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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401643 | Heat exchange foam A method and an apparatus for the efficient transfer of heat utilizing micro heat pipes that include a cellular foam or interconnected cellular/truss network having hollow ligaments. A predetermined fraction of the internal volume of the hollow ligaments is filled w... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7331377 | Diamond foam spray cooling system A diamond foam spray cooling system for improving the thermal management of a heat producing device. The diamond foam spray cooling system includes a thermal management unit including a spray assembly, a chamber, a heat spreader and at least one diamond foam section... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7287575 | Component for supporting a filter member, a device including a tubular filter member and said component, a plate heat exchanger including a tubular filter member and said component The invention relates to a component (20) for supporting a tubular filter member (15) in a portable channel (2) in a plate heat exchanger (1). The invention also relates to a device including the component (20) and the filter membe... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275539 | Wick arrangement for an anesthetic evaporator A wick arrangement for an anesthetic evaporator includes a wick with a carrier material (2) that is essentially impermeable to gas provided with wick material (3, 4) on both sides. A great path length is provided for saturating the gas with anesthetic ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7131288 | Heat exchanger In a heat exchanger (10) for transferring heat from a first fluid to a second fluid, which heat exchanger (10) comprises one or more flow passages (12) for a first fluid, the outer wall (26) of these passages is in heat-transferring conta... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7059130 | Heat exchanger applicable to fuel-reforming system and turbo-generator system A heat exchanger is applied well to a turbo-generator system and a fuel-reforming system. The heat exchanger has porous metals disposed in a hotter area and a colder area, one to each area, and a wall separating the two areas from one another. The porous metals are ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7045219 | Short metal fibers The present invention relates to short metal fibers. A set of short metal fibers, with an equivalent diameter ranging from 1 to 150 $(m)m, comprises entangled and curved fibers. At least 10% of the short metal fibers are entangled, whereas the length of the curved f... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044199 | Porous media cold plate A heat exchanger for cooling a heat generating device including a base having a recess with a base coolant inlet opening and a base coolant outlet opening. A porous core is positioned within the recess of the base, and has a core coolant inlet opening and a core coo... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032654 | Plate heat exchanger with enhanced surface features A plate heat exchanger includes a plurality of plates for providing a flow path for two fluids. The plate heat exchanger has an inlet and an outlet for each of the two fluids, wherein facing surfaces of two adjacent plates of the plurality of plates defines a flow p... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028763 | Cooling arrangement and method with selected surfaces configured to inhibit changes in boiling state Heat transfer in coolant circuits, as in an internal combustion engine for example, can be beneficially enhanced by maintaining the coolant in a nucleate boiling state, but undesirable transitions to a film boiling state are then possible. The disclosed coolant circ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6959753 | Construction of phase change material embedded electronic circuit boards and electronic circuit board assemblies using porous and fibrous media A heat sink which comprises an enclosure having a highly thermally conductive surface region and defining an enclosed cavity. A porous, highly thermally conductive material is disposed in the cavity, preferably homogeneously therein, and is thermally coupled to the ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6951242 | Enthalpy heat exchanger with variable recirculation and filtration A heat exchanger for both sensible and latent energy, enthalpy, has walls or plates that extend between two air streams that also permit and assist recirculation and filtration. The walls between air streams consist of a substrate with a coating on the substrate. Th... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6892798 | Rapid thermal storage/release system using a porous member A heat exchanger for storing or releasing heat including a channel unit in which a heat medium flows; and a heat exchange unit contacted-combined with the channel unit and containing a porous heat transfer member which conducts heat exchange with a thermal storage m... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6840307 | High performance heat exchange assembly Heat sinks are provided that achieve very high convective heat transfer surface per unit volume. These heat sinks comprise a spreader plate, at least two fins and at least one porous reticulated foam block that fills the space between the fins. ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6841250 | Thermal management system The present invention relates to a system for managing the heat from a heat source like an electronic component. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system effective for dissipating the heat generated by an electronic component using a thermal mana... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6801433 | Method and apparatus for cooling electrical fuses An apparatus for cooling electrical protective devices comprises an electrical protective device mounted to at least one electrical terminal, wherein the electrical terminals are cooled to indirectly cool the electrical protective devices. A pressurized coolant sour... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6746768 | Thermal interface material A thermal interface and a thermal interface as part of a thermal management system that comprises a heat source, and a cooling module. The heat source has an external surface; the thermal interface is a flexible graphite sheet article having two parallel planar surf... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6705393 | Ceramic heat sink with micro-pores structure A ceramic heat sink having a micro-pores structure includes a heat dissipation layer, and a thermal conductive layer. The heat dissipation layer forms a ceramic micro-cell structure, which is combined with a sub-micrometer powder, thereby forming the heat dissipatio... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6698510 | Article and method for temperature regulation using a thermosensitive reactive hydrogel material A temperature regulation and flow control device is described. A web of material, e.g., for a wet suit, has a layer of gel particles embedded in a flow control layer, preferably a foam matrix. A water permeable neoprene layer covers the flow control layer... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6672377 | Oil cooler An oil cooler comprises an inner water pipe, an outer oil pipe, a strainer pipe sleeved between oil pipe and water pipe, and a connector mechanism at either end of oil cooler and including a hollow cylindrical connector having a passage coupled to water p... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6617517 | Multi-layer structure having a thermal interface with low contact resistance between a microelectronic component package and a heat sink A multi-layer solid structure and method for forming a thermal interface between a microelectronic component package and a heat sink so that the structure has a total thermal resistance of no greater than about 0.03° C.-in2 /W at a pressure of... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6604573 | Hydrogen occluding core A tube is provided with elastically deformable tube deforming sections (tube curved sections), and a fin is provided with the quality of spring so that the fin deforms in accordance to changes of dimension between the tubes. Accordingly, it is possible to... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6591897 | High performance pin fin heat sink for electronics cooling A heat sink for electronic devices comprises a spreader plate having a top surface and having a bottom surface wherein a portion thereof is defined for affixing an electronic device to be cooled thereto. A plurality of columnar pins are spaced apart one f... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6503626 | Graphite-based heat sink The present invention relates to a system for managing the heat from a heat source like an electronic component. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system effective for dissipating the heat generated by an electronic component using a h... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6482520 | Thermal management system The present invention relates to a system for managing the heat from a heat source like an electronic component. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system effective for dissipating the heat generated by an electronic component using a t... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6411508 | Foam metal heat sink The present invention relates to a heat sink, and in particular to a light foam metal heat sink which is capable of significantly enhancing a foam metal heat sink performance. In the present invention, there is provided a foam metal heat sink installed at... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6405792 | Compact fluid to fluid heat exchanger The disclosure is for an easily assembled heat exchanger using an internal porous metal pad. The heat exchanger is constructed of two halves attached at their heat transfer surfaces. Each half includes a pan shaped casing, a pad of sintered porous metal, ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6378605 | Heat exchanger with transpired, highly porous fins The heat exchanger includes a fin and tube assembly with increased heat transfer surface area positioned within a hollow chamber of a housing to provide effective heat transfer between a gas flowing within the hollow chamber and a fluid flowing in the fin... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6330907 | Evaporator and loop-type heat pipe using the same An evaporator includes a container, a wick provided in contact with an inner peripheral surface of said container and formed such that (1) if the number of pores per unit volume is fixed, the diameter of pores is varied, or (2) if the diameters of pores a... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6257322 | Indirect heat exchanger filled with solid-gas reaction powdery particles In a heat-exchange unit 1a constituting a chief portion of an indirect heat exchanger 1, the streams of hot medium that flow through many small flow passages 20 in the flat tubes 2 in the upstream heat-exchange set 5, meet together in the tubular headers ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6241008 | Capillary evaporator In a capillary evaporator for use in a capillary pumped loop, in which capillary action in a porous wick 7 causes cold liquid to be drawn across the wick and vaporized by a heat input structure 6 and in particular fin 8 of that structure so that the vapou... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6196307 | High performance heat exchanger and method A heat exchanger and method for cooling power electronics modules. The power electronics module transferring heat generated during operation to the heat exchanger through a thermal base of the power module. The heat exchanger being directly bonded to the ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6131650 | Fluid cooled single phase heat sink The apparatus is an easily assembled, fluid cooled, single phase heat sink. The heat sink is constructed of only four simple parts, a pan shaped casing, a simple thermally conductive porous pad, a manifold block with channels, and a lid. The lid includes ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6119457 | Heat exchanger apparatus using porous material, and ceramic engine provided with supercharger driven by thermal energy recorded from exhaust gas by the same apparatus A heat exchange apparatus has heat exchangers comprising porous material of improved heat exchange efficiency provided in an exhaust passage, and a ceramic engine provided with a supercharger comparing a steam turbine driven by the steam generated in the ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6089020 | Heat recovering apparatus for cogeneration system with a turbocharged engine This heat recovering apparatus for a cogeneration system with an engine comprises a turbocharger driven by an exhaust gas, an energy recovering turbine provided on the downstream side of the turbocharger, and a heat exchanger provided on the downstream si... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6082354 | Solar collector A solar collector plate (1) comprises a dark-colored absorber plate (2) facing the sun, parallel wall sheets (4) arranged perpendicularly to the rear side of the absorber sheet (2), fixed thereto and also fixed to a support sheet (3) arranged parallel to ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5960863 | Dissipating device for computer chips The present invention relates to a dissipating device that uses a high-efficiency radiator for natural convection heat dissipation for a CPU (central processing unit) or an IC (integrated circuit) die with low cost. The radiator is formed by screen plates... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5960861 | Cold plate design for thermal management of phase array-radar systems A cold plate for use in a thermal management system and a method of thermal management which comprises an inlet channel having coolant fluid disposed therein at a substantially uniform pressure throughout the inlet channel and an outlet channel having coo... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5950719 | Fluid-circulation heat exchanger, in particular for an electron tube A fluid-circulation heat exchanger including a porous body, made of thermally conductive material, in contact with at least one portion of a part to be cooled. The fluid flows through this porous body. The porous body has pores which generate directional ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5847927 | Electronic assembly with porous heat exchanger and orifice plate An electronic substrate is formed of a porous planar heat exchanger and an orifice plate overlying and thermally contacting the heat exchanger. The orifice plate has a plurality of apertures therethrough. An electronic device is mounted to the orifice pla... | 12/08/1998 |
