Heat exchange inventions 07/07

20070169916 - Double-wall, vented heat exchanger: A plate heat exchanger includes a plurality of plate pairs for providing a flow path for two fluids. The plate heat exchanger has an inlet and an outlet for each of the two fluids, wherein facing surfaces of two adjacent plate pairs of the plurality of plate pairs defines a... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20070169917 - System and method for maintaining heat exchanger of lng receiving terminal: A system and method for minimizing the environmental impact of water handling equipment such as heat exchangers and water handling systems, as for example those located at an LNG receiving facility. The system and method utilizes a low-speed pump impeller to flow the warmant through the annulus of the heat... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070169918 - Combination cooler module: A combination cooler module is disclosed, which includes a plurality of radiating fins that are arranged in a stack, a plurality of heat tubes inserted through the radiating fins, and a heat conductive base affixed to the radiating fins by means of a dovetail joint, hook or scarf joint and... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070169919 - Heat pipe type heat dissipation device: A heat pipe type heat dissipation device for an electronic component comprises a base, a bended heat pipe with an evaporating portion connected to the base and at least one condensing portion extending from the evaporating portion, and at least two heat sinks thermally combined together and sandwiching the condensing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070169920 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger of a sealed equipment cabinet includes a chassis, a heat-exchange module, a first fan and a second fan. The chassis includes a bottom plate having a plurality of first perforations. The heat-exchange module is disposed on the bottom plate, and defines first and second air flow channels... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070169921 - Fin and tube heat exchanger: In accordance with certain embodiments, a cooler for multiple tube banks features a series of parallel and planar fins that have upstream louvers to direct incoming air through a fin near a first row of tubes and a downstream set of louvers near an adjacent tube row to direct air... Agent: Cooper Cameron Corporation

20070169922 - Microchannel, flat tube heat exchanger with bent tube configuration: A heat exchanger assembly includes a first header having an inlet and a second header having an outlet spaced parallel from each other. A plurality of tube members having an ultimate strength (Us) and a width (w), extend between the first header and the second header. The tube members define... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070169924 - Heat exchanger installation: The invention relates to an installation for exchanging heat between fluids, the installation being of the type comprising a leaktight enclosure, means for exchanging heat between the fluids, and fluid admission and discharge means. The heat exchanger means comprise bundles of plates formed by stacks of horizontal plates and distributed... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070169923 - High pressure pseudo-isothermal chemical reactor: A pseudo-isothermal chemical reactor comprises a plurality of boxed, plate-shaped heat exchangers with a substantially flattened rectangular shape, formed from a pair of juxtaposed metallic plates, spaced apart and joined perimetrically, defining an inner chamber intended to be crossed by a heat exchange operating fluid. Spacer elements are located between... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070169925 - Coil support: A coil support suitable for supporting a coil in a condensing unit includes a body and a protrusion extending from the body. The protrusion is configured to limit movement of the coil in at least one direction.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070169926 - Heat exchanger: A tube 2 is composed of a first plate 6 and a second plate 7 which are opposed and engaged with each other. In a region C on both end sides of the tube 2, the first plate 6 is formed into a shape in which an edge portion 6a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070169927 - Heat exchange type ventilator: A heat exchange type ventilator allows preventing its heat exchanger from being clogged with buildup of ice, and also alleviating cold-draft feeling. This ventilator has an exhaust-air coupling section and a supply-air coupling section, and a ventilating unit which includes an exhaust-air outlet and a supply-air inlet, a motor for... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070169928 - Heat sink for controlling dissipation of a thermal load: A heat sink for controlling dissipation of a thermal load is disclosed that includes a heat sink base receiving the thermal load, an actuator connected to the heat sink base, the actuator having a temperature dependent upon the thermal load, the actuator configured in dependence upon the temperature of the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070163747 - Roof of a cab, in particular for an agricultural machine: Roof of a cab, in particular for an agricultural machine, comprising a load-bearing structure made of plastic material, and a heat exchange assembly for treating an airflow, the heat exchange assembly being borne by the structure made of plastic material and comprising at least one heat exchanger and at least... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070163748 - Cooling system and method: A fluid communication system for providing coolant to and exhausting coolant from a cooling unit includes flexible tubing and a plurality of support members. Each support member is configured to be secured to a support structure and to be releasably secured to the flexible tubing. Each support member includes a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070163749 - Component package having heat exchanger: In an electrical component package (1) provided with a liquid-cooled heat exchanger (20), a main-body plate (1A) of the package and a crowning member (5) that are composed of metal plates are joined together, forming a hollow part (6) therebetween for use as a liquid-cooled heat exchanger in which a... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070163750 - Microchannel heat sink: The invention provides a heat sink for flowing coolant into inlet manifold channels extending into a inlet edge of a manifold where the flow is forced downward into parallel and spaced micro-channels extending across the manifold channels and re-directing the coolant up into and out of outlet manifold channels extending... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070163751 - Metal side-plate for a radiator: The invention relates to a metal side-plate (12) for a radiator, particularly a tubular radiator, such as those used in motor vehicles with combustion engines. The aim of the invention is to provide a meal side-plate (12) which is embodied in such a way that stresses arising from various types... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070163752 - Heat exchange comprising cleaning means: The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising: a chamber which is fitted with a plurality of tubes through which a heat-transfer fluid flows, said fluid conveying cleaning balls; an outlet manifold which is connected to the chamber and which is used to release the heat-transfer fluid from same, said... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20070163753 - Viscous shear drives and methods using nanoparticles in the viscous medium: A device such as a cooling fan drive for a motor vehicle engine has first and second members that are relatively moveable at a differential velocity. A liquid fills space separating relatively moving confronting surfaces of the respective members. The viscosity of the liquid enables the liquid to serve as... Agent: George Lawrence Boller

20070163754 - Thermosiphon having improved efficiency: The invention relates to an improved thermosiphon and to a method for transferring heat. The thermosiphon has a higher efficiency than existing thermosiphons because it does not rely on a pool-boiling evaporator but rather uses a forced-convection boiling evaporator. The inlet of the evaporator is located in its upper portion... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070163756 - Closed-loop latent heat cooling method and capillary force or non-nozzle module thereof: A closed-loop latent heat cooling method and a capillary force or non-nozzle module thereof are provided, wherein a cooling fluid in a storage tank flows to a gasification pipe via a liquid pipe; the gasification pipe connects with a capillary force or non-nozzle structure; the cooling fluid keeps a liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070163755 - Flat plate heat transfer device and method for manufacturing the same: A flat plate heat transfer device contacted with heat source and heat-emitting unit at both end transfers heat generated at the heat source to the heat-emitting unit horizontally. The device includes a thermally-conductive flat case containing a working fluid evaporated with absorbing heat from the heat source and condensed with... Agent: Jones Day

20070163757 - Surface with reduced particle deposition and reduced ice formation: The invention relates in general to surfaces along which media, such as gases, liquids or multi-phase mixtures are flowing, especially to a device for transportation of a flowing medium and/or for heat exchange between a flowing medium and the device, and methods of producing and using such devices. Disclosed is... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070163758 - Fluid cooling device: The invention relates to a fluid cooling device in the form of a modular unit comprising a drive motor (10) which drives a ventilation wheel (12) which can be rotated in a ventilation housing (28). At least one fluid can be conveyed from a feed reservoir (20) into a hydraulic... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070163759 - Fluid cooling device: The invention relates to a fluid cooling device embodied as a modular unit comprising a drive motor (10) driving a ventilation wheel (12) and a fluid pump (14) that supplies a first type of fluid into a fluid system, and leads to a heat exchanger (22) from which the fluid... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070163760 - Heat exchanger and refrigerant passage portion connecting structure for refrigeration cycle: Fixed to the peripheral wall of a header 2 of a unit-type heat exchanger 1 is a receiver connecting block 6 having channels 31, 32 for causing the interior of the header 2 to communicate with the interior of a liquid receiver 7 therethrough. The block 6 and the liquid... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070163761 - Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing the same: A method for manufacturing an aluminum heat exchanger includes the steps of: obtaining a heat exchanger tube 2 by forming a Zn thermally sprayed layer on a surface of an aluminum flat tube core so as to adjust Zn adhesion amount to 1 to 10 g/m2; obtaining a heat exchanger... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070163762 - Heat exchanger and installation for extracting heat from waste water: The heat exchanger system for extracting heat from waste water comprises a surface area (5, 11, 21) made of copper, of a copper alloy or of a copper compound. The area of these surface areas amounts to solely a fraction of the heat exchanger surface area. In that waste water... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070163763 - Cooling element for eliminating electromagnetic noise: The present invention is to provide a cooling element for eliminating electromagnetic noise, which is formed by bending a plate into a symmetric structure symmetrically comprising a contact part being in connect with an electronic component to absorb heat and noise radiated therefrom; an extension part having one end connected... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070163764 - Heat exchanger of plate fin and tube type: where Ws is spread width of the cut-raised portions in a direction (column direction) extending along an end of the fin on the upstream side of the second fluid, and D is outer diameter of the heat exchanger tube. Dp is alignment pitch of the heat exchanger tubes in the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070163765 - Power-electronic-cooling device: A device which is used to cool the power electronics of a vehicle, by circulating a liquid through a cooling circuit which is mounted under a plate bearing the power electronics. According to the invention, the cooling circuit can include deflectors and/or turbulators in order to increase the exchange coefficient... Agent: Longacre & White

20070163766 - Device for transferring heat: The invention relates to a device for transferring heat and especially an evaporator, especially for the air-conditioning system of a vehicle comprising at least one collecting tank comprising at least two collecting chambers.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070163767 - Brazed plate fin heat exchanger: A fin collar having a shape that enhances flux application and brazing clad flow into the tube to fin joint to provide an improved thermal and structural bond.... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070163768 - Core structure of heat exchanger: A core structure includes a plurality of flat tubes and a plurality of corrugated inner fins. Each corrugated inner fin has top portions for being fixed to an inner surface of an upper wall portion of the tubes, bottom portions for being fixed to an inner surface of a lower... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070163770 - Combination of heat pipe and heat sink and method thereof: A method of combination of a heat pipe and a heat sink includes the steps of preparing a heat sink and a heat pipe, wherein the heat sink has an insertion hole in which the heat sink is inserted; placing the heat sink and the heat pipe onto a carrier,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070163769 - Nanoengineered thermal materials based on carbon nanotube array composites: A method for providing for thermal conduction using an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). An array of vertically oriented CNTs is grown on a substrate having high thermal conductivity, and interstitial regions between adjacent CNTs in the array are partly or wholly filled with a filler material having a high... Agent: Nasa Ames Research Center Attn: Patent Counsel

20070163771 - Air conditioning device and method: An air-conditioning device and an air conditioning method make it possible to reduce the problem that, on entry in a tunnel with a warm internal temperature, in the case of otherwise cold outside temperatures as a result of which, inter alia, the vehicle windowpanes and exterior mirror surfaces are cooled,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070163772 - Evaporative cooler assisted automotive air conditioning system: An automotive air conditioning system is disclosed comprising an evaporative cooler in series with the conventional vapor compression system. The evaporative cooler comprises an array of dry channels and a contiguous array of wet channels. The primary air stream to be conditioned by the evaporator of the conventional air conditioning... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070163773 - Control system and method for heating and cooling devices: A system for managing the supply of energy to heating and cooling devices based on environmental conditions within a regulated area, said system including one or more sensor devices within said regulated area for communicating one or more status signals, and a control module for receiving said one or more... Agent: George A. Rolston

20070158047 - Air conditioner for vehicle: An air conditioner for a vehicle has an air conditioning unit, a first duct, and a second duct. The air conditioning unit has a unit case defining a first passage and a second passage and a heat exchanger for heating air flowing in the first passage and the second passage.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070158048 - External flue heat exchangers: A heat exchanger is mounted external to a section of flue pipe or is an integral part of a section of flue pipe. The heat exchanger preheats a domestic hot water supply and boosts the return water temperature prior to reentry to the furnace coil. The heat exchanger reduces fuel... Agent: Alfred M. Walker

20070158049 - Ventilation system: A ventilation system is disclosed. The ventilation system of the present invention includes a heat-exchanger having at least two unit heat-exchange elements arranged in parallel for heat exchange between supplied outside air and exhausted room air, an air-supply duct having one side for making an outdoors be in communication with... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070158050 - Microchannel heat sink manufactured from graphite materials: A microchannel heat sink is manufactured from graphite materials. A heat sink member has at least a first thermal contact surface for making thermal contact with an electronic device. The heat sink member is constructed of at least a first sheet of compressed particles of exfoliated graphite, the first sheet... Agent: James R. Cartiglia Roundabout Plaza

20070158051 - Integrated cooling system for electronic components: A cooling system for removing heat from a heat generating component, includes a base (100) and a heat sink (200) mounted on the base. The base includes a bottom wall (20) and a side wall (10) surrounding the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the side wall cooperatively define a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070158052 - Heat-dissipating device and method for manufacturing same: A vacuum heat-dissipating device (300) includes a container (310), a top wall (320) coupled to the container, and working fluid sealed in the heat-dissipating device. The container includes a bottom wall (312) and a peripheral wall (314) perpendicular to the bottom wall. A catalyst layer (330) is disposed on an... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070158053 - Cooling plant for one or more switch cabinets: A cooling plant for cooling one or more switch cabinets. According to this invention, a large heat exchanger or several small heat exchangers operating in parallel are housed in a heat exchanger cabinet, wherein an inner space of the heat exchanger cabinet is coupled to a central air-conditioning device supplying... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070158054 - Corrosion resistant material for reduced fouling, a heat transfer component having reduced fouling and a method for reducing fouling in a refinery: A method and device for reducing sulfidation corrosion and depositional fouling in heat transfer components within a refining or petrochemical facility is disclosed. The heat transfer components are formed from a corrosion and fouling resistant steel composition containing a Cr-enriched layer and having a surface roughness of less than 40... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20070158055 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipating device includes: a plurality of conduits stacked one above the other, each of the conduits including upper and lower halves, each including a base wall with two opposite end portions and an intermediate portion, a flange that extends from the base wall and that cooperates with the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070158056 - Tank for a system that outputs liquid at a user-defined constant temperature: A tank for use in a system that outputs a liquid at a user defined constant temperature in order to regulate the temperature of a piece of equipment includes a body of material having a top wall and a plurality of other walls which collectively define a chamber for receiving... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20070158057 - Heat exchangers: An evaporator 1 comprises a heat exchange core 4 having heat exchange tubes 12 in groups 13, a refrigerant inlet header 5 and a refrigerant outlet header 6 which are arranged toward one end of each of the heat exchange tubes 12, and a refrigerant inflow header 9 and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070158058 - Controller area network based climate control system for a self-propelled work machine and method of operation of the same: A controller area network based climate control system for a work machine, and a method of operation of the same, which advantageously and economically integrates into and utilizes the resources and capabilities of a CAN of a work machine, including, but not limited to, shared data from other systems of... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20070158059 - Plug bypass valves and heat exchangers: Bypass valves and heat exchangers employing same are shown where the bypass valves cause the flow through the heat exchangers to be short-circuited under certain temperature conditions. The heat exchangers are formed of stacked plate pairs or tubes having enlarged communicating distal end portions forming inlet and outlet manifolds. The... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070151705 - Heat dissipating clamp for dissipating heat of chips in an electrical device: A heat dissipating clamp for an electrical device with a chip group has a station bracket and a holding bracket. The station bracket and the holding bracket are combined together as clamp and both are made of metal with a high dissipating efficiency. The station bracket has an inner surface... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070151704 - Geothermal heat exchange system: A geothermal heat exchange system for use in cooperation with a foundation wall of a building. The geothermal heat exchange system includes a heat exchange unit for transferring heat between a building and the earth, a foundation wall that is at least partially buried in the earth, and a ground... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070151703 - Grid and yarn membrane heat pipes: A heat pipe utilizing extended membrane instead of traditional wick structure provides dramatic increase in both flux densities and transport distances both in horizontal and vertical directions.... Agent: Igor V Touzov

20070151706 - Heat sink for dissipating a thermal load: A heat sink for dissipating a thermal load is disclosed that includes one or more heat sink bases configured around a central axis of the heat sink so as to define an interior space, at least one heat sink base receiving the thermal load, a thermal transport connected to the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070151707 - Method and apparatus for cooling electrical equipment: A method is provided for cooling electrical equipment located in distinct regions in a cabinet. A first air flow is provided to a first region in the cabinet. A second air flow is provided to a second region in the cabinet. The temperature of the first and second air flows... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070151709 - Heat pipes utilizing load bearing wicks: This invention enables mechanical design of flexible and elastic heat pipes. It provides structural solution that reduces weight/performance ratio for traditional heat pipes and prevents freeze damages.... Agent: Igor V Touzov

20070151708 - Heat pipes with self assembled compositions: Technology of the invention enables use of new engineering materials in design of heat pipes with novel properties and improved performance. In particular milled carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes can be used for construction of high performance wicks.... Agent: Igor V Touzov

20070151710 - High throughput technology for heat pipe production: Invention discloses technology of production of various heat pipes in a single technological step which requires no vacuum equipment.... Agent: Igor V Touzov

20070151711 - Heat sink and method for manufacturing the same: A heat sink and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat sink is used to contact on a heat-generating source of an electronic device. The heat sink comprises a heat-conducting member and at least one heat pipe. With the bottom edge of a heat-absorbing end of the heat pipe... Agent: Hdsl

20070151712 - Heat sink for distributing a thermal load: A heat sink for distributing a thermal load is disclosed that includes a base receiving the thermal load, the base having a front surface, a back surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface, the outer surface shaped generally as a cylinder and having a flat mounting region, and the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20070151713 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger includes a tube through which a refrigerant flows, a fin disposed on an outer periphery of the tube, and an agitating member inserted into the tube, and agitating the refrigerant.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070151714 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1), in particular, a gas cooler for a vehicle air-conditioning unit, comprising several flat tubes (2) arranged in two or more parallel rows, a collector tube (6), with one or more longitudinal separating walls (12), running along the longitudinal axis of the collector... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070151715 - A flooded type evaporating heat-exchange copper tube for an electrical refrigeration unit: The present invention discloses a flooded type evaporating heat-exchange copper tube for an electrical refrigeration unit. The evaporating heat-exchange tube comprises a smooth surface portion, a finned portion provided with plurality of fins and a transitional portion connecting the smooth surface portion to the finned portion, with primary evaporating chambers... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070151716 - Heat exchanger and fin of the same: A heat exchanger and a fin of the same are provided. The heat exchanger includes a tube, a plurality of fins, a slit section, and a condensed water guide. The tube is arranged in at least a front row and a rear row with respect to a direction of airflow.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070151717 - Heat exchange plate: A heat exchange plate has a main heat transfer section and a fluid guiding portion having first and second sub-patterns of irregularity, respectively. The second pattern of irregularity includes projections and recesses. At least a part of straight or curved lines along which the projections and recesses are aligned has... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070151718 - Fin-tube heat exchanger: A heat exchanger includes: fins formed in a wavy shape; and a tube attached with the wavy fins and bent in a zigzag shape. A contact area between the tube and the fins are maximized to thus considerably enhance heat transfer through the fins.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070151719 - Tube for use in heat exchanger, method for manufacturing said tube, and heat exchanger: An aluminum flat tube core is prepared, and a sprayed layer 20 is formed on a surface of the tube core by thermally spraying alloy containing Cu (including its alloy) and Zn (including its alloy), or an alloy containing Cu and Zn. With this method, a heat exchanger tube excellent... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070151720 - Air conditioning unit for vehicle use: The rotary shaft is provided in the first end portion of the heater core, and the first end portion is arranged so that it contacts the inner wall of the air conditioning unit. In the state of MaxCool, the heater core is arranged so that the rotary angle can be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C