Heat exchange inventions 05/08

20080121366 - Coolant sensor and bleed valve: A coolant sensor doubles as a bleed valve for purging trapped air from a cooling system. The sensor slides into a port placing a sensor element in contact with the coolant. The sensor includes a pair of encircling o-rings for sealing the system from atmosphere in one position and permitting... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080121367 - Reduction of power consumption: The invention relates to a method for temporary reduction of electrical power consumption for cooling of buildings where the cooling energy is stored in slab or wall, comprising the step of storing cooling energy in at least some part of the slab (4) or the wall (1,2,3) by means of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080121369 - Heat dissipation assembly having fan duct: A heat dissipation assembly (100) comprises a heat sink (10) having a plurality of fins (120), a fan (20) mounted onto the heat sink (10) for generating an airflow flowing into a plurality of channels (126) between the fins (120) of the heat sink (10) and a ventilating strip (40)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080121368 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a base and a fin set arranged on the base. The fin set includes a plurality of fins each having an undulating body and two flanges extending from the body. The body includes a plurality of peak faces, a plurality of trough faces alternating with... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080121371 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a base including a base plate made of a first heat conductive material and a substrate made of a second heat conductive material having a heat conductivity lower than that of the first heat conductive material. The substrate comprises a frame with a window receiving... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080121372 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink including a base for contacting with an electronic device, a fin set having a plurality of fins, and a heat pipe having a first section thermally attached to the base and a second section extending through the fin set. Each of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080121370 - Heat dissipation device with a heat pipe: A heat dissipation device includes a heat spreader (20), a heat sink (10) attached to the heat spreader (20), a sleeve (40) and a heat pipe (30). The heat spreader (20) is for contacting a heat-generating electronic device. The heat sink (10) includes a base (12) and a plurality of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080121373 - Heat-dissipation device with dust-disposal function: A heat-dissipation device with dust-disposal function for removing dust from cooling metallic fins is provided, which includes a heat-conducting module and a vibrator. The heat-conducting module has a plurality of metallic fins, and the vibrator is directly or indirectly connected to the heat-conducting module to provide a vibrating source for... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080121374 - Heat-dissipation device having dust-disposal mechanism: A heat-dissipation device having a dust-disposal mechanism for removing dust from cooling metallic fins is provided, which includes a heat-conducting module and a dust-disposal mechanism. The heat-conducting module has a plurality of metallic fins arranged in the same direction and apart with a gap formed therebetween. The dust-disposal mechanism has... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080121375 - Systems and methods for passive thermal management using phase change material: Systems and methods for passive thermal management using phase change material are provided. In one embodiment, a thermal management method is provided. The method comprises securing an electronics assembly to a mounting surface using a thermally insulative support structure; insulating a phase change material within the support structure; and melting... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080121376 - Turbine engine with integrated generator having shared lubrication system: A heat exchange system for use in operating equipment having a plurality of subsystems in each of which a common working fluid is utilized to provide selected operations in that subsystem with a reservoir containing at least some of the common working fluid and has both a supply system and... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080121378 - Cooler module: A cooler module includes a metal base member, which has accommodation grooves, clamping strips respectively extending along two sides of each accommodation groove, and positioning grooves between each two adjacent accommodation grooves; U-shaped heat tubes that have the respective bottom ends accommodated in the accommodation grooves and secured thereto by... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080121377 - Method for connecting heat-dissipating body and heat pipe and structure thereof: A method for connecting a heat-dissipating body and a heat pipe and the structure thereof are used to improve the efficiency of heat conduction. The structure includes a heat-dissipating body and a heat pipe. The central position of the heat-dissipating body is provided with an accommodating trough for accommodating the... Agent: Hdsl

20080121379 - Evaporator: The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for evaporating a liquid to produce a product liquid and a vapor. Liquid is evaporated under the influence of a heat transfer medium in a heat exchanger comprised of a bank of tube plates formed from corrugated sheets. Vapor produced is separated... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080121380 - Heat exchanger structure for battery module: A fan blows air across a battery package, which includes battery modules in a holder. The holder includes fins, configured such that air contact areas of battery modules at an upstream part are smaller than those at a downstream part. The fins at the upstream part may be longer than... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080121381 - Linked heat exchangers: A heat exchanger apparatus is provided wherein a multifluid or at least three-fluid heat exchanger is mounted externally to but in combination with a two-fluid heat exchanger. The multifluid heat exchanger includes three fluid passages or conduits wherein heat energy can be transferred efficiently between at least one of the... Agent: Ridout & Maybee, LLP

20080121382 - Multifluid two-dimensional heat exchanger: A heat exchanger has at least three tubular conduits spaced apart for the flow of air between and around the conduits. The conduits communicate with inlet and outlet manifolds for the flow of a first liquid through the conduits. An intermediate conduit is located between at least two, but not... Agent: Ridout & Maybee, LLP

20080121383 - Heat exchanger for cooling reaction gas: A heat exchanger for cooling reaction gas, wherein the respective ends of heat exchanger tubes, through which the reaction gas flows, are inserted in a respective tube plate and are surrounded by a jacket, at the two ends of which are provided a respective end chamber that is partially delimited... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20080121384 - Liquid cooled heat dissipator: A liquid cooled heat dissipator includes water channels, rows of heat dissipating fins respectively received in a corresponding one of the water channels and each heat dissipating fin having a ridge and a trough, a first water tank mounting seat having first openings defined to respectively communicate with the water... Agent: Frenkel & Associates, P.C.

20080121385 - Heat dissipation fin for heat exchangers: A heat dissipation fin for heat exchangers disposed between tubes for heat exchangers includes pluralities of louvers arranged in several layers. The louvers of the respective layers are inclined toward the middle of the heat dissipation fin in a straight line in a symmetrical fashion, and the distance between the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080121386 - Method of manufacturing header tank for heat exchanger and heat exchanger having the header tank: A method of manufacturing a header tank for a heat exchanger includes forming a first engagement portion in a core plate, placing a tank body relative to a base portion of the core plate, and moving a first wall portion toward the tank body such that the first engagement portion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080121387 - Heat exchanger and method of producing the same: A heat exchanger is formed by connecting tube-group blocks along a tube axis, where each one of tube-group blocks includes a plurality of substrates having a large number of through holes, which communicate with insides of a plurality of tubes placed between the substrates. A length of the tubes can... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080121388 - Method for the production of a heat exchanger: A method for the production of a receiving device for the flow tubes of a heat exchanger with openings for receiving the flow tubes. One opening is at least partially produced by a first forming method and at least partially by a second forming method that is different from the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080121389 - Removal of excess heat in a failed stirling converter in a radioisotope power system: A power supply system for converting heat to energy includes a heat source, a converter, a heat pipe, a heat transfer structure surrounding the heat pipe, and a mechanism for moving the heat pipe as a function of electrical power generated by the converter between a first position spaced from... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080115910 - Heat-dissipation and airflow-conduction fin assembly: A heat-dissipation and airflow-conductive fin assembly is constructed by a plurality of heat-dissipation and heat-conductive fins. The fin includes a base plate with a pair of openings. A pair of side plates is extended perpendicularly from opposite edges of the base plate. The side plates further extend to form inward... Agent: Hdsl

20080115911 - Heat dissipation system for solarlok photovoltaic interconnection system: A heat dissipation system for a photovoltaic array (PV) interconnection system includes an enclosure containing one or more diode elements. A heat pipe system has heat sinks attached to one or both ends. The heat pipe passes through the enclosure in thermal contact with the diode assemblies. Cooling fins are... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20080115913 - Method of fabricating semiconductor-based porous structure: In the cooling of a laptop computer processor the device could be attached to the processor during laptop assembly. Consistent with efforts to miniaturize electronics components, the current invention can be directly integrated with a unpackaged chip. For applications requiring larger cooling surface areas, the planar evaporators can be spread... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080115912 - Semiconductor-based porous structure: In the cooling of a laptop computer processor the device could be attached to the processor during laptop assembly. Consistent with efforts to miniaturize electronics components, the current invention can be directly integrated with a unpackaged chip. For applications requiring larger cooling surface areas, the planar evaporators can be spread... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080115916 - Cooling device for an electronic component: A cooling device for cooling an electronic component. The device has an enclosure adapted to contain a liquid coolant. The enclosure has an internal channel system comprising a cavity adjacent the electronic component, a first group of arborizing channels adapted to carry the liquid coolant away from the cavity, a... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.c.

20080115914 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipes: A heat dissipation device includes a base, a plurality of first fins, a plate with a plurality of second fins, a plurality of third fins, three heat pipes and a fan assembly. Each heat pipe includes a heat-receiving portion sandwiched between the base and the first fins, a heat-exchange portion... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080115915 - Heat sink: A heat sink includes a base, at least a heat pipe connecting with the base, and a plurality of fins. The fins form through holes with a slant angle. The heat pipes extend through the through holes. The fins monolithically form an air surface with an inclined guiding angle for... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080115917 - Cooler device: A cooler device comprising a cooling portion with at least one tubular element which has an internal flow duct for guiding a first medium between a first and a second tank. A second cooling medium in contact with an outside surface of the tubular element cools the first medium as... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080115918 - Rolled heat exchange: The invention relates to a rolled heat exchanger comprising several pipes wound around a central pipe, a casing delimiting the external space around the pipes and a liquid distributor for distributing liquid in the external space. According to the invention, the liquid distributor is embodied in the form of a... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.c.

20080115919 - Radiator tube with angled flow passage: A radiator tube. Implementations of a radiator tube may include a tube body with external sides including an internal flow passage defined by the tube body oriented obliquely with respect to one or more external sides of the tube body.... Agent: Booth Udall, Plc

20080115920 - Showcase: A showcase having a fin-and-tube type cooler which comprises plural planar fins and a refrigerant pipe penetrating through the plural planar fins and cools air to be fed toward display racks, wherein the plural planar fins comprise long fins arranged in parallel to an air flow direction along which air... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080115921 - System and method of cooling: The invention provides a cooling fluid heat exchange unit including: a primary heat exchange unit including a closed circuit for circulating primary circuit fluid; and a secondary heat exchange unit adapted to provide cooled air in communication with the primary heat exchange unit. The closed circuit for the cooling fluid... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080115922 - Heat recovery system and method: The present invention provides an exhaust gas waste heat recovery heat exchanger including a housing having a working fluid inlet, a working fluid outlet, an exhaust inlet, and an exhaust outlet, an exhaust flow path extending through the housing between the exhaust inlet and the exhaust outlet, and a working... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080115923 - Exhaust heat recovering device: A waste heat recovery system having a heat pipe provided with a heat switch function limiting an amount of heat transported to a condenser in accordance with the increase in the amount of heating of the evaporator, having the evaporator arranged at an exhaust pipe for carrying exhaust gas of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080115924 - Electrical installation with a cooling element and method for operating said installation: The installation contains a current conductor producing Joulean heat in the operating state, a cooling element and a monitoring device. The cooling element has a condensable working medium and an evaporator, which can be heated by the current conductor of the installation, and a condenser which has been withdrawn from... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080115925 - Cooling water circulation apparatus and method of removing scale from cooling water circulation apparatus: A cooling water circulation apparatus capable of limiting attachment of microorganisms and scale in an environmentally friendly manner and a method of removing scale in the cooling water circulation apparatus. An electrolytic device 10 is provided on a cooling water circulation route R1. In the arrangement, mineral contents such as... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080110593 - Cooling arrangement for electronics: An aircraft electrical component cooling arrangement comprises at least one electrical component (40) housed in a body (38), for example an engine's electronic controller, characterised in that fuel is passed through the body (38) and directly over the component (40). Advantageously, this maintains a uniform temperature of the electronic components,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080110594 - Air/fluid cooling system: The present invention is an air/fluid cooling system. In one embodiment an apparatus for dissipating heat from a heat-generating device includes a base having a first side configured for thermal coupling to the heat-generating device, an air-based cooling path coupled to the base, for dissipating at least a portion of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080110595 - Heat exchanger with bypass: A heat exchanger with an external bypass is formed by a core portion including a plurality of stacked tubular members and a corrugated bypass tube positioned substantially parallel to the core portion. A first set of flow passages is defined within the tubular members for the flow of a first... Agent: Ridout & Maybee, LLP

20080110596 - Interdependent lubrication systems: A heat exchange system for use in operating equipment having a plurality of subsystems in each of which one of a plurality of working fluids is utilized to provide selected operations with there being an air and working fluid heat exchanger providing controlled cooling to cool at least one of... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080110597 - Cooling apparatus having low profile extrusion and method of manufacture therefor: A cooling apparatus has a low profile extrusion with a plurality of micro tubes extended there through. The low profile extrusion is placed into thermal connection with heat producing components. A heat transfer fluid removes heat via an adiabatic process.... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080110598 - System and method of a heat transfer system and a condensor: In the cooling of a laptop computer processor the device could be attached to the processor during laptop assembly. Consistent with efforts to miniaturize electronics components, the current invention can be directly integrated with a unpackaged chip. For applications requiring larger cooling surface areas, the planar evaporators can be spread... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080110600 - Cooling apparatus for electronic devices: The present invention provides a cooling apparatus which is easy to build and to fix it to electronic devices, superior in thermal conduction and heat dissipation, and possible to make thin the total configuration of the apparatus. The liquid cooling unit 9 and the air cooling unit 12 are formed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080110599 - Orientation insensitive multi chamber thermosiphon: A hermetically sealed housing includes a plurality of inner walls extending radially from a central post to a circular outer wall, thereby defining a plurality of pie shaped chambers, each independently containing a refrigerant. At least one of the chambers is always in position to remove heat from an electronic... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080110601 - Boiler condensation module: The invention concerns a boiler condensation module, characterised in that it comprises a water/fume heat exchanger (E) and a closed circuit compression thermodynamic frigorific apparatus, said module (2) being communicated with a boiler (1) intercepting the flow of the fumes and the flow of the water, in order to subtract... Agent: James V. Costigan Hedman & Costigan

20080110602 - Tube shield assembly and method of securing same: A tube shield assembly for protecting tubes includes a guard, a securing member and a holding tooth, wherein welding is not required to secure the guard to the tube. The guard is axially elongated and can have a semi-cylindrical cross-section to define a main body portion. The securing member includes... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080110603 - Integrated heat exchangers for ecs and obiggs applications: An integrated heat exchanger comprises a primary heat transfer zone and a secondary heat transfer zone integral to the primary heat transfer zone. The primary heat transfer zone comprises an ECS heat exchanger and the secondary heat transfer zone comprises a heat exchanger for a secondary system, such as an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080110604 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger for use in a vehicle air conditioning system is provided. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchanger registers adapted to transfer heat from an air flow passing thereby to a refrigerant flowing therethrough. The heat exchanger further includes a plurality of junction elements in fluid... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller Llc

20080110605 - Stacked-plate cooler: The invention relates to a stacked-disc cooler for a motor vehicle comprising several discs (21-24) stacked on each other and connected together, in particular welded to each other, and a supply channel which passes through several discs and through which a cooling medium is introducible into the staked-disc cooler (1)... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080110606 - Heat exchanger with fluid expansion in header: A heat exchanger includes a first header and a second header and a plurality of heat exchange tubes extending therebetween. Each heat exchange tube has an inlet end opening to one of the headers and an outlet opening to the other header. Each heat exchange tube has a plurality of... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080110607 - Combined assembly of fixing base and heat pipe: A combined assembly of a fixing base and an angled heat pipe includes a fixing base and heat pipes. The fixing base has a plate body. The bottom surface of the plate body is formed with opening trough. An end of the opening trough is provided with a through hole... Agent: Hdsl

20080110608 - Mini-channel heat exchanger with reduced dimension header: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat, multi-channel heat exchange tubes extending between spaced headers. Each heat exchange tube has its inlet end in fluid flow communication to an inlet header through a transition connector. The transition connector has a body defining a divergent flow path extending from an... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080110609 - Melting temperature adjustable metal thermal interface materials and application thereof: A melting temperature adjustable metal thermal interface material (TIM) is provided. The metal TIM includes In, Bi, Sn, and Ga. A content of Ga ranges from 0.01 wt % to 3 wt %. The metal TIM has an initial melting temperature lower than 60° C. and has no element hazardous... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080110610 - Pulse width modulation or variable speed control of fans in refrigerant systems: A refrigerant system heat exchanger is characterized by improved airflow distribution through the use of at least one of the fans operating in the pulse width modulation or variable speed mode. Improved airflow distribution can be used to alleviate the effects of refrigerant maldistribution, enhance heat exchanger performance, prevent compressor... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080105402 - Combined thermal protection and surface temperature control system: The invention relates to a combined thermal protection and surface temperature control apparatus. In one embodiment, a combined thermal protection and surface temperature control apparatus comprises a porous member having an entrance side, and a separate exit side. One or more coolant entrance channels extend through the entrance side, extend... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080105403 - Pressurized vapor cycle liquid distillation: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a novel pressurized vapor cycle for distilling liquids. In some embodiments of the invention, a liquid purification system is revealed, including the elements of an input for receiving untreated liquid, a vaporizer coupled to the input for transforming the liquid to vapor, a... Agent: Michelle Saquet Temple

20080105404 - Heat dissipating system having a heat dissipating cavity body: A heat dissipating system includes a heat dissipating cavity body defining a receiving space and having a bottom wall adapted to contact a heat source, a working fluid disposed in the receiving space and adapted to absorb heat generated by the heat source, and a heat exchange unit for exchanging... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080105405 - Heat pipe multilayer capillary wick support structure: A heat pipe multilayer capillary wick support structure includes a hollow pipe body, a first capillary wick and a second capillary wick in the pipe body, and an auxiliary transmission structure attached between the first and second capillary wicks; wherein the auxiliary transmission structure is composed of a plurality of... Agent: Hdsl

20080105406 - Heat pipe with variable grooved-wick structure and method for manufacturing the same: A heat pipe (10) includes a casing (11), a plurality of grooves (12, 13) defined in the casing, and working fluid contained in the casing. The casing includes a first portion (14) and a second portion (15) having a smaller diameter than the first portion. The grooves (12) at the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080105407 - Integrated heat dissipating assembly: An integrated heat dissipating assembly includes two heat sinks, a heat dissipating fan mounted between the two sinks and a body provided below the two heat sinks and the heat dissipating fan. The body is composed of a hollow body, a pump received inside the hollow body and a base... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20080105412 - Continuous cooling capacity regulation using supplemental heating: A method of providing variable cooling includes operating a cooling element to cool an air flow by a first cooling capacity, operating a heating element to heat the air flow by a first heating capacity that adjusts the first cooling capacity towards a first desired total cooling capacity, determining a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080105410 - Heat dissipation apparatus: A heat dissipation apparatus (10) includes a heat-dissipating fan (14) and a fin assembly (12). The heat-dissipating fan includes a casing (141) and a plurality of blades (142) rotatably received in the casing. The casing defines an air outlet (148) through which an airflow generated by the blades flows. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080105409 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipes: A heat dissipation device includes a base for absorbing heat from a heat generating device and a first fin set disposed on the base. Two second fin sets are located on two sides of the first fin set and extend beyond the base. At least a heat pipe includes a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080105411 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipes: A heat dissipation device includes a first base plate (10), a fin group (30) arranged on the first base plate, a first heat pipe (50) attached on the first base plate and the fin group and a second heat pipe (60) attached on the first base plate and extending across... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080105408 - Heat-pipe type heat sink: A heat-pipe type heat sink (100) includes a plurality of fins (10), at least a heat pipe (20) extending through the fins, and soldering material (40) disposed between the heat pipe and the fins. Each of the fins defines therein a through hole (12) and a cutout (13) adjacent to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080105413 - Manufacturing method of water block: A porous microchannel structure adopts a first casing and a second casing to form a water block. Water inlet and outlet pipes are extended from both ends of the first casing respectively. The second casing has a porous microchannel structure made by sintering a heat conducting powder and formed on... Agent: Hdsl

20080105414 - Low-temperature coolant cooler: The invention relates to a low-temperature coolant cooler, for the indirect charge-air cooling on an internal combustion engine, with a number of flat tubes, through which 700 to 1,800 litres per hour of coolant flow during operation, which open out in coolant collectors (4,8) and air guide devices, in particular,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080105415 - Chamber for holding a fluid for a heat exchanger, heat exchanger, more particularly for a heat exchange unit, and a heat exchange unit, in particular in the form of a monoblock: The invention relates to a chamber (110) for holding a fluid for a heat exchanger, comprising a base (111) with one or more receiving openings (113) for pipes. The one or more openings (113) is or are arranged substantially in a pipe-base plane. The chamber (110) also has a cover... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080105416 - Cooling heat exchanger: A cooling heat exchanger has first and second heat transfer plates joined to each other. Each of the first and second heat transfer plates has protrusions protruding from a base portion thereof for defining internal fluid passages, a fin portion projecting from the base portion in the same direction as... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080105417 - Reverse flow parallel thermal transfer unit: A parallel flow thermal transfer unit is disclosed having high efficiency and a constant gradient along the length of the flow. The thermal transfer unit includes flow control elements within the path of the flow to produce desired flow characteristics.... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080105418 - Heat exchange element and heat exchange ventilator including the same: A heat exchange element in which heat is exchanged between two flows respectively passing through spaces 4 and 5 for air supply and exhaust, partitioned with a plurality of members 2 and 3. The members 2 and 3 are bonded with a bonding agent which contains a volatile organic compound... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080105419 - Heat exchanger: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger, which restricts a gap between a tube insertion hole formed on a header pipe for allowing both ends of a tube to inserted and combined thereto and the tube within a proper range, thereby making the manufacturing of the header pipes and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080105420 - Parallel flow heat exchanger with crimped channel entrance: A parallel flow (minichannel or microchannel) evaporator includes channels which are crimped at or adjacent to their entrance location which provides for a refrigerant expansion and pressure drop control resulting in the elimination of refrigerant maldistribution in the evaporator and prevention of potential compressor flooding. Progressive crimping to counter-balance factors... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080105421 - Heat exchanger and process for devolatilizing polymer using same: Disclosed is a process for devolatilizing a polymer comprising passing the polymer through a devolatizer comprising a plate heat exchanger wherein the plates of the plate heat exchanger are heated by a plurality of heating tubes and wherein the heating tube comprises a return tube nested inside of a supply... Agent: Fina Technology Inc

20080099181 - Method to cool a bake plate using an actively chilled transfer shuttle: A method of performing a temperature set point change for a bake plate of a track lithography tool includes positioning a cooling surface of an actively chilled transfer shuttle adjacent a process surface of the bake plate. The actively chilled transfer shuttle includes the cooling surface and a transfer surface... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080099182 - Self-heating or self-cooling containers: A self-heating or self-cooling container for food or drink comprises inner and outer vessels defining a reaction cell between their mutually facing walls is provided. The reaction cell is divided into first and second chambers by a rupturable membrane. A liquid chemical reagent is filled into the second chamber which... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080099183 - Aluminum clad steel composite for heat exchanger tubes and manifolds: A brazable composite metal material for a heat exchanger tube or manifold, a method of making the tube or manifold, and a heat exchanger made therefrom. The composite metal suitable for making the heat exchanger tube or manifold has one of an aluminized carbon steel, galvanized carbon steel, or steel... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080099184 - Heater core and air conditioner for an automomile equipped with same: The amount of cooling water supplied to an automobile air conditioner heater core is adjusted based on a user set temperature. The heater core has two tanks spaced from each other by a predetermined distance. Cooling water is introduced and discharged into the first or second tank via inlet and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080099186 - Flexible heat pipe: A flexible heat pipe (10) includes a casing (12), a wick structure (20) arranged in the casing, and a working medium saturated in the wick structure. The casing includes an evaporation section (122), a condensation section (126), and a flexible adiabatic section (124) connecting the evaporation section with the condensation... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang J

20080099185 - Method and equipment for heat recovery: The present invention relates to a method and equipment for recovering heat from exhaust gas removed from an industrial process, such as an electrolysis process for the production of aluminium. Heat is recovered by means of an extraction/suction system, where the exhaust gas contains dust and/or particles. The heat is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080099187 - Method and apparatus for absorbing thermal energy: The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for storing thermal energy. The subject thermal energy storage apparatus can function as a heat absorber in a cooling system. A cooling system can incorporate a cooling cycle that utilizes thermal energy storage and has two coolant loops. The primary cooling... Agent: James S. Parker Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik

20080099188 - Perforated heat pipes: This invention enables broad commercial use of heat pipe technology in designs ranging from traditional outdoor apparel to high-end sport garments and special tasks garments. Heat pipes of popular mesh or velvet patterns provides integrated heat sink functionality that decreases weight, size and cost of thermal designs. Products of the... Agent: Igor V Touzov

20080099189 - Self-pumped cooling device: A vapor conduit having a first cross sectional area is connected to an evaporator for refrigerant exiting the evaporator. The evaporator is connected to a reservoir by a filling conduit having a second cross sectional area. A first liquid plug is disposed in the vapor conduit and a second liquid... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080099190 - Heat transfer methods using heat transfer compositions containing trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene: Disclosed are methods of transferring heat to or from a fluid or body comprising causing heat to be transferred to or from a composition comprising at least trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluorpropene.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080099191 - Parallel flow heat exchangers incorporating porous inserts: A parallel flow (minichannel or microchannel) evaporator includes a porous member inserted at the entrance of the evaporator channels which provides refrigerant expansion and pressure drop controls resulting in the elimination of refrigerant maldistribution and prevention of potential compressor flooding.... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080099192 - Rotating mechanism for solid-solid direct-heating reaction disc: The present invention discloses a rotating mechanism for rotationally driving a solid-solid direct-heating reaction disc, comprising a fixed hollow shaft, a rotating sleeve assembly and a signal commutator, wherein the fixed hollow shaft is -fixed, the rotating sleeve assembly rotatably surrounds the fixed hollow shaft, the reaction disc is supported... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080099193 - Self-regulated cooling mechanism: Regulating the temperature of a heat-generating device within a desired range using shape memory materials disposed on a heat sink. According to one embodiment, cooling fins are placed upon a heat-generating device. Fluid flows through the cooling fins to remove heat from the device. A shape memory material is placed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele