Patents Examined by Len Tran
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Patent number: 11187429Abstract: A heat recovery ventilator (HRV) and/or energy recovery ventilator (ERV) that integrates with a residential capacity air handling unit (AHU) is embodied in a small footprint HRV or ERV unit that connects directly to the return side of an AHU and to outdoor air inlet and exhaust ducts. The ventilator includes a control system incorporating a processor and sensors that control the operation of the system to provide desired ventilation flow rates under varying conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Steven Winter Associates, Inc.Inventors: Srikanth Puttagunta, Robb Aldrich, Barnett Cleary
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Patent number: 11181328Abstract: A heat exchanger including: a header; flat tubes connected to the header and disposed in line along a longitudinal direction of the header; a first partition that partitions an inner space of the header into a first space on a side where the flat tubes are connected and a second space on a side opposite to the first space; and a second partition that partitions the inner space of the header into a first side and a second side. The first side is one side of the header in the longitudinal direction and the second side is opposite to the first side. The first partition has a common opening. The common opening includes an insertion opening and a refrigerant opening. A refrigerant moves between the first space and the second space via the refrigerant opening. The second partition is inserted into the insertion opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ken Satou, Tomohiko Sakamaki, Kouju Yamada, Masanori Jindou, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Satoshi Inoue, Shun Yoshioka, Yoshio Oritani, Hiroaki Matsuda
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Patent number: 11181124Abstract: In order to give an especially compact, cost-effective and electromagnetically compatible design to a cooling device with a heat sink and a radial fan arranged in or on the receiving area of the heat sink, the bushing is adhesively bonded onto the heat sink in or on the receiving area, or the bushing is integrally designed with the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: ELEKTROSIL GMBHInventor: Hendrik Niemann
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Patent number: 11175707Abstract: A heat pipe including a vapor line having a flow path through which a working fluid vapor flows, wherein the vapor line includes walls opposite to each other across the flow path, and a support post disposed in the flow path and spaced apart from the walls, wherein the walls are made of a plurality of metal layers stacked one over another, and the support post is made of a single seamless member having the same thickness as the walls.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
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Patent number: 11162741Abstract: The present application provides a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger may include a number of fin plates and a number of tubes extending though the fin plates with the first fluid therein. The fin plates may include a number of louvers extending between the tubes such that the second fluid flows through the louvers.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: LGL FranceInventors: Pierre Berthelot, Remy Borg, Alain Compingt, Kapil Sahu, Patrick Taurelle
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Patent number: 11162691Abstract: A ceiling-embedded air conditioner includes: a ceiling-embedded casing body; a turbo fan disposed inside the casing body; a heat exchanger disposed inside the casing body on an outer peripheral side of the turbo fan; and an electrical equipment box disposed along a part of the heat exchanger at the upstream side of a ventilation direction. The casing body has a square shape with first to fourth side plates. The heat exchanger has first to fourth heat exchange portions bent along the first to fourth side plates respectively. An end portion of the first heat exchange portion and an end portion of the fourth heat exchange portion are disposed at a corner for tube connection out of the four corners of the casing body. The electrical equipment box is disposed to extend from the corner for tube connection toward the first heat exchange portion and the fourth heat exchange portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITEDInventor: Takehiko Nakamoto
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Patent number: 11136125Abstract: A solid state liquid-chilled bar unit for an aircraft galley includes a multilevel frame dimensioned to fit the galley and including stacked slots, each slot configured to fit a compartment. Warmer compartments include a liquid thermoelectric device (LTD) with “cold” and “hot” sides and a liquid heat exchanger (LHE) connected to the cold side. Scroll fans circulate air over a finned heat exchanger (on the LTD's hot side) to heat the compartment. Chiller compartments include LTDs with an LHE connected to the “hot” side, and may be bottle coolers or chiller drawers. Bottle coolers chill bottles or other containers via conductive contact with the LTD “cold” side, while chiller drawers chill air by circulating it over a finned heat exchanger on the “cold” side. Unchilled drawers store food, drink, or supplies at or near the ambient cabin temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Hsin-I Tsai, Peter John Leslie Burd, Richard Henry Jolley
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Patent number: 11137154Abstract: An evaporative cooling device may be provided. The device may comprise a plurality of rollers, a screen looped around the plurality of rollers, a motor coupled to at least one roller and configured to drive the at least one roller, a basin configured to hold a liquid within an interior of the basin, and wherein at least one roller is at least partially within the interior of the basin. The screen may travel into the basin and capture an amount of the liquid. As the liquid is drawn into an airstream feeding a heat rejection device, the liquid may evaporate, cooling the air. The cooled air may provide a more efficient heat rejection device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Inventor: Matthew Morris
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Patent number: 11137217Abstract: A rotor for a high temperature rotary pre-heater includes a hub that has an exterior surface thereon. The rotor includes an annular rim positioned around and coaxially with the hub. The annular rim has an interior surface. A plurality of partitions extend between the hub and the annular rim. Each of the partitions is located in a predetermined circumferential position by one or more alignment features. The exterior surface, the interior surface and/or the partitions have one or more of the alignment features thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Arvos Ljungstrom LLCInventor: Jeffrey O'Boyle
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Patent number: 11131488Abstract: Provided are an oil separator, a compressor, and an air conditioner having the same. The oil separator comprises: a casing, which is provided with a gas inlet and a gas outlet, and a first separation structure, which is disposed within the casing, and which is located between the gas inlet and the gas outlet. The first separation structure comprises a first baffle plate and a refrigerant pipeline; the first baffle plate is provided therein with a cooling chamber; the refrigerant pipeline is connected to the first baffle plate and communicates with the cooling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignees: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES (WUHAN) CO., LTD, GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Chao Hua, Tang Zhou, Yu Zhou, Yongbin Zhang, Cui Pan, Xianquan Liu, Yaozhen Xie, Chengwu Huang, Quanchao Zhao
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Patent number: 11131509Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator that vaporizes a working fluid, a condenser that liquefies the working fluid, a liquid pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser, a vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser, to form a loop-shaped passage together with the liquid pipe, and a porous body provided inside the liquid pipe or inside the evaporator. The porous body includes a first metal layer including a first bottomed hole that caves in from a first surface of the first metal layer, and a second bottomed hole that caves in from a second surface of the first metal layer, opposite to the first surface. The first bottomed hole and the second bottomed hole partially communicate with each other to form a pore.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
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Patent number: 11130896Abstract: A heat-storage material that provides a sufficiently large amount of thermal energy as a latent-heat storage material including a semiclathrate hydrate and that improves hysteresis between the solidifying temperature and the melting starting temperature and a refrigerator and a cooling container that include the heat-storage material are provided. The heat-storage material that changes phase at a predetermined temperature includes water, a main agent including a quaternary ammonium salt that forms a semiclathrate hydrate, a pH adjuster that maintains alkaline properties, and a nucleating agent that generates a cation that exhibits positive hydration. In such an aqueous solution maintained to be alkaline, the nucleating agent becomes a nucleus in solidification, and thus, the temperature difference between the solidifying temperature and the melting temperature can be decreased.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Motonami, Yuka Utsumi, Masao Urayama, Hisanori Bessho, Daiji Sawada, Takashi Yamashita
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Patent number: 11125506Abstract: A tube heat exchanger extending in a vertical direction, comprising: a first chamber including a lower portion provided with at least one intake inlet for a diphasic fluid including a liquid and a first vapor containing a mist; an upper portion; and a first recovery member passed through by the first vapor and recovering the mist in liquid form, the first vapor next arriving in the upper portion, a central chamber forming liquid films running over the tubes and vaporizing at least partially to produce a second vapor, the tubes being traveled inwardly by a fluid hotter than the diphasic fluid, and a second chamber receiving the first vapor and the second vapor to form a third vapor, and including an outlet for the non-vaporized liquid and an outlet for the third vapor, the first chamber and the second chamber together forming a volume surrounding the central chamber around the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TECHNIP FRANCEInventor: Nicolas Rambure
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Patent number: 11125231Abstract: A compressor includes a casing and a metallic coating. The casing includes a low-pressure casing part covering a low-pressure space and a high-pressure casing part covering a high-pressure space. The metallic coating is formed at least on a part of an outer surface of the casing. The metallic coating includes a low-pressure part coating formed in the low-pressure casing part, a high-pressure part coating formed in the high-pressure casing part, and a welded part coating formed in a welded part. At least either the average thickness of the low-pressure part coating or the average thickness of the welded part coating is greater than the average thickness of the high-pressure part coating.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Shimozono, Mikio Kajiwara, Tomomi Yokoyama, Kouji Kojima, Tsuyoshi Fukunaga, Mahoba Ogawa, Yasuhiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11125508Abstract: A thin heat pipe structure includes a main body having a chamber. The chamber has a wick structure and a working fluid provided therein, and internally defines an evaporating section and at least one condensing section. The condensing section is extended towards at least one or two ends of the evaporating section. The wick structure is provided with at least one groove. The groove is extended through the wick structure along a thickness direction of the main body to connect to two opposite wall surfaces of the chamber, and also extended along a length direction of the main body to communicate with the condensing section and the evaporating section. With these arrangements, the thin heat pipe structure has an extremely small overall thickness and is flexible.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chun-Ming Wu
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Patent number: 11122875Abstract: Expandable cooler includes a front wall, a rear wall, an interior, an exterior, and a front hinge. A front panel hingedly attached to the expandable cooler, front hinge being between the front panel and the cooler. Front panel has a surface and is movable away from front wall of cooler into an expanded position. Front panel is foldable about front hinge so front panel extends away from expandable cooler, and surface on front panel faces upwardly and surface can receive a person or an object on it, such as a picnic, toys, or for lying down or sunbathing. Foldable front panel includes a second front panel hingedly attached to front panel by a front panel hinge, second front panel has a surface, and second front panel is movable about front panel hinge and lies facing upwardly, and second surface receives an object on it in the expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventor: Charles A. Henderson
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Patent number: 11118818Abstract: A pulse tube cryocooler which includes a pulse tube having a pulse tube high-temperature end and a pulse tube low-temperature end, and extending in an axial direction from the pulse tube high-temperature end to the pulse tube low-temperature end. The pulse tube cryocooler further includes a regenerator having a regenerator high-temperature end and a regenerator low-temperature end, and being disposed rowed alongside the pulse tube, with the regenerator high-temperature end being positioned displaced, in terms of the axial direction, from the pulse tube high-temperature end toward the cryocooler low-temperature side, and the regenerator low-temperature end being fluid-passage linked with the pulse tube low-temperature end and a pressure-switching valve for connecting the regenerator high-temperature end to a high-pressure source and to a low-pressure source in alternation, and being disposed between the pulse tube high-temperature end and the regenerator high-temperature end in terms of the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Hirayama, Mingyao Xu
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Patent number: 11118825Abstract: an ice making system includes a tank that stores a medium to be cooled, an ice making machine that cools the medium and makes ice, a pump that circulates the medium between the tank and the ice making machine, a de-icing mechanism that heats the medium and melts the ice in the ice making machine, and a control device that controls operations of the ice making machine, the pump, and the de-icing mechanism. The ice making machine includes a cooling chamber that cools the medium, an inflow port through which the medium flows into the cooling chamber, and a discharge port through which the medium is discharged from the cooling chamber. The control device activates the de-icing mechanism when a pressure difference between a pressure of the medium at the inflow port and a pressure of the medium at the discharge port exceeds a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Azuma Kondou, Shouhei Yasuda, Takahito Nakayama, Kazuyoshi Nomura, Takeo Ueno
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Patent number: 11112184Abstract: The invention relates to an evaporator (V) comprising an evaporator body (3) surrounded by an evaporator housing (5) having an inlet (1) for supply of liquid into the evaporator housing (5) and an outlet (6) for discharge of vapour generated, wherein the evaporator body (3) comprises a multitude of plates (7) arranged flat one on top of another, wherein there is a liquid distributor (2) for distributing the liquid between the multitude of plates (7) arranged between the inlet (1) and the evaporator body (3), wherein each of the plates (7) comprises, on a first surface, a liquid distributor structure (10) with distributor conduits (20, 21, 22), an evaporator area (11) and a gas collection structure (12). The invention further relates to a corresponding fuel cell arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: DIEHL AEROSPACE GMBHInventors: David Tiemann, Jochen Schuerer, Gunther Kolb
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Patent number: 11114285Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include an abatement system for abating compounds produced in semiconductor processes. The abatement system includes an exhaust cooling apparatus located downstream of a plasma source. The exhaust cooling apparatus includes at least one cooling plate a device for introducing turbulence to the exhaust flowing within the exhaust cooling apparatus. The device may be a plurality of fins, a cylinder with a curved top portion, or a diffuser with angled blades. The turbulent flow of the exhaust within the exhaust cooling apparatus causes particles to drop out of the exhaust, minimizing particles forming in equipment downstream of the exhaust cooling apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Michael S. Cox, Brian T. West, Roger M. Johnson, Yan Rozenzon, Dinkesh Somanna, Dustin W. Ho