Abstract:
A self-healing metal structure is provided for transferring heat between an electronics component and a substrate. The self-healing metal structure includes a base metal structural component. A phase change material is provided adjacent at least a portion of the base metal structural component. A protective component at least partially encapsulates the phase change material. Upon the presence of a spatial defect in the base metal structural component, the phase change material reacts with the base structural component to form an intermetallic compound to at least partially occupy the spatial defect. The phase change material at least partially encapsulated with the protective component may be disposed within the base metal structural component as a plurality of separate capsules incorporated therein, or the phase change material at least partially surrounds the base metal structural component.
Abstract:
A system of bonded substrates may include a first substrate, a second substrate, and a bonding layer. The first substrate may include a bonding surface, wherein a geometry of the bonding surface of the first substrate includes a plurality of microchannels. The second substrate may include a complementary bonding surface. The bonding layer may be positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the bonding layer may fill the microchannels of the first substrate and may contact substantially the entire bonding surface of the first substrate. The bonding layer may include a metal.
Abstract:
A system includes a vehicle having an electronic device, a sensor designed to detect sensor data corresponding to at least one property of the electronic device, an output device designed to output data, and a vehicle network access device designed to transmit the sensor data. The system also includes a machine learning server separate from the vehicle and having a machine learning processor designed to receive the sensor data, and generate, using a machine learning algorithm, a model of the electronic device. The machine learning processor is also designed to determine that a fault is likely to occur with the electronic device by conducting a T squared statistical analysis of the sensor data using the model, and generate a signal to be transmitted to the vehicle network access device when the fault is likely to occur and output information indicating that the fault is likely to occur.
Abstract:
A cooling bond layer for a power electronics assembly is provided. The cooling bond layer includes a first end, a second end spaced apart from the first end, a metal matrix extending between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of micro-channels extending through the metal matrix from the first end to the second end. The plurality of micro-channels are configured for a cooling fluid to flow through and remove heat from the cooling bond layer. In some embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels are cylindrical shaped micro-channels. In such embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels may have a generally constant average inner diameter along a thickness of the cooling bond layer. In the alternative, the plurality of micro-channels may have a graded average inner diameter along a thickness of the cooling bond layer. In other embodiments, the plurality of micro-channels may have a wire mesh layered structure.
Abstract:
A vapor chamber includes a wick structure created by an additive selective laser sintering process. The wick structure includes a substrate, a first copper powder layer, a second copper powder layer, and a plurality of additional layers. The first copper powder layer is deposited across the substrate, wherein the first copper powder layer is subsequently selectively fused via a fusing instrument. The second copper powder layer is deposited across the first copper powder layer, wherein the second copper powder layer is subsequently selectively fused via the fusing instrument. Additionally, a plurality of additional copper powder layers are deposited wherein each additional layer is deposited on the previous layer, wherein each of the additional copper powder layers is selectively fused with a predetermined structure.
Abstract:
A power electronics assembly includes a semiconductor device stack having a wide bandgap semiconductor device, a semiconductor cooling chip thermally coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device, and a first electrode electrically coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device and positioned between the wide bandgap semiconductor device and the semiconductor cooling chip. The semiconductor cooling chip is positioned between a substrate layer and the wide bandgap semiconductor device. The substrate layer includes a substrate inlet port and a substrate outlet port. An integrated fluid channel system extends between the substrate inlet port and the substrate outlet port and includes a substrate fluid inlet channel extending from the substrate inlet port into the substrate layer, a substrate fluid outlet channel extending from the substrate outlet port into the substrate layer, and one or more cooling chip fluid channels extending into the semiconductor cooling chip.
Abstract:
A system for rapidly heating a vehicle engine when the engine is below a pre-determined temperature allows for improved fuel efficiency after a vehicle cold-start. The system includes an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) loop having a two-phase ORC fluid traveling circuitously through a conduit. The ORC fluid is vaporized by a power electronics cooling device and by an evaporator in thermal communication with exhaust waste heat. The vaporized ORC fluid is passed through an expander to generate electrical power. When the vehicle engine is below the pre-determined temperature, heat from the vaporized ORC fluid is transferred directly or indirectly to the engine. When the vehicle engine is at or above the pre-determined temperature, heat from the vaporized ORC fluid is instead transferred to an alternate heat sink.
Abstract:
Pool boiling systems, cooling systems configured to cool one or more heat generating portions of a vehicle, and methods of maintaining a functional orientation of a pool boiling unit are disclosed. A pool boiling system may include the pool boiling unit and a stabilizing unit coupled to the pool boiling unit. The stabilizing unit maintains the pool boiling unit in a functional orientation across a plurality of operating orientations of the pool boiling system.
Abstract:
A power electronics assembly that includes a first cooling chip fluidly coupled to a second cooling chip. The first cooling chip and the second cooling chip each include a cooling chip fluid inlet, a cooling chip fluid outlet, and one or more cooling chip fluid channels extending between and fluidly coupled to the cooling chip fluid inlet and the cooling chip fluid outlet. The power electronics assembly also includes a semiconductor device positioned between and thermally coupled to the first cooling chip and the second cooling chip and a thermo-electric generator positioned between and thermally coupled to the semiconductor device and one of the first cooling chip or the second cooling chip.
Abstract:
Power electronics modules having jet impingement assemblies utilized to cool heat generating devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a jet impingement assembly includes coupled manifold plates having a fluid inlet and outlet, a distribution surface, and a collection surface. The distribution surface of the first and second manifold plate is coupled to define a distribution manifold having a fluid distribution channel and one or more arrays of orifices extending through both manifold plates. Heat transfer plates are coupled to each manifold plate's collection surface forming impingement chambers. The heat transfer plates include one or more arrays of fins extending toward the collection surface of each manifold plate fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet. The first and second manifold plates and the first and second heat transfer plates are positioned in a horizontal stack such that the fluid inlets of both manifold plates are adjacent.