Patents by Inventor Nicholas Rivers

Nicholas Rivers 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).

  • Controlling heat exchange from refrigeration system to geothermal system
    Patent number: 10883746
    Abstract: Apparatus including a refrigeration system, a geothermal system, and a refrigerant flow control apparatus connected between the refrigeration system and the geothermal system, wherein a first valve system is selectively actuatable to (i) in a first operation mode cause the refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit to flow through a first heat exchanger, with no refrigerant flow through a second heat exchanger, (ii) in a second operation mode cause the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit to flow first through the first heat exchanger and then through the second heat exchanger in a first refrigerant flow direction, (iii) in a third operation mode cause the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit to flow through the second heat exchanger, with no refrigerant flow through the first heat exchanger, and (iv) in a fourth operation mode cause the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit to flow first through the second heat exchanger and then through the first heat exchanger in a second refrigerant flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Alban Leiper, Alex Rossi, Nicholas Rivers, Dmitriy Zaynulin
  • CONTROLLING HEAT EXCHANGE FROM REFRIGERATION SYSTEM TO GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160320097
    Abstract: An apparatus connected to a refrigeration system and a geothermal system including: a first refrigerant connection connecting a compressor discharge line of a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration system to a first side of a first heat exchanger, the first side of the first heat exchanger being couplable to the refrigerant and a second side of the first heat exchanger being couplable to ambient air, a second refrigerant connection connecting the first side of the first heat exchanger to a first side of a second heat exchanger, a second side of the second heat exchanger being couplable to a working fluid in a geothermal system, a third refrigerant connection connecting the first side of the second heat exchanger to a liquid return line of the refrigeration circuit, a first refrigerant interconnection that interconnects the first refrigerant connection with the second refrigerant connection, a second refrigerant interconnection that interconnects the second refrigerant connection with the third refrigerant con
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Alban Leiper, Alex Rossi, Nicholas Rivers, Dmitriy Zaynulin