Patents by Inventor Wayne Ernest Conrad

Wayne Ernest Conrad 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).

  • Surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 11745190
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air treatment chamber having a first end comprising a first end wall, an axially spaced apart second end comprising a second end wall, a sidewall extending between the first and second end walls, an air treatment chamber air inlet and an air treatment chamber air outlet provided at the second end. A dirt collection region, which is contiguous with the air treatment chamber, is positioned axially from the first and second end walls and is closer to the second end wall than the first end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 11744421
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus includes first and second pre-motor filters that are in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Filter assembly
    Patent number: 11745131
    Abstract: A filter assembly has a first housing having a plurality of recesses provided therein and a second housing having a plurality of ribs provided on an inner surface thereof. When the first and second housings are in an engaged configuration, the ribs are receivable in the recesses of the first housing thereby securing a filter media in the filter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Surface cleaning apparatus with different cleaning configuration
    Patent number: 11744417
    Abstract: A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus has a removable portable surface cleaning unit wherein the portable surface cleaning unit has upper and lower longitudinally spaced apart mounting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS WITH AN EXTERNAL DIRT CHAMBER
    Publication number: 20230270303
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis of rotation wherein the dirt outlet is defined by a gap between the sidewall of the cyclone and a plate positioned at the dirt outlet end of the cyclone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Evacuation station for a mobile floor cleaning robot
    Patent number: 11737625
    Abstract: An evacuation station for a mobile floor cleaning robot comprises a stationary base portion having an upper surface and an air treatment assembly that is rotatable from an in-use position to a removable position in which all of the air treatment assembly is removable from the stationary base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Handheld surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 11737621
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has an information display device provided on a rear wall of the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM WITH HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230266035
    Abstract: An environmental control system comprises a fluid flow path which has a pump and circulates liquid to a first heat exchanger in a first room and to a second heat exchanger in a second room. The fluid flow path comprises a pump. A user inputs a target temperature for the first room via a first user interface that is located in the first room, which is communicated to the control unit and a sensor located in the room communicates the temperature in the first room to the control unit. A user inputs a target temperature for the second room via a second user interface that is located in the second room, which is communicated to the control unit and a sensor located in the room communicates the temperature in the second room to the control unit. The control is physically isolated from the user interfaces and temperatures sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: WAYNE ERNEST CONRAD
  • HVAC SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230266034
    Abstract: A single unit HVAC system for a unit in a multi-unit building comprises a first heat exchanger thermally connected to a riser stack, a plurality of fan coils, each fan coil comprising a unit heat exchanger and a motor and fan assembly wherein, in operation, the motor and fan assembly delivers air to a location in the unit, and a closed loop fluid flow path extending between the first heat exchanger and the plurality of unit heat exchangers. In operation, the first heat exchanger exchanges heat between the riser stack fluid and the closed loop fluid, each unit heat exchanger exchanges heat between the closed loop fluid and air that is delivered to a different room in the unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230263350
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus having an air flow path; a suction motor positioned in the air flow path and an air treatment chamber having a door that is moveable between an operating position and an open position. A filter holder is rotational mounted in the air treatment chamber between an operating position and a filter removal position. A filter media is removably positionable in the filter holder and is removable from the filter holder when the filter holder is in the filter removal position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Daniel Innes
  • SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230264885
    Abstract: An upright extractor has an upright section moveably mounted to a surface cleaning head. The upright section has a wand and hose assembly and a liquid separator. The liquid separator comprises a solid collection chamber that is separated from a liquid collection chamber by a porous divider. The upright extractor is operable in a floor cleaning mode in which the handle is a driving handle of the upright extractor. The upright extractor is also operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which the inlet end of the wand is disconnected from fluid flow communication with the surface cleaning head dirty fluid inlet and an above floor air flow path extends from the inlet end of the wand to the clean air outlet and the liquid separator and the suction motor are provided in the above floor cleaning air flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Daniel Innes, Jason Thorne
  • CONFIGURATION OF A SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230263346
    Abstract: A portable vacuum cleaner has an air treatment chamber, a pre-motor filter positioned downstream from the air treatment chamber, a body including a suction motor, the suction motor is positioned in the air flow passage downstream from the pre-motor filter. A handle is provided on the body. The pre-motor filter has a first end, an axially spaced apart second end, a sidewall extends between the first end of the pre-motor filter and the axially spaced apart second end, wherein the sidewall comprises a filter material surrounding an open interior providing a filtered air flow path, the axially spaced apart second end is open whereby, after passing through the sidewall, air enters the filtered air flow path and passes through the open axially spaced apart second end. The longitudinal air treatment chamber axis and the motor axis extend in the same direction and each extend through the open interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Surface cleaning apparatus with removable air treatment assembly
    Patent number: 11730327
    Abstract: A hand vacuum includes a nozzle portion at a front end of the hand vacuum having a dirty air inlet. An air flow passage extends from the dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet in a main body rearward of the nozzle portion. The main body houses a suction motor in the air flow passage. First and second laterally spaced apart opposed arm members extend between the nozzle portion and the main body, and a volume is positioned between the nozzle portion, the main body and the opposed arm members. An air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member is removably positionable in the volume. When the air treatment member assembly is mounted to the hand vacuum cleaner in an operating position, the air treatment member assembly is positioned in the volume and the air treatment member is positioned in the air flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • AIR TREATMENT APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230249198
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus or a docking station for a surface cleaning apparatus comprises a housing body has air flow path extending from an air inlet of the housing body to an air outlet of the housing body and, a non-cyclonic momentum separator positioned in the housing body wherein a portion of the momentum separator is spaced from the housing body wherein a chamber is provided exterior to the momentum separator and within the housing body. An air flow conduit extends from the air inlet of the housing body to an air inlet of the momentum separator, and the air flow conduit extends through the chamber. A portion of the momentum separator that is spaced from the housing body comprises at least two sides of the momentum separator, and the at least two sides of the momentum separator are porous and comprise an air outlet of the momentum separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • ALL IN THE HEAD SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230248200
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner has a portable cleaning unit that is removably mounted to the surface cleaning head. The vacuum cleaner is operable in a floor cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the surface cleaning head and is part of the air flow path through the vacuum cleaner. The portable cleaning unit is also useable in a portable cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is removed from the surface cleaning head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • LED LIGHT SOURCE
    Publication number: 20230251413
    Abstract: An LED light source comprising a housing having an upper end, a lower end, a sidewall extending between the upper and lower ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the upper and lower ends wherein, in a plane that is transverse to the longitudinal axis, the sidewall comprises a light emitting face that extends 360° around the housing; a longitudinally extending light pipe wherein the light pipe has a light emitting surface which is circular in cross-section in the plane that is transverse to the longitudinal axis, whereby, in operation, the light pipe emits light 360° around the light emitting surface of the light pipe; an LED which, in operation, directs light into the light pipe; and, a mounting member that is provided on the lower end of the LED light source and that is connectable to a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • FOOD COOKING APPARATUS AND HEAT STORAGE MEMBER
    Publication number: 20230248179
    Abstract: An air fryer comprises an air flow passage provided between an inner shell and an outer shell; a first cooking chamber having a first cooking fan in air flow communication with the first cooking chamber and a first heating element in thermal communication with the first cooking chamber. A cooling fan, when actuated, circulates air within the airflow passage. A common motor is drivingly connected to each of the cooking fan and the cooling fan, wherein a first axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooking fan, a second axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooling fan and, when the air fryer is positioned with the bottom on a horizontal surface, the first axle portion extends upwardly from an upper side of the common motor and the second axle portion extends downwardly from a lower side of the common motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Dave Petersen, Nina Conrad
  • Surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 11717128
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus such as an extractor has a fluid flow path extending from a dirty fluid inlet head to a clean air outlet. The fluid flow path upstream of the separation stage comprises a removable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Daniel Innes, Jason Thorne
  • Evacuation station for a mobile floor cleaning robot
    Patent number: 11717124
    Abstract: An evacuation station for a mobile floor cleaning robot comprises a housing and an air treatment assembly removably mountable to the housing. The air treatment assembly is provided on a first lateral housing end. The first lateral housing end is provided with a housing air inlet that is downstream of the air treatment assembly air outlet whereby the air treatment assembly air outlet faces the housing air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20230240488
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner having an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet, with an air treatment member and a suction motor positioned in the air flow path, the dirty air inlet comprising a flow conduit having an inlet axis. A pistol grip handle is provided wherein the inlet axis intersects the pistol grip handle, and the suction motor is provided at a lower end of the pistol grip handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad