Patents Examined by Tavia Sullens
  • Patent number: 9234702
    Abstract: A prebake equipment for drying a substrate (105) and an air discharge method, the prebake equipment comprising: a bottom plate (105), a periphery frame (101) and an upper cover plate, the bottom plate (105) and the upper cover plate being spaced from each other, the periphery frame (101) being provided between the bottom plate (105) and the upper cover plate such that the bottom plate (105), the periphery frame (101) and the upper cover plate define a cavity, wherein discharge holes are provided at the periphery frame (101) and a filler (104) for filtering moisture and dust in the air stream is provided between the bottom plate (105) and the periphery frame (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co., Ltd., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xudong Cao, Seong Cho Lee, Dongdong Yin, Kun Li, Xinxiao Hua, Lifeng Wu, Chao Li, Wenxu Wang
  • Patent number: 9145637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dryer having a liquid spraying function, and according to one aspect of the present invention, a laundry treating apparatus including a plurality of laundry treating courses which have different laundry treating methods is provided. The apparatus comprises: a drum for receiving the laundry; a hot air supply means for supplying hot air to the inner side of the drum; a spraying means for spraying a fragrant solution to the inside of the drum; a manipulating means including a course selecting means for selecting the laundry treating courses; and a controller for controlling the apparatus according to the instructions inputted by the manipulating means, wherein a plurality of laundry treating courses includes at least one scent spray course for spraying the fragrant solution during the laundry treating process, and the course selecting means comprises a scent spray course selecting means for selecting one of the scent spray courses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sang-Hun Bae, Sung-Ho Song, Min-Ji Kim, Yong-Cheol Jin
  • Patent number: 9121605
    Abstract: An apparatus for thermal processing of waste having organic and inorganic components comprises at least a treatment station, a cooling station and a treated material-removal station, and at least three crucibles. The treatment station is adapted to thermally treat the organic components and/or inorganic components located in a given one of the crucibles located at the treatment station. The so-treated components in this given crucible are adapted to then be cooled at the cooling station, before the treated components located in the given crucible are removed therefrom at the treated material-removal station. The three crucibles are mounted on a turntable so that the three crucibles are each at one of the stations, before synchronously all moving to each crucible's next station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: PYROGENESIS CANADA, INC.
    Inventors: Pierre Carabin, Michel G. Drouet
  • Patent number: 9097421
    Abstract: There is illustrated a fuel fired brazier for an enclosed granular fuel burning boiler. The brazier has an apertured grate-like brazier base. The brazier base is moved by an actuator from an operative position, retaining fuel in the brazier to a discharge position where ash can fall through a hole. At the same time, fragmentation means, formed by crushing teeth, move across the brazier to trap, for example, a large piece of clinker, between it and the opposed distal wall of the brazier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Inventor: Stephen William John Grant
  • Patent number: 9033698
    Abstract: A system and techniques for waste oil combustion are provided. The techniques include straining waste oil, separating contaminants from the strained waste oil to produce segregated layers of waste oil, selectively drawing a segregated layer of the waste oil, entraining the drawn waste oil to a burner for combustion, and regulating flow rate to produce a controllable amount of heat output. The system includes a container for straining waste oil, a storage drum for separating contaminants from the strained waste oil via gravity separation to produce segregated waste oil, an oil uptake channel for entraining the waste oil from the storage drum, a fuel regulator for controlling rate of flow of the waste oil from the storage drum to a burner head via the oil uptake channel, and a burner head control for repositioning a burner head under the input stream to produce a controllable amount of heat output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas S. Leue
  • Patent number: 9021716
    Abstract: An air-drying device for sludge comprises at least one air-drying mechanism, a dosing mechanism, and a dehumidifying and heating mechanism. There two air-drying mechanisms. The dosing mechanism connects with the beginning end of the first air-drying mechanism (5) whose terminal end communicates with the beginning end of the second air-drying mechanism (8), with a discharge port (21) is arranged above the communicating position. The terminal end of the second air-drying mechanism communicates with the beginning end of the first air-drying mechanism to form a loop configuration. The device has high efficiency and low energy consumption. The detention time of the sludge in the drying device is adjustable so that the water content of the discharging material is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Guangzhou New Extend Rising Environmental Protection Technologies Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huansheng Zhong, Xuewei Wu, Jiacong Wu, Zhimin Sun, Haiying Yang
  • Patent number: 8997665
    Abstract: A leading end located in a two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier has a double-walled structure including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder, and cooling water for cooling the leading end is supplied through an interior of the inner cylinder to cool the leading end and is then returned to a base end through a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder, and a swirling flow along a guide formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder and a substantially linear flow in a longitudinal direction of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder are applied to the cooling water returned to the base end through the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Joban Joint Power Co., Ltd., Hokkaido Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Chubu Electric Power Co. Inc., Hokuriku Electric Power Company, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
    Inventors: Shinya Hamasaki, Toshimi Ohtsuka, Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunari Shibata, Jun Kasai
  • Patent number: 8997666
    Abstract: A combustion device in the form of an elevated fixed-grate that includes arcuately shaped solid refractory brick with ribs placed thereunder so as to allow horizontal air flow for fuel combustion. The brick are arranged atop one another in a stacked concentric configuration that forms a central fuel passageway and allows cascading of a fuel pile throughout the combustion stages. The device provides the benefit of proper de-ashing online while distributing the underfire air radially around the fuel pile. The elevated design of the bricks allows the air to be evenly distributed throughout the fuel pile and further allows the isolation of overfire and underfire air. Segregating overfire and underfire air in an evenly distributed manner allows the burner to combust a wide range of fuel moisture contents without modifying the mechanical components of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventor: Tyler Marshall Player
  • Patent number: 8973282
    Abstract: A secondary lint trap couplable between a laundry dryer and a building-embedded vent duct. The trap has an elongate housing. Aligned inlet and outlet apertures are formed in bottom and top sides of the housing's rearward ends. A tray is removably insertable within the housing. A screened aperture in the tray is aligned between the inlet and outlet apertures when the tray is inserted within the housing. The housing is mountable above the dryer such that the inlet and outlet apertures extend rearwardly of the dryer. This facilitates coupling of the dryer's exhaust outlet to the inlet aperture through one 90° elbow via a first short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit; and facilitates coupling of the vent duct to the outlet aperture through one other 90° elbow collar via a second short, substantially straight, elbowless conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ecco Heating Products Ltd.
    Inventor: David Thomas Mackay
  • Patent number: 8967058
    Abstract: A slag remover for discharging combustion residues of an incineration plant comprises a trough, which has a trough housing having two side walls, which define the trough width, and having a trough bottom, and which is intended to collect the combustion residues evacuated from a combustion chamber of the incineration plant. The trough further comprises at least two push rams for pushing the combustion residues out of the trough, and a shaft rotatably mounted in two shaft bearings and on which at least one drive lever cooperating with a cylinder-piston unit and at least two output levers connected to respectively one of the push rams are disposed in a rotationally secure manner. The cylinder-piston unit is here designed such that the push rams move back and forth between a retracted position and an extended position. The drive lever is disposed between two output levers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Inova AG
    Inventor: Werner Brennwald
  • Patent number: 8959794
    Abstract: A control system for dryers in which the rotation speed of the motors are changed through frequent on/off connections to the electric power line. In accordance with the invention this task is solved by interrupting the electric power driving the electric motor for short periods in such a way that the motor does not come to a complete standstill or remains at a constant speed below the maximum speed. The motor power interruption or application is based upon readings of sensors reading dryer parameters other than the actual speed of the motor being controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Roderich W. Graeff
  • Patent number: 8955232
    Abstract: While a dryer is running, continuously automatically monitor operation of a dryer venting system, and continuously automatically determining if the dryer venting system is operating improperly, and if it is determined that the dryer venting system is operating improperly then automatically disabling the dryer. If the dryer starts running then automatically turning on a booster fan. Operation of booster fan is monitored by sensing the current drawn. Monitoring operation of the venting system through a first controller and automatically disabling the dryer through a second controller. Automatically turn off the booster fan if the dryer is not running. Automatically adjust operating parameters of the dryer venting system in an attempt to operate the venting system properly, and disabling the dryer if the venting system continues to operate improperly after adjustment. Check to determine if the dryer is drawing current to indicate the dryer is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cube Investments Limited
    Inventor: J. Vern Cunningham
  • Patent number: 8939093
    Abstract: A boiler grate including air channels for supplying primary air to a furnace of a boiler. At least one channel, which is open on top, is arranged to collect ash and material from the furnace. At least one removal element is arranged in the channel and to mechanically move ash and material along the channel. A boiler includes a grate, a furnace which is limited by the walls of the furnace and the grate, and an ash chute, which is arranged to remove ash and material from the furnace. The ash removal elements is arranged to move ash and material towards the air chute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Valmet Power Oy
    Inventor: Timo Mero
  • Patent number: 8919010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dryer which can sense a laundry amount and a dryness, and a method for controlling the same. The dryer includes a drum (3) for holding a drying object, a heater (5a, 5b) for supplying hot air to an inside of the drum (3), a sensing unit (20) for providing a pulse signal depending an contact to the drying object in the drum (3), a microcomputer (60) for determining a load and dryness of the drying object with reference to the pulse signal from the sensing unit (20) to control a general drying course. According to this by providing a new system of sensing means in which the load and the dryness can be determined, not by using a direct contact system with the electrode sensor, but by using a number of contact to the laundry, the present invention permits to provide more accurate and safer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Young Jin Doh
  • Patent number: 8919006
    Abstract: A laundry drying machine (1) includes a casing (2) containing a rotatable drum (4) for holding the laundry (5) to dry, and a drying air circuit (6) for conveying a drying air flow towards the inside of the drum (6) and from it to the outside. At least one filter (12) is provided for intercepting the fluff dragged out of the laundry (5) by the drying air flow. Vibrating means (19) are adapted to cause the filter (12) to vibrate, so as to drop down the fluff from the filter (12). The filter (12) is selectively positionable between an operational position in which the filter (12) is arranged in a seat (11) intercepting the drying air circuit (6), and an extracted position in which the filter (12) is removed from the seat (11), outside the drying air circuit (6). The vibrating means includes an exciter, associated to the casing (2), and an exciter-responsive element, associated to the filter (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Arrigoni, Carlo Urbanet, Alberto Bison, Maurizio Ugel, Giancarlo Gerolin
  • Patent number: 8910395
    Abstract: In a sludge treatment installation, a movable carriage is arranged transversely above a work surface of a floor. The movement of the carriage by longitudinal translation over the floor is initiated by a first drive shaft carrying a toothed wheel meshing with a drive chain. A second chain helps to guide the carriage. On the carriage is provided a rotary turning tool which engages in the sludge. Driven in rotation by a second drive shaft independent of the first, it includes pairs of semi-cylindrical paddles fixed substantially symmetrically by one of their edges on either side of a shaft driven by the second drive shaft. The two paddles in each pair of paddles are asymmetrical as a result of having different radii, with a difference at least equal to about 5%. Forced ventilation acts directly on the paddles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Aqualter
    Inventor: Loic Darcel
  • Patent number: 8899163
    Abstract: A biomass pulverizing apparatus includes a pulverizing apparatus body including a feedstock supply pipe, the pulverizing apparatus body for supplying biomass feedstock from above in a vertical axial direction, a pulverizing table for placing the biomass feedstock, a drive section for rotationally driving the pulverizing table, a pulverizing roller for pulverizing the biomass feedstock by a pressing force, the pulverizing roller being operated in conjunction with the rotation of the pulverizing table, a blower unit for forming an upward flow upward from below on the outer peripheral side of the pulverizing table so as to jet conveying gas for conveying the pulverized biomass powder in an air stream, a classifier, the classifier for classifying the biomass powder accompanied with the conveying gas, and a blowing gas introduction section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Takuichiro Daimaru, Masaaki Kinoshita, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Norichika Kai
  • Patent number: 8887649
    Abstract: A system includes a solid feed fuel pump. The solid feed fuel pump includes a solid feed flow path configured to route a solid fuel flow from an inlet to an outlet. The solid feed fuel pump also includes a vent including a filter, wherein the vent is configured to discharge fluid flow that is opposing the solid fuel flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Craig Russell, Derek Leslie Aldred, Jeffery Allen Rader, James Michael Storey
  • Patent number: 8881423
    Abstract: A hair treatment device has a body and a blower supported by the body from which air is blown. A concentrator separately connected to the body or integral with the body comprises at least one gas flow conduit in gas flow communication with the blower. A nozzle is in gas flow communication with a distal portion of the conduit and is oriented to blow air from a distal portion of the first conduit back toward the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: M. M. & R. Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Ragosta, Bruno Meglio, Claudio Marino, David Richmond, Howard Richmond
  • Patent number: 8881662
    Abstract: An inside of an incinerator body into which sludge is fed is divided into a lower portion, a portion above the lower portion, and a top portion in a height direction. The lower portion serves as a pyrolysis zone for supplying fluidizing air having an air ratio of 1.1 or less together with fuel to thermally decompose the sludge while fluidizing the sludge. The portion above the lower portion serves as an over bed combustion zone for supplying only combustion air having an air ratio of 0.1 to 0.3 to form a local high temperature place to decompose N2O. The top portion serves as a perfect combustion zone for perfectly combusting unburned contents. The quantity of N2O generated during sludge incineration can be drastically reduced while maintaining the use quantity of auxiliary fuel at the same level as that of a conventional incineration method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Metawater Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamada, Tetsuya Yanase, Masayuki Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Takeshita, Kosuke Kamiya