Patents Examined by S. Gravini
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Patent number: 7360321Abstract: The dryer is disclosed. The dryer comprises a base seat, at least a netted-rack and a top cover, the top portion of the base seat being mounted with a cutting for fruit and vegetable or a netted-rack for placement of food, and the top portion of the netted-rack being disposed with the top cover, characterized in that a heater is mounted to the base seat and an upward fan, and the external side is a wind hood having a center air opening for suction of hot air and an air-screen at the side for discharging of hot air, the top and bottom of the netted-rack are supporting blocks which can be turned over 180 degree and can be stacked or placed alternately and the top cover at the uppermost layer of the netted-rack is provided with a supporting block so as to increase and decrease the distance between the supporting blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Chang Yue Industrial Corp.Inventor: Yung Sen Su
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Patent number: 7356943Abstract: An automatic Hair dryer including a hand held body, a comb attached to the body, a 120/240 V.A.C. heating element and a fan adapted to move a mass of air across the heating element and through or across the comb and into an individual's hair. A moisture sensor is disposed between the teeth of the comb and is powered by a 12 volt D.C. power supply such as a step-down transformer. When the sensor senses moisture, the comb is passed through an individual's hair and the 120 -volt A.C. current is connected to the heating element. Then, when the moisture content of the hair is relatively low, the sensor activates a switch that turns off the power to the heating element while the power to the fan is maintained until a master switch is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Inventor: Sabeeh Behbehani
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Patent number: 7356945Abstract: An operation method for a combination dryer is disclosed. The present invention relates to a combination dryer, and more particularly, to an operation method for a combination dryer which enables air in a drying drum and a cabinet for drying the laundry to circulate continuously and enables condensed water generated in the circulation process to perform a refreshing cycle by using the water.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Soung Bong Choi, Deug Hee Lee, Byung Hwan Anh, Hung Myong Cho
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Patent number: 7356942Abstract: A gas hot air gun includes a main body, an ignition device, a switch set and a safety switch. The main body includes a blower, a nozzle, a barrel and a handle. A heating chamber and a mixing chamber are on the inner front of the barrel. A gas can is inside the handle. One end of the nozzle is connected to the gas can. The switch set includes a power switch, with the safety switch closing power of the battery set or gas flow under some pre-set conditions. Users press the power switch and have gas spray out from the nozzle into the heating chamber to generate heat. The blower sends hot air in the heating chamber out of the main body. A metal slice, regulating the direction of air, and a catalyst, for avoiding flame extending out of the nozzle area, are inside the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Inventor: Arlo Lin
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Patent number: 7356944Abstract: A drying rack for the stationary drying of articles to be dried, which can be installed in the drum of a clothes dryer. The articles can be knitwear or shoes that must not be moved when dried even when the drum turns. For articles, especially, wool articles, to dry faster, the drying rack has at least two spaced-apart surfaces disposed one on top of the other on which the articles to be dried can be spread, thereby substantially enlarging the surface of the articles to be dried. As such, the drying air current can better remove the moisture and larger individual wool articles can be dried in the clothes dryer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Harald Moschuetz, Hans-Werner Stahn, Guenter Steffens
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Patent number: 7353620Abstract: A hair drying device for supporting a person and drying hair of the person includes a chair being configured to receive a person in a seated position. The chair includes a seat portion and a pair of arm rests coupled to the seat portion. The chair includes a back portion pivotally coupled to the seat portion. The back portion supports a back of the person positioned on the seat portion. A drying assembly is coupled to the chair and in electrical communication with a power source. The drying assembly receives hair of the person when the person is reclining in the chair to dry the hair of the user. A control panel is in electrical communication with the drying assembly and the power source and coupled to the chair. The control panel controls the drying assembly when the control panel is actuated by the person.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Inventor: Kimberly A. Houston
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Patent number: 7353623Abstract: A solvent removal apparatus and method is provided that can dry a coat on a workpiece in a uniform thickness. The solvent removal apparatus includes a support base for supporting a substrate provided with a liquid phase film-forming coat containing a film material and a solvent, a gas introduction mechanism for introducing a solvent removal gas toward a center part of the substrate, and a flow restrictor for restricting flow of the solvent removal gas in such a manner that the gas can flow radially outward from the center part of the substrate toward a peripheral edge part thereof. The solvent is removed from the coat while restricting the flow of the gas with the flow restrictor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shintaro Asuke
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Patent number: 7353622Abstract: The invention proposes a spin dryer which makes it possible to drain the laundry to approximately the same extent as a laundry press. For this purpose, a rotatable drum of the spin dryer is driven at a high rotational speed such that the laundry inside the drum is exposed to a centrifugal force which amounts to at least 600 times gravitational acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2003Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Herbert Kannegiesser GmbHInventors: Wilhelm Bringewatt, Engelbert Heinz
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Patent number: 7353621Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for a material dryer may include an air source, a pulse nozzle selectively in fluid communication with the air source and located within a section of the solids outlet assembly, and a controller for controlling an air flow from the air source periodically to the pulse nozzle, where the nozzle is actuated by the periodic air flow to provide a corresponding periodic burst of air to the section of the solids outlet assembly, and the burst of air is of sufficient force to dislodge material accumulated within the section.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: M-I L.L.C.Inventors: Tony Clarke, Richard Bingham
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Patent number: 7350317Abstract: In an electrostatic atomizing hairdryer, electrostatically atomized mist generated in an electrostatic atomizing unit is effectively scattered into airflow emitted from a main body of the hairdryer so that the mist can be sprayed to hair uniformly and a time necessary for treatment of hair can be shortened. A tank constituting the electrostatic atomizing unit is detachably provided on a portion in the vicinity of an outer periphery of the main body, and an electrode unit for generating the mist is provided in a path of airflow sucked in an inside of the main body so as to be insulated from heat of a heating unit by an adiabator. A mist emitting opening from which the mist is emitted is disposed on a plane substantially the same as and at substantially the center of an air exit opening of the main body. Thereby, the mist emitted from the mist emitting opening is effectively scattered into the airflow emitted from the air exit opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Matsui, Osamu Imahori, Shosuke Akisada, Fumio Mihara, Akihide Sugawa, Toshihisa Hirai, Takashi Nakagawa, Kozo Kawai, Naofumi Kodama, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Takashima, Kousuke Katayama, Junichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 7350319Abstract: A clothing dryer is provided having improved blowing fan, fan casing, and motor bracket fixing structures. The clothing dryer includes a housing forming the appearance of the clothing dryer, a drying tub rotatably mounted in the housing, a blowing fan to discharge air out of the drying tub, a fan casing to guide the flow of air around the blowing fan, a driving motor to rotate the blowing fan, a motor bracket to support the driving motor, and a fixing part to temporarily fix the blowing fan to the fan casing when fixing units, by which the blowing fan is attached to a driving shaft of the driving motor, are loosened and tightened.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Doo Kim, Woo Sup Jung
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Patent number: 7347005Abstract: Ventilation system for household appliances, in particular for washing machines, including a device having at least a chamber for housing an impeller, a suction duct, through which a first fluid, in particular damp air, is sucked into the chamber by the impeller, an ejection duct, through which the first fluid sucked into the chamber is expelled from it by the impeller, a first movable shuttering for obstructing the suction duct at least partially, the first shutter being movable at least partially inside the suction duct, and a first actuator for producing the motion of the first shutter. According to the invention, after operation of the first actuator the first shutter is capable of performing movements having at least a linear component, the linear component extending in the same axial direction of the suction duct.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Eltek, S.p.A.Inventor: Daniele Cerruti
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Patent number: 7347008Abstract: A system includes a device for setting a material, such as ink, deposited on a textile or graphic. A programmable logic controller includes a power intensity selector and an application module and is operably connected to the device. The application module is capable of generating a power intensity output signal in response to the power intensity selector. The power intensity output signal is transmitted to the device for a predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: M&R Printing Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Joel K. Zupancic, Tomasz P. Kocjan
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Patent number: 7347009Abstract: A clothes dryer with a dehumidifier is disclosed. The clothes dryer includes a cabinet, a drying container rotatably installed in the cabinet, a driving unit for supplying a rotational force to the drying container, a first air passage connected to a side of the drying container and including a first heat exchanger, a second air passage connected to another side of the drying container and the outer side of the cabinet, and a third air passage including a second heat exchanger for dehumidifying external air of the drying container. The clothes dryer of the present invention performs drying process and dehumidifying process, the clothes dryer can prevent room humidity from increasing.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seung Phyo Ahn, Jung Wook Moon, Dae Woong Kim, Seung Myun Baek, Byeong Jo Ryoo
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Patent number: 7343696Abstract: A device (1) for loading and unloading containers (2) into and out of an enclosure of an installation (3) for treating substances contained in containers (2). The device includes a support structure (17) and a third means (16, 19, 21) for moving a second means (14) to a position higher than the containers. The second means (14) acts as a stop during loading and as a pusher during unloading. The device includes an extendible platform (10), wherein the extendible platform unfurls from the support structure (17) and the third means comprise parts (16a 16b) that unwind from the support structure (17) to the interior of the enclosure. The device is completely automatic, fast, takes up little space and is easy to disassemble.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: IMA-Telstar S.L.Inventor: William John Covert
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Patent number: 7343699Abstract: The method of removing moisture from a material contained within a dryer (3) comprises heating a first stream of gas (A3); passing the heated stream of gas through a dryer (3) to extract moisture from the material to be dried; returning a first portion (E3) of the used gas from an outlet of the dryer (3) to the heater (2), re-heating the second stream of gas (E3) in the heater (2); and passing the heated second stream (B3) back into the dryer (3), wherein the first stream of gas (A3) is atmospheric air from which at least a proportion of the nitrogen present therein has been removed, to thereby increase the percentage by volume of oxygen in the first stream of gas (A3).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Inventor: George Svonja
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Patent number: 7343697Abstract: A rotating apparatus (10) for drying a material (44) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotating apparatus (10) includes a generally cylindrical drum (12), a burner (20) having a burner head (22) at least partially disposed within the drum (10) and a plurality of elongated flights (26). The flights (26) are spaced-apart at pre-determined locations along an interior surface (16) of the drum (12). The length of the flights extends along the interior surface (16) of the drum (12). Optionally, a plurality of plates (28) may be utilized and positioned between the plurality of flights (26) and the interior surface (16) of the drum (12).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Dillman Equipment, Inc.Inventor: Bruce A. Dillman
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Patent number: 7340847Abstract: A clothes drying machine, in which a connection structure between an air blowing case and a motor bracket is simplified so that the number of required components is reduced and assembly efficiency is improved, and the air blowing case is precisely connected to the motor bracket so that the generation of noise or vibration is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin Doo Kim
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Patent number: 7340845Abstract: An evaporation apparatus 10 is shown in the form of an inflatable elongate plastic tube 12 that is fitted with fluid control means in the form of an inlet gas fan 14 and a gas outlet hole 16. The capacity of the inlet gas fan 14 and the size of the outlet hole 16 are matched so that the degree of inflation of the tube 12 can be maintained. In use the inflated tube 12 is partially filled with a volume of liquid 18 in a pool at a base thereof to be heated and evaporated by solar radiation and carried out of the tube 12 by a flow of gas therethrough. The pool of liquid 18 may include solid matter 19, or even contain substances such as dissolved solids or salts. Over time a significant quantity of this material can become deposited in the tube 12, and can be reclaimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2003Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Goulburn Wool Scour Pty LimitedInventor: Howard Kneebone
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Patent number: 7337553Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of for detecting lint are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light is directed to a plate. The light can be being emitted by a light source. A reflectometer is calibrated to a specific thermal emissivity of the plate. The thermal emission resulting from the light directed to the plate is received at the reflectometer. Lint is permitted to deposit on the plate. A change in thermal emission is detected if lint deposits on the plate. The change in thermal emission can be detected by the reflectometer. An indication that lint is present within the clothes dryer is provided if a change in thermal emission is detected by the reflectometer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Inventors: Richard Stein, David Whitehead, Richard Scholl, Mark Sumner