Air Patents (Class 361/678)
  • Patent number: 11901708
    Abstract: A cooling system for an air insulated switchgear compartment includes: a housing; a fan; and a flap. The fan is mounted to the housing. The flap is mounted to the housing. The flap is positioned adjacent to the fan such that a rotational axis of the fan does not extend through the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jiri Horak, Emil Kalina
  • Patent number: 11870232
    Abstract: An electrical power distribution module for a vehicle. The electrical power distribution module provided with an upper module and a lower module. The upper module provided with circuit boards for various vehicle components and a temperature control system. The lower module provided with a plurality of isolated busbars, isolated from the surrounding structure. Each isolated busbar is one of a positive busbar, a negative busbar, and a ground busbar. The plurality of isolated busbars are arranged on opposite sides of the lower module and are arranged in an alternating fashion based on polarity. The plurality of isolated busbars are electrically connected to the circuit boards. The plurality of electrical connectors are spaced apart from each other and are configured to provide power and ground connections for the vehicle components. The plurality of isolated busbars are configured to carry different voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chad Burchett
  • Patent number: 11864358
    Abstract: An apparatus, such as a power routing apparatus, includes an enclosure having first and second compartments having respective first and second opposing walls. A cooling structure is disposed between the first and second compartments and has a coolant passage defined therein configured to support a coolant flow in a direction parallel to the first and second opposing walls. First and second semiconductor switches (e.g., static switches) are disposed on the first and second walls on opposite sides of the coolant passage and are configured to be cooled by the coolant flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Franz S. Domurath, Donald Caulfield, George Arthur Navarro
  • Patent number: 11690187
    Abstract: A display system can include a stand that includes a base and an arm that extends from the base to an end portion of the arm; and a display housing that includes a display, a rail assembly and an arm socket, translatable via the rail assembly, that receives the end portion of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian William Wallace
  • Patent number: 11679815
    Abstract: A liquid discharge structure includes a bottom wall to be disposed tilted relative to a horizontal plane at a casing which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a lateral wall arranged vertically at a lower end edge of the bottom wall, wherein the lower end edge is configured to be located on a lower side of the bottom wall being tilted, wherein the lateral wall has a discharge opening for liquid located at an end of the lateral wall closer to the bottom wall, a tubular rib wall projecting at least inwardly within the casing from the lateral wall so as to surround the discharge opening, and a partitioning rib wall which is arranged vertically on an inner surface of the bottom wall at a position closer to the lateral wall so that the partitioning rib wall extends intersecting a center axis of the tubular rib wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Yusuke Nagai, Makoto Goto
  • Patent number: 11678215
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One method may include a UE determining a priority of a UE quality of service over UE thermal efficiency constraints, generating a priority indicator based at least in part on the determined UE quality of service priority, and transmitting to a base station via physical layer signaling, the priority indicator. Another method may include a UE determining a priority of a UE quality of service over UE energy constraints, generating a priority indicator based at least in part on the determined UE quality of service priority, and transmitting to a base station via physical layer signaling, the priority indicator. Yet another method may include a base station receiving a UE priority indicator specifying a UE quality of service priority over thermal efficiency constraints and temporarily prioritizing the UE QoS over UE thermal efficiency constraints based on the received priority indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Junyi Li, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11324138
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a chassis, a cable channel formed within the chassis, and a sleeve within the cable channel and configured to minimize airflow recirculation in the chassis via the cable channel, the sleeve comprising a cable passage opening for passage of a cable and an obstruction configured to create a seal at the cable passage opening in the absence of the cable from the cable passage opening, such seal restricting airflow through the cable passage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yin Hung, Chun-Yang Tseng, Yi-Pai Chu
  • Patent number: 11042200
    Abstract: An apparatus that first and second volumes are fluidly separated by a combination of a first second and a second sections, where the first section is insoluble to a cooling liquid and the second section is soluble to the cooling liquid. In the event of a leak of coolant liquid, the second sections dissolve, forming a fluid path from the first volume to the second volume. The coolant liquid may then escape the first volume in spaces that result from the dissolution of the second sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Emory Bender, Jorge Padilla
  • Patent number: 11044831
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical enclosure arrangement comprising an electrical enclosure line and a cooling device connected into the line. The electrical enclosure line is formed from multiple electrical enclosures which are connected together. The invention is characterized in that the cooling device suctions hot air out of the electrical enclosures via two opposite faces, each of the faces of the cooling device adjoining a respective electrical enclosure, and blows the air back into the electrical enclosures as cooled air. At least one busbar is guided through a busbar transfer area of the cooling device between the electrical enclosures adjoining the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph Schreier, Stefan Eibach, Christoph Reitz, Steffen Wagner, Michele Vallani
  • Patent number: 11005239
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for sealing an air vent in a switchgear cabinet provide a vent seal assembly having a vent seal cover and a set of linear guides on which the vent seal cover may be mounted. The vent seal cover and linear guides are housed within a casing attachable to an interior surface of the switchgear cabinet and directly over an air vent. Within the casing, the vent seal cover may slide freely along the linear guides toward the air vent, with no spring or other mechanical biasing mechanism to oppose the sliding of the cover. A catch on the casing releasably holds the vent seal cover to keep the air vent open during normal operating conditions. When an arc event occurs, pressure from the arc event knocks the vent seal cover free of the catch and propels it toward the air vent, quickly slamming the air vent shut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Jordan, Gregory O. Motley
  • Patent number: 10951027
    Abstract: A smart load center panel (10) accepts two hot legs from each of two power sources, and selectively connects each of a plurality of breakers to one of the two power sources under processor control. A dielectric chassis (12) provides structural support and electrical isolation for a plurality of individual circuit boards (28), each including a pair of breaker stabs (26) and a relay (24) operative to selectively connect each breaker stab (26) to a different power source. A bus bar assembly (20) comprises two bus bars for the hot legs of each of two power sources, and insulates the bus bars from each other and from inadvertent contact. A master printed circuit board (40) comprises slits (43, 45) defining the individual circuit board (28) except at the edges. After mounting and soldering, the edges are cut away, yielding a plurality of individual circuit boards (28). Neutral and ground bus bars (46, 52) are mounted to the side of the panel housing (12), behind a flange of a front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Koolbridge Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis W. Thornton, Paul Wilkinson Dent
  • Patent number: 10599593
    Abstract: A device for a spacecraft includes electronic boards; elements that are robust to radiation, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Marc Fossion, Christophe Maillard
  • Patent number: 10299410
    Abstract: A modular cooling apparatus for cooling one or more rack-mounted electronic component enclosures in a datacenter includes a base duct section and a duct assembly. The base duct section includes an inlet to receive a cooling airflow and an outlet to transfer to the cooling airflow to the duct assembly. The duct assembly is connected to the base duct section. The duct assembly includes one or more modular duct sections. Each of the one or more modular duct sections has a vent and is configured such that the vent aligns with an exterior opening in the respective one of the one or more electronic component enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Duane Patrick, Frank Andrew Glynn, Alan Joseph Lachapelle, Giorgio Arturo Pompei
  • Patent number: 10178798
    Abstract: A housing having a first chamber arranged to receive one or more enclosures, and having a second chamber separated from the first chamber by a wall is provided. The one or more enclosures are each arranged to have electronic circuitry within the enclosure. The housing has one or more fans arranged to exhaust a first airflow from each of the one or more enclosures and the first chamber. The housing has one or more power supplies with a further one or more fans arranged to exhaust a second airflow from the second chamber and the one or more power supplies. The wall has one or more apertures arranged to at least partially align with one or more apertures of each of the one or more enclosures, so that the second airflow proceeds through the one or more apertures of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Christensen, Clay Ross, Yifan Wang
  • Patent number: 9953004
    Abstract: A data processing system with a main board and balcony boards. The data processing system includes a mainboard, at least one processor module, and at least one memory module. The system has at least one balcony board carrying at least one of the processor modules and at least one of the memory modules. The processor module has a first pin area for connecting to the balcony board and a second pin area for connecting to the mainboard, such that the balcony board is attached to the mainboard in a fixed position. The balcony board has an opening through which the processor module is plugged in a socket attached to the mainboard. The mainboard has an opening through which the processor module is plugged in a socket attached to the balcony board. A mainboard and a balcony board for a data processing system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow
  • Patent number: 9681578
    Abstract: A heat dissipation system used for a communications device is disclosed, where the communications device includes a chassis, a network board, a service board, a backplane, and a high-rate cable; the chassis is configured to house the network board, the service board, the backplane, and the high-rate cable; the backplane is vertically inserted in a middle part or a middle rear part of the chassis, and parallel to a front side of the chassis; the service board and the network board are parallel and are connected to a front side of the backplane; the high-rate cable is connected between the network board and the service board on a rear side of the backplane; and the heat dissipation system further includes multiple fans that are installed in an array form on a rear side of the chassis, and an air vent that penetrates through the backplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nengwu Xiang, Changyi Liu
  • Patent number: 9203066
    Abstract: A battery and an electrical apparatus accommodated in a battery pack body (1, 4) are effectively cooled. The battery pack body (1, 4) includes a battery region in which a battery module (2) is accommodated and an electrical apparatus region in which the electrical apparatus is accommodated. An air-suction portion (3) and an air-exhaust portion (37) are formed in the battery pack body (1, 4). Air which flows through the air-suction portion (36) is made to flow in the battery pack body (1, 4), thereby cooling the battery module (2) and the electrical apparatus and then, the air is made to flow out through the air-exhaust portion (37). The electrical apparatus region includes an electrical apparatus cover (27) which covers at least a portion of the electrical apparatus and which branches air which is sucked through the air-suction portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Watanabe, Toshiki Kusunoki, Shinpei Ono
  • Publication number: 20150124381
    Abstract: A switchboard copper busbar heat dissipating device for dissipating heat from a copper busbar inside a switchboard includes a thermally-conductive electrically-insulating plate having a first surface connected to the copper busbar and a second surface; at least one heat pipe having a first end connecting to the second surface of the thermally-conductive electrically-insulating plate and a second end protruding out of the switchboard; and a plurality of cooling fins connected to the second end of the heat pipe and disposed outside the switchboard. Hence, the switchboard copper busbar heat dissipating device is conducive to miniaturization of a switchboard, enhancement of efficiency of heat dissipation of the switchboard, compliance with the Ingress Protection (IP) Ratings of the switchboard (regarding waterproofing and dust-proofing thereof), and avoiding a waste of energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Chia Hsing Electrical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SEN-CHAN WU
  • Patent number: 9007746
    Abstract: A cabinet structure for a switchgear assembly. The cabinet structure includes a cabinet having upper and lower vents and a breaker cradle for holding a circuit breaker having primary disconnects for connecting the circuit breaker to bus bars. The cabinet further includes an air passageway located between the upper and lower vents, wherein the air passageway extends vertically through the primary disconnects and the cabinet. Further, the cabinet includes a fan module having at least one fan for drawing outside air through the lower vent, the air passageway and the primary disconnects for cooling the primary disconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Rajvanshi, Harry W. Josten, James Keith Flowers
  • Patent number: 9007763
    Abstract: An adjustable blocking arrangement for electronic hardware or computer racks, for preventing the undesired leakage of air through rack spaces not filled with hardware. An airflow control device is provided comprising a flexible web and a magazine adapted to receive the part of the flexible web that is not deployed. The device is adapted such that a length of the web may be deployed to sealingly block a space in the rack that is not filled with hardware modules, to prevent the flow of air through the space. The device may comprising a detection system adapted to detect the space in the rack that is not filled with hardware modules, and a processing system adapted to receive a signal from the detection system, and as a function of the signal to automatically deploy or retract the flexible web so as to sealingly block the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Emmanuel Tong-Viet
  • Patent number: 9001499
    Abstract: An electrical switching apparatus includes a plurality of poles, each of the poles including a terminal. The terminal of a first one of the poles is proximate the terminal of a second one of the poles. A jumper is electrically connected between the terminal of the first one of the poles and the terminal of the second one of the poles. The jumper includes a plurality of heat transfer members, each of the heat transfer members being separated from others of the heat transfer members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Kolberg, Thomas M. Whalen, John J. Shea, Percy J. Lipsey
  • Patent number: 8966922
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus and method are provided for cooling an electronic subsystem of an electronics rack. The cooling apparatus includes a local cooling station, which has a liquid-to-air heat exchanger and ducting for directing a cooling airflow across the heat exchanger. A cooling subsystem is associated with the electronic subsystem of the rack, and includes either a housing facilitating immersion cooling of electronic components of the electronic subsystem, or one or more liquid-cooled structures providing conductive cooling to the electronic components of the electronic subsystem. A coolant loop couples the cooling subsystem to the liquid-to-air heat exchanger of the local cooling station. In operation, heat is transferred via circulating coolant from the electronic subsystem and rejected in the liquid-to-air heat exchanger of the local cooling station to the cooling airflow passing across the liquid-to-air heat exchanger. In one embodiment, the cooling airflow is outdoor air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 8971043
    Abstract: Described embodiments include a portable electronic device. The device includes a shell housing components of the portable electronic device having a heat-generating component. The device includes a heat-rejection element located at an exterior surface of the shell. The heat-rejection element is configured to reject heat received from the heat-generating component into an environment in thermal contact with the heat-rejection element. The device includes a controllable thermal coupler configured to regulate heat transfer to the heat-rejection element. The device includes an activity monitor configured to infer a user touch to the shell in response to a detected activity of the portable electronic device. The device includes a thermal manager configured to regulate heat transfer by the controllable thermal coupler to the heat-rejection element in response to the inferred user touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Philip Lionel Barnes, Hon Wah Chin, Howard Lee Davidson, Kimberly D. A. Hallman, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Jordin T. Kare, Brian Lee, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Craig J. Mundie, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Nicholas F. Pasch, Eric D. Rudder, Clarence T. Tegreene, Marc Tremblay, David B. Tuckerman, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8964387
    Abstract: A power converter arrangement has two static switching element bridges that are alternatively operable and comprise static switching elements. The power converter arrangement has one housing that houses the two static switching element bridges; the housing has one cooling system for the static switching element bridges housed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Carsten Meinecke, Frank Furch
  • Patent number: 8959941
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus and method are provided for cooling an electronics rack. The cooling apparatus includes an air-cooled cooling station, which has a liquid-to-air heat exchanger and ducting for directing a cooling airflow across the heat exchanger. A cooling subsystem is associated with the electronics rack, and includes a liquid-cooled condenser facilitating immersion-cooling of electronic components of the electronics rack, a liquid-cooled structure providing conductive cooling to electronic components of the electronics rack, or an air-to-liquid heat exchanger associated with the rack and cooling airflow passing through the electronics rack. A coolant loop couples the cooling subsystem to the liquid-to-air heat exchanger. In operation, heat is transferred via circulating coolant from the electronics rack, and rejected in the liquid-to-air heat exchanger of the cooling station to the cooling airflow passing across the liquid-to-air heat exchanger. In one embodiment, the cooling airflow is outdoor air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 8955347
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus and method are provided for cooling an electronic subsystem of an electronics rack. The cooling apparatus includes a local cooling station, which has a liquid-to-air heat exchanger and ducting for directing a cooling airflow across the heat exchanger. A cooling subsystem is associated with the electronic subsystem of the rack, and includes either a housing facilitating immersion cooling of electronic components of the electronic subsystem, or one or more liquid-cooled structures providing conductive cooling to the electronic components of the electronic subsystem. A coolant loop couples the cooling subsystem to the liquid-to-air heat exchanger of the local cooling station. In operation, heat is transferred via circulating coolant from the electronic subsystem and rejected in the liquid-to-air heat exchanger of the local cooling station to the cooling airflow passing across the liquid-to-air heat exchanger. In one embodiment, the cooling airflow is outdoor air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 8922977
    Abstract: In an electrical distribution cabinet a mechanism providing quick, reliable, passive arc blast control has a flue chamber surrounding the likely arc site such as an electrical connection point. The flue chamber provides a flue channel which lengthens the arc and attenuates the current and temperature until the arc is extinguished. Preferably, the flue chamber and channel are formed of opposable open-faced polyhedral structures, one fitting inside the other. The mechanism is particularly suited for draw-out circuit breaker connections in a switch gear cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Robert Faber
  • Patent number: 8879042
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment relates to a cooling system and a method for cooling an electronic display. A preferred embodiment includes a transparent gas cooling chamber. The transparent gas cooling chamber may have a linear polarizer. The components in the system are preferably housed within the electronic display housing. The cooling chamber defines a gas compartment that is anterior to and coextensive with the electronic display surface. Fans may be used to propel the isolated gas through the cooling chamber. The circulating gas removes heat directly from the electronic display surface by convection. The isolated gas is transparent or at least semi-transparent. The image quality of an exemplary embodiment remains essentially unchanged, even though the gas is flowing through a narrow channel over the visible face of the electronic display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 8854816
    Abstract: The front case of the unit case contains a circuit section including a power semiconductor module, and the rear case contains a cooling fin assembly of the semiconductor module and a cooling fan. The cooling air ventilated through the wind channel by the cooling fan is discharged upward from the unit case. The water-proof cover is placed over the top of the unit case. The water-proof cover includes an exhausting structure formed with openings downward at the left and right sides of a front part of the water-proof cover to form an exhausting path; and a ventilation guide formed around an exhausting port inside a rear part of the water-proof cover. The cooling air discharged to the inside space of the water-proof cover by the cooling fan is ventilated through the ventilating path and exhausted outside through the exhausting path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Shintani
  • Patent number: 8852466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to switchgear for breaking a medium- or high-voltage electric current, which switchgear comprises a leaktight enclosure in which electrical components are found as well as a gaseous medium for extinguishing the electric arcs likely to occur in said enclosure, and which switchgear is characterized in that: the gaseous medium comprises at least one fluoroketone alone or in a mixture with at least one gas that does not form part of the fluoroketone family; the fluoroketone is present in the enclosure in part in the liquid state and in part in the gaseous state; and in that the enclosure further comprises means for absorbing molecular species that form after the ionization experienced by said fluoroketone during arcing. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing said switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Energy France
    Inventors: Yannick Kieffel, Daniel Piccoz, Alain Girodet
  • Patent number: 8842421
    Abstract: An arc-resistant switchgear enclosure has a vent opening and a vent flap. Normally the vent flap is open to allow air to circulate through the enclosure. However, in the event of an arc fault explosion in the enclosure, the vent flap is forced to close by the explosion. As the vent flap closes, a flexible latch member moves along a keeper and prevents the vent flap from reopening. In some embodiments, the latch member contacts the keeper and props the vent flap open for normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Central Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Paul W. Gingrich
  • Patent number: 8837119
    Abstract: A matrix converter includes first to third AC reactors connected in series with first- to third-phase outputs of three-phase AC electric power, and a first cooling fan that generates cool air for cooling the first to third AC reactors. The first to third AC reactors are arranged side-by-side in a direction intersecting a direction in which the cool air flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Kazutaka Kishimoto, Makoto Kojyo, Takahiro Uchino
  • Patent number: 8830658
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement of a device for generating electrical energy, wherein the switch cabinet arrangement comprises at least two separate power switch cabinets. The technical object of achieving an optimum scalability of devices for generating electrical energy with at the same time a simple installation and maintenance of the power switch cabinets despite a small available installation space, is achieved according to the invention in that the power switch cabinets respectively comprise a machine connection, a power module, a mains connection and a decentralised control unit, wherein the power module comprises a machine converter, a mains converter, a direct voltage intermediate circuit and a chopper, and wherein the power switch cabinets are electrically connected in parallel to one another via the machine connection and the mains connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Woodward Kempen GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Eichler, Hans-Georg Nowak, Marianne Hitpaβ
  • Patent number: 8817471
    Abstract: A system for suppressing an overheat condition in an electrical housing includes an electrical housing that defines a housing area including one or more electrical devices; a suppression fluid container containing a suppression fluid; a valve configured to regulate the flow of the suppression fluid from the suppression fluid container to the housing area; at least one sensor configured to sense at least one of temperature and smoke; and a controller communicatively connected to the at least one sensor and the valve, the controller configured to receive signals from the at least one sensor indicating an overheat condition in the housing area; and in response to the received signals indicating the overheat condition in the housing area, control the valve to allow the suppression fluid to flow from the suppression fluid container into the housing area, in order to suppress the overheat condition in the housing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Kyle Steven Barna
  • Patent number: 8797738
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes a housing, a cable, and a grommet supporting member. The housing includes a housing base, a main body, and an air duct. The housing base has a first surface and a second surface and includes a through hole. The main body includes a plurality of electronic components on the first surface of the housing base. The air duct is disposed on the second surface of the housing base, and cooling air flows through the air duct. The cable is disposed through the through hole of the housing base so as to be wired between the main body and the air duct. The grommet supporting member is in the air duct or the main body. The grommet supporting member supports a grommet through which the cable is disposed. The grommet supporting member is not integral with the housing base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Sumiaki Nagano, Kazutaka Kishimoto, Makoto Kojyo
  • Patent number: 8787018
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes a housing, a cylindrical capacitor, and a cylindrical capacitor cover. The housing includes a housing base, a main body, and an air duct. The main body includes a plurality of electronic components on a first surface of the housing base. The air duct is disposed on a second surface of the housing base. The capacitor penetrates through the housing base so that a part of the capacitor is disposed in the main body while a rest part of the capacitor is disposed in the air duct. The capacitor cover is disposed on the housing base and covers the rest part of the capacitor. The capacitor cover includes an elastic material and an inner surface. The capacitor cover includes a groove disposed on the inner surface in an axial direction of the capacitor cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Sumiaki Nagano, Kazutaka Kishimoto, Makoto Kojyo
  • Patent number: 8773851
    Abstract: A power converting apparatus includes a housing base, a main body, an air duct, a pair of upright air duct walls, first and second heat generators, and a protrusion. The housing base has first and second surfaces. The main body is on the first surface. The air duct is for cooling air to flow through the air duct and is on the second surface. The upright air duct walls are on the second surface and extend from an upwind side to a downwind side. The first and second heat generators are disposed in series from the upwind side to the downwind side in the air duct. The protrusion is between the first and second heat generators to protrude from at least one of the pair of air duct walls toward a center portion of an air-flowing space for the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shigeno, Toshiaki Fujiki, Kazutaka Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 8767380
    Abstract: A cabinet to be interposed between an above ground or underground sump and the control panel for said sump. All electrical connections between the control panel for the operation of the sump or lift station and the sump or lift station itself are disposed within this cabinet. The cabinet has two abutting closed sections, an A section having an open bottom and at least one vented side and a vented door; and a B section having a bottom panel and non-perforated sides and door. A pair of aligned intermediate rear panels close off each section, the only connection between said sections being a cable entry seal disposed in aligned openings in each intermediate rear panel for the passage of cabling from the A section to be mounted for termination in the B section. Any conventional cabling termination means can be employed in the B section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventor: Franklyn Masterson
  • Patent number: 8743532
    Abstract: In order to obtain a switchgear which can improve heat dissipation efficiency, in the switchgear which dissipates heat outside an apparatus vessel, the heat being generated from an electrical apparatus placed in the apparatus vessel, the switchgear includes a first heat conductor in which one side is connected to a heat generation portion of the apparatus vessel and the other side is extended toward the apparatus vessel side, a second heat conductor in which one side is disposed near the other side of the first heat conductor and the other side is extended outside the apparatus vessel, and an insulating member between conductors disposed between the other side of the first heat conductor and one side of the second heat conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Yano, Satoru Yoshida, Masahiro Arioka
  • Publication number: 20140133071
    Abstract: An arc-resistant switchgear enclosure has interior compartments with outlet vent openings that are selectively closed by vent flaps. The vent flaps are propped in an open position by props that extend from the vent flaps and contact supports. The props have a latch portion that latches the vent flap when the vent flap is in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Central Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Paul W. Gingrich
  • Patent number: 8717746
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus is provided for a switchgear having at least one primary contact to connect to a terminal of a circuit breaker, with a busbar joint connected to the primary contact. The cooling apparatus includes an evaporator associated with the primary contact. A condenser is located at a higher elevation than the evaporator. Heat pipe structure fluidly connects the evaporator with the condenser. Heat transfer structure is coupled with the busbar joint for removing heat from the busbar joint. Working fluid is in the evaporator so as to be heated to a vapor state, with the heat pipe structure transferring the vapor to the condenser and passively returning condensed working fluid back to the evaporator for cooling the at least one primary contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Patrik Kaufmann, Francoise Molitor
  • Patent number: 8696138
    Abstract: A filter unit includes an air filter, which captures dust from intake air, and a cleaning unit, which automatically cleans the air filter. The cleaning unit includes a rotation brush, which removes dust from the air filter, and a dust box, which extends parallel to the rotation brush. The dust box includes a dust inlet that opens toward the rotation brush and receives dust from the rotation brush. The dust box is removable from the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishihata, Akira Miyanaga, Yoshiharu Arioka, Hideaki Okaniwa
  • Patent number: 8699210
    Abstract: A system for cooling a multi-cell power supply, the system including a water pump, a water-to-air heat exchanger in fluid communication with the water pump, and a supply water manifold in fluid connection with the water-to-air-heat exchanger. The system further includes a plurality of power cells in fluid communication with the supply water manifold via one or more water hoses, and a multi-winding device in fluid communication with the plurality of power cells via at least one water-cooled bus, wherein the at least one water cooled bus electrically connects the power cells to secondary windings of the multi-winding device. The water-cooled buses provide both electrical current as well as cooling fluid to each winding of the multi-winding device, thereby eliminating a need for separate cooling and power connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc F. Aiello, Peter Willard Hammond, Edward Alan Cheesman, Wayne Sheldon Jordan, Jonathan Kunkle
  • Patent number: 8631890
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an electric construction machine capable of efficiently cooling the battery mounted on the swing structure. To achieve the object, there is provided an electric construction machine in which a battery storage room 11 is formed in the swing structure 3 and a plurality of batteries 231 as electric power sources are arranged in the battery storage room 11, comprising: a battery storage structure 23 storing the batteries 231 and having an air flow channel through which air can flow upward from a lower part of the battery storage structure 23; a covering sheet 26 entirely covering the top and side faces of the battery storage structure 23; and a duct 27 for discharging the air, one end of which is arranged in an upper part of the covering sheet 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Noguchi, Masayuki Yunoue
  • Patent number: 8634182
    Abstract: A premises power source accessory panel for an outdoor unit, a method of adapting an outdoor unit with a premises power source accessory panel and an outdoor unit incorporating the panel or the method. In one embodiment, the panel includes: (1) a bracket having at least one electrical conduit aperture and (2) a circuit protection element mounted to the bracket and configured to be coupled to a premises power source, the bracket removably couplable to the outdoor unit in lieu of a conventional electrical conduit panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Lennox Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Uselton, Timothy J. Brizendine
  • Patent number: 8625256
    Abstract: Closed busbar system for three-phase low voltage distribution, comprising phase bars that extend lengthways and transverse branch bars, one of which is respectively electrically connected to an associated phase bar. The phase bars are maintained in an inserted manner in a socket of an insulating housing for reducing the cross-section or increasing the power in such a manner that a cooling channel associated with each phase track is formed between the rear side of the phase tracks and the base inner side of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventor: August Schmid
  • Publication number: 20130314850
    Abstract: There is provided a switchboard including a boards each including an opening portion which is provided in a ceiling surface and configured to exhaust heat, and an intake portion which is provided in a lower portion and configured to taken in cooling air, a fan provided to cover the opening portion of a board of the boards and configured to exhaust air in a horizontal direction to cool the inside of the board, and a duct configured to supply the cooling air from the opening portion of a board not provided with the fan to the inside of the board provided with the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Akira SATOU
  • Patent number: 8531821
    Abstract: In accordance with the teaching of the present invention, a system and method for securing a ball grid array to a printed wire board is provided. In a particular embodiment, a ball grid array comprises one or more balls configured to attach to a spring comprising one or more turns. In addition, there is a spacer plate configured to align and separate the springs, a soldering aid configured to align solder on the printed wire board and a printed wire board configured with conductive pads to attach to the ball grid array via the springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Eli Holzman, Paul Brian Hafeli, Robert Michael Sterns
  • Patent number: 8464547
    Abstract: A cooling rack structure includes a cooling plate (1), a temperature conductor (2), a centrifugal fan (3), a cooling body (4) and a thermoelectric cooling component (5). A temperature-super-conducting component (13) is disposed on an inner surface (11) of the cooling plate (1). The temperature conductor (2) is arranged on the temperature-super-conducting component (13). In addition, a heat-exhausting hole (120) is arranged on an upper side of the cooling plate (1). The centrifugal fan (3) is disposed between the temperature conductor (2) and the heat-exhausting hole (120) while the cooling body (4) is disposed between the fan (3) and the heat-exhausting hole (120). A hot side face (501) of the thermoelectric cooling component (5) closely contacts the cooling body (4) while a cold side face (500) is arranged on the temperature-super-conducting component (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignees: Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd., CPUMate Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Kuo-Len Lin
  • Patent number: 8462495
    Abstract: A cooling system having a enclosure, a plurality of disk drives stored in the enclosure, a first portion of the disk drives having housings with a first form factor and a second portion of the disk drives having housings with a second form factor smaller than the first form factor, and an air baffle system for directing a flow of air internal the enclosure over portions of the housing of the second portion of the disk drives while at the same time creating a wall to maintain the flow of air over neighboring ones of the first portion of the disk drives (the external flow).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Keefe, Joseph L. Brigham, Jr.