Patents Examined by Nikhil P Mashruwala
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Patent number: 10890336Abstract: A multi-zone, proximate-air oven using air delivered from the shelves provides a compact height through the use of low profile shelves. Intercavity heat leakage is managed by active insulation techniques making use of the oven feedback temperature control and controlled cavity loading.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Lee Thomas VanLanen, Todd Coleman, Aaron Choate
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Patent number: 10876764Abstract: A heating device, in particular a gas-heating system, including a housing structure and an external housing, the external housing having at least one sidewall and at least one cover, which are able to be fixed in place on the housing structure. The at least one cover is developed to position the at least one sidewall in at least one direction in space relative to the housing structure. A method for mounting a heating device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Stegemeyer, Daniel Lindemann, Manfred Oehrlein, Marcus Wuenning, Maximilian Beck, Michael Oesterie, Sebastian Goerick, Yildirim Cantuerk
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Patent number: 10874253Abstract: A Method and Apparatus for Multi-Fuel Grill have been disclosed. In one version an attached fire box holds fuel.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Osvaldo Emilio Ebbes
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Patent number: 10865985Abstract: A method for operating a combustion chamber is provided. The method includes obtaining a carbon monoxide reading at an exit of the combustion chamber via a carbon monoxide sensor, and deriving an oxygen set point trim based at least in part on the carbon monoxide reading and a carbon monoxide set point via a controller. The method further includes determining a stability status of the combustion chamber via a combustion stability sensor, and adjusting an oxygen set point of the combustion chamber with the oxygen set point trim based at least in part on the stability status via the controller. The oxygen set point defines a desired oxygen level at the exit of the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Shizhong Yang, Robert Frederick Murphy, Jilin Tu, Xiaoleinmn Shi, Dayu Huang
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Patent number: 10863862Abstract: A gas cooking appliance is disclosed that according to one embodiment includes at least one gas burner and a gas tap. The gas tap includes a gas inlet conduit and at least one gas outlet conduit suitable for conducting gas to the gas burner. An injector arranged fixed to the outlet conduit, the outlet conduit being in fluid communication with the injector with the injector providing an outlet for the gas flow to the burner. The injector includes at least two outlet holes for the exit of gas to the burner, with each outlet hole having a respective outlet mouth.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: COPRECI, S. COOP.Inventors: Felix Querejeta Andueza, Jose Ignacio Mugica Odriozola, Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal
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Patent number: 10859273Abstract: A grease and food particle trap for use with an oven shooter tube cleaning system that provides improved resistance to clogging and improved maintenance better matching the ability of the shooter tube cleaning system to provide complete cleaning and removal of grease and food particles is provided. An auxiliary heating system may provide improved energy efficiency and temperature control for cleaning operation by separately heating the cleaning solution upstream from the shooter tube prior to delivering a cleaning spray to the cooking volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.Inventors: Deborah Cukjati, Thomas Stollenwerk, Nicholas DeMarais, Jeremy Buford, Leslie Klump, Joshua Didur, Joseph Kulakowski, Thomas Whalen, Andy Tischendorf
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Patent number: 10858171Abstract: An apparatus for heating a product includes a storage compartment for a product to be heated and a heater module physically and thermally coupled to the storage compartment. The heater module has a housing that defines a reaction chamber. A rigid barrier is inside the reaction chamber and defines first and second portions thereof. A first reactant is inside the reaction chamber, and a flexible bag (with a second reactant) is in the first portion of the first chemical reactant. The first and second reactants react exothermically upon contact. A piercing element can pierce the flexible bag. After piercing, the a fluid path and one or more fluid channels carry the second reactant to a section of the first portion of the reaction chamber away from where the flexible bag is located.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Cullen M. Sabin, Alan James Maskell
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Patent number: 10851991Abstract: A method for reducing harmful gas emissions from a gas-fired boiler including a sealed forced-draught combustion chamber in which there is a burner to which there leads a first conduit for drawing in combustion air and from which there departs a second conduit for the discharge of combustion flue gases. Provision is made for drawing off a portion of the flue gases or exhaust gases from the second conduit and injecting it into the combustion air to reduce the percentage of atmospheric oxygen present in that combustion air and consequently reduce the production of harmful gases in the combustion flue gases. A boiler operating according to the aforesaid method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: BERTELLI & PARTNERS S.R.L.Inventor: Pierluigi Bertelli
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Patent number: 10845091Abstract: Elliptical cylinder collector for thermal solar energy comprising a first pipe and a reflector surface, which also comprises a second pipe and a third pipe, wherein the reflector surface has a generatrix which is half an ellipse and wherein the second pipe and the third pipe are located at focal points of the ellipse and the first pipe is located on a minor axis of the ellipse at a greater distance from the reflector surface than the second pipe and the third pipe, the first pipe is also located at the focal point of an imaginary parabola whose vertex is located at the negative end of the minor axis of the ellipse.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ITAPUAInventors: Waldy Anibal Riveros Saavedra, Ricardo Hideto Matsunaga Masaoka, Fernando Luis Galeano Flores, Sandra Isabel Kallus Lobsiger
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Patent number: 10837634Abstract: A system includes a torch top having a wick holder extending along a portion of a wick in contact therewith for retaining the wick to extend from a lower side of the torch top to a level above an upper side the torch top. The system includes an adjustment sleeve exterior and concentric to the wick holder and moveable to extend upwardly to such an elevation as to be at least partially above an uppermost portion of the wick holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Lamplight Farms IncorporatedInventor: Robert Woodruff
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Patent number: 10836673Abstract: A glass composition formed of a glass frit including P2O5, SiO2, B2O3, Al2O3, ZrO2 and group I-based oxide, wherein P2O5 is contained in an amount of 20 wt % to 40 wt % based on a total weight of the glass frit, SiO2 is contained in an amount of to wt % to 30 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit, B2O3 is contained in an amount of 3 wt % to 20 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit, Al2O3 is contained in an amount of 7 to 24 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit, ZrO2 is contained in an amount of 1 wt % to 7 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit, and the group I-based oxide is contained in an amount of 7 wt % to 28 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Namjin Kim, Youngseok Kim, Yunsung Kim
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Patent number: 10835078Abstract: A gas tap for a gas burner that includes a gas inlet conduit for the entry of gas at a nominal pressure, at least one outlet conduit suitable for conducting gas to the burner through an outlet hole, and a rotating regulating element for regulating the incoming gas flow from the inlet conduit to the outlet conduit. The outlet conduit conducting a variable flow rate gas flow to the outlet hole when the regulating element rotates along an angular path. The gas tap also includes at least one constant flow outlet conduit for conducting a minimum constant flow rate gas flow (Qc) at nominal pressure (Pn) to the burner through a constant flow outlet hole when the regulating element rotates along the angular path.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: COPRECI, S. COOP.Inventors: Felix Querejeta Andueza, Jose Ignacio Mugica Odriozola, Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal, Isabel Alava Perez
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Patent number: 10830453Abstract: An exhaust system for a cooking or cooktop appliance is provided herein. The exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, an air handler, and a diverter plate. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above a cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing rearward from the air outlet. The image monitor may include an imagining surface extending in a vertical direction between a top edge and a bottom edge. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and outlet. The diverter plate may be attached to the casing below the imaging surface. The air outlet may be defined proximal to the top edge and may define a coolant airflow path. The diverter plate may define an airflow curtain path extending outward from the coolant airflow path.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: James Lee Armstrong, Michael Andrew Funk
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Patent number: 10816194Abstract: A radiant burner for treating an effluent gas stream from a manufacturing processing tool includes: a porous sleeve at least partially defining a treatment chamber and through which treatment materials pass for introduction into the treatment chamber; and an electrical energy device coupled with the porous sleeve and operable to provide electrical energy to heat the porous sleeve which heats the treatment materials as they pass through the porous sleeve into the treatment chamber. In this way, electrical energy, rather than combustion, is used to raise the temperature within the treatment chamber in order to treat the effluent gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Edwards LimitedInventor: Andrew James Seeley
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Patent number: 10808943Abstract: A cooking engagement system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes, and a capacitive touch sensor that senses touches on an imaging surface of the image monitor. When the capacitive touch sensor senses a capacitance level below a threshold indicative of contamination on the imaging surface, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: James Lee Armstrong, Michael A. Funk
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Patent number: 10808939Abstract: A heating appliance includes a cooktop having a plurality of burners. A burner box defines a burner position for each burner, each burner position having a plurality of slots. An orifice holder is slidably engaged with the plurality of slots in a linear direction. Opposing flanges extend from a bottom portion of the orifice holder that extend through the plurality of slots to be at least partially secured therein, wherein the opposing flanges are adapted to engage the plurality of slots in only one directional orientation.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Patrick J. Duffy, Anthony S. Roberts
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Patent number: 10788222Abstract: An exhaust system for a cooking or cooktop appliance is provided herein. The exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, and an air handler. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above the cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing above a cooktop surface. The image monitor may include an imagining surface extending in a lateral direction between a first edge and a second edge. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and the air outlet to motivate an airflow therethrough. The air outlet may be defined proximal to the first edge and defines a coolant airflow path extending along the lateral direction across the imaging surface from the first edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Bernard Froelicher, James Lee Armstrong, Michael Andrew Funk
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Patent number: 10782028Abstract: Techniques are provided for constructing an appliance door having a metal-to-metal-to-glass bond. In one or more implementations a glass panel is mounted to a door skin of a door panel, the door skin having multiple slots. Adhesive is applied to the side of the door skin opposite the glass panel along a path created by the multiple slots. Afterwards, a metal frame is placed on the adhesive creating a metal-to-metal-to-glass bond with increased structural strength and a reduced gap between the glass and metal of the door panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Robert Ladner, Rose Marie Parker
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Patent number: 10760881Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for modifying and enhancing pyrotechnic emissions and effects are provided including systems for irradiating pyrotechnic emissions using electromagnetic radiation sources with programmable electromagnetic radiation profiles. Exemplary systems include coupling an electromagnetic radiation source to a pyrotechnic device to irradiate pyrotechnic emissions or irradiating pyrotechnic emissions with an external electromagnetic radiation source. Exemplary methods include identifying a desired pyrotechnic emission output and designing an emission and effect output to meet the desired output.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Eric J Miklaszewski, Jonathan M. Dilger, Travis R. Sippel, James B. Michael, Stuart Barkley
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Patent number: 10738995Abstract: A burner has: a combustion plate part through which air-fuel mixture is ejected; and a flame rod which lies opposite to a portion of the combustion plate part. The combustion plate part is constituted by: a burner frame in a shape of a picture frame; a metal-fiber knit which covers an opening enclosed by the burner frame; and a distribution plate which has formed therein a multiplicity of distribution holes and which sandwiches the metal-fiber knit between the burner frame and the distribution plate so that the air-fuel mixture is ejected from the opening through the distribution holes and the metal-fiber knit. Flame holes for ejecting the air-fuel mixture are formed in a portion of the burner frame, and the flame rod is disposed so as to lie opposite to that portion of the burner frame which has formed therein the flame holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Ono
