Patents Examined by Melvin Jones
  • Patent number: 10174973
    Abstract: A system for cryocooling an optical sensor on a satellite to a temperature below 200K with minimal vibration comprising a miniature conical rotary screw compressor comprising an inner element configured to only rotate around a first stationary axis and an outer element configured to only rotate around a second stationary axis so that both elements revolve with minimal vibration; with at least one of a) a length of at least one of the inner element and the outer element is between 10 mm and 100 mm; b) a diameter of at least one of the inner element and the outer element is between 2 mm and 45 mm; c) a compression ratio of the rotary screw compressor is between 1:2 and 1:20; and d) a shaft speed of the conical rotary screw compressor is between 1001 and 20000 revolutions per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: VERT ROTORS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Oleg Dmitriev, Evgenii Tabota
  • Patent number: 10174983
    Abstract: An ice cube tray device for creating ice plugs for a beverage container is provided. The beverage container has an opening. The ice cube tray device comprises an ice tray having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, a first end, and a second end opposite the first end. A plurality of recessed receptacles are formed in the top surface of the ice tray between the first end and the second end. Each of the recessed receptacles have a substantially rounded cylindrical configuration thereby creating ice plugs having the same configuration as the recessed receptacles that are capable of being received within the opening of the beverage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Inventor: Damar Williams
  • Patent number: 10168058
    Abstract: A dehumidification system includes a compressor, a primary evaporator, a primary condenser, a secondary evaporator, and a secondary condenser. The secondary evaporator receives an inlet airflow and outputs a first airflow to the primary evaporator. The primary evaporator receives the first airflow and outputs a second airflow to the secondary condenser. The secondary condenser receives the second airflow and outputs a third airflow to the primary condenser. The primary condenser receives the third airflow and outputs a dehumidified airflow. The compressor receives a flow of refrigerant from the primary evaporator and provides the flow of refrigerant to the primary condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Therma-Stor LLC
    Inventors: Dwaine Walter Tucker, Todd R. DeMonte, Scott E. Sloan, Weizhong Yu
  • Patent number: 10168061
    Abstract: A conditioning system of the free cooling type for environments and particularly for computing centers, which comprises: a conditioning unit of the free cooling type provided with an evaporative cooler using water, first fans, for the exit to the outside environment of a stream of warm air in output from said conditioning unit, second fans for emitting cool, conditioned air from said conditioning unit, elements for accumulating reserve water which are interconnected to the conditioning unit, a detector for detecting the presence of a flow of water in input to the accumulation elements, which are interconnected with an electronic unit for the control and management of the conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: EMERSON NETWORK POWER S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pierpaolo Barbato
  • Patent number: 10168089
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator main body configured to define an outer shell of the refrigerator and a door configured to open and close an internal space of the refrigerator main body. The refrigerator further includes an ice-making unit provided in the door and a cold air generation unit configured to circulate a refrigerant so that a cold air is supplied to the internal space. The refrigerator further includes an ice-making pipe installed within the ice-making unit so that the ice-making unit makes heat exchange with the refrigerant, a refrigerant pipe installed in the refrigerator main body so as to receive the refrigerant from the cold air generation unit, and a soft pipe disposed around a folding portion of the refrigerator main body and the door and configured to interconnect the ice-making pipe and the refrigerant pipe in a stretchable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Sung Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 10155592
    Abstract: An environmental control system includes an air cycle machine. The air cycle machine includes a compressor section with a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, and a first turbine section with a first turbine inlet and a first turbine outlet. The environmental control system further includes a first turbine bypass shutoff valve positioned at the first turbine inlet. The first turbine bypass shutoff valve is configured to shut off the flow of air to the first turbine inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher McAuliffe, John M. Maljanian, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10155428
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device has a compressor, a radiator, an auxiliary heat exchanger, a decompressor, an evaporator, and an interior heat exchanger. The auxiliary heat exchanger performs a heat exchange between refrigerant and air and causes the refrigerant to radiate heat. The evaporator performs a heat exchange between air and refrigerant after being decompressed in the decompressor before the air is heated in the auxiliary heat exchanger. The interior heat exchanger has a first heat exchanging portion and a second heat exchanging portion and performs a heat exchange between refrigerant flowing in the first heat exchanging portion and refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanging portion. The first heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the radiator and the decompressor and is connected to the auxiliary heat exchanger in series. The second heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the evaporator and the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Sakamoto, Shin Nishida, Michio Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10156367
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor, a condenser operably connected to the compressor, and an evaporator operably connected to the compressor and to the condenser. A relocatable interface panel is in operable communication with one or more components of the HVAC system to issue commands to the HVAC system via operator inputs at the interface panel. An electrical lead connects the interface panel to the one or more components. A plurality of installation points are located at the HVAC system for installation of the interface panel thereto. The interface panel is selectably installed to an installation point of the plurality of installation points at an installation site of the HVAC system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Stark, Hongwei Cai, William Tony Slay
  • Patent number: 10151523
    Abstract: A beverage cooler (10, 100, 200) includes a heat pump (12) having a cooling element thermally coupled to a negative-heat-energy accumulator (14). The accumulator (14) includes a heat-energy dispersion arrangement (16) formed from thermally conductive material which is in thermal contact with a quantity of phase-change material (18) having a phase-change temperature above zero Celsius. A conduit (20) for the beverage defines a circuitous path thermally coupled to accumulator (14). The heat pump (12) draws heat energy predominantly from the phase-change material (18) so as to ensure that a temperature of the phase-change material is reduced by at least as much as the temperature of the beverage within conduit (20), even under zero-flow conditions. This ensures that the accumulator (14) can be fully charged during periods of low beverage dispensing demand without risk of freezing the beverage within conduit (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Avner Sadot, Shaul Hanuna
  • Patent number: 10145513
    Abstract: Cryogenic device comprising at least two chambers at two different temperatures, a first chamber at a first temperature T1 accommodating a sample, and a second chamber at a second temperature T2 greater than T1 and being adapted to accommodate a cooling device, said cooling device being adapted to cool wirelines connecting said sample to an external element detector, wherein said cooling device is an IMS thermalization plate comprising at least one wire-guide having an input for plugging a wire line connected to the sample and an output for plugging a wire line connected to said external element, said wire-guide being thermally connected to the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ID QUANTIQUE SA
    Inventors: Sylvain Chuard, FĂ©lix Bussieres, Boris Korzh
  • Patent number: 10145587
    Abstract: A refrigeration device having a closed circuit in which a flow rate of coolant is circulating is provided. The closed circuit has a condenser and a main branch provided with a reciprocating compressor inside which a defined flow rate of the coolant enters, from the main branch, at a defined suction pressure, of an evaporator and a first expansion valve that is arranged between the condenser and the evaporator. The closed circuit further has a first secondary economizer branch for a first fraction of flow rate of the coolant, the first secondary economizer branch fluidically connecting the compressor to a section of the closed circuit between the condenser and the first expansion valve, wherein the compressor has a first side inlet port for the entrance of the first fraction of coolant flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ANGELANTONI TEST TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L.
    Inventor: Maurizio Ascani
  • Patent number: 10145608
    Abstract: A refrigerator including a refrigerator body including a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment, a refrigerating compartment cooling circuit including a refrigerating compartment compressor for compressing refrigerant, a refrigerating compartment condenser, a refrigerating compartment expansion unit, and a refrigerating compartment evaporator for causing the refrigerant to exchange heat with the refrigerating compartment; a freezing compartment cooling circuit including a freezing compartment compressor for compressing refrigerant, a freezing compartment condenser, a freezing compartment expansion unit, and a freezing compartment evaporator; a refrigerating compartment temperature sensor; a freezing compartment temperature sensor; and a control unit for controlling the refrigerating compartment compressor and the freezing compartment compressor to be concurrently operated so as to proceed to a concurrent operation mode when the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment are under a c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunam Chae, Kyungseok Kim, Kyeongyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10139145
    Abstract: Stand-alone ice making appliances are provided. An appliance includes a container defining a first storage volume for receipt of ice, a water tank defining a second storage volume for receipt of water, and a pump in fluid communication with the second storage volume. The appliance further includes an ice maker which is in fluid communication with the pump for receiving water from the pump. The appliance further includes a filter, the filter including a filter medium operable to remove contaminants from water flowing through the filter medium, the filter positioned upstream of the ice maker in a flow direction of water from the second storage volume to the ice maker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Vincent DuPlessis, Timothy Scott Shaffer, Ronald Scott Tarr, Tomas Garces
  • Patent number: 10132569
    Abstract: A hybrid fluid cooler or tower that provides enhanced cooler performance by improving air and water distribution to the indirect heat exchange section by utilizing extended flow nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SPX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Eldon F. Mockry
  • Patent number: 10132511
    Abstract: A heating and cooling system for use in high-rise residential and commercial buildings may include a condensing unit having dimensions no greater than 12 inches deep by 40 inches wide by 20 inches tall and a fan coil unit coupled to the condensing unit via refrigeration tubing. The fan coil unit may have dimensions of no greater than 14 inches deep by 43 inches wide by 11 inches tall. The condensing unit may include a condenser water connection, a refrigeration tubing connection, a compressor, and a heat exchanger. The fan coil unit may include a filter rack configured to hold a MERV 13 filter, two in-line high-pressure fans, and at least one access panel on a bottom surface of the fan coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventor: Igor Tartakovsky
  • Patent number: 10132526
    Abstract: In an ejector refrigeration cycle, an inlet of a nozzle portion of an ejector is connected to a refrigerant outlet side of a high-stage side evaporator, a refrigerant suction port of the ejector is connected to a refrigerant outlet side of a low-stage side evaporator, and an internal heat exchanger is provided for exchanging heat between a high-pressure refrigerant flowing into a low-stage side throttle device for decompressing the refrigerant flowing into the low-stage side evaporator, and a low-stage side low-pressure refrigerant flowing out of the low-stage side evaporator. Because a difference in enthalpy between the inlet and outlet of the low-stage side evaporator can be enlarged, the cooling capacities exhibited by the respective evaporators can be adjusted to be closer to each other even if the flow-rate ratio Ge/Gn of the suction refrigerant flow rate Ge to the injection refrigerant flow rate Gn is set to a relatively small value so as to make it possible to improve the COP of the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gouta Ogata, Yuichi Shirota, Hiroya Hasegawa, Tatsuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10125006
    Abstract: A beverage diluting and cooling container includes a floor, a peripheral sidewall, and a divider wall that divides an interior space defined by the peripheral sidewall into a first compartment that receives a cooling medium for cooling and diluting a beverage received into the first compartment. The divider wall also divides the interior space into a second compartment that holds a second quantity of a cooling medium for non-dilutingly cooling the beverage. The second compartment is sealed from the first compartment to prevent flow of liquid from the second compartment into the first compartment. One or more of the floor or a portion of the sidewall bounding the first compartment includes at least one opening therethrough to allow flow of the beverage out of the first compartment while containing the cooling medium in the first compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RONNOCO COFFEE, LLC
    Inventors: Jody G. Jacobsen, Dan Janson
  • Patent number: 10126022
    Abstract: A refrigeration system including a condenser, a compressor, a first transportation system passing refrigerant between the compressor and the condenser, a first evaporator, a second evaporator, a second transportation system passing the refrigerant between the condenser and a holding vessel, with the holding vessel including refrigerant in gas and liquid form, a third transportation system passing the refrigerant between the holding vessel and a pump, a fourth transportation system passing the refrigerant between the pump and the first evaporator, a fifth transportation system passing the refrigerant between the pump and the second evaporator, and a heat exchanger wherein the refrigerant in the second transportation system exchanges heat with the refrigerant in the fifth transportation system to heat the refrigerant in the fifth transportation system before the refrigerant passes to the second evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: COOPER RESEARCH, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Cooper
  • Patent number: 10107527
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a heat pump element comprising: a thin-film polymer or ceramic material within a range of 0.1 microns-100 microns thickness, and electrodes coupled to both sides of the thin-film material to form an electroded active thin-film material, wherein the thin-film material is separated by, and in intimate contact with, a heat transfer fluid in channels within a range of 10 microns-10 millimeters thickness, in which the fluid is capable of being translated back and forth through the element by an imposed pressure field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas D. Radcliff, Joseph V. Mantese, Slade R. Culp, Subramanyaravi Annapragada
  • Patent number: 10107519
    Abstract: An air conditioner including a drain hose to be injection-molded is disclosed. An air conditioner includes a main body of an indoor unit, a heat exchanger disposed in the main body of the indoor unit, and a drain hose configured to discharge condensed water generated from the heat exchanger, wherein the drain hose is disposed in the main body and is injection-molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyuk Yang, Jae Min Ahn, Seung Min Koo, Byung Yul So