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20080264615 | Device for Extracting Heat from Gas and for Recovering Condensates - A device for extracting heat from gas, particularly combustion gas, containing dust and/or condensable substances, for recovering condensates, and including at least one heat exchanger including a shell having a symmetry of revolution surrounded by a cooling jacket. The device includes an opening for passage of a surfactant for treating the internal surface of the shell, the shell including at least one mechanism creating a substantially helicoid rotating gas stream in at least part of the shell. | 10-30-2008 |
20080302515 | FAN - A fan includes an impeller, a motor and a frame. The impeller has a hub and a plurality of blades disposed around the hub. The motor connects to the impeller and drives it to rotate. The frame accommodates the impeller and the motor therein. The material of the impeller, the motor or the frame includes a color-changeable material. | 12-11-2008 |
20090294108 | Device for Filtering Airflow Into an Electrical Appliance - This invention relates to a device that can be used to filter airflow into an electrical appliance. The device comprises: (a) an air propulsion unit with an air outlet zone; and (b) a filtration unit, wherein the filtration unit is located downstream of the air outlet zone of the air propulsion unit. The surface area of the filtration unit may be equal to or greater than the surface area of the air outlet zone of the air propulsion unit. The invention also relates to an electrical appliance comprising such a device, a kit of parts, and a dust filtration element that is three-dimensional in shape. | 12-03-2009 |
20090308580 | Hot water generator - A hot water generator which has a high ability to prevent the hot water temperature from rising above a preset temperature when withdrawal of hot water is stopped. A hot water withdrawal pipe | 12-17-2009 |
20100012301 | PULSATING FLUID COOLING WITH FREQUENCY CONTROL - A pulsating fluid cooling device comprising a transducer ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100163215 | DUAL VOLUTE ELECTRIC PUMP, COOLING SYSTEM AND PUMP ASSEMBLY METHOD - An electrically powered pump for a cooling system in a machine such as an electric drive track-type tractor includes a pump housing having a first volute and a second volute, each including a different cooling circuit segment. A drive assembly including an electric motor and a pump shaft is positioned within the pump housing, and a first impeller and a second impeller are mounted on the pump shaft at first and second axial locations on opposite sides of a rotor of the electric motor. The first impeller has a first impeller configuration, and defines a first tolerance sensitivity with the first volute, and a second impeller has a second, different impeller configuration and defines a second, lesser tolerance sensitivity with the second volute. The first impeller may include au open impeller positioned at a first clearance with the first volute, and the second impeller may include a closed impeller positioned at a second, greater clearance with the second volute. | 07-01-2010 |
20100243217 | LOW NOISE COOLING DEVICE - A cooling device ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100263840 | TURBINE EXHAUST CONDENSER - An air cooled steam condenser for condensing exhaust steam from a steam turbine including a steam delivery manifold, first and second bundles of aligned elongated tubes extending downwardly at an angle to the axis of the steam delivery manifold, each bundle containing a plurality of elongated tubes having exterior aluminum fins, an exterior coating of aluminum and an interior cladding of stainless steel having a thickness between about 45 and 125 microns, wherein a height measured between the rounded ends of the tubes is greater than 220 mm or between 220 and 280 mm and the length of the tubes is greater than 11 m, preferably between 12 and 14 m or greater. | 10-21-2010 |
20110083831 | Cooling System for a Thermoelectric Power Generator - A cooling system is provided for a thermoelectric power generator and that is arranged in an exhaust gas line of an internal combustion engine for generating electric power while utilizing thermal energy of the exhaust gas. The thermoelectric power generator has its own coolant circuit, which also serves to raise the temperature of the components of the internal combustion engine, the chassis, and/or the transmission or serves to heat the passenger compartment. This offers the added utility gained from a faster temperature rise of transmission lubricants and lubricants of the internal combustion engine, as well as from heating the passenger compartment and the rear axle differential and, thus, offers a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions (CO | 04-14-2011 |
20110139408 | COLLECTOR-RADIATOR STRUCTURE FOR AN ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC COOLING SYSTEM - An electrohydrodynamic fluid accelerator includes an emitter electrode and leading surfaces of a collector electrode that are substantially exposed to ion bombardment. Heat transfer surfaces downstream of the emitter electrode along a fluid flow path include a first portion not substantially exposed to the ion bombardment that is conditioned with a first ozone reducing material. The leading surfaces of the collector electrode are not conditioned with the first ozone reducing material, but may include a different surface conditioning. The downstream heat transfer surfaces and the leading surfaces can be separately formed and joined to form the unitary structure or can be integrally formed. The electrohydrodynamic fluid accelerator can be used in a thermal management assembly of an electronic device with a heat dissipating device thermally coupled to the conditioned heat transfer surfaces. | 06-16-2011 |
20110139409 | ALGAE PRODUCTION - Methods and systems for algae production are provided, the methods and systems generally comprising providing at least one body of water having an algae population in suspension, growing algae, heating the body of water with a heat source, heating the algae process with a heat source, drying the algae with a heat source, and covering the body of water with a cover. Heat recovery systems, algae processing, and covers are also provided. | 06-16-2011 |
20110253350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING CONVECTION THROUGH HEAT EXCHANGERS - In an apparatus for enhancing convection of air at a working element of a heat exchanger, a main flow of air is directed toward the working element. A priming flow of pressurized air is provided to impinge upon the working element, to disrupt a stagnant boundary layer adjacent the working element, and to thereby enhance the main flow of air. | 10-20-2011 |
20110277968 | AIRFLOW GENERATOR AND HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE INCORPORATING THE SAME - An airflow generator includes stacked airflow-generating units. Each airflow-generating unit includes a casing, first and second vibrating diaphragms received in the casing and spaced from each other, first and second driving members for driving the first and second vibrating diaphragms, and a nozzle connected to the casing. An inner space of the casing is divided into a first chamber formed between the first and second vibrating diaphragms, and a second chamber and a third chamber located at two opposite sides of the first chamber. The first driving member includes a first movable magnet attached to the first vibrating diaphragm, and a first stationary magnet received in the second chamber and attached to the casing. The second driving member includes a second movable magnet attached to the second vibrating diaphragm, and a second stationary magnet received in the third chamber and attached to the casing. | 11-17-2011 |
20110308775 | ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC DEVICE WITH FLOW HEATED OZONE REDUCING MATERIAL - A thermal management apparatus includes an electrohydrodynamic fluid accelerator energizable to motivate fluid flow. Primary heat transfer surfaces are positioned to transfer heat into the fluid flow and an ozone reducing material is positioned downstream of the primary heat transfer surfaces. Heating of the ozone reducing material by the fluid flow increases the efficacy of the ozone reducing material. A method of making a product includes positioning an emitter electrode and at least one other electrode to motivate fluid flow along a flow path when the electrodes are energized. The method further includes positioning heat transfer surfaces in the flow path to transfer heat to the fluid flow and positioning ozone reducing material downstream of the heat transfer surfaces in the flow path, the ozone reducing material selected such that heating of the ozone reducing material by the fluid flow increases ozone reducing efficacy of the ozone reducing material. | 12-22-2011 |
20120012286 | AIR JET ACTIVE HEAT SINK APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising a heat sink and a plenum. The heat sink includes a base and a plurality of heat exchange elements, connected to and raised above, a surface of the base. The plenum is located above the heat exchange elements. The plenum includes a housing configured to hold a positive air-pressure therein, and openings in a surface of the housing. The opening are positioned such that air exiting the plenum through the openings is directed to the heat sink. | 01-19-2012 |
20120024503 | Enhanced Hand Operated Personal Cooling Fan - An apparatus for cooling ones self by a traditional manual back and forth fanning movement of the invention. The apparatus has the capability to spray a mist of water into the moving air created by the apparatus so as to aid in the cooling process. The invention can also be used as a sound board or tambourine to create a sound to imitate traditional hand clapping for a signal or for celebratory expression. Also, in one embodiment, the invention serves as a sign or billboard for image or print media advertising. In another embodiment it serves as a traditionally recognizable symbol or trademark. | 02-02-2012 |
20120125575 | COLD/HEAT DISCHARGE WITH INNER FLUID TO ACTUATE THE EXTERNAL FLUID PUMP - The present invention provides a heat exchanger with inner fluid to actuate the external fluid pump capable of driving one or more than one of fluid actuation devices through fluids passing through the heat exchanger having thermal-energy fluid pipe, without utilizing external mechanical rotational kinetic energy or power of electric motors; respectively driving external fluid pumping blade devices installed at lateral sides of the heat exchanger having thermal-energy fluid pipe with a direct or non-contact transmission means, so as to drive the external fluid to pass through the heat exchanger for increasing the heat exchange efficiency of the heat exchanger. | 05-24-2012 |
20120205080 | Pump-Less Cooling Using a Rotating Disk - Cooling in the supersonic region of a compressible fluid is disclosed. The fluid is accelerated by a rotating disk to a velocity equal to or greater than the speed of sound in the fluid in a rotating evaporator tube. No conventional mechanical pump is required to accelerate the fluid. A phase change of the fluid due to a pressure differential may be utilized to transfer heat from an element to be cooled. | 08-16-2012 |
20120227940 | Toroidal Fluid Mover and Associated Heat Sink - An apparatus includes a toroidal fluid mover. A drive mechanism rotates the toroidal fluid mover, such that the toroidal fluid mover directs axially received fluid at a smaller radius in a radial direction towards a greater radius to produce an axial-to-radial fluid flow field. A heat sink is positioned within the axial-to-radial fluid flow field. The heat sink is thermally coupled with a heat generating source and is at least partially filled with a fluid. | 09-13-2012 |
20130112377 | HEAT-DISSIPATING DEVICE AND HEAT-DISSIPATING SYSTEM - A heat-dissipating device and a heat-dissipating system are provided. The heat-dissipating system includes a driver, a heat-exchanger and a heat-dissipating device. The heat-exchanger is communicated to the driver and includes a body, a hydrophobic membrane and a cover. The body has an inlet, an outlet and a channel. Both ends of the channel exposed on a body's surface are respectively communicated to the inlet and the outlet, the inlet and outlet are communicated respectively to the driver and heat-exchanger. The membrane is disposed on the body's surface and covers the channel. The cover combines with the body and has a chamber and an exhaust port. The membrane separates the channel from the chamber communicated to the exhaust port communicated to the heat-exchanger. The driver drives a working fluid to the heat-dissipating device, and the fluid further goes to the heat-exchanger from the heat-dissipating device and then back to the driver. | 05-09-2013 |
20130240182 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device comprises a casing, a heat generation source, an airflow guiding structure, and a jet flow generator. The casing includes an interior space. The airflow guiding structure is in contact with the heat generation source and has one air inlet. The jet flow generator, the heat generation source, and the airflow guiding structure together are situated within the interior space. The jet flow generator includes a nozzle which directs toward the air inlet of the airflow guiding structure at a distance apart. Airflows emitted by the jet flow generator through the nozzle travel at a velocity greater than 0.1 meters/second (m/s), causing a fluid pressure differential with the neighboring air and pulling air in the vicinity along the air inlet into the airflow guiding structure. | 09-19-2013 |
20130299139 | RADIATOR WITH INTEGRATED PUMP FOR ACTIVELY COOLING ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An integrated cooling apparatus for actively cooling one or more electronic components in an electronic device such as a computer is provided. The cooling apparatus includes a radiator and a pump integrally mounted on the radiator. The pump can include a pump housing having a first pump housing member attached to the radiator and a second pump housing member detachably securable to the first pump housing member. The apparatus includes a flow inlet and a flow outlet for attaching hoses or conduits to the radiator for actively moving a liquid coolant to and from an external or remote heat exchanger via tubing. An external heat exchanger can be fluidly connected to the integrated cooling apparatus via two or more tubes and thermally attached to the electronic component to be cooled, such as a computer graphics card, microprocessor or other circuit component. | 11-14-2013 |
20130327507 | OPTIMIZED VENT WALLS IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents directed at a first angle toward one or more heat-generating components of the portable electronic device. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents directed at a second angle out of the portable electronic device. | 12-12-2013 |
20130340981 | ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC (EHD) AIR MOVER CONFIGURATION WITH FLOW PATH EXPANSION AND/OR SPREADING FOR IMPROVED OZONE CATALYSIS - Provision of an expansion region (e.g., a flow path with increasing cross-section downstream of the EHD air mover) can provide operational benefits in EHD air mover-based thermal management systems. In contrast, such a design would generally be disfavored for conventional mechanical air mover-based systems. In some cases, an expansion chamber or volume may be provided between the EHD air mover and heat transfer surfaces. In some cases, expansion of the flow cross-section may be provided (at least in part) within the heat transfer surface volume itself. In some cases, leading surfaces of heat transfer surface (e.g., heat sink fins) may be shaped, disposed or otherwise presented to EHD motivated flow to reduce “laminarity” of the impinging air flow so as to reduce thermal transfer boundary layer effects and/or to divert flow outward in the flow channel so as to more evenly distribute ozone molecules over catalytic sites. | 12-26-2013 |
20140020872 | AIRCRAFT/SPACECRAFT FLUID COOLING SYSTEM AND AIRCRAFT/SPACECRAFT FLUID COOLING METHOD - An aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling system and an aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling method in which a fluid in a pipe installed in aircraft or spacecraft can be cooled efficiently so that the amount of fluid required for cooling the fluid can be reduced. A fluid cooling system includes a feed line that feeds a fluid from a storage tank to a pump, and a cooling section that expands a propellant having traveled through the pump, feeds the propellant to the outer periphery of the feed line so as to cool the propellant in the feed line, and discharges the expanded propellant outside. | 01-23-2014 |
20140069616 | COOLING SYSTEM - A cooling system includes a first pump group including a plurality of pumps that circulates a cooling medium to cool a first part; a second pump group including a plurality of pumps that circulates a cooling medium to cool a second part; a first power supply that supplies electric power to a part of the pumps of the first pump group and a part of the pumps of the second pump group; and a second power supply that supplies electric power to another part of the pumps of the first pump group and another part of the pumps of the second pump group. | 03-13-2014 |
20140069617 | Personal Cooling Device for Use With Body Armor - The present invention comprises a network of tubular members, each tubular member having an inner surface defining a flowpath, an outer surface, and at least one channel extending between the flowpaths and the outer surface, wherein said network has an inlet; a pump having an inlet and an outlet; and a length of connection tubing in fluid communication with the outlet of the pump and the inlet of the network of tubing members. | 03-13-2014 |
20140116656 | HEAT DISSIPATION MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH THE SAME - A heat dissipation module comprises a radiator. The radiator comprises a first fin assembly and a second fin assembly. The first fin assembly comprises a plurality of first fins arranged abreast of each other, and the first fin assembly has a first average distribution density. The second fin assembly comprises a plurality of second fins arranged abreast of each other, and the second fin assembly has a second average distribution density. The second average distribution density is larger than the first average distribution density. | 05-01-2014 |
20140290916 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COOLING OF A HEAT SINK USING A SYNTHETIC JET - A system for cooling a device includes a heat sink comprising a substrate having a plurality of fins arranged thereon, a fan positioned to direct an ambient fluid in a first direction across the heat sink, and a first synthetic jet assembly comprising one of a multi-orifice synthetic jet and a plurality of single orifice synthetic jets. The first synthetic jet assembly is configured to direct the ambient fluid in a second direction across the heat sink, wherein the second direction is approximately perpendicular to the first direction. | 10-02-2014 |
20140299297 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR COOLING A VACUUM DEVICE - Applicants have created vacuum systems and apparatuses for cooling a vacuum device. The apparatus can include a cooling device adapted to couple with a vacuum device, at least one cooling device air inlet, and a cooling device outlet. The air flows from the air inlets to the air outlet and combines with air disposed within the vacuum device. The system can include the cooling device, a vacuum housing, and a vacuum interface such that air flowing from the air inlets to the outlet flows from the vacuum interface to the vacuum housing biased with a negative pressure area. As a result, the air originating from the air inlets cools the air disposed within the vacuum housing upon mixing and the vacuum device cools, thus increasing the vacuum device's performance. Furthermore, heat transfer from the vacuum device to an operator reduces, thus improving the productivity and comfort of the operator. | 10-09-2014 |
20140345834 | SYSTEM FOR THERMALLY CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSIONS - A heat exchanger assembly for an electronic image assembly placed within a housing where ambient air surrounds the exterior of the housing and a rear plate may be placed behind a backlight to create a channel. An ambient air fan may be placed between two portions of a heat exchanger to force ambient air through the heat exchanger. The fan may also be positioned to also force ambient air through the channel. A circulating gas fan may also be placed within the housing to force circulating gas through at least one portion of the heat exchanger. | 11-27-2014 |
20150107802 | CHILLED BEAM WITH MULTIPLE MODES - A chilled beam has separate primary and secondary inlets and plenums each or which generates separate sets of induction jets to draw air through a chilled beam heat exchanger. Various system and method embodiments are described as well as features usable in conventional active chilled beams to facilitate the use variable thermal and ventilation load applications. | 04-23-2015 |
20150308338 | GAS TURBINE INLET HAVING INTEGRATED COILS AND MIST REDUCING VANES - An integrated coil and fin system in a gas turbine inlet. The integrated system includes at least one wavy, non-planar, fin integrated with at least one heating/cooling coil, wherein the at least one coil is configured to heat or cool air moving through the gas turbine inlet, and wherein the at least one non-planar fin is configured to remove moisture in the air moving through the gas turbine inlet. In one embodiment, at least one hook can be included at an end or along a length of at least one non-planar fin. | 10-29-2015 |
20160025429 | ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATED AIR FLOW THERMAL MANAGEMENT MODULE - The disclosure provides a thermal management apparatus. The apparatus includes a housing that defines a first air flow channel and a second air flow channel and an electroactive polymer actuator located within the housing, the electroactive polymer actuator configured to move in response to an activation signal. The electroactive polymer actuator defines a first chamber in fluid communication with the first air flow channel and defines a second chamber in fluid communication with the second air flow channel, the first and second chambers are fluidically isolated from each other. The electroactive polymer actuator is configured to oscillate when excited by the activation signal and eject pulses of air through the first and second air flow channels. An apparatus that includes two electroactive polymer actuators as well as method of generating air flow for thermal management also is disclosed. | 01-28-2016 |