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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353861 | Transpiration cooled heat sink and a self contained coolant supply for same A transpiration cooled heat sink, a self contained coolant supply and a method of using a transpiration cooled heat sink and a self contained coolant supply is provided and includes a heat sink base structure, the heat sink base structure having a coolant inlet for ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352577 | Liquid-cooled heat dissipation module A liquid-cooled heat dissipation module for circularly dissipating heat from a heat source. The liquid-cooled heat dissipation module includes a fan having a base; a pump disposed on the base; a heat sink coupled to the fan and having an opening to receive the pump;... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337829 | Cooling unit A cooling unit has a heat receiving unit that receives heat from a body radiating heat; a radiator disposed at a distance from the heat receiving unit and radiating recovered heat; a liquid coolant transporting heat generated at the heat receiving unit to the radiat... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334630 | Closed-loop microchannel cooling system Apparatus and methods according to the present invention utilize micropumps that are capable of generating high pressure and flow without moving mechanical parts and the associated generation of unacceptable electrical and acoustic noise, as well as the associated r... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7273593 | Reactor having a heat exchange medium circulation A reactor including a bundle of catalyst tubes through which a reaction mixture is passed, and wherein a heat exchange medium is passed through a space surrounding the catalyst tubes and including ring lines at both reactor ends with jacket orifices for feeding in a... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265979 | Cooling integrated circuits using a cold plate with two phase thin film evaporation A microchannel cold plate for cooling semiconductor electronic devices which may include a semi-permeable wall in contact with liquid in the cooling passage. The cold plate, in turn, may be in contact with the integrated circuit. Cooling liquid passes through the co... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259963 | Rack height cooling A data center includes an electronic equipment rack having a front face and a back face and a cooling unit positioned adjacent to the rack, the cooling unit having a front face and a back face, the cooling unit being configured to exhaust cooled air from the front f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7210832 | Illumination apparatus of light emitting diodes and method of heat dissipation thereof An illumination apparatus of light emitting diodes and method of heat dissipation thereof are provided. The present illumination apparatus is associated with a loop heat pipe (LHP) device. The LHP device includes a condenser communicating with an evaporator. The ill... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7201215 | Vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus A vapor-lift pump heat transport apparatus having a small heat resistance and a large heat transport capacity. A heat exchange circulating solution container has a first space and a second space communicating with the first space through a communication opening and ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7168480 | Off-axis cooling of rotating devices using a crank-shaped heat pipe The present invention is a crank-shaped heat pipe for cooling rotating machinery and a corresponding method of manufacture. The crank-shaped heat pipe comprises a sealed cylindrical tube with an enclosed inner wick structure. The crank-shaped heat pipe includes a co... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7143762 | Method and apparatus for solar collector with integral stagnation temperature control This invention relates to a method and apparatus for a solar collector having intergral control of the the maximum temperature that it can reach, thereby avoiding excessive stagnation temperatures in the collector. In one embodiment, a solar collector comprises a to... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7104078 | Spray cooling system for transverse thin-film evaporative spray cooling A spray cooling system for transverse evaporative spray cooling in a narrow gap which may generally include a mixing zone, a converging zone, a cooling conduit, and a re-circulation conduit. The spray cooling system in some of its embodiments, provides among other t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104313 | Apparatus for using fluid laden with nanoparticles for application in electronic cooling An apparatus for using fluid laden with nanoparticles for application in electronic cooling is described. In one embodiment, an electromagnetic pump is used to circulate the nanoparticle laden fluid. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100678 | Phase-change heat dissipating device and method for manufacturing it A phase-change heat dissipating device includes a hollow tube and a driving member connected to the tube. The tube has a vaporizing portion and a condensing portion and contains working fluid therein. The driving member includes a number of shrinkable chambers seria... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086453 | Integrated liquid cooling system for electrical components A liquid cooling system includes a cooling body (10), and a liquid circulation module (20). The cooling body comprises a cooling base (11) for thermally contacting a heat source, and a heat sink (14) mounted on the cooling base. An intern... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7067088 | Stratified flow chemical reactor A polymerization reactor for exothermic liquid phase reactions comprises a reaction zone which is divided into a plurality of channels by thermally conductive heat transfer fins which are conductively mounted on one or more heat pipes for the removal of heat of reac... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057893 | Cooling array A cooling array including a housing accommodating electrical built-in components and an air conditioning device that is connected to a heat source of the electrical built-in components by a coolant-carrying inlet line and a return line. To simply air-condition compl... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7017655 | Forced fluid heat sink A heat exchanger for cooling a heat generating device is provided that includes a plurality of plates each defining at least one through-bore. The plates are laminated together to form a stack so that a plurality of enclosed chambers are formed by an alignment of a ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013956 | Heat pipe evaporator with porous valve An evaporator includes an enclosure having a fluid inlet manifold and a vapor outlet manifold. At least one blind passageway is arranged within the enclosure so as to open into a portion of the vapor outlet manifold. The interior surface of the enclosure that define... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013954 | Thermosiphon A thermosiphon which can be manufactured easily at low costs, having excellent resistance to pressure, without the circulation of a working fluid being hindered. A condenser 3 includes a condensing section 4 composed of extruded members in which a plur... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000685 | Cooling system for vehicle In a cooling system for cooling a heating element mounted in a vehicle, a radiator is located at a position higher than a heat sink, which absorbs heat from the heating element. When the amount of heat generated from the heating element, which is detected by a senso... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6994151 | Vapor escape microchannel heat exchanger A vapor escape membrane for use in a heat exchanging device, including a heat pipe or heat sink that runs liquid into a cooling region positioned adjacent to the heat producing device, the vapor escape membrane comprising: a porous surface for removing vapor produce... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6983790 | Heat transport device, semiconductor apparatus using the heat transport device and extra-atmospheric mobile unit using the heat transport device A heat transport device includes a container having a hollow structure including a fluid channel, at least one thermal-receiver heat exchanger and one thermal-radiator heat exchanger arranged side-by-side on an outer wall of the container along the fluid channel, an... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6971441 | Device and method for removing heat from object by spraying cooling agent A device and method for removing heat from an object by spraying a cooling agent is disclosed. A cooling casing or a heat sink is mounted to the object. A spray nozzle is arranged to spray the cooling agent onto the cooling casing or the heat sink from a reservoir. ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967842 | Electronic device An electronic device capable of efficiently cooling an integrated circuit element provided in such a way as to enable a heat exchange on a cold plate. The electronic device contains a circuit board mounted with an integrated circuit element requiring measures agains... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6912263 | Method and device for feeding at least one steam generator of a pressurized-water nuclear reactor during periods of reactor shutdown At least one injector condenser (20) is used to supply secondary feedwater to the steam generator (1) during a phase in the course of which the temperature and the pressure of the coolant of the reactor coolant system (2) of the nuclear reactor ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6802362 | Fin with elongated hole and heat pipe with elongated cross section An assembly includes a heat pipe and one or more fins. The heat pipe has an envelope with two elongated flat sides and two curved portions connecting the flat sides. The elongated sides have a length that is substantially greater than the radius of curvature of the ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6789611 | Bubble cycling heat exchanger A bubble cycling heat exchanger is disclosed. A closed fluid loop is in contact with a heat absorbing source through a heat conducting block; the loop has a bubble generator, an expanding area for generating bubbles is installed at loop; the loop is also formed with... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6763880 | Liquid cooled radiation module for servers A liquid cooled radiation module for servers is installed in a server to directly dissipate heat from a central processing unit through a liquid cooling fashion. The module includes a body which has a housing compartment to house a liquid tube and a radiator. The ra... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6571863 | Turbulence inducing heat pipe for improved heat transfer rates A heat pipe for transferring heat from a heat source to a heat dissipater. The heat pipe includes a tube encasing a low viscosity working fluid and at least one radially segmented disk to restrict the flow of the working fluid to a single direction around... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6498725 | Method and two-phase spray cooling apparatus A compact, lightweight, and efficient evaporative spray cooling system is provided for removing high heat fluxes from surfaces of devices such as micro-electronic chips, metal, mirrors, and lasers. The system uses expanding metastable two-phase flow and a... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6434003 | Liquid-cooled power semiconductor device heatsink The present invention relates to a cold plate for cooling electronic components comprising a base having a top surface onto which at least one electronic component is to be placed; a cooling well formed in the top of the base and open at the top; a feed c... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6408937 | Active cold plate/heat sink A heat sink apparatus for gathering and dissipating heat from a heat source having a heat source housing includes an impeller chamber having a chamber interior containing a heat transfer fluid and comprising a heat transfer wall for transferring heat from... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6397618 | Cooling system with auxiliary thermal buffer unit for cooling an electronics module A cooling system and method of fabrication are provided for cooling an electronics device. The cooling system includes a cooling unit and an evaporator plate having at least one isolated refrigerant loop therein for receiving coolant from the cooling unit... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6167955 | Multi-mode heat transfer using a thermal heat pipe valve An electronic device has a heat pipe containing a heat transfer fluid. The heat pipe has a first section and a second section. Inside the heat pipe is a valve disposed between the first section and second section of the heat pipe. The valve has an actuato... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6073888 | Sequenced heat rejection for body stabilized geosynchronous satellites In one embodiment, a thermal radiative system for an earth orbiting satellite including a plurality of faces intermittently exposed to maximum solar illumination comprises a thermal radiator is mounted on a face for discharging heat from a thermal load to... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6001221 | Extraction and drying apparatus Apparatus for condensing moisture from an air stream. The condenser includes concentric cylinders having a common wall. The outer cylinder contains a cooling material, such as water, and upon contact therewith, the air stream is cooled and moisture contai... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5966954 | Air conditioning system An air conditioning system comprises a heat source side unit adapted to condense and supply a fluid which can change a phase between a gas phase and a liquid phase and a plurality of user side units entirely or mostly disposed below the heat source side u... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966957 | Cooling system for electronics A cooling system, especially for electronic components, having a hermetically closed pipe conduit including an evaporator and a condenser, and utilizing thermosiphon circulation of the refrigerant used in the pipe conduit. The evaporator is in heat conduc... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5943879 | Heat transport system A heat exchanger (1) on the secondary heat source, which exchanges heat with a heat exchanger (12) on the primary heat source in a primary cooling circuit (A), is connected with an indoor heat exchanger (3) through a gas pipe (6) and a liquid pipe (7), wh... | 08/31/1999 |
