Patents Examined by David Teitelbaum
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Patent number: 9596944Abstract: A thermoelectric device includes an elongated panel, formed of a thermally insulating material, and having a plurality of thermoelectric elements formed from compacted conductors inside the insulating material and expanded conductors outside the insulating material wherein the thermoelectric elements run substantially parallel to or at an acute angle relative to the long dimension of the panel. The thermoelectric device may be integrated into a variety of surfaces or enclosures needing heating or cooling with controls and configurations to optimize the application.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: TEMPRONICS, INC.Inventors: Tarek Makansi, Michael J. Berman, John Latimer Franklin, Mark Nelsen Evers, Steven Wood
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Patent number: 9599355Abstract: A dry air-water heat exchanger, wherein a cooling fan, a main tube row, at least an air pre-cooling water tube row, a water evaporator and a catchment chamber are set in a housing, wherein the air pre-cooling water tube row is provided to pre-cool for the entering air, and the water evaporator is provided to evaporate water for heat exchanging after air pre-cooling to thereby lower the temperature of the entering air, and the circulating refrigerant (or the circulating water) inside the main the row is heat exchanged by the main tube row, to thereby perform the high-efficiency cooling process with minimum energy and water consumption, to thereby cool and lower the temperature of the circulating refrigerant (or circulating water), to improve the cooling efficiency of the circulating refrigerant (or circulating water), and achieve the purpose of reducing bacterial growth and scale formation.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: HER JIU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-Liang Weng, Chien-Lun Weng, Ling-Hua Weng, Ching-Ju Weng
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Patent number: 9591792Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Andrew B. Carlson
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Patent number: 9587840Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooling a supply of air is provided. A unit controller receives a cooling demand signal. In response to the cooling demand signal, the unit controller adjusts an economizer according to an economizing function. The economizing function is configured to achieve an initial free cooling target temperature as a discharge air temperature. The unit controller receives an additional cooling demand signal. In response to the additional cooling demand signal, the unit controller reduces the free cooling target temperature. The unit controller adjusts the economizer according to the economizing function, with the economizing function configured to achieve the reduced free cooling target temperature as the discharge air temperature. Additionally in response to the additional cooling demand signal, the unit controller signals a unit to perform mechanical cooling on a supply of air received from the economizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.Inventors: Herman Marcus Thomas, Marcus W. Troxell, Stephen A. Walter
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Patent number: 9581296Abstract: A system for supplying LNG fuel includes a fuel supplying line connected from an LNG storage tank to an engine, a boosting pump provided on the fuel supplying line and configured to pressurize LNG outputted from the LNG storage tank and cool down in a standby mode, a high pressure pump configured to pressurize the LNG outputted from the boosting pump to high pressure, and a return line connected between the LNG storage tank and the high pressure pump, in which the LNG is returned through the return line.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tae Seok Lee
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Patent number: 9574812Abstract: Technical glacette made of composite material, suitable for the refrigeration of a bottle containing beverages through a Phase Change Material injected into the cooling chamber of the glacette. The glacette is constituted by an outer casing that contains a removable refrigeration chamber to contain and refrigerate the bottle. The outer casing is open on one side or circumference to allow the reading of the label or bar code. The glacette is constituted also by a lower base integral to and united to the outer casing, which serves both as a base of support, and as light indication of the quantity of the beverage contained in the bottle. The lower base of the glacette also has a defined area which allows the 360° vision of the visual warning or change in color illumination when the beverage contained in the bottle varies due to the consumption of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: IDEA PROTOTIPI SRLInventor: Massimo Agostini
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Patent number: 9568226Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for indicating the status of the refrigerant charge in an air conditioning system based upon the degree of subcooling present in the condensed refrigerant system temperature measurements. The status of the refrigerant charge in the system is indicated in real-time on a service panel for access by a field service technician. The status of the refrigerant charge in the system on a time-average basis for a specified period of operation is presented on an indicator panel. The indicator panel includes a first indicator light indicating that the refrigerant charge is low, a second indicator light indicating that the refrigerant charge is high, and a third indicator light indicating that the refrigerant charge is correct.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Don A. Schuster, Sathish R. Das
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Patent number: 9562705Abstract: An energy recovery apparatus, for use in a refrigeration system, comprises a first nozzle, a second nozzle, a turbine, a discharge port, and a housing. The first nozzle comprises a first passageway which is adapted to constitute a portion of a refrigerant flow path when the refrigeration system is operated in a first mode. The second nozzle comprises a second conduit which is adapted to constitute a portion of the flow path when the refrigeration system is operated in a second mode. The turbine is positioned to be driven by refrigerant discharged from either or both of the first and second passageways. The discharge port is adapted to permit refrigerant to flow out of the energy recovery apparatus. The discharge port of the energy recovery apparatus is downstream of the turbine. The turbine is within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Jay M. Cupps, Steven W. Post
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Patent number: 9562709Abstract: A system may include a compressor, a heat exchanger, an expansion device, a lubricant separator, and a flow path. The compressor includes a compression mechanism. The heat exchanger receives compressed working fluid from the compressor. The expansion device is disposed downstream of the heat exchanger. The lubricant separator receives lubricant and working fluid discharged from the compression mechanism and provides separated lubricant to the compression mechanism. The flow path may receive working fluid from the heat exchanger and may provide working fluid to the heat exchanger. The flow path may extend between a first location disposed between the heat exchanger and the expansion device and a second location disposed between the heat exchanger and the compressor. The working fluid from the flow path may absorb heat from the separated lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kirill M. Ignatiev, Robert C. Stover, Michael M. Perevozchikov
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Patent number: 9557084Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of operating a refrigeration system includes measuring a relative humidity of a container and comparing the measured relative humidity to a humidity set point. The method also includes operating evaporator fans of a refrigeration system when the measured relative humidity is above the humidity set point.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: THERMO KING CORPORATIONInventors: Ole Thogersen, Allan Dyrmose
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Patent number: 9523526Abstract: An ice making apparatus is provided for making ice of the nugget-forming type from ice shavings that are compacted, wherein inlet water is provided to a freezing chamber having a rotatable auger therein, for flow of the inlet water and water squeezed from ice leaving the freezing chamber at the discharge end thereof along the auger, for flow of water through the freezing chamber, to a water reservoir at an opposite end of the freezing chamber, whereby ice flow through the freezing chamber is in one direction, and water flow through the freezing chamber is in an opposite direction. Dissolved minerals are thereby substantially removed from the ice being discharged from the freezing chamber, and are conveyed from a zone of lesser water volume to a zone of higher water volume where they are more substantially dispersed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Follett CorporationInventors: Roger P. Brunner, Thomas H. Scarince
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Patent number: 9513049Abstract: A refrigerator having an insulated interior which is formed, at least in part, by a drawer with a bottom boundary wall, a front boundary wall, two lateral boundary walls and a rear boundary wall. Included at an upper portion of the drawer is an inner drawer, of which the height is smaller than the height of the drawer. According to the invention, the height of the rear boundary wall of the drawer is reduced at least to the extent where the inner drawer can have its base wall displaced, at least in part, beyond the rear boundary wall of the drawer.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Frank Eisele, Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer
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Patent number: 9513037Abstract: A Motor Cycle personal cooling system is disclosed that utilizes waste heat employing solid adsorption. The system includes an air distribution module and one or more desiccant chambers encircling the exhaust pipes of the Motor Cycle. Air blowers blow ambient air across the heat exchanger, cooling the air, transferring heat to the heat exchanger, transferring heat to the water, causing it to boil, and turning the water into vapor which is then adsorbed by the desiccant. A heat source is then applied to the desiccant which releases the vapor that travels to one of the heat exchangers and condenses the vapor back into water. A cooling garment worn by the rider of the Motor Cycle has a cool air input and an exhaust output. The cool air input of the cooling garment receives cooled air from the air blowers, and body heat exits out the exhaust output.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: OXICOOL, INC.Inventor: Ravikant T. Barot
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Patent number: 9513036Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a first refrigerant flow switching device, a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a first expansion device, and a heat-source-side heat exchanger, through all of which a refrigerant circulates and all of which in combination form a refrigeration cycle; and a heat medium circuit including the plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a pump, and a plurality of use-side heat exchangers, through all of which a heat medium circulates. The air-conditioning apparatus further includes a heat medium energy storage that is connected to the heat medium circuit and stores the heat medium; and an intra-storage heat exchanger that is connected to the refrigerant circuit and heats or cools the heat medium in the heat medium energy storage by using the heat-source-side refrigerant supplied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Motomura, Osamu Morimoto, Daisuke Shimamoto, Kouji Azuma
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Patent number: 9510481Abstract: A refrigerant jacket includes a refrigerant cooling member, a cover member and a strength member. The cooling member is constructed of aluminum or aluminum alloy that thermally contacts a heat emitting electrical part, and has a groove portion. A refrigerant tube of a refrigerant circuit fits into the groove portion. The cover member covers the refrigerant cooling member in a state where the refrigerant tube has been fitted into the groove portion. The strength member is higher in strength than the cooling member, and is fixed to the cooling member. The cover member has a cover-side through hole opposing the strength member. The strength member has a cover member fixing screw hole opposing the cover-side through hole. The cover member is fixed to the strength member by a cover member fixing screw that passes through the cover-side through hole and screws into threads of the cover member fixing screw hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Fujiwara, Shinichi Ishizeki, Kentaroh Taoka, Shinichirou Nomura, Motonobu Ikeda, Hiroshi Dohmae
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Patent number: 9506462Abstract: The present invention provides a compression apparatus capable of improving assembling workability, and the compression apparatus includes: a compressor that compresses a gas; a cooler that cools a gas discharged from the compressor in a compressed state; and a support base that supports the compressor and the cooler, wherein the support base includes a main support base having the compressor disposed thereon and an auxiliary support table connectable to the main support base, and wherein the auxiliary support table includes a base plate supporting the cooler and a plurality of leg portions supporting the base plate and stands by itself by the plurality of leg portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Sho Oba, Emi Ogawa, Ryusuke Igaki
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Patent number: 9500392Abstract: Technologies are generally described herein for multistage thermal flow devices and methods effective to transfer thermal energy between a heat source and a heat sink having different surface areas and thermal energy flow characteristics. Some example multistage thermal flow devices may include multiple stages of heat transfer pumps utilizing electrocaloric effect material with thermal collection devices between stages. The heat flux associated with heat transfer pumps of consecutive stages may increase to concentrate the thermal energy through the multistage thermal flow device or may decrease to diffuse the thermal energy through the multistage thermal flow device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
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Patent number: 9488404Abstract: An ultra low temperature refrigeration system and technique, includes a cabinet with a storage chamber maintained at a certain temperature range, a door providing a seal with the cabinet when engaged with the cabinet, and a dehumidifying unit connected to the cabinet for dehumidifying the storage chamber within the cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLCInventors: Dennis H. Smith, Todd Swift, Kevin D. Bramlett, Santosh Nerur, Walter Jeff Tipton, Wendell Morris
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Patent number: 9482460Abstract: A truck includes a refrigerated compartment that is equipped with a dedicated refrigerating system, and a driver cabin. The driver cabin is equipped with a least a first heat exchanger adapted to cool an air flow directed to the cabin. The truck further includes a compartment heat exchanger located in the refrigerated compartment and adapted to cool a heat transfer liquid sent to the first heat exchanger through a heat transfer liquid connecting the first heat exchanger to the compartment heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Volvo Truck CorporationInventor: Frédéric Laudet
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Patent number: 9470446Abstract: An ice making tray for an ice maker, an ice maker and a refrigerator comprising the same are provided. The ice maker is disposed on a door of a refrigerator. The ice making tray includes: a tray body provided with a plurality of ice forming chambers being downwardly concave, in which an opening for water flowing is formed between adjacent ice forming chambers; a water storage trough disposed on a front side of the tray body, and being higher than the plurality of ice forming chambers, in which the water storage trough is communicated with the plurality of ice forming chambers via at least one water returning mouth; and an enclosure wall, disposed around an upper end of the tray body.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignees: Hefei Midea Refrigerator Co., Ltd., Hefei Hualing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yao, Lingyun Li, Dongxian Liu