Patents Examined by Justin M Jonaitis
  • Patent number: 11892206
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a distributor, and a first heat transfer tube and a second heat transfer tube connected in parallel with each other with respect to the distributor. The first heat transfer tube is disposed above the second heat transfer tube. The first heat transfer tube has a first inner circumferential surface, and at least one first groove recessed relative to the first inner circumferential surface and arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the heat transfer tube. The second heat transfer tube has a second inner circumferential surface, and at least one second groove recessed relative to the second inner circumferential surface and arranged side by side in a circumferential direction. An internal pressure loss of the first heat transfer tube is smaller than an internal pressure loss of the second heat transfer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiki Kanatani
  • Patent number: 11885538
    Abstract: A refrigerator comprising a fan to operate for supplying cold air to a cooling chamber; an RF output device disposed in the cooling chamber, and for outputting an RF signal into a cavity in the cooling chamber; and a controller for controlling the RF output device, wherein the controller is configured to output the RF signal to goods in the cavity, and to operate in a first section in which temperature of the goods falls, and a second section in which the temperature of the increases after the first section and maintains, wherein when the RF output device operates, a temperature of the cavity is higher than a temperature of other area in the cooling chamber. Accordingly, the freshness of the goods in the refrigerator can be maintained by using the RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Junseong Jeong, Seokhyun Kim, Sangoh Kim
  • Patent number: 11865895
    Abstract: An accumulator in combination with an internal heat exchanger in a shared housing, the accumulator including a cyclone for separation of the gas and liquid phase of a refrigerant, wherein the cyclone includes two separate, curved flow paths, one of which leads from an inlet on the cover side whose direction of flow is closer to the axial than the radial direction of the cyclone into the accumulator and radially outwards, and the other of which leads outwards from an end facing away from the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Jiri Zapletal
  • Patent number: 11839895
    Abstract: A fully automated land irrigation system to irrigate regular and irregular shapes of land. The system includes a water deliver pipe assembly configured to travel laterally while irrigating adjacent to a stationary row of spaced access valves supplied by a water main. The system includes a single coupler automated connector to automatically supply water to the water delivery pipe assembly. The connector includes a swing arm pivotably mounted to the water delivery pipe assembly, a valve coupler mounted to the swing arm to selectively access water from the water main via the spaced access valves and a water conveyance to operably flow water between the valve coupler and the swing arm. The valve coupler includes a vertical coupler travel configured to provide essentially vertical travel of the valve coupler relative to the swing arm. The water delivery pipe assembly can be center-pivot rotated employing a rotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Guy Williams
  • Patent number: 11833380
    Abstract: A flame arrester/burner assembly with a multifarious arrester element for preventing deflagrations and extended endurance burning time (FABA-XT). The multifarious element flame arrester includes a pipe body having a first end and a second end, a first arrester element positioned within the pipe body adjacent the top end; a third arrester element adjacent the bottom end; and, a second arrester element positioned in the pipe body between the first arrester element and the second arrester element. The first, second, and/or third arrester elements may be of the same design or disparate designs. The FABA-XT of the present disclosure is an end-of-line burner element for use in VOC-Vapor Destruction Systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Dwight Brooker
  • Patent number: 11819903
    Abstract: Heat exchanger, and production method, including at least two plates of metal material, overlapping and reciprocally joined together so as to define a perimeter edge of the heat exchanger, and at least one circuit for the passage of a heat-carrier fluid defined by at least one or more heat exchange channels made between the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: A. RAYMOND ET CIE
    Inventors: Giorgio Colugnati, Pietro Giamei
  • Patent number: 11802742
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (100) includes a plurality of flow paths (10) each having a tubular shape, the plurality of flow paths including a plurality of first flow paths (11) configured to allow a first fluid (3) to flow therethrough and a plurality of second flow paths (12) configured to allow a second fluid (4) to flow therethrough. The plurality of flow paths extend in a predetermined direction as a whole. A position and an outer shape of each of the plurality of flow paths in a cross-section (CS) orthogonal to the predetermined direction vary according to a position of the each of the plurality of flow paths in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kota Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11802699
    Abstract: The Desktop Air Purifier with Double-layer Glass Tube Ultraviolet Disinfection Lamp (The desktop air purifier with DLGTUVDL) uses a turbo blower with an air filter to draw in outside air to be disinfected through its specially designed double-layer glass tube ultraviolet disinfection lamp. The ultraviolet disinfection lamp of the desktop air purifier has a double-layer glass tube with an inner glass tube and an outer glass tube. The center of the inner glass tube is a hollow space for external air to pass through and receive UV disinfection. This unique design allows ultraviolet rays to surround the entire hollow tube space to provide 360-degree ultraviolet radiation and disinfection at a close distance without dead ends, which greatly improves the disinfection efficiency. In addition, the desktop air purifier with DLGTUVDL has the function of natural plant scent air purifying agent to provide the disinfected air that carries the natural plant scents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yan Zhang, Tianlan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11796213
    Abstract: An energy recovery system used with HVAC and Air-Conditioning units that is incorporated into a roof-curb, final filter curb assembly or base support structure (roof-curb air plenum) commonly used with mass produced standard or semi-custom manufactured air conditioning systems. The arrangement includes core or wheel type energy recovery media arranged and affixed within the curb or support base in an orientation and method to maximize the amount of energy recovery surface area installed in a minimum area while still allowing good airflow practices. Other items included may be filter racks preceding where air enters the energy recovery cores, a singular or multiple fan(s) to move the air, a condensate drain pan, and a preheat coil or bypass dampers which operate to prevent frosting of the energy recovery surface areas in cold conditions. A direct digital controller may also be included to maximize efficiency and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen G Ehrman
  • Patent number: 11786922
    Abstract: A voltage application device includes a voltage application circuit. The voltage application circuit applies application voltage between discharge electrode and counter electrode which face each other with a clearance left from each other to generate a discharge. The voltage application device forms discharge path partially and dielectrically broken between discharge electrode and counter electrode when a discharge is generated. Discharge path includes first dielectric breakdown region formed around discharge electrode, and second dielectric breakdown region formed around counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsunori Aono, Jumpei Oe, Yohei Ishigami, Kana Shimizu, Takafumi Omori, Yukari Nakano, Takayuki Nakada
  • Patent number: 11785674
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and apparatuses for heating a liquid are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a heater includes a base comprising a generally planar surface and at least two heater pillars and a sensor pillar configured on the base. The at least two heater pillars each comprise heating elements. The sensor pillar includes a thermal sensor. A mixing element is configured on the generally planar surface of the base and is coupled to a mixing motor. When powered, the heating elements of the heater pillars are configured to generate heat and the mixing motor is configured to cause the mixing element to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Group B Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Illi Eisner
  • Patent number: 11781821
    Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement includes walls defining at least two circuit passages for porting a first fluid, a first of the circuit passages defining a first passage length, and a second of the circuit passages defining a second passage length, the second passage length being different from the first passage length, the walls being in thermal communication with a second fluid while isolating the first fluid from the second fluid, at least one of the first circuit passage and the second circuit passage includes a flow control feature configured to decrease an imbalance in flow between the first circuit passage and the second circuit passage compared to if the flow control feature were not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas M. Yun, Vijay Narayan Jagdale, Brian St. Rock
  • Patent number: 11781815
    Abstract: A heat rejection panel that comprises a chassis having a first side, an opposing second side, and an aperture extending therethrough. The panel additionally comprises at least one oscillating heat pipe (OHP) plate disposed over a portion of the first side and/or the second side of the chassis. Each OHP plate includes a first face, an opposing second face, and a plurality of internal OHP channels. A portion of the first face and/or second face of each OHP plate is accessible for thermal interfacing with a heat source. A portion of the second face of each OHP plate is accessible for thermal interfacing with a heat sink. Each OHP plate will remove heat from the heat source, spread the removed heat throughout each OHP plate to provide an isothermal OHP plate, and reject the heat to the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ThermAvant Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Alexander, Daniel Pounds, Joshua Schorp, Bruce Drolen, Corey Wilson, Joseph Boswell
  • Patent number: 11778782
    Abstract: Provided is a condenser for use in an electronic assembly. The condenser includes a first vertical wall extending in a vertical direction, the first vertical wall defining a first plurality of vertical condensation channels within the first vertical wall, a second vertical wall extending in the vertical direction, the second vertical wall defining a second plurality of vertical condensation channels within the second vertical wall, and a first plurality of fins extending in the vertical direction, each of the first plurality of fins connected to the first vertical wall, the second vertical wall or both the first vertical wall and the second vertical wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: DEERE & COMPANY, ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: Emily Cousineau, Gilberto Moreno, Kevin Scott Bennion, Thomas Roan, Brij N. Singh
  • Patent number: 11746918
    Abstract: Pressure relief valves for use in high pressure underwater applications that may include a plunger, a body with a mating surface corresponding to the shape of a mating surface sub-section of the plunger, and one or more sealing elements, such as a pair of O-rings, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SESSCAN INC.
    Inventors: Eric M. Chapman, Mark S. Olsson
  • Patent number: 11747095
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided with a unitary, single-piece structure that can be formed via 3D printing, for example. The heat exchanger includes a main body a plurality of plates stacked and integrally formed with the body. First fluid channels are defined by gaps in the material of the main body, and second fluid channels are defined by gaps in the material of the main body and are stacked with the first fluid channels in alternating fashion, separated by the plates. Each of the first fluid channels define a first flow path, and each of the second fluid channels define a second flow path. A portion of the first flow paths overlap, and are oriented opposite to, a portion of the second flow paths. Another portion of the first flow paths overlap, and are oriented transverse to, another portion of the second flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Denso International America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Vandermeer, Sean Schoneboom, Jason Spenny
  • Patent number: 11740027
    Abstract: To mitigate thermal stress concentration in the vicinity of a flow-volume limiting portion in a stacked plate heat exchanger to thereby prevent fatigue breaking due to the same. The flow-volume limiting portion is also provided with opening portions that are similar to those in flow paths to reduce rigidity difference from flow path portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: T.RAD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Bungo, Atsushi Okubo, Taiji Sakai
  • Patent number: 11740035
    Abstract: A cooling device has a heat receiving unit that has a space therein, liquid phase piping that supplies liquid phase refrigerant to the heat receiving unit, gas phase piping that discharges gas phase refrigerant from the heat receiving unit, and spacers that are disposed inside the heat receiving unit. The spacers have a higher specific gravity than the liquid phase refrigerant. The spacers have a shape allowing movement along the bottom face of the heat receiving unit. When the heat receiving unit tilts, the spacers move to the low side of the heat receiving unit. The spacers gather on the bottom face of the heat receiving unit on the low side. The liquid phase refrigerant spreads to the high side of the heat receiving unit by an amount equivalent to the volume removed due to the spacers, and uniform cooling can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Morimine
  • Patent number: 11719491
    Abstract: A heat transfer member reinforcement structure includes a main body. The main body has a first side, a second side and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member is selectively disposed between the first and second sides or inlaid in a sink formed on the first side. The reinforcement member is connected with the main body to enhance the structural strength of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Yuan-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 11712707
    Abstract: Provided is a compact sized low flow rate fluidic nozzle insert. The fluidic nozzle insert may include a fluidic oscillator chip on a front face having a flat-top interaction region, and a manifold on a back face, located opposite the front face, to house fluid. The fluidic nozzle insert may further include at least one feed having a u-shape connecting the front face and back face for the transport of fluid from the manifold, at least one power nozzle oriented toward the front face for directing fluid from the at least one feed to the interaction region of the fluidic oscillator chip, and a v-shaped outlet at the bottom of the interaction region defined by two flat walls for the passage of fluid from the interaction region to the outside of the fluidic nozzle insert in a fan pattern. The produced spray fan pattern may be uniform and fluid nozzle may work well with high viscosity fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: DLHBOWLES, INC.
    Inventor: Chunling Zhao