Patents Assigned to AIR
  • Patent number: 12095340
    Abstract: A hydrogen expander magnetic generator apparatus can include a magnetic generator to recover energy. Embodiments can utilize a permanent magnetic motor (PM) and energy conversion system (ECS) for converting energy from a rotating shaft of a turboexpander. Some embodiments can position magnets on the shaft such that the magnets are protected from exposure to hydrogen to avoid damage to the magnets. Some embodiments can include retrofitting of a pre-existing expander to remove an oil brake and replace it with an embodiment of the PM and ECS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Genglin Tang, Candice Daibes Silvestre, Ethan D. Eiswerth, Robert E. Benton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12092358
    Abstract: A fresh air assembly includes a fresh air housing including a mounting holder. A clamp space is formed at the mounting holder. A surface of the mounting holder away from the clamp space is provided with a reinforcement rib. The fresh air assembly further includes a fresh air motor mounted in the clamp space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huajun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12091320
    Abstract: A process for producing syngas that uses the syngas product from a partial oxidation reactor to provide all necessary heating duties, which eliminates the need for a fired heater. Soot is removed from the syngas using a dry filter to avoid a wet scrubber quenching the syngas stream and wasting the high-quality heat. Without the flue gas stream leaving a fired heater, all of the carbon dioxide produced by the reforming process is concentrated in the high-pressure syngas stream, allowing essentially complete carbon dioxide capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang-Dong Peng, Henry Choisun Chan, Kelly Danielle Aguilar, Shihong Yan, Qiong Zhou, Shylaja Gowda
  • Patent number: 12089723
    Abstract: Personal hydration systems with cooling and/or warming capability, and the components thereof are disclosed. The personal hydration systems may include a liquid transport system for transporting cooling or heating fluid between a reservoir and a pad, which pad is configured for wearing adjacent to a wearer's body. A pump is provided for pumping the liquid through the system. A drinking tube is connected to the system for removing liquid from the system. Liquid can be removed from the system for drinking by sucking on the end of the drinking tube. A check valve is used to bypass the pump so the user will not have to suck the liquid through the pump. Alternatively, liquid can be removed by spraying the liquid out of the drinking tube using the power of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Justin O′Brien
  • Patent number: 12092093
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for cooling down a liquid hydrogen or other cryogenic fluid pump can be configured to allow for a quick startup that also helps minimize hydrogen losses. Some embodiments can utilize a blow-by circuit configured and arranged to support the cryogenic cooldown operation for the pump that can minimize hydrogen loss while allowing substantially improved pump startup times. Some embodiments can utilize at least one temperature sensor to monitor temperature and an adjustable control valve that can facilitate the flow of the fluid utilized to perform the cooldown of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven W. Hoffman, David Jonathan Chalk, Joseph P. Cohen
  • Patent number: 12093381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to core shell liquid metal encapsulates comprising multi-functional ligands, networks comprising such encapsulates and processes of making and using such encapsulates and networks. When subjected to strain, such network's conductivity is enhanced, thus allowing the network to serve as a healing agent that restores at least a portion of the conductivity in an adjacent conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Carl J. Thrasher, Christopher E. Tabor, Zachary J. Farrell, Nicholas J. Morris
  • Patent number: 12092384
    Abstract: A control method and device and an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner has an outdoor condenser, an indoor evaporator, a first electronic expansion valve, a throttle valve, and a heat dissipation coolant pipe arranged in an electric control box. By utilizing the control method and device, the air conditioner uses the heat dissipation coolant pipe to dissipate heat from the electric control box of the air conditioner. The heat generated by the electric control box can thus be timely removed. The temperature of the elements of the air conditioner can be lowered and the reliability and service life of the air conditioner can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dashu Zou
  • Patent number: 12091319
    Abstract: A process for producing syngas that uses the syngas product from an oxygen-fired reformer to provide all necessary heating duties, which eliminates the need for a fired heater. Without the flue gas stream leaving a fired heater, all of the carbon dioxide produced by the reforming process is concentrated in the high-pressure syngas stream, allowing essentially complete carbon dioxide capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang-Dong Peng, Yu Zhang, Tori Dawn Courtney
  • Patent number: 12091509
    Abstract: The invention relates to cross-linkable oligoimides, processes of making such cross-linkable oligoimides and products comprising such cross-linkable oligoimides. Such cross-linkable oligoimides provide articles made by an AM process with the desired process ability that permits filament formation, post cure increased strength, the desired in use temperature stability and the desired thermo-oxidative stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Loon-Seng Tan, David H. Wang, Zhenning Yu, Hilmar Koerner
  • Patent number: 12092243
    Abstract: A device for assembling a pipe with a receiving opening is provided, including a first structure bearing an interface surrounding a first opening. The interface has at least one peripheral skirt. A second structure bears an interface surrounding a second opening. A peripheral sealing gasket seals the junction between the two interfaces. The two interfaces are positioned facing each other so that the skirt of the first interface is positioned on the periphery of the second cooperating interface surrounding the second opening, and so that this skirt has at least a portion of the sealing gasket against the second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SOGEFI AIR & COOLING
    Inventor: Olivier Pourre
  • Publication number: 20240305115
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a system for discharging a power source of an electric aircraft. System may be configured to transfer power from the electric aircraft via a charging connection. In one or more embodiments, a charging station in electric communication with the power source may discharge the power source. For example, a controller communicatively connected to the electric aircraft may be configured to receive a supply request from a user and subsequently, generate a control signal that initiates a transfer of electrical power from the power supply to discharge the power source so that power data associated with the discharge may be collected and transmitted to the controller or a remote device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Foland, John Charles Palombini
  • Publication number: 20240304043
    Abstract: An aircraft monitoring system for an electric aircraft is disclosed. The monitoring system may include at least a sensor configured to generate a failure datum. The failure datum includes a datum regarding a condition of an electric motors. An electronic checklist may include a crew alerting system (CAS). The CAS may be in electronic communication a sensor, wherein the CAS is comprised of at least a computing device. The CAS may generate a plurality of remedy data as a function of the failure datum. The CAS then may display the plurality of remedy data using a pilot display. A pilot may be prompted to apply the remedy datum using a pilot display as a function of the plurality of remedy data. The CAS provides an indication of the condition of the electric motor using a pilot display as a function of the application of the plurality of remedy data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Beta Air, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Camron Guthrie, Thomas Henck
  • Patent number: 12084204
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for remote deicing/anti-icing of an aircraft are described herein. One remote operator deicing/anti-icing station located in a remote location from a deicing/anti-icing rig includes a number of remote rig control components for actuation by a remote operator, wherein the remote rig control components include a remote operator user interface, located outside of a rig being at least partially controlled by the remote operator deicing/anti-icing station, the rig including a truck and a deicing/anti-icing control cabin that controls disbursement of substances to deice/anti-ice an aircraft, and a communication device that communicates instructions from the remote operator user interface and the number of remote rig control components to the rig to control at least one of the truck and the deicing/anti-icing control cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Air T, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Walsh
  • Patent number: 12085282
    Abstract: A hydrogen injection scheme can be employed via use of one or more injectors for injecting hydrogen to help entrain local mass while also generating local turbulence that can enhance mixing with a mixture of air and fuel to facilitate enhanced lean combustion, lower peak flame temperatures of combustion, and reduce nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions from the combustion of fuel. In some embodiments, the hydrogen can be injected to help transport heat released during combustion away from the injector to help avoid injector overheating as well. Different injectors can be utilized to provide a desired hydrogen injection scheme for a particular set of design and operational criteria for a gas turbine system or at least one combustion system that can be utilized in a gas turbine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Anup Vasant Sane
  • Patent number: 12089125
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing enclosing a microcontroller and multiple sensors. The microcontroller automatically detects a system status of the apparatus and selects at least one of a network interface from a set of network interfaces or a communications protocol from a set of communications protocols, based on the system status. The microcontroller also receives measurements from each of the sensors. In response to detecting an anomaly among the measurements, an anomaly message is generated and broadcast to at least one peer compute device via the selected at least one of the network interface or the communications protocol, and a signal representing the measurements is generated and wirelessly transmitted to a remote compute device. In response to not detecting an anomaly among the plurality of measurements, a signal representing the plurality of measurements is generated and wirelessly sent to the remote compute device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Globally Unified Air Quality
    Inventors: Michael William Bartholic, Colton Michael Padden, Francois Pascal Girard
  • Patent number: 12085020
    Abstract: An apparatus and process can be configured for filtering and cooling air to be fed to a gas turbine while also vaporizing at least a portion of fuel to be fed to the gas turbine. Intake air can be passed through a filter house for filtration. While passing through the filtration house, a liquid fuel can be passed through the filter house to be vaporized or partially vaporized therein via heat exchange with the air passing through the filter house, which can also cool the air as it is passing through the filter house. Filtered, cooled air can be output from the filter house for feeding to a gas turbine as an oxidant while the at least partially vaporized fuel can also be output from the filter house for feeding to the gas turbine for being combusted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory W. Henzler, Paul D. Altpeter, Ghassan Altimany, Tito Paratico
  • Patent number: 12085304
    Abstract: Disclosed is an auxiliary mounting device and a mounting method for a saddle-type window air conditioner. Two groups of mutually connected L-shaped main supports and L-shaped auxiliary supports are included. Main transverse supports are connected with auxiliary transverse supports, an upper surface formed after the main transverse supports are connected with the auxiliary transverse supports is a plane, and a connecting part of a saddle-type window air conditioner is located on the plane. The main transverse supports and the auxiliary transverse supports can move relative to each other, so that a distance between main vertical supports and auxiliary vertical supports is adjustable for adaptation to windows with different sizes, and that the applicability is strong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Qingdao Haier Air Conditioner General Corp., Ltd., Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuanling Si, Wenquan Song, Qiang Zhang, Qiuxia He, Ruofeng Wang, Guangbao Qiao
  • Patent number: 12085182
    Abstract: An pressure regulating valve assembly for a pneumatic spray gun is disclosed. The pressure regulating vale component is configured inside the pressure regulating passage of the gun body, comprising a pressure regulating screw seat, a pressure regulating rod going through the pressure regulating screw seat and in threaded connection with the pressure regulating screw seat. A pressure regulating seal ring is configured between the pressure regulating rod and the pressure regulating screw seat. A clamping check ring is configured in the middle portion of the pressure regulating rod. The clamping check ring is used to limit the position of the pressure regulating rod. The inner end of the pressure regulating rod is provided with a pressure regulating valve. The position of the pressure regulating valve is limited by the split damping ring configured on the end portion of the pressure regulating rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang Rongpeng Air Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qin Luo, Hai Wu, Fazheng Yang, Xiaorong Li
  • Patent number: 12085277
    Abstract: Systems for controlling an exhaust gas fan system. The control system may control one or more components of the exhaust system to optimize system performance and improve energy efficiency. The control system may be designed to maintain a substantially constant pressure in the exhaust header and provide a substantially constant flow through the exhaust fans. The control system is configured to control one or more of: modulation of one or more by-pass dampers; adjustment of the nozzle outlet area; varying the speed of the fans; the number and staging of fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Strobic Air Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Alexander Gans, Paul A. Tetley, Brian Jay Merritt
  • Patent number: 12087852
    Abstract: A compound semiconductor device, a compound semiconductor substrate, and a method for manufacturing of a compound semiconductor device. Compound semiconductor device 100 comprises Si substrate 1 which has a shape surrounding hole 21 when viewed in a plane, SIC layer 3 formed on top surface 1a of Si substrate 1 and covers hole 21, nitride layer 10 containing Ga formed on the top surface side of SiC layer 3, source electrode 13, drain electrode 15, and gate electrode 17 formed on the top surface side of nitride layer 10. The current flowing between source electrode 13 and drain electrode 15 can be controlled by the voltage applied to gate electrode 17. The Si substrate does not exist in the area RG where source electrode 13, drain electrode 15, and gate electrode 17 overlap the area when viewed from the direction orthogonal to top surface 1a of Si substrate 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Air Water Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeomi Hishiki, Keisuke Kawamura