Heat exchange inventions 11/08

20080289793 - Thermal energy storage systems and methods: A thermal energy storage apparatus is disclosed. The thermal energy storage apparatus has a phase change medium, an inner header having at least one inner feed port, and an outer header having at least one outer feed port and fluidically coupled to the inner header. The inner header and the... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080289794 - Vehicle cooling assembly having a protective screen: An air permeable protective camouflage screen is mounted in front of the air-intake side of a vehicle heat exchanger. The screen includes substantially horizontal and vertical intersecting walls, forming a plurality of apertures. The screen has at least two zones with apertures of different shapes for controlling air flow through... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080289795 - Geothermal heat exchanger: A pipe for use in a geothermal heat exchange system is disclosed that is insertable into a bore hole having a proximal end and a distal end. The pipe has a proximal end, a distal end and an outer wall member. The outer wall member includes an external surface, and... Agent: Indiano Vaughan LLP

20080289796 - Cooling module: A cooling module includes a heat exchanger, a blower, a fan shroud and an air cleaner unit for filtering air to be introduced into an engine of a vehicle. The fan shroud holds the blower on a downstream side of the heat exchanger with respect to a flow of air... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080289797 - Heat dissipation device having cap for protecting thermal interface material thereon: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink having a base with thermal interface material thereon and a protective cap covering the base. The protective cap includes a body shielding the thermal interface material and sidewalls extending from the body and engaging with a periphery of the base of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080289799 - Heat dissipation device with a heat pipe: A heat dissipation device includes a plurality of first fins and second fins, a flattened heat pipe and a base plate. The first fins include a first face at a bottom thereof. The second fins are sandwiched between the first fins and have a second face at a bottom thereof.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080289798 - Heat dissipation device with heat pipes: A heat dissipation device adapted for dissipating heat from a heat-generating device includes a heat pipe assembly and a fin set. The heat pipe assembly is adapted for absorbing heat from the heat-generating device, and includes a plurality of bending heat pipes each having a top face and a bottom... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080289800 - Liquid galley refrigeration system for aircraft: The liquid galley refrigeration system for cooling food carts for aircraft employs an intermediate working fluid to transfer heat from one or more food carts to one or more remote chillers, allowing the carts and chillers to be advantageously distributed in the aircraft. A plurality of heat exchanges effect a... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080289801 - Modular thermal management system for spacecraft: A composite panel provides structural strength and rigidity for modular assembly of spacecraft while serving the dual purposes of structure and heat transfer for thermal management of an environment for equipment, such as a spacecraft. Instruments, gimbals, surveillance, imaging, detectors, and the like may be mounted in a spacecraft designed... Agent: Utah State University Technology Commercialization Office

20080289803 - Cooling apparatus: A cooling apparatus is for dissipating heat from an electronic device. The cooling apparatus includes a casing, an impeller, and a motor. The casing is for absorbing the heat and allowing coolant to flow therein. The impeller is received in the casing. The motor is received in the casing, and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080289802 - Radiator and cooling system: A radiator includes an inlet line and an outlet line for a coolant to be cooled, and a plurality of flow passage units each being connected to the inlet and outlet lines respectively in parallel with adjacent flow passages with a space therebetween. Due to this configuration, it is possible... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080289804 - Heat exchanger, method for the production of a heat exchanger: Disclosed is a heat exchanger, especially an exhaust gas heat exchanger, comprising a housing (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 702, 801, 901, 1101, 1401, 1501, 1901, 2001, 2101, 2201) which can be penetrated by at least one first medium (M1) and at least one second medium (M2), and at... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080289805 - Plate type heat exchanger for a isothermal chemical reactor: Plate type heat exchanger (20,120) for a isothermal chemical reactor (60), of the type comprising a substantially box-shaped flattened body (22), defining an internal chamber (24) and equipped with an inlet connection (28) and an outlet connection (29) for a first flow of a heat exchanger operative fluid into and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080289806 - Heat exchanger with perforated plate in header: A heat exchanger includes an inlet header, an outlet header and a plurality of flat, multi-channel heat exchange tubes extending therebetween. A longitudinally extending member divides the interior of the header into a first chamber on one side thereof for receiving a fluid and a second chamber on the other... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080289807 - Metal collecting tank for a heat exchanger, especially for motor vehicles: The invention relates to a metal collecting tank (1) for a heat exchanger, especially for motor vehicles. Said collecting tank is produced by non-cutting shaping from a steel sheet blank, preferably an aluminum sheet, and the collecting tank (1) comprises two approximately parallel sidewalls (1c, 1d) and narrow walls each... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080289808 - Heat exchanger core tube for increased core thickness: A heat exchanger core tube having a body with at least one internal fluid passage and having at least one end adapted such that an effective height results that is less than or equal to the inside diameter of a manifold and can allow the body of the core tube... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080289809 - Heat exchanger and fabrication method thereof: A heat exchanger having an aluminum main body is provided. The aluminum main body has heat exchange medium passages that allow the heat exchange medium to circulate, and fins for heat exchange extending outwards from the surface thereof. A method of fabricating the heat exchanger is also provided. The aluminum... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080289810 - Thermal diffusion sheet and method for positioning thermal diffusion sheet: A thermal diffusion sheet is provided with a graphite sheet for diffusing heat generated by a heat emitting body and a polymer film provided on the graphite sheet. The thermal diffusion sheet is provided with a positioning portion for carrying out positioning relative to the heat emitting body.... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080289811 - Constant temperature controller: Cool fluid of a predetermined temperature is supplied to a three-way valve 20 of a sub unit 2 from a cooling side tank 43 of a main unit 1 of a controller, through a supply pipe 14. Hot fluid of a predetermined temperature is supplied to the three-way valve 20... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080283214 - Heat exchanger mounting: A cooler block for an agricultural tractor comprising a cooler assembly mounted on a radiator and coupled to the radiator by upper and lower linkages. The cooler assembly can be moved between a first position in which the cooler assembly lies parallel to the radiator and a second position in... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20080283215 - Vehicle air conditioning device: A vehicle air conditioning device having first and second fans for forcing air through a heat exchanger, and a fan controller for controlling an operation of the first and second fans. On receiving a signal indicating that the shutter is closed, the fan controller controls the first and second fans... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080283216 - Cooling device: The present invention relates to a cooling structure for motor of fan, which includes a housing, an impeller and a circuit board. The housing has an air flow channel and a base; the base is located on one side of the air flow channel to support the circuit board, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080283217 - Stackable energy transfer core spacer: A stackable spacer element for use in a energy recovery core formed by stacking a plurality of relatively thin energy transfer media (e.g. sheets, panels, or plates (un-perforated exchanger sheets) so as to define a plurality of stacked energy transfer stages providing air passages for two separate air flows.... Agent: Ronald S. Kosie Bcf LLP

20080283218 - Liquid cooling system: In some embodiments, a cooling device may be mounted to a portion of a chassis of an electronic system, wherein the cooling device may be releasably and pivotably attached to the chassis in at least an open position to permit access to components within the electronic system and a closed... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080283219 - Methods and apparatus for multiple temperature levels: Methods and apparatus for thermal management according to various aspects of the present invention comprise a heat exchanger and one or more controllable thermal transfer elements. In one embodiment, the thermal transfer elements comprise thermoelectric coolers. The thermal transfer elements are thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. Components on a... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080283220 - Machine having self-cleaning cooling system and method: A machine includes a heat exchanger for an engine having a heat exchanger core and a filtration system. The filtration system includes a flexible filter sheet coupled with at least one take-up roller and a filter cleaner adapted to clean the filter via compressed air. A method of operating a... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080283221 - Direct air contact liquid cooling system heat exchanger assembly: A compact heat exchanger assembly for use in hybrid liquid-air cooling system adapted to provide a liquid cooling mechanism for components or adapter boards in a personal computer system. The heat exchanger assembly consists of a heat exchanger chamber, though which the thermal transfer liquid flows. An air pump injects... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080283223 - Heat dissipation system with a plate evaporator: A heat dissipation system is provided. The heat dissipation system includes: an evaporator having a plate chamber with the wick structures which has a plurality of pore sizes arranged in the plate chamber, a condenser, a vapor line, and a liquid line. The two-phase circulation of the vapor-condensate in the... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP 2099 Gateway Place

20080283222 - Heat spreader with vapor chamber and heat dissipation apparatus using the same: A heat dissipation apparatus includes a heat sink (30) and a heat spreader (10). The heat spreader includes a heating area (11) and a cooling area (13), and defines a vapor chamber (16) therein. A plurality of artery meshes (151) are arranged in the vapor chamber and extend from the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080283224 - Water-cooling heat-dissipating system: A water-cooling heat-dissipating system for facilitating a heat-dissipating action with a heat-generating element includes a water block and a heat exchanger. The above-mentioned components are in fluid communication with one another via a plurality of conduits. The water block is attached on the heat-generating element to absorb the heat generated... Agent: Hdsl

20080283225 - Water-cooling heat-dissipating system: A water-cooling heat-dissipating system for facilitating a heat-dissipating action with a heat-generating element includes a water block, a membrane pump, a water tank and a heat exchanger. The above-mentioned components are in fluid communication with one another via a plurality of conduits. The water block is attached on the heat-generating... Agent: Hdsl

20080283226 - Method and cooler for cooling hot particulate material: Described is method as well as a cooler (1) for cooling hot particulate material which has been the subject of heat treatment in an industrial furnace, such as a rotary kiln (3) for manufacturing cement clinker, by which method the hot material from the kiln (3) is directed to an... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20080283227 - Oil cooler fitting assembly: A fitting assembly for connecting an oil cooler assembly to a radiator assembly in a vehicle cooling system includes a radiator having an inlet header tank with an outer wall. The outer wall includes an inlet cooler opening and an outlet cooler opening disposed in the outer wall. The inlet... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080283228 - Aluminum alloy with high seawater corrosion resistance and plate-fin heat exchanger: An aluminum alloy for use in a plate-fin heat exchanger having a heat transfer portion with seawater as a coolant includes an organic phosphonic acid underlying coating disposed on the surface of the aluminum alloy and a fluorocarbon resin coating disposed on the organic phosphonic acid underlying coating, the fluorocarbon... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080283229 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger comprises outer fins; a plurality of tubes arranged alternately with the outer fins; and header tanks receiving open ends of the tubes for communication with the tubes. The header tanks each comprise a first member and a second member which are combined to each other. The first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080283230 - Heat exchanger: A heat exchanger includes a vertical pressure vessel having a air-tight structure, one and another sets of fluid inlet/outlet ports provided to upper and lower portion of the vertical pressure vessel, respectively, and a heat exchanging module disposed in the pressure vessel to a portion between both sets of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080283232 - Heat exchanger: The invention relates to a heat exchanger with at least two plate-shaped flow ducts which are in parallel to one another and at a distance from one another and have a flow connection through at least one connecting duct (8) which spans the distance. It is proposed that the at... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080283231 - Plate heat exchanger: A plate heat exchanger includes a number of first heat exchanger plates (A) and second heat exchanger plates (B). The plates include a first plate interspace (1) between each pair of adjacent plates (A) and (B), and a second plate interspace (2) between each pair of adjacent plates (B) and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080283233 - Coolant tube: A coolant tube with a tube has with a tube jacket formed of a plastic material that exhibits a high diffusion coefficient for gas and that contains at least one electrically conductive additive.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080283234 - Heat sink and method of making same: A heat sink has a heat pipe inside of which a working fluid is filled and which is extended by a predetermined length from a heat source in a heat radiation direction, and a radiation fin having a mountain portion and a valley portion formed in a longitudinal direction of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080283235 - Apparatus and a method for cooling a condenser of an air conditioner: An apparatus for cooling a condenser of an air conditioner comprises a support member, a tube arranged around a condenser of an air conditioner, a spray comprising an inlet coupled with the tube and an outlet arranged so as to spray water onto the condenser, an air deflector being arranged... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080277092 - Water cooling system and heat transfer system: A heat exchanger comprising: a gas transport conduit providing a channel through which a fluid mixture can flow; an outer conduit disposed around the gas transport conduit, the outer conduit having a first cap covering a first end and a second cap covering a second end, the gas transport conduit... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080277093 - Device and method for cooling tool holders comprising shrink fit chucks: The invention relates to a method and a device (20) for cooling tool holders comprising shrink fit chucks, said tool holders beings received in a tool holder seat. The invention provides an especially efficient and above all completely automatable cooling system which allows a successive cooling of a plurality of... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080277094 - Miniature heat-dissipating fan device: A miniature heat-dissipating fan device is disclosed, which comprises: a frame; a shaft, pivotally connected to the frame; at least a planar coil, each being received in the frame and formed in a wave winding manner; at least a permanent magnet, each being connected to the shaft while being positioned... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080277095 - Heat exchanger assembly: A heat exchanger, includes a plurality of MCC microchannel tubes, each microchannel tube of the plurality of microchannel tubes having at least one microchannel fluid passage defined therein and having a chord, the chord being the orthogonal distance from a leading edge to a trailing edge, each microchannel tube of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080277096 - Method for providing an optimum heat exchange within an assemby consisting of a heat-conducting absorbing plate and a heat transfer fluid: The invention relates to a method of optimising heat exchanges between (i) a thermally-conductive absorbent plate (1) which is exposed to thermal radiation and a heat-transfer fluid (3) circulating in at least one thermally-conductive conduit tube (2) that is in thermal contact with the plate (1) and (ii) within the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080277097 - Hot-water supply system having dual pipe: Disclosed is a hot water supplying apparatus which has a dual pipe capable of transferring heat energy of hot water, which is heated by heat of combustion of a burner and flows in pipe of a heat exchanger, to an inner pipe in which cold water is introduced, thereby inhibiting... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080277098 - Supersonic vapor compression and heat rejection cycle: Method and apparatus for cooling a fuel cell stack. The cooling system uses vaporization cooling of the fuel stack and supersonic vapor compression of the vaporized coolant to significantly increase the temperature and pressure of the liquid coolant flowing through a heat exchanger. By increasing the heat rejection temperature of... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080277099 - Evaporator and circulation type cooling equipment using the evaporator: An evaporator includes a hermetically sealed vessel 1A having an inlet 17 and an outlet 16, a refrigerant supply portion 14, in which liquid refrigerant is stored, a heat transfer portion 12, to which the liquid refrigerant stored in the refrigerant supply portion 14 is supplied, heat transfer fins 12A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080277102 - Circulation-type liquid cooling apparatus and electronic device containing same: A cooling apparatus comprises a tank for keeping a coolant liquid therein and having an air layer, a heat receiving element in contact with a heat generating part to receive heat therefrom, a radiator for radiating heat absorbed by a coolant liquid, and a circulating mechanism for circulating the coolant... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080277100 - Heat transfer apparatus of a forced convection type: A forced convection heat transfer apparatus wherein a large quantity of heat can be efficiently transferred even when a temperature difference is small, by transmitting power to a magnet, which is rotatable along a circulation flow path of a magnetic fluid, and obtaining a magnetic fluid circulation speed in proportion... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080277101 - System and method for cooling a battery: A system is provided for cooling an energy storage system of a hybrid electric vehicle. The energy storage system includes at least one energy storage device. The system includes an inlet positioned on the outer surface of the vehicle above the platform. More particularly, the system includes a cooling fluid... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080277104 - Al-aln composite material, related manufacturing method and heat exchanger using such composite material: An Al—AlN composite material, a heat exchanger and a related manufacturing method are disclosed. The Al—AlN composite material aluminum is manufactured by melting aluminum to allow a layer of melted aluminum to flow in an area over one surface of an AlN plate under an inactive gas atmosphere after which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080277103 - Piezoelectric gas ejecting device: A piezoelectric gas jet generator includes a piezoelectric vibrator and upper and lower volume-varying chambers formed above and below the piezoelectric vibrator. In order to effectively use the movement of air supplied with the vibration of the piezoelectric vibrator, plural upper supply pipes and lower supply pipes communicating with the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080277105 - Heat exchanger, in particular exhaust gas heat exchanger for motor vehicles: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular an exhaust gas heat exchanger for motor vehicles, having tubes (3) through which a gas can flow, which are arranged in a housing casing (2) and around which a liquid coolant can flow, wherein the tubes (3) have tube ends which... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080277106 - Heat exchanger: Heat exchanger which mainly consists of a housing with a bottom, an upper wall and side walls, whereby onto two pairs of opposite side walls, the front wall and the back wall respectively, are connected a supply and a discharge for the gas to be cooled, and whereby channels are... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080277107 - Heat dissipating base structure: A heat dissipating base structure includes a base; a plurality of heat dissipating fins disposed on the base and arranged in parallel to each other, each of the heat dissipating fins being formed with at least a first through hole and a second through hole corresponding to the first through... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080271874 - Thermal energy exchanger: A thermal energy exchanger assembly (100) includes an exchanger housing (138). The exchanger housing (138) houses a pair of core support assemblies (174) formed of individual core supports (200). The core supports (200) are coupled together so as to form apertures 228. Core tubes (180) are received within the apertures... Agent: Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP

20080271875 - Re-workable heat sink attachment assembly: A re-workable heat dissipation assembly may include a non-removable adhesive layer. A first interposer layer may be adhered to a device via the non-removable adhesive layer. A removable adhesive layer may be adhered to the first interposer layer. A heat dissipation assembly may be adhered to the removable adhesive layer.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080271876 - Process and apparatus for cooling a metal part during a welding operation: A process and apparatus are provided for cooling an airfoil of a blade during a welding repair operation on the airfoil. At least one polymeric pouch is positioned adjacent a surface of the airfoil, and a coolant fluid is passed through the polymeric pouch during the repair operation on the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080271877 - Apparatus for multi-tube heat exchanger with turbulence promoters: An apparatus is provided employing multi-tube heat exchangers that include turbulence promoters, which are easy to clean, thus maintaining sanitary conditions; prevent catching or trapping of product flowing or pumping through the tubes; and aid in maximizing heating and cooling efficiency of flowable or pumpable product flowing within the apparatus.... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20080271878 - Heat exchanger and method for use in precision cooling systems: An improved precision cooling system for high heat density applications comprises a heat exchanger having more fluid outlet conduits than fluid inlet conduits to optimize the pressure drop across the heat exchanger at a given fluid flow rate. The heat exchanger may be of microchannel or tube fin construction, and... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080271879 - Radiator for a motor vehicle: A radiator for a motor vehicle has a block formed from several parallel tubes, through which flows a coolant, there being provided tubes with at least two different depths. Two or more spaced-apart tubes have a depth greater than a depth of the tubes lying in between and are configured... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080271880 - Coiled heat exchanger having different tube diameters: A coiled heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes which are wound around a core tube is disclosed. The heat exchanger having a casing which delimits an outer space around the tubes, where the tubes of a first tube group have a first inner diameter and a first outer diameter... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080271881 - Automatic switching two pipe hydronic system: Disclosed is an automatic switching two pipe hydronic system for conditioning a space. In one embodiment the two pipe hydronic system enables automatic switching from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation or vice versa in a reduced span of time. The present invention saves fuel,... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex PLLC