Heat exchange inventions 01/07

20070017655 - Temperature control unit in air-conditioning system: Object of this invention is to allow baffle plates with varying functions to be interchangeably mounted at a single air-conditioning system and to prevent an erroneously selected baffle plate from being mounted undetected. A unit case 3 includes a plurality of fastening structures 24 and 25 as required, each to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070017656 - Heating system with heat transmission fluid distributed in finished floor boards: A floor heating system comprising: at least one modular floor heating element, including a top surface and an opposing bottom surface linked by a series of longitudinal ducts, the longitudinal ducts enabling connection with three-point connections and/or two-point connections for coupling each of the ducts to a delivery duct and... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070017657 - Counterflow heat exchanger: A countercurrent heat exchanger includes a pair of heat exchanger cores (1, 2) with multiple tubes (11, 21) and fins (12, 22) which are arranged alternatively and next to each other in its depth direction. One end sides of the tubes (11, 21) of the inflow-side heat exchanger core (1)... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070017658 - Cold plate apparatus and method of fabrication thereof with a controlled heat transfer characteristic between a metallurgically bonded tube and heat sink for facilitating cooling of an electronics component: Cold plate apparatuses and methods of fabrication are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronics component. The fabrication approach includes: forming a tube with a first metal and having first and second ends with a heat transfer region disposed therebetween; positioning the heat transfer region of the tube within a... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070017659 - Heat spreader: A flexible, self-contained active multi-phase heat spreader apparatus for cooling electronic components, the heat spreader having fluid sealed between two plates and a pumping mechanism to actuate multi-phase flow of the fluid. Thermal energy from an electronic component in contact with the heat spreader is dissipated from a core region... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070017660 - Heatsink with adapted backplate: A fluid-cooled heatsink and backplate, for example, for an electronic power module in an automotive application are provided, the backplate formed with a set of grooves, and the heatsink formed with a set of ribs corresponding to the set of grooves and extending into and affixed to the set of... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070017661 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1), especially for motor vehicles, comprising a housing (2) and at least one pipe (3) disposed inside said housing (2). The heat exchanger is characterized in that structures (4) are provided in the area between the pipes (3) and the housing (2) and/or... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070017662 - Normal-flow heat exchanger: A heat-exchanger (HX) (120) utilizing a working fluid and having a high heat flux transfer capacity. The HX comprises a core (130) having a heat transfer surface (128), a length and a width. Inlet manifolds (140) and outlet manifolds (142) located alternatingly across the width of the core extend the... Agent: Bowditch & Dewey, LLP

20070017663 - Heat exchanger cooling fin: A heat exchanger cooling fin (401), for use in a fluid flow environment, comprising a fin plate (402) having a series of substantially mutually parallel louvres (403), each louvre (403) having a convex curved surface (404) facing in the opposite direction to each adjacent louvre (403), said series of louvres... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (rockford Office)

20070017664 - Sheet metal pipe geometry for minimum pressure drop in a heat exchanger: A heat exchanger joint between a pipe and a header wall defines an endless transition for conveying the heat exchange medium closely over a control surface of a radius or a chamfer between the interior surface and the pipe to reduce turbulence and pressure loss. The radiused or chamfered flow... Agent: Patrick M. Griffin Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070017665 - Thermal module and method for controlling heat-dissipation wind amount thereof: A thermal module and method for controlling heat-dissipation wind amount thereof is provided. The thermal module is figured in an electronic apparatus having a first heat source and a second heat source. The thermal module includes at least a first wind outlet, a second wind outlet and a first wind-amount... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070017666 - Energy management system for a hybrid-electric vehicle: A system for optimizing electrical power management in a vehicle. The system includes a HVAC device and a thermal storage device, both configured to provide heating and cooling to an occupant compartment of the vehicle. The system further includes a controller connected to an electrical storage device and an electrical... Agent: Visteon

20070017667 - Air conditioning system having a terminal chest to provide optimal airflow: An air conditioning system having a terminal chest to provide an optimal airflow mainly includes a first adjustable baffle in a return air inlet of each terminal chest that is openable to a desired degree to regulate second time return air volume and a corresponding first time air intake volume... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070017668 - Apparatus for controlling cooling device and cooling system: A cooling device controller for controlling a cooling device is provided. The cooling device controller includes: a capacitor for supplying an output voltage through a first terminal; a first switch between a first input terminal and the first terminal of the capacitor; a predetermined reference voltage applied to the first... Agent: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

20070012418 - Cogeneration system: A cogeneration system has an advantage that a cogeneration section is divided into a main unit and a sub unit, and an engine and a generator are included in the main unit, to thus enable the main unit and the sub unit to be installed at different locations, so that... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070012419 - Method and device for cryocondensation: A method and device for cooling and/or purifying a process gas, in which the process gas is precooled in a precooler by indirect heat exchange with a second coolant stream, and then cooled in a deep-freeze unit in indirect heat exchange with a first coolant stream. The first process stream... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012420 - Fixing device for a radiator: A fixing device for a radiator mainly provides a joining side extending outward from a lateral side of each of the elastic members thereof and has a plurality of locating parts in the elastic members. The joining side is inserted into two lower lateral sides of the radiator and locating... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070012421 - Grease protecting apparatus for heat sink: A grease protecting apparatus (10) includes a heat sink (12), and a grease cover (14). The heat sink includes a bottom surface (122) for contacting with a heat-generating component. A layer of thermal grease (16) is spread on the bottom surface of the heat sink. The grease cover is attached... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070012422 - Heat radiating fin: The present invention provides a type of heat radiating fin, particularly one having multiple-face jutted snaps, said multiple-face jutted snaps are snapped to and pulled through matching snap holes provided on matching snap fold sides on the same heat-radiating fin, thereby to enhance high heat-radiating efficiency.... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070012423 - Liquid cooling jacket and liquid cooling device: A heat receiving jacket in a liquid cooling device for electronic equipment, for transferring a heat from a heating portion in the electronic equipment to liquid refrigerant, is composed of a fin piece having a base portion formed thereon with thin fins which rise up from one surface of the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070012424 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger comprises a core portion including a plurality of tubes with a heat medium flowing therein and fins coupled to the outer surface of the tubes for promoting heat exchange with the heat medium, a pair of header tanks extending in a direction perpendicular to the length or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070012425 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes stacked with each other, and a tank connected at an end of each tubes to communicate with the tubes. The tank includes a tube joint part having a plurality of tube inserting holes, and a plurality of ribs extending in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070012426 - High efficiency high turbulence heat exchanger: A heat exchange device comprises a housing defining first and second fluid passages therein separated by an interface therebetween, for directing first and second fluids therethrough, respectively, a means for creating turbulence in the second fluid while passing through the second fluid passage, and a means integrated with the interface... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20070012427 - Heat exchange module: A heat exchange module (1) includes a fan duct, an evaporator (22), a condenser (26) and an electric fan (50). The fan duct includes a lower portion (10) and an upper portion (30). The lower portion cooperates with the upper portion to define therebetween an air passage (90). The evaporator... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070012428 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipe: A heat dissipation device includes a fin set, a sinuous heat pipe transferring heat to different parts of the fin set, and a base thermally contacting the heat pipe. The heat pipe has a middle U-shaped portion and two L-shaped portions at two sides of the U-shaped portion, respectively. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070012429 - Heat transfer device: A heat transfer device includes a vapor chamber that houses a phase change material such as water. The heat transfer device may be selectively formed from a combination of polymeric and non-polymeric materials. In one embodiment, the vapor chamber is formed from a polymer layer surrounding a sealing layer formed... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070012430 - Heat exchangers with corrugated heat exchange elements of improved strength: A corrugated fin or turbulizer for a heat exchanger comprises a series of corrugations with parallel side walls. The side walls are provided with a series of parallel slits between which one-sided or two-sided louvers are defined. Each of the louvers has first and second edges extending along an adjacent... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070012431 - Plate type heat exchanger and method of manufacturing the same: A method for manufacturing a plate-type heat exchanger in which a heat medium is sealed in a hollow part of an airtight structure formed in the interior of a plate-like container, and the heat medium is moved by capillary force from a condensing part to an evaporating part in the... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070012432 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a novel heat exchanger with a plurality of basic heat exchanger bodies, comprising flat heat exchange tubes—connecting at least one supplying or distributing pipe and at least one discharging or collecting pipe to one another, able to be flowed through by a liquid and/or gaseous heat... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070012433 - Radiant heat pump device and method: The present method and device is for configuring the geometry of a surface to emit highly non-diffuse radiant energy. When a target surface is placed in a region where it is targeted by the emitting surface, there can be a net heat flow from the surface emitting the radiant energy... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070006991 - Heat exchanger with internal baffle and an external bypass for the baffle: A shell and tube heat exchanger has at least one baffle to support the tubes within the casing of the heat exchanger, wherein the baffle intersects the inner casing wall along a substantial portion of the arc. The baffle has a bypass through which flows at least a portion of... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East

20070006995 - Device for testing heat conduction performance of heat pipe: A device for testing heat conduction performance of a heat pipe is provided. In which the heat pipe to be tested includes an evaporating section and a condensing section. The device includes a block, a cooling device, a thermal interface material, a heating element for heating the block and a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070006993 - Flat type heat pipe: A flat type heat pipe (10) is disclosed which includes a metal casing (12) and a wick structure (16) arranged inside the metal casing. The metal casing has an evaporating section (123) and a condensing section (124). The wick structure extends from the evaporating section towards the condensing section of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070006994 - 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 defines therein a chamber for containing a working fluid. The chamber is divided into an evaporating region and a micro-channel region. The working... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070006992 - Loop-type heat exchange module: A loop-type heat exchange module (10) is disclosed, which includes an evaporator (11), a vapor conduit (12), a condenser (13), a liquid conduit (14), a cooling fan (16), a fastening seat (151) and a fan cover (152). The evaporator contains therein a working fluid. The working fluid evaporates into vapor... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070006996 - Cooler for electronic equipment: [Means for Solving Problems] A cooling device includes first and second cooling panels (1, 2) wherein a passage (11, 21) is formed by bonding together a top heat radiation panel and a bottom heat radiation panel each having a groove therein, and a circulation pump (3) for circulating refrigerant within... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070006997 - Heat sink structure: A heat sink has a first vent and a second vent. The heat sink includes at least a first heat-dissipating fin having a first wall positioned at the first vent.... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070006998 - Heat exchanger with plate projections: A plate heat exchanger including first and second sets of heat exchanger plates. The second set plates are alternately stacked with the first set plates to form flow channels therebetween. The first set plates have first projections protruding in one direction from the plane of the plates and second projections... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070006999 - Fluid passageway of defrost duct for vehicles: A fluid passageway of a defrost duct of a vehicle is constructed such that a front duct for defrosting a front glass is partitioned into a first front duct and a second front duct, and a side duct for defrosting side glasses is partitioned into a first side duct and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070000639 - Oil cooler: An oil cooler is contained in a radiator tank. It includes a connecting pipe having an enlarged diameter portion, a heat exchange part including elements and a communicating passage fluidically communicating the elements, and a pipe connector. The pipe connector has a first retaining portion seated on one side of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070000638 - Piping with coolant inlet: The piping with a coolant inlet is provided with a partition wall within a body part. In the body part, a flow path having a U-turn region changing the flow direction of a coolant by about 180° degrees is defined. Much of the air contained in the coolant returning from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070000640 - System housing, in particular for a heating, ventilating and/or air-conditioning system of a vehicle: System housing, in particular for a heating, ventilating and/or air-conditioning system of a vehicle, comprising at least three housing parts, which serve for accommodating air-conditioning-system components and/or for forming air-channeling paths, one of the housing parts comprising a first abutment surface and a second abutment surface, up to which the... Agent: Valeo Climate Control Corp. Intellectual Property Dept

20070000641 - Temperature controlling apparatus: A temperature controlling apparatus that controls the temperature of a temperature-controlling object is disclosed. The temperature controlling apparatus includes an atmospheric coolant circulating line that circulates a coolant through a cooling path arranged at the temperature-controlling object; a heat transfer plate heater that heats the temperature-controlling object; and a coolant... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070000643 - Heat sink: A heat sink for coolers is provided. The heat sink contains a heat conductive element, a heat dissipating shell covering over the heat conductive element, and a plurality of heat dissipating fins installed on the heat dissipating shell. The heat conductive element includes a heat conductive plate and a heat... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070000642 - Thermally conductive member and cooling system using the same: A thermally conductive member including a thermal diffusion sheet having at least one opening with an inner periphery; and a thermally conductive elastomer piece passing through the opening of the sheet is provided. The thermally conductive elastomer piece includes at least one base portion fitting with the inner periphery of... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070000644 - Microchannel cooling device for small heat sources: According to the invention, an apparatus for transferring heat with a target is disclosed. The apparatus may include a body which defines a surface, inlet port, inlet manifold passages, heat transfer passages, outlet manifold passages, and outlet port. The surface may couple the target with the body. The inlet port... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070000645 - Heat exchange module for electronic components: A heat exchange module (1) is disclosed, which includes an evaporator (20), a condenser (50) and a heat sink (22). The evaporator defines therein a chamber for containing a wick structure (20c) saturated with a working fluid. The wick structure occupies a portion of the chamber. The condenser is disposed... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070000646 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipe: A heat dissipation device is for contacting with a heat generating electronic device to remove heat from the electronic device. The heat dissipation device includes a base, a plurality of fins arranged on the base and at least one heat pipe thermally positioned on the base. The heat pipe includes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070000647 - Systems for integrated cold plate and heat spreader: According to some embodiments, systems for an integrated cold plate and heat exchanger may be provided. In some embodiments, a device may comprise a cold plate to transfer heat to a fluid and a heat spreader integral with the cold plate, the heat spreader to accept heat from an electronic... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar LLC

20070000648 - Systems for low cost coaxial liquid cooling: According to some embodiments, systems for low cost coaxial liquid cooling may be provided. In some embodiments, a system may comprise an axis. The system may further comprise a heat exchanger coupled to a pump, wherein the heat exchanger and the pump are oriented with respect to the axis.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070000649 - Auxiliary heat-dissipating device: An auxiliary heat-dissipating device is provided, comprising: an expansion back plate having a plurality of vents and forming a respective slide on two vertical sides; a first shell positioned on the slide of the expansion back plate, the first shell has a first end opening and a second end opening,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070000650 - Once-through forced air-cooled heat sink for a projection display apparatus: A once-through forced air-cooled heat sink according to the present invention comprises: a heat sink portion which is configured to be attached to an object that is to be cooled; and a blower for introducing cooling air into the heat sink portion. The heat sink portion comprises: an air inlet;... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070000651 - An enhanced heat transfer tube with discrete bidirectionally inclined ribs: An enhanced heat transfer tube with discrete bidirectionally inclined ribs (DBIR-tube) provides enhanced convective heat transfer both in laminar and turbulent flow regions. The inner surface of the tube is formed with bidirectionally inclined ribs, including left hand inclined ribs and right hand inclined ribs, with the ribs being in... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070000652 - Heat exchanger with dimpled tube surfaces: A heat exchanger including a shell having an inner chamber defined by an inside wall surface, and a tube stack disposed within the inner chamber. The shell is formed of a single piece of material. The tube stack includes a plurality of flat elongated tubes arranged in a stack. Each... Agent: Honeywell Turbo Technologies

20070000653 - Heat exchanger, in particular of the condensation type: A heat exchanger (1) comprises a casing (2, 13, 28, 33), within which there is present a first pipe wound in a spiral (25), in which a first fluid flows, the casing (2) being designed to receive a second fluid that is in heat-exchange relationship with the first fluid. The... Agent: Victor A. Cardona

20070000654 - Heat exchange unit: A heat exchange unit includes first and second plates, which is identical to each other in configuration in a peripheral area thereof, but different from each other in a central irregularity pattern section. The irregularity pattern section has a projection-recess pattern on its surface and a recess-projection pattern corresponding thereto... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070000656 - Cooling device for heat-generating elements: A cooling device for cooling heat generating elements in which a cooling effect is produced by collision of a coolant with the back face side of heat-generating elements (1). The coolant (10) is introduced into a coolant introduction chamber (3) within a first coolant contact chamber (4) and is then... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070000655 - Heat exchanger for liquid cooling: To realize a flat heat exchanger with superior stability of the flow path, a heat exchanger for liquid cooling in which a cooling liquid flows inside the heat exchanger includes a pouch made of a water-resistant sheet having an inflow port and an outflow port for the cooling liquid; a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070000657 - Heat exchanger: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising pipes and at least one receptacle (20). Said receptacle encompasses at least one pipe bottom (30) that is provided with passages (70), said passages (70) being surrounded by flanks (91-94).... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070000658 - Assembly arrangement for an air conditioning unit: The invention relates to an assembly arrangement for an air conditioning unit, in particular, for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one housing, at least one first device for the exchange of heat, at least one second device for the exchange of heat, at least one inlet, for a particularly... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070000659 - Vehicle environmental control system and related method: A system is provided for controlling air temperature in an ambient space in a vehicle using an environmental control system that includes a temperature adjusted air source system and an ambient sensor system in thermal communication with the ambient space. The system includes a working fluid flow control valve operatively... Agent: Stephen T. Sullivan

20070000660 - Method for adjusting several parallel connected heat exchangers: A method is provided for adjusting several parallel connected heat exchangers supplied with a coolant medium. The aim of the invention is to simplify the adjustment. For this purpose, the method consists in a) determining a specific value of heat requirement for each heat exchanger in a predetermined time period;... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC