Flow Of One Heat Exchange Material Controlled By Temperature Of Another Patents (Class 165/299)
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Publication number: 20140093269Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Tomoyasu HIRASAWA, Kenichi Takehara, Hiromitsu Fujiya, Keisuke Yuasa, Yasuaki Toda, Keisuke Ikeda
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Publication number: 20140083673Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BELIMO HOLDING AGInventors: Marc Thuillard, John S. Adams
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Patent number: 8678078Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Farzad Samie, Richard W. Carlson, Thomas A. Robertson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140008051Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.Inventors: Timothy M. O'Donnell, Evan E. Jacobson
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Patent number: 8626427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyung-Kil Park, Chang-Soo Kim, Jun-Yong Choi
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Patent number: 8622120Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Oliver Gerundt, Oliver Kaefer
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Patent number: 8620502Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Phillips & Temro Industries Inc.Inventor: Robert J. Allen
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Patent number: 8602087Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
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Publication number: 20130248168Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: A.P. Moller - Maersk A/SInventors: Leijn Johannes Sjerp Lukasse, Poul Kim Madsen, Lars Mou Jessen
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Publication number: 20130174594Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2011Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Yamashita, Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka
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Publication number: 20130140017Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jae Yeon KIM
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Publication number: 20130133874Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jae Yeon KIM, Wan Je CHO
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Publication number: 20130133875Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jae Yeon Kim
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Publication number: 20130111926Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Seunggi KIM
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Publication number: 20130108971Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: Varidigm CorporationInventors: Dennis R. Maiello, Dennis S. Gambiana
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Patent number: 8430156Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Christopher G. Malone, Glenn C. Simon
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Patent number: 8387687Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Liebert CorporationInventor: Daniel B Baer
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Publication number: 20130048266Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Yves Clement, Jean-Marc Legrand
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Publication number: 20130043018Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventor: Hans Wikström
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Publication number: 20120304944Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Bryan E. Nelson, Randal N. Peterson, Jeremy T. Peterson
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Publication number: 20120261110Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Satoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 8235101Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Michael F. Taras, Alexander Lifson
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Patent number: 8191259Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: GEA Energietechnik GmbHInventors: Heinz-Dieter Schabosky, Markus Schmidt
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Patent number: 8164735Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Patent number: 8157001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Cooligy Inc.Inventors: James Hom, Girish Upadhya, Douglas E. Werner, Mark Munch, Paul Tsao, Bruce Conway, Peng Zhou, Richard Brewer
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Publication number: 20120048530Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Behzad Hagshenas, Stacey H. Light
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Patent number: 8082069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Satoshi Koshiyama
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Patent number: 8032979Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Hydramaster North America, Inc.Inventor: Wayne Eric Boone
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Publication number: 20110209865Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Farzad Samie, Richard W. Carlson, Thomas A. Robertson, JR.
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Publication number: 20110185731Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventor: John A. MYLEMANS
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Patent number: 7977605Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2004Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Behr France Rouffach SASInventors: Michel Brun, Pascal Miss, Mathieu Mougey
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Patent number: 7910864Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Catem GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Franz Bohlender
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING COOLANT FLOW RESISTANCE THROUGH LIQUID-COOLED ELECTRONICS RACK(S)
Publication number: 20110056675Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Wayne A. Barringer, David P. Graybill, Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, James J. Steffes, Gerard V. Weber, JR. -
Publication number: 20110048691Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Suk Shin, Hun Soo Kim, Hee Jun Jeong, In Cheol Kim
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Patent number: 7886816Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventor: Chien Ouyang
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Publication number: 20110030421Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Manfred Stahl, Thomas Kutz
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Patent number: 7870893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventors: Chien Ouyang, Kenneth C. Gross
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Patent number: 7837127Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2004Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignees: Kristinsson-Reitsema B.V., Fiwihex B.V.Inventors: Jon Kristinsson, Björn Kristinsson, Eleonoor Europeo Van Andel, Eleonoor Van Andel
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Publication number: 20100186943Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Ju SUN, Brian LEE, Adam LOGAN
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Patent number: 7748442Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Klaus Kalbacher, Thomas Bräuning
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Publication number: 20100163221Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2006Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20100064991Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Norihide Mizoguchi, Satoshi Tanaka
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Publication number: 20100051253Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventor: Scott Dickey
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Publication number: 20100047645Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Shinji Miyauchi, Noriyuki Harao, Masahiko Yamamoto, Keiichi Sato, Motomichi Katou
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Patent number: 7657347Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Robert E. Simons
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Publication number: 20090236089Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: GM BLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Gregory A. Major, Lawrence P. Ziehr, William R. Hill, Thomas K. Lockwood, Todd M. Tumas
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Publication number: 20090200008Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventor: Phil Chandler
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Publication number: 20090183867Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Kevin Bales, James A. Holt, Kyle Gordon
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Publication number: 20090090498Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyuki Okada
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Publication number: 20090078401Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for combining a thermal power plant with at least one data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventor: J. Edward Cichanowicz