2184 results about "Thermal contact" patented technology

A semiconductor package includes a processor die powered by either a front-side or a backside power delivery network, a plurality of memory dies and control dies stacked over the processor die, a plurality of high-thermal-conductivity interconnects located between and / or placed side-by-side with the dies, a substrate carrying all the dies with the substrate having a first cavity allowing a liquid to pass through, and a cold plate disposed over and in direct thermal contact with the top dies with the cold plate having a second cavity configured to connect to the first cavity and allowing the liquid to flow between the first and second cavities. This semiconductor package can be configured to go beyond the traditional single-sided interconnection and cooling topologies to enable dual- or multi-sided cooling, power supply, and signaling. The semiconductor package further includes an underground interconnection (UGI) disposed in a STI region of the processor die.

A liquid cooling plate assembly is configured to be in thermal contact with a first heat source and a second heat source. The liquid cooling plate assembly includes a cold plate and a plurality of heat pipes. The cold plate includes a plate body and a plurality of fins. The plate body is configured to be in thermal contact with the first heat source and the second heat source, the plate body has a fluid chamber and an inner bottom surface, the inner bottom surface is located at a bottom of the fluid chamber, and the fins protrude from the inner bottom surface. The heat pipes are located in the fluid chamber and thermally coupled to the fins, and the heat pipes are arranged side by side and are in thermal contact with one another.

An integrated electric motor drive. The motor drive having rotatable parts with a drive shaft and a rotor, wherein the drive shaft extends along a rotor axis and the rotor is mechanically coupled to the drive shaft; and static parts having a stator and power electronics for controlling an electric current through the stator. The integrated electric motor drive has a liquid cooling system with a closed liquid cooling circuit and a liquid coolant agitator. The closed liquid cooling circuit is filled with liquid coolant being in thermal contact with the stator and / or the power electronics. The liquid coolant agitator is arranged and configured to circulate the liquid coolant along the closed liquid cooling circuit. The liquid coolant agitator is mounted within the closed liquid cooling circuit to be rotatable about the rotor axis, and the liquid coolant agitator is magnetically coupled to the movable parts.

A heater assembly for a haircare appliance comprising a hair contacting member 42, a heating element 40 to heat the contact member and a support member 54 in thermal contact with the heating element and contact member which has a thermal diffusivity of at least 1.0 mm2 / s. The support member 54 may be a polymer foam such as silicone foam. A heat spreading layer with a thermal resistance no greater than 22 Kelvin / Watt may be used. The heating elements may extend across 95% of the length of the hair-contacting surface. A sensor system may be provided to increase the temperature as the appliance moves from a root to a tip of a tress of hair. The heating may be based on a time relating to the length of tress. The support member may be flexible to allow deflection.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing targeted temperature management (TTM) therapy to a patient. Systems included herein provide an airflow to the patient in additional to a liquid flow that define a thermal energy exchange with the patient. Various systems may provide air at a defined TTM temperature to a thermal contact pad, a mattress or a ventilator that delivers the TTM air to the patient via the ventilation therapy. Also disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for preventing, managing, and / or removing perspiration moisture from between the thermal contact pad and the patient. Disclosed herein is a thermal contact pad includes a wicking material to draw moisture away from the patient. Disclosed herein also is a thermal contact pad including airflow that draws moisture away from the patient.

An apparatus and system for cooling a plurality of electronic devices (25, 26) disposed on a circuit board (1) are provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of cold plates (7, 8), each cold plate (7, 8) having a thermal interface surface for cooling an electronic device (25, 26) thermally coupled thereto. The apparatus comprises a support frame to which each of the plurality of cold plates (7, 8) is attached, the support frame configured for attachment to the circuit board so as to hold the thermal interface surfaces of the plurality of cold plates (7, 8) in thermal contact with the plurality of electronic devices (25, 26). The support frame is arranged to hold the thermal interface surface of each of the plurality of cold plates (7, 8) at a different position relative to the support frame.

Disclosed herein are medical systems, pads, and methods for exchanging thermal energy between a circulating fluid and a patient. Some pads are configured multiple uses on the same patient or across multiple different patients. Some pads include multiple layers of hydrogel disposed on one or both sides a fluid compartment. Removable hydrogel layers expose other hydrogel layers for subsequent uses of the pad. Removable storage liners encapsulate one or multiple hydrogel layers. Separation liners between adjacent hydrogel layers isolate the adjacent hydrogels from each other and removal of the separation liner extends the operational life a hydrogel layer. Adhesive patches secure the pads to the patient including adhesive patches extending through openings of a pad. Some pads are configured for disinfection, sterilization and / or laundering. In an embodiment, the fluid is air and a vacuum within a compartment of the pad secures the pad to the patient.

The invention relates to a heat-pump arrangement (14) for a dishwasher (1), to which heat-pump arrangement a heat-transfer device (WT) is assigned in which rinsing fluid (24) to be heated flows through at least one pipe portion (28) and is guided outwards to the inner wall (28a) of the pipe portion (28) by a guide means (29). The pipe portion is in heat-exchanging contact with the condenser (18) of the heat-pump arrangement. The working medium (17) of the heat-pump arrangement flows helically around the outside of the pipe portion (28) as an external medium.

A rack system for use, e.g., in data centers is disclosed. The rack system includes a rack frame and a rack-mounted assembly, including an electronic device disposed within the rack-mounted assembly, the electronic device including a heat-generating component. The heat-generating component is in thermal contact with a liquid cooling block through which a channelized cooling fluid is conveyed. The electronic device is immersed in a dielectric immersion cooling liquid. The rack-mounted assembly includes a non-sealed immersion case in which the electronic device is immersed in the dielectric immersion cooling liquid, the non-sealed immersion case configured to permit the rack-mounted assembly to be individually inserted into or removed from the rack frame. Also disclosed are container-based data center modules based on the disclosed rack system, and a data center using numerous such container-based modules.

An inductively heatable aerosol-generating article for an inductively heating aerosol-generating device is provided, including at least one aerosol-forming substrate and at least one susceptor in thermal proximity to the aerosol-forming substrate or thermal contact with the aerosol-forming substrate, the susceptor including an expanded metal sheet including a plurality of openings through the sheet. A method for manufacturing an inductively heatable aerosol-generating article is also provided. An apparatus for manufacturing a susceptor of an inductively heatable aerosol-generating article is also provided.

The invention discloses a cooling system, a control method of the cooling system and an edge server, and relates to the technical field of servers, and the cooling system comprises a refrigeration module and a vapor chamber module. The refrigeration module is used for being arranged outside the case and comprises a generator and an evaporator, and the generator and the evaporator are used for being arranged at a first heat conduction contact position and a second heat conduction contact position of the case correspondingly; the vapor chamber module is used for being arranged in a case and comprises a first vapor chamber set and a second vapor chamber set, the first vapor chamber set is used for being fixed to a heating assembly in the case, and the second vapor chamber set is connected with the first vapor chamber set. And the second uniform temperature plate group is configured to be in heat-conducting contact with the generator at the first heat-conducting contact position and in heat-conducting contact with the evaporator at the second heat-conducting contact position. The cooling system solves the problem that long-term stable work of equipment cannot be guaranteed when a current edge server works in an outdoor environment.

Cooling module includes a mounting element, a force application member, a lever, and a cold plate movably coupled to the mounting element. The mounting element having engagement members, is coupled to a receptacle of an electronic device that is configured to receive a removable electronic device at the receptacle. The force application member having spring fingers, is disposed between the mounting element and the cold plate, and movable relative to the mounting element. The lever is connected to the mounting element and the force application member and shiftable between actuated and unactuated states. In the actuated state, the lever pushes the force application member along a first direction causing the engagement members to move the force application member along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and urge the cold plate to compress the spring fingers and establish thermal contact between the cold plate and the removable electronic module.

Disclosed herein are compact systems for performing targeted temperature management including one or more thermal pad assemblies, each or which includes a thermoelectric device. The thermoelectric device heats or cools a thermal exchange fluid circulating within the thermal contact pad to warm or cool a patient. The thermoelectric device may be included in a temperature control module directly attached to the pad. A modularized temperature control module may selectively include one or more thermoelectric devices coupled with a heat exchanger. Logic stored in memory may, via execution of one or more processors, control the temperature of the thermal exchange fluid by defining a polarity and magnitude of an electrical power supplied to the thermoelectric device. The temperature control module may be selectively attached to and detached from the pad. A pre-use unassembled state of the thermal pad assembly include the pad having the thermal exchanged fluid sealed therein.

The invention discloses a connector and a connector assembly. The connector includes: a housing formed with a first terminal hole and a second terminal hole; the first terminal is mounted in the first terminal hole and used for being matched with a first matching terminal in a matching connector; the temperature sensor is arranged in the first terminal hole, is in thermal contact with the first terminal and is used for detecting the temperature of the first terminal; the second terminal is mounted in the second terminal hole and used for being matched with a second matching terminal in the matching connector; and a connection wire electrically connecting the temperature sensor and the second terminal such that the temperature sensor can be electrically connected to a second mating terminal of the mating connector via the second terminal. In the present invention, the connector is integrated with a temperature sensor, and a lead and a terminal electrically connected to the temperature sensor. Therefore, a user does not need to install a temperature sensor, a welding wire and a crimping terminal, and the use is very convenient.

The invention relates to a half-bridge switch arrangement with a plurality of parallel-connected half-bridges, each half-bridge comprising a first semiconductor switching element and a second semiconductor switching element, comprising: a plurality of half-bridge units (100), each half-bridge unit comprising one of the first semiconductor switching elements (110), one of the second semiconductor switching elements (120), and a support element, wherein the respective first semiconductor switching element (110) and the respective second semiconductor switching element (120) are arranged on the respective support element, a heat sink (180), wherein the plurality of half-bridge units (100) are in thermal contact with the heat sink (180), a first busbar to which a first terminal of each of the first semiconductor switching elements (110) of the plurality of half-bridge units (100) is electrically connected, a second busbar,a third busbar, to which a second terminal of each of the first semiconductor switching elements (110) of the plurality of half-bridge units (100) and a first terminal of each of the second semiconductor switching elements (120) of the plurality of half-bridge units (100) are electrically connected, a third busbar, to which a second terminal of each of the second semiconductor switching elements (20) of the plurality of half-bridge units (100) is electrically connected.

A foot massage device includes a housing, a foot receiving pocket coupled to the housing, a massage assembly disposed in the housing, and a thermal application assembly which is assembled to the foot receiving pocket, wherein the thermal application assembly has a top thermal contact surface which is exposed in the foot receiving pocket, wherein the thermal application assembly has a cooling mode for allowing the top thermal contact surface to provide a cooling treatment to the foot of the user.

A liquid cooling plate is configured to be in thermal contact with at least one first heat source and at least one second heat source. The liquid cooling plate includes at least one first heat dissipation part and a second heat dissipation part. The first heat dissipation part is configured to be in thermal contact with the first heat source and has a fluid chamber. The second heat dissipation part is connected to the first heat dissipation part and configured to be in thermal contact with the second heat source. The second heat dissipation part has a fluid channel, and the fluid channel is in fluid communication with the fluid chamber.

The present disclosure discloses a method for simulating performance of an LNG ambient air vaporizer under a frosting condition, performing site operation test on the LNG ambient air vaporizer to obtain fitting relationship between the outer wall temperature of frosted finned tube and frost layer; transforming a sum of increased frost layer thermal resistance and thermal resistance into equivalent thermal contact resistance, and representing the equivalent thermal contact resistance as a function of the outer wall temperature; establishing a calculation model of the LNG ambient air vaporizer, performing simulation calculation by equivalent heat conduction coefficient, so as to obtain fluid-solid conjugate heat transfer characteristics and vaporization performance of the LNG ambient air vaporizer under the frosting condition. The influences of heat transfer in gas-liquid phase change flow and fluid-solid conjugate heat transfer in the tubes of the vaporizer under the frosting condition are considered in the present disclosure.

The invention discloses a battery cell module, a battery pack and a vehicle, the battery cell module comprises a battery cell and a cold plate, the battery cell comprises a pole, the pole comprises a connecting part and a convex part, the connecting part and the convex part are riveted, a containing groove is defined between the outer wall surface of the convex part and the outer wall surface of the connecting part, and the cold plate is arranged in the containing groove. And at least part of the cold plate is matched in the accommodating groove and is in heat exchange contact with the surface of the accommodating groove. The battery cell module provided by the invention has the advantages that the heat dissipation effect of the pole is good, the space utilization rate of the battery pack is high, the shape design of the accommodating groove is flexible, and the manufacturing cost of the accommodating groove is low.

A system including: (i) a pumped-heat energy storage system (“PHES system”), wherein the PHES system is operable in a charge mode to convert electricity into stored thermal energy in a hot thermal storage (“HTS”) medium; (ii) an electric heater in thermal contact with the hot HTS medium, wherein the electric heater is operable to heat the hot HTS medium above a temperature achievable by transferring heat from a working fluid to a warm HTS medium in a thermodynamic cycle.

An ultra-thin film wireless label can include a temperature sensor. The wireless label can be attached to an object, and the wireless label can be used as a temperature monitoring device. The wireless label can have a stacked structure laying the temperature sensor to have efficient thermal contact with the object, while being relatively insulated from the environment via an insulating layer. The temperature sensor can be calibrated, and the calibration parameters can be stored and later used to generate accurate temperature readings.

A radiator installation component includes a bottom plate defining a bottom opening, a top plate forming an elastic pressing member, a front end plate connected between front ends of the bottom plate and the top plate, and an inner cavity for inserting a radiator defined between the bottom plate, the top plate, and the front end plate. The radiator installation component is installed in a shielding shell of a connector and divides an internal space of the shielding shell into upper and lower accommodating chambers. The bottom opening formed in the bottom plate allows a bottom protrusion of the radiator to protrude into the lower accommodating chamber of the shielding shell. The elastic pressing member is adapted to press on a top surface of the radiator, so that the bottom protrusion of the radiator is in thermal contact with a mating connector inserted into the lower accommodating chamber.

A method and device are described to transfer a viscous functional material onto a receiving substrate. A plate is provided having a cavity surface that includes a cavity. A plurality of individually addressable resistive heater elements are provided that are in thermal contact with respective zones of the cavity. Viscous functional material is provided in the cavity with a material composition that, when sufficiently heated, generates a gas at an interface between the cavity surface in the cavity and the functional material, to transfer the functional material from the cavity by the gas generation onto the receiving substrate. Respective portions of the viscous functional material in respective zones of the cavity are heated by supplying respective ones of the plurality of individually addressable heater elements with an electric power having a respective time dependent magnitude.

The embodiment of the invention provides a robot which comprises a trunk, the trunk comprises a trunk shell, the trunk shell forms a first containing cavity and is provided with a first opening, and the first opening communicates with the first containing cavity; the motor is arranged in the first accommodating cavity; the leg structure is arranged outside the first accommodating cavity and is in transmission connection with the output end of the motor, and the leg structure is configured to move under the driving of the motor; at least part of the heat dissipation piece is arranged outside the first containing cavity and penetrates through the first opening to be in thermal contact with the motor.

Disclosed herein is a medical pad for exchanging thermal energy between a targeted temperature management (TTM) fluid and a patient. The medical pad includes a fluid compartment configured for circulation of a TTM fluid therein. The pad is configured for expansion by providing compressed air to one or more air compartments of the pad, where the expansion defines an increased patient contact area of the pad. An air control module provides air pressure to one or more pads of a TTM system, and the air control module may be incorporated into a TTM system module. The pad further includes a hydrogel layer disposed across an under side of the pad.

An apparatus and method for initiating thermochemical events in an adiabatic reaction calorimeter are provided. The apparatus and method may be used in safety research of lithium battery and reactive chemical thermal runaways. The apparatus comprises a motor-driven conductive heating element in thermal contact with the outer surface of the reaction in the sample container for heat transfer during heating ramp. The heating element is heated and coupled to the sample container to initiate thermal runaway and decoupled once thermal runaway is initiated, which is much faster than many existing slow heating methods used to initiate thermal runaway. Alternatively, when the heating element is kept attached until the completion of the thermal event, a power-compensation DSC curve is resulted.

The invention discloses a power semiconductor packaging device and a power control method. The power semiconductor packaging device comprises a substrate; a semiconductor chip; the vapor chamber comprises an evaporation side, a condensation side and a pressure detection channel, the evaporation side is in thermal contact with the second face, a liquid storage cavity used for storing a cooling medium is formed in the vapor chamber, and the pressure detection channel is arranged on the condensation side and communicates with the liquid storage cavity; the radiator is connected with the condensation side; the pressure detection device comprises a pressure detection piece and a distance detection sensor, the pressure detection piece is arranged in the pressure detection channel and can reciprocate in the extension direction of the pressure detection channel, and the distance detection sensor faces the pressure detection piece and is used for detecting the distance between the distance detection sensor and the pressure detection piece. The working power of the power semiconductor chip can be adjusted through the pressure detection device, so that high-efficiency operation of the vapor chamber is ensured, and meanwhile, the situation that the heat dissipation efficiency is affected by too high internal pressure is avoided.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing targeted temperature management (TTM) therapy to a patient. Systems included herein provide an airflow to the patient in additional to a fluid flow that define a thermal energy exchange with the patient. Various systems may provide air at a defined TTM temperature to a thermal contact pad, a mattress or a ventilator that delivers the TTM air to the patient via the ventilation therapy. Also disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for preventing, managing, and / or removing perspiration moisture from between the thermal contact pad and the patient. Disclosed herein is a thermal contact pad includes a wicking material to draw moisture away from the patient. Disclosed herein also is a thermal contact pad including airflow that draws moisture away from the patient.

Omnivorous solar thermal thrusters and adjustable cooling structures are disclosed. In one aspect, a solar thermal rocket engine includes a solar thermal thruster configured to receive solar energy and one or more propellants, and heat the one or more propellants using the solar energy to generate thrust. The solar thermal thruster is further configured to use a plurality of different propellant types, either singly or in combination simultaneously. The solar thermal thruster is further configured to use the one or more propellants in both liquid and gaseous states. Related structures can include valves and variable-geometry cooling channels in thermal contact with a thruster wall.

A power conversion device includes a housing with a mounting cavity, and the mounted cavity mounts a power element and a heat sink. The heat sink includes a thermally conductive plate which is mounted in the housing. The thermally conductive plate includes a first side in a first direction of the thermally conductive plate, where the first side has a heat source assembly region, and where the power element is disposed in the heat source assembly region and is in thermal contact with the thermally conductive plate. The thermally conductive plate has at least one sealed chamber, where the chamber is provided with flow channels that are spaced apart, and a two-phase cooling medium is accommodated in the flow channel. The flow channel includes a first end and a second end spaced apart in a third direction, and the first end is located above the second end.