Heat exchange inventions 12/06

20060289143 - Cooling system having a pivotal heat exchanger: A cooling system for a work machine is disclosed. The cooling system has a heat exchanger pivotally connected along a pivot axis. The cooling system also has a first fluid conduit and a second fluid conduit. The first fluid conduit is connected to a first end of the heat exchanger... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20060289144 - Flooring board with an embeded electrically influenced sheet: The invention relates to a flooring board with groove (8) and tongue (10) and composed of a covering layer (2), a base plate (3), and between them an embedded foil (4) provided with electric connecting means located at the grooves and tongues for obtaining an effect upon the foil conditioned... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060289145 - Tube type heat exchanger with motor or generator housing: A cooling assembly is provided for an electromechanical device, such as an electromagnetic or generator, including a housing having a wall portion. A magnetic field member is disposed within the housing and is arranged adjacent to the wall portion. A shaft having windings is located within the magnetic field member... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20060289146 - Thermal module incorporating heat pipe: A thermal module for dissipating heat generated by a heat source includes a heat pipe and a heat sink. The heat pipe includes a vaporized portion thermally connected to the heat source for collecting the heat, a condensed portion for receiving the heat transmitted from the vaporized portion, and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060289147 - Modular heat sink: A modular based heat sink which can be easily optimized for a given heat source relies upon both phase change based heat transfer and condenser modules that combine the efficiency of folded fin cooling and the efficiency of the two phase heat transfer.... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment

20060289148 - Liquid cooling unit for electronic systems: The circulation main loop supplies the liquid coolant by means of the main pump to the cooling plate which cools the electronic element, and then, dissipates the heat by the main heat exchanger 20 to return the same to the reservoir tank. The circulation sub-loop supplies the liquid coolant by... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060289149 - Heat dissipating device with heat reservoir: A heat dissipating device includes a heat sink (10), a heat pipe (20), a heat reservoir (30) thermally connecting with the heat sink through the heat pipe, and a fan (40) generating an airflow through the heat sink. The heat pipe includes an evaporating portion (202) attached to the heat... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20060289150 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink (10) and at least a serpent heat pipe (22). The heat sink (10) comprises a base (12) contacting with an electrical component, a heat dissipation fins group (14) secured to the base (12) and a cover (16) attached to a top of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20060289151 - Fin tube assembly for heat exchanger and method: A fin and tube assembly for use in a heat exchanger comprising a carbon steel tube, a carbon steel fin, and an external brazing compound comprising a material selected from the group consisting of nickel, chrome, copper, aluminum, zinc, and graphite brazed to the tube and fin is disclosed. A... Agent: Cozen O'connor, P.C.

20060289152 - Heat exchange element and heat exchanger produced therewith: A heat exchange element is described having adjacent, heat-transferring, smooth walls (1) which, between each other, delimit flow channels (4) with preselected channel widths (B) for at least one fluid and are provided with undulations (6) which protrude on both sides and transversely relative to imaginary central planes (7), said... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20060289153 - Assembly of baffles and seals and method of assembling a heat exhanger: An assembly of baffles and seals for mounting in a heat exchanger shell, comprising a plurality of longitudinal baffles; a plurality of longitudinal seals for sealingly engaging longitudinal rims of the longitudinal baffles against the heat exchanger shell after mounting, and further a wall member that is arranged to extend... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20060283572 - Heat sink and plasma display device having the same: A plasma display device having a heat sink. The heat sink includes a heat sink base adapted to contact a semiconductor device and a plurality of fins extending from the base. Each fin has a fin base and a fin tip distal from the semiconductor device. The fin base is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060283573 - Heat transfer surface for electronic cooling: A cooling surface for cooling an electronic component, the surface having two sets of fins, each set of fins defining a set of channels, and a number of passageways connecting the sets of channels. The cooling surface can be attached to an electronic component, such as a chip, and refrigerant... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20060283575 - Heat pipe: A heat pipe includes a hollow elongated casing, which defines therein an enclosed chamber, a working fluid filled in the enclosed chamber; and a wick, which is formed on the inside wall of the casing around the enclosed fluid chamber and has two parts that have different porosities.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060283576 - Heat pipe: A heat pipe includes a tubular member, a capillary wick, and a liquid. The tubular member has a plurality of capillary ditches formed on an internal sidewall thereof. The capillary wick is disposed on the internal sidewall of the tubular member and located on openings of the capillary ditches for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060283577 - Loop-type heat exchange device: A loop-type heat exchange device (10) is disclosed, which includes an evaporator (20), a condenser (40), a vapor conduit (30) and a liquid conduit (50). The evaporator contains therein a working fluid. The working fluid in the evaporator evaporates into vapor after absorbing heat, and the generated vapor flows, via... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060283578 - Method for removing vapor within heat pipe: A method for removing vapor within a heat pipe includes providing a predetermined amount of working fluid injected into the heat pipe. An opening is reserved at one end of the heat pipe. The opening is communicated with a vacuum environment. A normally off is maintained between the opening and... Agent: Hdsl

20060283574 - Thermoduct: A thermoduct comprises a metallic tube with multiple trenches, cupric powder and a metallic net, wherein the metallic net and the cupric powder are disposed inside the metallic tube and function as a capillary texture. The cupric powder is sintered to adhere to recesses of trenches, and the metallic net... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060283579 - Integrated liquid cooled heat sink for electronic components: A fluid heat exchanger unit cools an electronic device with a cooling fluid supplied to an upper portion of a cooling housing. A refrigerant is disposed in a lower portion of the cooling housing for liquid-to-vapor transformation. A partition divides the upper portion of the cooling housing from the lower... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20060283580 - Heat exchanger and process for fabricating same: A flat hollow body having a fluid channel inside thereof is made from two plates 2 serving as heat exchanger components, by brazing the plates at the peripheral edge portions thereof. The plate 2 comprises a core layer 21 of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and an Al—Si alloy layer 22... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060283581 - Louver fin type heat exchanger having improved heat exchange efficiency by controlling water blockage: Disclosed is a louver fin type heat exchanger positioned upright at a certain angle with respect to the ground, wherein lower end portions of louver fins close to the ground are bent toward lower end portions of adjacent louver fins, such that the air passage at the lower end portion... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20060283582 - Heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger: A heat exchanger (10) comprises a first sheet (12), a second sheet (14) and an additional sheet (30). The first and second sheets (12, 14) are wound around an axis (X), each sheet (12, 14) has hot and cold edges at the hot and cold ends (16, 18) respectively of... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20060283583 - Stamped manifold for a heat exchanger and method for making same: A stamped manifold for a heat exchanger includes a central portion having a plurality of mating tubular members for connection to tubes of a heat exchanger. The manifold includes a plurality of folds disposed between the mating tubular members to form a pair of channels below a plane of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20060283585 - Automotive heat exchanger assemblies having internal fins and methods of making the same: The present invention relates to automotive heat exchanger assemblies that can withstand high environmental temperature and pressures conditions. By providing for a tube strengthener into the tubes at the areas of highest stress, the heat exchanger assembly is strengthened to be efficient under typical operating conditions... Agent: Valeo, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20060283584 - Thermally efficient micromachined device: A micromachined device for efficient thermal processing at least one fluid stream includes at least one fluid conducting tube having at least a region with wall thickness of less than 50 μm. The device optionally includes one or more thermally conductive structures in thermal communication with first and second thermally... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

20060283586 - Air conditioner for vehicle: Provided is an air conditioner for a vehicle, including a blower unit that blows air, an air conditioning case including an evaporator and a heater core, which are sequentially disposed in an airflow path, and an air inlet path that allows air to flow to an evaporator from the blower... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20060278364 - Rotating heat exchanger and method for sealing the same: The invention relates to a rotating heat exchanger (1) with a rotatably mounted rotor (3), comprising a first flow sector (4), for external (5) and supply air (6) and a second flow sector (7), for exhaust (8) and venting air (9), through which the above runs on rotating and a... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20060278365 - Cooling system used for hybrid-powered automobile: A radiator 9 for electric parts use, which cools an inverter and others relating to the control of an electric motor, and a condenser 12 for condensing refrigerant are arranged in parallel with each other with respect to the direction of an air flow on an upstream side of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060278366 - Integral-type heat exchanger: Tanks of a first heat exchanger have plane sections perpendicular to bottoms having a plurality of tube insertion holes formed therein. Tanks of a second heat exchanger with circular cross sections have bottoms having a plurality of tube insertion holes formed therein. The axes of the tube insertion holes of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060278368 - Apparatus for cleaning heat exchanger plates and a bulk material heat exchanger using the same: An apparatus removing material accumulated on the exterior surfaces of adjacent heat exchanger plates arranged side-by-side in a spaced relationship in a bulk material heat exchanger and a bulk material heat exchanger incorporating the apparatus is provided. In one aspect, the apparatus develops vibratory shock waves through each coil to... Agent: Bay Area Patent Group, LLC

20060278367 - Flat heat exchanger plate and bulk material heat exchanger using the same: A flat heat exchanger plate typically used in a bulk material heat exchanger having an improved construction which increases heat transfer and service period by reducing bulk material accumulation. The flat heat exchanger plate is designed to operate under a negative internal pressure to eliminate depressions or dimples that are... Agent: Bay Area Patent Group, LLC

20060278369 - Cooling method: In a display cabinet (21) articles such as food placed on a shelf (20) can be kept cooler by having a heat pipe in the shelf with one end of the heat pipe (20a) cooled by the cabinet's cooling system (22).... Agent: Bartlett & Sherer

20060278371 - Compliant thermal interface structure with vapor chamber: A structure for cooling an electronic device is disclosed. The structure includes a top layer disposed over the electronic device. The structure further includes a plurality of spring elements disposed between the top layer and the electronic device, wherein at least one spring element comprises a spring portion, provides a... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20060278372 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a liquid cooling system and a heat exchanger. The liquid cooling system includes a cold plate (20) having an inlet (244) and an outlet (246) to permit liquid to flow through the cold plate. The heat exchanger includes a heat conductive member (10) thermally connecting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060278374 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a fin unit (50), and at least a heat pipe (30) including an evaporating section (32) and at least a condensing section (34) extending through the fin unit. The fin unit includes a plurality of fins stacked together. Each fin comprises a wavy and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060278375 - Heat sink apparatus with operating fluid in base thereof: An exemplary heat sink apparatus (10) includes a base (12) and a number of fins (14) extending from an upper external first surface (124) of the base. The base defines a sealed cavity (122) therein. Operating fluid (18) is filled in the cavity. The operating fluid is liquid form. In... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060278370 - Heat spreader for cooling electronic components: A unitary heat spreader for cooling electronic components comprising an evaporator section comprising a plate configured for heat exchange communication with electronic components and a plurality of elongated evaporator channels therein, and a liquid phase-change refrigerant in the evaporator channels, and first and second condenser sections configured to substantially avoid... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060278373 - Microchannel cooling device with magnetocaloric pumping: The invention discloses a microchannel cooling device, adapted for dissipating heat generated from an electronic device, which comprises: a heat sink, being arranged on the electronic device and having an inlet, an outlet and a plurality of microchannels embedded thereon for receiving a ferrofluid to flow therein; a condenser, having... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20060278376 - Cooling appliance for hot beverages: A cooling appliance for cooling hot beverages has a base, a heat conducting bar and an electric fan. The heat conducting bar is mounted securely in the base. The electric fan is attached to the base. The heat conducting bar extends into the hot beverages and transmits heat to the... Agent: Patenttm.us

20060278377 - Module for cooling the charge air and recirculated exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle: The cooling module consists of a charge air cooler and of a recirculated exhaust gas cooler. The charge air cooler comprises a heat exchange bundle (2), an inlet header box for the air that is to be cooled and an outlet header box for the cooled air. The recirculated exhaust... Agent: Berenato White & Stavish

20060278378 - Oil-cooler-equipped radiator: An oil cooler includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of element units stacked in a state communicating with each other, pipe connectors coupled to the heat exchanger in a state communicating with spaces formed respectively at both end portions in the longitudinal direction of the heat exchanger, and a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060278379 - Multi-pass parallel-tube heat exchanger: A multi-pass parallel tube heat exchanger is disclosed. The multi-pass parallel tubes heat exchanger provides a compact, light and inexpensive heat exchanger that may be oriented in any direction. These features and others make the disclosed exchanger ideal for use in a restricted area such as that available when providing... Agent: Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP Attn. Docketing

20060278380 - Heat radiation member usable with a card type electronic component and display apparatus having the same: A heat radiation member usable with a card type electronic component to cool the card type electronic component includes a heat radiator formed with a plurality of cooling fins, and a card mounting part coupled to the heat radiator and having a receiver to accommodate the card type electronic component... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060278381 - Heat transfer pin of heat exchanger: A heat transfer pin of a heat exchanger, in which slits in the first row, slits in the second row, slits in the third row, and slits in the fourth row are arranged in parallel with an inflow direction of Pal air such that the interval between a virtual line... Agent: Cooper & Dunham LLP

20060278382 - Laminated evaporator with optimally configured plates to align incident flow: The invention provides a heat exchanger having a plurality of plates stacked in alternating mirrored relation with one another. Each of the plurality of plates has a plate length extending along a plate longitudinal axis between first and second ends. Each of the plurality of plates also has a plate... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20060278383 - Sealing method and structure of heat pipe: A method of forming a sealing structure at an open end of a heat pipe includes shrinking the open end to form a shrunk end with a cone-shaped portion, pressing the shrunk end to form a pinched portion so that the shrunk end and regions adjacent to the cone-shaped portion... Agent: Hdsl

20060278384 - System and apparatus for enclosing a utility: A utility enclosure. The utility enclosure includes a base member having predetermined dimensions. The base member surrounds the utility and contains a plurality of apertures. The enclosure also includes at least one body member having predetermined dimensions. The body member surrounds the utility contains a plurality of apertures. Also, at... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20060278385 - Air conditioning system and method for regulating the heating capacity thereof: The invention relates to an air conditioning system, especially a motor vehicle air conditioning system, that can be operated as a heat pump. Said system comprises a compressor (2), a heating body (3), a throttle element (4), and an evaporator (6), the compressor (2) having a variable stroke. The throttle... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060272795 - Convoluted heat shield: A heat shield comprises a convoluted tube preferably formed from two layers of aluminum. The convoluted tube may have an inside minor diameter ranging from 0.5 inches to 3.0 inches and preferably includes convolutions of greater than 0.070 inches and a pitch of at least 0.787 inches. Optionally, the tube... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20060272796 - Flexible graphite flooring heat spreader: A floor heating system includes a flooring substrate having a heating or cooling element in heat transfer relationship therewith. A heat spreader is in heat transfer relationship with the flooring substrate. The heat spreader includes a layer of flexible graphite material. A floor covering overlies the layer of flexible graphite... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20060272797 - Cooling device for an electric component: A cooling device has a cooling element (3) and a pressing device (4) which presses the component (1) against the cooling element (3). The pressing device (4) is resilient and is connected to the cooling element in a positive fit in order to produce fixing means which fix the component... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20060272798 - Loop-type heat exchange device: A loop-type heat exchange device (10) includes an evaporator (20), a vapor conduit (30), a condenser (50) and a liquid conduit (70). The evaporator contains therein a working fluid. The working fluid turns into vapor in the evaporator upon receiving heat from a heat-generating component. The condenser includes a housing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060272799 - Supporting seat for supporting weight of heat dissipating fins to avoid deformation of heat dissipating tubes extending through the heat dissipating fins: A supporting seat includes a base adapted to be securely connected to the heat conductive plate, two arms extending obliquely from the base from two opposed sides of the base, two engagement plates each formed on a free end of a corresponding arm and adapted to engage with a bottom... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20060272800 - Radiator fan shroud with flow directing ports: A radiator fan shroud (100) is disclosed that is adapted to be attached to a vehicle radiator (96)—for example, the radiator of a Class 8 truck. The fan shroud includes a peripheral cover portion (112) and a ring assembly (102) that encloses the blades of the engine-driven radiator fan (88).... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060272801 - Side plate for heat exchanger, heat exchanger and process for fabricating the heat exchanger: A side plate 5 is designed for use in a condenser 1 comprising a pair of headers 2, 3 arranged as spaced apart from each other, a plurality of flat refrigerant tubes 4 arranged in parallel as spaced apart from one another between the headers 2, 3 and each having... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060272802 - Cooling plate: A cooling plate comprises a passage 6 for flowing a coolant by closing a groove 5 formed on a main body 2 with a lid 3. The lid 3 has a width greater than that of the groove 5 and has a convex portion 4 at least on one surface.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060272803 - Method and an apparatus for cooling a computer: A heat exchanging system comprising circulating fluid through a tube coupled to an electronic component in a first part of a computing device and to a heat transfer plate in a second part of the computing device.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman