With Heating, Cooling Or Heat Exchange Means Patents (Class 312/236)
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Publication number: 20110234061Abstract: A stand-alone vaccination cart provides an all-in-one solution for distribution, maintenance, administration and presentation of vaccine shots. The vaccination cart comprises both a lower portion and an upper portion. The lower portion includes a refrigeration unit, a temperature monitor connected to the refrigeration unit, a plurality of storage drawers and a syringe disposal container. Placed on top of the lower portion is a work station which includes a networked computer and a printer for processing insurance and repayment forms. The corresponding upper portion includes a plurality bays to store additional medical supplies (gauze, disinfectant, adhesive bandages, etc). The networked computer is capable of communicating wirelessly with a centralized server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: VAXCARE CORPORATIONInventor: Casey DeLoach
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Publication number: 20110234064Abstract: An exemplary drive tray includes parallel side members; at least one end member connected to the parallel side members where the members collectively form a resilient, substantially rectangular frame for receipt of a drive body; and a pair of parallel side walls extending in a direction normal to a plane defined by the frame where the pair of parallel side walls include engagement features to engage opposing sides of a drive body. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Albert V. Makley, William F. Martin-Otto, Marc R. Pamley, Timothy S. Farrow
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Publication number: 20110227467Abstract: This invention presents a media island with a table element mounted around and onto a kiosk body. The table element can have a plurality of ashtrays. The table element can also have a plurality of drink recesses or cup holders. The table element can be comprised of two-piece table element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Foot Traffic Media Group, LLCInventors: Arnold John Foppe, JR., Kevin Edward Sprouse
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Publication number: 20110221316Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed to hold a communication device, such as a cellular phone, personal digital assistant, smart phone, or the like, in a manner that provides for hands-free use of the communication device, particularly while driving, visual proximity so that a display of the communication device is easily observed, and audio proximity so that a speaker and a microphone are easily within hearing and speaking distances. The holding apparatus includes one or more clips with which to clip the device onto a visor. The clips provide a degree of rotation about a pivot pin. The body is configurable such that it can hold devices of varying sizes. The body can extend both vertically and horizontally to accommodate longer and wider devices. In at least one embodiment, the body is sectioned into four quarters that can extend and retract to accommodate many varied sizes of devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventor: Julian Richmond
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Publication number: 20110221313Abstract: A kick panel for a household appliance, wherein the household appliance includes a housing body and a front panel defining a front of the housing body, the front panel including a front wall and a first side wall adjacent to a first end of the front wall of the front panel, the first side wall of the front panel including a cut-out. The kick panel includes a front wall and a first side wall adjacent to a first end of the front wall of the kick panel, wherein an inner concealed surface of the first side wall of the kick panel includes a catch device extending therefrom for engaging the cut-out of the front panel and securing the kick panel to the front panel, and wherein the kick panel conceals the catch device from view when viewed from a front of the household appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventor: Gerhard Stegerwald
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Patent number: 8014145Abstract: A cooling plate for a notebook comprises a base, a deck, a support jig, and a mouse piece, wherein the base is axially connected with the deck and includes an air hole formed thereon, the air hole includes a fin and a fixing panel connected therewith, the base also includes a recessed opening adjacent to the air hole, the deck includes a chamber formed on a middle portion thereof and having a number of positioning tabs attached on two sides of the chamber individually, and includes two covers disposed on two sides thereof respectively, each cover includes a cut mounted on an inner side thereof and a plurality of engaging protrusions adjacent to an inner side of a bottom surface thereof, the support jig is pivotally disposed in the opening of the base, and the support jig includes two retaining foots arranged on two sides of the rear end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Aidma Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chi-Pei Ho
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Publication number: 20110210652Abstract: The invention relates to a distribution cabinet (1) for communications and data technology, comprising a rack (2), at least one roof module (30), side walls (32), at least one rear wall (31) and at least one door (33) being fastened on the rack (2), the rack (2) having vertical struts (3) and lower and upper horizontal struts (8-11, 4-7), the roof module (30) being fastened on the upper horizontal struts (4-7), at least one side wall, a rear wall and/or a door being in the form of a double wall (31-33), an air flow being capable of flowing in the double wall (31-33), which air flow is flow-connected to an air flow in the roof module (30), wherein the upper horizontal strut (4-7) on which the double wall (31-33) is fastened has a cross section in terms of flow technology which allows for an at least partial horizontal air flow from the double wall (31-33) and an at least partial vertical air flow to at least one opening (30a) in the roof module (30), the opening (30a) in the roof module (30) being arranged soType: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: ADC GmgHInventors: Oliver Birkenstock, Adrian Benedetto, Bernd Delakowitz, Wolfgang Kraft
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Patent number: 8009426Abstract: Settop box (STB) or other housing for use in protecting electronic components. The housing may include an interior portion for protecting the components. The housing may include feet on a bottom and side to facilitate stabilizing the STB in a vertical and horizontal position. The housing may include vents to facilitate air flow to the interior. The vents may be associated with blocking aspects to protect against blocking the vents.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Comcast Cable Holdings LLCInventors: Ty O. Ahmad-Taylor, Gregory Edelin
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Publication number: 20110198973Abstract: A fan motor is mounted on the upper wall of the casing. The lower surface of this upper wall is formed into an inclined surface in which inclination is formed from the front wall side of the casing toward a back wall across from the front wall. When the fan motor is driven, oil mist or moisture contained in the air are condensed into water droplets or oil droplets. These water droplets or oil droplets fall and flow to the inner wall surface of the upper wall of the casing along the inner peripheral wall of a vent hole. Then the water droplets or oil droplets flow along the profile line of a vent hole smoothly (without stopping) and roll down the side wall of the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: FANUC LTDInventors: Kazuhiko Hirano, Kazuyuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 8000101Abstract: A system for attaching liquid cooling apparatus includes a fan, a chassis and a grill. The chassis is configured to house electronic components in an interior volume and has an air flow opening large enough to receive the fan. The grill is configured to be fastened to the fan and to the chassis such that, when the grill is so fastened, the fan is disposed at least partially in the interior volume and the grill substantially covers the air flow opening. At least one recess is formed either in the chassis or the grill such that a coolant conduit may be inserted into the recess when the grill is not fastened to the chassis and the coolant conduit is confined within the recess when the grill is fastened to the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Tom J Searby
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Patent number: 7990723Abstract: A housing structure of an acoustic controller, in which a lower case of the controller has an increased rigidity and improved moldability. The lower case is integrally formed by a resin and has a bottom surface thereof disposed to face a tabletop surface when the controller is in a stationarily placed thereon. The bottom surface of the lower case is formed to have a concave-forming portion that defines a concave space communicating with the outside of the controller on the left and right sides thereof and which is upward convex as viewed when the controller is stationarily placed, thus increasing the rigidity of the lower case. Bosses and vertical ribs formed to project upward from a horizontal part of the concave-forming portion of the lower case each have a reduced height, thereby improving the moldability of the lower case.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Watanabe, Hisashi Nagai
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Publication number: 20110183599Abstract: An enclosure, which includes a box portion having a top wall, the top wall having at least one fan and at least one baffle; and a lid portion, which fits over the top wall of the box portion and creates at least one passage extending along a front wall and/or a back wall of the enclosure to allow airflow from within the box portion of the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: CHANNELL COMMERCIAL CORPORATIONInventor: Robert John GERMAN
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Publication number: 20110182036Abstract: A casing for sheltering electronic components (52, 83) is disclosed, comprising:—an air inlet (110) at a first position of the casing (11) and,—an air outlet at a second position of the casing (11). The air inlet (110) comprises a first plate (112) with at least one first aperture (190) therein. The inlet (110) also comprises a second plate (114) that is arranged between the first plate (112) and an inner part of the casing (11). The second plate comprises at least one second aperture (192).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Nokia Siemens Networks OyInventors: Zi Liang Huang, Yong Zhu
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Publication number: 20110175505Abstract: Adjustable blanking panels for use with equipment racks and enclosures to cover or fill in vacant sections of the rack or enclosure, to prevent the circular flow and reentry of high temperature air into the intake of electrical and computer equipment. The adjustable blanking panels include a generally rectangular base frame that defines opposing left and right side channels, and a generally rectangular shield that is adapted to be inserted into the side channels and slide relative to the base frame, to adjust the height of the panel to the size of the vacant section. The adjustable blanking panel may further include a lip that may be used to raise or lower the shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Wright Line LLCInventors: Manuel D. Linhares, JR., Carl Cottuli
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Publication number: 20110175504Abstract: There is provided a door or side panel for a cabinet for storing data processing or telecommunications equipment, the door or side panel comprising a first vertical face and an opposing second vertical face, a first vertical side and an opposing second vertical side, and a first horizontal side and an opposing second horizontal side; the door or side panel further comprising at least one partition means positioned between the first and second vertical faces, and also comprising at least one air passage arranged so that air may pass through the door or side panel from the first vertical face, past the partition means, to the second vertical face, or from the second vertical face, past the partition means, to the first vertical face. There is also provided a cabinet for storing data processing or telecommunications equipment comprising one or more door or side panels of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventor: Michael Cook
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Patent number: 7983038Abstract: A cable management rack is provided within which or upon which a heat-generating device is mountable, and which encompasses a vertical rectangular frame open in a front and a rear of the frame. The rack includes a first upright and a second upright attached to opposite respective lateral sides of a base and a top member, and respective side-facing panels. Each of the panels defines a plurality of vent holes arranged in an array and permit the rack to receive a sideways flow of cooling air into a first side of the rack through one of the vent hole arrays for cooling a heat-generating device mounted between the panels, and permit the rack to discharge a sideways flow of exhaust air through the other vent hole array. Each of the array of vent holes may manifest a honeycomb pattern of vent holes, and each of the vent holes may manifest an hexagonal shape.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Ortronics, Inc.Inventors: Stewart A. Levesque, Lars R. Larsen
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Patent number: 7971620Abstract: The present invention is directed to a one-touch label-dispensing device for dispensing labels marked with time information, such as the month, day and year, that can be attached or integrated into the panel of a refrigerator so that labels automatically marked and dispensed can be used to mark food items placed in the refrigerator and/or cabinets. The present invention is also directed to a one-touch label-dispensing device for dispensing labels that can be equipped with a recording device for recording audible and text messages, such as e-mails, to be played back at a later time.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Inventors: Frederick J. Drummond, Margaret J. Drummond
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Patent number: 7974078Abstract: An electrical enclosure assembly is provided including a first enclosure and a second enclosure disposed within the first enclosure. The first enclosure having a plurality of walls defining an interior and an exterior with one of the walls including a first number of one way vents. The interior being substantially sealed from the exterior except at the first number of one way vents. The second enclosure having a plurality of walls defining an interior separate from the interior of the first enclosure. One of the plurality of walls of the second enclosure including a second number of one way vents. The interior of the second enclosure being substantially sealed from the interior of the first enclosure except at the second number of one way vents.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Jarrod L. Coomer, Michael H. Abrahamsen, David A. Metcalf, Timothy Fair
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Publication number: 20110157818Abstract: An exemplary data center includes two server systems arranged back to back. Each server system includes a server cabinet, a rail system, at least two servers and a fan module. The servers are accommodated in the server cabinet. The fan module is located at a rear side of the two servers and perpendicular to the servers to provide a horizontal airflow to cool the servers. The fan module is capable of rolling on the rail system between a rear side and a front side of the server cabinet to interchange between a vertical state and a horizontal state. Assembly or disassembly of the fan module is performed from the front side of the server cabinet where there is a greater amount of workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: HAO-DER CHENG, WEN-TANG PENG
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Publication number: 20110157829Abstract: A container includes first and second long sides parallel to the container's length. Racks are organized in rows parallel to the container's width. Each rack is receptive to installation of equipment along a height of the data rack parallel to the container's height. Openings are defined within the first and/or second long sides of the container. Heat exchangers may be installed, where each exchanger is installed on a rack to cool air exhausted by any equipment installed on this rack. Each row may include as many of the racks positioned side-to-side, length-wise, and parallel to the width of the container as can fit within the container. The racks of each row may be slidable in unison back and forth along the length of the container, between a first position at which the racks block an opening and a second position at which the racks block another opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Paul A. Wormsbecher, Gregory J. McKnight, Michael S. Miller, Howard V. Mahaney
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Publication number: 20110156554Abstract: A heat dissipating fan is housed in the opening of a chassis in the direction of thickness of the fan; a plurality of holding portions provided on the edges of the opening support the heat dissipating fan, parallel to the surface of the chassis; a plurality of elastic members provided on the two adjoining edges of the opening, respectively, urge the heat dissipating fan in the respective directions of the opposed edges of the opening to position the fan; and further a holder is provided with a plurality of elastic portions around ventilating openings corresponding to a blower window of the heat dissipating fan, and the elastic portions are abutted against the top surface of the peripheral portion of an outer casing of the heat dissipating fan to urge the heat dissipating fan perpendicularly to the face of the chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Publication number: 20110148261Abstract: An adjustable filler panel assembly, configured for use in an electronic equipment enclosure, includes a first panel and a second panel, each adapted to block airflow. The first panel has pairs of horizontally aligned adjustment openings formed therein, and the second panel has a pair of horizontally aligned attachment members disposed near one end. The first and second panels are connected to one another in an overlapping arrangement to form an air-blocking panel assembly with the attachment members of the second panel being aligned with and connected to a pair of adjustment openings of the first panel. In addition, the first panel and the second panel are telescopically adjustable relative to one another such that a length of the air-blocking panel assembly is selectively adjustable to fill at least a portion of an opening in the electronic equipment enclosure, thereby blocking air from flowing through the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: D. Brian DONOWHO, Richard Evans Lewis, II
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Patent number: 7965502Abstract: A storage device includes an enclosure, a plurality of drive connectors within the enclosure to which media drives are connected, a cooling fan in the enclosure, a backboard positioned to divide an interior space of the enclosure in an anteroposterior direction, and a plurality of temperature-dependent devices disposed behind the backboard. Air is taken in via an enclosure front face from outside the enclosure due to the cooling fan's rotation, flows through the interior space of the enclosure, and passes through the backboard. The backboard has all or some of the drive connectors on a front face thereof, arranged in a matrix configuration having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The plurality of drive connectors includes two first drive connectors, each first drive connector connected to a user-detachable media drive and located in a same column of the matrix configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Miyamoto, Chikazu Yokoi
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Patent number: 7957133Abstract: An electronic system includes a chassis, an air flow distribution assembly having a first set of baffles disposed within an intake volume of the chassis and a second set of baffles disposed in proximity to an air outlet of the chassis. The first set of baffles is configured to turn the flow of an air stream approximately 90 degrees, relative to an inlet flow direction of the air stream, toward circuit boards disposed within the chassis. The second set of baffles is configured as a flow splitter that receives the air stream from the circuit boards and partitions the air stream into separate portions prior to the air stream exiting via the air outlet. The use of both the first and second set of baffles redirects and distributes the air stream, flowing into the air inlet, in a substantially even manner across the circuit board component mounting surfaces of the circuit boards disposed within the system.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Christopher E. Zieman, Todd Mason
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Patent number: 7950383Abstract: A kitchen range subframe includes air channels for passively directing air to and/or from an element enclosure within the kitchen range, and a range component shelf that is configured to mount one or more range components to the kitchen range subframe. The kitchen range subframe provides improved ventilation for the kitchen range, and mounting locations for range components such as gas lines and kitchen range controls.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventors: Ronald G. Brant, Adam Clark, James Marler
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Publication number: 20110109207Abstract: A food service system is formed using a plurality of units capable of being interlocked together in a variety of customizable configurations. The units of the food service system include a food service bar with buffet pan chillers, a work table, a cashier station, and variety of connecting pieces for linking each of the units together. The food service bar comprises a sneeze guard that protects the food contained within the bar on three sides and can be broken down and folded down and into itself when the bar is being transported or stored. The buffet pan chillers are double sided and configured such that when frozen, may accommodate a shallow food pan on one side and then flipped over to accommodate a deep food pan on the other side while still maintaining the same serving height. Each unit is configured to receive multiple sizes of wheels or casters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: CAMBRO MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Larry Maddux, Johannes Le, Jeff Nicholson
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Patent number: 7934494Abstract: A collapsible unit for supporting food items over a heat source comprises a collapsible frame enclosure wherein at least one side of the frame is reconfigurable to enable various types of cooking and heating arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Inventor: Donna Gail Schneider
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Patent number: 7933120Abstract: According to the storage control device of the present invention, individual cooling passages are formed for each region in the enclosure and the respective cooling passages are formed bent so as to bypass the connection substrate. As a result, the interior of the enclosure is cooled efficiently. The interior of the enclosure is divided in the front-rear direction by the connection substrate. Logic substrates and battery devices are provided on the front side of the connection substrate and logic substrates and power supply devices are provided on the rear side of the connection substrate. The battery devices and power supply devices located on the left and right sides of the enclosure are each cooled by means of individual cooling passages. The logic substrates are cooled by means of different cooling passages.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeaki Tanaka, Yoshikatsu Kasahara
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Patent number: 7929300Abstract: An electronics assembly (48) is disclosed that utilizes a filter (24) within a plenum (50). The filter (24) may be electrically isolated from at least certain portions of the electronics assembly (48) by an electrical insulator (64). The electronics assembly (48) furthermore alleviates the need for a separate filter tray, and in this regard it may be such that only a first filter end (80) and a second filter end (82) of the filter (24) are supported within the electronics assembly (48).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLCInventors: Steve Bisbikis, Steve Koo, Todd Collis
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Publication number: 20110083824Abstract: A data centre (100) includes at least one rack room (in for example module 140) having a floor and a plurality of rack storage areas on the floor, each rack storage area being arranged to accommodate a plurality of racks (143) in which a plurality of rack-mountable electronic components may be housed, one or more controllable air circulation systems (in for example module 122), one or more cold aisles (144) in the rack room, each cold aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area, and one or more hot aisles (145) in the rack room, each hot aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area. There may be a large air duct, in the form of a personnel corridor (123), for transporting, under the control of the one or more air circulation systems, cooling air, above the floor, to the one or more cold aisles. The air supply corridor/duct (123) may have a height greater than 1.5 m above the floor and a cross-sectional area of at least 2 m2 and a maximum dimension in the plane of the cross-section of less than 3 m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Bripco BVBAInventor: Paul Rogers
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Publication number: 20110080706Abstract: A computer case includes outer panels forming an internal space sized and shaped to accommodate at least a motherboard, a plug-in card and a hard drive; and an inner panel arranged in the internal space and which physically forms a separate lower section of the internal space from an upper section of the internal space, wherein the upper section is arranged above the lower section of the internal space such that the upper section of the internal space accommodates the motherboard and the plug-in card and the lower section of the internal space accommodates the hard drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbHInventors: Bernhard Kannler, Michael Schmid
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Patent number: 7916470Abstract: A docking plenum for a rack is disclosed. The docking plenum includes a pair of sides that are coupled to first and second panels at the top of the docking plenum. The panels at the top of the docking plenum are separated from one another by an aperture. The docking plenum includes a front opening and a rear opening between the two sides. Each of the front opening and the rear opening are sized to receive a rack. The placement of a first rack in the front opening and a second rack in the rear opening creates a heated air cavity that is formed by the racks, the floor of the docking plenum, and the panels at the top of the docking plenum. When the racks are placed in the opening, and when one or more fans in the computer systems are activated, the fans draw air from outside the plenum across the interior of the computer systems. Heated air exits the computer systems and enters the heated air cavity. The heated air exits the heated air cavity through the aperture in the top of the docking plenum.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: R. Steven Mills, Ty R. Schmitt
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Patent number: 7916472Abstract: A data processing unit includes a chassis configured to contain a line card. The chassis defines, at least in part, a portion of a first flow pathway and a portion of a second flow pathway. The chassis is configured such that a first portion of a gas can flow within the first flow pathway between an intake region and the first end portion of the line card such that the first portion of the gas flows across a first end portion of the line card in a first direction. The chassis is configured such that a second portion of the gas can flow within the second flow pathway between the intake region and a second end portion of the line card such that the second portion of the gas flows across the second end portion of the line card in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Gunes Aybay, David J. Lima, Olaf Moeller
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Patent number: 7905173Abstract: A cooked food staging device and method are provided. The device and method are particularly suited for storing breaded, battered or bread food items for extended periods of time without becoming soggy. A heated compartment having a slot has a flexible member covering at least a portion of the slot to restrict airflow and to permit access to the food items contained therein, which may be contained on trays, without the necessity of removing the tray to view and remove selected food items therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Restaurant Technology, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Sus, Glenn Schackmuth, Henry T. Ewald, Paul G. Simmons
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Patent number: 7907402Abstract: An electronic equipment cabinet configured to support electronic equipment is provided and may include a shelf positioned in the cabinet separating the cabinet into a first zone and a second zone. The first and second zones may be in fluid communication with a cool air source. In some examples, the first zone may receive cool air directly from a cool air source and the second zone may receive cool air from a duct in fluid communication with the cool air source. In another example, both the first and second zones may receive cool air from the cool air source through a duct. In yet other examples, the cabinet may include a baffle between the cool air source and one of the first zones and the second zones to selectively control a quantity of cool air provided to the one of the first and second zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventor: Jack E Caveney
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Automatic cell cultivation apparatus utilizing autoclave sterilization and method for using the same
Patent number: 7883887Abstract: To present an automatic cell cultivation apparatus capable of sterilizing completely including a cold storage unit and a normal temperature storage unit, without causing cross contamination, in used of cell cultivation of plural subjects.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mutsumi Takagi, Katsumi Nakashima, Toshihisa Doi, Takamasa Ogata -
Patent number: 7885066Abstract: A front-to-back cooling system allows cooling of an apparatus containing two orthogonal sets of modules. A vertical set of modules is cooled with vertical air flow across the modules that enters from a front of the apparatus and exits from the back of the apparatus. A horizontal set of modules is cooled with air flow that passes through openings in a midplane connecting the two sets of modules.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Demick Boyden, Pradeep Sindhu, Keith J. Hocker
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Patent number: 7881056Abstract: The heat sink is provided perpendicularly to a bottom of a case of an on-board information device as the electronic device and adjacent to a right side plate of the case having windows (104) and (105). The heat sink includes grooves each vertically extending from the first to the third heat generating elements at a lower portion upward, and the through holes formed at positions corresponding to the windows of the right side plate of the case and at the upper portion of the heat sink along the grooves.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu TenInventor: Tetsuo Sano
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Publication number: 20110001406Abstract: The present invention relates to a framework for supporting pieces of work station equipment, and in particular to a console structure for supporting electronic equipment such as computers, video displays, control panels and the like. The present disclosure provides a console structure generally comprising a cabinet structure and a support structure. The cabinet structure generally defines an interior space for receiving equipment, whereas the support structure is typically disposed at the back side of the cabinet and extends above the cabinet for supporting equipment on the exterior of the cabinet. In at least one embodiment, the console has reduced dimensions to provide enhanced downward sightlines over the console. Furthermore, in at lease one embodiment, the interior dimensions of the cabinet structure are maximized by providing a cabinet frame comprised of one or more compact frame members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Samuel Han, Shannon Lundrigan, Matko Papic
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Patent number: 7856838Abstract: A movable data center or container enclosed data center is disclosed in which a plurality of data processing modules, a plurality of heat exchange modules, and a plurality of fans are operatively arranged. The enclosure defines a continuous closed-loop air passage between a exterior walls and interior walls. The data processing modules, heat exchange modules, and fan units are arranged in an alternating pattern adjacent to the sidewalls of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventors: W. Daniel Hillis, Bran Ferren
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Patent number: 7855891Abstract: A housing for an outside plant telecommunication equipment (OSP) which uses modular heat sink assemblies. OSP housings contain electronic circuit boards on which are mounted electrical components that generate heat. Thermal conductors or mesas contact the electrical components to conduct heat from the components to the environment. Rather than create single purpose housings with cast thermal conductors, the improved housing uses heat sink plates which can easily be swapped out to accommodate a variety of electronic circuit boards that might be needed within a general purpose housing. Together with faster turnaround time to create a new design for a housing, lower manufacturing and inventory costs result.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Adtran, Inc.Inventors: John Wise Ayres, III, Grant Joseph Kruse, Jacob Daniel McCleary
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Patent number: 7855885Abstract: A network cabinet comprising an electronic component a duct positioned therein. The electronic component has at least one exhaust vent and the duct defines first and second openings. The first opening aligns with the exhaust vent such that the duct receives exhaust therefrom and the duct extends from the first opening toward a side of the network cabinet such that the second opening faces the side of the cabinet to direct the exhaust thereto.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Samuel J. Adducci, Brendan F. Doorhy, Jonathan D. Walker, Rhonda L. Johnson, Andrew R. Calder
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Patent number: 7850261Abstract: A pump enclosure includes a base, a plurality of pillars, and a cover. One of the pillars includes interconnecting aluminium extrusions defining therebetween a housing for pump control circuitry. This pillar can also provide a heat sink for dissipating heat generated during use of a pump away from the control circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Edwards LimitedInventor: Robert John Saunders
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Patent number: 7848101Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a plurality of electronic components comprises a centralized source comprising at least one micro cooler configured to deliver a flow of a cooling medium and a plurality of baffles configured to redistribute the cooling medium over the electronic components. The electronic components are situated in an enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Subhrajit Dey, Petrus Joannes Joseph Moeleker, Chellappa Balan
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Patent number: 7841381Abstract: An energy recovery ventilator and method for monitoring and maintaining an environmental condition inside a structure such as a house, building, or dwelling is provided. The ventilator may include a housing having mating halves of a molded polymeric material, first and second chambers disposed within the housing to convey separate first and second streams of air, a heat exchanger configured to intersect the first and second chambers, a first fan to circulate the first air stream through the first chamber, a second fan to circulate the second air stream through the second chamber, and a fan motor driving the first and second fans. The ventilator may also be configured to prevent frost build-up in or on the energy ventilator, to provide efficient cooling, and maintain one or more desired environmental conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignees: Stirling Technology, Inc., Sulfstede Consulting Services, Inc.Inventors: Catherine J. Chagnot, Jason Morosko, Louis Sulfstede
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Publication number: 20100295429Abstract: A cabinet temperature control system comprises a cabinet and an underground temperature control unit. The cabinet comprises an air discharging chamber and an air introducing chamber which are in communication with each other inside the cabinet. The underground temperature control unit comprises an air discharging chamber and an air introducing chamber which are in communication with each other inside the underground temperature control unit. The air discharging chamber of the cabinet and the air introducing chamber of the underground temperature control unit, and the air discharging chamber of the underground temperature control unit and the air introducing chamber of the cabinet, are in communication with each other respectively, so that the cabinet and the underground temperature control unit form an air circulating circuit. The underground temperature control unit further comprises a radiator arranged in the air circulating circuit. The system also has fans controlled by a control module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weixing Wu, Yuping Hong, Liqian Zhai, Xiaoming Kong
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Patent number: 7839635Abstract: An adjustable filler panel assembly, configured for use in an electronic equipment enclosure, includes a first panel and a second panel, each adapted to block airflow. The first panel has pairs of horizontally aligned adjustment openings formed therein, and the second panel has a pair of horizontally aligned attachment members disposed near one end. The first and second panels are connected to one another in an overlapping arrangement to form an air-blocking panel assembly with the attachment members of the second panel being aligned with and connected to a pair of adjustment openings of the first panel. In addition, the first panel and the second panel are telescopically adjustable relative to one another such that a length of the air-blocking panel assembly is selectively adjustable to fill at least a portion of an opening in the electronic equipment enclosure, thereby blocking air from flowing through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.Inventors: D. Brian Donowho, Richard Evans Lewis, II
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Patent number: 7839631Abstract: A computer enclosure includes a chassis and an airflow-guiding device mounted to the chassis. A receiving slot is defined in the chassis. An elastic receiving portion is formed around the receiving slot. One side of the airflow-guiding device is detachably fixed on the chassis. A first resilient securing member is formed on another side of the airflow-guiding device corresponding to the receiving slot. A wedge is formed on the first securing member to slide over the receiving portion and insert into the receiving slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sheng-Hung Lee, Chien-Shun Lin, Li-Ping Chen
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Publication number: 20100264790Abstract: A computer enclosure includes a side plate, an absorber plate, a heat-dissipating plate, and a number of heat pipes. The absorber plate is mounted on an inner wall of the side plate to absorb heat generated in the computer enclosure. The heat-dissipating plate is mounted on an outer wall of the side plate. The number of heat pipes is passed through the side plate to connect the absorber plate and the heat-dissipating plate, to transfer heat from the absorber plate to the heat-dissipating plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: ZI-YU ZHAN
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Patent number: 7813120Abstract: An enclosure houses electronic modules in a front region and a rear region. Airflow can be transferred through electronic modules in the front region and into a plenum. An airflow path in the enclosure transfers airflow from the front region of the enclosure to electronic modules housed in the rear region of the enclosure. Airflow is transferred through the electronic modules in the rear region and into the plenum.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Wade D. Vinson, David W. Sherrod