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Fluid temperature control device

Patent Number: 8109328
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Takechi, Hiroaki

A fluid temperature control device, which is particularly suitably applied to the temperature control of a processing liquid in a semiconductor device manufacturing process, capable of performing quickly and precisely the temperature control of a temperature-controlled fluid, and the device can also be made as small as possible. This fluid temperature control device includes a body block having flow passage grooves formed therein; heat transfer plates which are disposed on surfaces of the ...

Temperature control system having heat exchange modules with indirect expansion cooling and in-tube electric heating

Patent Number: 8109327
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Hegar, Michal; Sulc, Vladimir; Srichai, Panayu Robert

A temperature control system for a container includes a refrigeration circuit having a primary fluid circulating therein and a secondary fluid circuit in communication with a first compartment of the container and a second compartment of the container. The secondary fluid circuit has a secondary fluid separate from the primary fluid circulating therein. The secondary fluid circuit includes a first heat exchange module in communication with an interior load space of the first compartment and ...

Heat transfer plate for plate heat exchanger with even load distribution in port regions

Patent Number: 8109326
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Gudmundsson, Thord; Drakarve, Kerstin; Larsson, Hakan

The invention relates to a heat transfer plate (1) intended to constitute, together with other heat transfer plates, a plate stack (2) with permanently connected plates for a heat exchanger (3), which heat transfer plate (1) has a first long side (4) and an opposite second long side (5), a first short side (6) and an opposite second short side (7), a heat transfer surface (8) exhibiting a pattern (9) of ridges (10) ...

Heat transfer system

Patent Number: 8109325
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Wolf, Sr., David A.; Kroliczek, Edward J.; Nikitkin, Michael

A thermodynamic system includes a cyclical heat exchange system and a heat transfer system coupled to the cyclical heat exchange system to cool a portion of the cyclical heat exchange system. The heat transfer system includes an evaporator including a wall configured to be coupled to a portion of the cyclical heat exchange system and a primary wick coupled to the wall and a condenser coupled to the evaporator to form a closed loop that houses a working ...

Microchannel heat exchanger with micro-encapsulated phase change material for high flux cooling

Patent Number: 8109324
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Farid, Mohammed Mehdi; Al-Hallaj, Said

A microchannel cooler containing a slurry having a particulate liquid/solid phase change material is provided balancing the interdependent factors of microencapsulated particle size with microchannel size and shape and flow conditions for the removal of high heat flux with low space and low power ...

Heat dissipation device having a clip

Patent Number: 8109323
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Lian, Zhi-Sheng; Deng, Gen-Ping; Chen, Chun-Chi

A heat dissipation device removing heat from a heat generating electronic device on a printed circuit board includes a base, a plurality of fins attached to the base and a clip for mounting the base and the fins onto the heat generating electronic device. Each of the fins defines a closed through hole therein. The holes of the fins cooperatively define a channel. The clip includes a locking beam extending through the channel of the fins and two fasteners engaging the locking beam mounting ...

Heat plate type cooler module

Patent Number: 8109322
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Huang, Tsung-Hsien

A heat plate type cooler module includes a heat plate, which is formed of a bottom cover plate and a top cover plate and having a working fluid filled in a vacuum chamber between the top cover plate and the bottom cover plate; heat pipes each having a cold end and a top end; a locating plate covered on the heat plate to hold the hot end of each heat pipe in contact with the heat plate; and radiation fins fastened to the cold ends of the heat pipe by ...

Modular heat sink assembly comprising a larger main heat sink member thermally connected to smaller additional floating heat sink members

Patent Number: 8109321
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Mira, Ali; Alousi, Sinan; Anav, Daniel; Griffin, Joseph D.; Mira, Michael; Schrader, Henry

A modular heat sink assembly is disclosed. The heat sink assembly includes a main (larger) heat sink member having one or more voids through the member. The heat sink assembly also includes one or more additional (smaller) heat sink members that fit within the voids of the main heat sink member and are able to move (float) within the voids while thermally connected to main heat sink member. The thermal connection to the main heat sink member may be accomplished by incorporating heat pipes ...

Spray nozzle apparatus and method of use

Patent Number: 8104533
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Rini, Daniel P.; Anderson, H. Randolph; Zhao, Guochang

The subject invention pertains to a spray nozzle apparatus and method of use. The subject spray nozzle can be used to spray atomized fluid. The atomized fluid can then be incident on a heated surface such that heat is transferred from the heated surface to the atomized fluid. The subject invention also relates to a spray-cooling system and method of use. The subject spray-cooling system can incorporate a spray nozzle and a heat transfer plate. A device to be cooled, such as a laser diode, ...

Shower heat exchanger with clog-removable drain

Patent Number: 8104532
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventor: Cardone, Jeremiah

A heat exchanger placed underneath an elevated tub or shower stall or under the bathroom floor includes a flat top heat conductive plate. The top plate is fastened to a flat lower plate, having a serpentine pattern with a shallow depth embedded into the top surface. When the top plate is fastened and sealed to the lower plate, the flow of the incoming cold water is contained within the confines of the serpentine lower plate of the heat exchanger. Heat is transferred from the grey waste ...

Stacked plate heat exchanger including a device for evaluating the extent to which it has become coated in scale

Patent Number: 8104531
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Clement, Patrice; Tochon, Patrice; Ladevie, Bruno

A plate-type heat exchanger including a plurality of stacked plates and a device for evaluating the extent to which the fluid circuit(s) have become coated in scale, whereby the evaluating device has an electrical resistor which is thermally connected to a plate located at the end of the stack while measuring the temperature in the immediate vicinity of the ...

Method of producing incontinence articles in the form of pants

Patent Number: 8100173
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Ostertag, Wolfgang; Wenzel, Benjamin; Hornung, Fridmann

A continuous method for producing incontinence articles in the form of pants for receiving body excrements utilizes crotch sections comprising absorbent bodies and having leg cut-outs formed by a first contour cut. Two partial webs are joined to the crotch sections in such a fashion that one end of the crotch sections overlaps one partial web in a longitudinal direction transversely to the machine direction, and the other end thereof overlaps the other partial web, and the crotch sections ...

Installation adapted with temperature equalization system

Patent Number: 8100172
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Yang, Tai-Her

A temperature equalization system comprised of heat equalizer and fluid transmission duct disposed in a heat carrier existing in solid or liquid state in the nature where presents comparatively larger and more reliable heat carrying capacity; the fluid passes through the installation to regulate for temperature equalization, and flows back to the installation disposed in the natural carrier of heat for the installation providing good heat conduction with the natural heat carrier to provide ...

Heat-exchanger sealing

Patent Number: 8100171
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Zebuhr, William H.

A distiller's counterflow-heat-exchanger module includes thermally conductive distillate and concentrate dividers across which heat flows to an influent liquid from distillate and concentrate liquids, respectively. The distillate divider's shape is convoluted in such a manner as to form alternating distillate and influent channels having end openings. A peripheral gasket is so over-molded onto the distillate divider that it forms plugs that seal the end openings from each other and further ...

Evaporator, loop heat pipe module and heat generating apparatus

Patent Number: 8100170
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Sun, Fu-Sheng; Huang, Bin-Juine; Huang, Huan-Hsiang; Lian, Yi-Hai

An evaporator suitable for absorbing heat from a heat source is provided. The evaporator includes a top board, a bottom board, a side frame, and at least one porous member. The side frame connects the top board and the bottom board. The porous member is disposed between the top board and the bottom board and within the side frame. The part of the top board covering the porous member is a heat conducting portion near the heat source. The evaporator has at least one first channel, at least ...

Spray nozzle apparatus and method of use

Patent Number: 8100169
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Rini, Daniel P.; Anderson, H. Randolph; Zhao, Guochang

Device for reheating the water of the windscreen washers of a motor vehicle

Patent Number: 8100168
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Jeuffe, Gerard

The invention relates to a device for reheating the water of the windscreen washers of a motor vehicle comprising, in the engine compartment thereof, a degassing box (1) forming part of the engine cooling system, and at least one tank (3) for pressurised washing water, said tank being associated with a circulation pump which pumps water therefrom and supplies said water to nozzles for spraying the same over the windscreens. The inventive device is characterised in that the ...

Method and a device for detecting an abnormality of a heat exchanger, and the use of such a device

Patent Number: 8100167
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Bendtsen, Christian; Thybo, Claus

A method and a device for detecting an abnormality of a heat exchanger exchanging heat between a first fluid flow flowing in a conduit and a second fluid flow flowing along a flow path, said conduit and said flow path each having an inlet and an outlet, whereby the method comprises the steps of establishing at least one parameter representative of the temperature conditions of the heat exchanger, establishing a second fluid inlet temperature, establishing a parameter indicative of expected ...

Heat exchanger, method of manufacturing heat exchanger, liquid cooling system, light source device, projector, electronic device unit, and electronic equipment

Patent Number: 8096348
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Takagi, Kunihiko; Egawa, Akira

A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger having a plurality of fine flow channels includes forming a plurality of thin plate members into a predetermined shape, and laminating the plurality of thin plate members and bonding by diffusion ...

Pivotable heat exchanger mounting

Patent Number: 8096347
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: Starkey, William P.; Oldland, Timothy; Richard, Todd

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 which the cooler assembly is inclined relative to the radiator. The cooler assembly is pivotable about a pivot in the upper linkage that is itself movable relative to the radiator. The lower linkage ...