates and/or an outer housing. Aluminum is added to the cover plates and/or the housing in production.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventor: Hans-Heinrich Angermann
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Patent number: 9464599Abstract: A cooling system for a diesel engine having a turbocharger, may include an intercooler which cools compressed air from the turbocharger, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler which cools EGR gas in an EGR device of the diesel engine, a low-temperature radiator fluidly-connected to the intercooler and the EGR cooler and supplying a coolant to the intercooler and the EGR cooler, and a water pump fluidly-connected to the low-temperature radiator, the intercooler and the EGR cooler and circulating the coolant of the low-temperature radiator, to the intercooler and the EGR cooler, wherein the intercooler and the EGR cooler may be disposed in series so that the coolant in the low-temperature radiator sequentially circulates through the water pump, the intercooler, the EGR cooler, and then the low-temperature radiator.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Won Rok Choi
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Patent number: 9398721Abstract: A cooling supply package for an electronic component has a supply port communicating with a plurality of outer supply channels, and a return port communicating with a plurality of outer return channels. The outer supply channels and outer return channels communicate with distinct ones of openings in a slot layer and into return and supply slots, respectively. An orifice layer supplies fluid to an electronic component from supply slots and receives return fluid into the return slots after having cooled the electronic component. A cooling supply and electronic combination is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Richard A. Himmelmann, Joseph Turney
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Patent number: 9297588Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a casing designed as a hollow box by a top plate, a bottom plate, a front plate, a rear plate, and two lateral plates and a heat transfer unit accommodated in the casing. The heat transfer unit has flat plates alternately folded back in reverse direction. A first flow passage and a second flow passage are alternately formed in multiple layers between the flat plates. A high temperature fluid inlet and a high temperature fluid outlet in communication with the second flow passage are provided on the front plate side. A low temperature fluid inlet and a low temperature fluid outlet in communication with the first flow passage are provided on the rear plate side. Biasing means applies pressure on the lateral plate sealing member to the end portion of the heat transfer unit and seals the end portions of the first and second flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Takubo Machine Works Co., LtdInventor: Sadao Takubo
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Patent number: 9275931Abstract: A heat dissipating module including multiple first heat dissipating fins and multiple second heat dissipating fins combined to the first heat dissipating fins is provided. Each first/second heat dissipating fin has a first/second body and multiple first/second heat dissipating groove assemblies disposed in the first/second body, wherein each first/second heat dissipating groove assembly has multiple first/second heat dissipating groove unit. One end of the first heat dissipating groove unit is overlapped to one end of the second heat dissipating groove unit adjacent thereof. The other end of the first heat dissipating groove unit is overlapped to one end of another second heat dissipating groove unit. The two second heat dissipating groove units are disposed in the second body adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Inventor: Huang-han Chen
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Patent number: 9182176Abstract: A low cost heat exchanger exhibits high performance in relation to heat resistance, pressure resistance, prevention of fluid leakage, and heat exchange efficiency. The heat exchanger is equipped with a stacked plate assembly having a plurality of stacked plates, and a hollow tubular casing, which accommodates the stacked plate assembly and extends in the stacking direction. The stacked plate assembly includes the plurality of plates, sealing members for preventing leakage of fluid from fluid paths, and a fixing tool fastening together the plural plates at a position along the central axis thereof. In the heat exchanger, two types of fluids that undergo heat exchange flow in arcuate paths in the interior of hollow portions formed between two adjacent plates, without causing mutual mixing to occur between the two fluids. Adjacent hollow portions are connected in series through bypasses.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Inventor: Chugen Sei
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Patent number: 9095889Abstract: Thermoelectric-enhanced air and liquid cooling of an electronic system is facilitated by providing a cooling apparatus which includes a liquid-cooled structure in thermal communication with an electronic component(s), and liquid-to-liquid and air-to-liquid heat exchangers coupled in series fluid communication via a coolant loop, which includes first and second loop portions coupled in parallel. The liquid-cooled structure is supplied coolant via the first loop portion, and a thermoelectric array is disposed with the first and second loop portions in thermal contact with first and second sides of the array. The thermoelectric array operates to transfer heat from coolant passing through the first loop portion to coolant passing through the second loop portion, and cools coolant passing through the first loop portion before the coolant passes through the liquid-cooled structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
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Patent number: 9097473Abstract: To provide a ceramic heat exchanger which has reduced joints, and thus, is easy to produce and less likely to leak and a method of producing same. The ceramic heat exchanger 1 according to the present invention comprises a body 2 having first channels 21 for a high-temperature medium to flow and second channels 22 for a low-temperature medium to flow, and lids 3 each having openings 31, joined to the body 2 at opposite ends 2a, 2b with the openings 31 connected to the first channels 21, the body 2 further having inlet channels 23 formed in a first channel 21 outlet-side end portion 2a to allow the low-temperature medium to enter the body at a side thereof and flow into the second channels 22, and outlet channels 24 formed in a first channel 21 inlet-side end portion 2b to allow the low-temperature medium to flow out of the second channels 22 and leave the body at the side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Motohide Murayama, Kousuke Isomura, Sazo Tsuruzono
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Patent number: 9077056Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for housing a plurality of electrochemical cells, wherein the housing provides stability, temperature control and maximum packing density. The battery module housing comprises a first semi-enclosure and a second semi-enclosure, wherein the first and second semi-enclosure are aligned to form compartments there between. Each compartment is designed to accommodate at least one electrochemical cell, such as a cylindrical battery or a prismatic battery. Each semi-enclosure comprises an interior wall and an exterior wall. The interior and exterior wall align together to form a flow path between the walls through which coolant or any other thermal management medium may flow. The coolant enters the semi-enclosure through a coolant inlet, flows between the interior and exterior walls; then flows out of the semi-enclosure through a coolant outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Battery Patent TrustInventors: Michael A. Marchio, Jozef Gorog
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Publication number: 20150144312Abstract: An oil cooler includes flat tubes layered together with a clearance, wherein cooling water flows through the clearance. Each flat tube includes a first plate, a second plate, and a fin plate held between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate is recessed to form a fin plate accommodation portion accommodating the fin plate, wherein a thin portion is formed outside of the fin plate accommodation portion in a longitudinal direction of the flat tube. An oil port is provided at the thin portion. Each flat tube includes a guide wall at a lateral periphery thereof, wherein the guide wall faces the oil port in a width direction, and projects in a layering direction. The guide wall, the thin portion, and a lateral wall of the oil port form a nozzle portion to guide cooling water in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki OOI, Hirokazu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20150136370Abstract: In a small-sized fluid heat exchanging apparatus that heats or cools a huge amount of gas or liquid, a structure makes fluid having a high flow speed impinge perpendicularly against a wall. A flow passage is divided into a high-speed flow passage and a low-speed flow passage, and the high-speed flow passage and the low-speed flow passage are arranged so as to intersect perpendicularly with each other, according to guidelines for the shape of the flow passage. A flow passage designed according to the guidelines provides highly-efficient heat exchange.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Yuji FURUMURA, Naomi MURA, Shinji NISHIHARA, Noriyoshi SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9033030Abstract: An apparatus and method for minimizing cold spots on plates of a plate-type fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger averages the plate temperature at a hot-fluid exit plane of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger matrix is constructed to internally vary the flow patterns of opposing hot and cold fluid streams so that the heat transfer coefficient values of one or both fluid streams, designated as h, are optimized so the hot fluid value is a greater value than that of a cold fluid value. Plate variable flow structures are arranged in a manner that allows higher velocity hot fluid flow and possible lower velocity cold fluid flow in areas where the plate temperatures are coolest and the opposite configuration where plate temperatures are hottest.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: MUNTERS CORPORATIONInventor: Nicholas H. Des Champs
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Patent number: 9027634Abstract: ‘Underground Thermal Battery Storage System’ using a battery structure of one or more underground thermally insulated cells, where each cell comprised of a waterproof thermal insulation shell, one or more fluid storage tanks and earth matrix. The thermal storage cell's fluid storage tanks are interconnected using a thermal fluid transport system with control valves, circulating pumps, and managed by a programmable controller. The programmable controller uses the cell sensors to determine cell status, control cell interconnections, and to manage the thermal charging and discharging by exterior heating or cooling devices. A moisture injection system is provided to control the thermal conductivity within the cell's earth matrix.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventor: John R. Yatchak
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Publication number: 20150083378Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed that includes a plurality of parallel refrigerant paths, and a refrigerant injector operatively associated with an inlet to each refrigerant path for independently metering single phase refrigerant into each of the parallel refrigerant paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventor: Thomas E. Banach
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Patent number: 8985192Abstract: A plate fin heat exchanger of the present invention includes a heat exchange part including a heat exchange part main body including layers of plural flow passages, and heat transfer members each of which is disposed within each flow passage of the heat exchange part main body to transfer the heat of fluid flowing in each of the flow passages to each partition walls opposed across the flow passage; and sensing parts connected to both the outsides of the heat exchange part respectively. Each of the sensing parts includes plural sealed spaces, and a sensor wall disposed to separate the outermost sealed space from the sealed space on the inner side thereof. The plate fin heat exchanger further includes a detection means for detecting damage of the sensor wall of the sensing part. According to such a structure, external leak of the fluid performing the heat exchange can be prevented while suppressing deterioration of performance or increase in size or weight.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro Mitsuhashi, Susumu Terada, Koji Noishiki
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Publication number: 20150033789Abstract: A heat exchanger provided with a plurality of plate-like fins 2 arranged in parallel with a predetermined interval and a plurality of flat-shaped heat transfer pipes 3 inserted in a direction orthogonal to said plate-like fins 2 and through which a refrigerant flows, in which said heat transfer pipe 3 has an outside shape with a flat outer face arranged along an air flow direction and a section substantially in an oval shape and first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b made of two symmetric and substantially D-shaped through holes having a bulkhead 32 between the two passages inside, which is bonded to said plate-like fin 2 by expanding diameters of said first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b by a pipe-expanding burette ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Sangmu LEE, Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda
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Publication number: 20140360707Abstract: Wave fins which are disposed inside a heat exchanger housing of a heat exchanger in order to cause a turbulent flow of fluid through direct contact with the fluid. The wave fins include a plurality of hills, a plurality of valleys and a plurality of sidewalls. The hills and valleys are connected to each other via the plurality of sidewalls. The sidewalls partition fluid passages between the hills and the valleys through which fluid passes. The hills, the valleys and the sidewalls form main waveforms that extend in a longitudinal direction so as to be waved in a first radius of curvature. One or more bent portions are formed on intermediate portions of the main waveforms, the bent portions being connected to remaining portions of the main waveforms so as to be bent at a second radius of curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: KORENS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yong Kuk Cho
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Publication number: 20140345312Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a refrigerant tube through which a refrigerant for absorbing heat from air flows, and a defrosting medium tube through which a coolant for supplying heat for defrosting flows. Two fins disposed on both sides of the refrigerant tube include a protrusion protruding toward an upstream side of the flow of air with respect to the refrigerant tube. The protrusion is provided with a clearance that allows melt water generated in the defrosting to flow on the upstream side of the refrigerant tube. The refrigerant tubes and the defrosting medium tubes can be alternately arranged in the upstream line. The protrusion protrudes such that the air can be introduced into an air passage from the side portion of the protrusion even when an end facing the upstream side of the flow of the air is closed with the core of frost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventor: Yoshiki Katoh
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Patent number: 8854819Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat sink base plate for mounting on a circuit board to absorb waste heat from a heat source, a radiation fin unit consisting of a set of radiation fins, mounted on the heat sink base plate opposite to the circuit board and defining a plurality of heat-dissipation passages between each two adjacent ones of the radiation fins, a cooling fan unit mounted on the radiation fin unit for creating currents of air toward the heat-dissipation passages, a plurality of thermal tubes supported on the heat sink base plate and fastened to the radiation fins. Each radiation fin has first wind guiding wall portions and second wind guiding wall portions respectively tilted in reversed directions to facilitate the flow of air through the heat-dissipation passages.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Dong Guan Yung Teng Electronic Products Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong-Long Chen, Yi-Kun Lin
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Patent number: 8851156Abstract: A freeze protection system to repeatedly protect the coils or tubes of a heat exchanger/radiator that does not require any maintenance after the contained fluid in the heat exchanger/radiator has experienced a freeze. The system lends itself to construction as a repeatable grouping of diversely different geometric shapes that can then be used to build a freeze protection system for a plethora of sizes of heat exchangers/radiators or, can be made into a unitary, monolithic sheet for a specific sized heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Inventor: Thomas Middleton Semmes
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Patent number: 8844610Abstract: The present invention is a plate heat exchanger that allows refrigerant to enter the heat exchanger simultaneously from two sides. Allowing the refrigerant or other fluid to enter from two sides splits the flow and improves fluid velocities by presenting an optimized area to the fluid flow. This effect may be realized for both gases and liquids, and for example with respect to a liquid refrigerant, where it enters the heat exchanger simultaneously by splitting. According to the present invention the split liquid flow from the condenser feeds dual electronically controlled expansion valves before entering the heat exchanger. Fully evaporated gas leaves the heat exchanger through a single outlet, or through a dual outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Multistack, LLCInventor: Mark Platt
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Patent number: 8809679Abstract: A heat sink and method for gaseous cooling of superconducting power devices. Heat sink is formed of a solid material of high thermal conductivity and attached to the area needed to be cooled. Two channels are connected to the heat sink to allow an inlet and an outlet for cryogenic gaseous coolant. Inside the hollow heat sink are fins to increase metal surface in contact with the coolant. The coolant enters through the inlet tube, passes through the finned area inside the heat sink and exits through the outlet tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Danny G. Crook, Lukas Graber, Sastry Pamidi