With Cooling Or Fluid Feeding, Circulating Or Distributing Patents (Class 174/15.1)
  • Publication number: 20110100666
    Abstract: A thermally controlled, anti-shock apparatus for protecting an automotive electronic device. The apparatus includes a first housing having sidewalls that define an interior cavity. A second housing having a reservoir containing fluid is disposed within the interior cavity of the first housing. A sealed housing for carrying the electronic device is disposed within the fluid in the reservoir of the second housing, wherein the fluid provides buoyancy for keeping the sealed housing at least partially afloat within the reservoir. The sealed housing includes an inner fluid impermeable bag for enclosing the protected electronic device and an outer fluid impermeable bag in which the inner bag and electronic device are disposed. A cooling system condenser includes condenser tubing connected to one or more heat dissipating members that are mounted on a thermally conductive panel using one or more high strength magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Albert T. Wu
  • Patent number: 7929305
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of motor controllers. A coolant system for the plurality of motor controller has a common inlet line, a common outlet line, and a plurality of parallel branch lines leading to the plurality of motor controllers. A control selectively increases a flow of coolant to certain of the plurality of motor controllers or limits the flow of coolant to others of the plurality of motor controllers. In addition, a method of operating a system of motor controllers is disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 7923630
    Abstract: An enclosure (4) for electrical apparatus (6) has a sealable outlet (8) for partially evacuating the enclosure and a sealable inlet (9)for partially filling the enclosure with a liquid (7) having a vapor pressure at operating temperatures of the apparatus suitable to enhance electrical isolation of the electrical apparatus and suitable to provide convective cooling of the electrical apparatus. The vapor preferably provides a voltage hold-off sufficiently high for operating voltages of the electrical apparatus and has a relative permittivity sufficiently low to prevent stray capacitance in the electrical apparatus above a predetermined limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: E2V Technologies (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Robert Richardson
  • Patent number: 7916481
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic board that comprises: a planar projection plate (42) provided between an intake opening (70) and a discharge opening (72); and a plurality of rectilinear nozzles (86-90) extending through said plate along a projection direction, the projection direction of each nozzle defining an angle relative to a direction perpendicular to a sole (78) of the electronic component (6) to be cooled, the angle ? being comprised in a range of ?30 and +30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sames Technologies
    Inventors: Caryl Thome, Stéphane Robert
  • Patent number: 7911793
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Patent number: 7882624
    Abstract: To accommodate high power densities associated with high-performance integrated circuits, an integrated circuit (IC) package includes a heat-dissipating structure in which heat is dissipated from a surface of one or more dice to a heat spreader. The heat spreader has a fluid-conducting channel formed therein, and a fluid coolant may be circulated through the channel via a micropump. In an embodiment, the channel is located at or near a surface of the heat spreader, and a heat-generating IC is in thermal contact with the heat spreader. In an embodiment, the IC is a thinned die that is coupled to the heat spreader via a thinned thermal interface material. Methods of fabrication, as well as application of the package to an electronic assembly and to an electronic system, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Chuan Hu, Ravi V. Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20110024150
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism for a current carrying conductor is proposed. The mechanism includes a first layer having plurality of micro fluidic channels. The first layer is thermally coupled to the current carrying conductor and configured to exchange thermal energy. A micro-pump is configured to circulate a heat exchange fluid through the micro fluidic channels to exchange thermal energy with the first layer and remove heat from the current carrying conductor. The heat exchange fluid and the current carrying conductor are electrically isolated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Pradip Radhakrishnan Subramaniam, Thangavelu Asokan, Sudhakar Eddula Reddy, Adnan Kutubuddin Bohori, Vijay Kumar, Anubhav Kumar
  • Patent number: 7881059
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic module includes a printed circuit board and a housing at least partially enclosing the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a heat-generating component. The housing includes a first case and a second case attached to the first case. The first and second cases cooperatively define a sealed cavity containing a fluid. The second case includes a thermal contact structure positioned proximate to the heat-generating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventor: Lucy G. Hosking
  • Patent number: 7876563
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a power semiconductor device includes a cooling water passage and a plurality of fins. The cooling water for cooling the power semiconductor device flows through the cooling water passage. The plurality of fins are provided on a path of the cooling water passage and set up with a spacing therebetween in a direction orthogonal to a flow direction of the cooling water. The plurality of fins promote heat exchange between the power semiconductor device and the cooling water. The plurality of fins have ends facing the upstream side of a cooling water flow. The end of at least one fin among the plurality of fins is arranged so as to be displaced to a more upstream side of the cooling water flow than the ends of the fins adjacent to both sides of the at least one fin. By such a configuration, there is provided a cooling structure of a power semiconductor device and an inverter with excellent cooling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenjiro Shiba
  • Patent number: 7876562
    Abstract: An electronic module is provided having enhanced thermal cooling of electronics. The module includes a housing, electronic circuitry contained within the housing, and a fluid cooling chamber extending through the housing. The chamber has generally conical shaped portions at opposite ends. At least one thermal cooling insert extends into the chamber. The insert comprises a plurality of projections for forming fluid flow passages between adjacent projections, wherein the projections engage the generally conical shape portion of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy A. Visser
  • Patent number: 7872867
    Abstract: An electronic component system cabinet includes a plurality of electronic component system bays, and a plurality of electronic component systems mounted in respective ones of the plurality of electronic component system bays. The electronic component system cabinet further includes a cooling system including a plurality of coolant reservoirs. Each of the plurality of coolant reservoirs is associated with at least one of the plurality of electronic component system bays. The cooling system further includes at least one pump fluidly connected to each of the plurality of coolant reservoirs. The at least one pump is selectively operated to circulate a supply of coolant to each of the plurality of coolant reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Hugo E. Rothuizen, Reto Waelchli
  • Patent number: 7864532
    Abstract: An array of electrically conductive waveguides is made a method including defining slots in broad surfaces of planar dielectric slabs. The surfaces of the slabs, including slots, are metallized. The broad sides of the slabs are juxtaposed, with the slots registered with the planar surfaces of another slab, to form one or more closed waveguides. The waveguides may feed microchips, or act as antennas. The slabs may include electrical conductors andor heat pipes. Heat pipes are made by defining apertures with the dielectric slabs, and introducing wick material into the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Ehret, Bradley M. Smith
  • Patent number: 7859837
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device operating in difficult environments. The electronic device comprises at least one printed circuit board supporting heat-dissipating electronic components, a heat sink, a first side of which is in contact with electronic components on a first side of the printed circuit board, and a second side of which is designed to evacuate heat by convection, characterized in that it also comprises a cover delimiting a channel in which a coolant circulates to ensure convection, the cover being joined to the heat sink and the printed circuit board, and in that the channel prevents the coolant from coming into contact with the electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Gerard Nemoz, Olivier Leborgne, Serge Bernadac
  • Patent number: 7855887
    Abstract: An inverter unit includes a reactor and switching elements that form a voltage boost circuit that boosts a power supply voltage; a switching element for an inverter that forms an inverter circuit to be supplied with the power supply voltage boosted by the voltage boost circuit; and a cooling unit provided with a coolant passage that carries coolant along a cooling face with which the reactor and the switching elements of the voltage boost circuit and the switching element of the inverter circuit are in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kakuda, Ryohei Kubo
  • Patent number: 7848912
    Abstract: A computer simulation method is disclosed for simulating an electrical cable having a stranded conductor surrounded by a conductor shield encased in an insulation jacket and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor injected with a fluid composition comprising at least one dielectric enhancement fluid component so as to at least partially fill the interstitial void volume at an initial time. The simulation method comprises for a selected length of the simulated cable, defining a plurality of radially arranged finite volumes extending the selected length of the simulated cable, and estimating the radial temperature of each finite volume. For a selected time period after the initial time, performing a series of steps at least once and outputting or otherwise using the value of the new concentration for the dielectric enhancement fluid component within each finite volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Novinium, Inc.
    Inventor: Glen J. Bertini
  • Patent number: 7843693
    Abstract: A system for removing heat includes a sealed container, and an evaporator, housed within the sealed container. The evaporator includes an evaporator inlet, a plurality of evaporator outlet ports and a plurality of tubes, each tube connecting the evaporator inlet with a tube outlet to the sealed container. The system further includes a condenser, also housed within the sealed container, having a plurality of condenser inlet ports from the sealed container, a condenser outlet and closed condenser channels connecting the condenser inlet ports with the condenser outlet. The system further includes a conduit joining the condenser outlet to the evaporator inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Edward D. McCullough, James P. Huang
  • Patent number: 7843694
    Abstract: An electronic device having a heat-dissipating module includes a housing and an electronic component (e.g., a central processing unit) disposed within the housing. The heat-dissipating module is used for dissipating heat of the electronic component, and includes a two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop and a thermoelectric cooling component. The two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop can be a loop heat pipe (LHP) or a capillary pumped loop (CPL). The thermoelectric cooling component includes a cooling portion and a heat-generating portion respectively to cool or heat necessary portions of the two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop, or directly cool the electronic component through the cooling portion, thereby increasing the heat-dissipation effect of the two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chuan Yi Liang, Ming Chang Wu
  • Patent number: 7817423
    Abstract: Disclosed is a design for a computer enclosure. Heat is passed from the heat-generating components directly to a non-conductive liquid coolant. Some of the heat is expelled directly to the environment via a heatsink “chimney”, and some is expelled with the help of a thermoelectric heat pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Inventor: Graham Andrew Morehead
  • Patent number: 7817422
    Abstract: A heat sink for directly cooling at least one electronic device package is provided. The electronic device package has an upper contact surface and a lower contact surface. The heat sink comprises a cooling piece formed of at least one thermally conductive material. The cooling piece defines multiple inlet manifolds configured to receive a coolant and multiple outlet manifolds configured to exhaust the coolant. The inlet and outlet manifolds are interleaved. The cooling piece further defines multiple millichannels configured to receive the coolant from the inlet manifolds and to deliver the coolant to the outlet manifolds. The millichannels and inlet and outlet manifolds are further configured to directly cool one of the upper and lower contact surface of the electronic device package by direct contact with the coolant, such that the heat sink comprises an integral heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Satish Sivarama Gunturi, Mahadevan Balasubramaniam, Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina, Richard Alfred Beaupre, Le Yan, Richard S. Zhang, Ljubisa Dragoljub Stevanovic, Adam Gregory Pautsch, Stephen Adam Solovitz
  • Publication number: 20100243287
    Abstract: A cable cooling apparatus, for dissipating heat generated by a cable, includes a housing disposed on a portion of a cable and defining a fluid-tight cavity therewithin. The housing is configured to cool at least a portion of the cable. The housing also includes one or more inlets, configured to receive fluid in the housing, and one or more outlets in fluid communication with an inlet for discharging the fluid from the housing. The fluid enters the housing through an inlet, circulates through a portion of the housing and absorbs thermal energy from a portion of the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher A. Deborski, Darion Peterson
  • Patent number: 7800220
    Abstract: The invention concerns a power electronic arrangement comprising an insulating substrate, a cooling element arranged beneath the insulating substrate and one or more power electronic components disposed on a respective metallization surface of the insulating substrate. Disposed on the surface of the insulating substrate is a metal layer portion which projects beyond the insulating substrate at all sides. The region of the metal layer portion, that projects beyond the insulating substrate, forms a metal flange which borders the insulating substrate. The cooling element, on its side towards the insulating substrate, beneath the insulating substrate, has one or more recesses, whereby a cavity delimited by the insulating substrate and wall surfaces of the one or more recesses is formed beneath the insulating substrate for receiving a liquid cooling agent. The metal flange is further connected to the cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: ECPE Engineering Center for Power Electronics GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Marz, Ernst Schimanek, Dieter Brunner, Andreas Schletz
  • Patent number: 7791888
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus can be reduced in size and cost by eliminating certain parts such as a power board, etc. The apparatus includes a housing, a heat sink attached to one end of the housing, semiconductor switching elements mounted on the heat sink, a circuit board arranged in opposition to the heat sink, and a plurality of conductive plates electrically connecting the circuit board and the semiconductor switching elements. The heat sink is composed of a heat sink main body, and an anodized aluminum film formed at least on a surface of the heat sink main body at a side at which the power device is mounted thereon, and the heat sink main body has outer peripheral end faces arranged in opposition to inner wall surfaces of an opening portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tominaga, Masahiro Kimata, Takayuki Kifuku, Shuzo Akiyama, Tadayuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7787247
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism to dissipate thermal energy generated by the heat generating components of a graphics card assembly. An apparatus includes a circuit board having at least one heat generating component affixed thereto. The apparatus also includes a fan and carrier therefor including a heat sink plate having a portion thermally coupled to the heat generating component. The heat sink plate includes a means for forming at least one slot proximate the portion. The fan is adapted to direct airflow cross the portion. The thermal energy generated by the heat generating component is transferred to the fan carrier and ultimately removed from the fan carrier by the airflow. The airflow inducts a secondary airflow drawn through the slot during operation thereby to enhance transfer of the thermal energy from the heat generating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: EVGA Corporation
    Inventor: Tai-Sheng Han
  • Patent number: 7787248
    Abstract: A multi-fluid cooling system and methods of fabrication thereof are provided for removing heat from one or more electronic devices. The cooling system includes a multi-fluid manifold structure with at least one first fluid inlet orifice and at least one second fluid inlet orifice for concurrently, separately injecting a first fluid and a second fluid onto a surface to be cooled when the cooling system is employed to cool one or more electronic devices, wherein the first fluid and the second fluid are immiscible, and the first fluid has a lower boiling point temperature than the second fluid. When the cooling system is employed to cool the one or more electronic devices and the first fluid boils, evolving first fluid vapor condenses in situ by direct contact with the second fluid of higher boiling point temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 7778030
    Abstract: A system (50) includes a material layer (52) having an opening (62) extending through it and a pumping device (54) positioned behind the layer (52). A target element (56) is positioned in front of the material layer (52). In a partial cooling mode (124), the pumping device (54) drives a jet (134) of coolant through the opening (62) toward the target (56). Transducers (58, 60), positioned at opposing ends of the opening (62), produce output signals (130, 132) that perturb the jet (134) to partially control its oscillation. The jet (134) spreads from a location (96) on the target element (56) in one direction (142) to provide uniform cooling over a portion (126) of the target element (56) in the direction (142), and the jet (134) non-uniformly spreads in another direction (144) to provide non-uniform cooling over a portion (128) of the target element (56) in the other direction (144).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor A. Chiriac
  • Patent number: 7777130
    Abstract: A cable cooling apparatus, for dissipating heat generated by a cable, includes a housing configured for attachment to at least a portion of the cable. The housing is configured to retain a meltable material in a first state and the meltable material is configured to dissipate thermal energy from the cable during transformation to a second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Vivant Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Deborski, Darion Peterson
  • Patent number: 7760502
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for use, e.g., in a rear door of a server rack in a computer room, made up of pipes clad with a layer of a phase change material, such as a paraffin, so that latent heat is absorbed in the conversion from the solid to the liquid state. Preferably, each pipe in turn is opened by a control valve and chilled coolant flows through the pipe until the phase change material reverts back to the solid state. Then, the control valve is again closed, and the phase change material is further heated by waste heat so that it is melted once more. Preferably, the control valve for only one pipe at a time is opened, so that latent heat is being absorbed by the phase change material around all pipes but one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Ernst Meyer, III, Cary Michael Huettner, Joseph Kuczynski, Timothy Tofil
  • Patent number: 7760499
    Abstract: A system is provided herein which comprises (a) a plurality of circuit boards (207); (b) a plurality of slots (205), wherein each of said slots is adapted to provide power to a circuit board coupled thereto, and wherein each of said circuit boards is coupled to one of said slots; and (c) a thermal management card (209) disposed in one of said slots, said thermal management card containing at least one synthetic jet ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Darbin, Samuel N. Heffington, John Stanley Booth, Raghavendran Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 7751193
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus can be reduced in size and cost by eliminating certain component parts such as a power board, etc. The apparatus includes a housing, a heat sink, semiconductor switching elements having terminals and mounted on the heat sink, a circuit board arranged in opposition to the heat sink, conductive plates connecting between the circuit board and the semiconductor switching elements, and a cover receiving the semiconductor switching elements and the circuit board in cooperation with the heat sink. The conductive plates have the press-fit terminal portions press-fitted into the through holes in the circuit board, and the individual conductive plates are arranged along a lead-out direction in which the individual terminals of the semiconductor switching elements lead out, and are bonded to the individual terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tominaga, Masahiro Kimata, Takayuki Kifuku, Shuzo Akiyama, Tadayuki Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7742297
    Abstract: In an exemplary apparatus for cooling an electronic component, a housing defines an inlet port and an exhaust port and a foam member is disposed within the housing. The foam member has a shape that conforms to a shape of at least one surface of an electronic component such that the foam member is receivable thereon in thermal communication. The foam member has a pore size of no more than around 50 micrometers and a porosity of at least around 80 percent. The foam member is arranged within the housing such that coolant is flowable through the foam member. Pore size may be around 35 micrometers and porosity may be around 90 percent. Foam may be a ceramic foam that includes silica, aluminum oxide, and aluminum borosilicate fibers. In an application, at least one exemplary apparatus may be received in thermal communication on an upper case of an electronic chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: William W. Behrens, Andrew R. Tucker
  • Patent number: 7738249
    Abstract: An electrical assembly which includes a circuitized substrate including a first plurality of dielectric and electrically conductive circuit layers alternatively oriented in a stacked orientation, a thermal cooling structure bonded to one of the dielectric layers and at least one electrical component mounted on the circuitized substrate. The circuitized substrate includes a plurality of electrically conductive and thermally conductive thru-holes located therein, selected ones of the thermally conductive thru-holes thermally coupled to the electrical component(s) and extending through the first plurality of dielectric and electrically conductive circuit layers and being thermally coupled to the thermal cooling structure, each of these selected ones of thermally conductive thru-holes providing a thermal path from the electrical component to the thermal cooling structure during assembly operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benson Chan, Frank D. Egitto, How T. Lin, Roy H. Magnuson, Voya R. Markovich, David L. Thomas
  • Patent number: 7729123
    Abstract: A heat dissipating assembly capable of being placed between a circuit board and a casing of an electronic device includes a fan assembly and a bracket. The fan assembly is mounted on the circuit board. The fan assembly includes an enclosure defining a chamber and an opening at a side wall thereof, along with a blower received in the chamber. The bracket is located between the fan assembly and the casing of the electronic device. The bracket has a side wall thereof defining a cutout connected with the chamber. The cutout and the opening of the enclosure are defined at two different sides of the heat dissipating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Er-Zheng Zhao, Hai-Yang Yu, Hong-Wei Zhu
  • Patent number: 7723611
    Abstract: Embodiments of a cable connector are provided that include an inner connector assembly and an outer connector housing. In use, the cable connector securely fastens or splices together at least two cables or cable sections and in electrical communication while also providing fluid communication therebetween. The cable connector further protects, and preferably seals off, the connection interface between the cables or cable sections and from the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: UTILX Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Stagi, James Steele
  • Patent number: 7719837
    Abstract: A method and apparatus adapted to cool a circuit board in a rack-mountable housing includes transferring heat from a heat source on the board to a primary heat storage medium positioned at an edge of the board or within a rack-mountable housing using at least one heat pipe, transferring heat from the primary heat storage medium to a secondary heat storage medium positioned in the rack-mountable housing through contacting surfaces of the primary and secondary heat storage mediums, transferring heat from the secondary heat storage medium to a heat exchanger, which may be positioned within the rack-mountable housing, using at least one heat pipe, and cooling the heat exchanger. A method and apparatus adapted to cool a printed circuit board includes transferring heat from a heat source on the board to a heat exchanger positioned in the rack-mountable housing using at least one heat pipe, and cooling the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventors: Shan Ping Wu, Shan Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 7710721
    Abstract: Water paths for feeding a coolant water through a power converter mounted on an automobile are arranged in parallel, openings are formed on the water paths respectively, heat radiating fins project from the openings, and the openings are closed by a base plate of the power module. Further, the base plate of the power module includes a metal in addition to copper to increase a hardness of the base plate, so that a deterioration of the flatness during fixing the fins with brazing is restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsuo, Haruki Hamada, Atsuo Nishihara, Masanori Musou
  • Patent number: 7710723
    Abstract: An inverter assembly for a vehicle includes a housing, a first inverter, and a second inverter. The housing comprises a plurality of walls. The plurality of walls form an inlet for cooling fluid to enter the housing, an outlet for the cooling fluid to exit the housing, and a channel, and a channel for the cooling fluid to flow therebetween. The first inverter is disposed within the housing proximate the channel, and is configured to be cooled by the cooling fluid flowing through the channel. The second inverter is also disposed within the housing proximate the channel, and is also configured to be cooled by the cooling fluid flowing through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark D. Korich, Konstantinos Triantos, Mark L. Selogie
  • Patent number: 7697290
    Abstract: The invention discloses an electronic apparatus and a fan module thereof. The fan module includes a base, an impeller, a liquid container, an atomizing device and a cover. The impeller is provided in the base. The liquid container is placed at the center of the impeller, and the liquid container contains a liquid. The atomizing device is disposed on the liquid container, and the atomizing device can atomize the liquid to form a mist to spray in order to absorb the heat in the electronic apparatus. The cover covers the base and forms an air outlet with the base. Furthermore, the cover has an air inlet. When the impeller rotates, the blade of the impeller drives airflow mixed the heated mist to enter into the base through the air inlet of the cover, and to exit from the base through the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Pegatron Corporation
    Inventor: Chung-Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 7692924
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rack suitable for housing a liquid-cooled electric unit. A rack 2 comprises an electric connector 12 for supplying electricity to the housed electric unit 50, and a fluid connector 14 for supplying cooling liquid to the housed electric unit 50. The fluid connector 14 and the electric connector 12 are arranged at different positions in a horizontal cross section (plane) of the rack 2. More preferably, the electric connector 12 is mounted on a back panel 6 of the rack 2, while the fluid connector 14 is mounted on the foreside of the rack 2. Such a configuration makes it less likely that the cooling liquid leaking from the fluid connector 14 drips onto the electric connector 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignees: Nabtesco Corporation, Hamilton Sundstrand
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Wavering, Francis C. Belisle, Darin R. Driessen, Tsutomu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20100068611
    Abstract: A power supply device in which power storage bodies are disposed in a casing that houses a cooling medium is provided. The power supply device includes a moving portion that moves the power storage bodies in the cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Takashi Murata
  • Patent number: 7679911
    Abstract: An electronic component or assembly that is assembled within a case that is designed to operate as a liquid phase to gas phase heat pipe where the electronic component or assembly is introduced into a liquid or partially liquid partially gaseous environment; whereby said liquid evaporates into a gas absorbing heat energy and transferring it to and through the component's or assembly's case. The case will be engineered out of materials that do not contaminate the liquid and electronics with ions and will be engineered to include a plurality of chambers/towers that extend in various directions providing enhanced heat pipe functionality in any physical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventor: Robert J Rapp
  • Patent number: 7679907
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a heat-generating element mounted in the housing, a cooling fan mounted in the housing, a fin unit which is mounted in the housing and opposed to the cooling fan, and a heat transfer member which thermally connects the fin unit to the heat-generating element. The cooling fan includes a fan case which is provided with an opening portion. The fin unit includes an insertion portion which is inserted into the fan case through the opening portion. The insertion portion is provided to extend from one longitudinal end area to the other longitudinal end area of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takeyoshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7672129
    Abstract: A cooling system for a heat producing component includes a base having two or more cells. The cells may include microchannel passages. A pump system may be coupled to the base. The pump system may circulate fluid independently in each of two or more of the cells. The pump system may include an array of two more magnetohydrodynamic pumps. Each magnetohydrodynamic pump may provide fluid to a different cell. A controller may control a flow rate in each one of cell of the cooling system independently one or more of other cells of the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien Ouyang, Kenneth C. Gross
  • Patent number: 7660122
    Abstract: An inverter apparatus includes a liquid path in which cooling water flows, and in which the cooling water performs cooling at a cooling part located directly underneath the power circuit part of the inverter apparatus. The liquid path includes a first partial structure part formed between a feed pipe and the cooling part, and having a liquid path cross-sectional profile that is gradually reduced in the short-side direction of the cooling part and that is gradually enlarged in the long-side direction thereof; and a second partial structure part formed between the cooling part and a drain pipe, and having a liquid path cross-sectional profile that is gradually enlarged from the short-side of the cooling part and that is gradually reduced from the long-side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Tamba, Ryuichi Saito, Atsuo Nishihara
  • Patent number: 7660117
    Abstract: A duct work assembly is coupled to an end of an electronics enclosure that houses one or more heat generating devices, such as electronics servers. The duct work assembly includes individual duct guides that each have a deformable end, which is configured to locally deform around the electrical connection lines extending from the rear of one or more electronics servers. The deformable end can be made of bristles, as in a brush, or foam that includes slits and/or holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas E. Werner, James Hom, Hae-won Choi, Tien Chih (Eric) Lin, Richard Grant Brewer
  • Patent number: 7643977
    Abstract: A computer simulation method is disclosed for simulating an electrical cable having a stranded conductor surrounded by a conductor shield encased in an insulation jacket and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor injected with a fluid composition comprising at least one dielectric enhancement fluid component so as to at least partially fill the interstitial void volume at an initial time. The simulation method comprises for a selected length of the simulated cable, defining a plurality of radially arranged finite volumes extending the selected length of the simulated cable, and estimating the radial temperature of each finite volume. For a selected time period after the initial time, performing a series of steps at least once and outputting or otherwise using the value of the new concentration for the dielectric enhancement fluid component within each finite volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Novinium, Inc.
    Inventor: Glen J. Bertini
  • Patent number: 7637094
    Abstract: A method for cooling an igniter lead is provided. The method includes coupling an assembly to the igniter lead such that a portion of the assembly rotates circumferentially around the igniter lead, and channeling cooling air through the assembly to facilitate cooling the igniter lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hugh Marshall Costello, Richard Walter Gronostaj
  • Patent number: 7619889
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling a transfer of heat between circuit board components. Included is a circuit board with components mounted thereon. Also provided is a controllable heat transfer medium for controlling a transfer of heat between the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Zhihai Zack Yu, Jeong H. Kim, Tommy C. Lee
  • Patent number: 7602608
    Abstract: Electronic circuit boards are arranged as respective parallel pairs defining a narrow gap there between. One or more such pairs of boards are supported within a hermitically sealable housing and cooled by way of spraying an atomized liquid coolant from a plurality of nozzles into each narrow gap. Transfer of heat from the circuit boards results in vaporization of at least some of the atomized liquid within the narrow gap. The housing further serves to guide a circulation of vapors out of each narrow gap, back toward the nozzles, and back into each narrow gap. A heat exchanger exhausts heat from the housing and overall system, wherein vapor is condensed back to liquid phase during contact and heat transfer therewith. Condensed liquid is collected and re-pressurized for delivery back to the nozzles such that a sustained cooling operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Isothermal Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Tilton, Donald E. Tilton, William J. Beasley, Douglas W. Miller, Randall T. Palmer
  • Patent number: 7599184
    Abstract: Liquid-based cooling solutions used to transfer heat produced by one or more heat generating devices from one or more electronics servers to the ambient. Each electronics server includes one or more heat generating devices. Integrated onto each electronics server is a liquid based cooling system. Each liquid based cooling system includes a server pump and one or more microchannel cold plates (MCP) coupled together via fluid lines. The liquid based cooling system for each electronics server includes a rejector plate configured with micro-channels. The MCPs, the server pump and the rejector plate form a first closed loop. The rejector plate is coupled to a chassis cold plate via a thermal interface material. In a multiple electronics server configuration, the rejector plates for each of the electronics servers are coupled to the chassis cold plate configured with fluid channels which are coupled via fluid lines to a liquid-to-air heat exchanging system to form a second closed loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Cooligy Inc.
    Inventors: Girish Upadhya, Mark Munch, Norman Chow, Paul Tsao, Douglas E. Werner, Mark McMaster, Frederic Landry, Ian Spearing, Tim Schrader
  • Patent number: 7595992
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a substrate unit of the present invention comprises a first substrate, a second substrate and a coupling member. The first substrate has a first substrate main body and a circuit component. The second substrate has a second substrate main body, an opening portion provided at the second substrate main body, and a cooling module which cools the circuit component. The circuit component is mounted on a face of the first substrate main body which is opposite to the second substrate. The cooling module has a main body and a projecting portion. The coupling member fixes the main body to a second face of the second substrate main body, and couples the first substrate and the second substrate so as to fit the projecting portion in the opening portion and press the projecting portion against the circuit component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuuichi Koga