Heat exchange inventions 04/07

20070089852 - Heating and cooling apparatus, and vacuum processing apparatus equipped with this apparatus: A heating and cooling apparatus with which batch processing is possible and throughput can be increased, and furthermore which is more compact and uses less energy. A substrate heating chamber and a substrate cooling chamber each capable of simultaneously holding a plurality of substrates are provided in a thermally separated... Agent: Venable LLP

20070089853 - Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method: Disclosed is an exposure apparatus having an element to be cooled and being configured to expose a substrate to patter radiation by using the element, the apparatus including a reservoir configured to house a liquid coolant therein, a first pump disposed between the reservoir and the element and configured to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070089854 - Energy efficient air handling system for cleanrooms: A refrigeration based air handling system design process for significant energy and cost savings in cleanroom and other applications requiring large air change rates is presented. The process utilizes a by pass around the air conditioning system, the ratio of bypass to air conditioning flow being such that minimal or... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070089855 - Arrangement for securing a heat exchanger to another heat exchanger: The invention relates to an arrangement which is used to secure a first heat exchanger to a second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger (11) is arranged parallel to the second heat exchanger (1) and comprises a heat exchanger block (12) in addition to collector pipes arranged on both sides... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070089856 - Anti-vibration tube support for tube bundles having u-shaped bends: A tube support device for a tube bundle having a plurality of elongated tubes with a U-shaped bend portion is disclosed. The tube support device includes an elongated longitudinally extending strip having a pair of opposing faces. A plurality of tube engaging members extend from the pair of opposing faces.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20070089857 - Systems for discretized processing of regions of a substrate: The present invention provides methods and systems for discretized, combinatorial processing of regions of a substrate such as for the discovery, implementation, optimization, and qualification of new materials, processes, and process sequence integration schemes used in integrated circuit fabrication. A substrate having an array of differentially processed regions thereon is... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070089859 - Electronic apparatus and cooling module: A thermal conductive member is mounted on a heat generating object. An air cooling member is attached to the thermal conductive member for radiating heat into air. A liquid cooling member is removably attached to the thermal conductive member for absorbing heat from the thermal conductive member. The circulation pump... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070089860 - Heat pipe with sintered powder wick: A heat pipe includes a casing and a sintered powder wick arranged at an inner surface of the casing. The sintered powder wick is made of spherical metal powder (300), the spherical metal powder having an apparent density ranging from 3.3 g/cm3 to 4.8 g/cm3 to reduce micro pores of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070089858 - Waterblock for cooling electrical and electronic circuitry: A waterblock and accompanying cooling tube for carrying away heat generated by electrical or electronic components mounted on a circuit board or other substrate are disclosed. The cooling tube is attached to the waterblock by means of an adhesive or other suitable material, and is not positioned in a groove... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070089861 - Vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus: A vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus having a small heat resistance and a large heat transport capacity. A heat exchange circulating solution container has a first space and a second space communicating with the first space through a communication opening and contains a heat exchange circulating solution, and vapor thereof,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070089865 - Brazed wick for a heat transfer device and method of making same: A capillary structure for a heat transfer device, such as a heat pipe is provided having a plurality of particles joined together by a brazing compound such that fillets of the brazing compound are formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of particles. In this way, a network of capillary... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment

20070089863 - Cooling device having a slanted heat pipe: A cooling device having a slanted heat pipe. The cooling device includes a cooling fin set, a cooling substrate and at least a heat pipe. The cooling substrate is disposed at one side of the cooling fin set. The heat pipe includes an absorption region and a dissipation region. The... Agent: Hdsl

20070089862 - Heat dissipation device including dust mask: A heat dissipation device includes a computer enclosure having a panel, a heat sink installed in the computer enclosure, a fan mounted on the heat sink, a duct and a dust mask. The panel defines an air intake therein. The duct includes a first end portion mounted onto the fan... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070089864 - Heat pipe with composite wick structure: A heat pipe (10) includes a longitudinal casing (12) having an evaporator section (121) and a condenser section (122), a major wick structure (14) disposed in an inner wall of the casing, at least one assistant wick structure (16) contacting with an inner wall of the major wick structure and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070089866 - Ferrofluid-cooled heat sink: A heat sink uses thermally conductive ferrofluid to cool an integrated circuit. A direction of flow of the ferrofluid in the heat sink is controlled by a motorized pump assembly. The motorized pump assembly uses a motor to rotate a metal plate to which at least one magnet is connected.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070089867 - Magneto-hydrodynamic hot spot cooling heat sink: A heat sink is configured to cool at least one hot spot of an integrated circuit. The heat sink has a first pipe and a second pipe disposed interior to and concentric with the first pipe, where at least a portion of each of the first pipe and the second... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070089868 - Heat transfer pipe with grooved inner surface: h

20070089869 - Heat sink: A heat sink (10) includes a plurality of fins (12). Each of the fins includes a main body (122) and at least one bulge (126) disposed on the main body. The main bodies of two adjacent fins cooperatively define an air passage (121) therebetween, for allowing an airflow to pass... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070089870 - Two part condenser for varying the rate of condensing and related method: A heat transfer apparatus, such as a condenser, is provided. The apparatus includes a first component with a first heat transfer element that has first component inlet and outlet ports through which a first fluid may pass. A second component is also included and likewise has a second heat transfer... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC

20070089872 - Heat exchanger having flow control device: A heat exchanger includes a housing having a peripheral swelling extended up from an upper surface and located around an opening and having a peripheral flange extended into the opening and having a groove formed through the peripheral swelling, another housing includes a peripheral recess located around an opening and... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070089871 - Plate heat exchanger: A plate heat exchanger comprising plates (21, 31) interconnected by soldering and adapted to exchange heat between a high and a low temperature fluid may be designed to improve the cooling of the parts of the plates located near inlets (3) for the high temperature fluid by providing separate fluid... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20070089873 - 3-d dimpled heat exchanger: A heat exchanger apparatus comprising a frame, a tube coupled to the frame, and turbulating structure disposed within the tube and extending into an inner hollow space thereof for promoting turbulent fluid flow within the tube. The turbulating structure comprises elements located arcuately around an inner periphery of the tube... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20070089874 - Cooling system for a work machine: A cooling system for a work machine may comprise a reservoir configured to hold a supply of fluid, a source of pressurized fluid and a valve configured to receive the pressurized fluid from the source of pressurized fluid. A first working unit and a second working unit may be connected... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. 100 N.e. Adams Street

20070084584 - Radiation fin, cooling device, electronic equipment, and manufacturing method of cooling device: Each of fins is provided with an engage projection having a first width and a engage hole portion having a second width wider than the first width, and the fins are able to be slid while engaging with each other. Accordingly, in case of installing a heat sink to a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070084583 - Structure for connecting radiating fins: A structure for connecting radiating fins includes a plurality of parallelly arranged and vertically spaced radiating fins and at least one connector. Each of the radiating fins is provided on at least one outer edge with at least one receiving section, so that at least one group of aligned receiving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070084585 - Heat exchanger, method of manufacturing heat exchanger, liquid cooling system, light source device, projector, electronic device unit, and electronic equipment: A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger having a plurality of fine flow channels includes forming a plurality of thin plate members into a predetermined shape, and laminating the plurality of thin plate members and bonding by diffusion bonding.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070084586 - Pressure sensitive bypass defrost system: A heat recovery ventilator defrost system utilizing a bypass section which supplies warm air in both channels of the heat exchanger to accelerate defrost, continue some ventilation of stale warm air, and recirculate a portion of the stale air flow, so as to warm incoming cold fresh air. When the... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20070084587 - Hybrid wicking materials for use in high performance heat pipes: The present invention relates to hybrid wicking materials for use in high performance heat pipes and other fields where a bi-modal distribution of pore sizes offers advantages over a homogeneous monolithic porous structure. In one aspect, the invention provides a wicking material for use in heat pipes. This wick is... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070084588 - Rotatable liquid reservoir for computer cooling: In a system for liquid cooling of electronics, where the electronics are subject to rotation in space, a liquid coolant storage tank includes a degassing and vortex-preventing structure to allow bubbles to float to the surface of the liquid inside the tank, and also to prevent vortices from forming near... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070084589 - Evaporator: In an evaporator, each fin is disposed between adjacent tubes in a tube stacking direction, and each of the tubes includes at least first and second tube parts lined to have a space therebetween in a flow direction of air passing between the adjacent tubes. The first tube part has... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070084590 - Heat exchanger: The heat exchanger includes a first fluid path unit 10 and a second fluid path unit 9. The first fluid path unit 10 has at least two return flow paths 26, in which a first fluid flows, in opposed relation to each other and which are stacked continuously through folded... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070084591 - Device for moisture exchange between gas flows: Device for exchange of moisture, between at least two counter-current gas flows (A, B), comprising a generally closed chamber (1, 101) having an inlet (7, 107) and an outlet (8, 108) for a first gas flow (B), such that the first gas flow flows in a first direction from the... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070084592 - Heat exchanger, especially charge-air/coolant radiator: Disclosed is a heat exchanger, particularly a charge-air/coolant radiator (1), having a disk-type structure. Said heat exchanger comprises a plurality of disks (2) which are penetrated by a coolant and a fluid that is to be cooled. The inlet zone and/or outlet zone for the fluid that is to be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070084593 - Heat exchanger and use thereof: A heat exchanger comprises a plurality of plates (7, 9, 11, 13) each having first (15, 19) and second (17, 21) heat transfer surfaces on reverse sides. The plates are arranged in a stack with spacings between mutually facing heat transfer surfaces of adjacent plates. Alternate spacings in the stack... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070084594 - Evaporator and process for fabricating same: A refrigerant inlet-outlet tank 2 disposed on the upper side of a heat exchange core 4 has its interior divided into a front and a rear portion to provide a refrigerant inlet header 5 and a refrigerant outlet header 6. Openings at one end of the tank 2 are closed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070084595 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a heat conducting member (10) adapted for contacting with a heat generating electronic device and a fin unit (30). The fin unit defines a central hole (300) therein and consists of a plurality of fins (31) around the central hole and clasping each other. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070084596 - Vehicle air conditioner with variable displacement compressor: An air conditioner includes a variable displacement compressor that compresses refrigerant from an evaporator and varies a displacement according to a pressure in its control pressure chamber, and an electromagnetic valve that changes an opening such that the displacement of the refrigerant is increased in accordance with an increase in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070084597 - Control device of an air conditioning device of a motor vehicle and method for activating an air conditioning device: A control device of an air conditioning device of a motor vehicle has a fan, a control unit for activating the fan, and a suction connection of the fan arranged in the vicinity of electronic components generating heat. The electronic components are arranged upstream, relative to the flow of air... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070079951 - Heat storage unit: A heat storage unit capable of efficiently storing heat in a short time. The unit includes: a heat storage container 1a that houses sodium acetate 3, which stores heat by a state change between solid and liquid, and oil 2, which exchanges heat by directly contacting the sodium acetate 3,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070079952 - Bus heater system: A bus heater system that includes a plurality of heater units disposed along each side of a floor in a bus in the longitudinal direction of the bus. The bus heater system of the present invention makes it possible for heating levels in several sections in the bus to be... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070079953 - Recurring natural water cooling device: A recurring natural water cooling device is provided. The recurring natural water cooling device includes a flow channel through which a natural water flow from a natural water source is circulated, a thermal exchanging device through which a thermal fluid flows and being placed in the flow channel so as... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070079954 - Heat-dissipating model: A heat-dissipating model includes a heat-conducting member and a heat-dissipating body. The heat-conducting member has a hollow cylinder with a closed end. The interior of the wall of the cylinder is formed with a vacuum chamber. The vacuum chamber is provided with a capillary structure and a working fluid therein.... Agent: Hdsl

20070079955 - Heat exchanger for medical use: A heat exchanger for medical use, comprising a tube bundle formed by a plurality of tubes having a straight axis for the conveyance of a primary fluid, which are embedded at their ends in disks located at the end faces of an outer jacket which is adapted to delimit, together... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070079956 - Systems and methods for making seals in heat exchangers: Systems and methods for improving heat exchangers by implementing self-energizing seals. In one embodiment, a U-tube heat exchanger includes a shell enclosure, a tube sheet, a closure and a set of tubes welded to the tube sheet. The tube sheet separates first and second chambers from a third chamber in... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070079957 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger comprises: a long and slender entrance side tank connected to one end side in the longitudinal direction of a plurality of laminated tubes; and an entrance pipe protruded from a wall face laid in the longitudinal direction of the entrance side tank, communicated with the inside of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070079958 - Trihex (tm) heat exchanger: A device for the exchange of heat between one or more fluids. This invention has three side walls (10) and two end flanges (12) forming the main body of the invention. An inlet conduit (22) brings a fluid to the inlet port (20) situated on the invention. An outlet port... Agent: Robert Rodman

20070079959 - Cooling device, projector, and cooling method: A cooling device that cools a heat generator generating heat in response to application or a signal based on a predetermined signal via a cooling fluid includes a cooling fluid cooling section that cools the cooling fluid, a control section that controls the cooling fluid cooling section in accordance with... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070074847 - Encasement assembly for installation of sub-surface refrigerant tubing in a direct exchange heating/cooling system: An encasement assembly for installing sub-surface refrigerant tubing in a direct exchange heating/cooling system includes a weighted and protective encasement tube for lowering the bottom distal U-bend portion of the refrigerant tubing into a well/borehole. The encasement tube has a main body portion and a rounded or cone-shaped nose. The... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070074848 - Fixing means for an oil cooler: The invention relates to a fixing means for an oil cooler (18) that is fixed in an oil cooler receiving element (10). According to the invention, said fixing means has a latch connection between the oil cooler receiving element (10) and the oil cooler (18). The use of a latch... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070074850 - Heat sink: A heat sink assembly comprises a base having one or more slots, and further comprises one or more fins, each having an end configured for insertion into a respective one of the slots. Each fin end has a first surface that is configured for conformally engaging a first slot sidewall... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070074851 - Heat sink: A heat sink includes a base, a set of fins and at least an elastic fixing member mounted on a surface of the base. The elastic fixing member includes an elastic sheet mounted on the base, a supporting portion disposed on the elastic sheet and a fixing portion disposed on... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070074852 - Heat sink: A heat sink includes a base, a set of fins mounted to the base and a plurality of fixing portions, wherein the fixing portions extend from a surface of the base and the set of fins are mounted on an opposite surface of the base. The heat sink is secured... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070074849 - Heat sink with multiple coolant inlets: The subject invention provides a heat sink for cooling electronic devices. The heat sink includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber separated by a baffle therebetween. The lower chamber includes a base having a central axis and a plurality of curvilinear fins disposed radially about the central axis of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070074853 - Cooling systems incorporating heat transfer meshes: Apparatus for cooling of an electrical element package, comprising in combination structure including a hollow body, defining a cavity containing cooling fluid, the structure defining an opening or passage whereby direct contact of the cooling fluid with the package is established for heat transfer from the package to the fluid... Agent: William W. Haefliger

20070074854 - Vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus: A vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus having a small heat resistance and a large heat transport capacity. A heat exchange circulating solution container has a first space and a second space communicating with the first space through a communication opening and contains a heat exchange circulating solution, and vapor thereof,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070074857 - Heat sink with heat pipes: A heat sink with heat pipes includes a base (10). The base includes a bottom surface contacting a heat-generating component (40), an upper surface opposite to the bottom surface, and a plurality of grooves (14) defined on the upper surface of the base. The heat sink further includes two heat... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070074855 - Liquid cooling device: A liquid cooling device (10) includes a heat sink (12), a panel (14) distant from the heat sink, a heat transfer member includes a heat exchanger (22) thermally engaging with the heat sink and at least one heat pipe (24), a duct (16) connecting with the panel, a flexible tube... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070074856 - Multi-layered micro-channel heat sink: The subject invention provides a heat sink for a liquid cooling system. The heat sink includes a spreader plate for contacting an electronic device and a body having a plurality of channels extending through the body and arranged in layers. Each layer includes a quantity of the channels decreasing in... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070074858 - Heat exchanger: Apparatus and method for cooling heated fluids, such as exhaust gases, flowing through a heat exchanger comprising one or more exhaust plenums and one or more coolant plenums, and providing increased coolant velocity in that portion of the coolant plenums contacting the inlet portion of the exhaust plenums. Local increased... Agent: Honeywell Turbo Technologies

20070074859 - Heat exchanger and process for fabricating same: An oil cooler 1 to which a heat exchanger of the invention is applied comprises a plurality of flat hollow bodies 2 arranged one above another in parallel at a spacing and extending in a left-right direction, a communication member 3 disposed between left end portions of each adjacent pair... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074860 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger includes a pair of tanks, and a heat exchanger core arranged therebetween and having tubes and fins. The tanks includes a tube plate connected with the tubes, a tank plate and at least two partition plates, where the tube plate, the tank plate and the partition plates... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070074861 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger comprising a heat exchange core 4 composed of tube groups 11 in the form of rows arranged in the direction of flow of air through the exchanger, each of the tube groups 11 comprising a plurality of heat exchange tubes 9 arranged at a spacing, a refrigerant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074862 - Heat exchanging tube and heat exchanger: A heat exchanging tube is provided with a flat tube main body having a predetermined length and a plurality of refrigerant passages extending in a tube longitudinal direction and arranged in a tube widthwise direction. The following relational equations (a) to (c) are satisfied: W=6 to 18 mm . .... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074865 - Constant temperature liquid circulating deivce having external piping protecting function: In a constant temperature liquid circulating device having a conduit for delivering a temperature controlled constant temperature circulating liquid with a pump, which is used with an external device connected thereto, the pressure of the circulating liquid in a piping in the external device is controlled so as not to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074863 - Constant temperature liquid circulating device and method of controlling temperature in the device: To reduce the width of variations in temperature of circulating liquid due to a variation in a heat load of an external device to a low level to stabilize the performance of the external device in a constant temperature liquid circulating device. In a constant temperature liquid circulating device that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074864 - Water-cooled constant temperature liquid circulating device and method of controlling temperature of circulating liquid with the same: To provide a water-cooled constant temperature liquid circulating device in which the stability in temperature of circulating liquid can be improved by optimizing a flow channel of radiating water and a method of controlling the temperature of circulating liquid in the same device. In a water-cooled constant temperature liquid circulating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070074866 - Evaporative cooling system for a data-communications cabinet: An electronics cabinet for storing a plurality of electronic devices therein is provided and includes a fan and an evaporative cooler. The fan draws a flow of air into the cabinet, circulates the flow of air through the evaporative cooler, and then across the electronic devices for removing heat produced... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.