Patents Examined by Gregory Wilson
  • Patent number: 11255574
    Abstract: An oil boiler includes an outer container having openings at opposite ends, a combustion chamber that covers an opening at an upper end of the outer container and in which a combustion reaction occurs, a lower cover that covers an opening at a lower end of the outer container, a plurality of flue tubes to heat heating water flowing in the outer container by guiding combustion gas, a burner including a fuel nozzle that sprays fuel, an air nozzle that injects air, and a spark plug that ignites a mixture of the fuel and the air, and a flame tube part that defines a tube space by surrounding a partial space in which the mixture is ignited, the flame tube part including a flame tube having an open lower end and a recirculation hole formed through the flame tube such that the combustion gas is introduced into the flame tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kyu Park, Dae Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11248822
    Abstract: One illustrative energy recovery system disclosed herein includes a semiconductor fabrication facility (“fab”) and a closed chilled water loop including a chilled water stream delivered to the fab and a returning water stream that is received from the fab. In this example, the system also includes a primary heat exchanger having a first fluid side and a second fluid side, the first fluid side is adapted to receive supply water and the second fluid side is adapted to receive at least a portion of the returning return water stream, wherein the primary heat exchanger is adapted to effectuate heat transfer between the supply water flowing in the first fluid side and the returning water stream flowing in the second fluid side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Huang
  • Patent number: 11236902
    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: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Amin Monfared, Leonard E. Chambers, Miguel Mendoza, Arash Jafari, Babak Bagheri, Bruce Hotton
  • Patent number: 11236929
    Abstract: An exhaust duct includes an upper duct being open at opposite ends thereof and a lower duct being open at a tip end thereof. One end of the upper duct is connected, inside an enclosure of a water-heating device, to an exhaust adaptor disposed on the enclosure, and an opposite end of the upper duct communicates with the tip end of the lower duct. The upper duct is connected to the lower duct so as to be slidable along a reference direction in which the lower duct extends from the tip end of the lower duct, and the upper duct is configured to be separated from the exhaust adaptor by sliding along the reference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Woo Kim, Sung Cheul Cho
  • Patent number: 11226136
    Abstract: A hot water supply system decouples an intelligent hot water storage system from a water heating engine system. The water heating engine system includes a plurality of instantaneous water heaters that provide for redundant operation for improved reliability. The intelligent hot water storage system includes a storage tank that encloses a volume for storage of water. The intelligent hot water storage system includes a recirculation loop driven by an integrated pump and operated by an integrated controller. By positioning the tank recirculation outlet and inlet farther apart from each other, additional usable volume of hot water is provided by the intelligent hot water storage system. Isolation valves positioned on the input and output of a recirculation pump in the recirculation loop facilitate repair or replacement of the recirculation pump. The hot water system provides for increased capacity while providing redundant heating engines in a smaller floor space than conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RINNAI AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Scott Knoblett, Matthew Ryan Dettmering, Scott Gilman Humphrey
  • Patent number: 11209158
    Abstract: A boiler construction includes a boiler pressure body having a bottom and a roof at a height H from the bottom and at least four planar watertube walls forming a polygonal horizontal cross section with at least four corner sections, and a rigid support steel structure, the boiler pressure body being supported to the rigid support steel structure at a height between the bottom and roof. A vertical corner column is attached exteriorly to at least four of the at least four corner sections at a height region between the bottom and roof, and the supporting of the boiler pressure body is provided by supporting each of the vertical corner columns to the rigid support steel structure at a height from 0.1 H to 0.9 H from the bottom so as to balance vertical loads of the boiler pressure body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo SHI FW Energia Oy
    Inventors: Pentti Lankinen, Heikki Holopainen, Jussi Pollari, Martyna Poreba-Sebastjan, Slawomir Solipiwko
  • Patent number: 11204163
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an L-shaped header of a steam generator including a spiral heat transfer tube, and a coupling structure between the L-shaped header and the heat transfer tube, wherein an upper end and a lower end of a heat transfer tube assembly configured with a plurality of heat transfer tubes are vertically formed, and the upper and lower ends of the heat transfer tube assembly are vertically coupled to a bottom side or a top side of the header. Therefore, the heat transfer tubes constituting the same concentric circle may use the heat transfer tubes formed with the same shape, thereby improving the manufacturability of parts and reducing the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KING ABDULLAH CITY FOR ATOMIC AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
    Inventors: Seongmin Chang, Kangheon Lee, Yunbum Park, Gyumahn Lee, Jongwook Kim, Kyeonghoon Jeong, Jaeseon Lee, Hanbum Surh, Kwanghyun Ahn, Jinseok Park, Keungkoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11181301
    Abstract: A condensation tray for condensing tankless water heaters is disclosed. The tray can include a plurality of peaks and valleys. The peaks can divert condensate runoff from a secondary heat exchanger into the valleys so as to prevent the condensate from falling on a primary heat exchanger. The tray includes gas apertures that enable combustion gases to pass through the tray and across the secondary heat exchanger. Overhangs on the peaks can prevent the condensate from draining through the gas apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stogsdill, Qian Zhang, Govinda Mahajan, Joshua Renier
  • Patent number: 11168923
    Abstract: Provided is a miniaturized water heater having a plate type heat exchanger. The water heater includes a combustion device generating combustion gas by burning fuel; a heat exchange device heating hot water by heat exchange with the combustion gas; and an exhaust part exhausting the combustion gas after heat exchange. The heat exchange device includes a plate laminate in which vertically standing plates are laminated with gaps, and the hot water is heated by alternately flowing the combustion gas and the hot water through the gaps of the plate laminate. The combustion gas flowing in a vertical direction from the combustion device is introduced vertically or substantially vertically into an introduction part provided on a combustion device side of the plate laminate, and a flow direction of the combustion gas in the plate laminate is reversed to discharge the combustion gas to the exhaust part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Midori Nishikawa, Masaki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11162710
    Abstract: A guide system including a top end, a bottom end, a lumen and a plurality of openings, the system is disposed within a coil lumen at the bottom end of the heat exchanger coil with the bottom end of the system extending beyond the bottom end of the coil in a direction from the top end to the bottom end of the coil, the system configured in a shape of the coil lumen and the openings are disposed on the bottom end of the system, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to channel the flue flow from a burner through a path to heat a fluid flow of the coil before entering the lumen of the system via the openings to avoid a pressure drop due to a tendency for the flue flow to follow a path defined by a shape of the bottom end of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intellihot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Deivasigamani, Sivaprasad Akasam
  • Patent number: 11162675
    Abstract: A supporting beam arrangement (14) for supporting a flue gas duct (10) to a support frame (16) of the flue gas duct. The supporting beam arrangement comprises two horizontal first supporting beams (18) that are parallel and on two opposite sides of the flue gas duct (10) and separated by a distance from the flue gas duct, and further are connected to the support frame (16). The supporting beam arrangement (14) comprises a horizontal second supporting beam (20) defining two opposite ends (22) that are supported to the first supporting beams (18), the second supporting beam extending through the flue gas duct (10) that is supported to the second supporting beam. At least one or each one of the first supporting beams comprises an opening (24), in which opening one of the two opposite ends (22) of the second supporting beam is placed to rest on the first supporting beam (18). A power boiler (50) comprises the supporting beam arrangement (14), the flue gas duct (10) and the support frame (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Tero Heino, Juha Ojanperä
  • Patent number: 11161764
    Abstract: An end-fired melting furnace and a method of melting raw materials by an end-fired melting furnace are provided, where the furnace includes a melting tank, a melting chamber, first and second ports, at least one burner, and at least one auxiliary fuel injector arranged in the end-fired melting furnace in a roof or in first and second side walls so that the at least one auxiliary fuel injector introduces a fraction X2 of auxiliary fuel, in a direction of re-circulating combustion products, without additional oxidiser, into the re-circulating combustion products in a direction of a flow of the re-circulating combustion products, and with a chosen velocity such that the fraction X2 of auxiliary fuel mixes with the re-circulating combustion products before being combusted by oxidiser entering the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ENGIE
    Inventors: Neil Fricker, Richard Stanley Pont, Isabelle Alliat, Thierry Laplace, Thierry Bellin-Croyat
  • Patent number: 11156355
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a water-tube boiler with concentric heat-exchange coils with an ash-removal system, which includes a coil-shaped heat-exchange tube forming a coil with layers having a section concentric with the turns of the coils joined laterally, wherein when the boiler is operational, the heat-exchange tube turns with a rotary movement on the axis of the coil and is heated via a forced-ventilation hot-air intake that flows through the layers having a concentric section in order to generate a movement of the ash and the slag, moving them through the layers having a concentric section following a path, allowing them to be extracted via output collectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Xavier Mas Sanz
  • Patent number: 11152177
    Abstract: A safety device for emergency shut-down of an electric instantaneous water heater. The safety device includes a contact and a counter contact, which are set up to conduct the current for supplying the instantaneous water heater in a contacted state and to interrupt the power supply of the instantaneous water heater in an open state. Further, the safety device includes a mounting device for mounting the counter contact on a tie rod, wherein the tie rod is set up to release the mounting device and the counter contact 4 from the contact to interrupt a power supply of the instantaneous water heater. The contact of the safety device is implemented as a contact rivet which is integrated directly into a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Lakemeyer, Michael Grobe, Olaf Diederich, Christian Arnemann
  • Patent number: 11143398
    Abstract: A boiler system includes a support construction and a furnace supported to the support construction at a vertically middle section of the furnace, the furnace being enclosed by water tube walls having two side walls and two end walls, a roof and a bottom, the side walls having a total height (H) from the bottom to the roof. Each of the two side walls has a vertical upper portion that extends from the roof to a level of thirty to seventy percent of the height (H), a lower portion that extends from the bottom to a level of thirty to seventy percent of the height (H) and has a vertical upper portion, and an in downward direction outwards bent intermediate portion at a level between the upper portion of the side wall and the vertical upper portion of the lower portion of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo SHI FW Energia Oy
    Inventor: Pentti Lankinen
  • Patent number: 11131481
    Abstract: An oil boiler according to the present disclosure includes a combustion chamber in which a combustion reaction occurs, a burner including a fuel nozzle that sprays fuel of an oil type into the combustion chamber, an air nozzle that injects air into the combustion chamber, and a spark plug that ignites a mixture of the fuel and the air, an air supply pipe that guides the air supplied to the air nozzle, a duct that releases combustion gas, a heat exchanger that heats heating water by heat from the combustion reaction, and a case that receives said components. The duct includes a flue connecting adaptor to which a corrugated pipe and a flue are connected, in which the corrugated pipe is connected to an inlet of the air supply pipe into which the air is introduced, and the flue releases the combustion gas to the outside of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kyu Park, Dae Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11131046
    Abstract: Described is a module for the treatment of fibres for obtaining a non-woven fabric. The module comprises a fan unit configured for generating a flow of air through a closed path and a chamber for the treatment of the fibres positioned in fluid communication with the closed path, delimited on opposite sides by respective side panels. Each side panel comprises a first gap defining a blowing portion of the closed path and a second gap defining a suction portion of the closed path. Each side panel defines a branch of the closed path which extends between the fan unit and the treatment chamber. The module also comprises a first platform and a second platform comprising respective first and second channels placed in fluid communication with the first gap and second gap of each side panel and with the treatment chamber to define connecting portions of the closed path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Marco Gualtieri
  • Patent number: 11118837
    Abstract: A system for treatment of a first material with at least one hazardous material, the system comprising a manufacturing room configured according to safety standards to hold at least one hazardous material. The manufacturing room is configured for the treatment of the first material using the at least one hazardous material as a solvent. A holding room is not configured according to the safety standards and is separated from the manufacturing room by a wall common to the manufacturing room and the holding room. A vacuum oven is embedded in the wall, and has a rear portion in the manufacturing room and a front portion in the holding room. The front door of the oven is configured to be opened from the holding room for removing the first material from the inner cavity following removal of the at least one hazardous material from the first material and from the inner cavity and no electrical components of the vacuum oven extend into the manufacturing room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventor: Alexander Edward Joseph Barsky
  • Patent number: 11118811
    Abstract: A heat source device comprising: a combustion chamber (2) provided between a burner (31) and a heat exchanger (1); an inlet pipe (20) for allowing a fluid to be heated to flow in the heat exchanger (1); an outlet pipe (21) for allowing the fluid to be heated to flow out from the heat exchanger (1); and a winding pipe (27) wound around an outer surface of a peripheral wall of the combustion chamber (2), wherein either the inlet pipe (20) or the outlet pipe (21) has an orifice (91) for throttling a fluid flow path of the fluid to be heated flowing in the inlet pipe (20) or the outlet pipe (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takashi Ojiro
  • Patent number: 11112126
    Abstract: A device for a sanitary facility, intended for rapidly delivering Domestic Hot Water (DHW) to the supply points without wasting energy. The device according to the invention transfers the DHW rapidly from the source to the user as soon as there is a need for it. The method, which prevents any recirculation, makes it possible, in particular, to save the large amount of energy that is systematically wasted each time the DHW is distributed between its source and the supply points. The device essentially consists of a motorised, relatively powerful pump (2) which channels the DHW from the source (1) and injects it into a pipe with a very small cross-section (3) that conveys the entire flow rate required by the user at a high velocity to the supply point (41). An adapted sensor (5) controls the switching on and off of the motor pump (2) upon each use and controls its flow rate on the basis of the requirements. A single device can be used for supplying multiple supply points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: David Perrin