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US 12,163,698 B2Granted
Cooling device, method for manufacturing a cooling device, and transport device having a cooling device
AssigneeVertiv Corporation
InventorsJürgen Süss, Oliver Kniffler
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Abstract
A cooling device having a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom; a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from the bottom to the top in a setup direction; a liquefier having an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom; and an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom;
- wherein the vaporizer is configured as a lower unit, and the vaporizer bottom is configured as a lower heat transmitter,
- wherein the liquefier is configured as an upper partial unit, and the upper wall is configured as an upper heat transmitter,
- wherein the compressor and the intermediate bottom are configured in a central unit, and wherein seals are configured at interfaces between the units and the upper partial unit, respectively, and
- wherein the cooling device is operated at an internal pressure of less than half of the atmospheric pressure so that, due to the atmospheric pressure, the upper partial unit and the lower unit are pressed onto the central unit.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom,
- wherein the upper wall is configured as a lamella wall, and/or wherein the vaporizer bottom is configured as a lamella wall, wherein the lamella bottom comprises at least one lamella balance element so that an essentially uniform working liquid level is formed along the lower lamella wall, and wherein a working liquid filling in the cooling device is dimensioned such that a level of the working liquid on the vaporizer bottom is between 10 and 70% of a lamella height of the lower lamella element.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom,
- wherein the upper wall is configured to be planar, and wherein a structure for providing a plurality of fluid channels through which the air or liquid as a cooling medium for the upper wall is able to be guided is attached on the upper wall and outside of an interior space of the cooling device, and/or
- wherein the vaporizer bottom is configured to be planar, and wherein, at the vaporizer bottom, a structure for providing a plurality of fluid channels through which the air or liquid may be guided as a medium to be cooled is configured outside of an interior space of the cooling device.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom,
- wherein the intermediate bottom is configured such that one or several deepest possible points are at a periphery of the cooling device, and such that a dripped-down working liquid on the intermediate bottom runs from a central area to the periphery, and
- wherein the at least one opening is a drill hole that is present at the periphery, dimensioned such that it acts as a throttle between the vaporizer and the liquefier.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom,
- wherein a liquefier-side ventilator and a vaporizer-side ventilator are arranged to generate an air flow past the vaporizer bottom or the upper wall, respectively, wherein a motor axis is connected to both ventilators to drive the ventilators with a single motor.
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A cooling device, comprising:
- a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid, wherein the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom;
- a compressor for compressing a vaporized working liquid, wherein the compressor is configured to convey the vaporized working liquid from a bottom of the cooling device to a top of the cooling device in a setup direction that is adopted for the operation of the cooling device;
- a liquefier comprising an upper wall configured such that the vaporized and compressed working liquid is condensable at the upper wall and drips down from top to bottom;
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- an intermediate bottom configured to collect a dripped-down working liquid, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom, the cooling device further comprising a drip tray outside of a vaporizer space of the cooling device in order to collect a condensate from the vaporizer bottom or from an element in thermal interaction with the vaporizer bottom, wherein the cooling device further comprises a conduit configured to bring the collected condensate into thermal interaction with an outside of the upper wall in order to generate an adiabatic cooling for the upper wall.
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A method for manufacturing a cooling device, comprising:
- arranging a vaporizer for vaporizing a working liquid so that the working liquid is held on a vaporizer bottom, and above a liquefier, wherein the liquefier comprises an upper wall configured such that, at the upper wall, a vaporized working liquid compressed by a compressor is condensable and drips down from top to bottom;
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- arranging an intermediate bottom such that a dripped-down working liquid is collected, wherein the intermediate bottom comprises at least one opening through which the dripped-down working liquid may reach the vaporizer bottom,
- wherein the intermediate bottom is configured such that one or several deepest possible points are at a periphery of the cooling device, and such that a dripped-down working liquid on the intermediate bottom runs from a central area to the periphery, and
- wherein the at least one opening is a drill hole that is present at the periphery, dimensioned such that it acts as a throttle between the vaporizer and the liquefier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.