Patents Examined by Steven S Anderson, II
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Patent number: 11630493Abstract: A ventilation device (1) is proposed, in particular designed to ventilate a circuit board (2), preferably in or for a computer, wherein the ventilation device (1) is designed to produce a first cooling air stream (5) from a first fan (12) and to produce a second cooling air stream (7) from a second fan (13), wherein the first cooling air stream (5) and the second cooling air stream (7) flow through on different sides of an air stream boundary plane (L), preferably parallel to the air stream boundary plane (L), through a common ventilation plane (BL) perpendicular to the air stream boundary plane (L), wherein the directions of flow from the first fan (12) and the second fan (13) are crosswise to the air stream boundary plane (L), wherein the ventilation device (1) preferably is designed to be mountable such that the air stream boundary plane (L) coincides with a central plane of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Thomas Kruse
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Patent number: 11629856Abstract: An apparatus for managing combustion optimization is provided. The apparatus for managing combustion optimization includes a data collector configured to collect real-time data that is measured in real time from a boiler system including a boiler and a combustion controller configured to control combustion of the boiler, a management configured to determine whether to perform combustion optimization of the boiler based on the real-time data, and an executor configured to generate a control command and transmit the control command to the combustion controller to perform the combustion optimization of the boiler in response to determining that the combustion optimization of the boiler is possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: DOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Gun Na, Jwa Young Maeng, Jee Hun Park
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Patent number: 11624526Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a casing into which heating gas is supplied; and a plurality of heat transfer tubes which are arranged in the casing, wherein the plurality of heat transfer tubes are set in a posture in which a plurality of straight tube portions are arranged in a direction intersecting a heating gas flow direction, are stacked a plurality of stages in the heating gas flow direction, and are distinguished into first and second heat transfer tubes respectively located on an upstream side and a downstream side in the heating gas flow direction, and wherein the second heat transfer tube is formed so that an outer diameter of the tube and an arrangement pitch of the plurality of straight tube portions are smaller than those of the first heat transfer tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Horiuchi, Takeshi Ohigashi
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Patent number: 11622511Abstract: Disclosed is a smart farm system comprising: a Rankine cycle in which a first fluid passes through a pump, an evaporator, a turbine, and a condenser along a first circulation line; a heating unit configured to exchange heat with the evaporator; a valve unit which is provided between the turbine and the condenser, and configured to run the first fluid to the condenser when the temperature of the first fluid at the outlet of the turbine is a first temperature, and to bypass the first fluid to a bypass line when the temperature of the first fluid at the outlet of the turbine is a second temperature higher than the first temperature; and a smart farm configured to exchange heat with the first fluid and the heating unit via the condenser or the bypass line.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Young Won Kim, Jung Bo Sim, Jin Young Son
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Patent number: 11624528Abstract: A system and method for configuring a water heater. The method includes capturing, with a mobile device a scannable feature of a rating plate and receiving, with the mobile device, an input indicative of a configuration selection. The method further includes configuring, with the mobile device, the water heater based on the configuration selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: A. O. Smith CorporationInventors: John Matthew Schulz, Carl Edward McDow, Steven J. Wilcox, Michael Schultz
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Patent number: 11604001Abstract: A fan coil unit includes a cabinet, a heat exchanger located in the cabinet, an airflow inlet to admit an airflow into the cabinet, and an airflow outlet to allow the airflow to exit the cabinet. A fan is located in the cabinet to urge the airflow through the cabinet. The fan has an axis of rotation perpendicular to a general flow direction of the airflow. A method of operating a fan coil unit includes flowing an airflow into a cabinet via an airflow inlet and through a fan. The fan is oriented such that a fan axis of rotation is perpendicular to a general flow direction of the airflow from the airflow inlet to an airflow outlet. The airflow is urged across a heat exchanger located in the cabinet, the heat exchanger conditioning the airflow and is output from the cabinet through the airflow outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Stephane Brise, Franck Veuillet
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Patent number: 11597259Abstract: An ionized air delivery system, such as a vehicle ionized air delivery system, includes an outlet body that is situated within a duct of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The outlet body delivers ions to air flow in the duct of the HVAC system. The outlet body has an outer surface that is generally spherical at a region of the outer surface that confronts the air flow in the duct. Further, the outlet body has an outlet passage with a primary axis that is directed away from an exit of the duct of the HVAC system. Air flow in the duct passes across an exit opening of the outlet body and draws ions out of the outlet passage to mix with the air flow in the duct of the HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Richard Johnson, Isabel Cope
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Patent number: 11592208Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hot water storage tank support system and a water heater pan. In one implementation, the hot water tank support system comprises a water heat pan having a bottom wall, an outer wall extending upwardly from and substantially surrounding the bottom wall, and at least one elevated support feature, and at least one substantially rigid supplemental support component. The at least one elevated support feature is configured to support the hot water storage tank, and the at least one elevated support feature includes at least one supplemental support cavity configured to receive the at least one supplemental support component. In some implementations, the supplemental support component(s) may be insertable and removable from the water heater pan.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: IPS CorporationInventors: Jeffrey A. Humber, Gordon L. Zeine, Jr.
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Patent number: 11591247Abstract: Installation including an industrial glass furnace (1) including a tank (2) for molten glass (3), a combustion heating chamber (4) situated above the tank (2), and a duct for evacuation of flue gases in communication with said heating chamber (4), and a stone furnace including a firing zone (21) for stone to be fired, the flue gas evacuation duct including a flue gas outlet that is connected to the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired and supplying the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired with flue gases at high temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ARC FRANCEInventors: Herve Charles, Jean-Marie Bonningues, Sebastien Donze, Francois Famchon, Xavier Ibled
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Patent number: 11592210Abstract: A water supply system includes a main water tank that is configured to store water and includes a heater to heat the stored water to close to but below a boiling temperature thereof, to provide main heated water. A dispenser water tank receives a portion of the main heated water, and is free of any heating elements to add heat to the water stored therein, and providing dispensable heated water. A water mixer includes a first pipe for receiving the dispensable heated water from the dispenser tank and a second pipe for receiving utility water from a faucet that supplies utility-provided water, with a mixing chamber from which the waters from the first pipe and the second pipe are dispensed and/or in which these waters are admixed.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventor: Max Moskowitz
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Patent number: 11592206Abstract: A method for insulating a gas-fueled water heater includes providing a tank for storage of water for heating and a combustion chamber adjacent to the tank. The method includes providing a compressed foam barrier circumferentially around the tank. Further, the method includes positioning a covering around the tank from a top end to a bottom end, the covering extending over the compressed foam barrier. Moreover, the method includes decompressing the compressed foam barrier such that an outer diameter of the foam barrier expands up to and seals against the covering so as to separate an internal volume defined between an outer surface of the tank and the covering into a first section and a second section. Then, the method includes injecting a foam material into the first section so as to provide a foam barrier around at least a portion of an outer surface of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan D. Nelson, Timothy David Gantt, Gregory L. Hutchison, Gary Allen Elder
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Patent number: 11585573Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a gas mixing device and a gas water heating device. In which, a gas mixing device, comprises: a shell provided with a fuel gas channel for inputting fuel gas, an air channel for inputting air and a gas mixing channel, the fuel gas channel being provided with a first cut-off portion capable of changing a flow area, and the air channel being provided with a second cut-off portion capable of changing a flow area; a moving part movable in the shell, the moving part simultaneously changing the flow areas of the first cut-off portion and the second cut-off portions by moving. The gas mixing device and the gas water heating device can provide a higher regulation ratio, thereby solving the problem that the water temperature is too high in summer.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: A. O. Smith CorporationInventors: Le Zhao, Ziwen Fu, Xin Cao
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Method for heating a metal component to a target temperature and corresponding roller hearth furnace
Patent number: 11584972Abstract: The method for heating a metal component to a target temperature, in which the component has a preliminary coating and is passed through a furnace that has at least four zones, which can be respectively adjusted to an individual zone temperature, wherein the component is passed successively through at least an initial heating zone, a plateau zone, a peak heating zone and an end zone and wherein the initial heating zone is adjusted to an initial heating temperature, the plateau zone is adjusted to a plateau temperature, the peak heating zone is adjusted to a peak temperature and the end zone is adjusted to the target temperature, the plateau temperature being chosen such that the temperature of the component in the plateau zone lies in a band around a melting temperature of the preliminary coating which is characterized in that the peak temperature lies by at least 100 K above the target temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Schwartz GmbHInventors: Jörg Winkel, Andreas Reinartz, Frank Wilden -
Patent number: 11585601Abstract: A flameless combustion oven arranges gas and air jets to directly impinge on the product being heated to substantially promote transfer of heat to the product by impingement transfer rather than by conventional radiation and thermally induced convection. In one embodiment, a set of spaced air and gas nozzles are uniformly distributed on a wall of the oven opposite the product to provide substantially uniform impingement over a surface of the product.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: WISYS TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: Pawel Olszewski
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Patent number: 11585545Abstract: A ridge vent for ventilating a roof of a building via a hole along a roof ridge to atmosphere, the ridge vent comprising a first ridge vent panel: a flange portion for resting on the roof, the flange portion having an opening for overlapping with the hole, the flange portion having a first flange portion positioned to one side of the opening and a second flange portion positioned to another side of the opening, such that the first flange portion and the second flange portion are at an acute angle with respect to one another; a frame portion coupled to the flange portion and having sides extending upwardly from the flange portion about the opening, the frame portion for maintaining a cap portion in a spaced apart relationship with the flange portion; the cap portion connected to the frame portion and covering over the opening; a first corrugated filter plate extending between the cap portion and the flange portion and positioned transversely between the opening and the atmosphere, the first corrugated filter pType: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SNOWVENTCO LIMITEDInventor: Antoine Bourque
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Patent number: 11582991Abstract: A recirculation circuit for a processing vessel is configured to process a load with a process fluid. The recirculation circuit includes a first circuit portion configured to recirculate a first portion of the process fluid through the vessel. The first circuit portion includes a first pump having a first flow rate and a first output pressure and a heat exchanger in fluid communication with the first pump. A second circuit portion is configured to recirculate a second portion of the process fluid through the vessel. The second circuit portion includes a second pump having a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate and a second output pressure lower than the first output pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Eduard Hendrikus Johannes Damhuis, Kevin Andrew Carlson
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Patent number: 11577696Abstract: An HVAC case configured to heat airflow for a vehicle HVAC system. The HVAC case has a defrost outlet, a primary demist outlet, a secondary demist outlet, and an airflow control door. The airflow control door is configured to control airflow through each one of the defrost outlet, the primary demist outlet, and the secondary demist outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.Inventors: Brian Belanger, Kyle Stabile, Nicholaus Spunar, Li Zhang
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Patent number: 11573021Abstract: Apparatus and method for ventilating a building structure, such as a residence. In some embodiments, a ventilation system includes a damper assembly which extends through an interior substrate (e.g., an interior wall) of the structure and an exhaust assembly which extends through an exterior substrate (e.g., an exterior wall of the structure and which is in communication with the damper assembly via a control circuit. The interior wall separates a conditioned space and an unconditioned space. The exhaust assembly is initially activated to vent exhaust air from the unconditioned space while a door of the damper assembly remains closed. The door is subsequently opened responsive to a measured environmental parameter, such as a differential pressure between the conditioned and unconditioned spaces, to generate a combined airflow that passes from the conditioned space to the unconditioned space and then to the exterior of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Airscape, Inc.Inventors: Neil B. Smith, Richard Jacobi
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Patent number: 11566842Abstract: A cement manufacturing plant can include at least one emission abatement mechanism. In some embodiments, the emission abatement mechanism can utilize a plurality of pulsed gases passed through a reactor to treat a solid particulate material passed through the reactor. The pulsed reactant gas can be pulsed through the reactor so that the pulsed gas passes from a middle portion of the reactor to a first end of the reactor at which the solid particulates can be fed into the reactor. In some embodiments, the reactant gas can be output from the first end to a down corner or other reactant gas conduit for transport to a treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventors: Iver Blankenberg Schmidt, Lars Skaarup Jensen
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Patent number: 11549681Abstract: A pre-startup control method for a boiler or water heater includes: providing a controller operatively coupled to a boiler or water heater unit; performing a unit shutdown operation; enabling a pre-start up mode; at about a same time or in any order, moving an air fuel valve by a controller to a non-off position with a gas supply to the water heater or boiler turned off, wherein the controller turns on a blower at an operational level, and causes an ignitor to spark; and displaying parameters which allow an affirmation of a safe and reliable ignition prior to a gas turn on of the boiler or water heater unit. A flow balancing method and a programmed auto run method are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Inventors: Kunal Shah, Nery Hernandez, Scott McGrath, Joseph Bentitou