Bellows (epo) Patents (Class 257/E23.091)
  • Patent number: 12262509
    Abstract: Thermal management devices, systems, and methods of fabrication thereof are generally directed to accommodating variability in height, shape, or other geometric features of one or more heat-dissipating components on a substrate while maintaining efficient transfer of heat away from the one or more heat-dissipating components. For example, a thermal management device may include a housing, a diaphragm, and a wick, the wick disposed along a chamber defined by the housing and the diaphragm such that a fluid within the chamber may evaporate and condense along the chamber to transfer heat away from one or more heat-dissipating components (e.g., electronic components or photonics). The diaphragm may be resiliently flexible relative to the housing to bias a contact surface of the diaphragm against one or more heat-dissipating components while maintaining efficient transfer of heat through the chamber and away from the one or more heat-dissipating components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Georgios Karamanis, Marc Scott Hodes
  • Patent number: 12127376
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a heat sink fin (HSF), a first heat sink plate (HSP), and a second HSP that is opposite to the first HSP. The HSF is located on the first HSP. The second HSP is flexible. Further, an elastic component is disposed between the first HSP and the second HSP. The second HSP is in contact with a heat source component (HSC). Thus, when the heat sink is placed on the HSC, the second HSP contacts the HSC, the second HSP is deformed because the heat sink and the HSC are pressed against each other, and the elastic component between the first HSP and the second HSP is compressed such that heat generated by the HSC is transferred to the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhigang Guo
  • Patent number: 12096600
    Abstract: A heat dissipation structure and a foldable display device are provided. The heat dissipation structure includes a base material layer including a bottom wall, a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The bottom wall, the first sidewall and the second sidewall form a first accommodation space, the first sidewall and the second sidewall are respectively formed with first connecting holes and second connecting holes; and heat dissipation blades accommodated within the first accommodation space and disposed on the bottom wall. The heat dissipation structure and the foldable display device are capable of balancing the heat of the whole device and have the excellent heat dissipation performance of the whole device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhenyu Yang
  • Patent number: 12048118
    Abstract: An immersion cooling assembly comprises at least one primary heat-generating electronic component and a flow-through cooling module mounted near the at least one primary heat-generating component. The flow-through cooling module comprises at least one inlet conduit to accept an inflow of pressurized dielectric coolant, a fluid chamber through which fluid flows to provide targeted, direct cooling to a heat-generating component, and exit passageways to facilitate flow-through of the dielectric coolant into a surrounding immersion bath for cooling of other components. As it flows out of the cooling module and over the heat-generating component, the coolant fluid absorbs heat from the heat-generating electronic component. In certain embodiments, the assembly may also comprise at least one periphery heat-generating electronic component, which may also be cooled by the dielectric coolant as it exits the vicinity of the flow-through cooling module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: JetCool Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Malouin, Jordan Mizerak
  • Patent number: 12035507
    Abstract: Technologies for dynamic cooling include a computing device having a multi-chip package including multiple dies and a cold plate coupled to the multi-chip package. Micro nozzle valves are coupled to fluid passage zones of the cold plate positioned adjacent to the dies, and are configured to control fluid flow into the fluid passage zones. The computing device reads a predetermined die junction temperature for each die, determines a current die junction temperature for each die, compares the predetermined die junction temperature to the current die junction temperature for each die, and determines a fluid flow rate for each die based on that comparison. The computing device controls the micro nozzle valves adjacent to each die based on the respective fluid flow rate. The dies may include processor cores, field-programmable gate arrays, memory devices, or other computer chips. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Rider, Devdatta Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11934213
    Abstract: A liquid-cooling device includes multiple water blocks and at least one connection tube. Each of the water blocks has a water incoming end, a water outgoing end and a water-receiving space in communication with the water incoming end and the water outgoing end. The connection tube is disposed between each two water blocks. Two ends of the connection tube are respectively connected with the water incoming end of one of the two water blocks and the water outgoing end of the other water block, whereby the water-receiving spaces of the two water blocks communicate with each other via the connection tube. The connection tube has at least one bellows section between two ends of the connection tube. The liquid-cooling device solves the problems of the conventional liquid-cooling device that when the water block is welded, thermal deformation is produced to cause tolerance and the manufacturing cost is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pai-Ling Kao, Sung-Wei Lee, Kuan-Lin Huang, Ming-Tsung Yang
  • Patent number: 11889614
    Abstract: An electronics assembly used in a vehicle included a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first side and a second side; a plurality of electrical components mounted on the first side of the PCB; a heat sink, configured to receive cooling fluid from a source, positioned adjacent to the second side of the PCB; and a cooling fluid conduit, configured to communicate the cooling fluid from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet, wherein the cooling fluid conduit is positioned adjacent to the first side of the PCB and directly contacts an outer surface of the electrical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventor: Lathom Alexander Louco
  • Patent number: 11825631
    Abstract: A bellows assembly and related methods are described. The bellows assembly can be used in a two-phase immersion cooling system to regulate pressure in a tank's airspace above a coolant liquid. The bellows assembly can include a flexible container and pressure-release valves located to reduce emissions of coolant liquid vapor into an ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MTS IP Holdings Ltd
    Inventors: Nihal Joshua, Ioannis Manousakis, Jimil Shah
  • Patent number: 11792956
    Abstract: A bellows assembly and related methods are described. The bellows assembly can be used in a two-phase immersion cooling system to regulate pressure in a tank's airspace above a coolant liquid. The bellows assembly can include a flexible container and pressure-release valves located to reduce emissions of coolant liquid vapor into an ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MTS IP Holdings Ltd
    Inventors: Nihal Joshua, Ioannis Manousakis, Jimil Shah
  • Patent number: 11778775
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a plurality of electronic components mounted on a circuit board. The device includes a contact sheet shaped for conforming to the plurality of electronic components and comprising a mating face for mating against the plurality of electronic components and a cooled face. An enclosure is mounted to the cooled face and defines a coolant transport circuit for circulating coolant liquid therethrough. A coupling may be provided for biassing the mating face toward the plurality of electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Frank H. Adam, Klaus Kaufmann, Tobias Merten
  • Patent number: 11729941
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes cages arranged as an upper cage and a lower cage in an up-down direction, a receptacle connector, a first liquid cooling tray and a second liquid cooling tray. Each cage includes a frame and a plurality of partitioning walls provided to the frame, and the frame and the plurality of partitioning walls together define a plurality of insertion space arranged transversely. The first liquid cooling tray is provided to a top portion of the upper cage and constitutes an upper wall surface of each of the plurality of insertion space of the upper cage. The second liquid cooling tray is provided between the upper cage and the lower cage, constitutes a lower wall surface of each of the plurality of insertion spaces of the upper cage, and constitutes an upper wall surface of each of the plurality of insertion space of the lower cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Che-Yuan Yang
  • Patent number: 11653480
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first system that generates heat, and a cooling arrangement. The cooling arrangement cools the first system, and includes a coolant source and a distribution arrangement. The coolant source provides a coolant in a first state that is distributed by the distribution arrangement to absorb the heat. The cooling arrangement includes a control arrangement and a heating arrangement. The control arrangement maintains the coolant in the first state at least a set point, the set point being a temperature that is above a dew point, by determining when to activate the heating arrangement to warm the coolant in the first state and, when it is determined by the control arrangement that the heating arrangement is to be activated, activating the heating arrangement to warm the coolant in the first state to maintain the temperature of the coolant at the set point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Nuro. Inc.
    Inventors: James Nicholas Vines, Jonathan David Beck, Grant Yuan Emmendorfer, Andrew Bryce Braum
  • Patent number: 11632855
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for dissipating heat of an electronic component mounted on a circuit board. The arrangement includes a heat sink for dissipating heat of an electronic component. In order for bottom heat of the electronic component to be dissipated, at least one heat-dissipating heat conducting section is configured on the circuit board, wherein the heat sink is connected in a heat transmitting manner to the heat conducting section of the circuit board. The heat sink by way of a foot section bears directly on the heat conducting section of the circuit board. A recess is configured in the base body of the heat sink, wherein the electronic component lies at least partially in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rene Wichert, Martin Fieseler
  • Patent number: 11610832
    Abstract: In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a module including a semiconductor die. The apparatus can include a heatsink coupled to the module and including a substrate, and a plurality of protrusions. The apparatus includes a cover defining a channel where the channel is outside of the module and the plurality of protrusions of the heatsink are disposed within the channel, and a sealing mechanism is disposed between the cover and the module is in contact with the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Teysseyre, Roveendra Paul, Dukyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11456234
    Abstract: A piezoelectric cooling chamber and method for providing the cooling system are described. The cooling chamber includes a piezoelectric cooling element, an array of orifices and a valve. A vibrational motion of the piezoelectric cooling element causes an increase or decrease in a chamber volume as the piezoelectric cooling element is deformed. The array of orifices is distributed on at least one surface of the chamber. The orifices allow escape of fluid from within the chamber during the decrease in the chamber volume in response to the vibration of the piezoelectric element. The valve is configured to admit fluid into the chamber when the chamber volume increases and to substantially prevent fluid from exiting the chamber through the valve when the chamber volume decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Frore Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Suryaprakash Ganti, Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy
  • Patent number: 11160196
    Abstract: A micro-strand heat dissipation system includes a first processing device and a plurality of first micro-strand heat dissipator elements that are each positioned on the first processing device in a spaced apart orientation from the other first micro-strand heat dissipator elements. Each of the plurality of first micro-strand heat dissipator elements include a first micro-strand heat dissipator element portion that extends into the first processing device from an outer surface of the first processing device, and a second micro-strand heat dissipator element portion that extends from the outer surface of the first processing device. The first processing device may define a plurality of micro-strand heat dissipator connector features to which each of the plurality of first micro-strand heat dissipator elements may be connected, or the plurality of first micro-strand heat dissipator elements may be integrated as part of the first processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Victor Teeter, Shree Rathinasamy
  • Patent number: 10856446
    Abstract: A cooling manifold positioned on an electrical or computer to provide liquid cooling for a plurality of slot-mounted electrical modules received in a corresponding plurally of module slots arranged in faceplate assembly of an electrical or computer card is described and illustrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Franklin D. Boyden, Jimmy Chun-Chuen Leung
  • Patent number: 10297572
    Abstract: Flexible interconnects, flexible integrated circuit systems and devices, and methods of making and using flexible integrated circuitry are presented herein. A flexible integrated circuit system is disclosed which includes first and second discrete devices that are electrically connected by a discrete flexible interconnect. The first discrete devices includes a first flexible multi-layer integrated circuit (IC) package with a first electrical connection pad on an outer surface thereof. The second discrete device includes a second flexible multi-layer integrated circuit (IC) package with a second electrical connection pad on an outer surface thereof. The discrete flexible interconnect is attached to and electrically connects the first electrical connection pad of the first discrete device to the second electrical connection pad of the second discrete device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MC10, INC.
    Inventors: Mitul Dalal, Sanjay Gupta
  • Patent number: 8937383
    Abstract: The semiconductor package as well as a method for making it and using it is disclosed. The semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor chip having at least one heat-generating semiconductor device and a volumetrically expandable chamber disposed to sealingly surround the semiconductor chip, the volumetrically expandable chamber filled entirely with a non-electrically conductive liquid in contact with the semiconductor device and circulated within the volumetrically expandable chamber at least in part by the generated heat of the at least one semiconductor device to cool the at least one semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
  • Patent number: 8592971
    Abstract: The semiconductor package as well as a method for making it and using it is disclosed. The semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor chip having at least one heat-generating semiconductor device and a volumetrically expandable chamber disposed to sealingly surround the semiconductor chip, the volumetrically expandable chamber filled entirely with a non-electrically conductive liquid in contact with the semiconductor device and circulated within the volumetrically expandable chamber at least in part by the generated heat of the at least one semiconductor device to cool the at least one semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
  • Patent number: 7656025
    Abstract: The semiconductor package as well as a method for making it and using it is disclosed. The semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor chip having at least one heat-generating semiconductor device and a volumetrically expandable chamber disposed to sealingly surround the semiconductor chip, the volumetrically expandable chamber filled entirely with a non-electrically conductive liquid in contact with the semiconductor device and circulated within the volumetrically expandable chamber at least in part by the generated heat of the at least one semiconductor device to cool the at least one semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
  • Patent number: RE38588
    Abstract: A lead material for an electronic part having no adverse effect on the environment, having excellent solderability, desirable welding strength during welding and a low degree of nonuniform thickness of the plated layer during reflow processing. The lead material has a first plated layer and a second plated layer, both of which do not contain Pb, laminated on the surface of a conductive substrate in such order. The melting point of the second plated layer is lower than that of the first plated layer. The first and second plated layers are made of a Sn substance and a Sn alloy, respectively or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Kyowa Electric Wire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morimasa Tanimoto, Satoshi Suzuki, Akira Matsuda, Kinya Sugie