Air Patents (Class 361/690)
  • Patent number: 11936275
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a plug connector which is fixed to an outside of the housing by a flange. The plug connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board and passing through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator including a sintered filter to vent the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GMBH
    Inventor: Conrad Nickel
  • Patent number: 11904651
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for operating a ventilation device for providing an air flow. An equipment parameter value of an equipment element of a motor vehicle and a vehicle parameter value of the motor vehicle are detected. Then, the ventilation device is activated subject to the detected equipment parameter value and the detected vehicle parameter value. To activate the ventilation device, a rotational speed of a fan of the ventilation device is set, where the rotational speed is varied subject to the detected equipment parameter value and the detected vehicle parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Holger Thiel
  • Patent number: 11828793
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for Devices Under Test (DUTs) includes at least one intake damper and at least one exhaust damper. At least one fan moves recirculated fluid and exterior fluid across one or more DUTs inside the testing apparatus. In one aspect, the testing apparatus includes a door to provide access to a chamber and the door includes at least one channel. At least a portion of the fluid flows through the at least one channel of the door. In another aspect, the door is configured to provide access to a chamber from the front of the chamber and the fluid is moved in a direction across the one or more DUTs substantially from the front of the chamber towards a rear of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ba Duong Phan, Alireza Daneshgar
  • Patent number: 11814186
    Abstract: In a jet engine having a core that sources a first flow of fluid and a component (such as a fan, a pump, and/or a bleed line) that sources a second flow of fluid, and where the first flow of fluid will typically have, at least during ordinary operation, a higher temperature than the second flow of fluid, at least one flow aperture formed by a first passageway to receive at least a portion of the aforementioned second flow of fluid, wherein that first passageway is comprised of at least one material that (by design and intent) deflects as a function of temperature such that a flow of the second flow of fluid through the at least one flow aperture is thereby desirably modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Michael Hoffman, Michael G. Chenery, David A. Perveiler, Dennis R. Jonassen, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Patent number: 11751364
    Abstract: Electronic equipment (10) has multiple cooling fans (15) for sending air to a heat sink (30). The multiple cooling fans (15) generate airflow (Fh) passing through the heat sink (30) from a first side (H1) to a second side (H2) thereof. The heat sink (30) is arranged obliquely to a crosswise direction and a longitudinal direction of the electronic equipment (10). A sheathing member (40) has an air inlet opening (41i) formed obliquely to the crosswise and longitudinal directions along the first side (H1) of the heat sink (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ootori
  • Patent number: 11733292
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for Devices Under Test (DUTs) includes at least one intake damper and at least one exhaust damper. At least one fan moves recirculated fluid and exterior fluid across one or more DUTs inside the testing apparatus. In one aspect, the testing apparatus includes a door to provide access to a chamber and the door includes at least one channel. At least a portion of the fluid flows through the at least one channel of the door. In another aspect, the door is configured to provide access to a chamber from the front of the chamber and the fluid is moved in a direction across the one or more DUTs substantially from the front of the chamber towards a rear of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ba Duong Phan, Alireza Daneshgar
  • Patent number: 11706898
    Abstract: An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure at least partially enclosed by a plurality of panels defining a compartment in which one or more electronic components are mounted and an exhaust air duct that is adapted to segregate hot air being exhausted from the compartment from cool air entering the compartment, thereby improving thermal management of the enclosure. The exhaust duct includes a lower duct section extending upward from the top panel of the compartment and an upper duct section telescoping upward from an upper end of the lower duct section. Each duct section includes four panels connected together by hinged corner fittings such that the section is collapsible. The upper duct section includes an outwardly flared portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventor: William Krietzman
  • Patent number: 11578929
    Abstract: A passive heat switch device is disclosed that includes a casing defining a closed channel, as well as a passive thermal actuator and liquid slug positioned inside the closed channel. The closed channel includes a heat conducting region made of a heat conducting material and an insulating region made of an insulating material. The passive thermal actuator is thermally coupled to the heat conducting material of the heat conducting region and extends into the insulating region of the closed channel. The passive thermal actuator deforms when an actuator temperature falls within a switching temperature range. The liquid slug is positioned within the closed channel and contacts at least a portion of the passive thermal actuator and the closed channel and is configured to move along the closed channel between the insulating region and the thermally conductive region in response to deformation of the passive thermal actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Patricia Weisensee, Mehran Abolghasemibizaki, Junhui Li
  • Patent number: 11452242
    Abstract: Described herein is an air handling unit that includes canopies for compressor fans and exhaust fans located on a top thereof, which canopies provide for noise abatement and a canopy to assist in keeping precipitation out. The canopies further include louvers that can be controlled to provide for even further noise abatement and precipitation control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Switch, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rob Roy
  • Patent number: 11418089
    Abstract: A power tool is provided, including a housing; an electric brushless DC motor disposed within the housing; and a power module disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the motor. The power module includes a circuit board, a first set of power switches mounted on a first surface of the circuit board, a second set of power switches mounted on a second surface of the circuit board substantially opposite the first set of power switches and electrically coupled to the first set of power switches forming an inverter bridge circuit, power terminals arranged on a side edge of the circuit board and coupled to the output of the inverter bridge, a first heat sink mounted on the first surface of the circuit board covering the first set of power switches, and a second heat sink covering the first heat sink and at least portions of the power terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur M. Purohit, John B. Fogle, Michael D. Grove
  • Patent number: 11322921
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a box body, a housing member fixed to a fixing surface that is set on a portion of an inner surface of the box body, and an electronic component that is housed in the housing member and to which a wire W is to be connected. The housing member includes a wire lead-out surface from which the wire W connected to the electronic component is to be led out, a component housing portion that is a space for housing the electronic component and that includes an opening portion that opens in the wire lead-out surface, and an extended wall portion that is located on the fixing surface side relative to the component housing portion and extends to a side of the opening portion in an opening direction thereof relative to the wire lead-out surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Miyamoto, Kohei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11303064
    Abstract: A Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) module for a vehicle can include a chassis, a galvanometer driver circuit board and a main circuit board. The main circuit board may be pre-assembled to the chassis resulting in a blind mating of an electrical connector of the main circuit board to an electrical connector of the galvanometer driver circuit board. The LiDAR module may include pins extending from the chassis arranged to extend through holes in the galvanometer driver circuit board in order to align the electrical connector of the galvanometer driver circuit board with the electrical connector of the main circuit board prior to the coupling of the electrical connectors. The pin may include a threaded portion coupled to the chassis, an unthreaded central portion engaging the galvanometer driver circuit board, and another threaded portion used to secure the galvanometer driver circuit board to the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anan Pan, Henghui Jiang
  • Patent number: 11271458
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing apparatus includes an upper mold and a lower mold and enabling the manufacturing of a laminated core by stacking individual laminar members which are formed by having a strip which is sequentially transferred on an upper portion of the lower mold undergo a piercing process and a blanking process by means of punches provided to the upper mold, wherein the laminated core manufacturing apparatus further comprises: a squeeze ring installed on a lower portion of a blanking die for the blanking process; an elevating block installed on the lower portion of the squeeze ring; an elevating means for vertically moving the elevating block; and a heating block installed on an upper portion of the elevating block and positioned at an inner diameter surface of the laminated core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BMC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: In Gyu Jung
  • Patent number: 11264748
    Abstract: An electrical connector that includes a housing with an interior cavity configured to receive a card. Electrical contacts are secured across a wall of the housing within the interior cavity and are configured to matingly receive corresponding electrical contacts of the card. The plurality of electrical contacts secured across the wall of the housing are the only electrical contacts of the electrical connector. Each of the plurality of electrical contacts includes a mating interface and the mating interface of each of the plurality of electrical contacts is co-planer. Additionally, the housing includes a card slot opening and each of the plurality of electrical contacts are arranged on one side of the card slot opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Belgie Brian McClelland, II, Jason M'Cheyne Reisinger, Arash Behziz, Michael David Herring, Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips, Michael Joseph Tryson
  • Patent number: 11256295
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel and a back cover which supports the display panel on a rear surface of the display panel and includes a plurality of openings and a length of a lower edge of the back cover is larger than a length of an upper edge of the back cover. Therefore, when the display device is rolled, a rolling position of the display device may be guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moonsun Lee, Mi-Na Shin, ChounSung Kang, SunBok Song, GeunChang Park
  • Patent number: 11219138
    Abstract: A heat dissipation structure capable of improving heat dissipation efficiency and regulating temperature distribution of a surface of a housing is provided. A heat dissipation structure 300 is provided in a housing 200 that accommodates a heat generating source 102 therein, the heat dissipation structure 300 including: top surface parts 213 and 223 opposed to each other, in which the top surface part 213 includes a plurality of concave-shaped parts 213B-F that are aligned, the top surface part 223 includes a plurality of concave-shaped parts 223B-F that are aligned, the concave-shaped parts 213B-F of the top surface part 213 are opposed to the concave-shaped parts 223B-F of the top surface part 223, outlets 213A are formed in the concave-shaped parts 213D, 213E, and 213F, and outlets 223A are formed in the concave-shaped parts 223C, 223D, 223E, and 223F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Yagi
  • Patent number: 11191161
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a first printed wiring board, a second printed wiring board and a third printed wiring board. The second printed wiring board is mounted such that one edge of the second printed wiring board abuts on a part mounting surface of the first printed wiring board on which a part is mounted. The third printed wiring board is mounted such that one edge of the third printed wiring board abuts on the part mounting surface. The second and third printed wiring boards are connected to each other in a state where plate thickness directions thereof are oriented in different directions from each other about a normal line to the part mounting surface. Further, at least one of the second printed wiring board and the third printed wiring board is provided with an antenna pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: Shiro Koide, Daisuke Dobashi, Yohei Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11109510
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate including a first refrigerant channel through which refrigerant flows, a radiator including fins and pipes defining second refrigerant channels communicating with the first refrigerant channel, a pump to circulate the refrigerant, a first tank coupled to one end of each of the pipes, and a second tank coupling another end of each of the pipes and the pump. The radiator is located on the cold plate. The pump is adjacent to a side of the cold plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11070111
    Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi, Hirotaka Kanamono
  • Patent number: 10934936
    Abstract: A cooling system is provided in a hybrid electric propulsion gas turbine engine for cooling electrical components therein. The cooling system includes an electrical component disposed in proximity to a power generation component in the hybrid electric propulsion gas turbine engine. The cooling system further includes a vapor chamber having an evaporator portion and a condenser portion, wherein the evaporator portion is disposed adjacent to and in thermal communication with the electrical component to transfer heat away from the electrical component. The vapor chamber includes biphasic working fluid therein that transitions between liquid and gaseous states as the working fluid flows proximal to the condenser portion and the evaporator portion respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Snyder, Andrew M. Bollman
  • Patent number: 10931047
    Abstract: A connector includes a header unit including a first header connection terminal, a base having a first width, and a first partition wall connected to a first end of the base and having a second width larger than the first width. The connector further includes a socket including a first socket connection terminal corresponding to the first header connection terminal. The socket is electrically connected to the header unit through the first socket connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yoon Lee, Dong Sub Kim, Jin Young You
  • Patent number: 10925173
    Abstract: A programmable AC power distribution device includes a control circuit board disposed on a connecting plate. A fixing plate is disposed in a case. The connecting plate is connected to the fixing plate through a coupling member. Thereby, the connecting plate with the control circuit board can be disassembled only by removing the coupling member. When the control circuit board is to be reinstalled, the connecting plate can be easily fixed to the fixing plate through the coupling member. The assembly and disassembly of the control circuit board can be improved effectively, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of the check and repair of the control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CHYNG HONG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mu-Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 10912219
    Abstract: A waterproof structure includes a case, an elastic waterproof component and a cover. The case has a recess. The elastic waterproof component is disposed in the recess, includes a body, a first and a second inclined portions. The body includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a first, a second, a third and a fourth side surfaces, and a through hole, wherein the second and the fourth side surface are opposite to the first and the third side surface, respectively, and the through hole penetrates the body from the first side surface to the second surface. The first and the second inclined portion respectively extend from the third and the fourth side surface, and have top surface interconnects a first and a second inclined surface. The cover has a protrusion portion corresponding to the recess, and is assemble to the case and coves the elastic waterproof component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Chiang, Jiun-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 10897833
    Abstract: A high efficiency heat sink for the cooling of microelectronic devices involves a phase change from liquid fluid to fluid vapor with a vapor quality of 100%. The liquid fluid is provided to an active area that contains fins having micrometer dimension that support a membrane that is nanoporous. The membrane is effectively impermeable to liquid fluid but permeable to fluid vapor. The heat sink provides very high heat flux and coefficient of heat transfer at low mass flux over a broad range of surface superheat temperatures. The heat sink can be constructed of equi-spaced posts that separate liquid microchannels from vapor microchannels that are connected through capillary forced valves formed between adjacent equi-spaced posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Saeed Moghaddam, Seyyed A. Fazeli
  • Patent number: 10809774
    Abstract: There is provided a chassis for a computing system comprising a heat-generating element. The chassis comprises a body with at least a portion thereof made of a non-metallic material, namely a nonmetallic portion. For example, the non-metallic material can be a moldable plastic. There is provided a channel made in the non-metallic portion, the channel having a starting point close to a dedicated location for a fan, the channel having an ending point close to a dedicated portion for the heat-generating element, the channel shaped to guide fluid propelled at the starting point to the ending point. The channel can be a tunnel inside the body or a valley on the surface of the body, and confines fluid flow from the fan, guiding the fluid flow to the heat-generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HYPERTECHNOLOGIE CIARA INC.
    Inventor: Eliot Ahdoot
  • Patent number: 10693344
    Abstract: A power tool is provided, including a housing; an electric brushless DC motor disposed within the housing; and a control unit disposed within the housing and electrically coupled to the motor. The control unit includes a circuit board, a first set of power switches mounted on a first surface of the circuit board, a second set of power switches mounted on a second surface of the circuit board substantially opposite the first set of power switches and electrically coupled to the first set of power switches forming an inverter bridge circuit, power terminals arranged on a side edge of the circuit board and coupled to the output of the inverter bridge, and a heat sink mounted on the first surface of the circuit board covering the first set of power switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur M. Purohit, John B. Fogle, Michael D. Grove
  • Patent number: 10644432
    Abstract: A connector assembly is used to attach the end of a horizontal rail to the supporting vertical post of a barrier. A flat platform is secured to the side wall of the post. A channel-shaped bracket having a convex base is seated within a concavity formed in the platform. A convex retainer is seated within the concave base of the bracket channel. A bolt extends through aligned openings formed in each of the platform, bracket and retainer. The bolt also extends through aligned openings in the post. The end of a rail is installed within the bracket channel, and held in place by a bolt. An elongate opening formed in the bracket base allows the bracket to swivel horizontally to a desired angular position. The bracket permits a single post to support adjacent sections of a barrier that intersect at a non-straight angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Ameristar Perimeter Security USA Inc.
    Inventors: Benton P. Flusche, Nathan T. Haney
  • Patent number: 10614129
    Abstract: An application processing system for placing applications and their associated data into a colocation data center, wherein an application placement module is configured to perform the method of steps including: constructing a facility communication node graph; constructing a composite elastic map which represents the compute nodes in the colocation data center; associating a force function between two nodes based on communication bandwidth; constructing an application usage data space; inserting the node graph into the application data space; assigning the applications to the compute nodes; associating a force function between each application and each compute node based on the assignment; determining an elastic map energy (EME) for the elastic map, wherein the EME is the total energy of the system; and assigning the real-world applications to the real-world compute nodes in the data center if the EME is less than a threshold energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lorraine M. Herger, Neal M. Keller, James R. Kozloski, Matthew A. McCarthy, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Patent number: 10588482
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dishwasher comprising a cabinet, a tub defining a washing space, a door rotatably coupled to a front portion of the tub, an outlet duct provided in the door and exhausting internal air of the tub outside, an inlet duct connected to the outlet duct and sucking and blowing the internal air of the tub toward the outlet duct, a hole cover selectively opening and closing an air inlet hole provided in an entrance of the inlet duct, and a foreign substance intake preventing chamber provided under the air inlet hole and inclined downwards toward a rear surface of the door, the foreign substance intake preventing chamber preventing foreign substances from becoming drawn into the air inlet hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Pilsu Kim, Gyuhan Hwang
  • Patent number: 10582639
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a chassis comprising a plurality of slots for receiving a plurality of modules, a first group of the modules received in a first orientation and a second group of the modules received in a second orientation orthogonal to said first orientation, and a coolant distribution module inserted into one of the slots in the first orientation for distributing coolant to at least one of the modules in the second group of modules. A method for distributing coolant to the modules is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rakesh Chopra, Mandy Hin Lam, M. Baris Dogruoz
  • Patent number: 10575433
    Abstract: There is disclosed an enclosure and cooling system for electronic equipment that provides forced-air cooling of multiple compartmentalized electronics assemblies while simultaneously isolating the electronics assemblies from the ambient environment, keeping the electronics assemblies free from contamination due to harmful dust, dirt, water, corrosives, and other airborne foreign matter. Embodiments include an air-conduction cooled environmentally-sealed electronics enclosure having at least first and second environmentally-sealed electronics compartments, each containing a respective electronic assembly. A common-air cooling channel containing a fin core is disposed between the first and the second electronics compartments, such that ambient air drawn from an air intake, through the common channel, and out an air exhaust removes heat generated by the electronic assemblies within the sealed compartments to an exterior of the enclosure. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Stored Energy Systems, a Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: John Flavin, Kyle Miller, Jeff Sorge, William Kaewert
  • Patent number: 10548247
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes a housing for an electronic display and a panel having a perimeter. An ingestion gap ingests, and an exhaustion gap exhausts, open loop fluid. The ingestion and exhaustion gaps are each located along vertical and horizontal portions of the perimeter. A channel is positioned behind the electronic display. A first and second gaseous pathway connect the ingestion gap and the exhaustion gap, respectively, to the channel. A first and second channel are positioned vertically and form at least a portion of the first and second gaseous pathways. A first and second channel septum are placed in the first and second side channel, respectively. A fan causes the open loop fluid to flow from the ingestion gap through a first gas pathway to the channel and from the channel to a second gas pathway and out the exhaustion gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MANUFACTURING RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Ryan Demars
  • Patent number: 10505303
    Abstract: A float connector for interconnecting two printed circuit boards that includes a contact assembly including a plurality of contacts and a holder therefor such that opposite ends thereof are exposed outside of the holder. The holder supports each contact in a clearance fit inside thereof, thereby allowing each contact to radially tilt to compensate for radial misalignment between the boards. A first guide member has a plurality of first guide features corresponding to the ends of the contacts, respectively, for aligning the contact ends for electrical connection with one board. A second guide member has a plurality of second guide features corresponding to the ends of the contacts, respectively, for aligning the contact ends for electrical connection with the other board. The contact assembly is axially moveable between the guide members along an axis generally parallel to longitudinal axes of the contacts to compensate for axial misalignment between the boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Hoyack, Joachim I. Grek, Owen R. Barthelmes
  • Patent number: 10505282
    Abstract: An electrical device is disclosed, comprising a conductive chassis having a groove, wherein the conductive chassis comprises a housing or a frame of the electrical device; and dielectric material filled inside the groove; wherein the groove is configured as a waveguide and transmits a signal of the electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Juha Lilja
  • Patent number: 10455729
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention can be a system for cooling an enclosure enclosing electrical components and configured to prevent air and exhaust from escaping the enclosure. The system can include a heat sink comprising a heat exchanger, and a tube extending into and out of the heat exchanger, the tube configured to transport liquid through the heat exchanger. The system can further include a fan configured to push air heated by electrical components onto the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can be configured to receive heat from air pushed by the fan, and transfer the received heat to the liquid being transported by the tube through the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: RENO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Imran Ahmed Bhutta
  • Patent number: 10443499
    Abstract: A cooling assembly for a gas turbine engine including a heat source at a first temperature, a heat sink at a second temperature, and a heat pump coupled to the first heat source and the first heat sink. The heat pump is configured to convey a quantity of heat from the heat source through the heat pump and to the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Snyder
  • Patent number: 10443621
    Abstract: A blowing system includes: a blower; a case including: a blower receiving portion for receiving a heat source of the blower; a gas inlet for suctioning the gas from the outside; a gas passage connected from the gas inlet to a blower inlet; and an inverter receiving portion in which an inverter are installed; and a cooling member for cooling the inverter by using air, and has one end coupled to the inverter and the other end exposed to the gas passage, wherein the blower receiving portion is spatially separated from the gas passage, and the gas flows through the gas passage due to a suctioning force of an impeller, and the cooling member is cooled by the gas. According to the present invention, without separate cooling fans, the inverter may be quickly cooled only with the flow of gas generated by the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: TNE KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyeong Su Kim
  • Patent number: 10427632
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes ventilation systems having a reduced aerodynamic footprint. The vents in the ventilation systems are actuated with Shape Memory Alloys that actuate the vents on an as needed basis while effectively sealing the vents when not in operation. The present disclosure further describes a ventilation system in an aircraft nacelle that helps mitigate bowed rotors by cooling down the engine nacelle faster or by helping create a uniform temperature distribution in the nacelle. In various embodiments, the ventilation system comprises vents and fans embedded in the vents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jason J. Jackowski, Kent E. Karnofski, Frederick T. Calkins
  • Patent number: 10415470
    Abstract: Air inlet duct of a turbine engine, in particular an aircraft turbine engine comprising a gas generator, which extends axially between the air inlet and the gas generator and has a first axial wall part and a second wall part which is angularly offset with respect to the first part, which duct is capable of causing, in a shedding region, shedding of the boundary layer formed by an air flow along the wall of the duct; and a device for controlling said shedding of the boundary layer, characterised in that the control device comprises an air-blowing pipe which opens via at least one air-injection opening which is directly upstream of the shedding region, the blowing pipe being connected to an air intake positioned upstream of said air-injection opening or in the shedding region and comprising an air compressor means between the air intake and the air-injection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romeo Brogna, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier
  • Patent number: 10411560
    Abstract: An electric machine having a tangential architecture comprising a rotor, rotating about an axis of rotation, a stator, coaxial to the rotor with respect to said axis of rotation, the stator comprising a casing which at least partially incorporates the rotor, a power supply body which incorporates a controller for the actuation, the power supply and the control of the electric machine. The power supply body is located outside the stator and parallel to the axis of rotation in a position substantially tangent to the casing of the stator. The controller includes a power module to power the electric machine. The power module is provided with a main heat sink, suitable to dissipate the thermal power emitted by the power module itself, and the power module is thermally insulated from the remaining controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MAGNETI MARELLI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Leli, Marzio Lettich, Matteo Cataldi
  • Patent number: 10383260
    Abstract: The application relates to a power module (10) including: pieces of electrical equipment (12), at least first (14) and second (16) electronic cards, and a cooling device (20), able to discharge the heat given off by the pieces of electrical equipment and electronic cards. The cooling devices include first (34) and second (36) surfaces thermally insulated from one another, the pieces of electrical equipment (12) being in thermal contact with the first surface and separated from the second surface. The first electronic card (14) is fastened to a piece of electrical equipment (12) and thermally connected to the second surface (36) of the cooling device by a heat sink (42). The second electronic card (16) is positioned close to the second surface (36), or in contact with the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventor: Christophe Audemar
  • Patent number: 10375856
    Abstract: A liquid cooling system includes a liquid cooling head, a fixing member and a radiator. The fixing member is disposed on the liquid cooling head. The radiator is disposed on the liquid cooling head through the fixing member. The radiator moves with respect to the liquid cooling head between at least two different positions through the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-Han Tsai, Shui-Fa Tsai, Hsin-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 10358048
    Abstract: An onboard battery includes predetermined members such as battery modules, and a housing case. An internal space of the housing case is partitioned by a partition plate into an upper space and a lower space in which the predetermined members are disposed, and the battery modules are disposed below the partition plate. The housing case has a bottom surface on which the battery modules are disposed, a front surface that has a front-side tightening part, and a rear surface that has a rear-side tightening part. The partition plate has a partition base that partitions the internal space of the housing case into the upper space and the lower space, a front-side fixation target part that is continuous with a front end of the partition base, and a rear-side fixation target part that is continuous with a rear end of the partition base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hara, Takayuki Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 10356933
    Abstract: A data center may be organized into modules, wherein the modules are purchased pre-configured to provide certain functionality of an information handling system. The modules may include utility modules, information technology (IT) modules, and air handling unit (AHU) modules. The utility module may provide infrastructure for other modules, such as electrical power service infrastructure. Electrical power may be provided by the utility module to other modules through two or more redundant busses connected to different electrical sources. The utility module may also include a control system that allows the utility services to be reconfigured to allow installation of new modules without interrupting service to existing modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Mcgrath Bailey, Trey S. Wiederhold, Ty R. Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10251315
    Abstract: One feature pertains to cooling of a high density array of non-volatile memory mass storage devices within a computer enclosure. A coolant is moved through the enclosure through two separate air paths, each serving approximately half of the mass storage devices. The two air paths are interleaved in a central duct ported to a frontal and a rear plenum. The central duct contains two groups of fans with a flow axis perpendicular to the plane of the server enclosure but with opposite flow direction with the two groups vertically offset relative to each other. The two paths are separated from each other through dividers. Both paths intake coolant from the cold isle and exhaust the coolant to the hot isle. The non-volatile memory mass storage devices include electromechanical and solid state devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SANMINA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Phillip Mitchell, Eugene McCabe, Ritesh Kumar, Donald Chong Lee, Franz Michael Schuette
  • Patent number: 10238013
    Abstract: A cooling system for cooling electronic aircraft equipment comprises a primary cooling arrangement configured to provide basic cooling energy for cooling the electronic aircraft equipment and a supplemental cooling arrangement configured to provide supplemental cooling energy for cooling the electronic aircraft equipment. The supplemental cooling arrangement comprises a coolant supply system and a coolant distribution system. The coolant supply system is configured to supply a compressed coolant to the electronic aircraft equipment to be cooled, and the coolant distribution system is configured to selectively direct the compressed coolant supplied by the coolant supply system to at least one of a plurality of components of the electronic aircraft equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Schult, J. Stephen M Whyte
  • Patent number: 10214952
    Abstract: Tubular drive apparatus for a panel of a vehicle, preferably a tailgate or door, comprising two tubes which are inserted into one another in a telescopic manner, the free ends of which are each hinged to the panel of the vehicle and to the vehicle itself, the tubes being capable of being separated from one another and brought together by means of a spindle which is driven by an electric motor and comprises a spindle nut arranged thereon, in order to thus open and close the panel, the electric motor, the spindle, the spindle nut and an electronic circuit board comprising sensor elements being arranged within the tubular drive apparatus, and a power electronics unit for actuating the electric motor also being arranged on the electronic circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Stabilus GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Link, Dave Sabet, Michael Knopp
  • Patent number: 10178796
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic equipment data center or co-location facility designs and methods of making and using the same in an environmentally aware manner, and generally provides apparatus and methods for using novel support bracket structures, and thermal panels associated with the same, that allow for distinct partitioning of air flowing in hot aisles and cold aisles, as well as for holding wiring above cabinets that are used to store electronic equipment in the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Switch, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rob Roy
  • Patent number: 10165711
    Abstract: An electrical device comprising electrical components, the electrical components of the electrical device being arranged in at least two separate compartments (1, 2) having walls, wherein the at least two compartments are substantially closed and arranged at a distance from each other and the walls of the at least two compartments are arranged to form walls of a cooling channel (7) between the compartments (1, 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Aaro Pallasmaa, Jaakko Hyytiä
  • Patent number: 10130005
    Abstract: An electronic product, including: a housing, where an air vent is disposed on the housing; a PCB board that is located inside the housing, where a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a power supply are disposed on the PCB board; a fan that is located between the PCB board and the housing; and a switch bar that is located between the fan and the housing and is connected to the housing in a sliding manner, where the switch bar has a first state and a second state, where the switch bar includes a conductive area, when the switch bar is set to the first state, the conductive area is electrically connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the power supply on the PCB board, the fan starts to run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhong, Linfang Jin, Jie Zou, Nanbo Kang