Patents Assigned to AIR
  • Lamp monitoring and control system and method
    Patent number: 6415245
    Abstract: A system and method for remotely monitoring and/or controlling an apparatus and specifically for remotely monitoring and/or controlling street lamps. The lamp monitoring and control system comprises lamp monitoring and control units, each coupled to a respective lamp to monitor and control, and each transmitting monitoring data having at least an ID field and a status field; and at least one base station, coupled to a group of the lamp monitoring and control units, for receiving the monitoring data, wherein each of the base stations includes an ID and status processing unit for processing the ID field of the monitoring data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: A.L. Air Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Williams, Michael F. Young
  • Friction damped turbine blade and method
    Patent number: 6413050
    Abstract: A friction damped turbine blade is disclosed. The turbine blade is formed of segments configured so as to form an assemblage corresponding to the airfoil shaped body. Each of the segments is in slidable contact with an adjacent segment. During turbine operation, the segments rub against one another due to the stresses placed on the blade, imparting frictional damping to the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Ralph Shimovetz
  • Low foam N,N?-dialkylmalamide wetting agents
    Patent number: 6413914
    Abstract: This invention provides water-based compositions, particularly coating, ink, fountain solution, adhesive, agricultural and electronics cleaning compositions, manifesting reduced equilibrium surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tension reducing amount of an N,N′-dialkylamide of malic acid of the following structure: where R1 and R2 are C4 to C10 alkyl groups, preferably at least one of R1 and R2 being a branched C4 to C10 alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingrid Kristine Meier, Kevin Rodney Lassila, Caroline Sassano Slone
  • Air core transformer with coaxial grading shield
    Patent number: 6414581
    Abstract: A slotted coaxial shield for high voltage cylindrical air core transformers is described that controls the electric field stress while permitting the rapid extraction of electric energy stored in the shield to improve the output efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: James P. O'Loughlin, Diana L. Loree, Jane Lehr, Gerald J. Rohwein
  • Methods and apparatus for combustion in high volatiles environments
    Publication number: 20020081544
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for combusting a fuel with an oxidant are described, the apparatus comprising a ceramic burner block, the burner block having a back face and a front face. The burner block has at least one oxidant cavity in an upper portion of the burner block, and at least one fuel cavity in a lower portion of the burner block, each cavity extending from the back face to the front face. The at least one oxidant cavity has positioned therein a fuel supply conduit, the fuel supply conduit having a fuel supply conduit exit positioned a sufficient distance from the front face to allow combustion of at least a portion of fuel exiting the fuel supply conduit exit with at least some of the oxidant traversing the oxidant cavity, and the least one fuel cavity having connected thereto, near the back face, an oxidant conduit, thereby allowing mixing of a minor portion of the oxidant with the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: American Air Liquide, Inc.
    Inventors: Ovidiu Marin, Eric Streicher, Olivier Charon, Remi P. Tsiava
  • Locomotive brake valve handle with wear pad
    Patent number: 6408713
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brake valve handle assembly for use in a brake valve of a railway braking system. The handle assembly comprises a handle for manually adjusting such brake valve to various positions and having a cavity with a predetermined shape and a predetermined width formed in the handle at least adjacent a top surface thereof that is disposed adjacent a slot formed in a housing of such brake valve. The handle assembly further includes a wear pad mounted in the cavity of the handle and a means for securing the wear pad to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew D. Mitsch
  • Methods of improving productivity of black liquor recovery boilers
    Patent number: 6408771
    Abstract: Methods are presented to increase the throughput of a recovery boiler equipped with at least primary and secondary levels of injection of air. The methods comprise operating the recovery boiler with a third level of oxidant injection below or at the same level as the secondary level, and oxygen enrichment applied to at least the secondary level and said third level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignees: Air Liquide America Corporation, American Air Liquide, L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et, l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis C. Philippe, Eric L. Duchateau, David R. Scheeff, Arie Verloop, Edward C. Dye
  • Air-conditioner, outdoor unit and refrigeration unit
    Patent number: 6408645
    Abstract: An air-conditioner, an outdoor unit and an refrigeration device each using a refrigeration cycle which can reduce power consumption so as to be highly efficient, which can be operated by a commercially available power source, and which is highly reliable. An air-conditioner comprises a motor and a refrigeration cycle including a compressor driven by the motor, an outdoor heat-exchanger and an indoor heat-exchanger, the motor being located in a motor chamber within a closed container, and refrigerant gas in the refrigeration cycle flows through the motor chamber, wherein the motor has a core of a rotor in which a cage type conductor and permanent magnets magnetized in bipolar state are embedded, and said motor is driven by a commercially available electric power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Air Conditioning Systems, Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tsuboe, Susumu Nakayama, Akira Saruta, Kazumoto Urata
  • POLYAZACYCLOALKANES, TRI-, TETRA- OR PENTA-AZAMACROCYCLIC COMPLEXES, PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THESE SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYAZACYCLOALKANES GRAFTED TO A SUPPORT AND USES OF POLYAZACYCLOALKANES AND THE AFOREMENTIONED COMPLEXES
    Patent number: 6410143
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyazacycloalkanes having 3, 4 or 5 nitrogen atoms, tri-, tetra- or penta-azamacrocyclic transition metal complexes and processes for the production of said polyazacycloalkanes. The object of the invention is to form polyazacycloalkanes able to trap metal cations and in particular U, Pu, Am, Ce, Eu, Al, Gd, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag, Cd, Sn, Au, Mg or Pb or complexes able to trap in particular oxygen in a gaseous mixture. The invention more particularly applies to the treatment of liquid effluents from nuclear power stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique and Air
    Inventors: Roger Guilard, Hervé Chollet, Philippe Guiberteau, Panayotis Cocolios
  • Polyolefin products and process additives therefor having reduced transfer to substrates
    Patent number: 6406645
    Abstract: A process additive for polyolefin films and foams produces products having reduced aging time and reduced greasiness and reduced grease-like transfer as compared to glycerol monostearate (GMS). Carbon dioxide based blowing agents are suitable. The process additive comprises a fatty acid N-aliphatic alcohol amide of the general formula R—CON(R′)R″. R is a fatty hydrocarbon radical having from about 8 to 30 carbons. R′ typically is hydrogen. R′ can also be an alkyl radical of from about 1 to 6 carbons or an alkyl alcohol radical of from about 1 to 6 carbons. R″ is an alkyl alcohol fragment of from about 1 to 6 carbons. The alkyl alcohol fragments can be monohydric or polyhydric. Secondary fatty monoalkanolamides in which R′ is hydrogen are particularly useful, especially stearamide monoethanolamine (MEA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation
    Inventors: Nelson E. Malwitz, Natarajan S. Ramesh
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459183
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Pneumatic tool
    Patent number: D459643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventor: Fred M. Morgan
  • Air freshener
    Patent number: D459795
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Champ Air Fresheners, Inc.
    Inventor: John A. Moran
  • Integrated fan-core twin spool counter-rotating turbofan gas turbine engine
    Patent number: H2032
    Abstract: A twin spool counter-rotating turbofan gas turbine engine having a counter-rotating fan module integrated with the high pressure compressor and driven by a counter-rotating turbine utilizing only two drive shafts. The two drive shafts are aerodynamically coupled and rotate in opposite directions relative to each other with or without the use of a gearbox. The integration between the fan module and high pressure compressor allows the fan blade rows to operate at the same mechanical speed of the high pressure compressor blade rows. An afterburner module may be added to the present invention to provide thrust augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Anthony L. DiPietro, Jr.
  • Method and means for providing enhanced main beam nulling in antijamming antenna
    Patent number: H2033
    Abstract: In a microwave communications link, an antijamming antenna system with enhanced main beam nulling is realized by providing gain in the difference port output of a monopulse antenna compared to the sum port. As a consequence interference signals are nulled out at much closer angles to the desired signal than is the case when the gain is the same in both channels. The gain is introduced when a dominant jammer is detected. Detection of a dominant jammer is identified for the conditions in which the monopulse sum channel power level exceeds the sum of the difference channel power levels and the system processor output signal/noise ratio is unsatisfactory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Raymond J. Masak, Raymond J. Lackey
  • Instrumentation spark plug
    Patent number: H2034
    Abstract: A spark plug system for measuring the thermal profile across the surface of a piston in an operating internal combustion engine in characterizing the combustion process within a combustion chamber of the engine is described that includes a specially constructed spark plug containing a coherent fiber optic bundle and lens system optically connected to a remote sensing thermometer and high-speed triggerable imaging infrared video camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Mark F. Hopkins