Patents Examined by Gregory L. Huson
  • Patent number: 10292527
    Abstract: A reflector oven has at least two sets of ventilation holes which double as holes for pan and oven support. The oven may be set for use with either a cookie sheet or similar flat sheet or a muffin tin or similarly constructed pan. Placing support rods through on set of holes allows for one pan while placing them through the other set allows for the other pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Benjamin R. Partridge
  • Patent number: 10295176
    Abstract: A self-extinguishing wick system may include a wax base having a base wick orifice; and a wick threaded through the base wick orifice and secured to prevent the wick from unintentionally sliding through the base wick orifice. The wick may be secured using a knot. Alternatively, the wick system may also include a first wax disc having a disc wick orifice, wherein the first wax disc is positioned adjacent to the bottom of the wax base, and the wick extends through both the wax base and the first wax disc; and a second wax disc positioned adjacent to the bottom of the first wax disc such that an end of the wick is sandwiched between the first wax disc and the second wax disc. The melting point of the wick system may be higher than that of the candle wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Helen N. Corkwell
  • Patent number: 10293656
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle air conditioning device, including: a unit case including an air flow channel formed therein, the air flow channel being branched into a bypass flow channel and a heating flow channel; a heater core installed in the heating flow channel; and upper-part shoulder supporting portions for the heater core, each of the upper-part shoulder supporting portions only supports one of upper-part right and left shoulder portions of the heater core installed on a bottom surface side of the heating flow channel, each of the upper-part shoulder supporting portions is provided on one of right and left side surfaces of the unit case. The vehicle air conditioning device blowing off, into a chamber, an air flow made after joining together an air flow that has passed through the heating flow channel and an air flow that has passed through the bypass flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Chikagawa
  • Patent number: 10295180
    Abstract: An exhaust tube holding member is supported by an exhaust pipe and holds, on an inner peripheral surface thereof, an exhaust tube to be inserted into the exhaust pipe. The exhaust tube holding member includes a first annular portion, a second annular portion, and an outward protruding portion. The first annular portion is formed with a first through hole. The second annular portion is formed with a second through hole in communication with the first through hole and having an inner diameter larger than that of the first through hole, and is connected to the first annular portion. The outward protruding portion protrudes peripherally outward from an outer peripheral surface of the second annular portion and is supported by the exhaust pipe. The inward protruding portion protrudes peripherally inward from an inner peripheral surface of the second annular portion and is supported by the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahide Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10295185
    Abstract: A combustion system includes, burner, a camera, and a control circuit. The burner initiates a combustion reaction. The camera takes a plurality of images of the combustion reaction. The control circuit produces from the images an averaged image and adjusts the combustion reaction based on the adjusted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Colannino, Jesse Dumas, Christopher A. Wiklof
  • Patent number: 10299409
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for blocking removal of an air-moving assembly from a chassis when in operational state. The apparatus includes a protective louver assembly having a louver(s) and an interlock element(s). The louver(s) is disposed at an air inlet or an air outlet of the air-moving assembly, and pivots between an operational and a quiesced orientation, dependent on presence or absence, respectively, of airflow through the air-moving assembly. The interlock element(s) is associated with the louver(s) to pivot with the louver(s) between the operational orientation and the quiesced orientation. In the operational orientation, the interlock element(s) blocks, at least in part, access to at least one fastener securing the air-moving assembly within the chassis, and thereby prevents removal of the air-moving assembly from the chassis when in the operational state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Christopher R. Ciraulo, Milnes P. David, Dustin W. Demetriou, Robert K. Mullady, Roger R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10295219
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: an air-conditioning case that includes an air passage through which air-conditioned wind flows and that is molded using a die; and an attachment part that is fixed on an outer surface of the air-conditioning case and includes a plate-shaped projection piece, which projects from a case main body part of the attachment part and includes a positioning hole passing through the projection piece. The air-conditioning case includes: a holding piece that projects from the outer surface to be engaged with the projection piece; and a positioning pin that projects from the outer surface to be inserted in the positioning hole. The holding piece includes: a leg part that projects from the outer surface and is capable of being resiliently deformed; and an engagement part that is bent and extends from an end portion of the leg part and that is engaged with a part of the projection piece on its end side of the positioning hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiichirou Kitagishi
  • Patent number: 10299410
    Abstract: A modular cooling apparatus for cooling one or more rack-mounted electronic component enclosures in a datacenter includes a base duct section and a duct assembly. The base duct section includes an inlet to receive a cooling airflow and an outlet to transfer to the cooling airflow to the duct assembly. The duct assembly is connected to the base duct section. The duct assembly includes one or more modular duct sections. Each of the one or more modular duct sections has a vent and is configured such that the vent aligns with an exterior opening in the respective one of the one or more electronic component enclosures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Duane Patrick, Frank Andrew Glynn, Alan Joseph Lachapelle, Giorgio Arturo Pompei
  • Patent number: 10295207
    Abstract: An air blowing device adapted to be used in such a manner that at least two of the devices are horizontally and/or vertically aligned with each other, thereby to obtain a uniform flow of air in the downstream direction from device to device. An air-permeable front surface (11f) is formed to the blowing device (1) at the downstream side of a rectifier mechanism, and side surface sections (11a) which extend in the upstream direction of the device (1) are formed at both edges of the air-permeable front surface (11f). First ventilation holes (70a) are distributed at the air-permeable front surface (11f), and second ventilation holes (70b) are distributed at the side surface sections (11a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Koken Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Fukiura, Tomoyuki Kakinuma, Taketo Suzuki, Takahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10299411
    Abstract: A data center includes a first rack, a second rack, a supply duct provided over a first space between the first and second rack, a first circulation duct including a first suction port disposed at an end side of the first rack and a first exhaust port disposed at the first space side and provided between an upper portion of the first rack and the supply duct so as to close up the first space, a second circulation duct including a second suction port disposed at an end side of the second rack and a second exhaust port disposed at the first space side and provided between an upper portion of the second rack and the supply duct so as to close up the first space, a first and second barrier that closes up the first space at one and the other end of the first and second rack, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10288285
    Abstract: A self-regenerating industrial burner including a head with which at least one first fuel injection nozzle, associable at an inlet with a fuel supplying group, and at least one pair of second nozzles, that can be alternatively and selectively passed through by combustion air and combustion exhaust gases, are associated; a tubular body open at opposite ends, arranged at a front part of the head and coaxial to the at least one first nozzle with an end close to the face of the head at which the first nozzle and the at least one pair of second nozzles protrude and the opposite end distant from the face. Each second nozzle includes at least one first tubular portion, radially lying outside the tubular body and defining at an end at least one first port, alternatively for exit of the combustion air and for inlet of the combustion exhaust gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TENOVA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Ageno, Toni Rossi
  • Patent number: 10288305
    Abstract: A first ventilation apparatus of ventilation apparatuses which form a ventilation system includes: a first information transmission part (18a); a first information reception part (19a); and a first control part (17a). The first control part (17a) includes: a first total ventilation air volume determination part (20a); a first-ventilation-apparatus first air volume decision part (21a); and a first air volume detection part (22a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nagase, Toshikazu Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Kanou, Shingo Takenawa, Tsuraki Nakajima, Masahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10286512
    Abstract: A machining system capable of preventing mist from leaking out from an enclosure to the outside. The machining system includes a first enclosure including an opening and configured to define a first space in which a workpiece is processed, a second enclosure arranged adjacent to the first enclosure and configured to define a second space communicating with the first space through the opening, wherein a robot which can advance to and retreat from the first space through the opening is installed in the second space, and a pressure adjustment device configured to increase a pressure in the second space higher than a pressure in the first space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10286097
    Abstract: The invention relates to a deodorization device (1) for a vehicle, with a container (2) for a deodorant (3), wherein the container (2) for the deodorant (3) is provided with at least one opening (7, 8), and with a holding device (4) for mounting the deodorization device (1) on a ventilation slot in the interior of a vehicle, wherein the holding device (4) comprises at least one clamping part (6). The at least one clamping part (6) is made of elastic material, has an elliptical or circular cross section and is configured so as to be able to be introduced in a holding manner into a ventilation slot of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Supair-Tel AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Guggenheim, Beat Keller
  • Patent number: 10288300
    Abstract: In one example embodiment of a hydronic heating system, the system includes at least one condensing boiler and at least one non-condensing boiler, and at least one controller configured for utilizing at least one PID control program to generate at least one signal for controlling firing rates of one or more of the boilers based upon sensed water temperature and temperature setpoint inputs. Depending upon the mode of operation, the at least one PID control program is a first PID control program dedicated to controlling only the at least one condensing boiler, or is a second PID control program dedicated to controlling only the at least one non-condensing boiler, or includes both the first and second PID control programs. Also, outside air temperature serves as a basis for generating the temperature setpoint inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Cleaver-Brooks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kovalcik, Boris M. Tynkov, Brian Huibregtse, John Sutphen
  • Patent number: 10288314
    Abstract: Hot water heating systems and methods for heating the atmosphere within a predefined area. The systems include a hybrid water heating and storage apparatus configured to heat and store water including a heat pump and an electric heating tank. The systems include a recirculating pump configured to selectively draw a hot output flow of heated water from the electric heating tank, pass the heated water through a heat exchange fixture to heat the atmosphere within a predefined area, and direct the water back to the electric heating tank from the heat exchange fixture as a cold input flow. The systems further include thermostat electrically coupled to the recirculating pump and positioned within the predefined area configured to sense the temperature of the atmosphere within the first predefined area and selective operate of the recirculating pump based on a sensed temperature and a user selected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventor: Anthony Michael Sarkis, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10279656
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides a vehicle heating system for a vehicle with an engine and a charge air cooler, the vehicle heating system including a high-temperature cooling circuit coupled to the engine, a low-temperature cooling circuit coupled to the charge air cooler and including a low temperature cooler, and a heating heat exchanger coupled to the low-temperature cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Norbert Andreas Schorn, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling
  • Patent number: 10283946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination cable and air channel for air conditioning an electrical enclosure, comprising an air channel and a cable channel which adjoins the air channel and which is led parallel to the air channel. A first longitudinal face of the air channel has at least one opening, and a longitudinal face of the cable channel manner. The invention further relates to a corresponding electrical enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Wagner, Christine Ronzheimer, Joerg Knetsch
  • Patent number: 10280681
    Abstract: A ventilation device for ventilating a room in a building, the building having a window with at least two essentially parallel panes of glass, the at least two panes of glass being arranged in a common frame, casement or sash, thus forming the window, e.g., a double window, where the at least two panes of glass are arranged with a distance, and thus appear with an air space between the panes of glass, the window further having an intake opening communicating with the air space and with either the interior or the exterior of the building, where the ventilation device further has a preheating unit with a first chassis and a first throttle, where the first chassis has a first opening communicating with the interior of the building, a second opening communicating with the exterior of the building and a third opening communicating with the air space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: CLIMAWIN TECHNIQ APS
    Inventor: Poul Christensen Horn
  • Patent number: 10281141
    Abstract: A system and method for electrically controlling a position of a combustion reaction and/or for protecting a flame controller by decoupling an ionizer from a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igor A. Krichtafovitch, Christopher A. Wiklof