Heat exchange inventions 10/06

20060237164 - Assembly array for an air conditioner with a heating device: The invention relates to an assembly array for an air conditioner with a heating device, particularly for motor vehicles, comprising at least one housing in which air is guided in an at least partly predetermined flow path. The flow path also receives at least one heating device and at least...

20060237165 - Holding device for holding cooling fan: A holding device for holding a cooling fan comprising: a duct having a hollow in which a cooling fan is to be fitted; a stopper portion which keeps one operative end of the cooling fan from further moving to hold the cooling fan at a fitting position; and a plurality...

20060237166 - High efficiency fluid heat exchanger and method of manufacture: A fluid heat exchanger has a housing having a thermally conductive base, a plurality of fin members connected to the base in a parallel, spaced relationship, a heat exchanger fluid inlet on one side of the plurality of fin members, and a heat exchanger fluid outlet on the opposite side...

20060237167 - Heat sink: A heat sink including a main body and a plurality of porous structures is disclosed. The main body has a plurality of hollow fins and a base. The fins and the base form a closed room. The porous structures are set on the interior surfaces of different fins, and are...

20060237169 - Aerodynamically enhanced cooling fan: A cooling fan comprising a fan housing that connects to a chassis supporting an electronic device. A motor is disposed within the fan housing. A blade assembly is rotatably coupled to the motor. The fan housing has a length at least 10 mm longer than a distance between a leading...

20060237168 - Air mover with thermally coupled guide vanes: An air mover comprising a housing and a plurality of blades rotatably disposed within the housing. A plurality of guide vanes are fixed within the housing. The guide vanes are thermally coupled to an electronic component such that heat generated by the electronic component is transferred through the guide vanes...

20060237170 - Heat exchanging device: A heat exchanging device includes a receptacle having a chamber for receiving a fluid medium, a housing received within the receptacle and having an outer peripheral wall arranged to allow the fluid medium to flow into the housing via the upper portion of the outer peripheral wall, and having an...

20060237171 - Jet generating device and electronic apparatus: A jet generating device includes a vibrating member which vibrates gas, a driving unit which drives the vibrating member, and a housing which has a first opening and a first chamber connected to the first opening and containing the gas. The housing supports the vibrating member, and is such that,...

20060237172 - Water-cooling heat exchanger and heat-dissipating device for the same: A water-cooling heat exchanger and a heat-dissipating device are mounted on a heat-generating element of a computer for rapidly guiding and dissipating the heat generated by the heat-generating element. A water-cooling head, a pump and a heat-dissipating fan are stacked up, and an annular heat exchanger is used to surround...

20060237173 - Corrugated fin for integrally assembled heat exhangers: A plurality of tubes and corrugated fins are piled up and arranged alternatively, for integrally assembled heat exchangers. The corrugated fin has fin portions for the heat exchangers and a connecting portion connecting the fin portions. The connecting portion is formed with slits arranged in first and second lines extending...

20060237174 - Aluminum radiator tank with oil cooler clinch fitting: The fabrication of a heat exchanger assembly by disposing a metal fitting of an oil cooler subassembly into an opening in a first tank and disposing a tubular connector into a bore in the fitting. These components are mechanically held together prior to brazing by disposing an outer clinch cylinder...

20060237175 - Heat exchanger for cehicle use: A second attaching portion 8, in which a shroud 20 is attached to a radiator 1, is formed at a position shifted from a first attaching portion 17, at which a condenser 10 is attached to the radiator 1, at predetermined intervals in a vehicle width direction. As a result,...

20060237176 - Compact vehicle radiator: The fluid inlet and outlet tubings (5,6) that project beyond a front surface (F1) of the radiator are inclined with respect to the longitudinal axes (A1, A2) of the fluid boxes (1, 2), so as to reduce the bulk of the radiator in the longitudinal direction of the fluid boxes...

20060237177 - Counter-stream-mode oscillating-flow heat transport apparatus: A counter-stream-mode oscillating-flow heat transport apparatus improves heat transport capability by imparting oscillatory displacement to a fluid located near a heat-generating element such that the fluid is directed toward the heat-generating element. Turning portions of serpentine flow paths are disposed to face the heat-generating element. The flow paths are stacked...

20060237178 - Heat exchanger: Air passages 18 are formed between surfaces of a plurality of heat transfer plates 12 laid together. A plurality of rib sections 14 extending orthogonal to the air flowing direction A are formed on a surface of the heat transfer plate 12 and projected into the air passage 18. By...

20060237179 - Reduced vibration tube bundle device: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle...

20060237180 - Air heat exchanger: The present disclosure relates to an air heat exchanger in air diffuser systems with flexible planar heat exchanger elements, in particular for use in aircraft. In accordance with the present disclosure, the individual planar heat exchanger elements are connected with each other by means of webs. The present disclosure furthermore...

20060237181 - Multi-channel temperature control system for semiconductor processing facilities: A temperature control system for multiple process components is a semiconductor processing facility includes a common cooling unit for controlling the temperature of a cooling fluid and multiple remote temperature control modules in fluid communications with the common cooling unit that separately control the temperature of the multiple process components....

20060237182 - Refrigerator-oven combination for an aircraft galley food service system: The refrigerator-oven combination for an aircraft galley food service system includes a housing with a thermally insulated compartment, a heating device for heating the compartment in a heating a heating mode, and a refrigeration device for cooling the compartment in a refrigerator mode....

20060237183 - Flapper valves with spring tabs: A flapper valve assembly has a valve plate for attachment to a fluid device, such as a heat exchanger. The valve plate has a fluid port for permitting intermittent flow to or from a flow chamber in the fluid device. A resilient flapper covers the fluid port and has at...

20060237184 - Tubular flapper valves: A bypass valve assembly for a fluid device, such as a heat exchanger, has a plate-like main body defining an inlet opening and an outlet opening communicating with the inlet and outlet of the fluid device. The main body has a bypass passage extending between the inlet and outlet openings...

20060237185 - Snap-in flapper valve assembly: A flapper valve snaps into position in an inlet or outlet manifold of a heat exchanger to provide by-pass flow in cold flow or pressure spike conditions. The flapper valve includes a cradle having opposed spring fingers for retaining the valve in position. The cradle has a fluid port therein,...

20060231233 - Microchannel heat exchanger with micro-encapsulated phase change material for high flux cooling: A microchannel cooler containing a slurry having a particulate liquid/solid phase change material is provided balancing the interdependent factors of microencapsulated particle size with microchannel size and shape and flow conditions for the removal of high heat flux with low space and low power requirements....

20060231234 - Arrangement of vehicle heat exchangers: A vehicular heat exchange module, including first, second and third heat exchanger, with two of the heat exchangers being a radiator a charge air cooler. The heat exchangers include a core having a plurality of flat tubes with cooling ribs therebetween. At least one of the heat exchangers has a...

20060231235 - Heat pipe: A heat pipe able to switch between operation and suspension of heat transport when used for a bottom heat type and able to prevent the condensed working medium from dropping to the evaporator side and a waste heat recovery system using the same are provided. A heat pipe having an...

20060231236 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipation device with a fluid cavity that utilizes a hybrid of star pins with concave surfaces and sharp edges, and truncated dimples, which creates turbulence and a vortex phenomenon perpendicular to fluid flow transmission, and increases the heat transfer coefficient without increasing restriction of fluid flow through the...

20060231237 - Apparatus and method for cooling ics using nano-rod based chip-level heat sinks: A method and apparatus for overcoming the problems of rapidly increasing complexity and cost and degrading reliability measures in connection with the cooling of a multi-chip mounted on an electronic printed circuit board. Accordingly, there are combined a) nano-structures materials for micro or nano-scale heat transfer from a substrate; b)...

20060231238 - Integrated thermal exchange systems and methods of fabricating same: Thermal exchange systems integrate a thermal transfer unit (22); a fluid cooling assembly (24); a pump (26); and a fan (28). The thermal transfer unit (22) interfaces with a body to be thermally conditioned and transfers thermal energy to a fluid. The fluid cooling assembly (24) cools the fluid obtained...

20060231239 - Battery cooler: A battery cooler has a flow guidance unit, that includes at least one pressure conduit; and also a hand power tool, a charger and a hybrid drive unit are provided with such battery cooler....

20060231241 - Evaporator with aerodynamic first dimples to suppress whistling noise: A heat exchanger assembly including a plurality of pairs of plates disposed in series for fluid flow from a pass through one pair of plates to a pass through the next pair of plates. Each pair of plates includes a central rib to define a U-shaped passage having a fluid...

20060231240 - Heat exchanger, in particular air/air cooler: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1), in particular an air-cooled air cooler consisting of a block (2) with first (7) and second (9) flow channels, arranged in a cross-flow configuration, for a first gaseous medium that is to be cooled and a second cooling gaseous medium. According to...

20060231242 - Axial heat exchanger: The present invention offers an improved axial heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a gas medium and a fluid or liquid medium. The axial heat exchanger comprises a longitudinal and substantially axially extended outer channel that is adapted to enclose a flow of a first gas medium. The heat exchanger...

20060231243 - Egr cooler: The EGR cooler comprises tubes 3 and a shell surrounding the tubes 3, the coolant water being supplied and discharged to and from the shell 1 and being passed through the respective tubes 3 so as to make heat exchange of the exhaust gas with the coolant water. In the...

20060231245 - Collecting tank and heat exchanger: The invention relates to a plastic charge air tank or coolant tank (5) comprising at least one tie rod (10) that is integrated thereinto and is connected thereto as a single piece or in a fixed manner. The tie rod (10) is provided with at least one continuous hollow space...

20060231244 - Tube blank correcting member for use in temporarily assembling heat exchanger, and apparatus for and method of temporaily assembling heat exchanger: A temporarily assembling apparatus comprises a support member 2 for supporting thereon heat exchange tube blanks P having their lengthwise direction positioned laterally, with their widthwise direction positioned vertically, and arranged from front rearward in parallel with opposite left and right ends thereof aligned respectively, and the fins F arranged...

20060231246 - Fan coil controller: A fan coil controller for a hot and cold water system of a building that turns off the fan while the hot water and cold water coils are flushed. A fan coil control circuit is configured to periodically and temporarily operate a hot water flow control circuit and a cold...

20060225863 - Heat and cold storage multistage tower with application of pcm: This invention relates to the area of heat management systems and, specifically, to the heat management systems, which include application of phase change materials (PCM). Proposed heat or cold storage multistage tower comprises a housing with a multistage system of flat rigid containers; significant fraction of internal space of each...

20060225864 - Device and method for diagnosing obstructions in channels of a micro heat exchanger: In order to diagnose obstructions in channels of a micro heat exchanger, at least one temperature sensor is externally placed on the micro heat exchanger and an evaluating device is connected to this sensor. Said evaluating device diagnoses an obstruction based on changes in the measured temperature in the event...

20060225865 - Thermal inner tube: An elongated structure (100) for the transmission of fluid-based compositions at non-ambient temperatures comprising a first conduit (130) for the transmission of a fluid-based composition, at least one flexible, elongated and inflatable temperature control conduit (110a, 110b) for the transmission of a temperature control fluid, the temperature control conduit (110a,...

20060225866 - Cooling fin assembly: A cooling fin assembly includes a plurality of fins, each having a latching element on the top edge and the bottom edge, to couple with each other in series, forming an annular arrangement. The fins coupled in the annular fashion are surrounded and confined by a strapping ring. The fins...

20060225867 - Heat sink apparatus for electronic device: A heat sink apparatus is provided for an electronic device. The heat sink apparatus includes a body in which an inlet and an outlet are formed. A heat absorbing fluid flows through a plurality of channels. An inflow guide unit has a cross-section that narrows as it extends away from...

20060225868 - Rib and block for a radiator: The rib and the block are applicable in heating appliances construction. They have increased operational safety and heat transfer velocity. The rib comprises an upper (1.1) and lower hole (1.2), a joining profile (2), a first (3) and second (4) internal foldings, a third intermediate (5) and a fourth external...

20060225869 - Air conditioner and antibacterial case: Air conditioner pertaining to the present invention in which a synthetic polymer case, in which an antibacterial agent impregnated in a medium such as a porous body or water-absorbing polymer is sealed, is arranged in the upstream airflow side and/or downstream airflow side of an evaporator, which air conditioner is...

20060225870 - Cooling apparatus, system, and associated method: The present invention provides a cooling apparatus, system, and associated method. The cooling apparatus includes an insulating material, and a heat transfer device at least partially embedded within the structure material. The cooling apparatus also includes a diamond composite sheet positioned adjacent to the structure material, wherein the diamond composite...

20060225871 - Heat exchanger and method of making the same: A side plate for a heat exchanger and method for making a heat exchanger is provided. The side plate includes at least one localized contact point that can be bonded to a header of the heat exchanger during assembly of the heat exchanger. The localized contact point separates from the...

20060225872 - Exhaust gas heat exchanger: A tube is constituted by a pair of plates which are fitted with each other in such a manner as to put an inner fin between the plates. Differences in level are formed between the two plates, which differences in level is compensated by either a tapered wall or a...

20060225873 - Heat exchanger assembly having fitting secured thereto and method of securing the same: The subject invention provides a heat exchanger assembly including a tank having a wall defining an aperture with a fitting secured thereto and a method of securing the fitting thereto. The fitting has a first end with an outer perimeter disposed exteriorly thereof and smaller than the aperture for inserting...

20060225874 - Sandwiched thermal article: A thermal material for heat dissipation, which includes at least one sheet of flexible graphite sandwiched about a non-graphite core layer....

20060225875 - Air conditioning apparatus for vehicle: An interior of an air conditioning case is partitioned into a first air passage extending from an inside air suction port to a foot opening portion and a second air passage extending from an outside air suction port is disposed at a side of the first air passage to detect...

20060225876 - Constant temperature controller: A constant temperature controller inexpensive and easy to operate, yet capable of accurately controlling the temperature with significantly reduced heat energy consumption, is provided. An operation mode of a cooler is switched between an idling mode and a loaded mode, based on a difference in temperature between a first temperature...

20060219381 - Ventilation system: The present invention relates to an apparatus for ventilation systems which include an element for the transfer of heat from warm exhaust air (taken from inside a building) to cooler exterior fresh air which is drawn into the building. The present invention in particular provides an apparatus whereby, during a...

20060219382 - Fan disabling device: A control system for disabling the fan of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system upon the detection of an audible alarm, such as a smoke alarm. The preferred embodiment utilizes a tunable band pass filter/decibel level detector in conjunction with a microphone to detect an audible alarm. When an alarm...

20060219383 - Vehicle air conditioner: In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core, both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same side wall of the...

20060219384 - Vehicle air conditioner: In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same side wall of the...

20060219385 - System and apparatus for fixing a substrate with a heat transferring device: A system for fixing a substrate with a heat transferring device in an assembled orientation; the system comprising: a substantially rod-shaped positioning member having a length generally symmetrically oriented about an axis and a generally constant lateral expanse substantially perpendicular with said axis substantially along said length; said positioning member...

20060219386 - Heat dissipating assembly with composite heat dissipating structure: A heat dissipating assembly includes a fan and a composite heat dissipating structure. The composite heat dissipating structure includes a first heat sink and a second heat sink disposed adjacent to the first heat sink. The first and the second heat sinks include a plurality of first fins and a...

20060219387 - Cooling jacket: A cooling jacket for cooling a heat-generating element 300 through transmitting heat-generation therein into a coolant flowing within an inside thereof, which is mounted within an electronic apparatus, comprises a base portion 110, having a heat-transfer surface 111 to be contact on a surface of the heat-generating element, and a...

20060219388 - Cooling jacket: In an electronic apparatus having a heat-generating element therein, a cooling jacket 100 for transmitting heat generated from the heat-generating element 200 into to a liquid coolant flowing therein, comprises: a cover 130 building up a heat transfer surface to be in contact with a surface of the heat-generating element;...

20060219389 - Air compressor aftercooler: A compressor aftercooler and an aftercooler assembly incorporating the aftercooler. The aftercooler has an inlet header and a cooler outlet that are in flow communication with a cooling area therebetween such that air passing from the inlet header to the cooler outlet is reduced in temperature. A bypass outlet exits...

20060219390 - Self-pumping heat-pipe fuser roll: An energy transfer device includes a heat pipe and at least one spiral feature on an interior surface along a portion of the heat pipe, wherein a pitch of the spiral feature may be such that a liquid is pumped in the heat pipe, and a thermal mass of the...

20060219391 - Heat pipe with sintered powder wick: A heat pipe (10) includes a casing (12) and a sintered powder wick (14) arranged at an inner surface of the casing. The sintered powder wick is in the form of a multi-layer structure in a radial direction of the casing and at least one layer is divided into multiple...

20060219392 - Heat dissipating apparatus: A heat dissipating apparatus (10) includes a plurality of fins (20) stacked together along a predetermined direction, and a plurality of projection members (23) extending from each fin. Each of the fins includes a main body (22). The main bodies of two adjacent fins define an air passage (29) therebetween....

20060219393 - Aluminum heat exchanger: An aluminum-made heat exchanger including a flat tube is formed by, using an aluminum strip-shaped material coated with a brazing metal on the outer surface of a core metal and coated with a sacrificial anode material at the inner surface side thereof, bending the strip-shaped material in the width direction...

20060219394 - Stacked-tube heat exchanger: A headerless heat exchanger has a core comprised of a stack of flat tubes of rectangular cross section through which a first heat exchange fluid passes. The tubes are expanded in height at their end portions to provide spaces between adjacent plate pairs for passage of a second heat exchange...

20060219395 - Condensation heat exchanger: The invention relates to a condensation heat exchanger. The inventive heat exchanger consists of two co-axial helicoidal tube bundles which are positioned end-to-end, one of said bundles (2a) serving as a primary exchanger and the other (2b) serving as a secondary exchanger. Each of the aforementioned bundles comprises a tube...

20060219396 - Lamination-type cooler: A lamination-type cooler comprises: a plurality of cooling pipes for interposing and cooling electronic parts; and a pair of refrigerant headers respectively engaged with both end portions of the plurality of cooling pipes, for laminating and fixing the plurality of cooling pipes. Both end portions of a refrigerant passage formed...

20060219397 - Method and equipment for distribution of two fluids into and out of the channels in a multi-channel monolithic structure and use thereof: The present invention concerns a method and equipment for distribution of two fluids into and out of the channels in a multi-channel monolithic structure (monolith) where the channel openings are spread over the entire cross-sectional area of said structure. Said equipment consists of a manifold head, a monolith unit or...

20060219398 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchange tube 4 is formed by using a sheet member not clad with a brazing material layer, with bonding margins 4d at which ends of the sheet member are overlapped and brazed by using a brazing material. This structure reduces the extent to which the brazing material becomes...

20060219399 - Vehicle air conditioner: In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same side wall of the...