Heat exchange inventions 02/08

20080047687 - Combination heat exchanger having an improved end tank assembly: A combination heat exchanger comprising of a heat exchange core having a plurality tubes, wherein the core having at least one core end; an end tank having two side walls and two end walls, two bulkheads the cavity defining a least a first chamber, a second chamber, and a third... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080047683 - Aluminum heat exchange tube and process for fabricating same: An aluminum heat exchange tube 4 is made of an alloy comprising 0.90 to 1.50 mass % of Mn, and the balance Al and inevitable impurities, and has electric conductivity of 30 to 43% IACS. The tube 4 is fabricated from a tube blank made of an alloy comprising 0.90... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080047684 - Method and thermally active multi-phase heat transfer apparatus and method for abstracting heat using liquid bi-phase heat exchanging composition: Apparatus for abstracting heat comprises a container charged with a first liquid and with small auxiliary containers free to circulate in the first liquid. Each of the small auxiliary containers is charged with a second liquid. The first and second liquids each have a selected temperature of transformation that facilitates... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20080047685 - Exhaust gas recirculation cooler and method: An EGR cooler having an inlet/outlet tube installed by insertion is provided, and can have a curved gas flow path defined at least in part by a tank body. The inlet/outlet tube can include a first inlet/outlet tube and a second inlet/outlet tube to introduce and to exhaust gas. The... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080047686 - Heat exchange device: An evaporative heat exchanger comprises a working channel comprising primary and secondary surfaces and a plurality of product channels comprising primary and secondary surfaces. A liquid supply provides an evaporative liquid to the secondary surfaces. A product fluid may circulate through the product channels in heat exchanging contact with the... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080047688 - Cooling system and cooling method for cooling components of a power electronics: Cooling system and cooling method for cooling components of a power electronics The invention relates to a cooling system for cooling components (10) of power electronics installed on board an aircraft, in particular a passenger aircraft, comprising a cooling device (30) which is to be coupled in a heat-transmitting and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080047689 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger comprising: a core portion including a plurality of tubes; a pair of header tanks communicating with the tubes; and a pair of inserts arranged substantially parallel to the length of the tubes, and in such a manner as to contact the core portion at the ends of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080047690 - Heat exchanger with heat pipe: A heat exchanger includes an evaporation side heat pipe in which a working fluid flowing therein is heat exchanged with a high-temperature fluid to be evaporated, a condensation side heat pipe in which the working fluid flowing therein is heat exchanged with a low-temperature fluid to be condensed, and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080047691 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger 10 includes a conduit 12 for conveying cooling fluid relative to a body to be cooled. A heat transfer arrangement 62 is arranged in communication with an interior of the conduit 12, the heat transfer arrangement 62 and the conduit 12 together defining an assembly that is... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080047692 - Open loop heat pipe radiator having a free-piston for wiping condensed working fluid: An open loop heat pipe radiator comprises a radiator tube and a free-piston. The radiator tube has a first end, a second end, and a tube wall, and the tube wall has an inner surface and an outer surface. The free-piston is enclosed within the radiator tube and is capable... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center

20080047693 - Cooler: A cooler comprises a base, a set of radiator fins and a plurality of heat pipes going through the base and the radiator fins. The lower surface of the base is further provided with a recess wherein part of the heat pipes is exposed, whereby a heat-generating element will be... Agent: Shyh-ming Chen

20080047694 - Heat transfer apparatus and methods: Liquid heat exchangers and methods for removing heat from a central processing unit. An exemplary heat exchanger comprises a body having an open cavity whose periphery is sealable to the central processing unit from which heat is to be removed, a cooling liquid inlet port coupled through the body to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080047695 - Cooling structure for electronics and machines: The invention relates to an improved cooling structure for electronics and machines, which produce heat during working and have been provided with cooling fins or grid. A nanocarbon layer is covered on IC boards, CPUs, and the cooling fins or grids, that facilitates the cooling effect obviously because of increased... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080047696 - Heat transfer surfaces with flanged apertures: A heat exchanger, turbulizer or heat transfer surface, and a method of making same wherein the turbulizer is a corrugated member having parallel, spaced-apart ridges and planar fins extending therebetween. The planar fins have spaced-apart apertures with opposed peripheral edge portions including transversely extending flanges.... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080047697 - Air conditioner: An air conditioner is disclosed which includes a case including an external air inlet opening formed in a side of the case, a heat exchanger provided in the case, and a guide part which guides external air which enters the case through the external air inlet opening into an interior... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080047698 - Advanced gravity-film & double-helix heat exchangers (\"gfx+™ & \"dhx™\"): This invention teaches how to reduce the copper content of a commercially available, all-copper, double-wall-vented, coil & tube Gravity Film Heat Exchangers (“GFX”) developed for the GFX™ system of U.S. Pat. No. 4,619,311. For example, a GFX+™ equivalent of a residential Model G3-60 GFX can be made using 71% less... Agent: Dr. Carmine F. Vasile

20080047700 - Formed sheet heat exchanger: A formed sheet heat exchanger is provided for exchanging heat between fluids is provided. The apparatus includes flow divider sheets that are positioned in a stacked configuration and extend in a longitudinal direction so that adjacent pairs of the sheets define flow passages therebetween for receiving first and second fluids.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080047699 - Total heat exchanging element: When latent heat is transferred between the two airflows flowing along the respective sides of each partition member, not only a layer of moisture absorbent but also a layer of flame retardant lies in the direction of transfer of the moisture. Thus, even if the moisture is absorbed by the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080047701 - Electrowetting based heat spreader: A heat transfer device is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrodes that direct droplets to and from a hot spot to transfer heat from the hot spot to a filler fluid surrounding the droplet.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080047702 - Portable humidifying device and method for using same: Apparatuses for controlling a humidity level within an enclosed volume storage device and methods for using same. The apparatus, in one embodiment, comprises a container having outer walls defining an inner volume, at least one of the outer walls, preferably an lid wall, having perforations therein. The apparatus further comprises... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080041556 - Stacked/bar plate charge air cooler including inlet and outlet tanks: The present invention provides a charge air cooler for transferring heat between a coolant and charge air including a charge air inlet tank, a charge air outlet tank spaced from the inlet tank, and a heat exchange core positioned between the inlet and outlet tanks and including a stack of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080041557 - Air control device for heating and/or air-conditioning systems for vehicles: An air control device suitable for use in a heating and/or air-conditioning system comprises an air control member having a portion capable of selectively blocking the flow of air in an air passageway, a shaft member connected to the selective air blocking portion and having an axis about which the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080041559 - Heat exchanger for vehicle: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a highly efficient thin heat exchanger for reducing the weight of a vehicle body and enhancing heat radiation performance. In the present invention, there is provided an optimal design range for maximizing heat radiation performance... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080041562 - Airflow bypass and cooling of processors in series: A method for cooling electronic components includes disposing a first cooling structure associated with a first processor in a chassis, disposing a second cooling structure associated with a second processor in the chassis, and configuring the first cooling structure and the second cooling structure such that air propagating through the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080041561 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device for a heat-generating electronic component includes a heat sink (10) and a fan (20) mounted on a lateral side of the heat sink. The heat sink defines a plurality of channels (162) therein. A fan holder (30) is rotatably mounted on the heat sink. The fan... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080041558 - Cooling system in a motor vehicle: A radiator element in a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle includes a body, a driver's space with at least one door for access to the driver's space, and a step element with at least one step and situated below the door. An engine cooling system includes a radiator element in... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080041560 - Diamond heat sink: A heat sink made of a natural or polycrystalline diamond substrate with fins formed thereon. Diamond is grown to form a substrate and a laser is used to cut channels in the substrate to form the fins.... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080041563 - Heat exchangers with novel ball joints and assemblies and processes using such heat exchangers: What is disclosed herein deals with low to medium pressure, high temperature, all ceramic, air-to-air, indirect heat exchangers, novel ball joints, high load-bearing ceramic tube sheets, and tube seal extenders for ceramic tubes that are useful in such heat exchangers. Also disclosed are new and novel systems used in new... Agent: MckellarIPLaw, PLLC

20080041564 - Mounting system and method for scraped surface heat exchanger blades: A blade for mounting to a scraped surface heat exchanger drive shaft by pivotal connection with a mounting pin has a blade body having a first side and a second side, and a scraper edge and a hinge edge. At least one mounting hole extends through the blade body generally... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080041565 - Integrated cooling system with multiple condensing passages for cooling 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 lower portion and a higher portion surrounding the lower portion. The lower portion and the higher portion cooperatively define a space (18)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080041566 - Computer cooling apparatus: An apparatus for cooling an electronic device that includes a fluid heat exchanger, a chiller, and a pump. The fluid heat exchanger transfers heat from a hot portion of the surface of the electronic device to a fluid and has a body through which the fluid may be circulated. The... Agent: Bennett Jones C/o Ms Roseann Caldwell

20080041567 - Heat dissipating module and method of fabricating the same: A heat dissipating module includes thermal conductive pipes and a thermal fin module. The thermal fin module made by pressing and stacking is mounted on the thermal conductive pipes. Next, a jig is set on a top surface of the thermal fin module, and a force compresses the thermal fin... Agent: Hdsl

20080041568 - Direct facility water test head cooling architecture: An apparatus is provided to cool high-performance instruments within a semiconductor test head using direct facility water. The direct facility water cooling apparatus consists of an air chamber, a first base to receive and removably mount the instrument within the air chamber, a test head inlet in fluid communication with... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080041569 - Heat exchanger with hinged fan assemblies: A coil heat exchanger includes a coil assembly having a series of elongated coil tubes mounted in an elongated, generally rectangular structure. Fans for drawing air across the coil assembly are provided as modular units that are mounted to the structure using hinges. The fans can be readily swung upwardly... Agent: Amsted Industries Incorporated Two Prudential Street

20080041570 - Alternating plate headerless heat exchangers: A plate and fin type heat exchanger has a heat exchanger core made from a plurality of stacked, alternating first and second heat exchange plates of a generally inverted, U-shaped cross-section. Each plate has a top wall, closed peripheral sidewalls and open ends, and the open ends of the first... Agent: Ridout & Maybee, LLP

20080041571 - Heat exchange and method of manufacturing the same: In a heat exchanger having a core portion in which aluminum flat tubes and aluminum fins are disposed alternatively and brazed with each other, each fin has one side portion located at one side of the tube and the other side portion located at the other side of the tube.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080041572 - Compact radial platen arrangement for radiant syngas cooler: A radiant synthesis gas (syngas) cooler used to contain and cool the synthesis gas produced by a coal gasification process used in an IGCC power plant employs a compact radial platen arrangement which is less prone to fouling and/or plugging issues.... Agent: The Babcock & Wilcox Company

20080041573 - Method for making brazed heat exchanger and apparatus: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080041574 - Cooling systems employing fluidic jets, methods for their use and methods for cooling: In one embodiment, a cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system comprises: a cooling channel for receiving a cooling media, a substrate disposed near the cooling channel, and a fluidic jet disposed within the substrate and in fluid communication with the cooling channel. The cooling channel is for thermal communication... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080035303 - Expansion tank with alarm system: An expansion tank comprising a bladder style water storage tank and method of use. The expansion tank includes an alarm module to sense a flooded tank condition. The system also has the ability to sense a bladder over-extended condition. The expansion tank use includes a sonic alarm and/or a visual... Agent: Talivaldis Cepuritis Olson & Hierl, Ltd.

20080035304 - Truck mounted heat exchange device: A device for heating a fluid for use in carpet cleaning is provided. Specifically, the device routes a source of exhaust toward and/or around a heat exchange chamber to heat a fluid in a controlled manner. The fluid may be heated to a maximum amount when the full amount of... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080035305 - Device for heat exchange and method for producing one such device: The invention relates to a device for heat exchange, said device comprising a flow device and a collection and/or distribution device connected to the flow device at a connection point. The flow device has a pre-determined length and a flat tubular cross-section, and a fluid under a high pressure, for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080035307 - Vehicle air-conditioning system: A vehicle air-conditioning system includes a duct housing therein an evaporator, an air-mixing mechanism, and a heater core that are successively arranged along the direction in which air is delivered by a blower to flow through the duct. A temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the evaporator is disposed... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080035306 - Heating and cooling of substrate support: A process chamber and a method for controlling the temperature of a substrate positioned on a substrate support assembly within the process chamber are provided. The substrate support assembly includes a thermally conductive body, a substrate support surface on the surface of the thermally conductive body and adapted to support... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080035308 - Constructuinal unit for a heat exchanging device: The invention relates to a constructional unit for a heat exchanging device, which comprises at least one housing (7) in which a gaseous medium is at least partially guided on a predetermined path, an inlet device (23) for gaseous medium, at least one first heat exchanging device (3), at least... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080035309 - Heat exchanger in particular for exhaust coolers on internal combustion engines: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10), in particular, for exhaust coolers on internal combustion engines. The aim of the invention is to provide a separation of the carrier medium flow into two partial flows as leak free as possible, by suitable embodiment of the baffle plate (40). A... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080035311 - Cooler system: A cooler system includes a metal holder base, a mounting structure that secures the metal holder base to a circuit board, a curved heat pipe, which has a mounting portion fastened to one through hole on the metal holder base and a cooling portion extending from the mounting portion to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080035310 - Isothermal plate module: An isothermal plate module includes an isothermal plate body and a plurality of heat pipes. One surface of the isothermal plate body has first recesses extending along a first direction and second recesses extending along a second direction. The first recesses extending along the first direction and the second recesses... Agent: Hdsl

20080035312 - Air-conditioning systems and related methods: Various embodiments of air conditioning systems are disclosed. The systems may include an air conditioner whose energy source is provided by heating of a first fluid. The first fluid may be in a liquid state contained in a reservoir hydraulically connected to a first chamber. The first chamber may be... Agent: Claudio Filippone

20080035313 - Heat-conducting base and isothermal plate having the same: A isothermal plate includes a heat-conducting base and a plurality of heat pipe. After the heat-conducting base is combined with the heat pipes, they are subjected to a pressing action. The heat-conducting base has a first plate body provided thereon with a plurality of hollow ribs extending from its one... Agent: Hdsl

20080035314 - Reflux condenser apparatus and method: A reflux condenser and a method for conducting away liquid from the lower region of reflux passages, is disclosed. The reflux condenser has at least one heat exchanger block which has reflux passages and refrigerant passages, and a pressure container which encloses the heat exchanger block at the top and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080035316 - Cooling device for a motor vehicle: r

20080035315 - Cooling system with miniature fans for circuit board devices: Devices for removing heat from electronic components. A device includes a heat sink for attachment to an electronic component and multiple miniature fans. Each miniature fan includes an elongated, generally tubular outer housing member adapted to receive end closure plugs or caps at each end, a miniature electric motor mounted... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080035317 - Air conditioner: An air conditioner including a housing and a fan within the housing is provided. The fan may be configured to draw air into the housing and direct air radially outward. A heat exchanger may be configured to exchange heat with the air drawn into the housing. Also, at least one... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080035318 - Refrigeration unit: An air conditioner comprises an outdoor heat exchanger having a plate fin whose surface is treated to have water-sliding properties and water repellency and a drain pan arranged under the outdoor heat exchanger. There is a gap throughout between the lower end portion of the outdoor heat exchanger and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080035319 - Method and systems for compact, micro-channel, laminar heat exchanging: A heat exchanging core for a micro-channel heat exchanger includes at least one heat conducting plate, which has at least one channel formed between a first side and a second side of the heat conducting plate. The at least one channel has a channel length to hydraulic diameter ratio of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080035320 - Heat exchanger system used in steel making: The invention is a heat exchanger system suitable for iron making furnaces and their supporting exhaust and cooling system. The heat exchanger has at least one panel of sinuously winding piping having an inlet and an outlet, an input manifold in fluid communication with the inlet of the at least... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080035321 - Heat exchanger and air conditioner: In a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between fluid such as refrigerant and air, an object of the present invention is to extend the surface area of fins while suppressing an increase in ventilation resistance, thereby improving performances of the heat exchanger. Corrugated sheet fins (70) are provided as the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080035322 - Motor vehicle air conditioning system: The invention relates to a motor vehicle air conditioning unit (1) which is used to temper the front area of a motor vehicle. Said motor vehicle air conditioning unit comprises one first blower (2), an evaporator (4) and a heater (5) and, optionally, an additional heater (6) and an air... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080035323 - Internal and external connecting liquid cooled heat sink device: The present invention provides an internal and external connecting liquid cooled heat sink device, which includes a holding case, a water tank facility, a heat dissipating unit, pipes and a water cooled head. The holding case retains the water tank facility and the heat dissipating unit connected in series using... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080029241 - Off-road equipment with elevated cooling boxes: An off-road vehicle includes an engine compartment with an engine disposed therein and a cooling assembly which includes a source of liquid and a cooling location disposed external to the engine compartment for cooling the liquid. One or more heat exchangers is disposed at the cooling location for cooling the... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20080029244 - Heat sinks for dissipating a thermal load: Heat sinks for dissipating a thermal load are disclosed that include a heat sink base having a thermal base channel inside the heat sink base, the heat sink base capable of receiving a thermal load from a thermal source, heat-dissipating fins mounted on the heat sink base, each heat-dissipating fin... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080029242 - Dimensionally-optimized device for the exchange of heat and method for optimisation of the dimensions of devices for the exchange of heat: The invention relates to a device for the exchange of heat, in particular, for a motor vehicle, comprising a number of flow tubes for the transport of a fluid, whereby the device has a given depth (T) and, at least in sections, some flow tubes are arranged at a given... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029243 - Heat exchanger tube with integral restricting and turbulating structure: A heat exchanger tube having an integral restricting and turbulating structure consisting of dimples formed by confronting indentations pressed into the sides of the heat exchanger tube. The dimples are comprised of indentations disposed in pairs which extend into the tube to such a depth as is necessary to significantly... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080029245 - Sensor assembly for detecting ice crystal formation on heat exchange surface and ice-making machine incorporating the same: A sensor assembly for detecting ice crystal formation on a heat exchange surface in an ice-making machine comprises at least one microphone monitoring the sound made by a rotating blade assembly within the ice-making machine during ice slurry formation. A filter filters the output of the microphone to remove background... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080029246 - Heat exchanger bypass system: A fluid regulator includes a temperature-responsive bypass valve and a valve return spring. The bypass valve is arranged to cause fluid discharged from a fluid beater (such as a transmission) coupled to the fluid regulator to bypass a heat exchanger coupled to the fluid regulator until the fluid is hot... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080029247 - Temperature regulating member: A temperature regulating member capable of avoiding deterioration in heat dissipation efficiency of a heat-accumulating material, and deterioration in a buffer function thereof, due to ununiformity in heat distribution inside the heat-accumulating material. With the use of a churning flow occurring by disposing one piece of stirrer or plural stirrers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080029248 - Laboratory temperature control with ultra-smooth heat transfer surfaces: A temperature regulation system has a polished surface sufficiently smooth so as to reduce the emissivity of the surface. A conduit is in thermal proximity to the polished surface and is in communication with a source of coolant. The coolant is circulated through the conduit so as to transfer heat... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080029249 - Supporting column having porous structure: A supporting column having a porous structure is installed in a chamber filled with working fluid. The chamber includes an evaporation side for evaporating the working fluid to the gaseous phase, and a condensation side opposite the evaporation side for condensing the gaseous phase to the liquid phase. The supporting... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080029251 - Water-cooled heat sink and water-cooled system: There is provided a water-cooled heat sink including first and second heat transfer channel plates that are stacked and coupled together. The first heat transfer channel plate is provided with a continuous recess that is located in a facing surface thereof that faces the second heat transfer channel plate, corresponds... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080029250 - Warm water cooling: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point... Agent: John A. Dragseth

20080029252 - Closed loop fluid treatment system: A plurality of fluid treatment devices are disclosed to treat a recirculating fluid of a closed loop heat exchange system. A fluid treatment device may include a sacrificial metallic substance. A fluid treatment device may include a filtering member. A fluid treatment device may include an electronic treatment device.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080029254 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger has tubes, an inlet tank and an outlet tank. The inlet tank and the outlet tank are coupled to ends of the tubes. The inlet tank and the outlet tank have an inlet port and an outlet port, respectively, on ends thereof. The heat exchanger further has... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080029253 - Heat exchanger, in particular radiator for motor vehicles: The invention relates t a heat exchanger, in particular a radiator for motor vehicles comprising a black consisting of tubes and ribs and a lower and upper collection chamber, the lower collection chamber having several chambers which are separated from one another by partitions and between which a fluidic connection... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029255 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger for the heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid, which achieves an unusual strength comprises a plurality of casings (2), of substantially flattened shape and of predetermined width (L), arranged in a pile (2a), with an air space (3) defined between adjacent casings in... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080029256 - Heat exchanger, in particular a flat pipe evaporator for a motor vehicle air conditioning system: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular a flat pipe evaporator (1) for a motor vehicle air conditioning system, comprising at least one collecting tank (2) made of sheet steel which is divided in the longitudinal direction into at least two chambers and the ends of the pipe,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029257 - Plate heat exchanger: A plate heat exchanger comprising separate flow paths for two flows of fluid said paths having different pressure drops at equal mass flows may according to the invention be designed economically by stacking pairs of two plates (4, 5) provided with pressed patterns, at least one of the plates (4)... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080029258 - Method for producing a heat exchanger: The invention relates to a method for producing a heat exchanger (1), in particular for a motor vehicle. The invention is characterised in that a sub-assembly consisting or the two connection pipes (4) that supply or evacuate the coolant and at least the upper panel (3) or surface of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029259 - Soldered heat exchanger, in particular capacitor for motor vehicles: The invention relates to a soldered heat exchanger. in particular a capacitor (1) for motor vehicles, comprising at least one collector tube (3) and a flange (5) which is secured to the collector tube (3) and which is used to receive connection tubes (6, 7). According to the invention, the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029260 - Liquid cooled heat sink: A liquid cooled heat sink includes: a casing having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet; and a fin unit provided in the casing and having a wave-like structure of a multi-fold sheet that defines a plurality of fluid paths which are aligned in series in a transverse direction relative... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080029261 - Steam temperature control using integrated function block: The disclosure is directed to a saturated water spraying system configured to rapidly respond to rapid load changes by implementing a single integrated DCS control block. The integrate DCS control block may include a plurality of process control routines that are necessary to control the operation of the spraying system.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)