Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900690 | Moving carbon nanotube heat sink The moving carbon nanotube heat sink includes a heat transfer belt comprised of highly thermally efficient carbon nanotubes. Laterally disposed cooling fins extend away from a top surface of the belt. The belt is slidingly disposed over a C-shaped channel made of me... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7814966 | Variable flow heat exchanger system and method A heat exchanger system is provided including a first and second heat exchanger each configured to pass air therethrough. The second heat exchanger is mounted upstream of the first heat exchanger. The second heat exchanger may be selectively movable between a first ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7370690 | Apparatus for tilting and securing a heat exchanger Apparatus for supporting a heat exchanger such as a condenser of an air conditioning system on a vehicle, for pivotal movement between an operational position and a position angularly related to the operational position, for such purposes as inspection, cleaning, se... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7357356 | Attitude and antenna steering system for geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) spacecraft A system for providing attitude and antenna steering for a spacecraft is disclosed. The spacecraft has a number of reaction wheels and a number of antennas. The system includes control logic configured to: determine a beta angle, the beta angle being the angle betwe... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327576 | Heat dissipation device A heat dissipation device for being installed to and cooling an electronic card device (40) includes first and second heat dissipation units (10, 20) and at least one heat pipe (30). The heat dissipation units each include a base plate (12, 2... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325594 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger having at least one heat exchanger block (1) and an insulating vessel which surrounds the heat exchanger, is provided with plates and joints for securing the heat exchanger block (1) suspended in the insulation vessel. In addition, the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322401 | Ventilator Ventilator including a case having a first flow passage and a second flow passage therein, at least one fan in the case for supplying room air to a room through the first flow passage, and guiding outdoor air to the room through the second flow passage, and a heat e... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312848 | Positioning apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method This invention discloses an apparatus having a base and a movable body which is driven to move along the base. The apparatus includes a generator configured to generate a driving signal for the movable body, a temperature adjusting mechanism configured to adjust tem... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7288895 | System to improve display efficiency based on recycling local heat source A system to improve display efficiency based on recycling a local heat source. In one embodiment, the system includes a display and a lamp to illuminate the display. Heat from a heat generating component within the system in transferred to the lamp. In one embodimen... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284595 | Heat exchanger for air conditioner A heat source fluid inlet pipe of a heat exchanger main body 150 comprises a rotation side inlet pipe 27 and a fixed side inlet pipe 23 that are integrated with the heat exchanger main body 150. A heat source fluid outlet pipe comprises a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278268 | Thermally efficient CCD camera housing A system and method of cooling a CCD camera may employ a composite material housing design that allows the cold side of a TEC to be mounted relatively close to the CCD and the hot side of the TEC to be isolated from the housing cavity in which the CCD resides. An ef... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270302 | Scalable thermal control system for spacecraft mounted instrumentation A spacecraft instrument thermal control method and system providing scalable thermal control of on-board instrument temperature. Adapted for a spacecraft with bus supporting instrumentation and thermal radiator panels, cooling is carried out by one or more active co... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259970 | Substrate, connecting structure and electronic equipment A substrate has an electrical wiring pattern formed thereon, one or a plurality of electrical parts provided thereon, a first contacting part and a second contacting part provided thereon and electrically connected to the electronic parts, and one or a plurality of ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256996 | Wireless router A wireless router dissipates heat through use of a unique heat sink having tines to increase the heat sink surface area. A housing includes lower vents and an upper vents to enable passage of an airflow. The airflow may be generated by one or more fans disposed with... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255189 | Radiator mounting system A radiator mounting system for a skid steer vehicle includes an air box with a front wall having an opening sized to receive engine fan blades, an oil cooler disposed in the air box, a radiator; and a radiator frame supporting the radiator that is hingeably coupled ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252291 | Mechanical seal having a single-piece, perforated mating ring A mechanical seal (e.g., single mechanical seals, double mechanical seals, tandem mechanical seals, bellows, pusher mechanical seals, and all types of rotating and reciprocating machines) with reduced contact surface temperature, reduced contact surface wear, or inc... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254019 | Heat dissipation module for hinged mobile computer A heat dissipation module for a mobile computer, the mobile computer having a base (10) and a display unit (20) pivotally coupled to the base, the base having a number of through holes (13) defined on a shell (18) thereof, the heat dissip... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7246506 | Thermal storage medium using a hydrate and apparatus thereof, and method for producing the thermal storage medium A thermal storage apparatus for using a hydrate thermal storage medium including: (a) a storage tank for storing a cooling medium liquid; (b) a refrigerating machine, connected with the storage tank via a pipe for cooling the cooling medium liquid, the cooling mediu... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243677 | Air exchange assembly An air exchange assembly that allows for the passage of large volumes of air through a continuously rotating joint. The large cross section of the passageways in the air exchange assembly allow for a large volume of low pressure air to pass through in both direction... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241121 | Scroll fluid machine A scroll fluid machine has a fixed scroll in a housing and an orbiting scroll rotatably mounted to a driving shaft. A fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is engaged with an orbiting wrap of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll is revolved at a certain eccentricity by... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7201012 | Remedies to prevent cracking in a liquid system A liquid cooling system utilizing minimal size and volume enclosures, air pockets, compressible objects, and flexible objects is provided to protect against expansion of water-based solutions when frozen. In such a system, pipes, pumps, and heat exchangers are desig... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7178807 | Shaft mounted seal device and method for a scraped surface heat exchanger A scraped surface heat exchanger includes a seal assembly between a rotating tube and the end housing. The seal assembly is removable by removing the tube. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178344 | Thermoelectric heat exchanger Disclosed is a system for thermally conditioning and pumping a fluid. The system includes a thermoelectric heat exchanger having a thermoelectric device configured to pump heat. Heat exchangers are provided for transferring heat to and from the thermoelectric device... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174806 | Flexible bearing damping system, energy storage system using such a system, and a method related thereto A bearing damping system for damping vibrations and conducting heat from vibration-producing, heat-generating devices, an evacuated energy storage system including such a bearing damping system for damping vibrations produced by the rotating shaft and conducting hea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174950 | Heat transfer system for a satellite including an evaporator A heat transfer system includes a heat transfer passage in the vicinity of a source of dissipated heat on a satellite to collect heat dissipated by the source and a fluid loop including an evaporator having over part of its path a maximum surface area of its externa... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7163177 | Airship ballast system An airship ballast system includes an engine driven propeller and a cooling tube that is positioned coplanar with the propeller and outside its tip path. One end of the cooling tube is connected to receive exhaust gases from the engine while the other end is connect... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164466 | Detachable heat sink Methods and apparatus for collecting heat within a precision stage system substantially without introducing significant disturbance forces to the system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for substantially removing heat from a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7163048 | Automatic monitoring system for thermal energy storage plants An automatic monitoring system for thermal energy storage (TES) plants wherein a pilot ice tank (11) uses Archimedes' principle to determine the ice inventory level by measuring the resultant force (28) of the algebraic addition of the weight of the ic... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7131484 | Modular architecture for thermal control in a spacecraft Equipment (20, 20a) includes at least one electronic module (21) for the payload or the platform of a satellite (50) adapted to be supported by a structure (24) of the satellite, the satellite structure including a heat transfer system ( | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131487 | Use of adjusted evaporator section area of heat pipe that is sized to match the surface area of an integrated heat spreader used in CPU packages in mobile computers An apparatus for cooling heat producing devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a heat absorber attached to a first end of a base. Both the base and the heat absorber may be formed of a thermally conductive material, and a width of the heat a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129731 | Heat pipe with chilled liquid condenser system for burn-in testing A burn-in testing cooling system includes a heat pipe having a tubular body. A capillary wick is disposed on an evaporator portion of the tubular body, and a base seals off the evaporator portion. The base is sized and shaped so as to be releasably thermally engaged... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121327 | Heat sink assembly A heat sink assembly includes a plurality of fins (10), a pair of ducts (20), and a frame (30) receiving the fins and the ducts therein. Each fin defines a pair of through holes (11) therein. A tapered tab (14) and a plurality of l... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121816 | Scroll fluid machine A scroll fluid machine has a fixed scroll in a housing and an orbiting scroll rotatably mounted to a driving shaft. A fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is engaged with an orbiting wrap of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll is revolved at a certain eccentricity by... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117930 | Heat pipe fin stack with extruded base A heat sink has a base plate to be clamped against a heat source and one or more heat pipes containing a phase change fluid. Each heat pipe has an elongated tubular evaporator fitted in a channel in the base plate, and a columnar condenser part perpendicular to the ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116552 | Heat-dissipation apparatus of portable computer A heat-dissipation apparatus of the portable computer is fabricated in a host and a display unit pivotal connected therein for dissipating the heat from the electronic component. The apparatus has a conductive part whose thickness is designed to be equal to the thic... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114350 | Refrigerator with evaporator of variable dimensions A refrigerator with an evaporator and at least one preservation compartment, in which the evaporator is formed from extendable spiral-wound tube of engineering polymer. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108835 | Fischer-tropsch slurry reactor cooling tube arrangement An arrangement of cooling tubes within a Fischer-Tropsch slurry reactor simplifies removal and reinstallation of cooling tubes for reactor maintenance. ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105836 | Method and apparatus for cooling a reticle during lithographic exposure Systems and methods eliminate vibrations produced by coolant fluid flowing through a short stroke stage and prevent change in thermally-induced distortion of the short stroke stage by maintaining the temperature and temperature distribution within the short stroke s... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089994 | Cooling system for a farm machine A cooling system for a farm machine comprises a heat exchange assembly (1) having a plurality of radiators (2, 3, 4, 5) arranged one close to the other and so as to be passed through by a same air flow. According to the invention, at least a first radi... | 08/15/2006 |
