Structural Installation Patents (Class 165/47)
  • Patent number: 6889752
    Abstract: A weatherproof cabinet with multiple-compartment cooling includes a housing and a door attached to the housing. The door includes a heat exchanger core, a first duct located at least partially between the heat exchanger door and an exterior of the door, and a second duct located at least partially between the heat exchanger door and an electronics compartment. The door also includes an inlet vent and an outlet vent that are pneumatically interconnected with the first duct. A fan is located at least partially within the first duct and is operative to draw external air into the first duct via the inlet vent, direct at least the first portion of the external air across the heat exchanger core, and then direct the first portion of the external air out of the first duct via the outlet vent. A partition is located within the first duct and separates the inlet vent from the outlet vent so that external air is not drawn into the first duct via the outlet vent during operation of the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Harry R. Stoller
  • Patent number: 6886626
    Abstract: A heat pump circuit is installed into the inner cavity of a chimney servicing a dwelling with the exterior heat pump coil mounted in an annular gap formed around the upper chimney end. A fan driven by the chimney draft then rotates an exterior rank of blade segments above the annular space to draw ambient air across the exterior coil. A set of gated apertures in the chimney wall both above and below the flue damper then directs zoned airflows up into the chimney and across the inner coil that is deployed at the lower, interior chimney opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventors: H. Richard Miller, Robert Miller
  • Patent number: 6877551
    Abstract: Systems and methods for weatherproof cabinets with variably cooled compartments are provided. One such embodiment includes a housing having a door attached thereto, and in which a cooling compartment and a battery compartment are disposed. An electronics compartment is disposed within the cooling compartment, and an external fan is also disposed within the housing. Methods are also provided for transferring heat from inside the electronics compartment to the cooling compartment, from the cooling compartment to the outside of the housing, and from the battery compartment to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Harry R. Stoller
  • Patent number: 6866092
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed for improving airtight two-phase heat-transfer systems employing a fluid to transfer heat from a heat source to a heat sink while circulating around a fluid circuit, the maximum temperature of the heat sink not exceeding the maximum temperature of the heat source. The properties of those improved systems include (a) maintaining, while the systems are inactive, their internal pressure at a pressure above the saturated-vapor pressure of their heat-transfer fluid; and (b) cooling their internal evaporator surfaces with liquid jets. FIG. 43 illustrates the particular case where a heat-transfer system of the invention is used to cool a piston engine (500) by rejecting, with a condenser (508), heat to the ambient air; and where the system includes a heat-transfer fluid pump (10) and means (401-407) for achieving the former property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Inventor: Stephen Molivadas
  • Patent number: 6834715
    Abstract: An equipment cabinet mounted on a concrete pad. The cabinet includes an upper equipment chamber, a lower back-up battery chamber and a heat exchanger. Ambient air is drawn across batteries in the lower chamber before being drawn into the heat exchanger to help cool electronic components in the upper chamber. Air in the upper chamber is separate circulated through the heat exchanger. A cold plate is placed beneath the batteries and is connected to a refrigeration system. A heating pad is located below the cold plate and is separated from the concrete pad by insulation. The cold plate and the heating pad are used to maintain the batteries at about 25° C. regardless of ambient temperatures so as to extend the useful lives of the batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Inventors: Marvin P. Garcia, Michael R. Cosley
  • Publication number: 20040250984
    Abstract: A foldable floor heating panel can be folded longitudinally and laterally. The foldable floor heating panel includes several small plate-like members of a rectangular plan configuration, which are arranged longitudinally and laterally so as to be adjacent to each other. A flexible thin plate is attached to upper surfaces of the small plate-like members so as to allow longitudinal and lateral folding. Heat carrier flexible tube passages are provided in longitudinal and lateral folding portions of the panel so as to leave some play, and folding margin members are provided at the lateral folding portions. Fit-in members are attachably and detachably provided in respective heat carrier flexible tube passages with some play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Hitoshi Seki, Michiaki Inoue, Shigeko Iijima
  • Patent number: 6830096
    Abstract: An apparatus to regulate and control the temperature of an axle assembly for a vehicle. A heat pipe is inserted though the axle housing cover, the heat pipe travels the length of the cover. Near the lower region of the carrier and beneath the lubricating fluid level, the heat pipe bends to continue in the horizontal direction. Disposed about the terminal end of the heat pipe below the lubricating fluid line are a series of cooling fins. Heat generated within the lubricating fluid that is heated during operation conduit is dissipated via the cooling fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Torque-Traction Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Fett, Timothy William Runstadler, David Allen Krueger, Michael L. Dougherty
  • Publication number: 20040244945
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for a wafer baking plate is provided. The wafer baking plate has a support plate for supporting a wafer, a heater under the support plate, and a heat transfer plate interposed between the support plate and the heater, for transferring heat. In the cooling apparatus, a hollow bore is formed in the heat transfer plate of the wafer baking plate and partially filled with a liquid working fluid. A cooling pipe is laid in the heat transfer plate, for circulating a cooling medium. The wafer baking plate is cooled down via the working fluid, stabilizing its temperature distribution. Therefore, the product yield of wafers is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Sung Lee, Dong-Woo Lee, Tae-Gyu Kim, Sang-Kap Kim, Dong-Hwa Shin
  • Publication number: 20040226682
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an emergency cooling system (17) for a component (1) which is subject to thermal load in operation, in particular a component belonging to a turbine. The component (1) has a wall (3) which, in operation, is acted on by heat on a first wall side (14) and is acted on by a flow of cooling fluid (11) on a second wall side (15). The wall (3) has at least one emergency cooling opening (12) which is closed off by a plug (16) and through which cooling fluid flows from the second wall side (15) to the first wall side (14) when the plug (16) is absent. The plug (16) is designed so as to melt at a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Jan Ehrhard, Maxim Konter, Shailendra Naik, Ulrich Rathmann
  • Publication number: 20040221982
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system are provided for heating fluids using a waste heat recovery arrangement adapted for application to existing heat exchange systems that generate waste heat and/or heated exhaust gases. The method, apparatus and system utilize the heater control arrangement of the existing heat exchange system to control the heating of the fluid and a pumping arrangement, for example, a hydrokinetic pumping arrangement, to circulate the fluid to be heated from a location outdoors to the heat exchange system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Nickolaos Zaimis, Wanda M. Williams
  • Publication number: 20040194911
    Abstract: A playground structure 201 is provided herein which comprises at least one component 31 having a playing surface 41 thereon, and a heat exchange system adapted to modify the temperature of the playing surface. The heat exchange system may comprise a flow channel 35 disposed in the structure adjacent to the playing surface for the efficient regulation of the surface temperature thereof, a coolant disposed in the flow channel, and a pump 233 or other means for circulating the coolant through the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Denise Lynn Merkle
  • Publication number: 20040194916
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for recollecting waste heat is provided, which is configured to circulate low-temperature water into inlet and outlet water circulation units and a heat exchanger tube, so as to be heat exchanged with the waste warm water. As a result, the number of configurational elements is minimized to thereby have a simple structure and thus the temperature of the low-temperature water is efficiently heightened irrespective of an installation place of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger for recollecting waste heat includes inlet and outlet circulation water units which are formed to have a predetermined shape so that externally incoming low-temperature water is guided, supplied and discharged, and at least one heat exchanger tube which circulates the low-temperature water between the inlet and outlet circulation units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Sung Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 6799539
    Abstract: An amount of energy consumption in a semiconductor fabrication facility can be reduced by using cooling water drained from a semiconductor fabrication apparatus as a heat source of another semiconductor fabrication apparatus. Cooling water of 80° C. drained from a heating furnace of a heat processing apparatus (10) is supplied to a deionized water heating apparatus (32) of a cleaning apparatus (30). The deionized water heating apparatus (32) raises a temperature of deionized water of a room temperature to 60° C. through heat exchange with the cooling water of 80° C. The cooling water, whose temperature falls to 30° C. after the heat exchange, is reutilized for cooling of the heating furnace (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Taisei Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Suenaga, Sadao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6772826
    Abstract: A Thermal Energy Heat Exchanger, is an air conditioning system, for the exterior unit of a fully assembled and installed heat pump and, or, air conditioning system, by means of a water refrigerant, from a source of water, such as, but not limited to a river, a lake, a pond, a swimming pool, a well, a creek, or an ocean; wherein a flow of water is circulated from the source of water by means of a water pumping device, 25A, under a controlled water pressure 25B, through an intake system of piping 25C, to a plurality of evaporator coils, positioned so as to surround the exterior unit by means of attachment to the inner chamber section of a protective cover enclosure, and through the plurality of evaporator coils, to an Outlet water disposal piping system, 25D; being in effect a heat pump and, or, air conditioner for the exterior unit of a fully assembled and installed heat pump and, or, air conditioning system, by means of a water refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Karl Vernon Lee Barnett
  • Patent number: 6772827
    Abstract: A gas inlet manifold for a plasma chamber having a perforated gas distribution plate suspended by a side wall comprising one or more sheets. The sheets preferably provide flexibility to alleviate stress in the gas distribution plate due to thermal expansion and contraction. In another aspect, the side wall provides thermal isolation between the gas distribution plate and other components of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernst Keller, Quanyuan Shang
  • Publication number: 20040149422
    Abstract: Wine must in a standard primary fermentation tote may be heated or chilled by circulating fluid through a heat exchanger that is submersed in the must and supported by a frame. Quick connect couplings allow for rapid connection of the heat exchanger to a fluid source, and allow the unit to be quickly transferred from one tote to another. The temperature of the fluid may be controlled to quickly control the temperature of the must. An impeller shaft is contained within the coiled heat exchanger and is rotated by a motor. Rotation of the impellers causes continuous, gentle circulation of the must, increasing the rate of temperature change and disrupting the cap and preventing cap formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Curtis A. Jungwirth
  • Publication number: 20040140081
    Abstract: A heat pump circuit is installed into the inner cavity of a chimney servicing a dwelling with the exterior heat pump coil mounted in an annular gap formed around the upper chimney end. A fan driven by the chimney draft then rotates an exterior rank of blade segments above the annular space to draw ambient air across the exterior coil. A set of gated apertures in the chimney wall both above and below the flue damper then directs zoned airflows up into the chimney and across the inner coil that is deployed at the lower, interior chimney opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: H. Richard Miller, Robert Miller
  • Publication number: 20040140082
    Abstract: A multifunctional thermal installation that includes a compressor, a switch valve, an evaporator, a condenser, a water heater, and an expansion valve is provided. The water heater has a water inlet that is connected to an underground well. Each of the evaporator and condenser includes at least a group of heat exchangers. The first group of heat exchangers is disposed in the water heater and the second group of heat exchangers and a fan associated with the second group of heat exchangers are disposed in a room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventor: Hongsun Hua
  • Publication number: 20040123977
    Abstract: An external heat exchanger to be attached external to a computer to force air into an internal chamber of the computer, to reduce an ambient temperature within the chamber of the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Himanshu Pokharna, Eric DiStefano
  • Patent number: 6749014
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is mounted external to a section of flue pipe or is an integral part of a section of flue pipe. The heat exchanger preheats a domestic hot water supply and boosts the return water temperature prior to reentry to the furnace coil. The heat exchanger reduces fuel use, pollution and wear of the furnace and burner. A typical heat exchanger installation includes an oil or gas burner located on a furnace or boiler having a flue pipe leading to a gaseous outlet, such as a masonry chimney. A short vertical flue section leads to a draft-regulating damper. The flue heat exchanger may be a coil of tubing wrapped around flue section, such that the tubing picks up heat from the heated flue gasses. Preheated water exits from the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Inventor: Joseph C. Ferraro
  • Publication number: 20040108099
    Abstract: A bottom supported solar receiver tube/header assembly having a bottom clip for supporting the entire load of a plurality of tubes carrying a heat absorbing fluid. The tubes are allowed to expand vertically upwardly under thermal flux conditions created when the fluid absorbs heat from the solar receiver panel. A receiver panel assembly incorporating a plurality of the bottom supported receiver tubes requires less piping than a comparably sized, conventional receiver panel assembly with top supported tubes and even better facilitates access and maintenance of valves associated with the receiver panel assembly. The invention further allows a solar receiver panel assembly to be constructed with significantly fewer drain and vent valves than previously developed, top supported receiver panel assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Zachary Litwin
  • Patent number: 6736192
    Abstract: A CPU cooler based on a flow field of impinging jet array includes a cooling base having an array of recesses on a top surface. The cooling base is disposed on a CPU. An orifice plate of a size substantially similar to the cooling base has an array of orifices with each orifice corresponding to a recess of the array of recesses. The orifice plate is spaced above the cooling base by a separation distance. A fan is secured to the CPU, with the cooling base and orifice plate being secured between the fan and the CPU. The fan when activated provides a coolant flow that produces vortical flow structures with enhanced turbulence on each recess by impinging air jets onto the recesses through the orifices corresponding to the recesses, thereby dissipating heat generated fly the running CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Inventor: Shyy-Woei Chang
  • Publication number: 20040074631
    Abstract: There is provided a dry type heating pipe line structure for allowing easy construction of heating pipelines and an improved heating structure by installing the structures by a dry type method. The structure may include a plurality of support frames installed on the upper surface of the bottom for controlling the installation location of the heating pipelines, fixing the heating pipelines, and forming the height of the hot-floored layer, a plurality of heat diffusion plates installed on the upper surface of each of the support frames for uniformly diffusing the heat from the hot water to the entire surface of the bottom, and a upper plate installed on the support frame having the heat diffusion plate for transmitting the heat of the hot water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventor: Chang Seong Jeon
  • Patent number: 6722421
    Abstract: Vertical and horizontal drainwater heat exchangers have built-in heat storage for continuous heat recovery. The drainwater heat exchanger is a straight, large diameter copper tube having external fins. This tube runs through a reservoir which is filled once on installation with clean water. At least one convection chamber made of insulative material surrounds the tube and has an opening only on top. All heat transfer between the drainwater and the reservoir takes place only when the small volume of water in these convection chambers is heated. A second heat exchanger for heating the cold water supply of the building's hot water heater, comprises a large diameter plastic tube coiled around the reservoir. By inverting the invention and connecting the second heat exchanger to a cold water faucet, water is made colder for drinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Inventor: Winston MacKelvie
  • Publication number: 20040071812
    Abstract: A heat treatment roll 2 is provided for continuously cooling or heating a treated object such as a resin sheet 5, which is used in an extrusion molded sheet manufacturing apparatus or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuji, Takuya Goto, Masahiro Yoshizawa, Hideo Kometani, Ritsuo Hashimoto, Noritaka Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20040069447
    Abstract: A baseboard system includes baseboard units through which conduits extend carrying heated fluids, and moldings about the free ends of the baseboards, to provide a generally uniform external surface configuration. The moldings are in the nature of conventional moldings made of wood, pressed wood, plastic or the like. The use of the moldings with the baseboards provides an efficient, cost-effective system that produces a uniform appearance and facilitates cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventor: William Friedlich
  • Publication number: 20040069448
    Abstract: An exhaust-heat utilization system is constructed which can achieve energy saving of semiconductor manufacturing facilities by reusing a warmed cooling-water, as a heating source, exhausted from semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses. Supply a low-temperature cooling-water having a temperature substantially equal to a room temperature to the semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) through a low-temperature cooling-water line (12). Supply a medium-temperature cooling-water to the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus (8) through a medium-temperature cooling-water supply line (30), the medium-temperature cooling-water being exhausted from the semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses and having a temperature higher than the room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Osamu Suenaga, Sadao Kobayashi, Naoki Mori, Hiromu Ito
  • Patent number: 6715539
    Abstract: A heat exchanger defining a path of multi-directional airflow therethrough. A coil assembly within a housing of the heat exchanger divides the interior of the housing into first and second airflow plenums. The path of airflow includes a first portion in a first direction defining a cross flow distributed over a portion of the coil assembly in the first airflow plenum. A second portion defines a flow extending from the first airflow plenum in a second direction through the coil assembly. A third portion in the first direction defines a second cross flow distributed over a portion of the coil assembly in the second airflow plenum. In one embodiment, the coil assembly is oriented in an angular manner within the housing of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Bianco
  • Patent number: 6712132
    Abstract: A piezoelectric wafer clamping system for securing semiconductor wafers during the integrated circuit manufacturing processes. The piezoelectric wafer clamping system includes a plurality of piezoelectric stack assemblies designed for providing a real time adjustable vertical clamping force to a semiconductor wafer, an annular wafer clamp member coupled to each one of the plurality of piezoelectric stack assemblies and positionable to abut a top surface of a semiconductor wafer, a wafer support assembly designed for supporting the semiconductor wafer during processing, and a control assembly to monitor and compare actual cooling gas process parameters with preset process chamber parameters and electronically regulate a vertical clamping force applied by the plurality of the piezoelectric stack assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Inventor: Revvie A. Green
  • Publication number: 20040055738
    Abstract: A conveyor for moving hot or cold material along a trough receiving the material. One or more heat transfer fluid flow tubes extend over the outer surface of a trough liner wall to indirectly cause cooling or heating of the liner wall. Fins or angled thin metal strips conductively interconnect the tube or tubes and the liner wall. A series of wear plates are clamped to a pushing side of a helical tube of an auger type conveyor, which tube can also receive a flow of heat transfer fluid. A mass of conductive beads can alternatively be used to transfer heat into or from the heat transfer fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Richard W. Kauppila, Raymond W. Kauppila
  • Publication number: 20040043639
    Abstract: A chuck method of and apparatus (50, 150, 300) for supporting a substrate (W) during processing of the substrate, where the substrate has a lower surface (WL). The apparatus facilitates heat transfer away from the substrate during processing of the substrate. The apparatus comprises a chuck body (60) having an outer edge (70) and a rough upper surface (64U). The substrate is arranged adjacent the rough surface such that the substrate lower surface and the roughened upper surface form a gap (100) therebetween. The apparatus further includes a central gas conduit (80) passing through the chuck body. The central conduit has a second end (82b) open to the roughened upper surface and a first end opposite the second end connected to a gas source (86). The conduit is arranged such that a gas can flow through the conduit into the gap and toward the chuck body outer edge. The gas used has an atomic or molecular weight that is greater than that of helium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Andrej S. Mitrovic, Lianjun Liu
  • Patent number: 6698506
    Abstract: Herein presented is a unique device for air delivery and heat transfer. The housing assembly with the integrated heat exchanger chambers of the device along with a gas train assembly, a draft fan motor assembly, and a centrifugal fan assembly provides air flow to an air stream and transfer of energy to the same air stream from a combustion gas mixture stream inside the heat exchanger chambers. All the components of the debice, the heat exchanger chambers, the centrifugal fan motor assembly, the gas train assembly, and the draft fan motor assembly are housed together in a single economical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Terry T. Barrett
  • Patent number: 6700237
    Abstract: An air cooler device for an enclosed rotational electrical machine includes an air inlet and an air outlet provided in the casing of the electrical machine, and a fan simultaneously driven by the machine's power output shaft, an independently installed fan device, or both a simultaneously driven and an independently installed fan device. The fan or fans pump air or other selected gases inside the rotational electrical machine to allow a cooling air stream to flow through the outlet to an air cooler for indirect heat dissipation, and then back to the rotational electrical machine through the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Publication number: 20040035570
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling an optical element provided in a vacuum atmosphere includes a radiational cooling part, arranged apart from the optical element, for cooling the optical element by radiation heat transfer, and a controller for controlling temperature of the radiation cooling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Shinichi Hara
  • Patent number: 6681841
    Abstract: A fluid delivery cooling system which includes at least one cooling plate containing at least one fluid delivery line, said cooling plate being contacted on either side thereof by a gasket containing coolant channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Kevin Dale
  • Publication number: 20040011504
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of at least one gas flowing into a processing chamber is provided. In one embodiment, a gas temperature control apparatus for semiconductor processing includes a gas delivery line coupled between a processing chamber and a gas source. An enclosure substantially encloses the gas delivery line and is adapted to flow a heat transfer fluid away from the processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Vincent W. Ku, Ling Chen, Dien-Yeh Wu, Alan H. Ouye, Irena Wysok
  • Publication number: 20040007348
    Abstract: Systems and methods for weatherproof cabinets with variably cooled compartments are provided. One such embodiment includes a housing having a door attached thereto, and in which a cooling compartment and a battery compartment are disposed. An electronics compartment is disposed within the cooling compartment, and an external fan is also disposed within the housing. Methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Harry R. Stoller
  • Publication number: 20040007347
    Abstract: Systems and methods for weatherproof cabinets with multiple compartment cooling are provided. One such embodiment includes a housing in which an electronics compartment, a battery compartment, an internal fan, and an external fan are disposed. A door is attached to the housing, and a heat exchanging device is disposed within the cabinet. Methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Harry R. Stoller
  • Publication number: 20040000399
    Abstract: An improvement in defrosting an air-to-air heat pump system when in the heating mode. A bypass loop transfers refrigerant that is at a higher temperature and pressure than refrigerant normally cycled through the outdoor unit and transfers it to the outdoor coil. This higher temperature refrigerant can then defrost the outdoor coil and any ice that has been formed on the outdoor coil by heating it as the refrigerant passes through it. The bypass loop includes a valve that is capable of being controlled remotely, the valve being movable from a closed position to an open position. A sensor is positioned to monitor a preselected condition indicative of performance of the outdoor unit. The performance of the outdoor unit is an effective way of determining whether icing is inhibiting its operation. A controller is in communication with both the valve and the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventor: Patrick Gavula
  • Patent number: 6659166
    Abstract: An industrial furnace has at least one assembly formed by an extruder for extracting hot gas present in a given zone of the furnace, a water/gas heat exchanger for cooling the hot gas, and a reinjecting device for reinjecting the cooled gas into a zone of the furnace situated downstream from the zone from which the hot gas was extracted. First and second sampling devices sample the hot gas at points each situated upstream and downstream from a heat exchanger and two-port valves allowing the sampling to be performed. A regulating device regulates the respective pressures of the hot gas and the cooled gas downstream from the sampling devices. A three-port valve selects the hot gas or the cooled gas and applies it to a hygrometer. An operator is informed of the results of analyses performed by the hygrometer so that the operator may compare the degree of humidity of the hot gas and of the cooled gas for each of the heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Usinor
    Inventors: Gilles Zander, André Gaggioli
  • Publication number: 20030217834
    Abstract: A room air conditioner is provided which includes a compressor, a condenser coil, an evaporator coil, a wall positioned between the condenser coil and the evaporator coil, a chassis for supporting said compressor, condenser coil and wall, with the evaporator coil being secured to and supported by the wall, and at least a portion of the evaporator coil extending forwardly of a front edge of the chassis. The chassis is preferably formed of metal while the wall is preferably formed at least partially of plastic, in an upper and a lower mating piece. A plastic front panel may be positioned in front of the evaporator coil and secured to the wall. A series of air conditioners can be provided with a single sized chassis, but differing sized evaporator coils, to provide models with different cooling capacities utilizing a single sized chassis, with smaller cooling capacity air conditioners having a smaller size than larger capacity air conditioners of the series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy J. Campbell, Jatin C. Khanpara
  • Publication number: 20030217841
    Abstract: A thermal regulator stabilizes the temperature within an internal cavity of an instrument. The thermal regulator includes a circulator that draws ambient medium surrounding the instrument and recirculated medium within the internal cavity, into a duct. The circulator forms a mixture of the drawn ambient medium and recirculated medium. An adjustable heater intercepts the mixture and controls the temperature of the mixture to be within a temperature range that is less than a temperature range of the ambient medium in which the instrument is surrounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Paul E. Bussard, Gabriel Todd Manville
  • Patent number: 6648063
    Abstract: Heat pipe wick structure wherein a stout sheet of perforated material overlays a high performance wick material such as stainless steel felt affixed to a substrate. The inventive structure provides a good flow path for working fluid while maintaining durability and structural stability independent of the structure (or lack of structure) associated with the wick material. In one described embodiment, a wick of randomly laid ˜8 micron thickness stainless steel fibers is sintered to a metal substrate and a perforated metal overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Andraka, Douglas R. Adkins, James B. Moreno, K. Scott Rawlinson, Steven K. Showalter, Timothy A. Moss
  • Publication number: 20030196778
    Abstract: This invention provides a heat pipe including a plurality of pipe parts for performing at least one of absorption of heat and radiation of heat through an outer surface, which are adjacent toward one direction, a flat part including a heat transfer plane created in a flat form for performing at least one of absorption of heat from and radiation of heat into outer space, created on a part of the outer surface of each of the plurality of pipe parts to be integrated with each of the pipe parts, and a fin in a flat form continuing without an uneven part from the heat transfer plane included in the flat part for providing an heat transfer plane further extended from the heat transfer plane toward an adjacent pipe part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Takehide Nomura
  • Publication number: 20030178175
    Abstract: A structure utilizing geothermal energy capable of effectively utilizing a thermal energy in an underground constant temperature layer while using a supplementary heater and an air conditioner and natural energies such as solar heat or solar light, wind power, and water power in order to prevent limited fossil energies such as petroleum, gases, and coal from being exhausted, wherein an insulating wall (A) formed of a plurality of insulation panels (1) connected to each other and extending from a ground surface (4) to the underground constant temperature layer (21) is buried in the ground while surrounding a building (22) adhesively to the ground exposed portion and the underground buried portion of a foundation (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventor: Kenji Kugemoto
  • Publication number: 20030168202
    Abstract: A flow field of impinging jet array based CPU cooler is provided. The cooler comprises a cooling base having an array of recess on a top surface, the cooling base being rested on CPU; a substantially similar sized orifice plate having an array of orifice each corresponding to recess, orifice plate being above cooling base by a separation distance; and a fan with cooling base and orifice plate enclosed therein and secured on the CPU. An activated fan provides coolant flow that produces the vortical flow structures with enhanced turbulence on each recess by impinging air jets onto the recesses through the orifices, thereby convecting the heat flux generated from the running CPU. Also, the orifices may be oblique other than vertical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventor: Shyy-Woei Chang
  • Patent number: 6615907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stadium with an arena (1) such as an ice rink, and surrounding stand (2) for spectators, and to a channel element for a channel system in the arena (1) and the surrounding stand (2). The arena (1) and the stands (2) comprise a channel system each, arranged so that air may be supplied and/or extracted for cooling or heating the arena (1) when the arena (1) is to be iced or de-iced, or so that the stands (2) may be used for heating and/or cooling of the stadium, respectively. Each channel system is made up of a number of channel elements consisting of at least three interconnected layers (3, 4, 5) of corrugated sheet material. The layers (3, 4, 5) are placed at angles in proportion to each other in such a way that corrugations of layers placed one above the other are preferably mutually perpendicular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Vølstad Energy AS
    Inventor: Ove C. Vølstad
  • Patent number: 6612365
    Abstract: A heating-element accommodating-box cooling apparatus includes: an indoor air passage 5 for fetching air in a heating-element accommodating box and returning it to the heating-element accommodating box; an outdoor air passage 9 for fetching outdoor air and exhausting the fetched outdoor air to the outside; a partition plate 10 provided so that both of the air passages become independent of each other; a fan unit 3 for conveying air in the outdoor air passage 9 and the indoor air passage 5; and a heat exchange element 4 disposed at a point of intersection between the two passages to exchange the sensible heat of the outdoor air and the indoor air, wherein the heating-element accommodating-box cooling apparatus is mounted exteriorly on a panel of the heating-element accommodating box. Consequently, it is possible to effect cooling of the heating-element accommodating box with energy saving, and the space for installation of the cooling apparatus in the box is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Saishu, Mutsuhiko Matsumoto, Yoshikazu Tada, Yoshihisa Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20030155099
    Abstract: A baseboard heating apparatus includes housing sections that may be connected together and mounted to a mount, such as a plurality of brackets. A portion of a housing may be elastically deformed to engage the housing with a mount. The housing may be pivotally mounted to a mount at a position near a wall or other surface to allow the housing to be rotated open and allow access to the interior of the housing. A bracket may have a lower portion that both supports a heat exchanger and engages with a housing. A connector for interconnecting housing sections may have a groove into which a housing section is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventor: William Montague
  • Publication number: 20030155100
    Abstract: A baseboard heating apparatus includes housing sections that may be connected together and mounted to a mount, such as a plurality of brackets. A portion of a housing may be elastically deformed to engage the housing with a mount. The housing may be pivotally mounted to a mount at a position near a wall or other surface to allow the housing to be rotated open and allow access to the interior of the housing. A bracket may have a lower portion that both supports a heat exchanger and engages with a housing. A connector for interconnecting housing sections may have a groove into which a housing section is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventor: William Montague