Cooling Apparatus Making, E.g., Air Conditioner, Refrigerator Patents (Class 29/890.035)
  • Publication number: 20130284408
    Abstract: A cooling reservoir may be provided. The cooling reservoir may include: a generally polygon shaped container having sides that define at least two corners; a fan configured to blow air across two sides that define one of the corners; and cooling fins attached to the sides. A method for making a cooling reservoir may be provided. The method may include: providing generally polygon shaped container having sides that define at least two corners; mounting a fan to blow air across two sides that define one of the corners; and attaching cooling fins to the sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SPX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas P. Miller, Michael T. Landrum
  • Publication number: 20130283849
    Abstract: An adsorptive cooling system includes: a first highly adsorptive structure positioned to receive thermal energy from a thermal energy source, including: a first substrate; and a first metal-organic framework (MOF) coupled to the first substrate and adapted for adsorbing and desorbing a refrigerant under predetermined thermodynamic conditions; a second highly adsorptive structure positioned to receive thermal energy from the thermal energy source including: a second substrate; and a second MOF coupled to the second substrate and adapted for adsorbing and desorbing a refrigerant under predetermined thermodynamic conditions; a cooling unit; and a circulation system adapted for circulating refrigerant from the first highly adsorptive structure and the second highly adsorptive structure to the cooling unit to provide cooling from the thermal energy source and to return the refrigerant to at least one of the first highly adsorptive structure and the second highly adsorptive structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore F. Baumann, Joe H. Satcher, JR., Joseph C. Farmer
  • Publication number: 20130283830
    Abstract: Refrigeration systems with a purge for removing non-condensables from the refrigerant and an acid filter for remove acid from the refrigerant are provided. The acid filter can be operatively connected to the purge. Optionally, the purge can include a separating device for separating non-condensable gases from condensable refrigerant gases and an acid filter is provided to remove acid from the condensable refrigerant gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daoud Ali JANDAL, Julie Ann MAJURIN, Stephen Anthony KUJAK, Raymond Scott SCHAFER, Paul Edmond CIESLINSKI
  • Publication number: 20130283822
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic refrigerant bed, which is a column composed of n magnetic refrigerant bed components, and these n magnetic refrigerant bed components are arranged in a descending order according to Curie temperatures or phase transition temperatures of the magnetic refrigeration materials used, wherein n=1-1000. The magnetic refrigerant bed components are flat sheets (1), straight wave-shaped sheets (2) or zigzag wave-shaped sheets (3) which can easily form a magnetic refrigerant bed with high specific surface area and flow channels of low resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jun Shen, Jianfeng Wu, Baogen Shen, Maoqiong Gong, Wei Dai
  • Patent number: 8567485
    Abstract: A heat transfer system having an evaporator, a heat exchanger, and a working fluid that undergoes compression. The heat exchanger includes a first tube made from a steel alloy which is alloyed to facilitate bending, the first tube having a first end connected to the outlet of an evaporator and a second tube having a first end connected to the inlet of the evaporator. The second tube is positioned in thermal contact with the first tube for a portion of the respective lengths of the first tube and the second tube, so as to allow an exchange of heat between the fluid within the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: TI Group Automotive Systems Limited
    Inventors: Bengt Ake Viklund, Gote Gunnar Berggren, Leo Ostergaard Mogensen
  • Publication number: 20130277021
    Abstract: A cold box particularly for use in a LNG cryogenic processes in which a plurality of cores of heat exchanger units are mounted within a housing. Headers are positioned in the housing with feed lines connecting the headers to manifolds on the cores. The cores and headers are arranged such that no header is positioned to block the removal of any core through the front and/or back of the housing. A method of making the cold box is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Robert R. Huebel
  • Publication number: 20130271918
    Abstract: An electronic system cooling apparatus including a cold plate coupled vertically within an enclosure, the cold plate including a plurality of fluidly isolated, thermally coupled, adjacently nested boustrophedonic channels that terminate in a common upper end and a common lower end. Each turn of each channel includes a top arm and a bottom arm fluidly coupled by a side segment, wherein the top arm is stacked above the bottom arm along the height of the cold plate. An outlet manifold is fluidly coupled to the common upper end of the plurality of channels and an inlet manifold is fluidly coupled to the common lower end the plurality of channels, wherein the inlet manifold is disposed below the outlet manifold to facilitate an upward coolant flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: JOHN PHILIP NEVILLE HUGHES, ROBERT J. LIPP
  • Publication number: 20130269914
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigeration cycle that in terms of functionality and quality is within the allowable range of and comparable to a conventional heat exchanger for a refrigeration cycle, has substantially the same structure as a conventional heat exchanger for a refrigeration cycle, and enables reduced costs, as well as method for manufacturing the heat exchanger are provided. A heat exchanger for a refrigeration cycle is configured so that a refrigerant discharged from a compressor is circulated to a condenser, a capillary tube, an evaporator, a suction pipe, and the compressor, and so that the external surfaces of the capillary tube and the suction pipe are thermally in contact with each other. The material of the capillary tube and the suction pipe is aluminum. The locations at which the external surfaces of the capillary tube and the suction pipe are joined where fillets of a brazing material being an Al—Si alloy and a Zn—Al alloy are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Terumasa Matsumoto, Takashi Chino, Makoto Kusama
  • Publication number: 20130272896
    Abstract: A turbine component includes a hollow aerofoil and an impingement tube located within the hollow aerofoil. The impingement tube is formed from at least two separate sections each extending span wise through the hollow aerofoil. Adjacent sections of the impingement tube are connected together by a locking device. The locking device is insertable into the hollow aerofoil and locks the impingement tube into place in the hollow aerofoil. The locking device is a roll pin being located in an axially direction between said sections and has a main extension which extends in a radial direction of the hollow aerofoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: Anthony Davis
  • Publication number: 20130264929
    Abstract: A refrigerator in which a refrigerant pipe assembly including a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant pipe insulator coupled to the refrigerant pipe is inserted into an inner case in an inward direction from an outside of the inner case through an opening of the inner case. A portion of the refrigerant pipe insulator is disposed in the ice making chamber, and a remaining portion of the refrigerant pipe insulator is disposed between the inner case and the outer case. The refrigerant pipe insulator portion disposed between the inner case and the outer case is supported by a body insulator foamed between the inner case and the outer case. In accordance with this structure, it is possible not only to insulate the refrigerant pipe, but also to easily insert the refrigerant pipe into the ice making chamber and to keep the refrigerant pipe in a firmly-supported state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Koog AN, Jeong Hun Shin, Byung Su Kim
  • Publication number: 20130263620
    Abstract: A refrigerator in which an ice making chamber case including a horizontal wall, a vertical wall, a front opening and a front edge is coupled to an inside of an inner case, to form an ice making chamber. A case insulator is disposed in a wall space of the ice making chamber case. The case insulator is foamed separately from a body insulator which is foamed between inner and outer cases of a refrigerator body. Since the case insulator is foamed separately from the body insulator, it is possible to easily achieve foaming of the case insulator. It is also possible to prepare the ice making chamber case separately from molding of the inner case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Koog AN, Jeong Hun SHIN, Byung Su KIM
  • Publication number: 20130255304
    Abstract: A vacuum insulated door structure comprises a first wall having a first edge, outer sidewalls that extend from the first edge to a perimetrical lip, a first inner surface and a first outer surface. A second wall has a second inner surface, a second outer surface and a second edge coupled to the perimetrical lip forming a cavity volume. The second wall includes inner sidewalls defining a second wall opening. The inner sidewalls extend to a back wall and define a second wall offset. A tubular member includes a first end coupled to a first conduit opening in the first wall and a second end coupled to a second conduit opening in the second wall offset. A barrier layer is disposed on the first and second walls and the tubular member. A cavity insulation material is disposed within the cavity volume which is hermetically sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nihat Cur, Guolian Wu
  • Publication number: 20130239603
    Abstract: An improved reversible cycle heat pump system incorporating powered subcooling to increase heating capacity by over 50 percent over conventional heat pump technology without imposing a performance penalty; wherein over 21 percent is attributable to evaporator capacity gained by subcooling, over 21 percent is attributable to recovery and utilization of sensible heat energy removed as a by-product of subcooling, and over 8 percent is attributable to recovery and utilization of sensible heat energy resulting from the conversion of electric energy to mechanical work, heat of compression, and mechanical heat of friction. The powered subcooling improvement is also easily installed as original equipment, or retrofitted to existing heat pump systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventor: Luther D. Albertson
  • Publication number: 20130239601
    Abstract: A heat pump having a supplemental resistive heat element that varies its heat output based on the air temperature downstream from it, rather than from the air temperature at the room thermostat or from the air temperature after the heat exchanger but before the variable supplemental resistive heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventor: Luther D. Albertson
  • Patent number: 8522436
    Abstract: The method for mounting fins onto an annular seat of the invention includes the steps of: a) providing a forming machine for forming sheet metal from a material; b) cutting the sheet metal to form a plurality of fins; c) providing an annular seat placed on a rotary support and having slots; and d) one by one embedding the fins into the slots with rotation of the annular seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Li-Hua Chin
  • Publication number: 20130213068
    Abstract: A space conditioning system for conditioning air within an enclosed space. The system comprises a refrigeration subsystem configured to circulate a flammable refrigerant there-through. The refrigeration subsystem also comprises a safety module configured to include either: a leak-detector subunit, or, a start-up subunit. The leak-detector subunit is configured to monitor for a leak of the flammable refrigerant from the refrigeration subsystem, and, to generate an alarm signal if the leak is detected. The start-up subunit is configured to turn on one or more airflow devices configured to vent or mix a leaked flammable refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Rakesh Goel, Shailesh Manohar
  • Publication number: 20130206368
    Abstract: In a cooling device using an ebullient cooling system, the cooling performance adversely decreases if the evaporator includes projections activating the convection heat transfer and the bubble nuclei are formed on the inner wall surface, therefore, a cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes an evaporator storing a refrigerant; a condenser condensing and liquefying a vapor-state refrigerant vaporized in the evaporator and radiating heat; and a connection connecting the evaporator and the condenser; wherein the evaporator includes a base thermally contacting with an object to be cooled, and a container; the base includes a plurality of projections on a boiling surface of a surface at an inner wall side contacting with the refrigerant; and a bubble nucleus forming surface is included only on a part of a refrigerant contacting surface including the boiling surface and the surface of the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20130199233
    Abstract: An insulated icemaking compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The icemaking compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere in the fresh food compartment. A removable bin assembly with a front cover normally seals the icemaking compartment to maintain the temperature in the compartment. A cold air duct formed in the rear wall of the refrigerator supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the icemaking compartment. A return air duct directs a portion of the air from the icemaking compartment back to the freezer compartment. An air vent in the icemaking compartment directs another portion of air into the fresh food compartment. A control system provides for controlling refrigerator functions in a manner that promotes energy efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Tim L. Coulter, Thomas E. Gose, Steven G. Herndon, James H. Jenkins, JR., Bill J. Koons, Brent A. Kramer, Scott W. Leimkuehler, Dean A. Martin, Alvin V. Miller, Kevin Lee Noel, Mauro M. Oliveira, Lester J. Ott, Ron S. Paulsen, Chad J. Rotter, David Allen Stauffer, Kyle B. Van Meter, Alan M. Welch, Robert L. Wetekamp
  • Publication number: 20130195543
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a frame for a refrigerator and/or freezer or of a refrigerator and/or freezer, wherein the frame consists of several frame parts, wherein one of two frame parts adjacent to each other in the frame has a protrusion and the other one has a receptacle into which the protrusion is inserted, and wherein said two frame parts are connected with each other by the method of ultrasonic welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Liebherr-Hausgerate Lienz GmbH
    Inventor: Liebherr-Hausgerate Lienz GmbH
  • Publication number: 20130185939
    Abstract: A method of constructing modular air conditioning systems for vehicles includes providing identical universal base units that can be built out into a variety of different types of air conditioning systems. Each base unit includes a frame, a condenser, an evaporator coil, and a blower, and has open-circuit refrigerant connection lines so as to be non-operational without a completion kit. Completion kits are provided in a variety of configurations, including at least two of a simple connection kit, a front box kit, and a compressor kit, each of which is connectable with a universal base unit to form a unique type of air conditioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: THERMO KING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiri Zapotocky, Miroslav Vavrik, Thomas Reitz
  • Publication number: 20130186109
    Abstract: A counter flow heat exchanger comprising a body formed of stacked, fused, ceramic sheets. The sheets comprising: a bottom sheet, a second sheet, a third sheet, a fourth sheet and a top sheet. The sheets have punched holes such that when the sheets are aligned there is an inlet hole spanning from the top sheet to the fourth sheet, an outlet hole spanning from the top sheet to the second sheet, and an inflow hole spanning from the fourth sheet to the second sheet. Within the second sheet, a low pressure flow channel connects the outlet hole with the inflow hole. Within the fourth sheet, the inlet hole flows into a high pressure flow channel which flows into a narrow flow path which then empties into the inflow hole. The high pressure flow channel is aligned with the low pressure flow channel to allow for heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY
    Inventors: Milind Diwakar Atrey, Prasanna Subhash Gandhi, Girish Jayant Phatak
  • Publication number: 20130168059
    Abstract: A pumped refrigerant cooling system having cooling units with associated pumping units for providing working fluid to the cooling unit to enable cooling of a space. The pumped refrigerant cooling system also includes a redundant pumping unit which is activated when a primary pumping unit associated with a cooling unit becomes inactive. The primary pumping unit is deactivated in favor of the redundant pumping unit. Once the primary pumping unit is placed in a condition suitable for reactivation, the redundant pumping unit is deactivated, and the primary pumping unit is reactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Liebert Corporation
    Inventor: Liebert Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130139540
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes a refrigerated goods container having an interior. Disposed on the refrigerated goods container outside the interior is a first tube evaporator which is wound round the refrigerated goods container, and a second tube evaporator is disposed on the refrigerated goods container in a top region thereof inside the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Eckartsberg, Michael Fahrenbach
  • Publication number: 20130139531
    Abstract: Inventive embodiments are directed to components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for a refrigeration system having a compressor operably coupled to continuously variable accessory drive (CVAD). In one embodiment, the refrigerant is adapted to cool the CVAD. In another embodiment, the refrigerant is configured to actuate a change in operating condition of the CVAD. A change in operating condition of the CVAD can be based at least in part on the thermodynamic state, such as pressure or temperature, of the refrigerant. In one embodiment, a skew-based control system is adapted to facilitate a change in the ratio of a CVAD. In another embodiment, a skew-based control system includes a skew actuator coupled to a carrier member. In some embodiments, the skew actuator is configured to rotate a carrier member of a CVT. Among other things, shift control interfaces for a CVT are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: FALLBROOK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: FALLBROOK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMP
  • Patent number: 8448697
    Abstract: A coating composition according to the present invention includes silica microparticles and fluorine resin particles. The coating film formed on a surface of an article includes a silica film composed of the silica microparticles, in which the fluorine resin particles are dotted so as to partially expose from a surface of the silica film, an exposed area of the silica film is larger than an exposed area of the fluorine resin particles, and amount of natrium contained in the coating composition is made equal to or less than 0.5% in a ratio by weight to contained amount of the silica microparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Reiji Morioka, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Teruhiko Kumada
  • Publication number: 20130125574
    Abstract: One aspect provides a dehumidifier that has a dehumidifying circuit and includes an evaporator, a first portion of a condensing circuit, and a first blower configured to direct a first air stream along a first flow path and through the evaporator and the first portion of the condensing circuit, for reducing the humidity of the first air stream. The dehumidifier also comprises a heat removing circuit, comprising a second blower configured to direct a second air stream along a second flow path and through a second portion of the condensing circuit for removing heat from the second portion of the condensing circuit. The first and second condensing circuits are fluidly coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Robert B. Uselton, Mark Cree Jackson
  • Patent number: 8434226
    Abstract: A heat exchange module 12 is formed by stacking pipe groups obtained by fixing a plurality of pipes 1 with use of pipe array holding members 9a to 9d. Flow path forming members 50 are arranged on pipe groups in the uppermost and lowermost layers, and walls 51 and 52 are provided so as to protrude from the outer-side pipe array holding members and the inner-side pipe array holding members. Flow path members 63 are provided between the walls 51 and 52 adjacent to each other so as to allow through holes 53 and 54 to communicate with each other. The heat exchange module 12 is housed in the housing 2, and while rotating the housing 2, a resin material 24 is filled into a space enclosed by the two inner-side pipe array holding members of each pipe group in the housing 2, interstices around the pipes present between an opening 15a of the housing and the outer-side pipe array holding members, and interstices around the pipes present between an opening 15b of the housing and the outer-side pipe array holding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Niitsuma, Minoru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130104399
    Abstract: A method is provided which includes providing a multi-rack assembly having adjacent first and second electronics racks, each being at least partially air-cooled, and an air-to-liquid heat exchanger associated with the first rack for cooling at least a portion of air passing through the first rack. The heat exchanger, which is disposed at the air inlet or air outlet side of the first rack and is coupled in fluid communication with a coolant loop to receive coolant from the loop and exhaust coolant to the loop, transfers heat from air passing thereacross to coolant passing therethrough. The assembly also includes a cooling unit, associated with the first rack and cooling coolant in the coolant loop, and an airflow director associated with the second rack and facilitating ducting at least a portion of air passing through the second rack to also pass across the heat exchanger associated with the first rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: International Business Machines Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130091867
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The apparatus includes a vapor-compression refrigeration system, which includes an expansion component, an evaporator, a compressor and a condenser coupled in fluid communication. The evaporator is coupled to and cools the electronic component. The apparatus further includes a contaminant separator coupled in fluid communication with the refrigerant flow path. The separator includes a refrigerant cold filter and a thermoelectric array. At least a portion of refrigerant passing through the refrigerant flow path passes through the cold filter, and the thermoelectric array provides cooling to the cold filter to cool refrigerant passing through the filter. By cooling refrigerant passing through the filter, contaminants solidify from the refrigerant, and are deposited in the cold filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. CAMPBELL, Richard C. CHU, Evan G. COLGAN, Milnes P. DAVID, Michael J. ELLSWORTH, JR., Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Robert E. SIMONS
  • Publication number: 20130091886
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The apparatus includes a vapor-compression refrigeration system. The vapor-compression refrigeration system includes an expansion component, an evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser coupled in fluid communication via a refrigerant flow path. The evaporator is coupled to and cools the electronic component. The apparatus further includes a contaminant extractor coupled in fluid communication with the refrigerant flow path. The extractor includes a refrigerant boiling filter and a heater. At least a portion of refrigerant passing through the refrigerant flow path passes through the refrigerant boiling filter, and the heater provides heat to the refrigerant boiling filter to boil refrigerant passing through the filter. By boiling refrigerant passing through the filter, contaminants are extracted from the refrigerant, and are deposited in the refrigerant boiling filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. CAMPBELL, Richard C. CHU, Evan G. Colgan, Milnes P. DAVID, Michael J. ELLSWORTH, JR., Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Robert E. SIMONS
  • Patent number: 8418365
    Abstract: In a method for producing a heat exchanger tube bundle for a heat exchanger of an electrochemical energy accumulators, heat exchanger channels and an intended profile are incorporated into material strips by deep drawing. A forward-flow distribution aperture is incorporated into a first such material strip from step b) (first heat exchanger plate), and return collecting apertures are incorporated into a second such material strip, forming first and the second heat exchanger plates. The latter are aligned in such a manner that webs of the two heat exchanger plates border each other, and the heat exchanger channels form heat exchanger tubes. The heat exchanger plates arranged in this manner are joined together to form a heat exchanger tube bundle. A corresponding pressure welding apparatus, a heat exchanger tube bundle, a heat exchanger module, a heat exchanger with two or more heat exchanger modules, and an electrochemical energy accumulator with a heat exchanger of this type are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johann German, Robert Ritter, Thomas Soczka-Guth
  • Publication number: 20130086937
    Abstract: An oil circulation system for a refrigeration chiller including a pump coupled to an atomizing spray nozzle located near the compressor suction inlet spraying a fine mist of oily liquid from the evaporator to be aspirated by the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Luther D. Albertson, Mark B. Key
  • Publication number: 20130089370
    Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle is provided that includes a first air cooler that has a first element of a sliding seat tenon-and-mortise joint and a first element of a latching joint. The cooling device has a second air cooler connected to the first air cooler that has a second element of the sliding seat tenon-and-mortise joint and a second element of the latching joint, the elements of the latching joint and the elements of the sliding seat tenon-and mortise joint being designed in such a way that a form-locked connection between the two air coolers may be produced by the latching joint and the sliding seat tenon-and-mortise joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20130074534
    Abstract: One aspect, as provided herein, is directed to a multi-stage fluid control system for a fluid source heat pump system. This embodiment comprises compressors configured to operate as separate, heat exchange stages, condensers each being fluidly coupled to at least one of the compressors by refrigerant tubing and having intake ends coupled together by a fluid intake manifold. This embodiment further includes output conduits coupled to each of the condensers and that are couplable to a distal location. Further included is a modulating valve control system interposed the output conduits. The modulating valve control system is configured to stage a flow of fluid through the condensers based on a number of operating compressors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Schneider, Eric Perez, Aylan Him, Miguel Montemayor
  • Publication number: 20130067949
    Abstract: One aspect provides a cooling system, and method of manufacture thereof, that comprises a housing having at least one condenser attached thereto and an auxiliary condenser attached to the housing. A refrigeration loop fluidly couples the at least one condenser and the auxiliary condenser. A compressor forms a portion of the refrigeration loop, wherein the auxiliary condenser is interposed the compressor and the at least one condenser within the refrigeration loop that forms a refrigerant path from the compressor to the auxiliary condenser and from the auxiliary condenser to the at least one condenser. A fan located within the housing is positioned to force air through the auxiliary condenser and out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Berthold Adomat
  • Publication number: 20130068606
    Abstract: An immersion cooler comprising an agitator motor having a drive shaft, an evaporator located in a tank and surrounding the drive shaft, and an agitator coupled to the drive shaft. The agitator is configured to draw a fluid from the tank and distribute the fluid around a periphery of the agitator and toward the evaporator. An agitator and a method of manufacturing an immersion cooler are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC
    Inventor: Gerhard A. Lahnstein
  • Publication number: 20130047645
    Abstract: An ice making apparatus of a refrigerator and a method for assembling such an ice making apparatus are provided. The ice making apparatus may include an ice tray, a sensor installed on a lower portion of the ice tray, a sensor wire connecting the sensor to a controller of the refrigerator, a driver provided at a first end of the ice tray, a driving shaft provided at the first end of the ice tray, a support device provided at a second end of the ice tray, and a support shaft provided at the second end of the ice tray and inserted into a rotational shaft hole of the support device, the support shaft having a through hole allowing the sensor wire to pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Bumseup KIM
  • Publication number: 20130045870
    Abstract: An International Organization for Standardization (ISO) shipping container 10 includes a cryogenic refrigeration system 14 for cryogenically cooling superconducting magnet(s) 12A, 12B during transit. The cryogenic refrigeration system 14 monitors the temperature and/or pressure of the superconducting magnet(s) and circulates a refrigerant to the superconducting magnet(s) to maintain cryogenic temperatures in superconducting coils. A power supply 16, provided by a transportation vehicle, connects to the cryogenic refrigeration system via a power inlet 20 which is accessible from the exterior of the shipping container. The superconducting magnet(s) are suspended within the shipping container which is then loaded onto the transportation vehicle. The external power supply is connected to the cryogenic refrigeration system such that refrigerant is circulated to a cold head 22A, 22B of each superconducting magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: John R. Rogers, Edwardus Maria Bek
  • Publication number: 20130042640
    Abstract: An internal heat exchanger and a first flow control valve are connected in series between a condenser and a refrigerant inlet of an ejector. A gas refrigerant outlet of a gas-liquid separator is connected to a suction port of a compressor. A first bypass circuit connects a refrigerant outlet of the condenser to an intermediate pressure portion of the compressor via a second flow control valve and the internal heat exchanger. A second bypass circuit connects a refrigerant outlet of the internal heat exchanger to the liquid refrigerant outlet of the gas-liquid separator via a third flow control valve. While the second flow control valve is opened such that the refrigerant flows through the first bypass circuit, the fourth flow control valve is switched to be opened or closed, and the third flow control valve is switched to be closed or opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Higashiiue, Takashi Okazaki, So Nomoto, Hirokazu Minamisako
  • Patent number: 8371822
    Abstract: A dual-powered airflow generator comprising: a primary fan motor powered from a primary power source and an auxiliary fan motor powered from a secondary power source. In one embodiment, the primary fan motor has a first drive shaft wherein operation of the primary fan motor causes a desired airflow at a design power of the primary power source. In a preferred embodiment, the auxiliary fan motor is powered from a secondary power source and has a second drive shaft mechanically coupled to the primary fan motor, wherein the auxiliary fan motor is configured to assist the primary fan motor in causing the desired airflow while the primary fan motor operates from the primary power source at a reduced power. In a preferred embodiment, the auxiliary fan motor is powered by a solar power generating device or other alternative energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Robert B. Uselton
  • Patent number: 8360749
    Abstract: The arrangement and the process are applied in a compressor comprising: a cylinder block (2); a movable assembly including a piston (5); and a resonant spring (11) having a first end portion (11a), affixed to the cylinder block (2) by a first fixation assembly (20), and a second end portion (11b) affixed to the movable assembly by a second fixation assembly (30). The first or the second fixation assembly (20, 30) comprises a bearing portion (21, 31) attached around one of the end portions (11a, 11b) of the resonant spring (11) and having a fixation face (21b, 31b), and a bearing receiving portion (22, 32), previously attached to the cylinder block (2) or to the movable assembly and having a junction face (22b, 32b), the fixation and junction faces (21b, 31b, 22b, 32b) being welded together, securing the resonant spring (11) to the movable assembly and to the cylinder block (2), maintaining the movable assembly concentric to the cylinder (2a) and in a predetermined axial positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.
    Inventor: Rogerio Ribeiro Morrone
  • Patent number: 8363400
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a mechanism, a circuit module and a fixing element. The circuit module is disposed inside the mechanism. The circuit module includes a circuit board and a fan. The circuit board has at least one edge and a fixing hole. The fan has a first lateral side and a second lateral side. The first lateral side has a first hook buckled on the edge. The second lateral side has at least one screwed board, wherein the screwed board has a screwed hole. The fixing element is screwed on the screwed hole and the fixing hole to screw the fan on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Feng-Ku Wang, Chih-Kai Yang
  • Patent number: 8359745
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat sink includes providing a heat-conducting base with a plurality of open troughs; providing a plurality of heat pipes, each having a heat-absorbing section and a heat-releasing section extending from the heat-absorbing section; the heat-absorbing section being accommodated in one open trough to have the heat pipe engaged with the heat-conducting base; providing a plurality of heat-dissipating fins, each of the heat-dissipating fins having a lower plate and an upper plate extending from the lower plate, the upper plate being folded to form an overlapping portion attached on the lower plate; forming a through-hole in the lower plate and the upper plate at the overlapping portion; and penetrating the through-holes of the heat-dissipating fins by the heat-releasing section of the heat pipe. In this way, the heat-dissipating area in the same height can be increased, thereby improving the heat-dissipating efficiency of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: CPUmate Inc., Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20130014538
    Abstract: A subassembly for an adsorption chiller includes an adsorption component that includes a plurality of plates arranged in a stack. Refrigerant passages are defined between refrigerant sides of adjacent pairs of the plates in the stack. An adsorbent material is disposed within the refrigerant passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean Garner
  • Publication number: 20130008189
    Abstract: A cryopump includes an array of a plurality of cryosorption panels which are surrounded by a cryopump inner open space opened to a cryopump opening and a radiation shield which surrounds the cryopump inner open space. At least one of the plurality of cryosorption panels includes a panel end which protrudes toward the radiation shield in the cryopump inner open space, and the panel end has a region from which an adsorbent is absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20130002098
    Abstract: A method of transporting and assembling components of a merchandise display system having one or more display units. The components of the merchandise display system may be shipped to and received at a merchandising location and may lay flat and stack on top of each other during transportation. The components of the merchandise display system may be assembled at the merchandising location. One or more of the components may be pre-assembled and shipped to and received at the merchandising location to be assembled with the remaining components of the merchandising display system. The merchandise display system may include a base unit having a refrigeration unit that cools one or more display units. The refrigeration unit may be removable from the base unit. The display units may be stackable on top of one another and be configured to attach to the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: PEPSICO, INC.
    Inventor: Emad Jafa
  • Publication number: 20120325821
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for constructing a cryogenic storage tank (700) having a welded inner tank (702), an outer shell (704) surrounding the welded inner tank (702), a concrete foundation (728) comprising a raised portion (752), a plurality of cellular glass blocks (734) positioned directly on top of the raised portion (752) of the concrete foundation (728), a leveling course of concrete (736) poured on top of the uppermost layer of the plurality of cellular glass blocks (734), and a mounting apparatus (718) affixed to the concrete foundation (728), where the welded inner tank (702) is positioned on top of the leveling course of concrete (736) and the outer shell (704) is affixed to the mounting apparatus (718) at locations around the periphery of the outer shell (704).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventor: Avijit Mookerjee
  • Patent number: 8336207
    Abstract: A method for supplying a plurality of capacitance values to a plurality of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC/R) components is provided. The method includes configuring a first set of terminals of a connection device to couple a first capacitor to the connection device and configuring the connection device to couple the first capacitor to at least one of the plurality of HVAC/R components. The method further includes configuring a second set of terminals of the connection device to couple a second capacitor to the connection device and configuring the connection device to selectively couple the second capacitor to at least one of the plurality of HVAC/R components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: RBC Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: James Ryan Johnson, Francisco Javier Curiel
  • Publication number: 20120320529
    Abstract: The current invention comprises a base plate made of at least a first metal and a second metal clad together with a metallurgical bond, where the first and second metals are different metals. The base plate includes an enhanced surface that is entirely contained within the second meta where the enhanced surface comprises fins, pins, or other structures. The tip of the enhanced surface extends above the outer surface of the second metal, and the enhancements are monolithic with the second metal. The base plate can form one component of a cold plate for cooling electronics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Wolverine Tube, Inc.
    Inventors: Sy-Jenq Loong, Donald Lynn Smith
  • Publication number: 20120297807
    Abstract: A cooling unit and cooling method are provided for a container-type data center. The cooling unit includes a heat rejection unit, for rejecting heat from coolant passing through a coolant loop to air passing across the heat rejection unit, and a refrigeration unit controllable to selectively provide auxiliary cooling to at least a portion of the coolant passing through the coolant loop. The heat rejection unit includes a heat exchange assembly, having a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, and one or more air-moving devices providing airflow across the first and second heat exchangers. The first heat exchanger couples in fluid communication with the coolant loop, and the second heat exchanger is coupled in fluid communication with a refrigeration loop of the refrigeration unit for rejecting heat from refrigerant passing through the refrigeration loop to the airflow passing across the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian A. CANNEY, David P. GRAYBILL, Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Vinod KAMATH, Roger R. SCHMIDT