Patents Examined by Andrew J Triggs
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Patent number: 11821256Abstract: A windowsill assembly includes a beam member and an insert bracket. The beam member includes a first leg and a second leg, the first leg meeting the second leg at a joining region at proximal ends of the first leg and the second leg. The insert bracket includes a first portion and a second portion that are substantially perpendicular to each other to substantially match an angle between the first leg and the second leg of the beam member. The insert bracket couples the beam member to a support member.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Advanced Architectural Products, LLCInventor: G. Matt Krause
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Patent number: 11814856Abstract: The present application relates to a tower tube section, a tower frame and a wind power generator set. The tower tube section includes a tower tube section body; a reinforcing assembly including a supporting member connected to the tower tube section body and a plurality of reinforcing cables connected to the supporting member. The plurality of reinforcing cables are arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the tower tube section body, and each of the plurality of reinforcing cables extends along an axial direction of the tower tube section body and is apart from a periphery surface of the tower tube section body by a predetermined distance in a radial direction of the tower tube section body. The tower tube section has a strong bearing capacity and low cost, which can meet the power generation benefits of the wind power generator set.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinlei Liu, Ke Zhang, Junjie Han
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Patent number: 11813663Abstract: A cold formed anchor for use in an insulated cavity wall includes a unitary body formed with a driver portion and having large and small diameter portions. The driver portion may be formed with structure for connecting a veneer tie to the anchor. A method of making the cold formed anchor includes cold forming a driver portion and a reduced diameter portion from a blank.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Hohmann & Barnard, Inc.Inventor: Ronald P. Hohmann, Jr.
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Patent number: 11808079Abstract: An inner frame of a door or a window is disclosed. The inner frame is disposed at an inner side of a window sash, and is connected between a jamb of the door or the window sash and a door frame or a window frame. The inner frame includes a fixing portion for fixing to the jamb, a water baffle, and a connecting portion for connecting with the door frame or the window frame. One side of the fixing portion is fixed to the jamb, the water baffle is integrally disposed on the other side of the fixing portion opposite to the one side, and the connecting portion is integrally disposed on a side of the water baffle facing away from the fixing portion and is connected to the door frame or the window frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SICHUAN MCWELL VENTILATION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Liang, Zhibin Hu, Quanbo Hu
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Patent number: 11802577Abstract: A system for a tower segment of a tower is presented, wherein the tower segment is configured for forming at least partially a part of a tower for carrying a structure, in particular for supporting a nacelle of a horizontal-axis wind turbine or a machine house of a vertical-axis wind turbine. The system is configured to be attached, arranged, and/or mounted to the tower segment and comprises at least an airflow manipulation arrangement and a support arrangement. The airflow manipulation arrangement includes an airflow manipulator which is configured for affecting an airflow around the tower segment. The support arrangement is configured for supporting the airflow manipulation arrangement and for mounting the airflow manipulation arrangement to the tower segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.Inventor: Stefan Bernhard Voss
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Patent number: 11795714Abstract: According to one aspect of what is invented, a wall repair kit 10 comprises a back blocking element 12, for blocking a hole 13 in a wall 15, behind the hole in the wall; and a front blocking element 14, for blocking the hole in the wall, in front of the hole in the wall. Embodiments are disclosed that comprise a connecting element 18, to connect the front blocking element and the back blocking element. Embodiments are disclosed wherein the front blocking element comprises an input aperture 16, to facilitate inputting a filler agent into the hole in the wall, through the front blocking element. Embodiments are disclosed that are operable with the connecting element travelling through the input aperture, to connect the back blocking element and the front blocking element. Embodiments are disclosed where a container, for containing filler agent, is removably attachable to the front blocking element.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Gustavo Medina
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Patent number: 11795695Abstract: A flashing assembly for use with a roof penetrating structure, such as a roof window, in an inclined roof of a building is disclosed. It comprises a bottom flashing element and at least one side flashing element, both of which are provided with a bend portion bent away from the interior side towards the exterior side and forming a water drainage channel, which extends along an edge. The dimensions of the flashing elements are such that the two water drainage channels extend in continuation of each other in the mounted condition of the flashing assembly, and least one of the water drainage channels has a U-shape in a cross-section perpendicular to the edge of the flashing element along which is extends. A method for manufacturing a flashing assembly is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Jens-Ulrik Holst Henriksen, Søren Frederiksen
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Patent number: 11788291Abstract: A clamp for controlling uplift of panels of a metal roof is provided where the clamp secures two adjacent panels together. In some embodiments, the clamp has a slot configured to receive a roof joint between adjacent panels, and the clamp has at least one arm that secures the roof joint within the clamp and prevents the clamp from being pulled off of the roof joint. In addition, the clamp may have a channel and at least one protrusion that locate the roof joint within the clamp in a predetermined position to ensure that a bar component such as a bolt or a set screw can secure the roof joint within the clamp. Moreover, further features and arrangements of features can better position the clamp over a center of the roof joint.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: RMH TECH LLCInventors: Dustin M. M. Haddock, Jesse Charles Winternitz
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Patent number: 11781526Abstract: A mast section (1) including a wall includes two tubular mast elements (14) stacked and arranged edge to edge at a joining plane (P), each element (14) comprising two wall segments (16) connected by segment connectors (26) extending along the longitudinal edges of the segments (16). The mast section (1) comprises element connectors (36) each extending across and connecting the elements (14) together. The element connectors (36) are arranged either on the inner surface (12) and outer surface (13) of the wall and the segment connectors (26) are arranged on the other surface, each element connector (36) extending at least partially opposite at least one of the segment connectors (26) in a radial direction of the mast section (1) such that the wall is placed between said element connector (36) and the segment connector (26).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Beatriz Ventura Garcia, Michaël Gremling, Emilie Dupont
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Patent number: 11773591Abstract: An acoustic ceiling tile and a dynamic acoustic ceiling system that includes multiple ceiling tiles that can be quickly and easily installed onto ceiling structures utilizing attached or embedded magnetic assemblies to provide an aesthetically pleasing image, such as an fluctuating image, along with a reduction in unwanted noise or room acoustics, wherein the attached or embedded magnetic assemblies are configured to be removed from the ceiling tile, and then configured to be easily placed or located onto a different location on the ceiling tile as needed, to allow for optimal installation of the ceiling tile onto the ceiling structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TURF DESIGN, INC.Inventors: Jason T. Gillette, Keith Alsberg, Scott H. Wilson, David B. Seal
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Patent number: 11773650Abstract: A tower segment for at least a section of a tower includes a tower segment defining an interior, a longitudinal axis, and a wall, and a supply structural segment preassembled in the interior of the tower segment extending along a the longitudinal axis of the tower segment. The supply structural segment is movable relative to the tower segment and connected to the wall of the tower segment so that the supply structural segment can be moved at least from an assembly position to a connecting position. Other tower, tower segment, support structure, support structural segment, and methods of erection of same use at least a tower segment of a tower.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Max Bögl Wind AGInventors: Thorsten Betz, Stefan Bögl
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Patent number: 11773596Abstract: Disclosed herein are roof brackets, devices, and apparatuses for standing seam metal roofs to provide a removable place to place a foot. In one aspect, an apparatus may include a bracket configured to releasably secure to a standing seam of a panel, the bracket having a housing having at least one side comprising a slot configured to allow at least a portion of a standing seam to travel therethrough; a plurality of cams contained within the housing, the plurality of cams rotatably connected to the housing at a first portion of the plurality of the cams; at least one elongated member connected to at least one of the plurality of cams; and at least one tension element connected to the housing and in operable communication with at least one of the plurality of cams. Also disclosed herein are methods for using the disclosed roof brackets and apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Inventor: Jim Mitchell
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Patent number: 11767704Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a roof window (1) with a vacuum insulated glass unit (3). The roof window (1) comprises a VIG unit (3) and a frame arrangement (2). The frame arrangement 2 comprises a fixation frame (7) and a sash (6) fixed to the a VIG unit (3), and the sash (6) is movably connected to the fixation frame (7) by means of a hinge connection (80) so that a top end part (16a) of the sash (6) is configured to move inwards and a bottom end part (16b) of the sash is configured to move outwards when opening the sash (6) from a closed position. The bottom end part (16b) of the sash (6) comprises an elongated, structural bottom member (6c) having an inner surface (41) facing towards the top end part (16a) of the sash, and an opposite exterior surface (42) facing away from the top end part (16a). The VIG unit (3) comprises an overlapping part (9b) where the evacuated gap (4) overlaps the elongated, structural bottom member (6c) of the sash (6).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: VKR HOLDING A/SInventors: Utku Ahmet Özden, Jacob Christian Molbo, Jens Troels Plesner Kristensen
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Patent number: 11767682Abstract: A transition piece for a wind turbine tower including a hollow frustoconical piece that is connected to an upper ring and a lower ring. The upper ring is connected to crossbars and the lower ring to radial columns. The transition piece also includes three connectors, each of them being connected to a crossbar, two radial columns and two connection profiles that keep the three connectors joined together, so that a pair of radial columns is arranged between a connector and the lower ring and the crossbars are arranged between the upper ring and a respective connector. The radial columns form an angle of between 65° and 75°, measured between the longitudinal axis of the corresponding radial column with the normal axis of the frustoconical piece.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: NABRAWIND TECHNOLOGIES, S.LInventors: Hely Ricardo Savii Costa, Ion Arocena De La Rúa, Eneko Sanz Pascual, Javier Iriarte Eleta, Jose Alberto Rojo Carrión
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Patent number: 11767681Abstract: A tower structure of a wind turbine includes a plurality of tower sections stacked atop each other in an end-to-end configuration along a vertical axis to form the tower structure of the wind turbine at a wind turbine site. Each of the tower sections is formed of at least one first tubular portion and at least one second tubular portion. Further, the first and second tubular portions of each of the plurality of tower sections are concentric with each other. Moreover, the first tubular portion is formed at least in part, of a cementitious material and the second tubular portion is formed of a perforated material having a plurality of holes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Norman Arnold Turnquist, Gregory Edward Cooper
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Patent number: 11769477Abstract: A sound absorbing panel assembly comprising the woven basalt material. The sound absorbing panel assembly comprises a height, a width, a length, a cover and an absorbent panel. The cover comprises a woven basalt material. The absorbent panel comprises a sound absorbent acoustic panel. The absorbent panel is covered by the cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Inventor: Joab Jay Perdue
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Patent number: 11767672Abstract: A building panel is constructed of a corrugated material. The panel can be folded into a U-shaped configuration. Successive folded panels can be coupled together using complementary shaped corrugations to fix panels in position relative to each other. Shaped connectors can be used to connect building panels in one plane to building panels in another plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: L2U Group Pty LtdInventors: Klaus Hammersholt Hansen, Andrew David Hunter
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Patent number: 11753842Abstract: Provided is a tower of a wind turbine, having a hollow inner space and a door for opening and closing an aperture into the inner space, wherein the door is a sliding door, which is slidingly arranged on a tower aperture member attached to the tower, and which sliding door is at least partially sealed by a seal to the tower aperture member at least when the door is in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventor: Adnan Dokic
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Patent number: 11753843Abstract: The present invention provides a reinforcing structure and method for reinforcing valve towers, mainly aiming at valve towers with three or more layers, wherein the four corners of the side face of each layer of a valve section of the valve tower are provided with connecting flanges, and connecting rods are used for connecting the corresponding connecting flanges of adjacent valve towers of the same bridge arm to realize lateral reinforcing. The connection modes of lateral reinforcing mainly include horizontal connection, interleaving connection and cross-layer connection. The invention provides various reinforcing solutions for flexible DC valve towers in the environment of long-term turbulence and strong vibrations, the reinforcing structure is simple and effective, high in reliability and operability, and easy to disassemble, and the stability and safety of the valve towers during transportation and operation are enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: NA ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Haibo Yu, Xiaobo Zhang, Biao Gao, Bin Liu, Chenxi Ren, Weiwei Zhang
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Patent number: 11754048Abstract: Tower erection systems and methods utilizing a load-sharing support member (LS support member) are disclosed. The LS support member can have a first end coupled to a crane tower and a second end configured to repeatably couple to the upper-most tower section of a partially assembled tower stack during assembly. During lifting, a portion of the vertical load is transferred to the partially assembled tower stack.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.Inventors: Farzad Azizi, Travis James Miller, Anthony Jason Harms, Robert Benjamin Donnally