Patents Examined by Aaron Heyamoto
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Patent number: 9638440Abstract: A solar boiler 300 includes first and second primary receiver panels 500, 600 spaced apart by a gap 700. Each panel 500, 600 include a plurality of primary boiler tubes 510, 610 for receiving solar flux. The boiler 300 includes at least one secondary receiver arrangement 800 disposed across the gap 700 for receiving solar flux incident thereacross. The arrangement 800 includes at least one secondary boiler tube 810, and at least one support member 820 supported thereto. The arrangement 800 is configured relative to the primary panels 500, 600 such that endmost primary boiler tubes 510a, 610a are supported over the support member 820 in spaced relation ‘S’ to the secondary boiler tube 810 for enabling transverse and lateral thermal expansion of the tubes 510, 610, 810 without bending out. Further, a panel joining attachment 900 is provided for attaching the panels 500, 600 and the arrangement 800.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.Inventor: Ronald G. Payne
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Patent number: 9638427Abstract: Apparatus for substantially blocking flames and spreading heated gases emitted from a broiler flue. The apparatus includes a riser placed above the broiler flue for defining a pathway along which heated gases are exhausted from the flue, a catalyst support on the riser for supporting a catalyst in the pathway for flow of heated gases through the catalyst from a bottom surface of the catalyst to a top surface of the catalyst, and a plurality of baffles in the riser extending across the pathway below the catalyst support. The baffles have the shape of inverted troughs.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: BURGER KING CORPORATIONInventors: Robert J. Reese, Gregory K. Swanson, Daryl R. Monroe, Douglas M. Lewis
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Patent number: 9625147Abstract: A combustion heater includes an inner tube having a supply passage for combustion gas in an inner portion, and an outer tube disposed to provide a separated combustion space in an outer periphery of the inner tube. A hole part for ejecting the combustion gas is formed on a tube wall of the inner tube and combustion gas is ejected with ejection characteristics such that circulating flow is formed on the periphery of a stagnation point. According to this combustion heater, a stable flame can be formed without increasing costs and the heating efficiency can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro Kato, Katsuyoshi Takahashi, Taku Mizutani
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Patent number: 9599348Abstract: An oven having a cabinet and a cooktop disposed above the cabinet is provided. The cooktop includes a top frame located at a top surface of the cabinet, the top frame including at least one heater installation opening and at least two heater support brackets adjacent the installation opening, a top plate located on a top surface of the top frame, and a heater located in the installation opening, the heater including at least two heater support holders, each support holder being elastically coupled to a corresponding support bracket to movably support the heater.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Byoungwoo Choi, Euisu Jung, Jungmin Cha
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Patent number: 9603199Abstract: A radiant heat tube (5) comprises a tube body having a center section (6) and at least one recirculating section (7, 8) arranged next to the center section, said recirculating section forming a loop (9, 10) with said center section. A pivot joint bearing (23) is arranged on one end (12) of the radiant heat tube, while a sliding bearing (15) is arranged on the other end (11) of the radiant heat tube, said sliding bearing (15) being arranged opposite said pivot joint bearing (23). A burner (14) is disposed to heat the radiant heat tube (5).Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: WS WÄRMEPROZESSTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Joachim A. Wünning, Joachim G. Wünning
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Patent number: 9581333Abstract: An igniter assembly includes a bushing for installation in a burner. The bushing has a proximal end and an opposing distal end. A gas tube is secured through a central portion of the bushing, and an electrode assembly is secured through the central portion of the bushing. The electrode assembly includes an electrically conductive conductor element and an insulator element in surrounding relationship to the conductor element. The igniter assembly further includes a flame holder element secured to a distal end of the electrode assembly, and a ground rod secured to the electrode assembly. A distal end of the ground rod defines a spark gap with the flame holder element.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Aerco International, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Fioriti, Craig Evans, Hakan Bjornson
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Patent number: 9572455Abstract: An improved outdoor cooking apparatus features a pot with multiple cooking inserts and burner frame that supports a burner element. One insert can be used for cooking an entire poultry carcass. Other inserts are perforated baskets that can be used to fry items.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: METAL FUSION, INC.Inventors: Norman R. Bourgeois, Michael P. Bourgeois
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Patent number: 9557066Abstract: A cooking appliance including an interior, a fan mechanism having at least one fan wheel in the interior, at least one first flow directing member for subdividing the interior into a pressure chamber that houses the fan wheel and a cooking chamber, in which the first flow directing member includes at least one suction port for sucking atmosphere from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber when the fan wheel is in operation and at least one blow-off port for blowing atmosphere from the pressure chamber into the cooking chamber when the fan wheel is in operation; and at least one second flow directing member that is included with the fan mechanism in the area of the suction port of the first flow directing member in order to improve the flow from the cooking chamber into the pressure chamber by forcing an axial main flow H in the suction zone of the fan mechanism, where the second flow directing member performs a nozzle function, extends from the fan mechanism into the cooking chamber, and overlaps the eType: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Rational AGInventors: Ernst Claussen, Joachim J. Hylla, Oliver Witt, Yingan Xia, Michael Herner, Thomas Schreiner, Robert Kurth, Leonhard Ring, Aldo Paintner
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Patent number: 9523505Abstract: Combustion apparatus for use with a solid fuel has a firebox constructed at least in part of a fired refractory carbide material. The fired refractory carbide material has a catalytic effect on the combustion process providing a cleaner and more efficient combustion. The fired refractory material also absorbs heat from the combustion process directly or indirectly by heat exchange with combustion products and dissipates the absorbed heat over an extended period of time providing space heating after the combustion process is completed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Landy Vent UK LimitedInventor: David Owen Ashmore
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Patent number: 9482429Abstract: A field-ready oven has reinforced telescoped side walls that extend and hold a base, shelf, tray support and cover spaced apart. A low air intake and a semipermeable membrane deliver air and vapor fuel to catalyst pads on the shelf. Radiant heat from exothermic reaction is diffused over a bottom of a tray. Hot gas circulates around the diffuser and tray with a chimney effect before exhausting. A lid on the cover lifts for access to the tray. A fuel container in the oven forces fuel through a capillary restriction to limit fuel flow. A spring in the container is released to start fuel flow.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: GHT GLOBAL HEATING TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Jeffrey K. Poston, Michael A. Swank, Robert G. Hockaday, Lawrence D. Weber, Giampaolo Vacca
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Patent number: 9480364Abstract: An oven comprising a housing, a cavity, an H-shaped rotating door, a motor and a heat source is disclosed. The cavity, which includes an opening, is located within the housing. The H-shaped rotating door, which can be rotated by the motor, includes a first food loading section and a second food loading section. The H-shaped rotating door also serves as a cover to prevent heat within the cavity from escaping through the opening. The heat source provides heat to the cavity to heat up any food item placed on one of the food loading sections located within the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: OVENTION, INC.Inventors: Philip R. McKee, John Denman
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Patent number: 9429338Abstract: A header box, a furnace and a blocked condensation protection system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the header box includes: (1) a first channel having a first channel supply port positioned to be in fluid communication with an inlet of a combustion air blower and a first pressure port couplable to a first input of a pressure sensing device, the combustion air blower and the pressure sensing device associated with the cold end header box and (2) a second channel having a second channel supply port positioned to be in fluid communication with the inlet of the combustion air blower, a second pressure port couplable to a second input of the pressure sensing device and a pressure reference inlet, the second channel in fluid communication with the first channel and configured to have about a same pressure as the first channel when the pressure reference inlet is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.Inventors: Glenn W. Kowald, Hans J. Paller
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Patent number: 9423154Abstract: A solar heat collecting element for use in solar troughs and solar power systems. The solar heat collecting element includes a conduit for carrying a heat transfer fluid; a light transparent envelope disposed about the conduit; and an edge welded metal bellows assembly coupling a first end of the conduit with a first end of the envelope.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: David Velasco, John Ditri, Nancy E. Wasson
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Patent number: 9410698Abstract: A tubular burner includes a mixing tube and a flame hole member having a plurality of flame holes. The flame hole member is made of a sheet metal plate and has: a circular disk part having the plurality of flame holes formed therein; and a fitting tubular member which is elongated backward from a periphery of the circular disk part and is adapted to be fitted into an inner circumference at the front end region of the mixing tube. A clearance-generating section is formed at a front of the fitting tubular member so as to generate an annular clearance between the clearance-generating section and the inner circumference at the front end region of the mixing tube. A plurality of flame retention holes are formed in the clearance-generating section at a circumferential distance from one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATIONInventor: Keisuke Mori
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Patent number: 9410705Abstract: Provided is a gas cooker. When foods are cooked using a top burner, inclinations of main flame holes defined in the top burner are different according to positions of the main flame holes to prevent textile disposed adjacent to a front end of a top plate from burning. Thus, a user may further safely cook the foods.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jung Wan Ryu, Dae Bong Yang, Jea Hyuk Wie, Yong Ki Jeong, Jae Bum Lim, Jun Ho Seok, Young Soo Kim, Yang Ho Kim
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Patent number: 9383112Abstract: A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance includes a cabinet; an intake passage through which outer air drawn in from outside the cabinet flows; a burner assembly provided within the cabinet, to combust a gas mixture of gas and air drawn into the intake passage; a nozzle assembly that supplies gas to the burner assembly; and a cooling passage formed partitioned from the intake passage, and through which air to cool components provided within the cabinet flows.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jung-Ju Kwon, In-Sik Min, Sang-Min Lyu, Seong-Sig Cho
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Patent number: 9366435Abstract: An ignition torch that can easily be inspected regardless of the state inside a gasification furnace. The ignition torch (10) extends from an outside of a gasification furnace (1) to an inside of the gasification furnace (1) so as to receive feed of fuel and combustion air from one end positioned outside of the gasification furnace (1) and to feed flames to the other end positioned in the inside of the gasification furnace (1). An opening/closing valve (24) is provided downstream in a fuel flow direction from an ignition section (22) provided at the outside of the gasification furnace (1). A flame-holding section (28) is provided on the other end of the ignition torch (10). Supporting fuel is supplied to the flame-holding section (28).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Soda, Takashi Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Yokohama
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Patent number: 9366441Abstract: A combustor with a burner maintains combustion stability. The burner includes an air hole member 31 with a plurality of air holes 34, 35 provided at an upstream side of the combustion gases generated by a combustion chamber 1. A first fueling nozzle 33 jets fuel in a direction crossing a central axis of the burner towards at least two of air holes 35. A plurality of second fueling nozzles 32, one for each of the remaining air holes 34, are provided to jet the fuel in a direction routed along the burner axis towards the corresponding air hole 34. A fuel header 30 distributes the fuel to the first fueling nozzle 33 and each of the second fueling nozzles 32. A fuel header storage unit 70 shrouds the fuel header 30, fueling nozzles 32, 33, and has an air inflow hole 71.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Shohei Yoshida
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Patent number: 9366170Abstract: An air heating apparatus may comprise a housing with a path through an interior of the housing between openings in the housing. An isolating wall may divide the interior into primary and secondary chambers, and may have a transfer opening through which the path extends from the primary to secondary chambers. An air heating assembly may comprise an engine in the primary chamber, a heat generator in the primary chamber and connected to the engine, and a main heat exchanger in the secondary chamber and in fluid communication with the heat generator to transfer heat generated by the heat generator to air flowing along the path. The apparatus may include an air movement assembly configured to move air along the path and comprises a primary fan between the primary and secondary chambers to move air from the primary chamber to the secondary chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: JR Koop, Inc.Inventors: Richard R. Koopmann, Nathan Thompson, Luke Tooley, Joseph Naglestad, Chris Wielenga
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Patent number: 9357875Abstract: Disclosed herein is a combination outdoor cooking and firewood support apparatus having a frusto-conical frame designed to support firewood in a substantially upright orientation along a periphery of the frame in a manner such that the firewood lean toward the center of the frame. A cooking grate can be positioned on the upper end of the frame over the interior area so that food can be cooked over heat generated by the leftover coal from the burnt firewood that fell into the interior area of the frame. The apparatus can be collapsed into a flattened configuration when some of the arms are detached from at least one of the frame members while other arms remain attached to the frame members.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Salvatore Guiliano