Patents by Inventor Enrica Monticelli

Enrica Monticelli has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11326613
    Abstract: A fan including a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The fan has a rear longitudinal aperture, for the emission of a stream of air toward the outside, and also comprises an air suction and distribution unit, and a channeling element (20) positioned in proximity to the longitudinal aperture (16). The channeling element allows to divert the stream of air (W) so that it is conveyed toward a front part of the fan (10), at least partly following a profile (40) of an external surface (22) of the main body (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DE' LONGHI APPLIANCES S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventors: Giuseppe De' Longhi, Maddalena Renier, Francesca Prosperi, Enrica Monticelli, Raffaele Toffolo
  • Patent number: 11326612
    Abstract: A fan includes a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The main body defines an internal housing compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DE' LONGHI APPLIANCES S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventors: Giuseppe De' Longhi, Maddalena Renier, Francesca Prosperi, Enrica Monticelli, Raffaele Toffolo
  • Publication number: 20220003441
    Abstract: A method is described to control a conditioning apparatus to prevent or reduce the risk or likelihood that molds will form, proliferate and grow, in particular in internal spaces conditioned by the conditioning apparatus. The control method provides to receive information that is characteristic of the room to be conditioned indicative of the thermal state of this room, to calculate a risk factor indicative of the likelihood of mold formation in the room to be conditioned, in which the risk factor is a function of the characteristic information, and to compare the risk factor with a respective threshold value, in which it is provided to activate the conditioning apparatus for a determinate interval of time when the outcome of the comparison of the risk factor calculated with the respective threshold value reveals a high risk of mold formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Enrica MONTICELLI, Roshanak Seyedem MIRMIRAN, Andrea GIOMO
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20190301475
    Abstract: A fan includes a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The main body defines an internal housing compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: De' Longhi Appliances S.r.l.Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Giuseppe DE' LONGHI, Maddalena RENIER, Francesca PROSPERI, Enrica MONTICELLI, Raffaele TOFFOLO
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20190277297
    Abstract: A fan including a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The fan has a rear longitudinal aperture, for the emission of a stream of air toward the outside, and also comprises an air suction and distribution unit, and a channeling element (20) positioned in proximity to the longitudinal aperture (16). The channeling element allows to divert the stream of air (W) so that it is conveyed toward a front part of the fan (10), at least partly following a profile (40) of an external surface (22) of the main body (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: DE' LONGHI APPLIANCES S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventors: Giuseppe De' Longhi, Maddalena Renier, Francesca Prosperi, Enrica Monticelli, Raffaele Toffolo
  • Publication number: 20120174607
    Abstract: A distributed refrigeration appliance system for use in a residential kitchen and other locations in a dwelling and includes multiple separate refrigeration appliance modules, a central cooling system and a cooling circuit. The system can include one or more satellite stations having a heat exchanger for supplying chilled air to one or more refrigeration appliance modules. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can include a thermal cascade cooling device to cool the module to lower temperatures than the cooling circuit can attain. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can be refrigeration/storage modules that can provide refrigerated, unconditioned or heated storage space. The central cooling system can be a vapor compression system having a refrigerant circuit connecting the modules. Alternately, the central cooling system can cool a secondary cooling medium circuit. The refrigeration system can have more than one refrigeration machine providing cooling to the secondary refrigeration loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: NIHAT CUR, STEVEN J. KUEHL, ENRICA MONTICELLI, JOHN J. VONDERHAAR, DIEGO BARONE, LORENZO BIANCHI
  • Patent number: 8061153
    Abstract: A distributed refrigeration appliance system for use in a residential kitchen and other locations in a dwelling and includes multiple separate refrigeration appliance modules, a central cooling system and a cooling circuit. The system can also include one or more satellite stations having a heat exchanger and arranged for supplying chilled air to one or more refrigeration appliance modules. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can include a thermal cascade cooling device to cool the module to lower temperatures than the cooling circuit can attain. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can be refrigeration/storage modules that can provide refrigerated, unconditioned or heated storage space. The central cooling system can be a vapor compression system having a refrigerant circuit connecting the modules. Alternately, the central cooling system can cool a secondary cooling medium circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Nihat O. Cur, Steven John Kuehl, John Joseph Vonderhaar, Diego Barone, Lorenzo Bianchi, Enrica Monticelli
  • Patent number: 7895851
    Abstract: A method for controlling the humidity inside a refrigerator, having at least a cavity and a refrigeration circuit including an evaporator and a compressor, comprising the step of measuring the relative humidity level inside the cavity, measuring the temperature of the evaporator and feeding the above measured values to a control algorithm capable of driving the refrigeration circuit in order to maintain substantially constant the average level of relative humidity and corresponding to a set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Lorenzo Bianchi, Alessandro Boer, Enrica Monticelli, Raffaele Paganini
  • Publication number: 20110000235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator or freezer having a cabinet forming at least a freezer compartment, at least one door for opening and closing the cabinet, and an adsorbing device containing a desiccant material for collecting moisture from air inside the cabinet, wherein the adsorbing device is mounted inside the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: DIEGO BARONE, ENRICA MONTICELLI, LORENZO BIANCHI, GIULIANO ROSI, LUCA NARDI
  • Patent number: 7797963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a cabinet forming a fresh food storage compartment and a freezer compartment, at least one door for opening and closing the cabinet, and an adsorbing device containing a desiccant material for collecting moisture from air inside the cabinet, wherein the adsorbing device is mounted inside the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Diego Barone, Enrica Monticelli, Lorenzo Bianchi, Giuliano Rosi, Luca Nardi
  • Publication number: 20080196427
    Abstract: A method for controlling the humidity inside a refrigerator, having at least a cavity and a refrigeration circuit including an evaporator and a compressor, comprising the step of measuring the relative humidity level inside the cavity, measuring the temperature of the evaporator and feeding the above measured values to a control algorithm capable of driving the refrigeration circuit in order to maintain substantially constant the average level of relative humidity and corresponding to a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: LORENZO BIANCHI, ALESSANDRO BOER, ENRICA MONTICELLI, RAFFAELE PAGANINI
  • Publication number: 20080156033
    Abstract: A distributed refrigeration appliance system for use in a residential kitchen and other locations in a dwelling and includes multiple separate refrigeration appliance modules, a central cooling system and a cooling circuit. The system can also include one or more satellite stations having a heat exchanger and arranged for supplying chilled air to one or more refrigeration appliance modules. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can include a thermal cascade cooling device to cool the module to lower temperatures than the cooling circuit can attain. One or more refrigeration appliance modules can be refrigeration/storage modules that can provide refrigerated, unconditioned or heated storage space. The central cooling system can be a vapor compression system having a refrigerant circuit connecting the modules. Alternately, the central cooling system can cool a secondary cooling medium circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: NIHAT O. CUR, STEVEN JOHN KUEHL, JOHN JOSEPH VONDERHAAR, DIEGO BARONE, LORENZO BIANCHI, ENRICA MONTICELLI
  • Publication number: 20070175330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a cabinet forming a fresh food storage compartment and a freezer compartment, at least one door for opening and closing the cabinet, and an adsorbing device containing a desiccant material for collecting moisture from air inside the cabinet, wherein the adsorbing device is mounted inside the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: DIEGO BARONE, ENRICA MONTICELLI, LORENZO BIANCHI, GIULIANO ROSI, LUCA NARDI
  • Patent number: 7114350
    Abstract: A refrigerator with an evaporator and at least one preservation compartment, in which the evaporator is formed from extendable spiral-wound tube of engineering polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Riccardo Soldinger, Enrica Monticelli, Roberta Bernasconi
  • Publication number: 20060196217
    Abstract: An arrangement for the forced air circulation in refrigerators and freezers, whose cabinet (10) defines at least one compartment (20, 30), a respective door (21, 31), and an air-cooling chamber (11) lodging an evaporator (12) and from which the compartment is supplied with a forced cooling air-flow. The arrangement comprises: at least one suction duct (40), incorporated to the door (21, 31) and which is provided with air inlets (41), opened to the interior of the respective compartment (20, 30), and with at least one air outlet (42) turned to the interior of the cabinet (10). A return fan (50) is mounted so as to draw the air from different levels of the front part of the compartment, and to form inside the suction duct (40) a return airflow that is directed to the air outlet (42) of the suction duct (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Publio Otávio Duarte, Marco Marques, Enrica Monticelli
  • Patent number: 7055338
    Abstract: A refrigerator having a compressor and a control unit for selectively activating and deactivating the compressor in response to the temperature inside the refrigerator. The selective activation and deactivation of the compressor being carried out at predetermined cut-on and cut-off temperatures. The control unit being adapted to detect how the actual temperature inside the refrigerator increases above the cut-on value due to a special event, and to adjust the cut-off temperature of the refrigerator accordingly, in order to keep the temperature of stored food substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Dejan Ergarac, Enrica Monticelli
  • Publication number: 20050115259
    Abstract: A refrigerator having a compressor and a control unit for selectively activating and deactivating the compressor in response to the temperature inside the refrigerator. The selective activation and deactivation of the compressor being carried out at predetermined cut-on and cut-off temperatures. The control unit being adapted to detect how the actual temperature inside the refrigerator increases above the cut-on value due to a special event, and to adjust the cut-off temperature of the refrigerator accordingly, in order to keep the temperature of stored food substantially constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Dejan Ergarac, Enrica Monticelli
  • Publication number: 20040237579
    Abstract: A refrigerator with an evaporator and at least one preservation compartment, in which the evaporator is formed from extendable spiral-wound tube of engineering polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Riccardo Soldinger, Enrica Monticelli, Roberta Bernasconi