Patents Examined by Gregory A. Wilson
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Patent number: 12270608Abstract: A transport tray for transporting and heating chemical substances, includes a one-piece support structure with a base and a frame fixedly connected thereto, wherein the support structure supports a lining of a tray-shaped cavity for accommodating the chemical substances, wherein the lining includes a base plate lying on the base and multiple frame plates clamped against the frame, wherein the lining is supported by the support structure such that the thermal expansions of the base plate and the frame plates in their plate planes are not impeded.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN INDUSTRIEKERAMIK RÖDENTAL GMBHInventor: Hans-Ulrich Dorst
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Patent number: 12264098Abstract: A curing oven for curing a mineral wool web includes an air permeable conveyor for advancing the mineral wool web through a substantially closed cabinet from a mineral wool web inlet provided at one end of the cabinet to a mineral wool web outlet provided at another end of the cabinet. The curing oven also includes a heated air inlet arranged for directing a flow of heated air through the conveyor. The curing oven includes at least one wool deformation detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: ROCKWOOL A/SInventor: Ole Andreasen
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Patent number: 12252446Abstract: Systems and methods for thermally processing composite components are provided. In one exemplary aspect, a system includes a thermal system, a mover device, and a control system. The system also includes a plurality of vessels in which one or more components may be placed. The vessels are similarly shaped and configured. A vessel containing the one or more components therein may be mounted into a chamber defined by the thermal system during thermal processing. The thermal system and vessels include features that allow components to be thermally processed, e.g., compacted, burnt-out, and densified via a melt-infiltration process, a polymer impregnation and pyrolyzing process, or a chemical vapor infiltration process. utilizing the same thermal system and common vessel design. The control system may control the thermal system and mover device to automate thermal processing of the composite components.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Aaron Todd Sellinger, Theodore Robert Grossman, Timothy P. Coons, Ryan Marcus Young, Nicholas Frederick Wendeln
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Patent number: 12247735Abstract: A regenerative thermal oxidizer assembly includes a first housing member and a second housing member. The first housing member defines a regenerative portion and a combustion chamber. The second housing member defines an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber. A regenerator is disposed within the regenerative portion of the first housing member and defines a central axial opening extending to the combustion chamber. A thermal element extends through the axial opening to the combustion chamber for providing heat to the combustion chamber for initiating combustion inside the combustion chamber. The first housing member is rotatable around an axis defined by the axial opening relative to the second housing member for rotating the regenerator relative to the inlet chamber and the outlet chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: ROTOHEATER LLCInventor: Joseph M Klobucar
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Patent number: 12246384Abstract: A support frame for a sintering step of a method for producing a part, in particular for watchmaking, from a green body having an initial shape, the body shrinking from the initial shape to a final shape during the sintering step, the support frame having at least one face for supporting the body during the sintering step, wherein the geometry of the supporting face is in relief and configured to support the body from its initial shape into its final shape, so that it retains its shape and proportions in line with a shrinkage coefficient related to the sintering operation. The disclosure further relates to a sintering method using this support frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Comadur SAInventors: Denis Bubendorf, Pierry Vuille, Damien Cartier, Paulo Arede
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Patent number: 12242289Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Marco Casucci, Simone Emanuele Ceron, Luca Corbo, Alessandro Gigante, Marta Maria Teresa Taverna
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Patent number: 12234995Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Richard W. Cowan
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Patent number: 12235020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: PALOMA RHEEM HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Kakizaki
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Patent number: 12235046Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SMS group GmbHInventors: Joachim Hafer, Matthias Peters, Kilian Kaupper
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Patent number: 12230517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hsien-Chang Hsieh, Chun-Chih Lin, Tah-te Shih, Wen-Hsong Wu, Chune-Te Yang, Yu-Jen Su
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Patent number: 12228280Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Dalian Ocean UniversityInventors: Yong Yang, Xingyao Zhang, Zelong Xie, Yuzhe Zhang, Kun Zhang, Shengqiang Shen
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Patent number: 12222163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignees: thyssenkrupp Polysius GmbH, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Ludwig Koenning, Justin Bisping, Stefanie Richter, Michael Streffing, Rolf Rieger, Frank Crabus, Jochen Altfeld
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Patent number: 12209747Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: MIURA CO., LTD., Clean Planet Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Otani, Nobuyuki Ishizaki
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Patent number: 12202126Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLCInventor: Lyman J. Petrosky
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Patent number: 12203704Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: HENAN LONGCHENG COAL HIGH EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Shucheng Zhu, Xibin Wang, Fang Li, Jinfeng Li, Yanwu Lv, Yi Ren
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Patent number: 12194520Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NET BORU SANAYI VE DIS TICARET KOLLEKTIF SIRKETI BORA SAMAN VE ORTAGIInventor: Bora Saman
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Patent number: 12196490Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Gaoyou Huanchuang Resources Regeneration Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pin Zhou, Yu Zhao, Jie Li, Changjin Zhu, Haiming Yang
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Patent number: 12196492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Kazuteru Obara, Tatsuya Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12196493Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: BAOSTEEL ZHANJIANG IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Guofeng Chen, Bin Liu
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Patent number: 12188689Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: HYDRO-QUÉBECInventors: Alain Moreau, André Laperrière, François Laurencelle