Patents Examined by Gregory A. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12242289
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing that defines a cooking cavity. A first temperature sensor is coupled to the housing and is configured to detect an air temperature of the cooking cavity. A rack is disposed within the cooking cavity and includes a second temperature sensor that is coupled to a frame of the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marco Casucci, Simone Emanuele Ceron, Luca Corbo, Alessandro Gigante, Marta Maria Teresa Taverna
  • Patent number: 12235046
    Abstract: A device and a method are described by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly influenced by means of at least two adjacent segments. By exchanging segments, the process control can be adapted quickly and flexibly to a wide variety of metal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Hafer, Matthias Peters, Kilian Kaupper
  • Patent number: 12234995
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus includes a control circuit configured to operate an electronic lock on demand in response to user input provided to a user interface. The electronic lock may be operable regardless of whether the oven is active, and cooking operations may be started, stopped or modified even when the electronic lock is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Richard W. Cowan
  • Patent number: 12235020
    Abstract: A water heater connectable to an external air supply and exhaust pipe includes a housing that houses a combustion device, a connecting portion, a first air supply and exhaust pipe, and a second air supply and exhaust pipe. The connecting portion includes an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder projecting upward from an upper surface of the housing. The first air supply and exhaust pipe and the second air supply and exhaust pipe are selectively connectable to the connecting portion. The first air supply and exhaust pipe is connectable to the connecting portion by interpolating a first air supply pipe into the outer cylinder and interpolating a first exhaust pipe into the inner cylinder, and the second air supply and exhaust pipe is connectable to the connecting portion by externally fitting a second air supply pipe onto the outer cylinder and interpolating a second exhaust pipe into the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PALOMA RHEEM HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Kakizaki
  • Patent number: 12228280
    Abstract: A vapor source system based on vapor-liquid ejector supercharging combined with flash vaporization technology belongs to the technical fields of waste heat utilization and steam generation. The system comprises a vapor-liquid ejector, a flash vaporization tank and a intermediate heat exchanger, wherein the vapor-liquid ejector uses high-pressure steam to raise temperature and pressure of low-pressure water absorbed from the flash vaporization tank; the pressure-increased water is flashed into low-pressure saturated steam after entering the flash vaporization tank; the saturated water which is not flashed is collected at the bottom of the flash vaporization tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Dalian Ocean University
    Inventors: Yong Yang, Xingyao Zhang, Zelong Xie, Yuzhe Zhang, Kun Zhang, Shengqiang Shen
  • Patent number: 12230517
    Abstract: An exhaust structure includes a piping section, wherein the piping section has a first inner diameter in a central region of the piping section, the piping section has a second diameter in at least one of an inlet or an outlet, and the second diameter has a same value as the first inner diameter. The exhaust structure further includes a plurality of smoothing layers configured to resist turbulence and condensation produced by a flow of one or more gasses in the piping section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hsien-Chang Hsieh, Chun-Chih Lin, Tah-te Shih, Wen-Hsong Wu, Chune-Te Yang, Yu-Jen Su
  • Patent number: 12222163
    Abstract: A cooler for cooling bulk material, such as cement clinker, for example, may include an aeration floor through which cooling gas can flow. The aeration floor may be configured to receive bulk material and to transport the bulk material in a conveying direction. The aeration floor comprises a plurality of conveying beams that are mounted so as to be movable in the conveying direction and counter to the conveying direction. A seal is mounted between two adjacent conveying beams, and the seal has at least two sealing elements mounted so as to be movable relative to one another. The sealing elements each have a sealing profile, which interact with one another such that a sealing gap is formed between them. The sealing gap has a double or multiple U-profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Ludwig Koenning, Justin Bisping, Stefanie Richter, Michael Streffing, Rolf Rieger, Frank Crabus, Jochen Altfeld
  • Patent number: 12209747
    Abstract: Provided is a boiler including a heat generation body, a container including the heat generation body, and a water pipe to be heated by heat generated by the heat generation body under environment where the inside of the container is filled with gas with higher specific heat than that of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: MIURA CO., LTD., Clean Planet Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Otani, Nobuyuki Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 12203704
    Abstract: Provided are dynamic sealing structure and rotary kiln apparatus. Dynamic sealing structure includes kiln tail, discharging cover, sealing mechanism, guiding mechanism and balancing device. Discharging cover includes discharging cover cylinder and discharging cover end face connected to same, discharging cover cylinder is arranged on outer side of circumferential wall of kiln tail in sleeving manner, and discharging cover end face and end face of the kiln tail are arranged at intervals. Sealing mechanism is arranged between discharging cover cylinder and kiln tail and is connected to inner wall of discharging cover cylinder. Guiding mechanism is arranged between inner wall of discharging cover cylinder and outer side of kiln tail, and is located on one side or two sides of sealing mechanism in axial direction of rotary kiln, rotating gap is provided between guiding mechanism and kiln tail, and balancing device is connected to outer side of the discharging cover cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HENAN LONGCHENG COAL HIGH EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shucheng Zhu, Xibin Wang, Fang Li, Jinfeng Li, Yanwu Lv, Yi Ren
  • Patent number: 12202126
    Abstract: A manipulator configured to navigate a heat exchanger including a plurality of tubes extending through a tubesheet is disclosed herein, the manipulator including a first end effector, a second end effector, and an articulation assembly. The first end effector is configured to accommodate an instrument configured to service the heat exchanger and includes a first actuator configured to extend a first gripper into a tube of the plurality of tubes. The second end effector includes a second actuator configured to extend a second gripper into a tube of the plurality of tubes. The first and second gripper are configured to secure the manipulator to the tubesheet, and, when the second gripper is securing the manipulator to the tubesheet, the articulation assembly is configured to enable the first end effector to move relative to the second end effector in a plane that is parallel to the tubesheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventor: Lyman J. Petrosky
  • Patent number: 12196493
    Abstract: A slab library for separate storage of cold blanks and hot blanks of heavy plates and heating furnace layout, and a furnace loading method are provided. The slab library and heating furnace layout comprises: 1 # slab library and 2 # slab library span, arranged side by side; continuous casting blank delivery roller way connected to the continuous casting process; heating furnace span arranged at the outlet of the 2 # slab library span; slab preparatory library span, which is across the inlets of the 1 # slab library span and the 2 # slab library span; span-crossing traverse trolley roller way and the heating furnace span; span-crossing Horary-spa roller way and the 1 # slab library span; and, feeding roller way and the heating furnace span, and across the hot blank zone and the cold blank zone of the 2 # slab library span and the two ends of the heating furnace span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BAOSTEEL ZHANJIANG IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guofeng Chen, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 12194520
    Abstract: A heating system for use in the manufacture of copper coated double-layer steel tubes having a casing in which the roll-wrapped tube is heated to a predefined temperature value. The heating system comprises a sensor configured in an outer portion of the casing such that the sensor is able to determine a temperature value within the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NET BORU SANAYI VE DIS TICARET KOLLEKTIF SIRKETI BORA SAMAN VE ORTAGI
    Inventor: Bora Saman
  • Patent number: 12196490
    Abstract: A rotary kiln with a stirring function is provided, including a kiln head, a roller and a kiln tail. The roller is obliquely arranged on the kiln head and the kiln tail. The rotary kiln further includes a mounting shaft and stirring mechanisms. Linkage elements are arranged on an inner wall of the roller. The linkage elements are configured to drive the stirring mechanisms to perform a stirring operation. Each of the stirring mechanisms includes a rotating ring sleeve and two limiting slide bases. The rotating ring sleeve is provided with three telescopic frame bodies. A telescopic baffle is arranged in each of the three telescopic frame bodies. A secondary propulsion assembly is arranged in a mounting groove. A sealing cover is arranged at an inner end of the telescopic baffle. The telescopic frame body is communicated with the rotating ring sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Gaoyou Huanchuang Resources Regeneration Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pin Zhou, Yu Zhao, Jie Li, Changjin Zhu, Haiming Yang
  • Patent number: 12196492
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus including: a cylindrical processing container; a heater configured to heat the processing container; and a cooler configured to cool the processing container, wherein the cooler includes: discharge holes provided at intervals in a longitudinal direction of the processing container, the discharge holes being configured to discharge a cooling medium toward the processing container; a branch configured to divide the cooling medium into a plurality of flowing paths that communicate with the discharge holes; and blowers provided for respective ones of the flowing paths, the blowers being configured to send the cooling medium to the discharge holes that communicate with the respective ones of the flowing paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kazuteru Obara, Tatsuya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12188687
    Abstract: An expansion tank control device and a water heater and expansion tank including the expansion tank control device. The device may include a water flow sensor arranged in a water inlet waterway of a water heater to detect water flow in the water inlet waterway. The device can further include a controller outputting a driving electric signal after receiving a first electric signal output by the water flow sensor, and a reset electric signal after receiving a second electric signal output by the water flow sensor. The expansion tank can include an electric driving part arranged on a shell of the expansion tank, and a push plate on a driving end of the part, a controlled end of the electric driving part driving the push plate to move toward the expansion tank after receiving the driving electric signal or away from the expansion tank after receiving the reset electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kohler (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongsheng Ding, Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 12188689
    Abstract: An electrical water heater that receives a load shedding request signal uses a temperature sensor that is positioned so as to measure a water temperature in a lower area of a tank of the water heater. A controller continuously determines a salubrity index of the water heater as a function of the temperature measured by the sensor and a time measurement The controller decides to interrupt an electrical power supply of the water heater through a switch so as to interrupt or not interrupt an operation of the water heater upon receipt of the load shedding request signal and only if the salubrity index meets a preestablished criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUÉBEC
    Inventors: Alain Moreau, André Laperrière, François Laurencelle
  • Patent number: 12183472
    Abstract: Systems enhance stand pipe alignment and security with braces docking to the stand pipes. A link connects pairs of braces so the braces and stand pipes docked thereby cannot move relative to each other when fully secured. Partially securing braces allows adjustment of the braces and distance between the same and thus stand pipe position. Fully securing the braces makes the entire system rigid without need for a tie bar. Braces and links can be installed and secured to the stand pipes and among each other at an axial position from above the stand pipes, so that overhead, simple tooling may be used. A crimp nut or other resilient connector may be used to secure the systems from that single dimension with simple tooling. Any number of braces, joining to any number of other braces, may be used in the system, and several systems may be used at various levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
    Inventors: Sean T. Mosier, Mark D. Sumner, Harold C. Lowe, Samuel T. Kratt
  • Patent number: 12176226
    Abstract: A method for temperature control includes: acquiring the present temperature of a reaction window in a process chamber of a semiconductor machine; comparing the present temperature with the preset temperature to acquire a comparison result; and adjusting the exhaust amount of an exhaust passage of the process chamber based on the comparison result to control the temperature of the reaction window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Guoqing Zhang, Su Yang, Duocai Sun, Xingfeng Hong, Yiqun Li
  • Patent number: 12173931
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to water heaters, in particular to a water heater with convenient-to-install decorative plate. The water heater includes top, bottom decorative plate, front plate, rear housing, further includes frame. The frame includes body, upper, lower connecting bar. The rear edge of upper connecting bar is provided with first upper flanging, rear edge of lower connecting bar is provided with first lower flanging, front edge of top decorative plate is provided with second upper flanging, front edge of bottom decorative plate is provided with second lower flanging, the first upper flanging is in lap joint with the second upper flanging, second lower flanging is in lap joint with first lower flanging. Advantages: the left, right rear part of top decorative plate each can connected upper pressing bar with one screw, top and bottom decorative plate needs two screws separately. Water heater with convenient-to-install decorative plate has few screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: JUNSKY APPLIANCES LIMITED
    Inventors: Delong Liang, Zhigang Jiang
  • Patent number: 12145304
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing plastic containers with a heating device configured to heat plastic preforms and with a forming device which forms the heated plastic preforms into plastic containers, wherein this forming device being arranged downstream of the heating device in the transport direction of the plastic preforms, and wherein the heating device and/or the forming device having at least one regulating device which makes it possible to regulate the heating process and/or the forming process as a function of at least one property of the plastic preforms. According to the invention, the at least one control device for controlling takes into account in advance at least one variable value which influences the heating process and/or the forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Jochen Forsthoevel, Philipp Olenberg, Ulrich Lappe