Patents Examined by Martha Tadesse
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Patent number: 11698201Abstract: A purification dehumidifier includes a housing, a fan, a dehumidifier assembly, and a purifier assembly. The housing includes an air inlet, a dehumidified air outlet, and a purified air outlet. An air duct in communication with the air inlet, the dehumidified air outlet, and the purified air outlet is formed in the housing. The fan is arranged in the air duct and configured to introduce an airflow into the air duct from the air inlet and blow the airflow in the air duct out from at least one of the dehumidified air outlet or the purified air outlet. The dehumidifier assembly is arranged in the air duct and corresponding to the dehumidified air outlet. The purifier assembly is arranged in the air duct and corresponding to the purified air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiming Li
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Patent number: 11698207Abstract: Thermal energy systems for managing, distribution and recovery of thermal energy. A single-pipe loop circulating a two-phase refrigerant is provided. The single-pipe loop is spread through the entire system and interconnects a plurality of local heat exchange stations, each having different thermal energy loads. A central circulation mechanism (CCM) is also provided for circulating the refrigerant for distribution of thermal energy within the system.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: HIS MAJESTY THE KING IN RIGHT OF CANADA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCESInventors: Parham Eslami-Nejad, Arash Bastani, Daniel Giguere
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Patent number: 11679183Abstract: A medical contact shock freezer adapted for fast freezing a plurality of individual bags containing a medical liquid has the contact surface of its upper freezing plate arranged at an angle of at least 2° to the horizontal.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: B. MEDICAL SYSTEMS S.A.R.L.Inventors: Jos Fischbach, Alan Rushing
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Patent number: 11680997Abstract: A cooling system of a magnetic resonance apparatus is disclosed. In the cooling system, a first cooling device and a second cooling device are used to realize a secondary step of cooling of a circulating fluid without energy consumption, thereby reducing the operating energy consumption of the cooling system. In addition, a magnetic resonance apparatus comprising the cooling system is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: Ting Qiang Xue, Ping Chen
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Patent number: 11674740Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a drain pan. The drain pan is configured to collect condensate into a basin of the drain pan from an evaporator of the HVAC system and to direct the condensate from the basin via a drain port of the drain pan. A draining surface is formed in the basin and includes a compound slope including a first slope extending along a length of the drain pan and a second slope extending along a width of the drain pan. A raised surface extends from the draining surface and includes protrusions extending from a spine that extends along a side of the drain pan. The raised surface is configured to support the evaporator of the HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Curtis A. Trammell, John L. McElvany
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Patent number: 11674712Abstract: A heating ventilating and cooling (HVAC) system includes an outdoor air chase having a first end and a second end. The second end of the outdoor air chase is fluidly coupled to a condenser compartment at a location to receive outside air from the condenser compartment and the first end is fluidly coupled to the return air compartment. The outdoor air chase has a conduit through the outdoor air chase. The system includes a configurable flow regulating plate disposed in the outdoor air chase member across the conduit or otherwise across the outdoor airflow that has a plurality of discharge apertures. Initially, the plurality of discharge apertures is covered by a plurality of knockout panels. Each panel is removably secured to the plate. In installation, the installer removes as many of the knockout panels as required for a desired flow of outdoor air. Other systems and methods are presented.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Allied Air Enterprises LLCInventors: WenYen Huang, Mitchell Evan Lockhart, Jeffrey Paul Gedcke, Anthony Edward Spiggle
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Patent number: 11668473Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner comprising, a housing in which an outlet is formed, a heat exchanger positioned inside the housing, and a fan positioned behind the heat exchanger. The fan configured to blow air to the heat exchanger. And a filter assembly coupled to the housing. The filter assembly configured to filter air entering the fan. The filter assembly covering a rear portion of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Jae Kim, Jin Gyun Kim, Young Tae Song, Hae Gyun Shin, Chang Sik Lee, Chang Woo Jung, Seo Young Cho, Sung Hyun Chun
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Patent number: 11656006Abstract: Thermoelectric cooler systems for thermal enhancement in immersion cooling and associated methods thereof are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes a liquid vessel that defines an interior space for holding a cooling liquid and an electronic component. The system also includes a heat conduit including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The heat conduit is configured to transfer heat between the portions. Further, the first portion is configured to transfer heat from the electronic component to the second portion. The second portion is configured to transfer heat to the cooling liquid and to the third portion. The system includes a thermoelectric cooler positioned within the interior space. The thermoelectric cooler includes an absorption side and a rejection side. The thermoelectric cooler is configured to transfer heat from the absorption side to the rejection side.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Paul Artman, Jeffrey Holland, Vinod Kamath
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Patent number: 11644201Abstract: This document describes a high efficiency dehumidification system (HEDS) and method of operating the same. The HEDS systems and physical implementations can include a variety of equipment, such as fans, fluid-conveying coils, tubing and pipes, heat transfer coils, vents, louvers, dampers, valves, fluid chillers, fluid heaters, and/or the like. Any of the implementations described herein can also include controls and logic, responsive to one or more sensors or other input devices, for controlling the equipment for each implementation described herein. The HEDS system utilizes heat transfer between the fluid within the fluid-conveying coils and air passing over the coils to convert humid air into dehumidified air.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Inventor: Scot Matthew Duncan
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Patent number: 11639831Abstract: Cooling a first device and second device in a fashion to produce water. The method includes collecting environmental air from an environment. The environmental air is used to cool a first device. Cooling the first device generates first device exhaust air produced from the environmental air. The first device exhaust air is provided to a first device portion of a heat exchanger. At a second device portion of the heat exchanger, thermally coupled to the first device portion of the heat exchanger, second device exhaust air generated by cooling a second device is received. At the heat exchanger, the first device exhaust air is used to cool the second device exhaust air to a dew point, causing condensed water to be created from the second device exhaust air. The condensed water is collected.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christian L. Belady, David Thomas Gauthier, Sean M. James, Brian Addams Janous, Mark Alan Monroe
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Patent number: 11629881Abstract: In an air conditioner, a drain extraction unit and a refrigerant pipe connecting unit may be disposed in a blocking region in which a discharge port is not provided so that a size of the discharge port may be secured and the discharge port may be uniformly disposed, thereby generating uniform airflow in a room. In a lower housing formed in a circular shape, some of components inside an indoor unit of the air conditioner may be disposed in a protrusion portion that protrudes from the circular housing, thereby facilitating the installation of the air conditioner. A condensate water collecting space disposed outside the housing may be provided in a drain tray, thereby efficiently preventing a leakage due to condensate water generated outside the housing. The housing, the drain tray, and the cover member of the air conditioner may be coupled by a coupling member coupled outside.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Yoon Lee, Do-Hoon Kim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Chul Ju Lee, Jun Woo Kim, Bu Youn Lee, Jung Dae Lee, Sung-June Cho
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Patent number: 11624517Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for air conditioning, capturing combustion contaminants, desalination, and other processes using liquid desiccants.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter F. Vandermeulen, Jack I. Hanoka
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Patent number: 11624510Abstract: A district energy distributing system is disclosed. The system comprises a geothermal heat source system comprising a geothermal heat source and a feed conduit for a flow of geothermally heated water from the geothermal heat source. The system further comprises a district feed conduit, a district return conduit and a plurality of local heating systems, each having an inlet connected to the district feed conduit and an outlet connected to the district return conduit, wherein each local heating system is configured to provide hot water and/or comfort heating to a building, A central heat exchanger is connected to the feed conduit of the geothermal heat source system such that an incoming flow of geothermally heated water is provided to the central heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: E.ON SVERIGE ABInventors: Per Rosén, Fredrik Rosenqvist
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Patent number: 11614096Abstract: An air-sending device includes a housing including an inlet air passage communicating with an air inlet and an outlet air passage communicating with an air outlet, a first partition plate partitioning an interior of the housing into the inlet air passage and the outlet air passage, a bell mouth disposed around an opening defined in the first partition plate, and an impeller disposed over the first partition plate across the bell mouth and having a rotation axis that extends in a direction that intersects the first partition plate. The impeller suctions air into the inlet air passage from the air inlet, and blows out air from the air outlet through the outlet air passage. The inlet air passage guides air from the air inlet to the opening along the first partition plate, and has an air-passage wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Tanishima, Takashi Matsumoto, Yoji Onaka, Takamasa Uemura, Hiroki Fukuoka, Rihito Adachi
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Patent number: 11614274Abstract: A manufacturing method for a moisture permeable device suitable for use in a refrigerator where the device includes a corresponding first surface (110) and second surface (111); at least parts of the first surface (110) and the second surface (111) of the moisture permeable device define a hollow cavity (301); through-holes are provided at regions of the first surface (110) and the second surface (111) of the moisture permeable device defining the cavity (301); and regenerated cellulose is accommodated in the cavity (301) includes the steps of pouring a regenerated cellulose slurry with a tackifier added thereto into the cavity (301) to form a moisture permeable film, thus allowing omission of an assembling procedure and a non-woven support.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Aimin Wang, Enwei Ding, Min Li, Weiying Zhang, Yongsheng Sun, Ruitao Tao, Guoxin Yu
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Patent number: 11612679Abstract: A medical contact shock freezer (10) adapted for fast freezing a plurality of individual bags (41-43, 51-53) containing a medical liquid, the individual bags being arranged side by side, adjacent to each other, in which the contact shock freezer comprises a pair of freezing plates comprising an upper freezing plate (21) and a lower freezing plate (22), at least one of the upper and lower freezing plates of the pair being moveable to define i) a loading position in which sufficient separation is provided between the freezing plates to load or unload the individual bags between the freezing plates and ii) a freezing position in which each individual bag is in contact with and is clamped between a contact surface of the upper freezing plate and a contact surface of the lower freezing plate; and in which, in its freezing position, the contact surface of the upper freezing plate is arranged at an angle of at least 2° to the horizontal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: B. Medical Systems S.A.R.L.Inventors: Jos Fischbach, Alan Rushing
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Patent number: 11598567Abstract: An ice maker assembly includes an ice making apparatus for an appliance with an ice making tray having a water basin formed by a metallic ice forming plate and at least one perimeter sidewall extending upwardly from a top surface of the ice forming plate. The ice making tray also has a grid with at least one dividing wall. The at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall and the top surface of the ice forming plate form at least one ice compartment having an upper surface and a lower surface. An ice body is formed in the at least one ice compartment. Moreover, the at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall form a draft angle with the top surface of the ice forming plate, of about 17 degrees to about 25 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Patrick J. Boarman, Mark E. Thomas, Lindsey A. Wohlgamuth
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Patent number: 11585565Abstract: An air handling unit has an interior wall configured to selectively retain a removable component of the air handling unit. An air handling unit has an interior wall configured as a drain pan. An air handling unit has an outer skin joined to the interior wall, an insulator disposed between the interior wall and the outer skin, and the interior wall has a mounting channel configured to selectively retain a removable component of the air handling unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stewart, Mark Hudgins, Richard Lee Jameson, Keith Adam Novak, Leslie Zinger
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Patent number: 11585567Abstract: A condensate drain assembly includes a drain pan configured to receive condensate from an evaporator coil of an air conditioning system. The drain pan is configured to be removed from the air conditioning system. The condensate drain assembly also includes a drainage pipe configured to translate the condensate from the drain pan to a drain located beneath the air conditioning system and a drain pan end cap. The drain pan end cap includes a first aperture configured to drain the condensate from the drain pan and a second aperture configured to align with the drainage pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Kenneth D. Frederick, Karl S. Tallakson, Robert L. Long
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Patent number: 11578878Abstract: A symmetric pair of mounting brackets for mounting one of a plurality of air filters to a mounting plate of an air conditioner unit are provided. The mounting brackets each define a plurality of mounting surfaces with equidistantly space mounting holes. The mounting surfaces are spaced apart from a plurality of retention surfaces, with the distance between each respective mounting surface and retention surface varying to accommodate a different filter size such that the air conditioner may operate using different filter sizes by simply changing the installation orientation of the mounting brackets.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Isaac D'Souza, Robert T. Mills