Abstract: A system for obtaining energy consumptions, savings and cost reduction in structures adapted for human habitation which includes the utilization of a plurality of mats including phase change material encapsulated within first and second layers of plastic material having heat transfer capability disposed within the plenum area above a ceiling of a room within a building with the amount of phase change material contained within each mat being between 0.5 lbs. and 0.67 lbs. per square foot.

Abstract: A heat transfer component reinforcement structure includes a main body. The main body has a pair of first lateral sides and a pair of second lateral sides and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member is correspondingly externally connected with the main body in at least one manner selected from the group consisting of that the reinforcement members are engaged, latched and connected with the first lateral sides and the second lateral sides of the main body and the reinforcement members are engaged, latched and connected with the junctions between the first and second lateral sides in four corners.

Abstract: A system for obtaining energy consumptions, savings and cost reduction in structures adapted for human habitation which includes the utilization of a plurality of mats including phase change material encapsulated within first and second layers of plastic material having heat transfer capability disposed within the plenum area above a ceiling of a room within a building with the amount of phase change material contained within each mat being between 0.5 lbs. and 0.67 lbs. per square foot.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes: a case having an air passage; a heat exchanger having a core portion in which heat is exchanged between air and a heat medium; a support portion provided in the case to support a lower portion of the heat exchanger; and a cushioning material interposed between the lower portion of the heat exchanger and the support portion. The lower portion of the heat exchanger has a pipe side adjacent to an inflow pipe or an outflow pipe for the heat medium and an opposite-to-pipe side located on an opposite side of the pipe side. The support portion includes a pipe side support that supports the pipe side, and an opposite-to-pipe side support that supports the opposite-to-pipe side. A surface area of the opposite-to-pipe side support in contact with the cushioning material is larger than that of the pipe side support.

Abstract: A liquid cooling system includes a liquid coolant conduit in proximity to heat-generating electrical components within an enclosed space. The conduit allows circulation of a liquid coolant to extract heat from the heat-generating components. The heat-generating components includes at least one first heat-generating electrical component and at least one second heat-generating electrical component. The first heat-generating component produces greater heat than the second heat-generating component. The enclosed space includes an inlet and an outlet. The conduit includes a nozzle fluidly connected to the inlet. The nozzle is located within the enclosed space. The nozzle forms first and second aperture sets. The first aperture set directs the liquid coolant to the first heat-generating component. The second aperture set directs the liquid coolant to the second heat-generating component.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner, and more particularly, to an air conditioner having an airflow guide to make the flow of discharged air uniform. An air conditioner comprising a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing, a blower fan configured to suck in air through the suction port, force the air to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharge the heat-exchanged air through the discharge port, a first blade pivotally arranged to open or close the discharge port and having a first face and a second face opposite of the first face, a first flow path formed between the discharge port and the first face, a second flow path formed between the discharge port and the second face, a second blade movably installed inside the housing and a third blade formed to protrude from the second blade to guide air to the first flow path and the second flow path.

Abstract: A working machine includes a support bracket attached to a machine body, a first mounting member provided to the support bracket and formed of an elastic member, a first cooler and a second cooler arranged in parallel to a horizontal direction and mounted on the support bracket with the first mounting member, a fitting bracket detachably fitted to upper portions of the first and second coolers, and a second mounting member arranged between the fitting bracket and the first and second coolers and formed of elastic member.

Abstract: A heat exchanger header includes a primary fluid duct extending between a fluid port and a first branched region, a plurality of secondary fluid ducts fluidly connected to the primary fluid duct at the first branched region, wherein an overhang region is formed laterally between adjacent ones of the plurality of secondary fluid ducts, and wherein each of the plurality of secondary fluid ducts extends between the first branched region and a second branched region, a plurality of tertiary fluid ducts fluidly connected to each of the plurality of secondary fluid ducts at the second branched regions, a primary horn integrally formed with and extending from the overhang region, an at least one secondary horn integrally formed with and extending from one of the plurality of tertiary fluid ducts, and a sacrificial support structure extending between the primary horn and the at least one secondary horn.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to an active coolant distribution device and an electronic apparatus, where the active coolant distribution device includes a manifold including a first and second primary pipes and branches. At least one of the first and second primary pipes is suitable for accommodating the flow generator. The second primary pipe includes a first hollow post and a first and second inner wall portions. The first hollow post has first liquid inlets. The first and second inner wall portions form a first channel, a second channel, and an accommodation space inside the first hollow post. The first inner wall portion has converging port, the second inner wall portion has ejecting port, the first channel is located between the first liquid inlets and the converging port and connected to the accommodation space, the ejecting port is connected to the accommodation space and the second channel.

Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly has a frame including first and second legs laterally spaced apart, a lower transversal member extending laterally and interconnecting the legs, first and second upstanding members laterally spaced apart and extending upwardly from the lower transversal member, an upper transversal member extending laterally and disposed above the lower transversal member and connected to the first and second upstanding members, and first and second upper retaining members laterally spaced apart and being connected to the upper transversal member and extending transversally to the upper transversal member. First and second heat exchanger panels are connected to the first and second upper retaining members. The heat exchanger panels are disposed in a V-configuration such that a distance between upper ends thereof is greater than a distance between lower ends thereof. A fan has a fan rotation axis extending generally parallel to the first and second upstanding members.

Abstract: A split bay forced draft air-cooled heat exchanger includes first and second bay sub-assemblies. Each sub-assembly includes a tube bundle, a plenum half positioned under the tube bundle and base beams supporting the tube bundle and the plenum half. Also included is a fan assembly having a fan, a fan motor and a drive assembly and a machinery mount upon which the fan assembly is mounted. The machinery mount is attached to base beams of the first bay sub-assembly and is configured to removably attach to base beams of the second sub-assembly with the fan configured to force air into a plenum made up of the plenum halves and across the tube bundles.

Abstract: A fastening mechanism for retaining a heat sink upon the CPU includes a fastening seat surrounding the connector, and a pair of fastening clips. The fastening seat includes four alignment posts at four corners, and the pair of fastening clips are attached at two corresponding diagonal corners. Each fastening clip includes a mounting section secured to the corresponding post, a latching section for temporarily holding the heat sink, and a resilient arm for upwardly urging the heat sink. Each alignment post is equipped with a screw nut and a coil spring so as to reinforce the downward pressing forces against the heat sink for assuring reliable connection between the CPU and the contacts of the electrical connector for better electrical transmission and intimate contact between the CPU and the heat sink for efficient heat dissipation.

Abstract: A pipe heat exchanger for a baking oven has a plurality of heat exchanger pipe sections configured to guide a heat carrier fluid, the heat exchanger pipe sections being arranged adjacent to each other in an arrangement plane. A distance between adjacent pipe sections is smaller than a pipe diameter and greater than 1% of the pipe diameter. The result is a pipe heat exchanger, which allows a baking space to be heated efficiently and variably.

Abstract: A two-phase liquid immersion cooling system is described in which heat generating computer components cause a dielectric fluid in its liquid phase to vaporize. Advantageously an absorption/desorption unit is employed having a carbon element and a controller configured to regulate the absorption unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bracket for stacking heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) units. The bracket includes a corner portion having a first raised section and an alignment protrusion that extends from the corner portion. The bracket also includes a first arm extending from the corner portion, where the first arm includes a second raised section at a first end of the first arm, and where a first strap recess is formed between the first raised section and the second raised section. The bracket further includes a second arm extending from the corner portion, where the second arm includes a third raised section at a second end of the second arm, and where a second strap recess is formed between the first raised section and the third raised section.

Abstract: Cooling unit in which the first and second heat exchangers [13], [16] are suspended along one of their longitudinal edges respectively to one of the suspension pipes selected from first, second and third pipes, [10], [11], [12], and are capable of undergoing a substantially free elongation and/or expansion curvature below the level of the pipe suspension.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a roof mounted modular cooling unit (“RMC unit”) which is adapted for use above a unit IT structure being used to help form a data center. The RMC unit has a housing configured to be secured perpendicularly relative to a longitudinal axis of a frame of a modular unit IT structure. The housing has a cold air discharge compartment at one end thereof, overlaying a cold aisle formed within the unit IT structure, from which cold air from the modular cooling unit is discharged into the cold aisle, and a hot air intake compartment selectively located to overlay the hot aisle, into which hot air from the hot aisle is drawn. A width of the RMC unit is sufficient to substantially span a full width of the one of the equipment racks.

Abstract: A data center includes a structure having a floor, walls and a roof, and a plurality of rows of equipment racks positioned within the structure. The rows of equipment racks are arranged parallel to one another, with the rows of equipment racks defining alternating hot aisles and cold aisles. Each hot aisle is contained within the structure and in fluid communication with a hot aisle return. Each cold aisle includes a plurality of ceiling panels to contain air in the cold aisle. Each ceiling panel is configured to extend between equipment racks of adjacent rows of equipment racks to define the cold aisle and/or configured to extend between equipment racks of a row of equipment racks and an aisle end wall to define the cold aisle.

Abstract: A bumper arrangement of a passenger car has an upper and a lower load path. A spring element is provided on the transverse support of the lower load path, which, in the event of a collision of a pedestrian with the passenger car, exerts an additional force on the lower leg of the pedestrian, so as to support the movement of the pedestrian in the direction of the front hood of the passenger car.

Abstract: The present invention provides wind guiding vane apparatus for mitigating a detrimental influence of cross winds flowing in the vicinity of an air-cooled condenser (ACC) and through one or more fans, positioned in lateral direction of the ACC, to which ambient air is directed and discharged to the atmosphere after cooling condenser tubes of the ACC, comprising one or more stationary wind guiding vanes positioned along at least a portion of an air flow streamline and below a plurality of condenser tubes of the ACC, wherein said one or more wind guiding vanes are configured to redirect air flow during windy conditions towards a portion of said plurality of condenser tubes and at least one of the fans at such an angle that significantly deviates from perpendicular, fairly horizontal inflow. The one or more wind guiding vanes are also suitable to maintain a nominal flow rate of air during quiescent wind conditions.

Abstract: Migration techniques are described. In an example, a computing system sends instructions associated with operational computing hardware to a client device. The instructions are sent based on a client request for relocating the operational computing hardware from a client location. This hardware is configured to provide client compute operations and store client data. The computing system provisions a private network within a data center of a provider. Based on an arrival of the portable enclosure with the operational computing hardware from the client location to a provider location associated with the data center, the computing system establishes a network connection between the private network and the operational computing hardware stored in the portable enclosure. The computing system provides remote access to the operational computing hardware via the private network based at least in part on the network connection.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle includes a heat exchange unit in which a plurality of plates are layered to alternately form a first flow channel and a second flow channel therein and heat exchange unit having one surface fixedly mounted in an expansion valve. First and second inflow holes are formed separately at both surfaces of the heat exchange unit and connected to the first flow channel and the second flow channel, respectively. First and second exhaust holes are formed separately in a diagonal direction of the first and second inflow holes at both surfaces of the heat exchange unit and connected to the first flow channel and the second flow channel, respectively. A noise reducer is integrally connected to the heat exchange unit at another surface of the heat exchange unit and reduces noise and vibration occurring when an operation fluid that is injected through the second inflow hole moves.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core section defining a plurality of first fluid channels and a plurality of second fluid channels. The heat exchanger also includes a header section defining a plurality of first fluid layers and a plurality of second fluid layers. The heat exchanger further includes a transition region located between the header section and the core section, the transition region fluidly coupling the plurality of first fluid layers to the first fluid channels, each of the first fluid layers routing a first fluid to a respective group of first fluid channels.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion module includes a thermoelectric conversion element, a container, a heat storage material accommodated in the container, and a first heat transfer member thermally coupled to one side of the thermoelectric conversion element and thermally coupled to the heat storage material, wherein the first heat transfer member includes a portion made of a solid-solid phase transition system heat storage material having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the heat storage material and having a transition temperature different from a transition temperature of the heat storage material.

Abstract: A warming device, for warming infusion or transfusion fluids by an exothermic reaction of a reactive liquid. The device comprises a reaction chamber and a secondary chamber. The reaction chamber and the secondary chamber are aligned end on and are abutting. The reaction chamber contains a trigger and the secondary chamber contains the reactive liquid.

Abstract: A heat recovery structure includes a pipe portion, a heat exchanging portion and an actuator. The pipe portion is inclined such that a side face of the pipe portion faces a diagonally lower side, and is configured such that exhaust gas from an engine circulates through the pipe portion. The heat exchanging portion is configured to communicate with the pipe portion and to perform heat-exchange between a heat medium and the exhaust gas flowing into the heat exchanging portion from the pipe portion such that the exhaust gas thus subjected to the heat-exchange with the heat medium flows out to the pipe portion. The actuator is configured to operate a selector valve configured to switch between a state where the exhaust gas circulates through the pipe portion and a state where the exhaust gas circulates through the heat exchanging portion.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes plural flat tubes each having a flat cross section, and plural flat-tube U-bends each having a flat cross section and a U-shape in external appearance. Plural flat-tube columns each made up of the plural flat tubes installed in plural tiers in a set direction are arranged in a direction intersecting the set direction and in a staggered manner. Each of the plural flat-tube U-bends is placed in a pair of coupling portions of the plural flat tubes. Each of the pair of coupling portions is placed in one of a pair of the plural flat-tube columns. The plural flat-tube U-bends are twisted such that major axes of flat cross sections in both end portions of each of the plural flat-tube U-bends are oriented in the same directions as major axes of flat cross sections of the plural flat tubes connected to the both end portions.

Abstract: An electronic device, immersed in a coolant filled in a cooling apparatus, and directly cooled, is configured to be housed in a housing part of the cooling apparatus, and includes a pair of substrate groups that includes a first circuit board having at least one processor and main memories mounted onto one surface of the board, coprocessors, each having a housing with a rectangular cross-section, and an electric connection terminal, and a connector for electric connection between the first circuit board and the coprocessors. When each of the electric connection terminals of the coprocessors is inserted into the connector, a distance between the one surface of the first circuit board and a housing bottom surface of each of the coprocessors is longer than a height of the processor and each height of the main memories.

Abstract: A condenser includes a housing formed in a hollow shape and having a steam inlet and a condensate outlet, inlet water chambers and outlet water chambers provided at respective ends of the housing. A large number of heat-transfer tubes connect the inlet water chambers and the outlet water chambers to each other inside the housing. Cooling water flows in the heat-transfer tubes, and intake pipes and drainpipes are respectively coupled to the inlet water chambers and outlet water chambers via expansion joints.

Abstract: An electronic device is immersed in a coolant in a cooling apparatus, and directly cooled. The electronic device is configured to be housed in housing parts of the cooling apparatus, and includes a metal board held with a pair of board retainers disposed in the housing part, storage units attached to a first surface of the metal board and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a backplane including connectors for electrically connecting the respective storage units, attached orthogonally to the first surface of the metal board, and the second surface opposite the first surface. The metal board includes a primary member including cuts in a width direction for fixing support plates that support the storage units to the primary member, and a secondary member includes pawls inserted into slits in the backplane, and fixed to the primary member. The support plates include holes for passage of the coolant.

Abstract: A vending machine includes a vending machine main body, an internal heat exchanger, an external heat exchanger made of aluminum, and a compressor. The vending machine further includes an attachment base made of a steel plate and disposed on the base such that the external heat exchanger and the compressor are provided on the attachment base, and a pair of right and left holding members made of synthetic resin and engaging with and fixing to the attachment base, each having an accommodation unit corresponding to an outer shape at two sides of a lower portion of the aluminum external heat exchanger. The pair of right and left holding members forms a gap between the aluminum external heat exchanger and the attachment base such that the two sides of the lower portion of the aluminum external heat exchanger are accommodated and held in the accommodation units.

Abstract: A method for installing a heat recovery steam generator (1) with a plurality of pre-assembled modules (10) includes arranging a pre-assembled module (10) at an installation site. The pre-assembled module (10) includes a functional unit of the heat recovery steam generator (1) housed in a casing structure (12). The casing structure (12) includes a top casing (12a), a bottom casing (12b) and a side casing (12c). An open side (15) is defined opposite to the side casing (12c). The module (10) is arranged horizontally at the installation site with the open side (15) facing downward and the side casing (12c) facing upward. The method includes attaching a structural steel (13) to the side casing (12c) in a horizontal position without lifting the module (10). The module (10) with the attached structural steel (13) is lifted to a vertical position and secured to a foundation (60).

Abstract: The present teachings provide for a bracket for a heat exchanger assembly including a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, and a third heat exchanger. The bracket can include a first landing, a second landing, a bridge member and a retention member. The first landing can be configured to be fixedly coupled to the first heat exchanger. The second landing can define a first aperture that can be configured to receive a first fastener through the second landing. The bridge member can be fixedly coupled to the first and second landings. The retention member can be fixedly coupled to the second landing. The retention member and the second landing can define a slot that can be adapted to receive a portion of the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: An attachment member may couple a radiator to a grille of an automotive vehicle. The attachment member may be easily fit into a complementary grille opening on the grille. The complementary shapes of the attachment member and the grille opening may limit movement of the attachment member relative to the grille in one or more directions. The attachment member may install from above the grille opening or horizontally slide into the grille opening. Engagement features on the attachment member may engage with surfaces of the grille opening to limit relative vertical movement. The attachment member may provide a first engagement with the grille at a first level and a second engagement with the radiator at a second level different than the first level.

Abstract: An air duct system is configured to be used with an air containment system that spans an aisle defined by rows of racks. The air duct system includes a plurality of ceiling panels supported by the air containment system, and a plurality of support curbs mounted on the ceiling panels. The plurality of support curbs is configured to support ductwork positioned on the support curbs, ductwork positioned on the plurality of support curbs. The air duct system further includes a plurality of panels secured to the support curbs to create a plenum underneath the ductwork. A kit providing an air duct system is further disclosed.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a core and a tank. The tank is equipped to a side of the core. The tank has a pocket, which is a space having an opening. The pocket is configured to receive a nut through the opening and to accommodate the nut.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength converter including a rotating device, a substrate rotated by the rotating device, a wavelength conversion element provided on a first surface of the substrate, and a heat sink that is provided on a second surface facing away from the first surface and is a member different from the substrate. The heat sink includes a plurality of fins, and the substrate is formed of a light transmissive member.

Abstract: A method and a system for monitoring the mass changes of a heat exchanger bank of a steam boiler. The heat exchanger bank is supported by hanger rods and support beams to the frame beams of the steam boiler. In the method, the web plates of the support beams are provided with strain gages for measuring the changes in the strain state generated in the support beams by the mass of the heat exchanger bank. The system includes strain gages fixed to the web plates of the support beams for measuring the changes in the strain state generated in the support beam by the mass of the heat exchanger bank, data logging means for logging the measurement data and a computer or a corresponding calculation unit for processing the measurement data.

Abstract: A component positioning device including at least one resilient structure that centers the component. For example, a spring that acts between a grille and a grille opening to center the grille within a grille opening. The spring generating a reaction force sufficient to self-adjust the grille within the grille opening wherein opposing springs are deployed on either side of the grill with the springs exerting a force on and moving the grill until the force exerted by the opposing springs reaches equilibrium.

Abstract: A register for the indirect heat exchange between a utility fluid containing interfering components and a heat transfer fluid has at least one tube row with at least one flow channel with a small channel width and at least one flow channel with a large channel width. Additionally, in at least one tube row there is provided at least one flow channel with a narrow section defined by a small channel width as well as a wide section defined by a large channel width. The large channel width produces a large flow velocity of the utility fluid and the small channel width produces a small flow velocity of the utility fluid.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling particulate matter from a high-temperature industrial process or warming material from a cryogenic process is disclosed. The heat exchanger comprises a structure comprising a rectangular frame, piping that is supported by the rectangular frame and completes at least one circumference around the rectangular frame, and a fan. The piping is supported to the frame on a series of moving supports. The piping comprises an inlet end and an outlet end, and the piping contains external cooling fins. The structure is sealed except for where the finned piping is located.

Abstract: A mechanical draft cooling tower employs air cooled condenser modules and operates by mechanical draft to exchange heat between atmospheric air and steam. The cooling tower utilizes a modular air cooled condenser with heat exchange deltas having tube bundles that are manufactured and assembled prior to being shipped to the tower site.

Abstract: A method according to the principles of the present disclosure includes fastening a body mount assembly to a frame of a vehicle, where the body mount assembly includes a radiator support bracket. The method further includes mounting a radiator assembly onto the radiator support bracket after fastening the body mount assembly to the frame, and fastening a body structure to the body mount assembly.

Abstract: The methods and apparatuses described herein is a data center. In one embodiment is described a data center comprising: a building having a plurality of rooms and first and second exterior load walls disposed on opposite sides of the building; a plurality of air handler and fluid cooler devices disposed exterior to the building along the first exterior load wall; a plurality of condenser unit devices disposed exterior to the building along the second exterior load wall; a data sector disposed inside the building, adjacent to the first exterior load wall; three separate UPS and substation distribution equipment rooms, each containing UPS and substation distribution equipment therein, as well as air conditioning equipment that is connected to certain of the plurality of condenser unit devices; and a power spine room disposed between the three separate UPS and substation distribution equipment rooms and the data sector, the power spine room including a plurality of PDU devices.

Abstract: A heat sink structure includes a heat sink; a threaded heat sink base pocket within the heat sink; a module lid, where the module lid thermally interfaces with a die; a threaded exterior portion of the module lid; and a thread engagement between the threaded heat sink base pocket and the threaded exterior portion of the module lid, where the thread engagement mechanically couples the heat sink to the module lid.

Abstract: An improved system for Mounting Heating Panels on to a wall without drilling holes on the wall, including at least one grooved vertical member to maintain a predetermined gap between a wall and a heating panel, the gap allowing natural convection of currents for heat transfer; a plurality of slots provided on an upper portion of the vertical member enabling insertion of the heating panel; a plurality of spacers fixed on the wall using adhesive; wherein the top portion of the panel has at least two fixing holes, and wherein the vertical stand and the upper portion of the panel are fixed to the wall via said plurality of spacers.

Abstract: A data center includes heat producing components and an air handling system that provides reduced relative humidity air to cool the heat producing components. The air handling system includes a thermal storage unit that removes thermal energy from incoming air under a given set of ambient air conditions and releases thermal energy into incoming air under another set of ambient air conditions. Under the given set of ambient air conditions, the thermal storage unit cools the incoming air and causes water vapor to condense out of the incoming air. Under the other set of ambient air conditions, the thermal storage unit releases thermal energy into the incoming air, thus heating the incoming air.

Abstract: A computing rack airflow directing system includes upper and lower rails configured for releasable attachment to a computing rack, and a flexible curtain suspended between the upper and lower rails at upper and lower edges of the curtain, respectively. The curtain is movable along the rails from a retracted position proximate a first end of the rails to provide access to one or more equipment modules mounted in the computing rack to an extended position to form a plenum for directing an airflow between the equipment modules and an airflow port. The airflow port is formed at either the upper edge or the lower edge of the curtain.

Abstract: A bushing mount for an in-vehicle component disposed on a vehicle body includes a support and an insertion portion. The support includes a support body defining a pin hole therein, and the insertion portion is connected to the support. The support body includes a contact surface that abuts the vehicle body when the insertion portion is inserted into an attachment hole formed in the vehicle body. The support supports, when a pin of the in-vehicle component is inserted into the pin hole, the in-vehicle component while being interposed between the vehicle body and the in-vehicle component. The support includes a removal portion that allows the pin to be removed out of the pin hole in a direction angled from a center axis of the pin hole.

Abstract: A tube support in the form of a stake having at least one protrusion mounted on its longitudinal surface. The protrusion contacts adjoining tubes of a tube bundle and exerts a force tending to separate the tubes.