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| 20080277101 | System and Method for Cooling a Battery - A system is provided for cooling an energy storage system of a hybrid electric vehicle. The energy storage system includes at least one energy storage device. The system includes an inlet positioned on the outer surface of the vehicle above the platform. More particularly, the system includes a cooling fluid duct in flow communication with the inlet and the at least one energy storage device. Additionally, the system includes a blower powered by a respective motor and positioned within the to draw cooling fluid into the inlet and through the cooling fluid duct to pass the cooling fluid over or through the at least one energy storage device and into a common vented area of the vehicle. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20100163214 | HEAT EXCHANGER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - The present invention provides a heat exchange system including, among other things, a radiator operable to remove heat from coolant, an air flow path extending through a first charge air cooler and a second charge air cooler, the first charge air cooler being operable to transfer heat from air to the coolant, the second charge air cooler being positioned downstream from the first charge air cooler along the air flow path to receive the air from the first charge air cooler and being operable to transfer heat from the air to the coolant, and a coolant circuit extending between a coolant pump, the radiator, and the first and second charge air coolers. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20120180996 | JACKETED FIRETUBE SYSTEM FOR A PROCESS VESSEL - A jacketed firetube system for use in a process vessel such as a heater or heater/treater has a jacket which extends along the firetube, at a flame inlet end. The jacket can be external to the firetube or internal to the firetube. A heat transfer fluid is circulated along the firetube between the jacket and the firetube for recovering heat from the firetube and reducing the firetube's temperature. The recovered heat is reintroduced into the system. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20090266521 | HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE - A heat dissipation device includes a canister filled with a phase-changeable working fluid, a housing hermetically fixed to a top of the canister and communicating with the canister, a fan located above a top of the housing and an impeller comprising a driving member received in the housing, an annular magnet accommodated in the hub and an axle coaxially connecting the driving member and the annular magnet together. The fan includes a plurality of windings fixed on an inner side thereof. When the working fluid is heated and vaporized to move through the driving member, the driving member is driven by the vaporized working fluid to rotate, whereby the annular magnet rotates within the windings to cause the windings to generate a current. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20130062038 | Method and device for thawing frozen substances - A device for thawing a frozen substance includes a container defining a recess for accommodating a frozen substance therein. A fluid inlet line is disposed within the container and includes first and second ports, and a fluid outlet line is disposed about a wall of the container and includes first and second ports. The container includes at least one spacer for keeping the frozen substance a predetermined distance from the inside wall thereof. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20090038780 | Pumpless liquid cooling system - A pumpless liquid cooling system for removing heat from heat-generating components or systems comprises a heat absorbing portion or cold plate, a heat dissipating portion or heat exchanger and at least one driving device. The heat absorbing portion and the heat dissipating portion are of unitary construction as a sealed container with working fluid inside. The driving device and the heat dissipating portion is co-axially aligned and attached or fastened together. The heat absorbing portion is configured to have at least one thermal contact surface and a plurality of liquid passage within. The heat dissipating portion is configured to have a heat-dissipating body with plurality of external fins and an internal cylindrical liquid passage communicating with those of the heat absorbing portion and having a running fitting impeller driven by the driving device via magnetic forces to circulate the liquid in the heat transfer loop. Meanwhile the driving device moves the cool air through the fins of the heat dissipating portion to reject the heat absorbed by the heat absorbing portion. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090008064 | Cooling System for Electronic Substrates - The present invention relates to a cooling system for an electronic substrate comprising a heat transfer fluid ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20080295998 | INTEGRATED WATER CURRENT CONNECTION FOR MOTOR DRIVE - A system for cooling a multi-cell power supply, the system including a water pump, a water-to-air heat exchanger in fluid communication with the water pump, and a supply water manifold in fluid connection with the water-to-air-heat exchanger. The system further includes a plurality of power cells in fluid communication with the supply water manifold via one or more water hoses, and a multi-winding device in fluid communication with the plurality of power cells via at least one water-cooled bus, wherein the at least one water cooled bus electrically connects the power cells to secondary windings of the multi-winding device. The water-cooled buses provide both electrical current as well as cooling fluid to each winding of the multi-winding device, thereby eliminating a need for separate cooling and power connections. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20110100611 | THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY - A system and method are provided for thermoelectric energy storage. A thermoelectric energy storage system having at least one hot storage unit is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, each hot storage unit includes a hot tank and a cold tank connected via a heat exchanger and containing a thermal storage medium. The thermoelectric energy storage system also includes a working fluid circuit for circulating working fluid through each heat exchanger for heat transfer with the thermal storage medium. Improved roundtrip efficiency is achieved by minimizing the temperature difference between the working fluid and the thermal storage medium in each heat exchanger during heat transfer. Exemplary embodiments realize this improved roundtrip efficiency through modification of thermal storage media parameters. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110073285 | Multi-Zone Heat Exchanger for Use in a Vehicle Cooling System - A multi-zone cooling system and method of operation employs a multi-zone heat exchanger that is used to cool fluids in multiple cooling loops in a vehicle. The multi-zone heat exchanger has a zone that can be used by one or the other of the cooling loops when needed during peak operating conditions for the component requiring peak cooling. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20080264612 | Method of and an Apparatus for Protecting a Heat Exchanger and a Steam Boiler Provided with an Apparatus for Protecting a Heat Exchanger - A method of protecting a heat exchanger including a flue gas cooler with plastic heat recovery tubes arranged on a counterflow principle in heat exchange connection with the flue gases of a thermal power boiler. The heat recovery tubes are connected by an inlet chamber to an inlet tube and by an outlet chamber to an outlet tube, which form together with a heater a cycle in which a liquid heat exchange medium is recirculated by a pump. The method includes guiding vapor generating at the end part of the heat recovery tubes along a separate flow channel from the outlet chamber to the upper part of an expansion vessel, and guiding a liquid heat exchange medium from the lower part of the expansion vessel directly to the inlet chamber or to the inlet tube, in a vicinity of the inlet chamber, by a separate return duct, so as to enable natural circulation of the heat exchange medium in the heat recovery tubes without the use of external energy. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080277102 | Circulation-type liquid cooling apparatus and electronic device containing same - A cooling apparatus comprises a tank for keeping a coolant liquid therein and having an air layer, a heat receiving element in contact with a heat generating part to receive heat therefrom, a radiator for radiating heat absorbed by a coolant liquid, and a circulating mechanism for circulating the coolant liquid from the heat receiving element through the tank and through the radiator again to the heat receiving element. The tank has a conduit forming area for forming a coolant liquid circulating conduit to pass through a middle position of the tank, and a narrow gap which divides the conduit forming area at the middle position of the tank. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090188651 | COOLER - A cooler includes a main body provided with a water tank for storing cooling water. The water tank is disposed therein with a water pump connected with a water pipe having its rear end provided with a spray pipe. At least one air-cooling radiating device is assembled in the main body, provided with cooling fins. A fan is fixed at an outer side of the main body. At least one wind intake is disposed at a side of the main body. At least one cooling pipe has its upper bent portion passing through the cooling fins and its lower bent portion positioned above the water tank. At least one water-blocking device abutting the air-cooling radiating device is provided with sloping plates, having air current passageways formed between sloping plates. At least one water-cooling radiating device is provided with cooling material and at least one dripping plate with many water holes. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20110139407 | THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY - A system and method for thermoelectric energy storage are disclosed. A thermoelectric energy storage system can include a heat exchanger which contains a thermal storage medium, and a working fluid circuit for circulating a working fluid through the heat exchanger for heat transfer with the thermal storage medium. The working fluid undergoes transcritical cooling during the charging and transcritical heating during the discharging cycle as it exchanges heat with the thermal storage medium. Improved roundtrip efficiency can be achieved through minimizing the maximum temperature difference (ΔTmax) between the working fluid and the thermal storage medium during operating cycles. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20100018680 | Single flow circuit heat absorbing/release device for periodic positive and reverse directional pumping - The present invention improves the conventional applications for the cold heat absorbing device or hot heat release device to have the single flow circuit flow direction functioning structure for periodic positive and reverse directional pumping thereby timely improving the temperature distribution between the fluid and the heat absorbing/release device, and reducing the disadvantages of impurity accumulation in fixed flow direction. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100018679 | Isothermal method and device using periodic direction-change utility water flow - The present invention discloses that the thermal energy is transferred through the closed loop divided piping constituted by utility water flow, the water pipe leading to earth surface, fluid pump and isothermal device, etc. or indirectly through the fluid inside the closed loop circuit being constituted by water pipe, fluid pump and isothermal device via thermal conduction method, wherein thermal energy of utility water flow is directly or indirectly transferred to the fluid inside the closed water pipe leading to earth surface, and it is further through the fluid inside closed piping being pumped for periodic flow direction change to perform thermal energy transfer with the target via isothermal device. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100018681 | Single flow circuit heat exchange device for periodic positive and reverse directional pumping - The present invention discloses that the temperature distribution status between fluid and heat exchanger or full heat exchanger is improved by periodically changing the flow directions of the positive or reverse directional pumping fluid, wherein the positive or reverse directional pumping fluid is passed through the heat exchanger inside fluid pump, or through the heat exchanger being insertingly installed or coated with desiccant material, or the heat exchanger itself having concurrent moisture absorbing function thereby constituting the thermal energy reclaim and dehumidification effect of full heat exchange functions as well as reducing the disadvantages of impurity accumulations at fixed flow direction. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110232879 | COMPACT TWO SIDED COLD PLATE WITH TRANSFER TUBES - A structural cold plate assembly includes cold plates mounted to opposing sides of a panel and in fluid communication through fluid passages that extend through the panel. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20100236761 | Liquid cooled heat sink for multiple separated heat generating devices - A liquid cooled heat sink has a thermal conduction plate and a liquid cooling module. The liquid cooling module is attached securely to the thermal conduction plate and has a distribution tank, a collection tank and a pipe assembly. The pipe assembly has multiple pipes of at least two different gauges and each pipe has a pipe inlet and a pipe outlet respectively secured to the distribution tank and the collection tank. Since a sum of the gauges is increased and each pipe need not to be coiled, an extra strong pumping system is not needed and design complexity is reduced. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20120138274 | COOLING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC MODULES OF HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE OR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - The present invention provides an apparatus for effectively cooling electric modules such as an inverter and an LDC installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle. The cooling apparatus for electric modules of a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle secures a uniform cooling efficiency and achieves an excellent heat radiating efficiency at the same time by realizing a new type of cooling system adapted to separately manage heat transfer in the cooling water passages of first and second electric modules by separating an upper passage of the first electric module and a lower passage of the second electric module using a cooling separator. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20090114375 | WATER COOLING TYPE HEAT DISSIPATION MODULE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A water cooling type heat dissipation module for an electronic device includes a base disk, a suction disk, a water guide and a cover. The base has two containing spaces and a plurality of cooling strips in the containing space. The suction base is attached to the base disk and further includes two water chambers for receiving sucked water, two inlets and two outlets. The water guide is attached to the suction disk with two guide port at the periphery thereof. The cover closes the suction disk and is movably joined to a guide fan. When the heat dissipation module is full with fluid, the fluid can flow therein rapidly while the guide fan rotating such that the fluid is discharged from and flows into the heat dissipation module more effectively. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20080277100 | Heat Transfer Apparatus of a Forced Convection Type - A forced convection heat transfer apparatus wherein a large quantity of heat can be efficiently transferred even when a temperature difference is small, by transmitting power to a magnet, which is rotatable along a circulation flow path of a magnetic fluid, and obtaining a magnetic fluid circulation speed in proportion to the rotating speed. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090065181 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT EXCHANGER FLUID HANDLING WITH ATMOSPHERIC TOWER - A system connects fluid heat exchange devices such as a submerged combustion LNG vaporizer and a heating tower. The fluid handling system has a first heat exchange device having a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet, and a second heat exchange device having a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet. A first conduit connects the first fluid outlet to the second fluid inlet, a first reservoir receives fluid from the first fluid outlet, a second reservoir receives fluid from the second fluid outlet, a second conduit connects the second reservoir to the first fluid inlet; and a third, fluid equalization, conduit connected to the first reservoir and the second reservoir equalizes the fluid levels in the first and second reservoirs with each other. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20110120675 | DEVICE FOR COOLING AN ADHESIVE PRODUCT THAT IS PACKAGED IN A NON-ADHESIVE ENVELOPE - A device for cooling products ( | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110247787 | HEAT DISSIPATING SYSTEM - A heat dissipating system includes a heat generating component, an air-duct, a first fan and a second fan. The air-duct includes an inlet and an outlet. An air channel is formed between the inlet and the outlet to dissipate heat from the heat generating component. The heat generating component is located in the air channel. The first fan is located at the outlet. The second fan is located at the inlet opposite to the first fan. The first fan and the second fan are capable of cooperatively dissipating heat from the heat generating component through the air channel. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110108246 | Tubular System for Electrochemical Compressor - A heat transfer system defines a closed loop that contains a working fluid that is circulated through the closed loop. The heat transfer system includes an electrochemical compressor including one or more electrochemical cells electrically connected to each other through a power supply. Each electrochemical cell includes a gas pervious anode, a gas pervious cathode, and an electrolytic membrane disposed between and in intimate electrical contact with the cathode and the anode. The heat transfer system also includes a tubular system that receives at least one electrochemically-active component of the working fluid from an output of the electrochemical compressor and, if present, other components of the working fluid that bypass the electrochemical compressor. The tubular system has a geometry that enables at least a portion of the received working fluid to be imparted with a gain in kinetic energy as it moves through the tubular system. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20090308577 | Device For Providing A Cooled Or Heated Liquid Onboard An Aircraft - A device for providing a cooled or heated liquid, in particular cooled drinking water comprises a reservoir for receiving the liquid to be cooled or to be heated. The reservoir is thermally coupled with a conduit through which a cooling medium or a heat transfer medium may flow and comprises a first as well as a second circulation connection, with the first circulation connection being connected with the second circulation connection via a circulation conduit. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110186270 | Heat transfer device with anisotropic heat dissipating and absorption structures - Anisotropic thermal conducting materials are arranged in a heat dissipating device to create directional adiabatic heat transfer. In one embodiment, a preferential heat conduction is provided between a cooling substance and a dissipation layer, between a heat source and an absorption layer, and between an absorption layer and a cooling substance. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20100025016 | APPARATUS AND METHOD EMPLOYING HEAT PIPE FOR START-UP OF POWER PLANT - An apparatus to facilitate a start-up operation of a combined cycle or rankine cycle power plant is provided and includes a plurality of heat pipes, each of which respectively includes a first portion in thermal communication with exhaust emitted from a heat source and a second portion in thermal communication with the first portion, a cooling unit to cool the second portions of the heat pipes, and a controller which is configured to control the cooling unit to cool the second portions of the heat pipes and to thereby remove heat from exhaust via the first portions of the heat pipes. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20120000632 | FORCED-FLUID SWITCH - A forced fluid switch including a first plenum in communication with a first port; a second plenum in communication with a second port; a third plenum in switched communication with the first plenum and the second plenum and in communication with a third port; a fourth plenum in switched communication with the first plenum and the second plenum and in communication with a fourth port; and wherein the forced fluid switch has at least a first forced fluid path and a second forced fluid path, wherein in the first forced fluid path, the third plenum is in communication with the first plenum and the fourth plenum is in communication with the second plenum, and wherein in the second forced fluid path, the third plenum is in communication with the second plenum and the fourth plenum is in communication with the first plenum. A method is provided for switching forced fluid. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120118538 | Pump-Less Cooling - A method of cooling that accelerates a compressible working fluid without the use of a pump. The method accelerates the fluid to a velocity equal to or greater than the speed of sound in the compressible fluid selected to be used in the method. The fluid is accelerated to a supersonic velocity in a rotating evaporator tube. A phase change of the fluid due to a pressure differential may be utilized to transfer heat from an element to be cooled. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20110180238 | Thermal interface device - The invention is for an apparatus and method for removal of waste heat from heat-generating components including high-power solid-state analog electronics such as being developed for hybrid-electric vehicles, solid-state digital electronics, light-emitting diodes for solid-state lighting, semiconductor laser diodes, photo-voltaic cells, anodes for x-ray tubes, and solids-state laser crystals. Liquid coolant is flowed in one or more closed channels having a substantially constant radius of curvature. Suitable coolants include electrically conductive liquids (including liquid metals) and ferrofluids. The former may be flowed by magneto-hydrodynamic effect or by electromagnetic induction. The latter may be flowed by magnetic forces. Alternatively, an arbitrary liquid coolant may be used and flowed by an impeller operated by electromagnetic induction or by magnetic forces. The coolant may be flowed at very high velocity to produce very high heat transfer rates and allow for heat removal at very high flux. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20120261097 | COMPACT TWO SIDED COLD PLATE WITH FLOATING TRANSFER TUBES - A structural cold plate assembly includes cold plates mounted to opposing sides of a panel and in fluid communication through fluid passages that extend through the panel. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120325441 | SELF CIRCULATING HEAT EXCHANGER - A self-circulating heat exchanger apparatus for dissipating heat from an electronic assembly. An enclosure defines a closed-loop circulation path for coolant. An electronic assembly capable of generating heat is installed into a vertical portion of the enclosure such that heat from the electronic assembly causes coolant in the vertical portion to rise, thereby inducing self-circulation of the coolant in the enclosure. The electronic assembly is coated with a combination of silicon nitride and PARYLENE® in order to protect electronic components from water based coolants such as a mixture of ethylene glycol and water. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130112376 | HEAT PIPE SYSTEM - A heat pipe apparatus having a sintered lattice wick structure includes a plurality of wicking walls having respective length, width and heights and spaced in parallel to wick liquid in a first direction along the respective lengths, the respective lengths being longer than the respective widths and the respective heights, the plurality of wicking walls being adjacent to one another and spaced apart to form vapor vents between them, a plurality of interconnect wicking walls to wick liquid between adjacent wicking walls in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a vapor chamber encompassing the sintered lattice wick structure, the vapor chamber having an interior condensation surface and interior evaporator surface, wherein the plurality of wicking walls and the plurality of interconnect wicking walls are configured to wick liquid in first and second directions and the vapor vents communicate vapor in a direction orthogonal to the first and second directions. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20080202730 | LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a liquid cooling system in which an inlet hole and an outlet hole that are located at both ends of a circulating flow passage opened onto a heat-radiating sheet having the circulating flow passage between a pair of heat-conductive metal plates that are superimposed on each other, a pump having a discharge port and a suction port that communicate with the inlet hole and the outlet hole installed on the heat-radiating sheet, a heat-generating element set on the heat-radiating sheet via a heat spreader, and used as a heat-receiving area, and the circulating flow passage having a heat-absorbing flow passage located in a lower face of the heat spreader and a heat-radiating flow passage located in the heat-radiating area other than the heat spreader and having a sufficiently larger length than the flow passage length of the heat-absorbing flow passage. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20130146259 | HEAT SINK - Disclosed herein is a heat sink including: a pipe for refrigerant movement including a first path, a third path having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the first path in a thickness direction, and a second path connecting between the first and third paths and having a cross-sectional area in the thickness direction reduced from the first path toward the third path; and a case enclosing the pipe for refrigerant movement. | 06-13-2013 |
