Patents Examined by Elizabeth J Martin
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Patent number: 11732908Abstract: Integrated systems comprising both i) heat and mass exchange systems and ii) electrolysis stacks are disclosed, together with related methods of use. The disclosed systems cool and/or dehumidify air using two streams of salt solutions as liquid desiccants.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Jason David Woods, Eric Kozubal
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Patent number: 11725876Abstract: A portable cold room storage system that includes an improved solar panel racking system is provided. The portable cold room storage system provides solar power for the cold room storage system. The portable cold room storage system includes a cold or cool room, one or more power sources to generate energy, a battery storage to store the energy generated by the one or more power sources and to supply the energy to the cold or cool room, and a racking system to mount the one or more power sources.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: RASP, LLCInventors: Jerrol Lee Wolf, Bruce Harvey Rubin
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Patent number: 11719472Abstract: In one aspect, a portable-smart refrigerator fastened to the lid assembly to an internal upper portion of a PCM chamber assembly. The portable-smart refrigerator includes a grill assembly comprising a top base, a pump bracket, a middle base, a bottom base. the top base is coupled with the middle base. The portable-smart refrigerator includes a cooling-coil assembly comprising a feeding tube, a top elbow, a bottom tube, a cooling coil. The top elbow is installed between two lengths of tubing/pipe to enable a change of direction and couples the feeding tube with the cooling coil. The cooling coil is coupled with the bottom tube. The portable-smart refrigerator includes the phase change material (PCM) chamber assembly that holds the cooling coil. The PCM chamber is placed within an outer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Inventor: Faizan Ahmed
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Patent number: 11719484Abstract: A refrigerator including a cabinet including an insulator provided between an inner case and an outer case, a cold air duct embedded in the insulator to circulate cold air through the storage compartment, a cooling module mounting unit provided at a lower portion of the cabinet, and a cooling module including a module body in which an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, and a cooling fan are installed and having an accommodating portion to accommodate the evaporator in a lying state, the cooling module being provided with a connection opening communicating with the cold air duct when mounted on the cooling module mounting unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kihun Ko, Jeongman Nam, Hyunghee Moon, Younggon Park, Jungkeun Park, Jungyong Lee, Taeyun Jung, Shanghun Lee
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Patent number: 11718143Abstract: Systems and methods for heating and cooling a vehicle using a heat pump are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system for heating and cooling the vehicle includes a heat pump having: a compressor located in an engine compartment of the vehicle, and an evaporator located in a sleeper or a cab of the vehicle. The system also includes a controller for selecting a cooling mode or a heating mode for the heat pump.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: PACCAR Inc.Inventors: Uday Vadlamani, Mike Young, Costi Nedelcu
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Patent number: 11719485Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet that defines a storage space and a machine compartment that accommodates a compressor, a blow fan, and a condenser. The condenser is curved along front, rear, and side surfaces of the machine compartment. The condenser includes a first header disposed at a first end of the condenser, a second header disposed at a second end of the condenser, tubes that connect the first header and the second header to each other, heat exchange fins disposed the tubes, an input connection portion that extends from the first header toward the second header and is configured to supply refrigerant to the first header, and an output connection portion that extends from the first header toward the second header and is spaced apart from the input connection portion. The output connection portion is configured to receive the refrigerant discharged from the first header.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Jeongwon Yoo
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Patent number: 11713915Abstract: An air supply assembly for a refrigerator, includes: an air duct cover plate defining, together with a refrigerator liner, an air supply space and configured to isolate the air supply space from a storage space in a compartment of the refrigerator, and a centrifugal wind wheel arranged in the air supply space, and axially sucking air in and blowing the air out towards a peripheral side, wherein a plurality of air return ports are provided in the air duct cover plate to allow air in the storage space to enter the air supply space; and the centrifugal wind wheel abuts against an inner side of the air duct cover plate and is configured to suck air in from a rear side thereof, such that air entering the air supply space via the air return ports is sucked in from the rear side of the centrifugal wind wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Ning Wang, Guangrui Wu, Hongliang Li, Penghui Li, Xiao Ding, Chang Liu, Chaoge Xu, Xing Liang, Qing Chen
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Patent number: 11709008Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet with one or more food compartments and one or more doors closing the food compartments and an ice maker located in the cabinet to produce ice. The ice maker includes a mold body for forming ice, the mold body having multiple cups, where each cup has an opening for receiving water to be frozen within the cup. The mold body is divided into at least a first zone and a second zone and the ice maker including at least a first heater and a second heater configured to provide heat to the first and second zones of the mold body, respectively, and a controller configured to harvest ice from the first zone independently of the second zone by actuating the first heater to provide heat to the first zone of the mold body to facilitate a release of ice from the first zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Vinayak Naik, Mark W. Wilson, Eric Scalf
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Patent number: 11709009Abstract: An ice bucket for a refrigerator appliance, includes a bucket body; an auger provided inside the bucket and including an auger shaft rotatable about a first shaft axis and a collet at a first end of the auger shaft and including an axially beveled surface formed circumferentially around the auger shaft; and an agitator provided in the bucket in mechanical communication with the auger, the agitator including an agitator shaft rotatable about a second shaft axis non-parallel to the first shaft axis, a plurality of first tines extending radially from the agitator shaft within the bucket body to engage ice therein, and a projection that extends perpendicularly from the agitator shaft opposite the plurality of tines. The projection engages with the axially beveled surface to oscillate the agitator.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Yayu Song, Qianmao Zhou, Bo Yan, Lixin Zhou, Jun Teng, Xiaoyang Jiang, Jin Wu, Robert Charles Pfaffinger, Jr.
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Patent number: 11703264Abstract: A refrigerator appliance includes walls, a door, an ice container, a magnet, and a sensor. The walls define an internal storage chamber. The door has an outer panel and a door liner disposed between the outer panel and the internal storage chamber. The door liner defines a receptacle. The ice container is removably positioned within the receptacle. The magnet is secured to the ice container. The sensor is disposed between the outer panel and the door liner. The sensor is configured to align with and detect a presence of the magnet through the door liner and to detect an absence of the magnet. The presence of the magnet is indicative that the ice container is positioned within the receptacle. The absence of the magnet is indicative that the ice container is not positioned within the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Chethan Shivappa Thenehalli, Omar Israel Suarez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11697093Abstract: A compressed air drying system is provided for removing moisture from compressed air. The dryer operates in two modes in response to the demand for compressed air. In a first mode of operation, a refrigeration compressor runs continuously and the speed of a condenser fan is varied to maintain a constant cooling temperature. In a second mode of operation, the refrigeration compressor runs intermittently between on and off periods. As result, the cooling temperature fluctuates during the second mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.Inventors: Stefano Vezil, Paolo Depiero, Giovanni Battista Capellari
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Patent number: 11692758Abstract: In one instance, a cooling unit for use as an aspect of a cooling system includes a cabinet having a plurality of panels and having an interior, a front face with a fan aperture formed in the front face, and a bottom panel. The cooling unit further includes a drain pan below the bottom panel. The cooling unit also includes a plurality of guide-rail slide and track assemblies coupled between at least a portion of the cabinet and the drain pan for providing controlled movement of the drain pan between an operational position and a maintenance position. Other cooling units are disclosed with drain pans that may be lowered by a single technician.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLCInventors: Karthick Kuppusamy, Vignesh Thiyagarajan
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Patent number: 11692766Abstract: A refrigerator may include a cabinet forming a storage compartment; a rear panel forming a rear wall of the storage compartment and having a cooling air outlet hole which discharges cooling air toward the storage compartment; a fan housing coupled to the rear panel and in which a fan configured to circulate cooling air is installed; an outlet port which is formed at the fan housing and discharges cooling air supplied by driving of the fan; and a drawer provided capable of being withdrawn forward from an inside of the storage compartment, wherein the drawer includes: a drawer body forming a storage space; and a cooling air duct provided above the drawer body and having a cooling air path in communication with the outlet port.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ahreum Park, Younseok Lee, Junsoo Han, Yongjin Lee
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Patent number: 11692756Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a freezing compartment below a refrigerating compartment, an ice making compartment at a side of the refrigerating compartment, an evaporator, a shroud that is disposed at a front side of the evaporator, a grille panel coupled to a front surface of the shroud, a first cool air guide channel defined between the grille panel and the shroud and configured to guide cool air to a freezing compartment, a second cool air guide channel defined between the grille panel and the shroud and configured guide cool air to the ice making compartment, a freezing fan module disposed between the grille panel and the shroud and configured to supply cool air to the first cool air guide channel, and an ice making fan module disposed between the grille panel and the shroud and configured to supply cool air to the second cool air guide channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jong Gyu Park, Ki Hwang Kim, Sung Hee Kang
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Patent number: 11691800Abstract: A transportable enclosure can include a housing, a power source, a container, an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, and a controller. The container can be configured to receive a temperature sensitive item therein. The evaporator can be disposed at least partially around the container. The condenser can be positioned near a wall of the housing and can be configured to reject heat from the evaporator to an ambient environment through the wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Thaddeus Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Russell Sanders, William Mohs, Michael Humphries, Stephen Joseph Scully, Jr.
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Patent number: 11692755Abstract: A mobile cooling box has a box main body and at least one lid for opening the mobile cooling box and providing access to the inside of the mobile cooling box. The mobile cooling box further has at least one air vent 400 located on at least one side wall of the box main body, the at least one air vent comprises at least one opening, preferably in form of an essentially horizontal slot, allowing air flow through the respective side wall of the mobile cooling box. The at least one opening or slot comprises one or more shielding elements that are designed in such a way that the one or more shielding elements at least partly block the view into the inside of the mobile cooling box from the outside of the mobile cooling box.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Dometic Sweden ABInventors: Peng Wang, Feng Wang, Wenmin Tan, Weixian Guan
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Patent number: 11686522Abstract: A chiller system for a refrigerated space can include a chiller refrigeration system comprising a refrigerant loop for a chiller refrigerant to flow, a compressor, an evaporator, expansion device, and a condenser. The chiller can be positioned directly underneath the refrigerated space to provide cooled air directly to the refrigerated space without ducting. The chiller system can include a condensate path configured to receive condensate from the refrigerated space and to cool the chiller refrigerant in the chiller refrigeration system using the condensate.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Qiao Lu, Hong Liu
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Patent number: 11674735Abstract: A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet with at least one food storage chamber defined in the cabinet. The refrigerator appliance also includes a sealed cooling system in fluid communication with the at least one food storage chamber via a multi-flow system. A plurality of independently cooled zones are defined within the at least one food storage chamber. The refrigerator appliance also includes a temperature control module selectively positionable in one of the plurality of zones. Methods of operating the refrigerator appliance may include and/or a controller of the refrigerator appliance may be configured for locating the temperature control module, receiving a temperature setting from the temperature control module, and adjusting operation of at least one of the sealed cooling system and the multi-flow system in response to the received temperature setting from the temperature control module.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Martin Mitchell Zentner
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Patent number: 11674730Abstract: The present invention comprises: a first tray for forming a portion of an ice-making cell; a second tray forming the other portion of the ice-making cell, and capable of moving relative to the first tray; an ice bin for storing ice separated from the first and second trays; and a full-ice sensing lever for moving together with the second tray in a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Yongjun Bae, Donghoon Lee, Sunggyun Son, Wookyong Lee
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Patent number: 11674731Abstract: A commercial ice maker purges water from a sump via a passive drain valve instead of an active drain pump. The ice maker uses a large freeze plate, but still can accommodate the passive drain valve within a standard enclosure footprint. A bottom wall of the ice maker has a drain passaging groove formed in an upper surface. The drain valve is supported above the bottom wall and drain tube is at least partially received in the drain passaging groove. The drain valve can include a valve body that has a valve seat and a movable valve member that opens and closes a valve passage through the valve seat. The valve member radially overlaps the valve seat along a longitudinal axis when the valve member is closed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TRUE MANUFACTURING CO., INC.Inventor: Kevin Knatt
