Patents Examined by Frances F Hamilton
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Patent number: 11624514Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhigang Xing, Hui Yu, Zhisheng Lei, Kangwen Zhang, Yu Liu, Yuhang Tang
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Patent number: 11608993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiawen Liang, Ali Zhao, Zhisheng Lei
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Patent number: 11609003Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Inventor: Gregory White
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Patent number: 11578890Abstract: A mechanism for opening and closing a damper valve of a diffuser mechanism is provided. Embodiments of the invention include a damper construction that selectively alters the amount of air flow through a diffuser grille using a three-plate damper valve. The three-plate damper valve includes a manual plate, a fixed plate, and a motorized plate. The manual plate is manually rotatable around a central axis, while the motorized plate is mechanically rotatable about the same axis. The motorized plate is mechanically and/or remotely controlled using a stepper motor coupled to the motorized plate. Further, the diffuser mechanism includes a sensor for determining the location of the motorized plate with respect to a starting position. As such, multiple configurations of the manual plate and the motorized plate may be used to alter the air flow through the resulting channels of the damper mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: AIRFIXTURE, LLCInventors: Michael J. McQueeny, Jr., James E. Megerson, David S. Alstatt, Pedro J. Bermudez, J. Patrick McQueeny
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Patent number: 11566794Abstract: Disclosed herein are an air conditioner includes a housing having an outlet, and a blade configured to open and close the outlet and having a plurality of holes. The blade includes a first side extending in a first direction, a second side extending in a second direction, and a block area in which none of the plurality of holes are formed, at least a number of the plurality of holes are disposed on a first line extending in the first direction, and a second line spaced in the second direction from the first line, respectively, where the second line extends in the first direction, and the block area comprises an area formed in the first direction between the first line and the second line.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jang Jung Lee, Hyun-Ho Kim, Hong Yeol Moon, Chul Byung Park, Hyeon U Park, Seung-Jun Yoon, Jei Min Choi
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Patent number: 11560043Abstract: A passenger cabin air distribution system includes a ventilation system and an ejector-diffuser. The ventilation system is operable to provide a conditioned air. The ejector-diffuser is positioned to receive a flow of the conditioned air from the ventilation system. The ejector-diffuser includes an induction unit and a diffuser section. The induction unit includes a secondary inlet in communication with a cabin air from a passenger cabin and is configured to mix the flow of the conditioned air with an induced flow of the cabin air into a mixed air. The diffuser section includes a discharge to eject the mixed air to the passenger cabin. The diffuser section is shaped to provide for efficient mixing with low backpressure in order to maintain the low motive pressure in the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John Charles Gray, Daniel Jay Menard, Mary Eileen Beckman
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Patent number: 11549718Abstract: The air condition measurement apparatus according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing comprising a first space and a second space therein; a light-emitting unit which is positioned inside the housing, comprises a first lens, and radiates light to air flowing into the housing; a light-receiving unit which is positioned inside the housing, comprises a second lens, and receives reflected light formed from the reflection of the radiated light, radiated from the light-emitting unit, by foreign substances included in the air; a blocking member which transmits the radiated light or the reflected light and separates the first space, in which the light-emitting unit or the light-receiving unit is disposed, from the second space; and a control unit, wherein the control unit may be configured to measure the condition of air on the basis of a signal corresponding to the reflected light received by the light-receiving unit. Other various embodiments may be possible.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hun-Young Ryu
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Patent number: 11519618Abstract: A method of installing a dryer vent in a building exterior foundation wall during construction of the building. The dryer vent installation method comprises mounting a rigid wall plate that includes a fastener tube, the fastener tube includes outwardly facing pins. The dryer vent installation method includes mounting a removable flapper housing with mounting slots, the housing including a flapper valve. The dryer vent installation method further includes removably fastening the flapper valve housing slots to the fastener tube pins.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Inventor: Gregory White
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Patent number: 11493219Abstract: The present invention provides an intelligent air shield formation device, having a plurality of nozzles are configured to discharge purified air towards ground, detecting a body region of the detected person, generating region information, controlling the plurality of nozzles corresponding to the region information, generating movement information based on a speed of movement of the body region, controlling the shape of the region information to be deformed based on the movement information.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Inventor: Sangyul Lee
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Patent number: 11491844Abstract: An air vent in a motor vehicle interior includes an air supply channel, a first air discharge channel, which branches off from the air supply channel and includes a first air inlet opening and a first air outlet opening. The air vent also includes a second air discharge channel, which branches off from the air supply channel and includes a second air inlet opening and a second air outlet opening, and an air adjuster for adjustment of the quantity of air transported through the first air discharge channel and the second air discharge channel. The air adjuster has a round cross-section, on the outer face of which a first, a second, and a third segment are provided, which are spaced apart from one another, and which respectively close or at least partially open the first air inlet opening, the second air inlet opening, or the air supply channel, as required.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ingolf Hoerschler, Stefan Zemsch, Rene Zocher
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Patent number: 11473367Abstract: A shutter includes a window frame, a plurality of blade structures, an intake driving unit and an airflow guiding unit. The window frame has an upper frame portion, a lower frame portion and two side frame portions. The blade structures are disposed on the window frame, and each has a through hole and a plurality of outlets. The intake driving unit is disposed in the upper frame portion. The airflow guiding unit is disposed in at least one of the two side frame portions. Each of the through holes of the blade structures communicates with the inside of at least one of the two side frame portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventors: Tien-Sheng Lu, Yu-Chung Wu
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Patent number: 11465833Abstract: An assembly for saturating or aerating a medium with fluid. At least one hollow cylinder having gates and vents embedded within a grain mass. A target section of grain mass is identified and the gates and vents activated to provide influent flow to the target section in both vertical and horizontal directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HABER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Eric Harweger
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Patent number: 11460203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Measured Air Performance, LLCInventor: Eric Desrochers
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Patent number: 11435098Abstract: An access control system receives a trigger command for controlling a ventilation system; determines that the trigger command includes a lock trigger to hold an entrance door in a closed position; and induces a locking differential air pressure between opposite sides of the entrance door in response to the lock trigger, where the locking differential air pressure is sufficient to bias the entrance door to contact or to increase contact with a door frame in the closed position. The access control system may also determine that the trigger command includes an open assist trigger to ease an opening of the entrance door; and may induce an opening differential air pressure between the opposite sides of the entrance door in response to the open assist trigger, where the opening differential air pressure is sufficient to bias the entrance door to reduce contact with the door frame in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventor: Thomas P. Naughton
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Patent number: 11433739Abstract: An air vent for a motor vehicle includes a housing which defines an air guiding channel and a plurality of lamellae which are provided at their ends with bearing pins, the lamellae being pivotably attached thereby to the housing. The lamellae are mounted on opposing sides with one respective radial bearing and on just one side with one respective axial bearing.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Günther Krämer, Laurent Le Tohic
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Patent number: 11413932Abstract: A method of operating a vehicle climate system when an ambient temperature is below a threshold temperature is provided. In response to an ambient temperature being less than a threshold temperature, a controller is adapted to operate a blower motor at a voltage that depends on whether the vehicle is in charge sustain mode or charge deplete mode. The controller operates the blower motor according to a first voltage responsive to a charge sustain mode, and operates the blower motor according to a second voltage different than the first voltage in response to a charge deplete mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jasbir Jaglan, William Stewart Johnston, Alan Douglas Wallington, Curtis Mark Jones, Chris George Oehring, Mark G. Smith
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Patent number: 11408622Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a device in connection with a sensed temperature in a space includes an actuator for regulating the operation of the device, a temperature sensor for providing the sensed temperature, and a thermal antenna connected to the temperature sensor. The thermal antenna may form part of the exposed face of the apparatus. A housing may include partitions, such as a plurality of circuit boards, for communicating with the actuator to provide control for the device. The partitions or circuit boards are spaced apart to form ventilation channels for ventilating heat from the housing, including byway of an encouraging convective flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: DELTA T, LLCInventors: Marcus Landon Borders, Richard Alan Oleson
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Patent number: 11408636Abstract: An air guide grille is provided, the air guide grille includes a plurality of grid strips, wherein the plurality of grid strips are arranged in a plurality of rows, an air inlet side edge of each of the plurality of grid strips is of a corrugated shape, and an air inlet side edges of two adjacent rows of grid strips in the plurality of grid strips is provided in a staggered manner along a length direction of the corrugation. In order to form a corrugated air inlet between two adjacent rows of gate strips, the each of the plurality of grid strips has an air guide surface inclined toward a first direction along the air guiding direction thereof, and the first direction is parallel to an undulating direction of a corrugation. In addition, an air inlet panel and an air conditioner are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Yao Li, Tengju Liu, Zhangcheng Chen, Shanyong Ma
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Patent number: 11402121Abstract: An insulated register box apparatus with a boot rail adapter has a register box, an insulating material affixed within the register box, a rail affixed to a side panel of the register box, and a rail guide having a slot that receives a section of the rail therein. The rail guide is adapted to be affixed to a supporting surface. The rail is affixed to at least one of the side panels of the register box. The rail is slidable relative to the rail guide. The register box has a plurality of side panels and a duct that opens to an interior of the plurality of side panels. The insulating material extends inwardly of the plurality of side panels.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventor: Sterling Kidd Combs
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Patent number: 11377006Abstract: A seat conditioning module for a seat conditioning assembly including an air mover, an intake port, outtake port, wherein at least one of the intake port, the outtake port, or both are in fluid communication with a seat surface. A valve assembly with at least two apertures movably disposed between the air mover and the at least one intake and at least one outtake ports. An actuation device for moving the valve assembly to control the passage of the fluid through the at least two apertures. An optional conditioning device in fluid communication with the air mover and the seat surface. A control device for at least controlling the position of the at least two apertures of the valve assembly, the activation of the optional conditioning device, the operation of the air mover, or any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Gentherm GmbHInventors: Goran Bajic, Syed Rafat Iqbal, Dmitri Axakov, Matthew Zuzga