Patents Examined by Gregory A. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11959704
    Abstract: A rotary tube kiln, with a rotatably mounted rotary tube, which has a motorized drive, a mounting, a material inlet and a material outlet, wherein the interior space of the rotary tube has a process space, the inside atmosphere of which is separate from the outside atmosphere. The process space is sealed off from a pressure space by means of a first seal and the pressure space is sealed off from the outside atmosphere by means of a second seal and, by means of a pressing device, a first pressing force can be applied to the first seal and a second pressing force can be applied to the second seal, the first pressing force can be set independently of the second pressing force and, during operation, the internal pressure of the pressure space is higher than the internal pressure of the process space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ONEJOON GMBH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Meyer
  • Patent number: 11953197
    Abstract: A high-pressure instant steam generator is disclosed. The steam generator unit comprises a HP unit, a HP water-band heater, an evaporator, a super heater, and at least a spray gun attachment. The high-pressure unit comprises a main pump for supplying a liquid from a storage tank in case of independent unit. The HP water band heater connected to the HP unit via a needle valve and a first manifold. The evaporator connected to the band heater via a second manifold and a check-valve, configured to convert the liquid into steam at a saturation point. The super heater connected to the evaporator via a check-valve, configured to heat the generated steam to the saturated temperature. The high-pressure steam attachment or spray gun connected to the super heater via a fourth manifold, configured to spray the generated high-pressure steam for sanitizing the surface the surface of the object being treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Spears
  • Patent number: 11955354
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor substrate manufacturing device which is capable of uniformly heating the surface of a semiconductor substrate that has a relatively large diameter or major axis. The semiconductor substrate manufacturing device includes a container body for accommodating a semiconductor substrate and a heating furnace that has a heating chamber which accommodates the container body, and the heating furnace has a heating source in a direction intersecting the semiconductor substrate to be disposed inside the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: KWANSEI GAKUIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadaaki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11953231
    Abstract: A heating device includes a housing closed with a cover element and enclosing a combustion chamber, wherein an opening for receiving a burner device pointing into the combustion chamber is provided on the cover element, wherein the opening is delimited by a first cylindrical sheet section of the cover element (1), wherein the first sheet section is connected to a second sheet section of the cover element so as to face away from the combustion chamber. The second sheet section extends radially outwards as a contact flange for the burner device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Viessmann Climate Solutions SE
    Inventors: Frank Milchsack, Isabel Seipp, Peter Haffner, Sven Hommel, Lars Paesler, Christian Wieser
  • Patent number: 11946696
    Abstract: The present application discloses an end barrier box for blocking ambient gases from entering a hearth of a reflow oven, including: a box body, wherein the box body includes a bottom and a top, the bottom has a mounting bottom plate, the top has an opening, the box body further includes a pair of side walls, and the side walls are oppositely disposed; and a plurality of deflectors, wherein each of the plurality of deflectors is mounted between the pair of side walls, each of the plurality of deflectors includes at least three fins, and the at least three fins are mounted on the mounting bottom plate and extend upward from the mounting bottom plate. According to the end barrier box of the present application, the deflector is set to include at least three fins, so that the deflector can be easily disassembled without disassembling the rails, which is convenient for cleaning and maintenance of the end barrier box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Daopeng Wei
  • Patent number: 11940217
    Abstract: A method for moulding a sheet into a component of complex shape having areas with different mechanical properties, particularly a motor-vehicle component, includes a first heating step of the sheet carried out by a kiln, prior to forming the component. The kiln has a main body with a roller shape, having a plurality of sectors extending along a radial direction with respect to a longitudinal axis of the roller body. The sectors are configured to each receive a sheet, so that the main body with a roller shape is arranged to simultaneously carry a plurality of sheets. The kiln includes a plurality of heating elements incorporated in the roller-shaped main body, so as to heat the sheets in contact with the roller body. The kiln includes at least one electronically-controlled drive motor, arranged to rotate the roller-shaped main body around the longitudinal axis of the kiln, so as to vary the position of the sectors with respect to the inlet and outlet ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile Per Azioni
    Inventors: Daniele Bassan, Marco Colosseo
  • Patent number: 11927394
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a vertically long process chamber, a heater configured to heat the process chamber, and a cooler configured to cool the process chamber. The cooler includes a plurality of discharge holes provided at intervals along a longitudinal direction of the process chamber to discharge cooling fluid toward the process chamber and a plurality of shutters provided corresponding to the plurality of discharge holes. At least one of the plurality of shutters is configured to move to an open position independently of other shutters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11920866
    Abstract: A device for the heat treatment of a product includes a housing, and a conveyor for conveying the product between an inlet of the housing and an outlet of the housing. The conveyor includes a screw which is mounted so as to turn in the housing according to a geometric axis of rotation and comprising an actuator for rotating the screw according to said axis, with ohmic heating of the screw. Accordingly, the housing comprises an envelope consisting of a refractory material through with the screw extends, said envelope being shaped in the form of a tube, the main inner surface of which follows contours of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: E.T.I.A.—EVALUATION TECHNOLOGIQUE, INGENIERIE ET APPLICATIONS
    Inventors: Olivier Lepez, Philippe Sajet
  • Patent number: 11919196
    Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Dale Charles Marshall, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Emmanuel Chima Okpara, Conor James Walsh
  • Patent number: 11906159
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a fluid heating device including a frustoconical combustion chamber and a heat exchanger that can include heating tubes. The combustion chamber can have a first end and a second end that is in fluid communication with the heating tubes. The surface area of the second end of the combustion chamber can be larger than the surface area of the first end of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Amin Monfared, Leonard E. Chambers, Miguel Mendoza, Arash Jafari, Babak Bagheri, Bruce Hotton
  • Patent number: 11906158
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of a high pressure heating installation and in particular a waste incineration installation comprising an advanced panel design and cladding thereof. Said cladding relates to a cladding to a in particular at least partly curved surface of a membrane panel, which panel is used in a high temperature and high pressure incinerator, such as a waste incinerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AMSTERDAM WASTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCY & TECHNOLOGY B.V.
    Inventors: Sietse Anne Agema, Marcellus Antonius Jozef Van Berlo
  • Patent number: 11896105
    Abstract: A hair dryer is provided that may include a main body including a discharge unit configured to discharge fluid outside of the main body, and a handle provided at one side of the main body. The discharge unit may include a plurality of discharge areas configured to discharge fluid. The discharge unit may be configured to selectively discharge fluid through one of the plurality of the discharge areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kwangwoon Ahn, Hyunjoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11892160
    Abstract: A method of suppressing steam production in a HRSG where a volume of feed water is diverted upstream bypassing a portion of the economizer and returning the volume of diverted feed water to a downstream portion of the economizer. A control logic circuit is used to manipulate a suppression control valve regulating the bypassed feed water, thereby reducing the temperature of water in the steam drum. Bypassing feed water flow into a downstream portion of an economizer reduces the steam production rate in the steam drum by increasing the evaporator approach temperature, permitting gas turbines to operate at base load even after an upgrade, by preventing the waste heat boiler from exceeding its rated capacity and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HRST, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Ferris, Anand Gopa Kumar, Evan Almberg, Bryan Craig
  • Patent number: 11892199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the output water temperature of a water heater are disclosed herein. The water heater preferably has a water inlet, heating unit, and water output. The system comprises a proportional flow restrictor placed near the water output and a controller which is configured to direct the heating unit to heat the water and the proportional flow restrictor to produce a flow rate of the output water. Temperature sensors may be used to control the proportional flow restrictor. The proportional flow restrictor can also be controlled based on the amount of heat energy applied to the heating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Nadai, Kent Elwood Ross, Edward Leroy Tribble, II
  • Patent number: 11885565
    Abstract: To provide a method with which it is possible to ascertain a gas concentration in a furnace rapidly, and to charge an amount of fuel and/or oxygen corresponding to the state within the furnace, and with which it is possible to reduce the device maintenance load. In order to solve the abovementioned problem, this method for analyzing components contained in flue exhaust gas of a furnace includes: a sampling step of collecting a portion of the flue exhaust gas from a flue; a dust removal step of using a centrifugal dust collecting device to separate out dust in the flue exhaust gas collected in the sampling step, to yield an analysis gas; a measuring step of measuring components in the analysis gas to obtain the concentration of carbon monoxide in the analysis gas; and an analysis gas discharging step of causing the analysis gas to be sucked by an ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
    Inventors: Shoichi Fujishima, Shigeto Uchimura, Kohei Nakatani
  • Patent number: 11885492
    Abstract: A steam soot blowing device is provided, including: a steam sootblower, a first pipe communicating with the steam sootblower; and nozzle assemblies communicating with the first pipe, including a first nozzle assembly and a second nozzle assembly, wherein the first nozzle assembly includes a throttle pipe with one end communicating with the first pipe, and a sprayer communicating with the other end of the throttle pipe, and diameter of an inlet of the sprayer is smaller than diameter of an outlet thereof; the second nozzle assembly includes a distribution pipe communicating with the first pipe and at least one nozzle communicating with the distribution pipe, wherein steam jet velocity at the outlet of the sprayer is greatly smaller than steam jet velocity at an outlet of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU TPRI ENER & ENVIRO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yubao Song, Xinhua Xie, Xuecheng Zhao, Jinliang He, Zhenzu Wei
  • Patent number: 11885489
    Abstract: The present disclosure seeks to provide a metallic burner tile for use in industrial processes such as cracking. The tile is substantially metallic (e.g. more than 80%) with the balance being ceramic coating on surfaces exposed to high temperature. The tile is lighter and more durable than the current ceramic burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Crowe, Eric Clavelle, Leslie Wilfred Benum, Vasily Simanzhenkov, Lucas MacNeil Harding
  • Patent number: 11885487
    Abstract: A heat recovery steam generator includes an exhaust-gas channel with an economizer heating surface and evaporator heating surface. The heating surfaces are connected to one another such that, on a feed water side, the economizer heating surface is upstream of the evaporator heating surface. A water/steam separator is arranged on the feed water side downstream of the evaporator heating surface. An excess pipe length system is outside the exhaust-gas channel and is designed in such a way that, after a complete filling of the economizer heating surface, feed water, in a riser of the excess pipe length system, reaches an overflow and thus passes into the evaporator heating surface via a down pipe. A vent line branches off the overflow of the excess pipe length system. A first filling line and a first valve are arranged between an economizer filling outlet and the evaporator outlet of the evaporator heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEM ENERGY B.V.
    Inventor: Walter Adriaan Kramer
  • Patent number: 11877638
    Abstract: An attachment for a hair dryer includes a first end configured to selectively connect to a body of the hair dryer, and a second end spaced from the first end. The second end includes at least one outlet that is an elongate slot. The attachment also includes prongs extending from the second end and configured to engage hair, a body defining a passage for airflow between the first end and the second end, and a connector configured to extend into a central passage defined by the body of the hair dryer and connect the first end of the attachment to the body of the hair dryer. The connector includes a wall extending along an axis and forming an elongate cylinder that corresponds to the shape of the central passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael John deGrood, Jay William Kuzia
  • Patent number: 11865618
    Abstract: An example sinter system includes a sinter gas inlet at a sinter furnace for a sinter gas, a tracer gas inlet at the sinter furnace for a tracer gas different from the sinter gas, and an outlet at the sinter furnace to output the sinter gas and the tracer gas. The example sinter system further includes: a support structure to support a sample green object in the sinter furnace, an opening at the support structure connected to the tracer gas inlet, the opening to output the tracer gas into the sinter furnace, and a detector to: determine an amount of the tracer gas flowing through the outlet during a sinter process as a sample green object positioned on the support structure changes shape during the sinter process with respect to the opening and modifies a flow rate of the tracer gas to the outlet; and determine when to stop the sinter process based on a determined amount of the tracer gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David A. Champion, John Gary Liebeskind