Flow Of One Heat Exchange Material Controlled By Temperature Of Another Patents (Class 165/299)
  • Publication number: 20140093269
    Abstract: An air-conditioning unit includes an air conditioner to control air temperature, a first channel to guide air supplied from the air conditioner to a conditioning target, a heat exchange channel through which the air supplied from the air conditioner exchanges heat with the conditioning target, a second channel to guide air from the conditioning target either outside the air-conditioning unit or to the air conditioner, and a channel switching unit to cause the air conditioner to suck in either external air or the air guided from the conditioning target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoyasu HIRASAWA, Kenichi Takehara, Hiromitsu Fujiya, Keisuke Yuasa, Yasuaki Toda, Keisuke Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140083673
    Abstract: For controlling the opening of a valve (10) in an HVAC system (100) to regulate the flow ? of a fluid through a thermal energy exchanger (2) of the HVAC system (100) and adjust the amount of energy E exchanged by the thermal energy exchanger (2), an energy-per-flow gradient (A) is determined, and the opening of the valve (10) is controlled depending on the energy-per-flow gradient (A). The energy-per-flow gradient (A) is determined by measuring at consecutive points in time the flow ?1, ?2 through the valve (10), by determining the amounts of energy E1, E2 exchanged by the thermal energy exchanger (2) at these points in time, and by calculating the energy-per-flow gradient (B) from the flow ?1, ?2 and exchanged energy E1, E2. The energy-per-flow gradient (A) can be determined dynamically and is used as a basis for setting a slope threshold for the thermal energy exchanger (2) so that there is no need to store fixed threshold values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: BELIMO HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Marc Thuillard, John S. Adams
  • Patent number: 8678078
    Abstract: Transmission fluid is heated through a heat exchanger effective to transfer heat between transmission fluid of a transmission assembly and an exhaust gas feed stream of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Farzad Samie, Richard W. Carlson, Thomas A. Robertson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20140008051
    Abstract: A machine including an engine cooling system, a secondary system with a low-temperature limit, and a secondary cooling system. A temperature sensor is associated with the secondary cooling system. The temperature sensor senses the secondary cooling system temperature and provides a temperature signal. A control valve has an open position allowing fluid communication between the engine cooling system and the secondary cooling system, and a closed position disallowing fluid communication. A controller receives signals from the secondary system temperature sensor and commands the control valve to open when the secondary cooling system temperature is below the low-temperature limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Timothy M. O'Donnell, Evan E. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 8626427
    Abstract: A user interface method for a terminal for a vehicle is provided. The terminal obtains position information to detect a point of a road. A road image of a driving direction is obtained, a lanes of the road represented on the obtained road image is recognized, and a point of a road and lane in which the vehicle having the terminal arranged therein is detected. A virtual road image regarding the recognized lanes is generated, and the generated virtual lanes are added to the road image of the driving direction of the vehicle, and displayed. Traffic information for each lane and surrounding information (i.e. lane closure, construction, accident, etc.) at the detected point of the relevant road are obtained, and the obtained information is displayed for each virtual lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Kil Park, Chang-Soo Kim, Jun-Yong Choi
  • Patent number: 8622120
    Abstract: A method and a device for influencing the temperature of at least one electromechanical component situated in a motor vehicle, in which a transmission situated in the motor vehicle is cooled by a transmission oil flowing in a transmission cooling circuit. A cooling circuit branch is provided for influencing the temperature of the electromechanical component. The transmission oil also flows in the cooling circuit branch as a heat carrier. The flow rate of the transmission oil in the cooling circuit branch is influenced for influencing the temperature of the electromechanical component as a function of the setpoint operating temperature and/or the actual operating temperature of the electromechanical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Gerundt, Oliver Kaefer
  • Patent number: 8620502
    Abstract: An electric vehicle battery heater includes a housing having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet. A heating element is positioned within the housing in a heat transfer relationship with coolant for transferring heat to an electric vehicle battery. A thermistor is positioned in the housing to output a signal indicative of a temperature of the battery coolant. A controller energizes the heating element when the signal represents that the coolant temperature is less than a predetermined lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Phillips & Temro Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Allen
  • Patent number: 8602087
    Abstract: A double flow-circuit heat exchange device for periodic positive and reverse directional pumping, which has a bi-directional fluid pump. The bi-directional fluid pump produces positive pressure or negative pressure at fluid ports on two sides of the bi-directional heat exchange device to periodically pump the fluid in positive and reverse flowing directions. During operation of the periodically positive and reverse pumping, the directional flow of the fluid in first and second flow fluid circuits are maintained in different flowing directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Publication number: 20130248168
    Abstract: Temperature is controlled in a refrigerated transport container comprising a transport volume, a control unit, a cooling space, one or more fans providing air flow through the cooling space, where air passing through the cooling space passes a return air temperature sensor, a cooling unit, and a supply air temperature sensor. Supply air temperature (Tsup) is controlled to bring temperatures in the transport volume within a desired temperature range around a first temperature set point (Tset). The supply air temperature (Tsup) or a time-averaged function thereof is controlled to reach a temperature below the set point (Tset) during a first limited time period; and the supply air temperature (Tsup) is increased during a second limited time period following said first time period, so that the supply air temperature (Tsup) or a time-averaged function thereof at the end of said second time period is within said desired temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S
    Inventors: Leijn Johannes Sjerp Lukasse, Poul Kim Madsen, Lars Mou Jessen
  • Publication number: 20130174594
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat medium circuit with a heat medium flow reversing device that can switch the flow direction of a heat medium in the heat medium side passage of the heat exchanger related to heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20130140017
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a heat radiating portion provided with first, second, and third connecting lines formed in a predetermined sequence by stacking a plurality of plates, and receiving first, second, and third operating fluids respectively into the first, second, and third connecting lines, the first, second, and third operating fluids exchanging heat with each other while passing through the first, second, and third connecting lines and the first, second, and not being mixed with each other while being circulated, and a bifurcating portion connecting an inflow hole for flowing one operating fluid of the first, second, and third operating fluids with an exhaust hole for exhausting the one operating fluid, adapted for the one operating fluid to bypass the heat radiating portion according to a temperature of the one operating fluid, and mounted at an exterior of the heat radiating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jae Yeon KIM
  • Publication number: 20130133874
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a heat radiating portion provided with first, second, and third connecting lines formed in a predetermined sequence by stacking a plurality of plates, and receiving first, second, and third operating fluids respectively into the first, second, and third connecting lines. The first, second, and third operating fluids exchange heat with each other but are not mixed with each other. The heat exchanger may include a bifurcating portion connecting an inflow hole for flowing one operating fluid of the first, second, and third operating fluids with an exhaust hole and adapted for the one operating fluid to bypass the heat radiating portion according to a temperature of the one operating fluid, and a valve unit adapted to flow the one operating fluid selectively into the heat radiating or bifurcating portions according to a temperature of the one operating fluid flowing into the inflow hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jae Yeon KIM, Wan Je CHO
  • Publication number: 20130133875
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle may include a heat radiating portion provided with first, second and third connecting lines formed alternately by stacking a plurality of plates, and receiving first, second and third operating fluids respectively into the first, second and third connecting lines, the first, second and third operating fluids heat-exchanging with each other during passing through the first, second and third connecting lines and the first, second and third operating fluids supplying into the first, second and third connecting lines not being mixed with each other and being circulated; and a bifurcating portion connecting an inflow hole for flowing one operating fluid of the first, second and third operating fluids with an exhaust hole for exhausting the one operating fluid, and adapted for the one operating fluid to bypass the heat radiating portion according to a flow amount of the one operating fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jae Yeon Kim
  • Publication number: 20130111926
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for a vehicle, may include an electric air compression pump generating compressed air using battery power of the vehicle, a main compressed air tank storing the compressed air generated by the electric air compression pump, a compressed air control valve fluid-connected to the main compressed air tank and controlling the compressed air to be discharged to a radiator when a temperature of cooling water flowing through the radiator exceeds a predetermined value, and an air amplification induction device disposed in front of the radiator and fluid-connected to the compressed air control valve, wherein the air amplification induction device induces compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve, along an inner circumference of the air amplification induction device, such that the compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve may be injected to the radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Seunggi KIM
  • Publication number: 20130108971
    Abstract: A method for controlling an efficiency and/or a wet/dry transition area of a condensing furnace heat exchanger section. A temperature can be sensed in an air stream entering the heat exchanger section, to sense an incoming air temperature of the air stream entering the heat exchanger section. A relationship can be established between the incoming air temperature and an air/fuel mixture to be supplied to a burner. The air/fuel mixture can be adjusted to enhance the efficiency and/or to minimize or reduce unwanted condensation within the heat exchanger section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Varidigm Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis R. Maiello, Dennis S. Gambiana
  • Patent number: 8430156
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes inlet and outlet interfaces capable of coupling to a liquid cooling loop tubing, a plurality of pump connectors coupled to the inlet and outlet interfaces enabling pluggable connection of a plurality of pumps to the inlet and outlet interfaces, and a controller. The controller is coupled to the plurality of pumps and controls power levels of the individual pumps, enabling control of fluid flow rate in the liquid cooling loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Malone, Glenn C. Simon
  • Patent number: 8387687
    Abstract: An enclosure containing heat-producing equipment includes an air inlet for admitting air from an environment containing the enclosure. The equipment is situated relative to the air inlet such that the air absorbs heat from the equipment, increasing the temperature of the air. An air-to-liquid heat exchanger is mounted on an outside surface of the enclosure adjacent to an air outlet. The heat exchanger is connectable to an external cooling source such that heat from the heated air exiting the enclosure absorbed by the heat exchanger is expelled outside the environment containing the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Liebert Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel B Baer
  • Publication number: 20130048266
    Abstract: A cooling management system including component racks, a cooling system, pressure measurement devices, and a computing system within a structure. Each component rack includes an exothermic apparatus. The structure includes warm air aisle spaces and cold air aisle spaces located between the component racks. The cooling system feeds cold air into each cold air aisle space. The cold air flows through the component racks resulting in displacement of warm air from each exothermic apparatus. The warm air flows into the warm air aisle spaces and is directed back to the cooling system. The pressure measurement devices measure differential pressure values between the cold air aisle spaces and the warm air aisle spaces. The computing system monitors the differential pressure values, perform calculations associated with the differential pressure values, and control a fan speed of at least one fan within the cooling system based on the calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Yves Clement, Jean-Marc Legrand
  • Publication number: 20130043018
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for warming coolant in a cooling system of a combustion engine for instance in vehicle: A control unit (22) assesses whether the coolant is at a lower temperature (TC) than an operating temperature (TD) and whether air flowing through the coolant cooler (18) is at a temperature (TA1, TA2) higher than the coolant's temperature (TC). If the assessing determines that those conditions are satisfied, the control unit (22) places a valve (17) in a second position to lead the coolant to the coolant cooler (18), for warming the coolant by air flowing through the coolant cooler (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventor: Hans Wikström
  • Publication number: 20120304944
    Abstract: An engine system includes an engine, a primary pump coupled to the engine, and a motor fluidly connected to the primary pump. The engine system further includes a heat exchanger fluidly connected to the engine, the heat exchanger configured to accept heated coolant from the engine and deliver cooled coolant to the engine. The engine system also includes a fan driven by the motor in either a forward or a reverse mode of operation, the fan configured to pull air toward the heat exchanger in a first direction during the forward mode of operation to assist in cooling the coolant, and to push air toward the heat exchanger in a second direction opposite the first direction during the reverse mode of operation. The engine system further includes a controller configured to operate the fan in the reverse mode of operation in response to a sensed temperature of the coolant and a speed of the fan in the forward mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Bryan E. Nelson, Randal N. Peterson, Jeremy T. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20120261110
    Abstract: A composite heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between feed air and a refrigerant, and a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the feed air and engine coolant. The composite heat exchanger is integrated so as to enable heat transfer between discharge refrigerant flowing through the first heat exchanger and the coolant flowing through the second heat exchanger. Furthermore, the composite heat exchanger is configured to change an amount of the heat exchanged among the feed air, the discharge refrigerant and the coolant in the composite heat exchanger by changing at least one of a volume of the feed air, a refrigerant discharge capacity of the compression mechanism, and an inflow amount of the heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Satoshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8235101
    Abstract: A parallel flow heat exchanger system (10, 50, 100, 200) for heat pump applications in which single and multiple paths of variable length are established via flow control systems which also allow for refrigerant flow reversal within the parallel flow heat exchanger system (10, 50, 100, 200), while switching between cooling and heating modes of operation. Examples of flow control devices are an expansion device (80) and various check valves (70, 72, 74, 76). The parallel flow heat exchanger system may have converging or diverging flow circuits and may constitute a single-pass or a multi-pass evaporator together with and a multi-pass condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Taras, Alexander Lifson
  • Patent number: 8191259
    Abstract: Method for setting up a condensation plant, for which two tube bundles (2, 3) are placed on a roof-shaped preassembly frame (1) and connected to one another in a first area. The tube bundles (2, 3,), along with the base plates (5, 6) thereof which hold the heat-exchanger tubes, are placed in supports (10) at a roof ridge strut (11) of the preassembly frame (1) in such a way that the mutually facing longitudinal sides (12, 13) of the base plates (5, 6) can be welded together by means of a root seam, before the preassembled roof-shaped tube bundle delta (14) is lifted from the preassembly frame (1) and brought into the installed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: GEA Energietechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Dieter Schabosky, Markus Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8164735
    Abstract: The present invention is a regulating device configured to regulate a temperature T2 of a first medium in accordance with a target temperature. The regulating device comprises a heat exchanger 16, a control valve 14, temperature sensors 2 and 4, temperature sensors 6 and 8, and a heat quantity control unit 30 and a temperature control unit 50 configured to calculate a target exchange heat quantity in the heat exchanger 16, calculate an exchange heat quantity in the heat exchanger 16, add a signal dependent upon a difference between the target exchange heat quantity and the exchange heat quantity to a signal dependent upon a difference between an output of the temperature sensor 4 and the target temperature, and control the control valve 14 so that a difference between the output of the temperature sensor 4 and the target temperature is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 8157001
    Abstract: An integrated cooling system includes a first layer having a contact area configured for coupling to a heat source, wherein the first layer has a fluid path passes adjacent to the contact area where the heat source is in thermal contact with first layer. Coupled to the first layer is a second layer to which a number of air fins are attached. A pump is connected to the fluid path forming a closed path for circulating a fluid through the first layer. Within the first layer, the fluid path will contain a plurality of fluid fins which control the flow of a fluid within the fluid path. Within the fluid path, a structure providing a double-counter flow adjacent to one or more electronic devices. Additionally the fluid path can include a microchannel plate structure. The system can include a programmable controller connect the an air-mover, pump and temperature sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: James Hom, Girish Upadhya, Douglas E. Werner, Mark Munch, Paul Tsao, Bruce Conway, Peng Zhou, Richard Brewer
  • Publication number: 20120048530
    Abstract: A combination fuel-oil and air-oil heat exchanger comprising: a first heat exchanger section that has an oil circulation path and a fuel circulation path thermally coupled to the oil circulation path; a second heat exchanger section that has an oil circulation path and an air circulation path thermally coupled to the oil circulation path; an oil coupling path that couples an oil circulation path outlet of the first heat exchanger section to an oil circulation path inlet of the second heat exchanger section to establish a combined oil circulation path; an oil path by-pass valve that selectively diverts oil from the combined oil circulation path to an outlet of the oil path by-pass valve; and a fuel path by-pass valve that selectively diverts fuel from the fuel circulation path of the first heat exchanger section to an outlet of the fuel path by-pass valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Behzad Hagshenas, Stacey H. Light
  • Patent number: 8082069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a device detecting section that detects a heating device provided in a housing; a device determining section that determines the type of the heating device detected by the device detecting section; a sensor selecting section that selects a predetermined one of a plurality of temperature sensors provided in the housing in accordance with existence/absence of the heating device and the type of the heating device; and a fan controlling section that controls the number of rotations of a cooling fan provided in the housing in accordance with a measured temperature of the temperature sensor selected by the sensor selecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Koshiyama
  • Patent number: 8032979
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for use with a carpet cleaning system having combined exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine and other hot exhaust gases expelled from a vacuum pump as a single input to a heat exchanger for heating the carpet cleaning fluid. A heat exchanger control system permits constant control of a stream of cleaning fluid both while the cleaning fluid is flowing through the heat exchanger and while the cleaning fluid is stagnant within the heat exchanger, without the potential overheat condition of the portion of cleaning fluid stagnant in the heat exchanger known in prior art devices that required a constant flow of the cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hydramaster North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Eric Boone
  • Publication number: 20110209865
    Abstract: Transmission fluid is heated through a heat exchanger effective to transfer heat between transmission fluid of a transmission assembly and an exhaust gas feed stream of an engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Farzad Samie, Richard W. Carlson, Thomas A. Robertson, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110185731
    Abstract: An oil cooler is provided for a wall of an air flow passage of a gas turbine engine. The oil cooler has a heat exchanger with an oil conduit for carrying a flow of heated oil proximal to the wall of the air flow passage. The heat exchanger is arranged to transfer heat from the heated oil to the air flowing through the passage. The oil cooler further has a system for altering the flow of air across the heat exchanger such that the heat transfer effectiveness of the heat exchanger can be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: John A. MYLEMANS
  • Patent number: 7977605
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating assembly (1) comprising at least one PCT element, in particular for a motor vehicle, said PCT element (2) being located between two contact sheets (3, 4), which are used to make electrical contact. According to the invention, the heating assembly (1) comprises a frame (7) and at least one of the two contact sheets (3)comprises a staggered section outside the frame (7), said staggered section of the projecting part (10) of the contact sheet (3) running parallel with the remaining part (11) of said sheet (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Behr France Rouffach SAS
    Inventors: Michel Brun, Pascal Miss, Mathieu Mougey
  • Patent number: 7910864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a PTC heating element with at least one PTC resistance element which is arranged between two electrically conductive plates in a housing opening of a housing and, with at least one of the electrically conductive plates as an intermediate layer, which is pressed with an initial tension against a heat-emitting element which is held at the housing. With the present invention, a PTC heating element of the type mentioned at the beginning that can be manufactured easily and economically is to be specified. To solve this problem, the present invention further develops the PTC heating element mentioned at the beginning in such a way that attachment tabs arranged on the edge of the housing opening protrude beyond the housing opening and in such a way that the heat-emitting element has tab cuts, behind which the tabs engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Catem GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Franz Bohlender
  • Publication number: 20110056675
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are presented for adjusting coolant flow resistance through one or more liquid-cooled electronics racks. Flow restrictors are employed in association with multiple heat exchange tube sections of a heat exchange assembly, or in association with a plurality of coolant supply lines or coolant return lines feeding multiple heat exchange assemblies. Flow restrictors associated with respective heat exchange tube sections (or respective heat exchange assemblies) are disposed at the coolant channel inlet or coolant channel outlet of the tube sections (or of the heat exchange assemblies). These flow restrictors tailor coolant flow resistance through the heat exchange tube sections or through the heat exchange assemblies to enhance overall heat transfer within the tube sections or across heat exchange assemblies by tailoring coolant flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wayne A. Barringer, David P. Graybill, Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, James J. Steffes, Gerard V. Weber, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110048691
    Abstract: A fail-safe air flap control apparatus for a vehicle includes a coolant temperature sensor, a control unit, an actuator, a movable unit, a flap unit, an elastic member and a solenoid unit. The coolant temperature sensor measures the temperature of a coolant. The control unit compares a value measured by the sensor to a reference value and generates a corresponding control signal. The actuator has a rotator which rotates in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction depending on the control signal. The movable unit linearly moves under rotational force of the rotator. The flap unit includes a flap housing having an air flow slot, a flap door mounted to the flap housing to openably close the air flow slot, and a connecting rod connected to the movable unit. The elastic member applies elastic force to the movable unit in a direction in which the flap door opens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Suk Shin, Hun Soo Kim, Hee Jun Jeong, In Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 7886816
    Abstract: A method for cooling a semiconductor including passive cooling including transferring heat via passive cooling components; active cooling including transferring heat via active cooling components; and controlling the active cooling based on temperature of the semiconductor. A cooling system for a semiconductor including: a passive component in thermal contact with the semiconductor; an active cooling component in thermal contact with the semiconductor; and a controller controlling the active cooling component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventor: Chien Ouyang
  • Publication number: 20110030421
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for purifying a foreign-substance-laden gas flow of the foreign substance, with the gas flow being conducted through a heat exchanger and being placed in thermal contact with a cooling medium in order to freeze and/or condense the foreign substance out, wherein the purification takes place in only one tube heat exchanger, through the interior space of which the gas flow is conducted from a first end region to a second end region, and here, is cooled by means of contact with a first group of tubes which are traversed by the coolant, and in that the gas flow, in the second end region, is directly deflected again and is conducted back through the interior space of the heat exchanger to the first end region through a second group of tubes while undergoing an exchange of heat with the gas flow flowing into the interior space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Manfred Stahl, Thomas Kutz
  • Patent number: 7870893
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a base having cells. A pipe is coupled to the base for each of the cells. The pipes include passages that carry fluid toward the cell and away from the cell. A magnetohydrodynamic pump system coupled to the pipe circulates an electrically conductive cooling fluid within the passages and the cell. An orifice may emits jets of fluid into the cells. A controller coupled to the cooling device may independently control flow rates in two or more cells of the cooling device. The controller may receive information from the temperature sensors on the base of the cooling device for use in controlling the flow rates in the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien Ouyang, Kenneth C. Gross
  • Patent number: 7837127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilation system for exchanging the air in a room with outside air, which system comprises: A fine wire heat exchanger having a first channel and a second channel, which channels are in heat-exchanging contact with each other, and wherein the first channel has an inlet connected to outside air and an outlet connected to the air in the room, and wherein the second channel has an inlet connected to the air in the room and an outlet connected to the outside air; balancing means for balancing the flow in both channels, such that the heat transfer is maximized. The invention also relates to a combination of a façade, a room on the inside of and adjacent to the façade and a ventilation system, wherein the inlet of the first channel of the system is connected to outside air on the outside of the façade and the outlet is connected to the air in the room, and wherein the inlet of the second channel is connected to the air in the room and the outlet is connected to the outside air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignees: Kristinsson-Reitsema B.V., Fiwihex B.V.
    Inventors: Jon Kristinsson, Björn Kristinsson, Eleonoor Europeo Van Andel, Eleonoor Van Andel
  • Publication number: 20100186943
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fuel-oil heat exchange system in which the fuel is continuously heated by a primary hot oil flow in a primary fuel-oil heat exchanger and the fuel is selectively heated in a secondary fuel-oil heat exchanger by a secondary hot oil flow selectively passing through or bypassing a secondary fuel-oil heat exchanger, controlled by a thermal valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Ju SUN, Brian LEE, Adam LOGAN
  • Patent number: 7748442
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger for cooling a first fluid by a second fluid, including a plurality of stacked heat exchanger plates forming separate flow channels therebetween with a cover plate on one side and a base plate on the other side of the stacked plates. The plates have a plurality of aligned openings defining inlet and outlet channels each communicating with selected ones of connected flow channels. In one form, the cover plate includes a conveying channel guiding one of the fluids to a desired position along the length of the heat exchanger, and the base plate includes a conveying channel guiding the other of the fluids to a desired position along the length of the heat exchanger. In another form, the conveying channels for both of the fluids are in the same one of the cover or base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Klaus Kalbacher, Thomas Bräuning
  • Publication number: 20100163221
    Abstract: A temperature regulation method and system (100) includes a reservoir (112) having a fluid with a temperature of a value such that, within a control range of a local temperature controller, a local set point temperature is achievable. A piping system (101) delivers the fluid from the reservoir to one or more elements needing temperature control. A heat generator/removal device (110) in one of the fluid paths is disposed at or near an element needing temperature control. For each heat generator/removal device, a local temperature controller (116) and a feedback sensor (114) are configured to control the heat generator/removal device such that an amount of heat exchanged with the fluid, at or near the element needing temperature control, results in a local temperature, monitored by the control feedback sensor to be locally and accurately maintained at the local set point temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Theo Anjes Maria Ruijl, Hendrik Jan Eggink, Jacobus Cornelis Gerardus Van Der Sanden, Ralph Theodorus Hubertus Maessen, Jeroen Dekkers
  • Publication number: 20100064991
    Abstract: A cooling-fan control device for a vehicle that increases the cooling capacity of a cooling oil that cools a brake rapidly and inhibits a brake damage in a case where the brake is applied during traveling or, in addition to the above-described problem-to-be-resolved, suppresses engine horsepower consumption and avoids consumption increase, while increasing the cooling capacity of the brake cooling oil. The rotation speed of the cooling fan is controlled to obtain the higher target rotation speed of a first target rotation speed corresponding to a detected cooling oil temperature and a second target rotation speed corresponding to a detected brake operation amount. The present invention is applicable to a vehicle in which an engine power is distributed to a travel power train and a hydraulic pump, drive wheels are operated via the travel power train, and the cooling fan is actuated via the hydraulic pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Norihide Mizoguchi, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100051253
    Abstract: A semiconductor fabrication heat exchanger system is provided including two heat exchangers spaced from each other. The first heat exchanger receives a high temperature fluid heated from a semiconductor processing tool or the like and the second heat exchanger has a second fluid with a set temperature significantly lower than the heated fluid of the first heat exchanger. A variable and controllable fan removes heat from the heated fluid and the second heat exchanger cools the heated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Scott Dickey
  • Publication number: 20100047645
    Abstract: A cogeneration system (100) is provided which has an inverter cooling configuration that enables effective utilization of energy and contributes to an improvement in energy saving performance. To this end, the cogeneration system has a power generator (1); an electric power converter (3); a heat medium path (2) configured to flow a heat medium therein so as to recover exhaust heat from the electric power converter through its cooler (4) and so as to recover exhaust heat from the power generator; a bypass path (8) configured to flow the heat medium, bypassing the cooler; a switch (7); and a controller (12). The controller controls the switch so as to switch the destination of the heat medium from the heat medium path to the bypass path, in a start-up operation or shut-down operation of the cogeneration system, or if the amount of exhaust heat of the electric power converter is smaller than a predetermined exhaust heat amount threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Shinji Miyauchi, Noriyuki Harao, Masahiko Yamamoto, Keiichi Sato, Motomichi Katou
  • Patent number: 7657347
    Abstract: Monitoring method and system are provided for dynamically determining flow rate of a first fluid and a second fluid through a heat exchanger. The method includes: pre-characterizing the heat exchanger to generate pre-characterized correlation data correlating effectiveness of the heat exchanger to various flow rates of the first and second fluids through the heat exchanger; sensing inlet and outlet temperatures of the first and second fluids through the heat exchanger, when operational; automatically determining flow rates of the first and second fluids through the heat exchanger using the sensed inlet and outlet temperatures of the first and second fluids and the pre-characterized correlation data; and outputting the determined flow rates of the first and second fluids. The automatically determining employs the determined effectiveness of the heat exchanger in interpolating from the pre-characterized correlation data the flow rates of the first and second fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Robert E. Simons
  • Publication number: 20090236089
    Abstract: A method for controlling a fan in a vehicle includes comparing the current temperature of at least a first device and a second device to multiple temperature ranges for each of said devices and determining on the basis of said comparisons whether fan speed should be changed, increasing fan speed to a maximum fan speed if at least one of the comparisons indicates that the maximum fan speed is desired, increasing fan speed to a reference fan speed if at least one of the comparisons indicates that an increase in fan speed less than the maximum fan speed is desired, and decreasing fan speed to a reference fan speed if the comparisons indicate that a decrease in fan speed is desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: GM BLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Major, Lawrence P. Ziehr, William R. Hill, Thomas K. Lockwood, Todd M. Tumas
  • Publication number: 20090200008
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for conserving energy in an electronic device manufacturing facility. In one aspect an electronic device manufacturing system is provided including one or more process chambers; one or more abatement tools; two or more effluent conduits connecting the one or more process chambers to the one or more abatement tools; a channel adapted to house a portion of at least two of the two or more effluent conduits; and one or more heating elements adapted to heat the two or more conduits within the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventor: Phil Chandler
  • Publication number: 20090183867
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a compressor comprising a housing comprising a plurality of pass chambers, wherein each pass chamber comprises a plurality of tubes for contacting a hot fluid with a cooling media. At least one first flow nozzle introduces a first portion of the hot fluid into a first pass chamber. At least one second flow nozzle downstream of the first flow nozzle introduces a second portion of the hot fluid into at least one downstream pass chamber, forming a reduced rate of fluid flow in the first pass chamber and optimizing contact between the second portion of the hot fluid and the plurality of tubes, to form a cooled fluid. An outlet downstream of the second flow nozzle, in communication with a final pass chamber, is adapted for receiving the cooled fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Bales, James A. Holt, Kyle Gordon
  • Publication number: 20090090498
    Abstract: A temperature regulating apparatus includes a correcting operation unit configured a) to calculates a heat exchange amount of a heat exchanger, a logarithmic mean temperature difference or an average temperature in the heat exchanger, and a flow rate of a second medium, b) to calculate an overall heat transfer coefficient of the heat exchanger based on the heat exchange amount, the logarithmic mean temperature difference or the average temperature, and the flow rate of the second medium, and c) to correct a gain of a regulating operation unit based on a change in the heat exchange amount with a change in the flow rate of the second medium supplied to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
  • Publication number: 20090078401
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for combining a thermal power plant with at least one data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventor: J. Edward Cichanowicz