Patents Examined by John McCormack
  • Patent number: 10006711
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand dryer for drying a user's hands by means of an airflow discharged through an air outlet on the hand dryer. The airflow is generated by a motor-driven fan unit. The hand dryer comprises a plurality of air intakes, the air intakes being connected to the fan unit to form a plurality of parallel air-intake paths. Each air intake path is provided with a separate air-filter. The air-filters may be replaceable for individual replacement as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter David Gammack, Leigh Michael Ryan, Stuart James Steele, Stephen Benjamin Courtney
  • Patent number: 10006713
    Abstract: The present invention is to produce fuel and feed resources by rapidly separating solid contents from final effluent and palm by-products which are discharged from the palm oil milling process, oxidizing organics from the generated liquid phase contents through water treatment so as to use the result as a liquid fertilizer, and carrying out continuous concentration and dehydration of the separated solid contents and then mixing the result with palm oil decanter cake and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: IL-SUNG Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee Dong Bae
  • Patent number: 10004313
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hand held appliance comprising a body, a handle having a first end connected to the body and a second end comprising a fluid inlet, a fluid flow path from the fluid inlet through the handle towards the body, a fan unit for drawing fluid along the fluid flow path and a cable extending from the second end of the handle for supplying power to the fan unit wherein at least one wire from the cable is routed along a wall of the handle. The wall of the handle may comprise at least one recess extending longitudinally along the handle for accommodating the at least one wire from the cable. The cable may comprise two wires and the wall two recesses extending longitudinally along the handle one recess for accommodating each of the wires from the cable. The two recesses may be approximately diametrically opposite in the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Antoine Francois Atkinson
  • Patent number: 10006702
    Abstract: One aspect is a material drying system with a conductive bin at least partially filled with harvested material. A frequency generator is configured to generate radio frequency energy and a controller is coupled to the frequency generator for controlling the radio frequency energy. At least one conductive shape located within the harvested material and coupled to the frequency generator and controller. The frequency generator and controller provide the radio frequency energy to the at least one conductive shape such that a system capacitor is formed by the combination of the at least one conductive shape and the conductive bin and with harvested material forming a dielectric therebetween such that friction of water molecules in the harvested material is induced quickening drying thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Dry Grain LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel L. Hultgren, Daniel C. Reek, James Heine
  • Patent number: 9897377
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes a filter; and a fan downstream for the filter whereby activating the fan clears the filter. The exhaust system may form part of a lint collection system that is for attachment to a dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: BOEMAR INC.
    Inventor: Bart Donald Beaumont
  • Patent number: 9888758
    Abstract: An impeller an axis passing through a void and blades extending from the void. A housing: has a planar terminus defined by the housing; is rotatably mounted to the impeller such that, when the housing is positioned with the terminus horizontal and defining the housing bottom, the axis extends vertically and the impeller is above the terminus. The housing has a tubular sidewall: through which the axis extends and in which the impeller is positioned; shaped and dimensioned such that a gap is defined between the sidewall and a notional plane aligned with the terminus to direct air flow ejected from the impeller through the gap. The housing further has a screen occluding the sidewall end distal to the terminus, adapted to allow throughpassage of air and to restrict throughpassage of fingers and such that the screen has a portion that lies in the void. A motor rotates the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Gulfstream Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Alexander, Minh Sang Tran
  • Patent number: 9890997
    Abstract: A boxing glove drying device has a body member. The body member has an open end and a closed end. The closed end is curved and configured for inserting into a boxing glove. A plurality of openings is formed in the body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Inventor: Bernardo Montes
  • Patent number: 9885144
    Abstract: A clothes dryer with a filter unit and a filter cover having a coupling structure corresponding to each other. The clothes dryer includes a body, a drum installed inside the body, a drying unit configured to dry air passed through the drum, a filter unit disposed on the drying unit and detachably installed on the body, a filter cover fixed by provided with one side thereof being installed on the body and the other side thereof being coupled to the filter unit. When the filter unit is not assembled, a user may notice the filter unit not being assembled due to the filter unit and the filter cover, both of which are provided with a coupling structure corresponding to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Joon Cho, Jin Woo So, Yun Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9885145
    Abstract: A laundry drying apparatus having a cabinet including a front panel with an opening for introduction and removal of laundry, a drying drum horizontally installed within the cabinet, and an air supply device to collect air from inside the drying drum, direct the air through ducts, and then return the air into the drying drum. The front panel includes an upper region where a door is installed and a lower region located below the upper region, and the upper region is tilted rearward by a predetermined tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanghun Bae, Hongjun Cho
  • Patent number: 9883725
    Abstract: A wall-mounted hair dryer includes a housing having at least one outer wall with a turbo air blower received therein. On the outer wall are a pair of control switches for adjusting both the blower speed and the intensity of an internal heater. At the upper end of the housing is a manifold in fluid communication with the air blower. The manifold includes at least a left, a right and a central conduit, each having an outlet with an adjustable, louvered nozzle mounted thereon. The nozzles surround an adjustable mirror for assisting a user with styling the hair. The blower housing is mounted on a wall or door using one of three mounting brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Inventor: Abraham Freig
  • Patent number: 9879910
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous sublimation of a substance includes cascading a material containing a substance capable of sublimation, such as water, between a plurality of trays vertically stacked within a processing zone provided within a processing chamber. A substantially atmospheric environment is maintained within the processing zone at a temperature whereby the substance sublimes forming a sublimate within the environment. The environment containing the sublimate is contacted with a drying agent such as a desiccant to maintain the environment whereby the substance sublimes at substantially atmospheric pressure and at the controlled temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Wyssmont Company Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Weisselberg
  • Patent number: 9874398
    Abstract: A hands-free dryer allows for drying of a target while permitting the hands of a user to not be controlling the operation of the hands-free dryer. The hands-free dryer includes a blower for providing air flow, an orientation system allowing the blower to be adjustably oriented at an angle. There is a semi-rigid flexible hose connected to the blower that retains its configuration without the user having to maintain the configuration. Also, there is a support system that provides support for the hands-free dryer while worn by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Inventors: Jonathan Wampler, Priscilla Hill-Wampler
  • Patent number: 9869514
    Abstract: This sludge drying device is characterised in that a gas entraining a mix of sludge and sand is recycled after drying (6) and separation (8) to be compressed (10) and circulate again through the dryer (6) acting as a heat exchange fluid. Compression has been performed to increase the dew point temperature of the gas containing the evaporated moisture, such that the latent heat of evaporation can be recovered by the drying gas. The required operating power can then be much lower than the required power for evaporating the moisture contained in the sludge, because most of this power is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Geert Haarlemmer
  • Patent number: 9863703
    Abstract: A grain drying tower comprises a heater and blower separating a heating plenum and a cooling plenum. The dryer is provided with a heat reclamation/heat recycling system and/or counter-flow cooling to reduce the energy requirements of the tower dryer. The heat reclamation system comprises a chamber external to the outer wall of the tower and which is and located at a point along the drying path. The bottom of the chamber is open to the atmosphere. Hot exhaust air enters the heat reclamation chamber at the top of the chamber and is drawn back into the tower by the blower as the exhaust air exits the open bottom of the chamber. In the counter-flow, the walls defining the grain path of the in the cooling section are not air permeable, and air is drawn into the cooling section through outer wall ducts which are closed at the inner wall. The entering air travels up through heated grain to be warmed, and then enters the plenum through inner wall ducts, which are closed at the outer wall of the tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: The GSI Group, LLC
    Inventor: David Morrison
  • Patent number: 9861259
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dishwasher. The dishwasher includes a main body, a tub placed within the main body to receive dishes therein, and an air brake mounted to one lateral surface of the tub. The air brake includes a communication hole communicating with the tub to allow air to be introduced into the tub or to be discharged from the tub, a guide rib configured to guide air, introduced through the communication hole, upward of the air brake, and a vent formed in a lateral surface of the air brake to allow air to be discharged outward from the air brake or to allow outside air to be introduced into the air brake, the vent being located below the guide rib to prevent hot air from being discharged from the air brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kyu Jung, Jeon Suk Wee
  • Patent number: 9856596
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clothes treating apparatus having a hot air supply device and an operating method thereof, and according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a clothes treating apparatus may include a drum configured to accommodate an object to be dried; a linear valve configured to linearly adjust the amount of supplied gas; a burner configured to burn gas supplied by the linear valve; a hot air supply device configured to supply hot air heated by the burner into the drum; a temperature sensor configured to measure the temperature of air exhausted from the drum; and a control means configured to adjust the amount of gas supplied to the burner based on a temperature measured by the temperature sensor, wherein the control means partitions a drying process into a plurality of sections based on a temperature change of the exhaust air, and varies a gas supply amount for each section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongryul Kim, Sungjun Kim, Youngsoo Kim, Geunhyung Lee, Jeonggeol Roh
  • Patent number: 9844798
    Abstract: A drying system for drying a coating applied to an article of manufacture. The drying system includes an enclosable booth having an interior for housing the article of manufacture. The system also includes an air source for blowing air into the booth, means for raising the temperature of the air before entry into the booth, means for lowering the temperature of the air before entry into the booth, means for raising the humidity of the air before entry into the booth, and means for lowering the humidity of the air before entry into the booth. In one embodiment there is included at least one distribution cone which includes a conical member having a plurality of openings formed along the axis thereof. The cones emit air across an article of manufacture within the booth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventors: Daryl J. Bruischat, Michael H. Bunnell
  • Patent number: 9845566
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus includes a cabinet and a drum rotatably installed within the cabinet. The clothes treating apparatus also includes a circulation flow path in which exhaust air discharged from the drum is re-supplied to the drum and a condenser configured to allow the exhaust air and cooling air introduced from an outside of the cabinet to be heat-exchanged. The clothes treating apparatus further includes a cooling flow path configured to guide the cooling air toward the condenser and a blowing fan configured to introduce air from outside of the cabinet to an interior of the cooling flow path. In addition, the clothes treating apparatus includes a discharge opening that discharges cooling air, which has passed through the condenser, to an interior of the cabinet. The rotational shaft of the drum is disposed between the discharge opening and the blowing fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonil Heo, Myoungjong Kim, Junseok Lee
  • Patent number: 9839661
    Abstract: A method of drying fresh plant material wherein the fresh plant material containing a desired heat labile compound is exposed to microwave energy at an intensity and for a time sufficient to remove a majority of the water from the plant material without degrading a majority of the heat labile compound. The method is particularly suited to in-field drying of freshly harvested plant material to reduce the weight and volume of the plant material for savings transportation costs to an extraction facility while preserving at high levels the amount and activity of the desired heat labile compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: KEMIN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Susan Ruden, Brindha Narasimhamoorthy, John A. Greaves, Sarah Wildgen
  • Patent number: 9829248
    Abstract: A dryer circuit for a pneumatic regulating device of a vehicle, comprising an air dryer, and a first compressor, wherein the first compressor is designed to compress system air present in the pneumatic regulating device, wherein the air dryer, the first compressor and subsystems, which can be connected to the first compressor, of the pneumatic regulating device are arranged in such a way that, in the operating mode of a closed air supply, air delivered between the components of one of the subsystems by the first compressor is delivered so as to bypass the air dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Uwe Folchert, Dierk Hein, Christian Witala