Patents Assigned to American Standard
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Patent number: 10981668Abstract: A data recording apparatus, data recording system and an orientation determination method thereof is disclosed. The data recording apparatus may include a housing, a wireless communication interface, one or more memories that store executable code; and one or more processors configured to execute the executable code, which causes the one or more processors to: control the communication interface to obtain data from Flight Data Acquisition Unit (FDAU) and store the obtained data in the one or more memories. The obtained data may include one or more of flight data, cockpit data (e.g., cockpit voice data), or cabin data (e.g., cabin voice data). The data recording apparatus may include a detachable attachment means for allowing the data recording apparatus to separate from the airplane in the event of a crash via a passive detachment means.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: AMERICAN STANDARD AEROSPACE PRODUCTS (ASAP)Inventor: Deryck Yin
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Patent number: 10973184Abstract: A planter may include a housing configured to house one or more growth units, which are individual positions in the planter for growing an individual plant. The planter may include one or more liquid supply lines embedded in an upper portion of the housing, and a drain line embedded in a lower portion of the housing. A drain that is configured to remove liquid from the planter and supply the removed liquid to a pump via the drain line may also be provided. An upper surface of the housing of the planter may include, for each of the one or more growth units, a through hole that passes through the upper surface of the planter housing into the inner chamber of the growth unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: AMERICAN STANDARD AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (ASAP)Inventor: Deryck Yin
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Patent number: 9622575Abstract: A storage propane tank storage cabinet including a frame, a door operably attached to the frame, and a locking bar operably attached to the frame, the locking bar configured to move from a first position to a second position, wherein, when in the second position, the locking bar covers a portion of the door proximate a top corner of the door and proximate a bottom corner of the door to prevent unauthorized access to an interior of the frame is provided. Furthermore, an associated method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AMERICAN STANDARD MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventor: C. Dominic E. Vickary
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Patent number: 7867353Abstract: A thermally and electrically conductive material is provided as a mixture of a dimethylpolysiloxane, metal (or one metal coated with another metal) flakes and/or granules, a peroxide-based and/or a dimethyl hexane based catalyst, PTFE powder and a platinum based fire retardant. The thermally and electrically conductive material may be pre-formed into a film or pad and each side of the film protected with removable release layers. The thermally and electrically conductive material may alternatively be produced in a screen-printable paste. As such, a layer of the thermally and electrically conductive paste may be screen-printed on the metal surface in a complete sheet form or as a patterned film by using a stencil patterned screen mesh. Processes for manufacturing high- and low-frequency circuits that include the interface material are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: American Standard CircuitsInventors: Sundaram Nand Kumar, Gary Sites, Bhavik Patel
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Patent number: 7540081Abstract: A thermally conductive material is provided as a mixture of a silicone, a ceramic powder, and a curing catalyst. The material may be pre-formed into a pad and each side of the film protected with removable release layers. Each side of the film may also include a coating of an adhesive material that aids in coupling the interface film with a surface. The material may alternatively be produced in a screen-printable paste. As such, a layer of the paste may be screen-printed on a surface as complete sheet form or as a patterned film by using a stencil patterned screen mesh. The interface material is sandwiched between a printed circuit board and a heat sink to form the circuit board assembly. In a multi-step press process, the assembly is cured and a laminate formed. The assembly process may also include a priming function that prepares metal surfaces of the circuit board and heat sink for receiving the interface material.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: American Standard CircuitsInventors: Sundaram Nand Kumar, Gary Garvin Sites, Bhavik Patel
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Patent number: 7527873Abstract: A thermally and electrically conductive material is provided as a mixture of a dimethylpolysiloxane, metal (or one metal coated with another metal) flakes and/or granules, a peroxide-based and/or a dimethyl hexane based catalyst, PTFE powder and a platinum based fire retardant. The thermally and electrically conductive material may be pre-formed into a film or pad and each side of the film protected with removable release layers. The thermally and electrically conductive material may alternatively be produced in a screen-printable paste. As such, a layer of the thermally and electrically conductive paste may be screen-printed on the metal surface in a complete sheet form or as a patterned film by using a stencil patterned screen mesh. Processes for manufacturing high- and low-frequency circuits that include the interface material are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: American Standard CircuitsInventors: Sundaram Nand Kumar, Gary Sites, Bhavik Patel
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Publication number: 20090031740Abstract: A vapor compression air conditioning system includes a motor operated expansion valve and control unit including sensors for determining the amount of superheat of the working fluid at or adjacent to the compressor inlet. Expansion valve position is adjusted to maintain a predetermined amount of superheat. The sensors may sense working fluid evaporator temperature and temperature downstream of the evaporator. Dual motor operated expansion valves may be disposed in the working fluid conduit between the heat exchangers in a reversible system. In operation, the expansion valve position may be set as a function of ambient temperature, a previous position, and predetermined superheat requirements to minimize liquid ingestion by the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: American Standard International, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan David Douglas
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Publication number: 20080251199Abstract: A thermally and electrically conductive material is provided as a mixture of a dimethylpolysiloxane, metal (or one metal coated with another metal) flakes and/or granules, a peroxide-based and/or a dimethyl hexane based catalyst, PTFE powder and a platinum based fire retardant. The thermally and electrically conductive material may be pre-formed into a film or pad and each side of the film protected with removable release layers. The thermally and electrically conductive material may alternatively be produced in a screen-printable paste. As such, a layer of the thermally and electrically conductive paste may be screen-printed on the metal surface in a complete sheet form or as a patterned film by using a stencil patterned screen mesh. Processes for manufacturing high- and low-frequency circuits that include the interface material are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: American Standard CircuitsInventors: Sundaram Nand Kumar, Gary Sites, Bhavik Patel
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Publication number: 20080245354Abstract: A combustion furnace includes a blower housing with a centrifugal blower impeller disposed therein and plural heat exchanger tubes disposed substantially around a major portion of the periphery of the impeller. The heat exchanger tubes receive combustion gasses from plural burner nozzles and discharge combustion gasses to a plenum in communication with a motor driven inducer gas pump. The integrated blower housing and heat exchanger may be disposed in a cabinet including support structure for a fuel delivery manifold, associated burner nozzles and forming air inlet and outlet openings for air being circulated by the blower.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: American Standard International, Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Hancock
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Publication number: 20080237217Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus, including an electric motor driven blower for circulating air through a cabinet, also includes one or more electric heating elements and a system controller operable to control energization of the heating elements and the blower motor at predetermined operating conditions by way of suitable relay or control elements. The system includes a heating interlock relay to prevent energization of the one or more heating elements if the blower motor is inoperable, operating at other than a predetermined range of speeds or the system controller detects a malfunctioning heating element control relay or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Robert W. Helt
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Publication number: 20080223944Abstract: HVAC apparatus is configured to include a control system with a controller which may be connected directly to a personality module for transferring information stored in the controller related to historic operating conditions of the apparatus to the module, or information may be transferred to the controller from the module to configure the controller for operation of the apparatus at selected operating conditions of temperature, pressure and blower motor speed, for example. The personality module includes a memory circuit and a connector for releasably connecting the module to the control system of the apparatus for transferring information between the module and the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Robert W. Helt, Jie Song, Gordon Jeffrey Hugghins, John Tanner Taylor, W. Randall Erwin, Stephen Kowalski, Bruce David Montgomery, Timothy W. Storm, Alan Dale Marble, James T. Schaefer
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Publication number: 20080217418Abstract: An air conditioning control system and method for compensating for heat gain or loss in an air conditioned space due to window area and temperature differential between outdoor temperature and indoor temperature. For predetermined amounts of window area, as a percent of total wall area defining an enclosed space, the thermostat setpoint or measured temperature is adjusted as a function of the temperature differential between the enclosed space and the outdoor ambient temperature, for example. Data may be accumulated and stored in a controller memory for various types of structures and rates of heat transfer therethrough for various amounts and type of window area as a percent of the total wall area, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Robert W. Helt, Amanda Filbeck
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Patent number: 7351274Abstract: An intense field dielectric air filtration system associated with an air conditioning unit includes a microprocessor based control system which may be connected to the thermostat of the air conditioning unit to energize the air filtration system in response to a call for heat or cooling signal at the thermostat or startup of the fan motor for the air conditioning unit. The control system includes a power supply for the air filtration system together with voltage and current monitoring circuits for detecting a fault condition. Filtration system on/off and timing function reset switches are connected to the microprocessor and visual displays, including a multicolored LED bargraph display, are controlled by the microprocessor to indicate voltage potential applied to the air filtration system, a fault condition or a test mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: American Standard International Inc.Inventors: Robert W. Helt, Stephen J. Vendt, Roger L. Boydstun, J. Mark Hagan
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Patent number: 7340906Abstract: An HVAC system includes a desiccant wheel, wherein the wheel's speed varies with airflow, the wheel is energized for at least a set period at startup, and/or a heat recovery system (e.g., an air-to-air heat exchanger) upstream of the wheel enhances the system's ability to dehumidify air.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: American Standard International Inc.Inventor: Ronnie R. Moffitt
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Publication number: 20080053309Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a cabinet having air inlet and outlet openings and an intense field dielectric air filtration system disposed in the cabinet between the inlet and outlet openings. The filtration system includes a field charging unit and a filter unit. The filter unit may be mounted for removal from the cabinet on spaced apart support brackets connected to the cabinet or to a frame of the field charging unit. Electrical contact elements may be supported by the support brackets for engagement with corresponding contact elements on the filter unit and charging unit for establishing electrical communication between a power supply and the charging unit and filter unit, respectively. A shorting bar is aligned with the contact members on the filter unit for discharging high voltage potential upon removal of the filter unit from the cabinet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Mark D. Woodruff, Kirk W. Beason, Larry Stephen Bias, Robert G. Roycroft, Lester D. Sherrow, Stephen J. Vendt
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Patent number: 7332019Abstract: An air filtration system includable in and for HVAC equipment includes one or more intense field dielectric filter units and a field charging unit retained in a support structure or cabinet by a removable door which includes control circuitry and contactors engageable with corresponding contact members on a filter unit and the field charging unit for supplying high voltage DC potential to the respective units. Each filter unit includes a filter core comprising a stacked array of filter elements formed of dielectric sheets interconnected by elongated spaced apart ribs forming flow passages. The field charging unit and the filter units are removable from the support or cabinet for cleaning or replacement by opening or removing the door. An interlock switch and a field shorting mechanism are actuated during servicing or replacement of the system components.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: American Standard International Inc.Inventors: Larry Stephen Bias, Jay Ernest Field, Scott Anthony Salvage, Shannon Leigh Smith, Stephen J. Vendt, Mark D. Woodruff
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Publication number: 20080011003Abstract: Vapor compression air conditioning systems are provided with a flow restrictor for transferring working fluid to and from at least one of the compressor low pressure inlet conduit and compressor high pressure outlet conduit to provide for accurate charge adjustment to achieve predetermined fluid sub-cooling. Pressure and temperature measurements are taken at a condenser fluid outlet conduit and provided to a microcontroller for determining fluid sub-cooling and comparing sub-cooling with a predetermined target sub-cooling. A charge addition or recovery apparatus may include a solenoid valve controlled by the microcontroller to more accurately control the addition or recovery of refrigerant fluid charge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Jonathan David Douglas, James Thomas Schaefer, Gregory F. Walters
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Patent number: 7311501Abstract: A scroll compressor includes various features that promote a bifurcated flow pattern of gas through a compressor shell to reduce oil entrainment. After entering the shell, some gas travels upward, which reduces the volume of gas traveling downward toward an oil sump. To accomplish this, the compressor's motor can be surrounded by a sleeve having upper and lower apertures for directing the flow to the motor's upper and lower stator end turns. In some embodiments, a suction inlet is strategically positioned relative to two gas passageways that are between the stator and the compressor shell. The inlet's position is such that one passageway receives incoming gas and divides the flow in opposite directions: upward and downward. The other passageway only conveys the gas upward. In addition, a suction baffle, a diffuser, a streamlined counterweight and/or a suction line oil trap can also help promote gas/oil separation or minimize oil entrainment.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: American Standard International Inc.Inventors: Chris A. Wehrenberg, Brian T. Sullivan, Scott J. Smerud
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Patent number: 7299996Abstract: An air conditioning system thermostat includes a visual display and plural switch actuators, respectively backlit by an electroluminescent lamp and LED light sources mounted on a circuit board disposed in a thermostat housing. A control circuit causes at least one switch actuator to be illuminated continuously and the light sources for the display and the remaining switch actuators are illuminated in response to actuation of any one of the switch actuators. Switch contact elements mounted on the switch actuators and the circuit board provide advantageous positioning of the LED light sources for the switch actuators. An energy savings switch actuator allows the control circuit to directly assume setback temperature settings in response to a first actuation and a second actuation resets the thermostat to the initial user set temperature settings.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: American Standard International Inc.Inventors: Carl L. Garrett, W. Randall Erwin, Timothy W. Storm
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Publication number: 20070261422Abstract: In an air conditioning system for circulating cooled air to an enclosed space, a controller including a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor and a microcontroller for controlling the indoor fan or blower to prevent operation of same if a fan run-on mode is selected or continuous fan operation is selected and the humidity sensed in the enclosed space is greater than a predetermined amount. Continuous fan operation is allowed unless the humidity exceeds a user defined setpoint during an air cooling operating mode. If the humidity sensed is greater than the predetermined amount, the fan is operated only when the system is providing cooled air, such as when the system compressor is energized.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2006Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: AMERICAN STANDARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Roy Crawford