Patents Examined by Edelmira Bosques
  • Fire damper
    Patent number: 11713892
    Abstract: A fire damper for an air distribution system includes a body defining a flow path and a closure means adapted to close the flow path when a temperature within the flow path exceeds a predetermined maximum temperature. A first flange is fixed to the body and a mounting means comprising a second flange is slidably engageable with and removable from the body. The mounting means comprises securing means for securing the mounting means to the body such that a building element through which the fire damper extends, in use, can be clamped between the first and second flanges. A flexible insulating sleeve configured for use with a fire damper, and a method of installing a fire damper, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: PRICE HOLYOAKE (NZ) LIMITED
    Inventors: Scott Noel Holyoake, Gary Brian Holder
  • Smart IoT energy saving sound wave air filter system and use for air purifiers and a method of air filtration thereof
    Patent number: 11708986
    Abstract: An air filter and a method of air filtration using the air filter are described. The air filter may comprise a filter media adapted to capture and filter one or more impurities from air. Further, one or more sound wave generators are attached at one or more sides of the filter media. The one or more sound wave generators generate acoustic waves to be propagated into the filter media. The air filter may further comprise a plurality of sensors positioned before the filter media and after the filter media. Further at least one fan is positioned before or after the filter media. Further an IoT is configured to control frequency of the acoustic waves generated by the one or more sound waves generators, and interconnected with power signal control panel parallel, AHU to control rotational speed of the at least one fan based on value provided by the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTELLYTIC VENTURES LTD
    Inventor: Steven Nai-Kin Chan
  • Flow sensor for vehicle liquid heater which protects against overheating
    Patent number: 11709001
    Abstract: A flow heater for new forms of vehicles. The flow heater comprises a passageway for liquid, a heating source, a swing mechanism arranged in the passageway, and a sensor for detecting a position of the swing mechanism. In some embodiments, the swing mechanism includes a flap and a stopper wherein the flap is hinged to an inner wall and the stopper is fixed to an inner wall and located to abut the flap in the absence of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Emissions Systems (NINGBO) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Zhang, Xiaoyong Ding, Yanyan Guo
  • Air deflector system
    Patent number: 11703250
    Abstract: Implementations of air deflectors may include a curved section coupled between a first and second sidewall. Air deflectors may also include a first magnet retainer extending from the first sidewall. The first magnet retainer may include a first retainer wall, a second retainer wall, and a retainer tab extending from the first sidewall and positioned between the first retainer wall and the second retainer wall. A first magnet may be positioned between the first retainer wall and the second retainer wall. The air deflector may also include a second magnet retainer extending from the second sidewall and a second magnet coupled with the second magnet retainer. The first retainer wall and the second retainer wall may each include a ledge directly coupled to the first magnet. The first magnet may be coupled between the retainer tab and each ledge of the first retainer wall and the second retainer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Spectrum Products, LLC
    Inventors: Renee Mosiman, Michael Mosiman
  • Exhaust demand control system and methods
    Patent number: 11698202
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an exhaust demand control system for measuring one or more contaminants at one or more exhaust locations within one or a plurality of exhaust ducts or plenums served by an exhaust fan system. Example systems and methods can include sensing the one or more contaminants within the one or more exhaust duct locations using a multipoint air sampling system having one or more sensors and comparing contaminant concentration measurements from the one or more of said exhaust duct or plenum locations against an action level to create a fan setback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Measured Air Performance, LLC
    Inventor: Eric Desrochers
  • Vent device having one or more stage ventilation assemblies
    Patent number: 11697326
    Abstract: A vent device includes at least one stage ventilation assembly, each stage of the at least one stage ventilation assembly includes an inner layer element and an outer layer element. An air duct is formed between the outer layer element and the inner layer element, and the air duct has an air duct outlet. Each stage of the at least one stage ventilation assembly has an air duct open position and closed position. The outer layer element and the inner layer element are configured to be able to move along the first direction relative to each other between the air duct open position and closed position. In the air duct closed position, the inner layer element closes the air duct outlet, and in the air duct open position, the inner layer element opens the air duct outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Yu, Jibang Yang
  • Ventilation member
    Patent number: 11700699
    Abstract: A ventilation member is attached to a through hole of a housing. The ventilation member includes: a support body in which a ventilation path that forms a flow path for gas between the interior and the exterior of the housing; a sealing member that seals between the support body and the housing; a ventilation membrane that is provided on the ventilation path to prevent a liquid and a solid from passing through and to allow gas to pass through; and a surrounding portion that is provided to the support body and is formed with a uniform height to surround an end portion opening of the ventilation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youzou Yano
  • Liner for dryer appliances
    Patent number: 11697902
    Abstract: A dryer appliance includes a cabinet and a drum rotatably mounted within the cabinet. The drum defines a chamber for the receipt of articles for drying. A door is movably mounted to the cabinet adjacent to an opening in the drum. The door is movable relative to the cabinet between an open position and a closed position. The chamber in the drum is accessible through the opening when the door is in the open position and the chamber is enclosed when the door is in the closed position. A liner is disposed within the chamber in the drum when the door is in the closed position. The liner may be porous. The liner may include an electron acceptor material and an electron donor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander B. Leibman
  • Air register assembly
    Patent number: 11697325
    Abstract: A vehicle air register assembly includes a housing defining a cavity. An upstream portion of the cavity is disposed proximate to an inlet and a downstream portion of the cavity is disposed proximate to an outlet. Vertical vanes are disposed within the upstream portion. The vertical vanes direct air in a horizontal direction. A horizontal vane assembly is disposed within the downstream portion. The horizontal vane assembly directs the air in a vertical direction. The horizontal vane assembly includes at least one horizontal vane including a driver portion rotatably coupled to the housing proximate to the outlet and a follower portion coupled to the housing proximate to the upstream portion. The follower portion is rotatably coupled to the driver portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: George David Koch Smith, Steven Nicholas Fidh, Brent Clifford Dalton, Anthony Michael Esser, Martin Alfred Lindell
  • Water feedback in vertical forced-flow steam generators
    Patent number: 11692703
    Abstract: A method for starting a vertical forced-flow steam generator in a waste-heat steam generator, wherein feed water is fed to the forced-flow steam generator as working fluid, and there flows firstly through a feed-water preheater and then through an evaporator and is at least partly evaporated, wherein the partly evaporated working fluid is fed to a water separation system, in which non-evaporated working fluid is separated from evaporated working fluid and is collected, in which at least part of the non-evaporated working fluid is fed geodetically to the evaporator and, beginning from a certain quantity of accumulating non-evaporated working fluid, a remaining part is automatically removed from the water separation system. A corresponding device is for starting a vertical forced-flow steam generator according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jan Brückner, Martin Effert
  • Appliance with reliable information of a drying cycle
    Patent number: 11686041
    Abstract: An appliance having a drying chamber for performing a drying cycle, a capacitive sensing arrangement within the drying chamber and configured to generate an electric signal indicative of a degree of humidity of a load contained in the drying chamber, and a control unit arranged for carrying out at least one among: estimating a mass of the load; estimating a residual humidity of the load; estimating a residual time to the end of the drying cycle, and detecting an end of the drying cycle according to the electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: Federico Del Maschio, Giorgio Pattarello
  • Method for driving an actuator of an HVAC system
    Patent number: 11679646
    Abstract: A method for driving an actuator of an HVAC system having a region of mechanical play is provided, and which comprises the steps of: a] monitoring a position of a movable member of the HVAC system or at least one rotatable element of the actuator to determine when the region of mechanical play has been entered or exited; and b] ramping a drive power to the actuator between a zero-velocity drive power and a steady-state-velocity drive power during the region of mechanical play. The HVAC system implementing the above method is not only capable of reducing the noise produced by an HVAC system, but is also capable of reducing an over-powering of the actuator when there is a low load on the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventor: Yvan Bourqui
  • Window air conditioner sealing device
    Patent number: 11680716
    Abstract: A window air conditioner includes a casing including a cabinet. The cabinet includes a receiving groove formed at an outer peripheral wall of the cabinet. The receiving groove is recessed downwards to separate the cabinet into an indoor part and an outdoor part. The window air conditioner further includes an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan arranged in the indoor part, and an outdoor heat exchanger and a compressor arranged in the outdoor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangwen Zhang, Hui Yu, Yu Liu, Zhigang Xing
  • Dryer
    Patent number: 11678777
    Abstract: A dryer includes a hollow casing having an open front, a fan configured to introduce air into the casing and blow the air, a heater configured to heat the air introduced into the casing, a discharge tube disposed at a downstream side of the fan to be thereby rotatable inside the casing, and having an air inlet formed at a rear and an air outlet formed at a front, a motor configured to generate power for driving the discharge tube, and having a rotation shaft, and a connector connected to the rotation shaft so as to enable the discharge tube to be rotated about a first axial line of the rotation shaft, and connected to the discharge tube so as to enable the discharge tube to be rotated about a second axial line forming a predetermined angle relative to the first axial line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsun Yoo, Jaehung Chun, Yousook Eun, Joogyeom Kim, Sungkyung Kim, Myongsun Kim
  • System and method of controlling a heat transfer system
    Patent number: 11668488
    Abstract: System and methods for controlling operating state of a heat transfer system are disclosed herein. The heat transfer system can include temperature sensor positioned at the fluid inlet line and the fluid outlet line and a heat exchanger between the fluid inlet line and the fluid outlet line. The heat transfer system can include a processor communicatively coupled to the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor. The processor can determine an inlet temperature of water flowing in the fluid inlet line and outlet temperature of water flowing in the fluid outlet line and can determine a delta temperature based on difference between the inlet temperature and the outlet temperature. Based on the inlet temperature and the delta temperature, the processor can determine an operating state of the heat transfer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jorge Miguel Gamboa Revilla, Satya Kiran Gullapalli, Sergio Fernando Montalgo Salazar, Juan Carlos Montanez, Amin Monfared, Alexander Chow
  • Use of biomass furnace for direct air-drying of grain and other particulate
    Patent number: 11662144
    Abstract: A heating apparatus for supplying heated air to a dryer for grain or other particulate materials. The apparatus features a biomass furnace with a burn chamber for combustible biomass material, a chimney having a lower end in fluid communication with the burn chamber interior, and air ducting that has a fresh air inlet, an output end connected or connectable to the dryer, and is in in fluid communication with the chimney to enable redirection of said heated exhaust air from the chimney to the dryer via the air ducting. An airflow control system is configured to both control airflow to the dryer through the air ducting, and control a temperature of said airflow by varying a ratio between the fresh ambient air and the heated exhaust air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Triple Green Products Inc.
    Inventors: David Maendel, Lyall Wiebe
  • Window air conditioner with mounting base
    Patent number: 11655987
    Abstract: A window air conditioner includes a housing including a separation groove dividing the housing into two parts, a mounting base movably mounted in the separation groove, and a sealing member connected with the mounting base. The sealing member is fitted with the mounting base by deformation, and the sealing member is configured to be driven by the mounting base to switch between a storage state and a working state. In the storage state, the sealing member is received in the separation groove. In the working state, the sealing member is at least partially outside the separation groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Yu, Zhigang Xing, Yu Liu, Kangwen Zhang, Zhisheng Lei
  • Burner control system
    Patent number: 11656000
    Abstract: A water heater control system the water heater system comprising a rechargeable and non-rechargeable power source. In one or more examples, a controller such as a microcontroller of the water heater system is configured to receive power from the non-rechargeable power source and does not receive power from the rechargeable power source. Various other components of the water heater system are configured to receive power from the rechargeable power source. The system may comprise an energy storage system electrically connected to a pilot valve operator and electrically isolated from a main valve operator. The controller may be configured to recognize a call for main burner operation and may also be configured to check an available voltage of the energy storage system against a setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M. Anderson, Rolf L. Strand, Frederick Hazzard, Gregory Young
  • Hair care appliance
    Patent number: 11653737
    Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar
  • Damper blade assembly for HVAC system
    Patent number: 11655997
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a damper assembly configured to regulate airflow and having a frame. The HVAC system includes a first damper blade piece having a first airfoil surface and a second damper blade piece having a second airfoil surface. The first damper blade piece and the second damper blade piece are configured to couple with the frame, and are configured to interlock with one another to form a damper blade having an airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Sarjerao D. Pingale, Bhushan C. Kadu, Anil V. Bhosale, Manjur Tamboli