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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189324 | Power electronic assembly with slotted heatsink A power electronic assembly includes a pair of thermally and electrically conductive plates, and semiconductor switching elements positioned between contact surfaces of the pair of conductive plates. A first of the semiconductor switching elements is positioned at a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8081423 | Electrical installation having a container An electrical installation has a container which encloses high-voltage components. The electrical installation can be fitted inexpensively and quickly, and at the same time provide sufficient cooling of the high-voltage components. A control room with control elemen... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7852617 | Main circuit terminal assembly for vacuum circuit breaker The present invention is to provide a main circuit terminal assembly for a vacuum circuit breaker, which can prevent temperature increase by increasing a surface area of a main circuit conductive unit, the main circuit terminal assembly for a vacuum circuit breaker ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7773369 | Cooling arrangement for electrical components arranged in a housing of a soft starter, and a soft starter A cooling arrangement is disclosed for electrical components which are arranged in a housing of a soft starter which in particular may be designed for operation of an electric motor. In at least one embodiment, the cooling arrangement includes at least one fan arran... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7586738 | Chimney assembly, and electrical switching apparatus and electrical enclosure employing same A chimney assembly is provided for an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker including a housing and a number of poles. The chimney assembly includes a frame, an intake, a duct and an exhaust. A first side of the frame is coupled to the circuit br... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7432819 | Apparatus for continuous cooling of electrical powered equipment A fluidic cooling assembly for removing heat from electrical equipment includes operational diversity features in which multiple fluid moving devices are mounted in a single housing. The assembly may include a first fluid baffle and a second fluid baffle disposed wi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432441 | Assembly of modularized housing and door cover An assembly of modularized housing and door cover includes a modularized housing; a door cover having a upper part thereof formed with at least one sleeve for putting around the axial pin, and a main body thereof formed with a plurality of ventilation openings; a fi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430120 | Induction lighting system An improved induction lighting system is presented where the electronic power supply device powering the induction lamp is insulated and an extensive set of heat sink fins is provided to control the temperature of the power supply. Reduction of power supply device t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427566 | Method of making an electronic device cooling system A method is provided. The method includes forming a conductive layer on an inner surface of a substrate and providing a sacrificial layer over the conductive layer. The method includes forming a plurality of channels in the sacrificial layer and plating the sacrific... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7404298 | Refrigerator Refrigerator including a body forming an outer appearance of the refrigerator, a terminal detachably mounted on the body for controlling the refrigerator, a power supply device at one side of the body, for receiving power from an outside of the refrigerator, convert... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397653 | Inverter design An inverter component layout and mounting bracket are disclosed which allow for electrical components, or the inverter as a whole to be replaced easily in the field. The disclosed mounting bracket and component layout also improve the heat rejection properties of th... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7356386 | Method for reducing instantaneous current on startup A method for reducing instantaneous current on startup is applicable to an electronic device with a management controller. The management controller is electrically connected to a startup processing module of the electronic device such that operations of fans equipp... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352147 | Power supply to provide operation power for cooling fans A power supply to provide operation power for cooling fans includes a non-stop power system to provide DC power in normal conditions to a remote switch control circuit to set a computer in an ON or OFF condition. The non-stop power system also outputs the DC power t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336477 | Electrical switching apparatus and heat sink therefor A heat sink is for an integrally fused low-voltage power air circuit breaker including a line terminal and electrical bus work coupled to a current limiter. The line terminal, electrical bus work, and current limiter contribute to the formation of a thermal dam. The... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336491 | Heat sink A heat dissipation device for electrical components includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface is configured for mounting the electrical components thereon, wherein the components are mounted to the outer surface to allow the transfer of heat ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7301755 | Architecture for power modules such as power inverters Power converters such as power modules configured as inverters employ modularized approaches. In some aspects, semiconductor devices are thermally coupled directly to thermally conductive substrates without intervening dielectric or insulative structures. Additional... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301766 | Transmission device capable of cooling a handheld electronic device A transmission device of a handheld electronic device including a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a fan installed within the housing for generating airflow from the inlet to the outlet and a guide tube installed on the housing having a first opening and a sec... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286339 | Combination service entrance apparatus for temporary and permanent use An underground combination service entrance apparatus for temporary and permanent service comprising two enclosures. A utility enclosure contains a meter socket and the second enclosure contains a breaker panel. The breaker panel on the customer side and the meter o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285851 | Liquid immersion cooled multichip module In one embodiment, a liquid immersion cooled multichip module is provided which includes a substrate having chips mounted thereon and which is adapted to mount with a printed circuit board. A lid is adapted to secure to the printed circuit board so as to mount with ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274106 | Packaged electroosmotic pumps using porous frits for cooling integrated circuits An integrated electroosmotic pump may be incorporated in the same integrated circuit package with a re-combiner, and an integrated circuit chip to be cooled by fluid pumped by the electroosmotic pump. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272003 | Encapsulated switching devices having heat emission elements The invention relates to an improvement to the thermal load capacity of generator switches (20, 21, 22). As is known, radiation plates (5, 50, 51, 52) are used between generator switches (20, 21, 22) for different phases (R, Y, B) for convective... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255640 | Cable and air management adapter system for enclosures housing electronic equipment The present invention provides a cable-air management adapter system (“CAMAS”) that addresses airflow, heat buildup and cable routing concerns in enclosures that house electronic equipment. The CAMAS allows users to work from a single frame to increase an enclos... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253356 | Waterproof structure of junction box A waterproof housing of a junction box has at least one vent piece penetrating through a wall of the housing for ventilation of the junction box. The vent piece has an inner wall formed with a baffle projection to prevent invasion of a splashing water. The waterproo... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252167 | Electrical apparatus, cooling system therefor, and electric vehicle An inverter apparatus includes a liquid path in which cooling water flows, and in which the cooling water performs cooling at a cooling part located directly underneath the power circuit part of the inverter apparatus. The liquid path includes a first partial struct... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253379 | High voltage circuit breaker with cooling In order to dissipate heat losses from the inner conductor (21), the circuit breaker (20) having an elongated inner conductor (21) and an outer conductor (22) which surrounds the inner conductor (21) like a housing has at least one... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247276 | Micro-reactor for reactions between gases and liquids Described herein is a microreactor for carrying out chemical reactions between a reaction partner in liquid form and a reaction partner in gaseous form, if necessary in the presence of a solid catalyst, whereby the chemical process guidance takes place in spaces tha... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241423 | Enhancing fluid flow in a stacked plate microreactor A stacked plate chemical reactor in which simple plates are stacked together to form the reactor. When openings in adjacent plates are properly aligned, fluid pathways and processing volumes are defined for chemical reactants, heat transfer medium, and a product. In... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238881 | Controlled height and flow rework nozzle An improved rework nozzle includes an open housing which when lowered onto the surface of a board forms a closed cavity. The housing includes venting means which expend air that is input to the cavity, thereby using flow through concepts to maintain a uniform temper... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239502 | Meter center and multi-phase multiple meter socket assembly therefor A multi-phase multiple meter socket assembly is for a meter center including a plurality of meters. The meter socket assembly includes meter sockets each receiving one of said meters, feeder buses, supply buses, and a plurality of phase connectors. Each of the suppl... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236352 | Arc resistant switchgear having dedicated vertical plenums An arc resistant switchgear assembly is provided having a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first side wall, and a second side wall opposed to the first side wall and spaced a first distance from the first side wall, with each of the fir... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227754 | Fluid cooling for iron core and winding packs A power choke or transformer has an iron core, windings, and a cooling apparatus having a heat exchanger with a heat absorber and a cooling fluid duct operationally connected to the heat absorber, wherein the iron core is operationally connected to the heat absorber... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212407 | Electrical power converter method and system employing multiple output converters A support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support, in conjunction with other packaging features may form a shield from both external EMI/RFI ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7182233 | Universal platform system for holding accessories on the roof of a wheeled vehicle A roof rack system that is a platform for any roof mounted products. Examples of such products include bikes, skis, snow boards, kayaks, canoes, or storage compartments or baskets. This system will fit any vehicle, any make, any model, any year, with a single stock ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7149086 | Systems to cool multiple electrical components According to some embodiments, a cooling device may comprise first and second contact surfaces to transfer heat to a cooling medium. The cooling device may further comprise, in some embodiments, a first electrical component coupled to transmit heat to the first cont... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140702 | Medium voltage motor control center arc resistant enclosure A medium voltage controller for electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers, reactors, and capacitors, having an arc resistant cabinet, swaged internal electrical connections, a one-piece self-aligning withdrawable finger cluster, a pull-out instrument compar... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137015 | Switching power supply having cooling fan cooling down system after power turned off Provided with a switching power supply including a built-in chip set so as to control a built cooling fan and or an ambient cooling fan to operate even after the computer system is shut down. As such, the heat built-up within the computer system can be effectively d... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129808 | Core cooling for electrical components A cooling system is provided for electrical components in which cooling assemblies (11, 45) are inserted in non-magnetic cores of the electrical components, and in which tubes provide both inflow and outflow of a cooling medium. The non-magnetic cores may be ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129501 | Radiation detector system having heat pipe based cooling A radiation detector system having a heat pipe based cooling. The radiation detector system includes a radiation detector thermally coupled to a thermo electric cooler (TEC). The TEC cools down the radiation detector, whereby heat is generated by the TEC. A heat rem... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113399 | Cooling device for electronic element producing concentrated heat and electronic device A cooling device is applied to cooling an electronic element producing concentrated heat in a case where the electronic element is housed in a portable electronic device such as a notebook PC. The cooling device is provided with an active heat transport element prov... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7109413 | Inlet with heat-isolation element An inlet with a heat-isolation element to be disposed in an opening of an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The inlet comprises a conductive terminal disposed on one surface thereof and a connecting element having one end connecting to the conductive terminal and t... | 09/19/2006 |
