Intermediate Fluent Heat Exchange Material Receiving And Discharging Heat Patents (Class 165/104.11)
  • Patent number: 11993156
    Abstract: A temperature-control device of an energy store, e.g., in a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The temperature-control device includes a first circuit, in which a first heat transfer unit and the energy store to be temperature-controlled are arranged and connected to one another in a heat-transferring manner via a first heat transfer medium, and a second circuit, in which a second heat transfer unit and the first heat transfer unit are arranged and connected to one another in a heat-transferring manner via a second heat transfer medium. In at least one line of the first circuit and/or at least one line of the second circuit a predetermined breaking point and/or a predetermined bending point is arranged which upon a predefined force effect interrupts a flow of fluid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Jauss, Thomas Kalmbach, Hans-Martin Ruppert, Dietmar Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 11994304
    Abstract: A solar phase-change energy storage heating ventilation partition wall and modular heating system thereof, the partition wall consists of a solid partition wall (1), a thermal insulation layer (2), a decoration layer (3), frame of steel reinforcement (4), reflecting layers (5) and phase-change heat storage modules (6), the modular heating system comprises a solar air collector (13), phase-change heat storage units (23) arranged modularly, and a partition wall, to achieve energy storage and heating. Compared with the prior art, the modular heat storage partition wall components are simple in manufacturing process and flexible in assembly, and can be freely arranged and combined according to actual conditions; the system collects solar energy by the solar air collector during the daytime and stores the heat in the phase-change heat storage modules in the partition wall; and the heat storage partition wall can provide heat for the room in a radiation manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jing Zhao, Dehan Liu, Shilei Lyu
  • Patent number: 11983131
    Abstract: Examples described herein include a system comprising: a processing unit package comprising: at least one core and at least one offload processing device communicatively coupled inline between the at least one core and a network interface controller, the at least one offload processing device configurable to perform packet processing. In some examples, the at least one offload processing device is to allow mapping of packet processing pipeline stages of networking applications among software running on the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device to permit flexible entry, exit, and re-entry points among the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick G. Kutch, Andrey Chilikin, Niall D. McDonnell, Brian A. Keating, Naveen Lakkakula, Ilango S. Ganga, Venkidesh Krishna Iyer, Patrick Fleming, Lokpraveen Mosur
  • Patent number: 11906205
    Abstract: A geothermal heat exchanger, a geothermal heat arrangement and to a method in connection with a geothermal heat arrangement. The geothermal heat exchanger includes a piping arrangement having a rise pipe and a drain pipe, and a first pump arranged to the piping arrangement. The rise pipe and drain pipe are arranged in fluid communication with each other for circulating the primary working fluid. The rise pipe is provided with a first thermal insulation surrounding the rise pipe along at least part of the length of the rise pipe and the first pump is arranged to circulate the primary working fluid in a direction towards a lower end of the rise pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUANTITATIVE HEAT OY
    Inventor: Rami Niemi
  • Patent number: 11864350
    Abstract: A heat conduction apparatus includes a first cover plate and a second cover plate. The first cover plate is hermetically connected to the second cover plate. The first cover plate is provided with a plurality of grooves. A supporting portion is formed between two adjacent grooves. A liquid circulation channel and a vapor circulation channel are formed in the groove. The liquid circulation channel is filled with a liquid working medium. The liquid circulation channel is communicated with the vapor circulation channel. The liquid working medium vaporizes into vapor. The vapor enters the vapor circulation channel and condenses into liquid. The liquid enters the liquid circulation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfu Sun, Jian Shi, Jie Yang, Linfang Jin, Zhen Sun
  • Patent number: 11818867
    Abstract: A heat dissipation unit with floating section includes an upper plate and a lower plate, which are closed together to define a chamber in between them, and the chamber has a working fluid filled therein. The upper and the lower plate respectively include a front section, a read section, and a middle section located between the front and the rear section. The front section and the rear section of one or both of the upper and the lower plate have a plate thickness larger than that of the middle section, such that the middle sections form flexible floating sections that allow for a floating adjustment thereat, making the front and the rear sections of the heat dissipation unit to be located at two positions having a height difference between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-Min Liu, Xiao-Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11815921
    Abstract: A flow rate component, such as a bypass valve with a motorized actuator, a variable speed circulation pump, or both, is controlled in realtime by an automatic controlled to regulate water flow rate through a swimming pool heater, such as a heat pump, to optimize heat transfer, minimize energy consumption, and improve life spans of components of the swimming pool circulation, filtering and heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AquaCal AutoPilot, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Driscoll, Jeffrey Tawney, Stanford P. Hudson, Michael Krasowski
  • Patent number: 11781816
    Abstract: A hetero-material floating heat pipe structure includes a main body and a multi-segment floating adjustment unit. The main body has a front end, a rear end and a flexible section disposed between the front end and the rear end. The flexible section has flexibility, whereby the main body is flexible. The multi-segment floating adjustment unit is disposed on an outer surface of the flexible section for restricting and protecting the flexible section. The multi-segment floating adjustment unit includes multiple adjustment members, which are pivotally connected with each other and stringed to form the multi-segment floating adjustment unit. Each of two ends of each adjustment member has a pivoted section. By means of the pivoted sections, the adjustment members are pivotally connected with each other and can be swung and bent by the same angle or by different angles to adjust the arrangement of the multi-segment floating adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Lin Mao
  • Patent number: 11698203
    Abstract: In an air-conditioning system including an outside air processing device and an air-conditioning device, an operation of either one of the outside air processing device or the air-conditioning device is stopped if a temperature/humidity state that is at least either the temperature or humidity of air in a target space is within a predetermined range and if the load factor of at least one of the outside air processing device or the air-conditioning device is below a predetermined lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Okamoto, Naotoshi Fujita, Kouji Tatsumi, Masaaki Kawagishi, Shinya Umase
  • Patent number: 11672381
    Abstract: A drinking container system with multiple temperature zones, wherein the container system includes a main body having a sidewall and a bottom that define a phase change material (PCM) module receptacle, and a phase change material (PCM) module having a sidewall that defines a beverage chamber. The PCM module is disposable within the PCM module receptacle such that a beverage egress flow path is defined between the main body sidewall and the PCM module sidewall. The flow path formed in the container can make the beverage achieve the desired drinking temperature. The PCM module sidewall is at least partially filled with a phase change material and is structured and operable to provide a plurality temperature zones within the beverage chamber. Each temperature zone is operable to maintain a temperature of a respective portion of a liquid disposed within the beverage chamber within a respective temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    Inventors: Hongbin Ma, Michael Merwin, Hao Bai, Robert Riegler, Christopher Vincent, Susan Liu
  • Patent number: 11644222
    Abstract: A system for electromagnetically transferring heat from one region to another region. To cool one region in a chamber, antennas in the chamber to be cooled preferably have a broad beam to collect thermal radiation as much as possible within the chamber. Antennas to be used for heat pumping are preferably of high directivity where the antenna beam is pointed to a cold region such as the zenith of the sky. The system for electromagnetic heating is similar to that for electromagnetic cooling except heat flow is reversed. Here, the antennas outside a chamber have a highly focused beam to a hot area, such as the sun. The collected heat is channeled into an area to be heated by low-directivity antennas within an enclosed volume to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Choon Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 11549758
    Abstract: A microchannel heat exchanger structure with a nozzle and a working method thereof. The microchannel heat exchanger structure with a nozzle, includes a first heat exchange portion, a second heat exchange portion, and at least one nozzle portion between the first heat exchange portion and the second heat exchange portion, the first heat exchange portion having a high-pressure heat exchange channel, a first micro-fin array being provided inside the high-pressure heat exchange channel, and the second heat exchange portion having a low-pressure heat exchange channel, the high-pressure heat exchange channel and the low-pressure heat exchange channel being in communication through at least one nozzle disposed in the nozzle portion. The heat exchanger structure has a good heat exchange effect and can achieve a better heat flux during heat exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lian Duan, Zhigang Liu, Mingming Lv, Lei Jia
  • Patent number: 11486659
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a number of cooling tubes arranged in parallel such that a first cooling fluid and a second cooling fluid can flow in the cooling tubes. A tank communicates with the cooling tubes to allow the first cooling fluid or the second cooling fluid to flow through the cooling tubes. A diaphragm is located inside the tank to separate the tank into a first space allowing the first cooling fluid to flow therein and a second space allowing the second cooling fluid to flow therein. The diaphragm is coupled to the tank to be rectilinearly movable in a direction of an arrangement of the plurality of cooling tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Seong Bin Jeong
  • Patent number: 11454457
    Abstract: An energy transportation and grid support system utilizes at least one transportable containment module capable of storing thermal or chemical energy typically produced from renewable or geothermal sources and providing connectivity with energy conversion equipment typically located in a land or sea-based operating facility. The system includes circuitry to hookup to an adjacent electricity grid for the provision of grid support and/or piping to move thermal energy typically used to drive steam turbines generating electricity. The operating facility also includes a communication arrangement to link with and exchange operations control data with a grid or heating operator and the energy transportation operator. The invention is directed to both apparatus and method for the energy transportation and grid support system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kelvin Thermal Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Pietsch, George W. Lynch, Stephen B. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11285488
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of high throughput analysis of samples. In particular, the present invention is directed to a device, a System and a method for simultaneous tempering of multiple samples. More particular, the invention relates to the simultaneous thermocycling of multiple samples to perform PCR in a microtiter plate format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Schlaubitz, Torsten Burdack, Paul Federer, Christian George, Guido Grueter, Andreas Scholle, Guenter Tenzler
  • Patent number: 10843271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a turbine shroud (24) for a turbomachine, the method comprising manufacturing at least one turbine shroud sector (28), positioning the turbine shroud sector (26) in a bottom mold so that an outer surface of the turbine shroud sector is in contact at least in part with the bottom mold, and depositing a powder layer on an inner surface (28) of the turbine shroud sector (26). Thereafter, a top mold is positioned on the powder layer and an abradable layer (32) is made by subjecting the powder layer to a method of SPS sintering, the abradable layer (32) being for being disposed facing a turbine wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER—TOULOUSE III
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Mottin, Yannick Marcel Beynet, Geoffroy Chevallier, Romain Epherre, Claude Estournes
  • Patent number: 10717338
    Abstract: A heating and cooling module for controlling the temperature of at least two coolant circuits, having an evaporator region and a condenser region. The evaporator region has a first flow section through which a first coolant can flow, and the condenser region has a second flow section through which a second coolant can flow. The heating and cooling module has a third flow section through which a refrigerant can flow. The evaporator region and the condenser region are arranged on a common base plate which has the fluid inlets and the fluid outlets for the first coolant, the second coolant, and the refrigerant. The base plate has flow channels, through each of which one of the coolants or the refrigerant can flow. The evaporator region and the condenser region are fluidically connected to the respective fluid inlets and the respective fluid outlets of the base plate via the flow channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Gottfried Duerr, Joachim Michael Haug, Herbert Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10697709
    Abstract: A heat-exchange apparatus is provided, including a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger and a fourth heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is thermally separated from the second heat exchanger. The third heat exchanger is thermally connected to the first heat exchanger. The fourth heat exchanger is thermally connected to the second heat exchanger, wherein a first air flow passes through the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger to be divided into a first divergent flow and a second divergent flow, the first divergent flow flows on a surface of the first heat exchanger, the second divergent flow flows on a surface of the second heat exchanger, the first divergent flow does not flow on the surface of the second heat exchanger, and the second divergent flow does not flow on the surface of the first heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Lee-Long Chen, Wu-Chi Li, Chia-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10678121
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit having a light source and a first cooling section adapted to transmit heat of the light source to a first liquid refrigerant circulating, an optical unit having a light modulation device and a second cooling section adapted to transmit heat of the light modulation device to a second liquid refrigerant, a cooling unit adapted to cool the first liquid refrigerant and the second liquid refrigerant, a first connection member connecting the light source unit and the cooling unit to each other, and a second connection member connecting the optical unit and the cooling unit to each other, and at least one of a set of the light source unit and the cooling unit, and a set of the optical unit and the cooling unit is configured to detachably be attached to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Nakamura, Kaname Nagatani, Takahiro Miyata, Toshizo Nishi
  • Patent number: 10383262
    Abstract: The power conversion device of the invention includes: a cooling unit that is a prism, the interior of which is hollow, and that has a refrigerant inlet portion and a refrigerant outlet portion the cooling unit having in the interior thereof a refrigerant channel through which a refrigerant flows from the refrigerant inlet portion towards the refrigerant outlet portion; electronic devices that are respectively disposed on three or more surfaces on the outside of side surfaces of the cooling unit, excluding a refrigerant inlet surface, in which the refrigerant inlet portion is disposed, and a refrigerant outlet surface, in which the refrigerant outlet portion is disposed, the electronic devices being cooled by boiling of the refrigerant; and a hollow outer case 4 that covers the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Shinozaki, Shigetoshi Ipposhi, Hiroyuki Higashino, Yugo Asai, Hiroyuki Yano, Haruyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10224265
    Abstract: A power electronics assembly includes a semiconductor device stack having a wide bandgap semiconductor device, a semiconductor cooling chip thermally coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device, and a first electrode electrically coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device and positioned between the wide bandgap semiconductor device and the semiconductor cooling chip. The semiconductor cooling chip is positioned between a substrate layer and the wide bandgap semiconductor device. The substrate layer includes a substrate inlet port and a substrate outlet port. An integrated fluid channel system extends between the substrate inlet port and the substrate outlet port and includes a substrate fluid inlet channel extending from the substrate inlet port into the substrate layer, a substrate fluid outlet channel extending from the substrate outlet port into the substrate layer, and one or more cooling chip fluid channels extending into the semiconductor cooling chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuoka, Ercan M. Dede, Shailesh N. Joshi, Feng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10218010
    Abstract: A heat transfer system includes a fuel cell module that produces heat and water, and a thermal energy storage module that stores the heat produced by the fuel cell module. The thermal energy storage module includes a phase-change material. A conduit couples the fuel cell module to the thermal energy storage module. The conduit is oriented to channel the water produced by the fuel cell module through the thermal energy storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: The Boeing Company, University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Joseph Sherman Breit, Casey Joe Roberts, Amir Faghri, Travis Robert Ward, Christopher Robak
  • Patent number: 10207825
    Abstract: A telecommunications satellite stabilized on three axes includes a set of dissipative equipment constituting a payload of the satellite. The satellite includes support data transmission antennas and is substantially parallelepipedal in shape with the panels forming two opposite faces, east and west faces. The panels form two additional opposite faces, north and south faces, and include radiator surfaces on their external faces. The radiator surfaces are configured to cool the electronic equipment of the satellite. The equipment installed on the north and south panels dissipate thermal power corresponding to less than 25% of the total dissipated power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS, THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES CNES
    Inventors: Raphaël Hache, Bruno Trancart, Andrew Walker
  • Patent number: 10199308
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled heat sink includes a heat absorption module having a liquid storage container with one heat conductive side, a liquid inlet and a liquid; a liquid transport module including one inlet tube having a first end connected spatially with the liquid inlet of the storage container and a second end connected spatially with a pump unit, and an outlet tube having a first end connected spatially with the liquid outlet of the storage container and a second end connected spatially with a storage chamber; and a heat exchange module including a fin assembly, one connection passage extending through the fin assembly and one fan unit disposed on the fin assembly, which has two opposite ends respectively connected to the pump unit and the storage chamber, the connection passage having two opposite ends respectively connected to the pump unit and the liquid storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: DYNATRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tai-Chi Huang
  • Patent number: 10178813
    Abstract: A power module including a plurality of power die layers including power electronic components; a plurality of heat sink components operatively connected to multiple sides of each power electronic component; a plurality of electrically conductive layers contacting the plurality of heat sink components, wherein a power die layer and an electrically conductive layer sequentially alternate to form a stacked structure such that both ends of the stacked structure includes an end electrically conductive layer. A cooling path is integrated with each layer in the stacked structure. A housing unit houses the stacked structure. The power electronic components may include heat-producing electronic devices. The cooling path may accommodate any of a fluid and solid to liquid phase change materials. The fluid comes into direct contact with the power die layers, heat sink components, and electrically conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Lauren M. Boteler, Damian P. Urciuoli
  • Patent number: 10040369
    Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a device (150), e.g. a battery, within a vehicle (100), especially a hybrid electric vehicle, the cooling system comprising: a first cooling subsystem (180) for cooling the device (150) and having a relatively low rate of energy consumption, e.g. an ambient air-based cooling apparatus, a second cooling subsystem (182) for cooling the device (150) and having a relatively high rate of energy consumption, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Hughes, Baptiste Bureau
  • Patent number: 10020243
    Abstract: A power electronics assembly having a semiconductor device stack having a wide bandgap semiconductor device, a first electrode electrically coupled the wide bandgap semiconductor device, and a second electrode electrically coupled the wide bandgap semiconductor device. A substrate layer is coupled to the semiconductor device stack such that the first electrode is positioned between the substrate layer and the wide bandgap semiconductor device. The substrate layer includes a substrate inlet port and a substrate outlet port. An integrated fluid channel system extends between the substrate inlet and outlet ports and includes a substrate fluid inlet channel extending from the substrate inlet port into the substrate layer, a substrate fluid outlet channel extending from the substrate outlet port into the substrate layer, and one or more semiconductor fluid channels extending into the wide bandgap semiconductor device in fluid communication with the substrate fluid inlet and outlet channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuoka, Ercan M. Dede, Shailesh N. Joshi, Feng Zhou
  • Patent number: 9669681
    Abstract: A vehicle heat exchanger includes a low-temperature side radiator, a condenser, and a high-temperature side radiator, which are aligned in an airflow direction and are integrated together. The low-temperature side radiator includes an inflow portion and an upper path, which are located in an upper portion thereof. In addition, the low-temperature side radiator includes a lower path and an outlet portion, which are located in a lower portion thereof and communicate with the upper path. A subcooler of the condenser overlaps, in the airflow direction, with at least a part of the lower path of the low-temperature side radiator. As a result, thermal influence by the low-temperature side radiator on the subcooler of the condenser can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Oono, Shota Akagi
  • Patent number: 9664987
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source, a light valve, at least one light guide optical system of a first light guide optical system or a second light guide optical system, a first cooling unit configured to cool at least one of the light source, the light valve, the first light guide optical system, or the second light guide optical system, an inlet port, a second cooling unit configured to cool at least one of the light source, the light valve, the first light guide optical system, or the second light guide optical system, and a filter disposed in an air path from the inlet port to a member to be blown by an air blowing fan. A radiator is disposed between the inlet port and the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Nomoto
  • Patent number: 9598965
    Abstract: A blade for a thermal turbomachine is provided. The blade has a blade airfoil having a first extent in a substantially radial orientation in relation to a rotational axis of the turbomachine and a second extent which is configured transversely with respect to the first extent, and comprising a blade root which adjoins the rotor blade and rounds off the rotor blade in the first extent. The blade has graphene at least in regions. A method for producing a blade of this type is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Detlef Haje
  • Patent number: 9512828
    Abstract: A bi-field solar geothermal system and method. A ground source geothermal heat pump system comprises two discrete hot and cold loops operated in conjunction with solar panels. Heat acquired from the solar panels is stored in a hot geothermal loop for use during colder weather. The alternative use of cooled fluid, passed through the solar panels, enables removal of heat from a cooled geothermal loop for use during hot summer months. The system comprises a valve system in working communication with the hot geothermal loop and the cold geothermal loop and a control system for controlling the operation of valves and determining when to switch from the hot geothermal loop to the cold geothermal loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Crowder College
    Inventors: Alan Marble, Art Boyt, Dan Eberle
  • Patent number: 9476619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigeration facility and a method for maintaining the temperature of an isothermal enclosure (3) including: a refrigerating unit (5) comprising a compressor (7) driven by a heat engine (8) and an evaporator (13); and a thermochemical cooling system (15) including a vessel (23) containing a liquefied gas capable, after evaporation, of combining with a reactive product, consisting of a mixture of a reactive salt and natural expanded graphite, contained in a reactor (17), the reaction product obtained being capable of being regenerated by a heating means, said cooling system including an evaporator (25) and a condenser (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: COLDWAY
    Inventors: Laurent Rigaud, Francis Kindbeiter
  • Patent number: 9376356
    Abstract: A method or system for recovering carbon dioxide is provided with which in a plant for synthesizing methanol from a hydrocarbon gas or synthesizing gasoline therefrom via methanol, the waste heat of a low-temperature reformed gas, which has conventionally been discarded and is difficult to reutilize, can be effectively utilized. In the system for synthesizing methanol or gasoline from a hydrocarbon gas and for recovering carbon dioxide, a reformed gas is produced by steam reforming of the hydrocarbon gas. Since a combustion discharge gas generates when a fuel gas is burned in order to obtain a heat source for the steam reforming, carbon dioxide is recovered from the combustion discharge gas in an absorption tower (40) using an absorption liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki Iijima
  • Patent number: 9253999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UHT system for heat treating temperature-sensitive food products, in particular desserts or dessert-like products, comprising a pre-heating zone and a subsequent high-heating zone. The aim of the invention is to achieve accurate and fast temperature adjustment of the food product leaving the pre-heating zone to the temperature conditions at the inlet of the high-heating zone in a UHT system of the generic type, and at the same time, with an equal dwell time for all partial amounts of the food product, to ensure that the food product is treated in a particularly thermally gentle manner and to keep the mechanical loading of the food product as low as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Ludger Tacke, Norbert Busch, Deitrich Zimmermann, Hubert Assing, Uwe Schwenzow, Brigitte Schlag
  • Publication number: 20150129178
    Abstract: A process and system provide for processing inorganic matter-containing residue in a thermal decomposition process. The process and system are effective for reducing pressures which can occur during processing of inorganic matter-containing residue. A process for processing inorganic matter-containing residue in a thermal decomposition process includes conveying inorganic matter containing residue from a thermal decomposition unit to a burn-out section and conveying the inorganic matter containing residue from the burn-out section through a transition section to an ash sump. The inorganic matter containing residue is cooled to remove about 10% or more of heat in the inorganic matter containing residue before reaching the ash sump. The process further includes contacting the inorganic matter containing residue with a cooling medium in the gas sump and venting gaseous material generated back to the thermal decomposition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: INEOS BIO SA
    Inventors: Peter Simpson Bell, Dustin Freyaldenhoven
  • Publication number: 20150116938
    Abstract: A heat sink for power modules can be incorporated into a power module of a machine. In embodiments, an alloy is extruded to form a body with a plurality of divider webs integral thereto and defining a plurality of longitudinal passage segments inside the body. The body is machined to remove alternating end portions of the divider webs to define a fitting end turn area and a return end turn area disposed in opposing relationship with each other, thereby forming a serpentine fluid passage. A fitting end cap is welded to the body. A fluid inlet and a fluid outlet of the fitting end cap are respectively in fluid communication with a passage inlet and a passage outlet of the serpentine fluid passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Todd G. Nakanishi, Jon N. Husser, Keith E. Dixler
  • Publication number: 20150090669
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a filter media for filtering a fluid, and a valve having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for controlling a flow of the fluid through the filter assembly. The valve includes a thermally active element that changes shape between a first configuration and a second configuration in response to a temperature variation. When the thermally active element is in the first configuration the valve is open with the fluid inlet in fluid communication with the fluid outlet, and the thermally active element changes shape to the second configuration to close the valve. The thermally active element may move a valve poppet against a valve seat to close the valve. A pressure bypass is configured to open the valve in response to a pressure increase in the filter assembly above a threshold pressure when the thermally active element is in the second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: John Trott, Homayoun Sanatgar
  • Patent number: 8991476
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to store heat into a thermal storing material using a plurality of thermal transport mediums, in a thermal storage device utilizing natural convection of a thermal storage material resulting from temperature difference of the thermal storage material. The thermal storage device of the invention has a plurality of thermal transport mediums 6a and 6b having different temperatures, a thermal storage material 2 which stores heat of the thermal transport mediums 6a and 6b or whose heat is drawn by the thermal transport mediums 6a and 6b, a thermal storage portion 1 accommodating the thermal storage material 2, and a first and a second thermal storage tanks 3 and 4 formed by dividing an inner space of the thermal storage portion 1, and a thermal exchange between the thermal transport medium 6a or 6b and the thermal storage material 2 takes place in the individual thermal storage tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, T.Rad Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsubone, Seiichi Hashi, Masahito Tsukahara, Masataka Fukuzawa, Kouji Narita
  • Publication number: 20150060016
    Abstract: The invention concerns a system for exchanging heat by means of a loop in which a heat transfer fluid circulates, between a plurality of industrial and tertiary sites, each site possibly being a producer and/or consumer with the aim of reducing the energy factor on the district scale. The invention also concerns a method for pooling thermal energy on the district scale using a loop connecting at least one thermal energy consumer site and at least one thermal energy producer site, in which a heat transfer fluid circulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Fabrice Giroudiere, Eric Lemaire
  • Publication number: 20150053374
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the air conditioner and is provided with an opening, and a cover to open and close the opening. The cover includes a cover body to cover the opening and includes a first cover body and a second cover body that are spaced apart from each other, and a spacing rib provided between the first cover body and the second cover body such that the first cover is spaced apart from the second cover body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Kim, Young Seok Lim, Hyuk Jin Gwon, Jong Mun Lee
  • Patent number: 8959937
    Abstract: In a method for operating a cooling system for cooling food on board an aircraft, a partial amount of refrigerant, which, in the rest state, is stored in a receiving space of a refrigerant container in the gaseous state of aggregation, is discharged from the receiving space of the refrigerant container into a cooling circuit of the cooling system. The partial amount of the refrigerant is directed into a liquefier arranged in the cooling circuit and converted to the liquid state of aggregation. The partial amount of the refrigerant liquefied by the liquefier is directed through a heat exchanger arranged in the receiving space of the refrigerant container. The remaining refrigerant, stored in the receiving space of the refrigerant container in the gaseous state of aggregation, is converted to the liquid state of aggregation by heat energy transfer to the partial amount of the refrigerant flowing through the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Piesker
  • Patent number: 8960181
    Abstract: Solar heat collector, especially an evacuated-tube solar heat collector, filled with first solid heat storage and conducting material transfers the solar heat to an electric power heat insulated utensil through second heat conducting/transferring material for cooking foods and making coffee/tea. A set of solar cooking appliance having a solar heat collector filed with a first solid heat storage and conducting material and a solar cooking range filled with third solid heat storage and conducting material. The solar cooking range having a heat insulated enclosed compartment and also having a cooktop. The cooking range having a set of cooking chambers which are in thermal contact with the first and second heat storage and conducting material for cooking food therein. The cooking appliance also has a group of removable parts that cover the cooking chambers separately. An electric power heater provides a backup energy source and electric heat storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Huazi Lin
  • Publication number: 20150033764
    Abstract: A thermoelectric unit including thermoelectric modules, cold side fins, a heat sink, a hot side heat absorption element, and an electronic controller. The heat absorption element includes a metal heat transfer structure, phase change material (PCM) and heat exchange medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: DOUBLE COOL LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander Gurevich, Isaac Steiner
  • Patent number: 8941987
    Abstract: A memory cooling duct can include: a front end and a back end; a top that includes a fan mount disposed between the front end and the back end; a front end vent; a front edge, a back edge and opposing side edges that define a rectangular bottom opening; and a flexible lever at the front end that includes a locking surface for locking the memory cooling duct over a rectangular array of memory sockets. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Albert Vincent Makley, Timothy Samuel Farrow, William Fred Martin-Otto, Marc Richard Pamley
  • Patent number: 8920951
    Abstract: In a battery module, having a housing, at least one battery, which is disposed in the housing, at least one inlet opening for introducing a cooling fluid into the housing, and at least one outlet opening for conducting the cooling fluid out of the housing. According to the invention, compressed cooling fluid can be supplied to the at least one inlet opening using a compressor. A reduction of the cooling performance because of heating of the compressed cooling fluid is to be at least partially avoided. Furthermore, the design effort is to be low and the battery module is to be cost-effective to produce. The invention solves a problem in that the cooling fluid can be cooled by a cooling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Leuthner, Philipp Kohlrausch
  • Patent number: 8921702
    Abstract: In one possible implementation, a thermal plane structure includes a non-wicking structural microtruss between opposing surfaces of a multilayer structure and a thermal transport medium within the thermal plane structure for fluid and vapor transport between a thermal source and a thermal sink. A microtruss wick is located between the opposing surfaces and extends between the thermal source and the thermal sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: William B. Carter, Peter D. Brewer, Adam F. Gross, Jeffrey L. Rogers, Keith V. Guinn, Alan J. Jacobsen
  • Publication number: 20140363357
    Abstract: A system is provided for delivery of diesel exhaust fluid or other reductant to an injector for release into an engine exhaust aftertreatment system. The injector includes a nozzle assembly that thermally shields the diesel exhaust fluid from the exhaust gas temperatures. A diesel exhaust fluid delivery procedure is also disclosed for nozzle cooling prior to operation of the injector for emissions reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Aalok Trivedi, Andrew Myer, Stephanie L. Apewokin, Samuel Johnson, Srivardhan Chandrapati, George G. Muntean, Joshua D. Henry, John Anthis, Omkar Tendolkar
  • Publication number: 20140352922
    Abstract: A chill mold is used to cool molten material to form a casting. A support holds the chill mold so that a bottom of the chill mold is elevated. A baffle is arranged to divert a generally horizontal flow of cooling air upwardly to impinge the bottom of the chill mold. A plurality of chill molds may be aligned generally in a row, and at least one fan may be arranged at an end of the row to direct the flow of cooling air underneath the chill molds. The size and the vertical position of the baffles may be varied along the row, so as to generally equalize convective cooling rates among the chill molds in the row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: HATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Trovant, Lucas Alexander Brown, Tony Cesta, Katharine Elizabeth Stokman-Connell, Felim Patrick McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20140338389
    Abstract: A system is provided including a vapor compression cycle. The vapor compression cycle includes an operably coupled compressor, condenser, first expansion device, and evaporator through which a refrigerant circulates. A thermal energy storage unit includes a heat exchanger arranged within a phase change material. The heat exchanger is fluidly coupled to the vapor compression cycle with a plurality of conduits and valves such that refrigerant flows through the heat exchanger in a heat transfer relationship with the phase change material. When the system is in a first mode, the heat exchanger is configured to function similar to the evaporator and the phase change material is configured to store thermal energy. When the system is in a second mode, the heat exchanger is configured to function similar to the condenser and the phase change material is configured to release thermal energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Zidu Ma, Jun Pyo Lee, Ivan Rydkin, Daniel J. Dempsey, Warren Clough
  • Publication number: 20140336433
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for initiating operations of a separation apparatus. The process may include passing a hydrocarbon carrier having a sulfiding agent through an exchanger for heating the hydrocarbon carrier prior to entering a stripper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: UOP, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Hoehn, Shannon Maureen Sullivan, Krishnan Vaidyanathan