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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185252 | DSM enabling of electro mechanically controlled refrigeration systems A system for reducing the peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled refrigerator is provided. The system comprises a cold control device including a housing and a counter spring having at least one spring tension position corresponding to a tempera... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185251 | Start/stop operation for a container generator set A generator set including a prime mover, a generator coupled to the prime mover, and a controller that is associated with a temperature controlled space and operates the generator set in one of a start/stop mode and a continuous mode depending on a demand defined at... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180500 | Temperature sensing system and related temperature sensing method A temperature sensing system, which comprises: a temperature analyzing circuit, for sensing temperature and generating an analyzing result in response to the sensed temperature; and a control unit, for controlling a temperature sensing time interval; wherein the con... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170724 | Systems and associated methods for controllably cooling computer components Computer systems and associated methods for cooling computer components are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a computer system includes a computer cabinet having an air inlet spaced apart from an air outlet. The computer system also includes heat exchangers posit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165725 | Temperature controlling device of heating element and method thereof A kind of temperature controlling device of heating element and method thereof detect the actual temperature of heating body of the heating element, and calculate the descending gradient and frequency of temperature based on the detected actual temperature. The norm... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150560 | Methods for heat exchanger network energy efficiency assessment and lifetime retrofit Methods for managing/assessing heat exchanger network energy efficiency and retrofit for an industrial facility, are provided. An embodiment of a method can include the performance of perform various steps/operations including those for determining an optimal heat e... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150559 | Systems and program product for heat exchanger network energy efficiency assessment and lifetime retrofit Systems and program product for managing/assessing heat exchanger network energy efficiency and retrofit for an industrial facility, are provided. An embodiment of a system can include a heat exchanger network analysis and design computer and heat exchange network a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150558 | Temperature control method and temperature controller The temperature of an object is controlled by a feedback control algorithm based on the temperature control characteristics of a homeothermic plant. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140195 | Reducing maximum power consumption using environmental control settings A fan controller causes a fan assembly to flow air through a computer system at a variable airflow rate to cool the computer system. The ambient air temperature to the computer system is detected, and the controller varies the airflow rate as a function of the ambie... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131404 | Temperature regulating apparatus, exposure system, and device manufacturing method A temperature regulating apparatus which regulates temperature includes a heater, a temperature detector configured to detect temperature, a calculator configured to calculate a manipulated value based on an error between a target temperature and the temperature det... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116920 | System, method, and program product for synthesizing non-thermodynamically constrained heat exchanger networks Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for non-thermodynamically constrained problems for a plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams to be heated according to a plurality ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095246 | System and method for automatically determining temperature tolerance range A system for automatically determining a temperature tolerance range of an electronic device directs a temperature regulator to regulate a temperature equaling a previous regulated temperature plus or less a temperature difference. When a determination module determ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086358 | Method for pre-heating high power devices to enable low temperature start-up and operation A method and system for utilizing the heat dissipated by quiescent IC leakage currents to control the start-up temperature of components. A temperature control sub-system utilizes a thermal sensor to sense the junction temperature of the component. When the temperat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082069 | Information processing apparatus and method of controlling cooling fan An information processing apparatus includes a device detecting section that detects a heating device provided in a housing; a device determining section that determines the type of the heating device detected by the device detecting section; a sensor selecting sect... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068940 | Method and apparatus for controlling heat generation In a control stack included in a software, a control execution unit allows a receiving unit to receive the temperatures of a main processor and a graphic processor. When it determines based on these temperatures that a thermal error has occurred, the control executi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8046112 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature variations in a computer system Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that controls temperature variations in a computer system. During operation, a telemetry variable of the computer system is monitored. Next, a future temperature of the computer system is predicted based on ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041468 | Method for dynamically cooling when detecting RAID controller with battery present in computer system For dynamically cooling an input/output (I/O) controller, the presence of the I/O controller is automatically detected. The I/O controller includes an electronic component capable of generating heat that is greater than a predefined amount when the electronic compon... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032261 | Cooling system with adaptive protocol cooling unit A cooling system includes a fan unit having a terminal receiving a signal representative of a commanded fan speed and a terminal for receiving a signal representative of actual fan speed. A system controller is responsive to temperature and the actual fan speed, for... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032262 | System, method, and program product for synthesizing non-constrained and constrained heat exchanger networks Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for a plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams to be heated according to a plurality of utilities targets, are provided. An exemplar... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7987024 | Fan speed control A method for controlling fan speed includes providing a fan that is in fluid communication with at least one heat producing component, detecting a temperature, determining a fan speed using the detected temperature and a nonlinear fan speed function, and applying a ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983800 | Apparatus and method for controlling fan motor of air conditioner An apparatus for controlling a fan motor of an air conditioner comprises: a hybrid induction motor (HIM) for discharging warm air outwardly by a control signal; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of an evaporator; and a controlling unit for com... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974743 | Temperature controlling apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium A temperature controlling apparatus determines a fan rotation speed from a surrounding noise and a fan noise, measures a temperature of a large scale integration (LSI) device or the like that is a controlled object, determines, in a cooling capacity range of the det... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966104 | Apparatus and method for the control of the indoor thermal environment having feed forward and feedback control using adaptive reference models A controller for controlling thermal sources affecting an air temperature in a space subjected to thermal variables, including a sensor network measuring the thermal variables; a feed forward controller generating a feed forward control signal based on an adaptive m... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957848 | Support of deep power savings mode and partial good in a thermal management system A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for managing a thermal management system. A determination is made as to whether a plurality of digital thermal sensors is faulty or functional. A power savings mode of at least one uni... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953520 | Cooling fan controller for controlling revolving fan based on fluid temperature and air temperature A cooling fan controller is provided for controlling the revolving speed of a cooling fan that introduces outside air as a cooling wind to cool a fluid being cooled; in order to optimally control the revolving speed if the cooling fan in accordance with load, and to... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7937188 | Chip overheating protection Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for controlling the temperature of an internal device while reducing or minimizing the involvement of the host. Thus, some of the heat monitoring and remediation work may be offloaded to the ac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925389 | Method of detecting recirculation of heated air within a rack enclosure A system and method of detecting recirculation within a rack server system. A heat transfer model is constructed for a rack server system. A recirculation zone is specified, and hypothetical recirculation temperatures are input at the recirculation zone. The heat tr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7908039 | Cooling storage cabinet and method of operating the same A cooling device is provided with an inverter compressor. Set speeds of the inverter compressor can be switched to six stages from a first speed to a sixth speed. The relationship between each of the set speeds of the rotational speed is set so that the stages adjac... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908038 | Method of making an optical transponder Methods and apparatus are provided in accordance with the present invention in which a control mechanism, such as for example, a microcontroller, provides an interface between an optical transponder and an external control system, such that monitoring and controllin... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904211 | Dependent temperature control within disk drive testing systems A method of controlling a temperature of a test slot in a disk drive testing system includes regulating temperature changes of a subject test slot based on one or more operating conditions of one or more other test slots neighboring the subject test slot. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7881831 | System and method for controlling temperature of a liquid residing within a tank A water heating system including a tank to store water, a temperature sensor positioned to detect a temperature of the water, and a temperature control element configured to alter the temperature of the water. The system also includes a controller configured to cont... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881830 | Electronic control system for controlling plant temperature Nonlinear functions (table and map) of a temperature estimation model are corrected based on outputs from a temperature sensor. An electronic control system calculates, for a plant model constructed to calculate an estimated temperature value of the plant, an estima... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7865272 | Method and apparatus for preventing overloads of power distribution networks At least one aspect of the invention is directed to a method of monitoring operation of devices in a facility. The method includes controlling a plurality of computing devices in the facility to operate at a controlled power level, where the controlled power level i... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7809477 | Method for starting up a wind energy plant after an operation stoppage and wind energy plant which can execute the method A method for starting up a wind energy plant after an operation stoppage, wherein the wind energy plant has a gearbox in the drive train and an operation management which can control at least one operational variable significant for the strain of the gearbox B of th... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7761191 | Management of operation of an integrated circuit Disclosed are embodiments that may facilitate management of operation of an integrated circuit (IC) including adjustment of the IC. The adjustment may be based at least in part on a proximity of a temperature of the IC relative to a predetermined temperature. ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742843 | Method for the structured application of a laminatable film to a substrate for a semiconductor module A method for structured application of a laminatable intermediate layer (9) to a substrate (1) for a semiconductor module, wherein a separating layer is indirectly or directly applied to the substrate (1) over a large surface, the intermediate l... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7676301 | Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Systems and methods for detecting and analyzing elevated temperatures at a component rack to identify and characterize air recirculation anomalies. In one embodiment, temperatures are sensed in proximity to an air intake of the component rack. Temperature sensors co... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7653461 | Electric device with control means for calculating food poisoning index or degree based on weather information received through pager network The present invention discloses an electric device with a wireless communication module which receives weather information through a pager network, calculates well-being indexes from the weather information, and provides the well-being indexes to the user by itself ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653460 | Thermal management of extruder of molding system, amongst other things Disclosed is a method of a molding system, the method comprising: determining whether a change in a thermal condition of an extruder is required based on a thermal condition of a zone of a melt passageway of the molding system, wherein setting of a threshold tempera... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640080 | Protection device for load circuits A protection device protecting a load circuit by shutting off a power thereof depending on an estimated present temperature of a wire provided in the load circuit to connect a load. The protection device has a first temperature estimation device estimating a rising ... | 12/29/2009 |
