Raytheon Company

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Eric B Swanson

Tuan L Duong

Christopher R Koontz

William H Francis

Michael Hulse

Kyle L Jones

A system includes a pair of chassis, a housing, and a cooling module. Each chassis including multiple rails with adjacent rails defining card slots. The housing connected to the chassis in first card slots on the pair of chassis and formed to contain electronic components including a heat generating component. The cooling module connected to the chassis in second card slots on the pair of chassis and formed to contact the heat generating component through an aperture in the housing.

Aligned multi-rail high-power cooling module

An apparatus includes a first planar region having a first surface configured to contact a heat sink. The apparatus also includes at least one second planar region having a second surface configured to contact a surface of at least one heat generating component, the at least one second planar region being parallel to the first planar region and disposed in at least one plane that is offset from the first planar region. The apparatus further includes a plurality of flexure regions disposed at an angle or curved relative to the first planar region and the at least one second planar region. The plurality of flexure regions connect the at least one second planar region to the first planar region. The first planar region and the at least one second planar region are formed of at least a thermally conductive material and a stiffening material and the plurality of flexure regions are formed of at least the stiffening material.

Composite spring heat spreader

An improved control method that constrains the operation of a manipulator in a control system is provided. Modifying a conventional control system to conform to this new method requires the selection of a preferred or desired direction of adjustment for the manipulator and the selection of a reset value for the manipulator. The conventional control system, which normally adjusts the manipulator as necessary to achieve a desired value for a system variable, is constrained by this new method so that the system variable achieves the desired value as a final or direct result of using manipulator adjustments that are in the selected desired direction of adjustment.

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Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Eric B Swanson