Flexible Fluid Confining Wall Patents (Class 165/83)
  • Patent number: 11871546
    Abstract: A cooling system for data centre, which data centre includes a plurality of servers associated to form a rack, each server being provided with one or more heat generating means. The system includes a plurality of first heat exchange circuits and second thermosyphon circuits. The overall configuration of the system being such that the second thermosyphon circuits are in fluid communication with each other according to a parallel connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WIELAND PROVIDES SRL
    Inventors: Franco Provenziani, Filippo Cataldo
  • Patent number: 11835309
    Abstract: A tube plate for a heat exchanger has a base body in which at least two apertures are formed for receiving respectively a tube body. In addition, the tube plate includes a groove, likewise formed in the base body, with which the two apertures are connected with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Meiser, Marco Renz
  • Patent number: 11737244
    Abstract: Technologies for embedded and immersed heat pipes in automated driving system computers (ADSC) are described herein. In some examples, an ADSC can include one or more cold plates including one or more fluid channels, the one or more fluid channels being configured to circulate a first working fluid from a respective ingress point to a respective egress point; one or more processors coupled to the one or more cold plates; one or more heat pipes coupled to or embedded in the one or more cold plates and configured to collect heat from the one or more processors and transfer the heat away from the one or more processors via a second working fluid in the one or more heat pipes; and a chassis housing the one or more cold plates, the one or more processors, and the one or more heat pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Zoran Stefanoski, Yung Chang Ko
  • Patent number: 11686535
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a shell housing a plurality of tubes and defining an exhaust fluid flow path within a first volume enclosed by the shell. The outer surfaces of the plurality of tubes are in fluid communication with the exhaust fluid flow path. The heat exchanger includes a cap attached to a first end of the shell and defining a second volume. A header is configured to separate the first volume from the second volume, flex with thermal expansion, and define tube inlet and outlet positions. The tube inlets and outlets are in fluid communication with a source fluid flow path, and each tube is substantially U-shaped and defines a flow path of the source fluid within the exhaust fluid flow path. The heat exchanger includes at least one longitudinal flow baffle within the shell configured to reduce an amount of exhaust fluid that may bypass the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Borghese, Quang Do, David Berukhim, Rafael Maldonado
  • Patent number: 11655745
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a tube bundle and a housing through which a coolant is flowable. The tube bundle may include a plurality of exhaust gas-conducting tubes held in a first tube base and a second tube base. The housing may enclose the tube bundle and may have face ends delimited by the first tube base and the second tube base. The housing may include a coolant inlet arranged in a region of the second tube base and a coolant outlet arranged in a region of the first tube base such that the coolant flows in counter flow relative to the exhaust gas. A plurality of coolant bypass passages may be arranged between the tube bundle and the housing. At least a subset of the plurality of coolant bypass passages may be at least partly blocked by an inlay structured and arranged to steer a coolant flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Geskes, Harald Müller, Daniel Schwaderer, Dirk Stadelhofer
  • Patent number: 11614284
    Abstract: A heat exchanger suitable to be used as a recuperator in a micro gas turbine including a stack of cells. Each of the cells includes a pair of mutually spaced-apart plates and layers including heat exchange elements arranged at the outer surfaces of the plates and between the plates. Each of the layers including heat exchange elements can include at least one discrete spatial component incorporating a number of elements. Both a supply header and a discharge header of the heat exchanger can be made of only two components at the position of the stack of cells. Compensating for heat expansion effects can be via a bellows-shaped pipe portion of a supply conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Micro Turbine Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Viktor Kornilov, Paulus Maria Smeets, Luuk Verbakel
  • Patent number: 11561049
    Abstract: A coil-wound heat exchanger with mixed refrigerant shell side cooling that is adapted to reduce radial temperature maldistribution by providing tube sheets at one end of a warm bundle that are each connected to tube sheets in a single circumferential zone and are in fluid flow communication with a control valve. Tube sheets at the other end of the warm bundle are each connected to tube sheets in a single radial section and in multiple circumferential zones. A temperature sensor is provided in each circumferential zone. When a temperature difference is detected, one or more of the control valves is adjusted to reduce the temperature difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Julian Roberts, Justin David Bukowski, Annemarie Ott Weist
  • Patent number: 11504799
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat-exchanger element for connection to tubes of a heat exchanger, the heat-exchanger element (1, 29, 32) consisting of a plurality of components (13, 14) welded to each other, and said components (13, 14) being interconnected by electron beam welding and being part of a heat exchanger head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KELVION HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Mehmet Satin, Lv Yongzhi, Shen Kang
  • Patent number: 11506457
    Abstract: In a header plateless type heat exchanger, to suppress temperature rise at an apical portion of a tube into which exhaust gas at high temperatures or the like flows, to thereby improve durability. A recessed groove portion 4c recessed inward with narrow width is formed on outer face side of each of a pair of plates, in parallel to a swelling portion 4 and in the approximately same length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: T.RAD CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11421938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger (2) having a jacket (10) through which a first medium (A) can flow and which has at least one first inlet (11) and at least one first outlet (12), at least one tube (30) through which a second medium (B) can flow, the tube (30) being guided through the jacket (10) and having at least one second inlet (31) and at least one second outlet (32), wherein a deflection segment (50) or a plurality of deflection segments (50) are arranged in a row in a longitudinal axis (X) in the jacket (10), wherein the deflection segment (50) is formed from at least two partial sections (51, 52), which are arranged so as to overlap and cross, in areas, transverse to the longitudinal axis (X).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BITZER KÜHLMASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Krieger, Gabriel Kramp
  • Patent number: 11268767
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first collecting pipe, a second collecting pipe and a number of flat tubes connected between the first collecting pipe and the second collecting pipe. The first collecting pipe includes a first upper main board and a first lower main board. A first channel and a second channel are formed between the first upper main board and the first lower main board. The second collecting pipe includes a third channel and a fourth channel. The third channel is communicated with the first channel through a row of the flat tubes. The fourth channel is communicated with the second channel through another row of the flat tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HANGZHOU SANHUA RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junqi Dong, Weiwei Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Patent number: 10793336
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crossed staggered and stacked-type air packaging device and a manufacturing method therefor. The crossed staged and stacked-type air packaging device includes at least two inflation packaging main body layers, so as to form an accommodation cavity used for storing an article to be packaged. Each inflation packaging main body layer includes at least one sub-inflation unit. The sub-inflation units of at least two adjacent inflation packaging main body layers have different extending directions, so that at least two adjacent inflation packaging main body layers are arranged in a crossed and staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Air-Paq Composite Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiaying Zhang
  • Patent number: 10697405
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler comprises at least one exhaust gas pipe for exhaust gas being cooled and is characterized in that at least one gap is provided between the wall of the exhaust gas pipe and laterally adjacent components at the inlet of at least one exhaust gas pipe in the direction of extension of at least one wall perpendicular to the flow direction of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Carsten Ohrem, Petr Sispera, Jürgen Nothbaum, Jiri Tomecek
  • Patent number: 10279648
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a bundle for a heat exchange between at least one first fluid and one second fluid, including first and second channels for the flow of the first fluid and of the second fluid, a housing for receiving the bundle, and a collector for the second fluid, including a collecting plate having openings into which the second channels lead, and at least one cover for closing the collector. The closing cover has a raised edge, and the collecting plate has a corresponding planar connecting portion adjacent to at least one peripheral edge of the collecting plate. The collecting plate has first openings having a first height and at least one second opening having a second height that is different from the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventor: Nicolas Vallee
  • Patent number: 10240876
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes at least one first flow channel for a first medium, at least one second flow channel for a second medium, and at least one bottom that can be connected to the housing. The bottom has at least one expansion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Neher, Johannes Pfeffer, Alexander Steck, Helmut Weiser
  • Patent number: 10029059
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for condensing water from respiratory gases. The apparatus has a heat exchange component having an inlet, an outlet and a condensation chamber, the inlet and outlet being connectable to a breathing system, such that respiratory gases are conveyed through the condensation chamber, in use, and a base unit adapted to aid removal of heat from the walls of the heat exchange component. The heat exchange component is releasably engageable with the base unit, such that the heat exchange component is replaceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intersurgical AG
    Inventors: Andrew Miller, Marc Berrow Gibbons
  • Patent number: 9927189
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes a first member having an inlet at a first end and a first flange at an opposite end. The first member is made from a nickel-chromium material. A second member is provided having a second flange one end coupled to the first flange. The second member further having an outlet on a second end opposite the second flange. The second member is made from titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald E. Army, Jr., Christina W. Millot
  • Patent number: 9303924
    Abstract: A heat exchanger that is constructed with a heat exchanger shell having inlet and outlet plenums and fluid inlet and outlet ports, and a tube sheet construction disposed in the heat exchanger shell. The tube sheet construction includes at least two separate tube sheets and a plurality of tubes that extend between the separate tube sheets. Each tube sheet includes at least two planar tube sheet segments and an interstitial layer disposed between the at least two tube sheet segments, and at least one sensor element supported by each of the interstitial layers. A control monitor controls flow through the shell by a feedback control from the sensor to an inlet control valve and/or a stimulus device excites the media layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Neptune-Benson, LLC
    Inventor: Paul F. Nehlen, III
  • Patent number: 9127895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, especially for cooling exhaust gases. Said heat exchanger comprises at least one first flow channel for a first medium, at least one second flow channel for a second medium, at least one bottom that can be connected to the housing, said bottom having at least one expansion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MAHLE BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Neher, Johannes Pfeffer, Alexander Steck, Helmut Weiser
  • Patent number: 8794299
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) is provided and in a highly preferred form is an EGR cooler (52) having first and second passes (56A,56B) that are connected to an inlet/outlet manifold (70) by a pair of corresponding thermal expansion joints (87,93) to allow differential thermal expansion between the various structural components of the heat exchanger (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Barfknecht, Biao Yu, LeRoy Goines, Robert J. DeGroot, Peter C. Kottal, Steven P. Meshenky, Dan R. Raduenz
  • Patent number: 8776869
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a stack of mutually spaced apart plates. The plates are separated by respective spacings therebetween. Alternate spacings respectively provide a flow path for a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger further comprises a first header for inflow of the first fluid and a second header for outflow of the first fluid. The first and second headers are connected to the plate stack by flexible tubular ducting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hiflux Limited
    Inventors: David Barnes, Tanzi Besant, Albert Demargne, Keith Pullen
  • Patent number: 8773141
    Abstract: Provided are a first test substrate and a second test substrate opposing each other, a first test circuit testing a device under test and being disposed on a face of the first test substrate that faces the second test substrate, a second test circuit testing the device under test and being disposed on a face of the second test substrate that faces the first test substrate, and a sealing section that is formed by sealing a space between the first test substrate and the second test substrate to enclose the first test circuit and the second test circuit in a common space that is filled with coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ataka, Shoji Kojima
  • Patent number: 8640688
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat collection system for a roof, the system including a roof deck, a membrane upwardly adjacent of the roof deck; a fluid channel disposed between the membrane and the roof deck, the fluid channel having a defined entry port and a defined exit port, the entry port and the exit port being disposed in fluid communication via the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas L. Kelly
  • Publication number: 20140000845
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is comprised of two heat exchanger sections, at least one of which is provided with a floating header to accommodate differential thermal expansion. The two heat exchanger sections are enclosed by an inner shell wall, and an external connecting passage is provided outside the inner shell wall, through which one of the fluids flows between the two heat exchanger sections. The external connecting passage is enclosed by an outer shell. The inner wall is provided with openings which communicate with the external connecting passage. The openings may be in the form of a substantially continuous gap or discrete openings. Specific examples of heat exchangers with this construction include a steam generator, a steam generator and combined catalytic converter, and a water gas shift reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Doug Vanderwees, Manaf Hasan, Jianan Huang, Brian E. Cheadle
  • Patent number: 8602089
    Abstract: A heat exchanger apparatus for accommodating thermal and pressure transients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Ranga Nadig
  • Patent number: 8534347
    Abstract: A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald R. Denny, Bobby Jim Kowalski, James T. Seward, Michael P. Ebsen, Thomas Rosenthal, William J. Leinberger, Jeffery Stagg Young, Andrew D. Josephson
  • Patent number: 8459337
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a heat exchanger and an equalizing vessel for equalizing changes in coolant volume. The heat exchanger may include an inflow for delivering coolant to the heat exchanger and an outflow for discharging coolant from the heat exchanger. The equalizing vessel may be closed off by a flexible membrane that follows changes in volume of the coolant. The equalizing vessel may include a first chamber that is in liquid communication with the inflow of the heat exchanger and a second chamber that is in liquid communication with the outflow of the heat exchanger. A filter may also be provided to filter the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Seidler, Walter G. Angelis, Wolfgang Laufer, Francisco Rojo Lulic
  • Patent number: 8443869
    Abstract: A condenser-type heat exchanger having a set of welded plates that together define fluid systems that interpenetrate each other, comprises at least two modules of welded plates. Each module presenting an independent cooling system (CF1, CF2), fluid (CF2) being preferably colder than fluid (CF1), and a connecting chamber that connects the two modules in series in the system of fluid to be condensed such that the direction in which the fluid to be condensed flows is reversed when it changes from one module to the next module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Alfa Laval Vicarb
    Inventors: Michel Lavanchy, Jean-Pierre Concolato, Claude Roussel
  • Patent number: 8397681
    Abstract: An expansion tank (10) for a vehicle cooling system (18) of an engine using a liquid coolant (16) includes a tank body (12) defining a first volume (V1) containing coolant (16), wherein the coolant defines a variable coolant elevation level (CEL) within the tank body. The tank body (12) also defines an upper volume (20) containing air. A bladder (14) is disposed in the tank body (12) and defines a second volume (V2) containing air. The bladder (14) includes a flexible membrane (36) actuated by an actuator (46). When the engine is stopped or is below a predetermined temperature, the flexible membrane (36) is moveable to a first position (FP) which lowers the coolant elevation level (CEL), and when the engine is started or reaches a predetermined temperature, the flexible membrane (36) is moveable to a second position (SP) which raises the coolant elevation level. A communicating line (38) is in fluid communication between the upper volume (20) and the second volume (V2) to fluidly communicate air therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Popadiuc, Martin R. Zielke, Luis Carlos Cattani, Robert L. Rowells, George L. Banta, III, Ernst Duerr
  • Patent number: 8398245
    Abstract: A heat exchanger which is hollow and contains a plurality of small flow paths includes: a plurality of partition walls disposed in parallel with one another in the width direction of the heat exchanger to form the plural small flow paths; and an inlet unit and an outlet unit configured to communicate with the inside and the outside of the heat exchanger, and allow cooling liquid to flow into and out of the heat exchanger through the inlet unit and the outlet unit, the inlet unit and the outlet unit extend in directions opposite to each other along the width direction from a pair of center positions located approximately at the centers of inner side surfaces of the heat exchanger in the width direction and opposed to each other, and penetrate outer side surfaces of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Yasunaga Momose
  • Patent number: 8393382
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a shell comprising a hollow shell body and separate shell end members attached thereto. A number of tubes is disposed within the shell body which is sized to permit both ends of the tubes to project outwardly therefrom to facilitate access for attaching the tubes ends to respective tube header plates, after which time the shell end members are slid over the shell body towards the shell body ends for attachment to respective header plates. The heat exchanger can include an expansion element attached between a shell end member and the shell body, wherein the expansion element is positioned adjacent a slidable joint formed by an overlapping section of the shell body and shell end member. Together, the expansion element accommodates axial movement and the slidable joint carries vibration loads between the shell body and shell end member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Agee
  • Publication number: 20130048246
    Abstract: An integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger and method of use are provided. The integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to input an internal fluid; a first conductive bellows connected to the inlet, configured to accept the internal fluid from the inlet, configured to transfer heat between the internal fluid and an external fluid, and configured to compensate for a pressure by compressing in length; and an outlet configured to accept the internal fluid from the first conductive bellows and to output the internal fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Silvio Giachetti
  • Patent number: 8342234
    Abstract: A plasma-driven cooling device generates and drives a plasma-driven gas flow to cool down electronic devices. The plasma-driven cooling device comprises electrodes, dielectric pieces, and heat sink fins. The voltages applied on the electrodes coupled with dielectric pieces and heat sink fins induce the gas flow, which is used to cool down heat sources. A magnetic circuit may be coupled with plasma-drive gas flow to enhance the cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventor: Chien Ouyang
  • Patent number: 8277094
    Abstract: An LED bulb includes a base, a shell connected to the base, an LED mount disposed within the shell, one or more LEDs, a thermally conductive liquid, and a liquid-volume compensator mechanism. The one or more LEDs are mounted on the LED mount. The thermally conductive liquid is held within the shell. The liquid-volume compensator mechanism moves from a first position to a second position to compensate for expansion of the thermally conductive liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Switch Bulb Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Wheelock, Bernhard Stonas
  • Patent number: 8186424
    Abstract: A charge air cooler comprises at least one tubular element with an internal flow duct for guiding compressed air, and a tank for receiving the compressed air before it is led through the flow duct. The compressed air is cooled by a first cooling medium of ambient air as it passes through the flow duct. A cooling element at least partly situated inside the tank provides the compressed air in the tank with a first step of cooling before the air is led to the flow duct wherein the air undergoes a second step of cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventor: Zoltan Kardos
  • Patent number: 8127462
    Abstract: A dryer uses conduits to carry a heating medium, such as steam, to heat the outer surface of the dryer. The volume of steam is successfully reduced to non-explosive levels and the shell need not be designed to prevent an explosion. Conduits may be formed through the shell itself or grooves may be formed on the inner surface of the shell, with the conduits retained within the grooves. Also, the conduits can be placed against the inside surface of the dryer and a material, such as zinc, can be filled in about the conduits. The material serves to both retain the conduits in place and thermally couple the conduits to the dryer to assure efficient heat transfer between the conduits and dryer. These modifications relieve the dryer from the Unfired Pressure Vessel classification to the classification of a piping assembly under ASA code regulations. This results in savings in operation safety, installation cost and operating costs due to the absence of costly inspections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventors: Osvaldo Ricardo Haurie, Richard Kenneth Haurie
  • Publication number: 20110192570
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a shell comprising a hollow shell body and separate shell end members attached thereto. A number of tubes is disposed within the shell body which is sized to permit both ends of the tubes to project outwardly therefrom to facilitate access for attaching the tubes ends to respective tube header plates, after which time the shell end members are slid over the shell body towards the shell body ends for attachment to respective header plates. The heat exchanger can include an expansion element attached between a shell end member and the shell body, wherein the expansion element is positioned adjacent a slidable joint formed by an overlapping section of the shell body and shell end member. Together, the expansion element accommodates axial movement and the slidable joint carries vibration loads between the shell body and shell end member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Keith Agee
  • Publication number: 20110056653
    Abstract: A shell-and-tube heat exchanger including a casing tube and at least one inner tube for treating liquid food products, optionally also with a product/product flow guidance, and having at least one thermal-expansion compensating device for the casing and/or inner tube, with the compensating device having a surface which can be contacted by the product to be treated, where the surface is provided on a bellows integrated into the casing and/or inner tube, with a plurality of relatively wide folds which extend around the tube axis and are of rounded cross-section, with the respective fold being configured with a radial depth and an axial width with a ratio of B:T of about 1 or more and to be cleanable on the product side in a hygienically irreproachable way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Jörg Zacharias
  • Patent number: 7762317
    Abstract: What is disclosed herein deals with low to medium pressure, high temperature, all ceramic, air-to-air, indirect heat exchangers, novel ball joints, high load-bearing ceramic tube sheets, and tube seal extenders for ceramic tubes that are useful in such heat exchangers. Also disclosed are new and novel systems used in new and novel industrial processes such as chemical processing, sludge destruction and the production of particulates such as, for example, carbon black. Systems utilizing several heat exchangers are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Heat Transfer International, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert G. Graham
  • Patent number: 7624788
    Abstract: A heat exchanger according to certain embodiments includes an outer portion formed of at least one inflatable cell and an inner portion. The inflatable cell has inner and outer surfaces that are separated from each other and at least partially support the outer portion when inflated. The outer portion defines a first interior passage configured to convey fluid. The inner portion is positioned within the outer portion, the inner portion defining a second interior passage configured to convey fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of The University of Oregon
    Inventors: George Zindel Brown, Thomas Dale Northcutt, Jeffrey Alan Kline
  • Patent number: 7614161
    Abstract: A dryer uses conduits to carry a heating medium, such as steam, to heat the outer surface of the dryer. The volume of steam is successfully reduced to non-explosive levels and the shell need not be designed to prevent an explosion. Conduits may be formed through the shell itself or grooves may be formed on the inner surface of the shell, with the conduits retained within the grooves. Also, the conduits can be placed against the inside surface of the dryer and a material, such as zinc, can be filled in about the conduits. The material serves to both retain the conduits in place and thermally couple the conduits to the dryer to assure efficient heat transfer between the conduits and dryer. These modifications relieve the dryer from the Unfired Pressure Vessel classification to the classification of a piping assembly under ASA code regulations. This results in savings in operation safety, installation cost and operating costs due to the absence of costly inspections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Inventors: Osvaldo Ricardo Haurie, Richard Kenneth Haurie
  • Publication number: 20080245507
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a shell comprising a hollow shell body and separate shell end members attached thereto. A number of tubes is disposed within the shell body which is sized to permit both ends of the tubes to project outwardly therefrom to facilitate access for attaching the tubes ends to respective tube header plates, after which time the shell end members are slid over the shell body towards the shell body ends for attachment to respective header plates. The heat exchanger can include an expansion element attached between a shell end member and the shell body, wherein the expansion element is positioned adjacent a slidable joint formed by an overlapping section of the shell body and shell end member. Together, the expansion element accommodates axial movement and the slidable joint carries vibration loads between the shell body and shell end member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Keith Agee
  • Publication number: 20080202727
    Abstract: A heat exchange device and a method of compensating for increases in pressure in tubes within the heat exchange device is provided. The heat exchange devices includes a plurality of the tubes for carrying a first medium and a compressible feature insertable into at least one of the tubes. Expansion of the medium causes said compressible feature to compress. The compressible feature can be inert resilient material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Michel Grabon, Michel Elbaz
  • Publication number: 20080011456
    Abstract: The invention provides, among other things, a heat exchanger including a header, a number of tubes extending outwardly from the header, and an elastic sleeve supported between the header and one of the tubes to allow movement of the tube relative to the header in a direction substantially parallel to a length of the tube defined between a first end of the tube adjacent to the header and a second end of the tube spaced away from the header. Together, the tube, the header, and the elastic sleeve can at least partially define a flow path for a working fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventor: Steven P. Meshenky
  • Patent number: 7272000
    Abstract: A heat dissipating structure of an interface card is applied in an electronic device. The structure includes a heat dissipating apparatus attached to a circuit board of the electronic device, wherein the heat dissipating apparatus comprises a heat sink and a fan received in a room of the heat sink; and an interface card electrically connected to the circuit board of the electronic device via a connector. At least a surface of the interface card that is mounted with semiconductor components is mounted on top of a part of the heat dissipating apparatus in a faced-down manner to dissipate heat generated during operations of the semiconductor components to an external environment through the heat sink and the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventor: Spring Liu
  • Patent number: 7267160
    Abstract: In order to provide a heat exchanger with casing having a multiplicity of tubes through the interiors of which a high-temperature gas for heating flows, wherein the thermal stress is smoothly accommodated and wherein a fluid to be heated or a heating fluid flows uniformly through the outsides of the tubes, a multiplicity of flat tubes are joined at their opposed ends to a pair of discoidal tube plates, the outer periphery of the flat tubes being enclosed by an inner cylinder having a rectangular cross-section except the opposed end portions of the flat tubes, with a pair of baffle plates being disposed at the opposed ends of the inner cylinder. The pair of baffle plates are covered with an circular outer cylinder having a corrugated portion that is thermally expandable, with an inlet and an outlet for the fluid to be heated or the heating fluid positioned between the pair of baffle plates and the tube plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: T.RAD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuko Shincho, Susumu Ichikawa, Masaki Saito, Tadamichi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 7231960
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cooler for cooling both sides (top and bottom surfaces) of a semiconductor device, wherein the variation of pressing force on flat cooling tubes holding a semiconductor device is reduced, thereby uniformly dissipating the heat generated by the semiconductor device. When the holding plates press the flat cooling tubes and semiconductor modules by tightening the nut, the dimensional tolerances in the stacking direction are absorbed by the deformable portions in the inlet and outlet headers. A spacer may be employed inside the flat cooling tubes in order to suppress the deformation of the flat cooling tubes along the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 7210521
    Abstract: A heat medium distributor for an air inlet system having multiple heat exchangers includes a box-like housing, which is divided by a dividing wall into a first flow chamber, which is used as the forward collection pipe, and a second flow chamber, which is used as the return collection pipe. For each heat exchanger to be connected, a forward connection nozzle branches off the first flow chamber and for each heat exchanger to be connected, a return connection nozzle opens into the second flow chamber. The arrangement of the connection nozzles is such that all flow paths of the heat medium through the various heat exchangers and the distributor are of equal length. The heat medium distributor replaces traditional heat medium distributors which are produced by welding together individual pieces of pipe, and which are structurally relatively large and therefore expensive, and in general cannot be housed in the housing of the air inlet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Eisenmann Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Rauser
  • Patent number: 7100680
    Abstract: The apparatus is a heat pipe with superior heat transfer between the heat pipe and the heat source and heat sink. The heat pipe is held tightly against the heat source by mounting holes which penetrate the structure of the heat pipe but are sealed off from the vapor chamber because they each are located within a sealed structure such as a pillar or the solid layers of the casing surrounding the vapor chamber. Another feature of the heat pipe is the use of more highly heat conductive material for only that part of the wick in the region which contacts the heat source, so that there is superior heat conductivity in that region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Thermal Corp.
    Inventors: Peter M. Dussinger, Thomas L. Myers
  • Patent number: 7077189
    Abstract: A fluid heat exchanger assembly cools an electronic device with a cooling fluid supplied from a heat extractor (R, F) to a plurality of tubes extending between header tanks in an upper portion of a housing. A refrigerant is disposed in the lower portion of the housing for liquid-to-vapor transformation. The tubes are radially flexible to vary the volume of the tubes for modulating the flow of coolant liquid through the tubes in response to heat transferred by an electronic device to the lower portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Reyzin, Mohinder Singh Bhatti