Patents Examined by Jessica Yuen
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Patent number: 11397050Abstract: The softgel drying machine comprises a casing, first tumblers, second tumblers, a pneumatic conveying device and a air-drying system. The casing comprises a air generation chamber and a air circulation chamber. The air circulation chamber comprises a first circulation chamber and a second circulation chamber, at least one first drying chamber is located at the first circulation chamber, at least one second drying chamber is located at the second circulation chamber, the first drying chamber comprises a first air inlet and a first air outlet, the second drying chamber comprises a second air inlet and a second air outlet. The first tumblers are located at the first circulation chamber. The second tumblers are located at the second circulation chamber. The air-drying system is located at the air generation chamber and comprises a blower fan, an air return duct and an air supply port.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Inventor: Xiongqing Yu
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Patent number: 11388972Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rechargeable socket for charging a rechargeable battery of a wireless hair dryer including a handle and provides a wireless hair dryer system. The rechargeable socket includes a pedestal and a rechargeable assembly arranged in the pedestal. A top of the pedestal is recessed to form a plug-in part. The rechargeable assembly includes a circuit board and a rechargeable terminal electrically coupled to the circuit board. The rechargeable terminal passes through the plug-in part and extends to an inner cavity of the plug-in part. An end of the handle arranges a rechargeable connector. The end of the handle is inserted into the inner cavity of the plug-in part to allow the rechargeable terminal to be in contact with the rechargeable connector. In process of the handle rotatable relative to the plug-in part, the rechargeable terminal is kept in contact with the rechargeable connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN CARKU TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yun Lei, Chuwei Liu, Yubin Zhang
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Patent number: 11388973Abstract: A wireless blow dryer includes an air duct provided with an air outlet channel, a handle connected to the air duct, an energy storage assembly, a fan assembly including a motor arranged in the handle and a fan blade connected to the motor, a main control board electrically coupled to the energy storage assembly and the motor, and an air inlet channel and an air outlet channel communicating with each other. The air duct is provided with the air outlet channel. The energy storage assembly supplies power to the motor and the main control board. The main control board controls the motor to drive the fan blade to rotate, so as to cause airflow to enter the air inlet channel and exit the air duct through the air outlet channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN CARKU TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yun Lei, Chuwei Liu, Yubin Zhang
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Patent number: 11370274Abstract: A blow-off device (10) is equipped with a wind direction variable means (40) and a pressure adjustment unit (60) in a ventilation passage (50). The wind direction variable means is rotatably provided in the ventilation passage and can change a conditioned air from the inflow port (50c) toward a blow-off port (50d) and a second inclined part (52r) along an intermediate part (53r). The pressure adjustment unit prevents the pressure of the ventilation passage from exceeding a predetermined value by releasing the conditioned air to the outside of the ventilation passage. A bypass inlet (66) of the pressure adjustment unit is provided on an upstream side of an end portion (42d) in a +X direction at the time of maximum rotation of the wind direction variable means.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu Nakashima
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Patent number: 11370275Abstract: A fluid discharge device includes a base portion defining a fluid flow passage and having an opening at a downstream end of the fluid flow passage, and a grill portion disposed to adjust a flow direction of the fluid blown from the opening. The grill portion includes a flow passage forming body defining a main flow passage and an auxiliary flow passage. In the flow passage forming body, the auxiliary flow passage surrounds the main flow passage and the auxiliary flow discharged from the auxiliary flow passage flows outside of the main flow discharged from the main flow passage. The flow passage forming body is configured such that a direction of the auxiliary flow discharged from the auxiliary flow passage corresponds to the direction of the main flow discharged from the main flow passage, when the flow direction of the fluid blown out of the opening is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Komatsubara, Hitoshi Ninomiya, Takahito Nakamura, Jun Yamaoka
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Patent number: 11371181Abstract: A dryer appliance or ventilation assembly, as provided herein, may include an impeller, a housing, a front duct, and a sealing gasket. The impeller may be rotatable about an axial direction to urge a flow of air. The housing may enclose the impeller within a cabinet. The housing may define an entrance upstream of the impeller to permit air into the housing. The front duct may include an attachment collar defining a duct outlet. The attachment collar may be received within the entrance. The sealing gasket may be radially positioned between the attachment collar and the entrance.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Zhiquan Yu, Robert V. MacDonald, III, Pablo Enrique Soto Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11371776Abstract: A bale dryer including a support frame, at least one air intake manifold movably coupled to the support frame for supplying heated air, a bale retainer coupled to the support frame and configured for retaining at least one bale in a fixed position vertically spaced from the at least one air intake manifold, and an actuator coupled to the at least one air intake manifold and configured to move the at least one air intake manifold between a retracted position and an extended position.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Chinook Hay Systems Inc.Inventors: Christopher S. Martin, Jared S. Martin, Edgar S. Reist, Clarence S. Reist
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Patent number: 11371777Abstract: A device and method for drying fine particulate. A parallel flow rotary drum dryer is used to dry the particulate material. There is a combustion chamber for the burner, located upstream of the dryer inlet, and the burner flame is limited to the combustion chamber so the fine particulate material does not come into direct contact with the burner flame. The output from the dryer passes through a knock-out box including a baffle system with a plurality of narrow gaps to create a pressure drop to slow down the gas flow and enable the entrained fine mesh dry particulate to drop out through a bottom outlet before the effluent gas is sent to the dust collection/air filtration system.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Industrial Process Systems, Inc.Inventors: Leonard A Loesch, Oscar Mathis, III
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Patent number: 11364774Abstract: Wind direction adjustment device is provided with cylindrical case body, movable louver including manipulation knob, and support section which supports movable louver inside the case body such that movable louver is capable of pivoting. Support section is provided with link which is provided on one of the case body side and the movable louver side and includes ball portion, at least a portion of which is on a coaxial line with manipulation knob at a neutral position of movable louver. Support section is provided with bearing portion which is provided on the other of the case body side and the movable louver side and receives ball portion. Support section is provided with protruding portion which is provided on movable louver. Support section is provided with stopper portion which is provided on link and sets a pivoting end of movable louver by abutting against protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: NIHON PLAST CO., LTD.Inventor: Akio Hattori
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Patent number: 11359328Abstract: A magnetically positioned dryer vent coupling is adapted for use in combination with a clothes dryer. The dryer vent coupling includes a flexible exhaust duct, a first mounting substrate, and a second mounting substrate. The first mounting substrate is located at one end of the flexible exhaust duct and includes a first magnet. The second mounting substrate is adapted for residing proximate one of the dryer exhaust port and wall port, and includes a second magnet. When moved into close proximity, the first and second magnets magnetically attract to one another to self-align and self-assemble the first and second mounting substrates of the dryer vent coupling, such that the first and second mounting substrates create an audible snapping sound when engaged thereby indicating a close magnetic seal at the dryer vent coupling.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventor: Kevin Patrick Kelley
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Patent number: 11353235Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a register assembly for inserting into floors, ceilings and walls, comprising a first open top box having a bottom surface, which defines a centrally disposed opening through which air flows from a first environment to a second environment. A support is disposed within the first open top box. A second open top box nests within the first open top box, and is supported by the support. A restraint is associated with the first and second box to restrain the second box within the first box. The first and second open top boxes are sized and dimensioned to be coplanar with each other when nested. A conduit is also defined between the first open top box bottom surface opening and the second open top box to flow air from the first environment to the second environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Marble and Marble Ltd.Inventor: Paolo Mantenuto
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Patent number: 11344119Abstract: A locker includes a pair of spaced-apart upstanding sidewalls and at least one shelf extending between the sidewalls, the shelf and sidewalls defining a compartment. A tray is carried on the shelf in the compartment and supported by a pair of rollers and coupled to a pair of rails mounted on the sidewalls above the shelf, wherein the tray slides forward and backward relative to the shelf and rotates about the rollers.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventor: Sam Allen
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Patent number: 11344936Abstract: A system for cooling rolling mill material is provided that includes a conveyor system that receives rolling mill material and passes the rolling mill material through one or more cooling regions. A cooling structure that operates uniformly across the central and edge regions of the conveyor system. The cooling structure uses a first jet of air for cooling the central portion of the rolling mill material. A nozzle deck is positioned on the edge regions of the conveyor system produces a second of jet of air for cooling the edge portions of the rolling mill. The nozzle deck includes one or more adjustable nozzle structures for controlling the air flow produced by the second jet of air by varying the size of their air passage regions.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Primetals Technologies USA LLCInventors: Jason Zelle, William Shen, Matthew Palfreman
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Patent number: 11340016Abstract: There is a grain aeration system for a grain bin. The system includes a gas entry duct configured to receive gas and a gas distribution pipe extending upwardly from the gas entry duct and having a height. The gas entry duct extends along a base of the grain bin. The gas distribution pipe includes a permeable section and an impermeable section. The permeable section includes a plurality of perforations. The permeable section is above the impermeable section. There is also a grain bin, having a surrounding wall and roof. There is a gas entry duct extending from outside the surrounding wall to inside the surrounding wall and a gas distribution pipe extending upward from the gas entry duct. The gas distribution pipe has a permeable section above an impermeable section.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: GO Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Greg A. O'Hare
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Patent number: 11339990Abstract: An air terminal device for a ventilation system includes a pressure box, with an inlet admitting supply air into the pressure box and outlet openings for admitting supply air out. The air terminal device further includes a cover plate to control and change the open area of the outlet openings. The outlet openings are in a wall of the pressure box forming an outlet surface of the pressure box. The cover plates are arranged to make contact with and slide relative the outlet surface while changing the open area of the outlet openings. The cover plate is located on the high pressure side of the outlet surface. The cover plate cooperates with the outlet surface such that there is at least one outlet opening or suction opening being partly or fully covered by the cover plate also when the air terminal device is set to maximum flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SWEGON OPERATIONS ABInventor: Per Åke Larsson
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Patent number: 11333396Abstract: Supply Air device (1) for controlling supply air flow to a building space, comprising a chamber (2) having a supply air inlet (3) and an air outlet (4). A first tube (10) in the chamber is connected at an open first end (11) to the supply air inlet, wherein the first tube has a side wall (13) which is permeable to air. A throttle member (30) is slidably connected to the first tube to change a degree of exposure of the side wall to control air flow through said side wall to the outlet. The exposable side wall comprises a layer of porous material (14) through which air is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: LINDINVENT ABInventor: Herman Lindborg
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Patent number: 11325276Abstract: A method of drying sticks, a related apparatus, resultant product and its uses where the method involves presenting a plurality of sticks in parallel as a single layer, pressing each stick with a bank of pressing members on and/or into at least one face of the sticks, each with plurality of protuberances, thereby to constrain the sticks against crook, and drying the sticks when so constrained. Preferably each bank of pressing members is an underside of a frame or lattice of a stack of such frames or lattices able to receive such a single layer of sticks between adjacent overlying/underlying frames or lattices, the protuberances preferably being only downwardly directed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Wood Engineering Technology LimitedInventors: Warwick Bosson, Roger Frank Harrison
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Patent number: 11326300Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus having a drying function includes: a cabinet; a drum provided within the cabinet; a heat-exchanger heat-exchanged with air exhausted from the drum; a lint filter disposed on an upstream side of the heat-exchanger with respect to flow of air exhausted from the drum to collect lint in the air; a spray tube spraying water to the lint filter to separate lint collected in the lint filter from the lint filter; and a lint collecting part at least partially provided below the lint filter or below the heat-exchanger to collect falling lint. Lint in condensate water may be collected, and thus, generation of a bad influence when condensate water is re-used may be suppressed. Also, contact between lint in drying air and the heat-exchanger may be restrained.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyuksoo Lee, Seungphyo Ahn, Bio Park
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Patent number: 11319663Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a laundry treating apparatus, if a user selects a uniform course, including performing a preheating operation of a heater to generate steam, performing a first cooling operation to operate a blower unit and a moving hanger after the preheating operation has been terminated, performing a steam operation to operate the blower unit and a steam unit and to circulate steam to a treating chamber after the first cooling operation has been terminated, performing a standby operation to operate the blower unit after the steam operation has been terminated, performing a second cooling operation to operate the blower unit after the standby operation has been terminated, and performing a drying operation to operate the blower unit and a heat pump unit and to provide heat to the treating chamber to dry the treating chamber after the second cooling operation has been terminated.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hongki Choi, Mikyung Kim, Deokjoon Jeong
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Patent number: 11304339Abstract: An inlet duct system includes a duct body having a bottom wall and two side walls having at least one opening. An adjustable internal baffle is secured to the duct body such that the internal baffle can be positioned in multiple locations within an internal cavity defined by the duct body, inhibiting the flow of air between a front portion and a rear portion of the internal cavity. A first side duct is removably attached to the duct body and forms an air flow chamber that receives a fluid from an opening in one of the side walls and delivers the fluid above the duct body. A first side baffle is positioned within the air flow chamber, adjacent the internal baffle, inhibiting the flow of air between a front portion and a rear portion of the air flow chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Samuel M. Marrs, Edward R. Kello