Patents Examined by Juan G Flores
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Patent number: 11959490Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. A blade iron can couple the blades to the motor. A connection assembly provides for connecting the ceiling fan blade to the blade iron. The connection assembly provides for aligning the blade with a set of fingers and can slide from a first position to a second position to secure the blade to a blade iron.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventors: Charles William Botkin, Bobby Neal Norwood
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Patent number: 11959400Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan rotor with variable pitch blades, comprising a rotor disc, equipped at its periphery with a plurality of rotary fasteners (16), each fastener (16) comprising a cell (17) for receiving the root (150) of a blade (15).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vincent Joudon, Régis Eugène Henri Servant
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Patent number: 11953028Abstract: A flow corrector (14) which includes a tubular body (40) with an entry end (42) and an exit end (44), and a plurality of parallel flow passages (54a, 54b, 54c, 54d) between the entry end and the exit end.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BATTLEMAX (PTY) LTDInventors: Marthinus Jacobus Buitendag, Conrad Gräbe De Villiers, Adian Brandt
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Patent number: 11927195Abstract: A sealing device includes a sealing main body surrounding a rotor shaft rotating about an axis from an outer periphery side. The sealing main body includes an inside surface facing an outside surface of the rotor shaft with clearance and a plurality of hole parts formed recessed to an outer side in a radial direction from the inside surface and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the inside surface and in a direction of the axis. The hole parts have an inner peripheral wall in which a spiral groove extending twisting toward the outer side in a radial direction is formed.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Motomu Asahara, Naoto Omura, Makoto Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11925755Abstract: A respiration therapy appliance having a fan for generating a respiratory air flow for carrying out respiration therapy. The fan comprises at least one rotatable fan impeller having a plurality of blade elements which are arranged on a support disk. The blade elements and/or the support disk have at least one cutout.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LOEWENSTEIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY S.A.Inventor: Angela Gerlach
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Patent number: 11919620Abstract: A spar assembly has a spar having a tip comprising a most outboard portion of the spar, a root comprising a most inboard portion of the spar, a main section disposed inboard relative to the tip, and a middle section disposed inboard relative to the main section. The spar also has a transition section disposed between the main section and the middle section and the transition section has an outboard interface cross-sectional shape and an inboard cross-sectional shape that is different than the outboard interface cross-sectional shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventor: Jared Mark Paulson
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Patent number: 11920609Abstract: An axial fan rotates around a rotating shaft. The axial fan includes a hub, and a plurality of blades extending in a radial direction from the hub. Each blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge including a depression, and a reinforcing protrusion located at least forwardmost and having a wall thickness thicker than a surrounding portion. As viewed along a rotating shaft direction, when a first virtual line and a second virtual line perpendicular to the radial direction are drawn, the reinforcing protrusion extends radially inside of the first virtual line and extends radially outside of the second virtual line, the first virtual line and the second virtual line respectively pass through a rearmost first endpoint in the rotation direction on a radially inside of a rear end that substantially overlaps the depression, and a rearmost second endpoint on a radially outside of the rear end.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Konishi, Naomi Abe
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Patent number: 11913469Abstract: An axial flow fan includes an axial flow impeller, a motor configured to drive the axial flow impeller to rotate, and a resistance member. The axial flow impeller includes a hub having a shaft hole and blades arranged at an outer peripheral wall of the hub. The motor includes a motor body and a motor shaft connected to the motor body and engaged in the shaft hole. The resistance member is arranged at the hub and close to a free end of the motor shaft. A stiffness of the resistance member is greater than a stiffness of the hub.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Wendong Gao
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Patent number: 11906200Abstract: A device for treating the air in a confined space has a first module and a second module that are telescopically coupled, in such a way that the two modules can slide one respect to the other in order to adjust to a different thickness of a wall that separates the inside from the outside. The device has a heat exchanger disposed in the first module, a first fan disposed in the first module downstream a filter to extract air from the outside to the inside, and a second fan disposed in the second module to extract air from the inside to the outside. The device also has a radon detector connected to a control unit that controls the two fans.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Domenico Cassitta, Giovanni Piero Cassitta
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Patent number: 11905966Abstract: A compressor wheel arrangement for an electrically powered turbocharger, which can be connected with a rotor shaft of the turbocharger, having a compressor wheel made of a first metallic material, a shaft made of a second metallic material, which is tightly connected with the compressor wheel, at least one permanent magnet, which is non-rotatably arranged on the section of the shaft, in a ring-shaped area around a section of the shaft that extends behind the compressor wheel, between a casing and the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Timo Breininger, Dietmar Metz, Niclas Schenkenberger, Michael Schoeps, Daniel Speller
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Patent number: 11898543Abstract: A high performance hybrid turbine is provided which has an impeller towards which a fluid flow of water, air, or other fluid is conveyed for rotation of the impeller around an axis of rotation. The impeller exploits the thrusts that the fluid flow exerts on the elements constituting the impeller and the thrusts generated by a certain number of airfoils provided inside the elements of the impeller. The high performance hybrid turbine, if used as a wind turbine, can operate at much higher wind speeds than conventional wind turbines.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: UNIVERSITA' DELLA CALABRIA, OFFICINE MECCANICHE ZEMAInventors: Giancarlo Alfonsi, Agostino Lauria
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Patent number: 11891980Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for synchronizing a plurality of geographically-associated fluid turbines.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Mark Daniel Farb, Jonathan Forbes
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Patent number: 11892002Abstract: Apparatus and methods for circulating air. The apparatus may include a ceiling fan and may include a light fixture. A motor assembly may drive the fan about a rotational axis. Blades of the fan may be fixed to an outer ring of a blade bracket. Blades may extend away from the outer ring. The blade bracket may also include a translucent blade support to which the outer ring may be fixed. The translucent blade support may be disc shaped. A blade holder adapter may fix an inner portion of the translucent blade support to the ceiling fan. The fan may be configured such that a portion of the translucent blade support may provide a view unobscured by the translucent blade support so that there may be at least partial visibility of a visible element, such as a structure, above the translucent blade support from below the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Wangs Alliance CorporationInventors: Mark Gajewski, Alexander Ostrovsky
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Patent number: 11885297Abstract: An anchoring and lifting system for a wind turbine tower having a tower base; a plurality of base anchors attached to the tower base; an anchor outrigger attached to and extending laterally outward from the tower base; at least one secondary anchor attached to the anchor outrigger; a lifting outrigger attached to a hinge wherein the hinge connects the tower base and a tower for moving the tower between a raised position and a lowered position; a static cable connected between a distal end of the lifting outrigger and a hub attached to the tower; and, a lifting cable attached between the distal end of the lifting outrigger and a winch, wherein the winch is carried by the tower base.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Gerald L. Barber
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Patent number: 11873732Abstract: A vane of a turbine engine blade includes a first portion of structural resistance formed by two end portions including the leading and trailing edges and end strips of the lower surface and the upper surface, and of a core joining them. Two other portions of the blade are constructed of light material, composite for example, between the end portions to reconstitute the complete vane. The core has an oblique or diagonal extension between the end portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Rémi Philippe Guy Onfray, Dorian Alexandre Alban Bantwell, Alix Thomas Bernard Lejeune
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Patent number: 11873823Abstract: A fan component and a fan lamp assembly, wherein the fan component includes a blade mounting disc and a plurality of fan blades, one side of the blade mounting disc away from the fan blades is provided with planetary gears synchronously rotating with corresponding fan blades and a solar gear capable of rotating relative to the blade mounting disc, a peripheral surface of the solar gear is provided with first spring mounting structures, the blade mounting disc is provided with a second spring mounting structures, a return tension spring is connected between each pair of the first spring mounting structures and the second spring mounting structures, and each return tension spring is arranged on a circumferential outside of the solar gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Xiaoyan Wang
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Patent number: 11873831Abstract: A method of assembling a fan wheel includes forming a first wheel portion including a first plurality of impeller blades and a first connector, forming a second wheel portion including a second plurality of impeller blades and a second connector, affixing an end of each of the first plurality of impeller blades to a first surface of a support ring such that the first connector is affixed to the second connector, and affixing an end of each of the second plurality of impeller blades to a second surface of a support ring.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Mark Patrick Rau, Mehmet N. Sarimurat, Ryan K. Dygert
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Patent number: 11867189Abstract: A fan system includes a motor, a rotatable hub, and a plurality of fan blades. The motor is coupled with the hub by a hollow drive shaft, such that the drive system of the fan system is gearless. The motor is controlled by a PFC-based control module, which is in communication with sensors that are configured to sense parameters associated with operation of the fan system. The control module is configured to react in certain ways to certain conditions detected by the sensors, such that the fan system uses feedback-based control algorithms. A remote control panel is in communication with the control module. The remote control panel is operable to display fault conditions detected by the sensors. Blade retainers prevent fan blades from falling when a fan blade breaks free from the hub. Pins prevent the hub from falling when the hub breaks free from the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DELTA T, LLCInventors: Richard A Oleson, J. Carey Smith, Richard W. Fizer, Richard M. Aynsley, Elios Klemo
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Patent number: 11867154Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating a wind turbine with an operational parameter where values of the operational parameter are obtained by different sensors and compared to determine the validity of the value. A first value and a second value of the operational parameter are obtained different sensors and validated by comparing the two values. The wind turbine being operated using a validated value as the operational parameter. The two sensors are selected among a trained machine learning model, a reference sensor and a computerized physical model.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Goncalo Artur Duarte Pereira, Ines Pinto Frutuoso, Johnny Nielsen, Jens Van Schelve
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Patent number: 11859632Abstract: A device for pumping fluid such as paints, sealants, caulks, and polymers made of a rotor assembly and a pump body. The rotor assembly contains at least one laminar flow element arranged in such a manner as to conduct the fluid from inlet to outlet as the rotor spins. The rotor may vary its distance from the pump body. This arrangement provides a rotor with exceptional capacity to pump without damage to the fluid media and to measure the fluid rate at low or high rotational speed with viscosity that can vary. The device also may provide a spray nozzle or nozzles that produce a multiplicity of spray patterns.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventors: John Lloyd Bowman, Ricky Jay Jackson, Bryan Patrick Killeen