Patents Examined by Edelmira Bosques
  • Adjustable vanes for vehicle nozzles
    Patent number: 11648823
    Abstract: A nozzle to output air onto an interior surface of a windshield of a vehicle is includes: a housing including: a first opening configured to receive air output by a blower; a second opening to output air toward the interior surface of the windshield; N sets of tracks formed in the housing, where N is an integer greater than 1; N vanes that are flexible and that each slide along a respective one of the N sets of tracks; and an actuator that is coupled to each of the N vanes and that is configured to slide along the N vanes along the N sets of tracks, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Enrique Gomez Bravo Manzo, Gerard A. Brinas
  • Ventilating device for a vehicle seat
    Patent number: 11648857
    Abstract: Heating and cooling device for a vehicle seat with separating material (2) that forms at least a portion of an air-distribution chamber (1), with an upper-side layer (4) covering the separating material (2) on its upper side, with a lower-side layer (5) of separating material (2) on the underside opposite from the upper-side layer (4) that is essentially airtight whereby the upper-side layer (4) and the lower-side layer (5) are connected together about the outer circumference of the separating materials (2). An air-inlet aperture (6) is provided to the air-distribution chamber (1) and air-outlet apertures (10) are provided in the upper-side layer (4) to remove air from the air-distribution chamber (1). The upper-side layer (4) and the lower-side layer (5) are connected at least about their outer circumference by a box-shaped insert (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: I.G. Bauerhin GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Bauer, Thorsten Schleucher
  • Vacuum freeze-drying apparatus and vacuum freeze-drying method
    Patent number: 11644236
    Abstract: Provided are a vacuum freeze-drying apparatus and a method capable of continuously performing vacuum freeze-drying in a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MII, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Morimoto, Makoto Takehara
  • Dynamic register system with an adapter member for oscillating air vents
    Patent number: 11644216
    Abstract: A dynamic register system automatically adjusts venting panels attached to an air vent in order to evenly disperse the air supplied by the vent in a room. The dynamic register system includes a fan internally mounted within the air vent. The air supplied by the air vent causes the fan to turn providing the system with mechanical energy. The fan is then attached to a gear system which in turn is attached to an adapter. The gear system then translates the rotational mechanical energy of the fan into an oscillating motion for the adapter. The adapter is then mounted to an axle which engages with the venting panels attached to the vent. As the adapter oscillates the axle is adjusted which in turn adjusts the venting panels periodically to evenly distribute air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Juan Yuniesqui Perez, Yusbel Perez
  • Opening and closing device, air duct assembly and air conditioner
    Patent number: 11635227
    Abstract: An opening and closing device includes a door cover including a vent and an opening and closing member configured to be inserted into the door cover through an opening of the vent along an extension direction of the vent. The opening and closing member includes an air door and is movable between an open position at which the air door does not close the vent and a closed position at which the air door closes the vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junhua Zhou, Shengchang Hu, Jiajun Wang, Huoxu Huang
  • Regulating airflow in a computer system
    Patent number: 11632874
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide a barrier in the cooling airflow of a component of a computing device that, when the barrier is extended, impedes the airflow, thereby diverting excess cooling airflow from the component to a different component with a different flow path. In response to increased pressure from the airflow, the barrier retracts to permit a greater airflow. Embodiments respond to an increase or decrease in airflow without requiring additional control input and include barriers that deform or pivot in response to increased pressure to permit greater airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Ting Yu Lin
  • Method and system for controlling air quality in an indoor environment of a building
    Patent number: 11629874
    Abstract: A method of controlling air quality in an indoor environment of a building is described. The method utilizes a system that comprises a carbon dioxide sensor configured to detect an instantaneous value of carbon dioxide concentration in the air of the indoor environment of the building, a control unit in signal communication with the carbon dioxide sensor, a communication unit for establishing signal communication between the carbon dioxide sensor and the control unit, and a storage unit in signal communication with the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FBP S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Scaramelli, Gaetano Lapenta
  • Window air conditioner with water receiving pan and filter screen support
    Patent number: 11624514
    Abstract: A window air conditioner includes an indoor heat exchanger, a water receiving pan below the heat exchanger, and a filter screen. The water receiving pan includes mounting portions for connecting to heat exchanger flanges. At least one mounting portion has a slot to cooperatively receive a filter screen fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhigang Xing, Hui Yu, Zhisheng Lei, Kangwen Zhang, Yu Liu, Yuhang Tang
  • Air conditioner systems and methods
    Patent number: 11624516
    Abstract: Air conditioner systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, an air conditioner is installed using an installation frame. In some embodiments, an air conditioner system includes a latch mechanism positioned proximate a bottom surface of an air conditioner unit, the latch mechanism having a latch release mechanism and a latch engagement mechanism to engage with a latch recess of a frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: DON'T BE HOT CORP.
    Inventors: Muhammad Abdullah Haroon Saigol, Erik Palmer Rauterkus, Joseph Lyle Koch
  • Ceiling-embedded air conditioner
    Patent number: 11619403
    Abstract: In order to enable a uniform air-conditioning of the entire room, a fixed air blowing portion 75 and movable air blowing portions 77 on both sides thereof are provided on a decorative panel 70 as an air blowing part 74, and the movable air blowing portions 77 can rotate about an axis orthogonal to the panel surface or the ceiling surface of the decorative panel 70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakagawa
  • Stand alone copper burner panel for a metallurgical furnace
    Patent number: 11619450
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. The burner panel has a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a left surface, a right surface, and a front surface surrounding an interior burner area. A spray-cool system disposed in the interior area. A burner tube at least partially disposed in the interior burner area and extends into the front surface. The burner tube is configured to accept a burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Ferguson, Troy D. Ward
  • Incremental actuator with feedback control
    Patent number: 11614246
    Abstract: A system for controlling a flow rate through an HVAC component is provided. The system includes a controller communicably coupled with a potentiometer and an actuator configured to drive the HVAC component between multiple positions to affect the flow rate. The controller configured to determine an actuator position setpoint based on a flow rate setpoint, drive the actuator to the actuator position setpoint using a calculated travel period, and set a current actuator position based on a voltage signal received from the potentiometer upon stopping the actuator at an expiration of the calculated travel period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Mark G. Freund
  • Boiler and the method for controlling combustion of the boiler
    Patent number: 11614258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a boiler which determines a clogging degree of an exhaust flue through which combustion gas is discharged and adjusts gas supply amount to maintain its combustibility, and a combustion control method thereof, the method of the present invention including a) setting a target heat value for achieving a target temperature, b) applying a first database on the basis of the target heat value, c) measuring a rotational speed of an air blower and a pneumatic pressure of air introduced by rotation of the air blow, d) applying a second database on the basis of a rotational speed difference, a pneumatic pressure difference, and the target heat value to calculate an estimated flue clogging value according to the target heat value, and a) applying a third database according to the estimated flue clogging value to calculate an opening amount of a gas valve and control gas supply amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyuk Choi
  • Sealing device for window air conditioner and window air conditioner having the same
    Patent number: 11608993
    Abstract: A sealing device for a window air conditioner includes a first adjusting member and a second adjusting member. The second adjusting member includes a sliding space. The first adjusting member extends into the sliding space. The second adjusting member is slidable relative to the first adjusting member. One of an outer peripheral wall of the first adjusting member and an inner wall of the second adjusting member includes a plurality of buckles spaced apart from one another along a moving direction of the second adjusting member. Another one of the outer peripheral wall of the first adjusting member and the inner wall of the second adjusting member includes an elastic protruding portion in switchable contact fit with the plurality of buckles during movement of the second adjusting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiawen Liang, Ali Zhao, Zhisheng Lei
  • Water heater with upstream water heater detection
    Patent number: 11609025
    Abstract: A water heater and methods of operating the water heater are provided. The water heater appliance includes a tank, a cold water inlet conduit extending into the tank, a heating element within the tank, a hot water conduit extending from the tank to a mixing valve, a mixed water conduit downstream of the mixing valve, and a user interface. The method includes and/or the water heater is operable for receiving, from the user interface, a user value for a tank temperature setpoint. An upstream water heater is detected and a capacity thereof is predicted. The tank temperature setpoint is then adjusted based on the predicted capacity of the upstream water heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Sukumar Arrojula
  • Clothes dryer exhaust vent for building exterior wall
    Patent number: 11609003
    Abstract: A clothes dryer exhaust vent (dryer vent) and the method of installation in a residential or commercial building exterior foundation wall, during construction of a building, to save the expense and costs of a clothes dryer exhaust vent installation after a building has been constructed, to reduce repair and additional construction costs. The dryer vent has a rigid wall mounting plate (plastic or metal) that is mounted in the construction block array of an exterior building foundation wall while the wall is under construction. The clothes dryer exhaust vent includes a clothes dryer exhaust vent tube connected through the rigid, wall mounting plate (manually removable), an exterior (outdoors) hemispherical-shaped clothes dryer vent open end cover assembly, manually removable for cleaning and removing lint, said cover assembly including a clothes dryer exhaust vent flapper valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: Gregory White
  • Hair dryer
    Patent number: 11602208
    Abstract: Provided is a hair dryer assembly. An example hair dryer assembly includes a housing and a handle. The housing has a side, an air outlet, and a rear opening. The handle is attached to the side of the housing. The hair dryer assembly further includes a heating wire disposed in the housing and an electric ventilator disposed in the handle. The hair dryer assembly further includes a magnetic ring recessed inside the air outlet of the housing and a diffuser removably attached, via the magnetic ring, to the air outlet of housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: AIRGLE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yang Zhen Lo
  • Furnace
    Patent number: 11603607
    Abstract: A furnace for thermal treatment, in particular for carbonization and/or graphitization, of material, in particular fibers, in particular fibers of oxidized polyacrylonitrile PAN. During the thermal treatment, a pyrolysis gas is released from the material. The furnace includes a housing, a process space, which is located in the interior of the housing and is delimited by a process space housing and through which the material can be fed, a heating system for heating a process space atmosphere prevailing in the process space, and an extraction system for suctioning process space atmosphere laden with pyrolysis gas from the process space. The extraction system has at least one suction device having a suction channel, which is delimited by a channel wall and which is connected to the process space by means of a suction opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: EISENMANN SE
    Inventors: Matthias Muck, Dimitri Sabelfeld
  • Air grille for an HVAC system with a collapsible filter holder
    Patent number: 11598551
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages an air grille. The air grille comprises a front face and a duct face end. The duct face end is in the opposite of the front face. A plurality of flaps are configured on the duct face end, wherein the flaps are capable of collapsing. During shipping the flaps are collapsed whereas before installation the flaps are uncollapsed to facilitate containment of an air filter. The air grille has first thickness when the flaps are collapsed and second thickness when the flaps are uncollapsed, wherein the first thickness is less than the second thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cardinal IP Holding, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas J. Dykhuis
  • Hot water recirculation system
    Patent number: 11592190
    Abstract: A hot water recirculation system for a house or other building causes water to be recirculated to a water heater for reheating until the water is above a set-point temperature at which time the heated water is made available for use at a faucet or other hot water plumbing fixture. Recirculation of hot water takes place only when there is demand for hot water at a hot water plumbing fixture. A flow switching module for use in the hot water recirculation system can selectively direct water supplied to the flow switching module from a water heater either to a hot water plumbing fixture or to return piping for returning the water to the water heater. The flow switching module may be operated manually, automatically, or semi-automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Roger Kaufman