Heat exchange inventions 12/07

20070295475 - Method and apparatus for improving vehicle fuel economy: The present invention provides an apparatus for improving the fuel economy of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a transmission having a transmission sump that contains transmission fluid, and a heat exchanger disposed within said sump and at least partially submerged in the transmission fluid. The apparatus also includes an engine... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070295479 - Plate-type heat exchanger: A heat exchanger includes a housing and a core having a shell. The shell may have an upper wall, a lower wall, and a pair of opposed side walls interconnecting the upper and lower walls to define at least part of an enclosure in which a fluid may be received.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070295481 - Dual-chamber fluid pump for a multi-fluid electronics cooling system and method: A dual-chamber fluid pump is provided for a multi-fluid electronics cooling system and method. The pump has a first fluid path for pumping a first fluid coolant and a second fluid path for pumping a second fluid coolant, with the first fluid path including a first pumping chamber and the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070295482 - Heat spreader for use in conjunction with a semiconducting device and method of manufacturing same: A heat spreader includes a body (110) having a first surface (111) and a second surface (112), a first metal layer (120) coating substantially all of the body, a second metal layer (130) over a portion of the first metal layer, and a lip (140) protruding from the second surface.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070295480 - Multi-fluid cooling system, cooled electronics module, and methods of fabrication thereof: A multi-fluid cooling system and methods of fabrication thereof are provided for removing heat from one or more electronic devices. The cooling system includes a multi-fluid manifold structure with at least one first fluid inlet orifice and at least one second fluid inlet orifice for concurrently, separately injecting a first... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070295476 - Motor vehicle air-conditioning system provided with an additional heating: The invention relates to a motor vehicle air-conditioning system (1) provided with an additional heating in particular a fuel heating to be used as an auxiliary heating, wherein air can flow through a channel in two different opposite directions according to a shutter position. A method for operating the inventive... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070295477 - Geothermal exchange system using a thermally superconducting medium with a refrigerant loop: A geothermal exchange system is couplable to a ground coil formed from a thermal superconductor material, and transfers heat using a refrigerant loop. The device includes a compressor, a reversible refrigerant loop with two heat exchangers, one of which couplable to a thermal superconductor ground loop. The device uses a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070295478 - Vapor compression cycle utilizing ionic liquid as compressor lubricant: This invention relates to the use of ionic liquids as lubricants in vapor compression systems for cooling or heating. This invention also relates to an apparatus for adjusting temperature that operates a vapor compression cycle.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070295483 - Heat exchanger for internal combustion engines: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for internal combustion engines, which comprises a first, elongate flow channel for the exhaust gases of the internal combustion engine to pass through a secured flow channel, adjacent to the first flow channel, for the exhaust gases to pass through, and a pipe... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070295484 - Superconducting tube: A superconducting tube includes a hollow metallic guide tube, and a kind of working medium contained in the metallic guide tube for absorbing energy; the metallic guide tube is vacuum, containing no gas except for the working medium; the working media consists of an oxygen-free medium, and metallic nanoparticulates; when... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070295485 - Heat pipe: A heat pipe includes a shell containing a working fluid therein, a capillary wick arranged within the shell and a vapor channel. The shell includes an evaporating section, a condensing section and an adiabatic section located between the evaporating section and the condensing section. The capillary wick includes a first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070295486 - Heat spreader with composite micro-structure: A heat spreader comprising a casing, a micro-structure layer, a support device, and a working fluid is provided. The casing has an inner surface and is defined by a sealed chamber where the working fluid circulates therein. The micro-structure layer is formed on the inner surface of the casing, wherein... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070295487 - Heat pipe type heat dissipation device: A heat pipe type heat dissipation device for an electronic component comprises a base plate, a cover plate spaced from the base plate, a plurality of parallel fins extending between the base plate and the cover plate and connecting with them. The base plate, the cover plate and each two... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070295488 - Thermosyphon for operation in multiple orientations relative to gravity: Some aspects provide a chamber to hold a fluid, the chamber including an evaporation surface and a condensation wall having a condensation surface, and a heat dissipator coupled to the condensation wall. The evaporation surface is to evaporate the fluid and the condensation surface is to condense the evaporated fluid... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC Attorney For Intel Corporation

20070295489 - Non-intrusive and extended use of water reservoirs in buildings as thermal storage for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems: A method and system of for using existing bodies of water in buildings to reduce the cost of air conditioning is taught. Under the present invention, storage means such as water tanks for the emergency sprinkler system may be used to extend the useful temperature differential of thermal storage means... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20070295490 - Flat tube for a heat exchanger: The invention relates to a multi-channel flat tube (1) for a heat exchanger, especially for use in motor vehicles, which comprises a first lateral wall (14), a second lateral wall (15) substantially parallel to the first lateral wall (14), and at least one curved end section (17). A projection (9)... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070295491 - Device for exchanging heat: A device for exchanging heat comprising at least one fluid inlet (2), at least one header pipe (4), a plurality of flat pipes (5) at least at one end being in flow connection with the header pipe (4), a fluid outlet (9) and at least one frame element (21, 23)... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070295492 - Heat exchange system with inclined heat exchanger device: A technique for cooling an air flow through a heat exchanger device involves a controlled change of direction from an air input direction to cooling fins in the heat exchanger device. The heat exchanger device is angled relative to the air stream input direction. The heat exchanger device may include... Agent: Perkins Cole LLP

20070295493 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for transferring heat between two media, having a casing tube which has an inlet and an outlet for a medium to be cooled, having an inner tube which is arranged within the casing tube and is closed off at the side facing toward... Agent: Roberts & Roberts, LLP Attorneys At Law

20070295494 - Flat type heat transferring device and manufacturing method of the same: The present invention relates to a flat type heat transferring device, and manufacturing method of the same, which is comprises of a capillary wick that is provided inside a case and formed by weaving a wire in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction so as to absorb a liquid... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Tuchman & Park LLC

20070295495 - Heat exchanger for a refrigerator and method for producing a heat exchanger: A heat exchanger for a refrigerating appliance includes a plate, a conduit tubing, which is placed in thermo-conductive contact with the plate and is provided for transporting a coolant, and a holding material layer that adheres to the plate and to the conduit tubing. The holding material layer is made... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070295496 - Diamond composite heat spreader: A composite heat spreader is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including an input interface to conduct heat from a heat source, such as an integrated circuit, and an output interface to transfer heat to a heat sink. A support material having a first thickness is provided between... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20070289719 - Cooling apparatus and system thereof: A cooling apparatus for dissipating a heat from a heat source by a fluid includes a cooling fin set, a water-cooling pipe, and a heat tube. The water-cooling pipe and the heat tube are penetrating through the cooling fin set. The cooling apparatus further includes a base, and the heat... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070289718 - Heat sink and method of making same: A heat sink includes a fluid channel and a cooling wall in contact with coolant flowing in the fluid channel. The channel is configured to vary the velocity of coolant along the length of the fluid channel to vary the coolant's heat transfer coefficient and thereby compensate for the coolant's... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070289720 - Self-heating chemical system for sustained modulation of temperature: A self-heating chemical system using one or more primary components for exothermic reactions (such as calcium oxide), one or more porous components that can serve as a heat sink and conductor of heat as well as under going chemical transformations that release heat (zeolite), a weak acid (citric acid) for... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070289721 - Loop type heat pipe and waste heat recovery device: A loop type heat pipe includes an evaporator located to evaporate a refrigerant by heat-exchanging with a first fluid as a heat source, and a condenser located to liquefy and condense the evaporated vapor refrigerant by heat-exchanging with a second fluid to be heated. The condenser has a refrigerant condensation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070289722 - Devices for cooling gases which form a corrosive condensation product upon cooling: A device for cooling hot gases (quencher) with the formation of a corrosive condensation product, which device has a pressure-resistant container and at least one corrosion-resistant internal gas guide pipe, and to a method of cooling gases that form corrosive condensation products, which method uses the mentioned device.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070289723 - Internal heat exchanger with calibrated coil-shaped fin tube: An internal heat exchanger unit for use in refrigerant circuits of automotive air conditioning systems. The internal heat exchanger includes a casing within which is located an accumulator, spaced thereapart so as to define a gap between the two components. Located within the gap is a coil-shaped fin tube. The... Agent: Visteon

20070289724 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger according to some embodiments includes heat exchanger plates stacked one inside the other and each having a trough-shaped edge, flow ducts located between the heat exchanger plates for heat-exchanging media, feed ducts and discharge ducts, and an attachment plate having openings for feeding and discharging the media... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070289725 - Heat exchanger having a coil and a corrugated tube, cooling circuit, fuel circuit and vehicle comprising such a heat exchanger: h

20070289726 - Plate-fin heat exchanger having application to air separation: A plate-fin heat exchanger having alternating layers for exchanging heat between fluids to be warmed against fluids to be cooled. One or both of the layers is subdivided into flow passages to allow for the flow of two or more fluids flowing through one of the layers to engage in... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070289727 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a first collector (10), in which chambers (44, 46), separated by at least one longitudinal separating wall, are formed and comprising a tube-fin or tube block (14), with tubes (16), or tubed devices opening into the first collector (10), fixed to the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070289728 - Heat exchanger and mounting structure of the same: A heat exchanger has tubes stacked in a direction and constructed of plate members. Each tube includes a main part for defining a passage of an internal fluid therein and a joined part that is provided by joining portions of the plate member to have surface contact. The joined part... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070289730 - Combination heat-transfer plate member: A combination heat-transfer plate member for use with a heat sink to dissipate heat from a CPU is disclosed having a flat graphite base member and two metal sheet members respectively bonded to the top and bottom sides of the flat graphite base member.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070289729 - Thermally conductive composite interface, cooled electronic assemblies employing the same, and methods of fabrication thereof: A composite interface and methods of fabrication are provided for coupling a cooling assembly to an electronic device. The interface includes a plurality of thermally conductive wires formed of a first material having a first thermal conductivity, and a thermal interface material at least partially surrounding the wires. The interface... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070289731 - Method for programming and user interface for environmental control: A method for programming and a user interface for a programmable environmental control wherein a user assigns names (e.g. “Morning”, or “Unoccupied”, or “Evening”) to sets of parameters such as, for example, pairs of temperature set-points. When establishing the programming schedule, the user picks the name associated with the sets... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20070289732 - Apparatus for conditioning the temperature of a fluid: This invention relates to an apparatus for conditioning the temperature of a fluid by utilizing a thermoplastic heat exchange apparatus comprised of a plurality of hollow tubes. The apparatus controls the temperature of a process fluid inside the heat exchanger by adjustment of a control valve that regulates the flow... Agent: Mykrolis Corporation

20070284076 - Modular assembly for a vehicle: There is disclosed a modular assembly and method of forming the assembly. The assembly is particularly suitable as at least part of a front end of a transportation or automotive vehicle. The assembly preferably includes one or more plastic structures adhesively secured to one or more metal structures.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070284077 - Smart solar roof: A heat pump use for expelling solar thermal energy by electromechanically transferring heat to a major component and continuously expels it from an upper level of a static structure. The invention receives and transfer solar thermal energy between two metal sheets that restricts heat and by means of airflow heat... Agent: Matteo B. Gravina

20070284079 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipating device includes a heat sink, and an adjusting member. The heat sink includes a base, and a plurality of fins formed on a top surface of the base. The adjusting member includes a mounting portion mounted to a side surface facing an airflow-generating source of the base,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070284082 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipating device comprises a heat tube; one end of the heat tube being a heated end and another end thereof being a cooling end; at least one side of the cooling end being formed with a recess; each recess being coated with tin glue; and a fin set... Agent: Min-hsien Sung

20070284083 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipating device comprises a heat tube; one end of the heat tube being a heated end and another end thereof being a cooling end; at least one side of the cooling end being formed with a plane; each plane being coated with tin glue; and a fin set... Agent: Min-hsien Sung

20070284080 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a base, and a plurality of parallel fins extending up from the base. Every two adjacent fins are spaced from each other for forming a passage to allow airflow therethrough. Together, the passages form an air inlet at one side of the heat dissipation device... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070284081 - Heatsink device having fiber-like fins: A heatsink device is provided herein, which mainly contains a larger number of pins made of highly thermal conducting material into fiber-like linear segments. The fiber-like fins have one of their ends inserted into tubular holders which are fused or welded together into a planar base, or into the holes... Agent: Han-ming Lee

20070284084 - Radiator with buckle: A radiator with buckle is disclosed. At least two buckling plates buckle to the radiator. The radiator comprises a plurality of fins. The fin has at least one hole for receiving the above buckling plate. The buckling plate has a main body, the two sides of the main body have... Agent: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.

20070284078 - Refrigerant compositions containing perfluoropolyethers: The present invention relates to compositions and processes of using perfluoropolyether to maintain or improve the oil return, lubrication, cooling capacity or energy efficiency of the refrigeration, air conditioning and heat transfer system.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070284085 - Plasma processing apparatus, electrode unit, feeder member and radio frequency feeder rod: Disclosed herein is a plasma processing apparatus that introduces a process gas into an airtight processing container, that applies a radio frequency power to generate plasma, and that conducts a plasma process to an object to be processed arranged in the processing container. The plasma processing apparatus includes: an electrode... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070284086 - Transition assembly and method of connecting to a heat exchanger: A transition assembly is provided for connecting a heat exchanger to an external flow path. The assembly includes a fluid connection tube and a transition tube. The ends of the fluid connection tube and the transition tube are sized such that one tube may be inserted within the other tube.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070284087 - Waste heat recovery device: A waste heat recovery device includes a heat pipe in which a working fluid for transporting heat is enclosed, and a mode-switching valve for switching a heat recovery mode and a heat insulation mode. The heat pipe has a heating part for heating and evaporating the working fluid and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070284088 - Cooling apparatus of looped heat pipe structure: A coolant phase changeable cooling apparatus using a capillary action is provided. The cooling apparatus prevents a generation of bubbles inside a wick of an evaporator or an inverse flow of a vaporized gaseous coolant through a wick. Also, a thermal contact area can be widened by using at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070284090 - Loop type heat dissipating apparatus with sprayer: A loop type heat dissipating apparatus with a sprayer for use in heat transfer between a heat source and a heat sink includes an evaporator, a condenser, and a working fluid. The evaporator contacts the heat source and includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a sprayer disposed between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070284089 - Method, apparatus and system for carbon nanotube wick structures: A method, apparatus and system are described for carbon nanotube wick structures. The system may include a frame and an apparatus. The apparatus may include a heat exchanger, a cold plate with a cold plate internal volume, and a heat pipe in the cold plate internal volume. In some embodiments,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070284091 - Domed heat exchanger (igloo): A heat exchanger assembly for cooling an electronic device comprises a flange, a dome, a plurality of condensing tubes, a shroud and a boiler plate. The dome is semi-cylindrical in shape with flat axial ends. A plurality of spaced condensing tubes is disposed in a plurality of fan rows with... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070284092 - Domed heat exchanger (porcupine): Three embodiments of a heat exchanger assembly for cooling an electronic device are shown respectively in FIGS. 1-2, 3 and 4 and each comprises a flange, a dome, a plurality of condensing tubes, a shroud, and a boiler plate. In the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the dome is... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070284093 - Orientation insensitive thermosiphon capable of operation in upside down position: The invention provides a heat exchanger assembly having a housing which defines a boiling chamber extending along an axis between opposite ends. A plurality of first condensing tubes extend axially and downwardly in one direction at a first predetermined angle to and below the axis (A) from the housing and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070284094 - Compact modular cpu cooling unit: A modular CPU cooling unit designed to fit within the available space within an existing box or cabinet containing a CPU. The fan, pump and liquid to air cross flow heat exchanger are fitted within the available volume with the fan spaced away from the heat exchanger a suitable distance... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070284095 - Hybrid heat exchangers: A light weight hybrid heat exchanger core possessing low density and improved thermal conductivity is disclosed. The hybrid core is comprised of a plurality of parting sheets and interposed by a plurality of high thermal conductivity, light weight bridging elements and enclosure bars. These core members are comprised of dissimilar... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070284096 - Cooler module and heat pipe for cooler module: A cooler module includes a heat pipe, which has one end terminating in a heat absorbing section that has at least one pane closely attached to the CPU to absorb heat from the CPU and a relatively greater metal wall thickness than the metal wall thickness of the heat pipe,... Agent: John G. Chupa Law Offices Of John Chupa & Associates, P.C.

20070277959 - Heat dissipating device: A heat dissipating device for use with a heat-producing element in an electronic product includes a flat-plate heat collector and a plurality of parallelly arranged fins, both of which are made of a copper material to provide excellent heat conductivity. The fins are fixedly connected to one surface of the... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070277958 - Heat dissipator: A heat dissipator for mounting on a heat-generating element includes a heat-dissipating body, a fan assembly, a bottom stand and a top stand. The heat-dissipating body is formed into a spherical body and constituted of a plurality of heat-dissipating pieces. The heat-dissipating body is provided with a sealed accommodating space... Agent: Hdsl

20070277957 - Heat sink: A heat sink includes a base and a plurality of parallel fins extending up from the base. The heat sink has an air inlet and an air outlet. A thickness of the base gradually reducing from a middle of the base to both sides nearby the air inlet and the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070277960 - Heat exchanger for fuel cell: A heat exchanger that can mechanically automatically control a level of cooling water according to heat generation of the fuel cell. The heat exchanger includes a housing having a cooling water inlet and an outlet connected to a fuel cell stack, a moving plate which moves reciprocally in the housing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070277955 - Solar and heat pump powered electric forced hot air hydronic furnace: A furnace and method using a heat pump for providing domestic hot water and forced hot or cooled air utilizing heat pump achieved efficiency levels in an on-demand and unlimited domestic hot water, heating, and cooling system. In the heating mode, recycled air acquires heat from the heat pump's condenser... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070277956 - Collecting tank for a multiple-row heat exchanger: The invention relates to a collecting tank (1), especially for a heat exchanger (1) pertaining to a motor vehicle cooling installation. Said collecting tank comprises a tank element (3) consisting of at least two collecting regions (4) for receiving the fluid, said receiving regions being embodied together as a single... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070277961 - Heat dissipation module and heat column thereof: A heat dissipation module includes a heat column and a plurality of heat dissipation fins disposed outside of the heat column and connected with the heat column. The heat column has a column body and a base, and the column body has a top portion and a sidewall ringed with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070277962 - Two-phase cooling system for cooling power electronic components: A two-phase cooling system for cooling power electronic components comprises a condenser section and an evaporator section, each with at least two metal sheets partially bonded together, the at least two metal sheets forming at least one first fluid channel or second fluid channel, respectively being arranged between two bonded... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070277963 - Heat pipe: A heat pipe includes a hollow metal casing (100) and a honeycombed wick structure (200) arranged at an inner surface of the hollow metal casing. The wick structure includes a plurality of slices (210, 220) stacked together. Each of the slices has a plurality of pores therein and a plurality... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070277964 - Heat exchange tube and evaporator: An evaporator includes a plurality of flat heat exchange tubes extending in a vertical direction and arranged at intervals along a left-right direction with a width direction thereof coinciding with a front-rear direction. The heat exchange tube has a plurality of refrigerant channels arranged along the width direction. The evaporator... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070277965 - User selectable heat exchange apparatus and method of use: A selectable heat exchange apparatus and method of use are provided. The heat exchange apparatus comprises a plurality of half-tubes fabricated from any selected material and in any selected method of manufacture.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP