US Patent Issued to VACON on Aug. 19 for "Heat pipe cooling device and method with fan controlled based on air temperature" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,127, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VACON OY (Vaasa, Finland).

"Heat pipe cooling device and method with fan controlled based on air temperature" was invented by Nicklas Jan Anders Sodo (Vaasa, Finland), Tommi Keski-Kujala (Vaasa, Finland) and Tuomas Yli-Rahnasto (Vaasa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cooling a device such as an electric motor drive or a general power converter, said device comprising a heatsink, electronic components connected to the heatsink, a heat pipe connected to the heatsink, an inlet air temperature measuring device and a cooling fan. According to the method, the drive establishes whe...