Patents Examined by Vivek K Shirsat
  • Patent number: 12222128
    Abstract: A duct includes a rigid air-permeable tube of composite material. The duct also includes a layer of insulation coupled to an exterior surface of the rigid air-permeable tube. The duct further includes a non-rigid insulation layer in contact with the layer of insulation. The non-rigid insulation layer forms an air-impermeable duct wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Bryce A. Vandyke, John Erik West, Douglas D. Maben, Andrew K. Fung, David R. C. Cannal
  • Patent number: 12215862
    Abstract: A torch canister with a fuel reservoir has a neck extending from the top of the fuel reservoir defining a wick holder. The torch canister has a flame guard affixed to the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lamplight Farms Incorporated
    Inventor: Lucas Henry Zeitler
  • Patent number: 12209755
    Abstract: An oven of this disclosure includes a heated catalyst assembly that reduces emissions during cooking cycles and, in particular, during air frying. The heated catalyst assembly resides between the cooking chamber and its exhaust vent and includes a thermal radiation source including at least one looped element, a first catalyst located toward the inlet in proximity to one side of the thermal radiation source and a second catalyst located in proximity to an opposite side of the thermal radiation heat source. The first and second catalysts are arranged in planes parallel to that of the thermal radiation heat source. The heated catalyst assembly reduces emissions of volatile organics to no greater than 6 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Catalytic Combustion Corporation
    Inventor: John W. Robinson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12209753
    Abstract: A cooling appliance including a locking mechanism configured to fix the door to the main body at a different position from the latch mechanism, in a state where the door fixed to the main body by the latch mechanism closes the cooking chamber, wherein the locking mechanism provided in the door may include a shaft moved to a fixing position, at which the shaft is coupled to the hinge member, or a releasing position, at which the shaft is released from the coupling state, by a repeated pressing manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Siyoung Ryu, Dongmin Lee
  • Patent number: 12209752
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a packing member disposed between a case and a door and a fixing member which fixes the packing member to any one of the case and the door. The packing member and the fixing member are coupled in the form in which both sides in a front-rear direction of the fixing member inserted into the packing member are surrounded by the packing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jinhwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12207761
    Abstract: A barbecue grill shaped to be received by a bucket of a front loader of a tractor for hauling and transport of the barbecue grill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Yipe Media, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel L. Rich, Danil C. Klug, Daniel Fagerness
  • Patent number: 12203661
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system includes a cooktop appliance defining a top surface, the cooktop appliance including a plurality of heating elements defined on the top surface, an image monitor spaced apart from the top surface of the cooktop appliance along the vertical direction, a camera assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance, and a controller operably coupled with the camera assembly and the cooktop appliance, the controller being configured to initiate an operation. The operation includes directing a capture of a first front image at the camera assembly, identifying a first user based on the first image, directing a capture of a first lower image at the camera assembly, establishing a first cooktop-use profile based on the first lower image, and associating the first user with the first cooktop-use profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Myunggeon Chung, Youngmin Han, Jee Eun Oh, Young Ryul Bae
  • Patent number: 12207453
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes a housing having an intake and an exhaust, a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) interior to the housing, a backlight interior to the housing and rearward of the LCD, a cover forward of the LCD, and a panel interior to the housing, at least part of which is spaced apart from a rear surface of the backlight. An airflow pathway extends, at least in part, from the intake, rearward of the backlight and forward of the panel, and to the exhaust. A second airflow pathway is separated from the airflow pathway, and forms a closed, continuous airflow pathway extending, at least in part, rearward of the backlight and a rear surface of the panel. At least one electronic component for operating the electronic display assembly is located at the rear surface of the panel and within the second airflow pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn
  • Patent number: 12203653
    Abstract: A cooking appliance gas burner system includes a gas burner adapted to receive gas flow from a gas feed line via a venturi. A flow sensor includes a gas flow input in fluid connection with the venturi and configured to measure pressure at the venturi. The flow sensor further includes a differential pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure differential at the venturi between a maximum burner air/gas mixture flow rate and a user input burner air/gas mixture flow rate that is input by a user as a requested percentage of the maximum burner air/gas mixture flow rate. A proportional valve is configured to modulate the air/gas mixture flow rate into the gas burner. A controller is configured to read burner air/gas mixture flow rates from the flow sensor and regulate the burner air/gas mixture flow rate via the proportional valve based upon a user-defined input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Tekelek Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Brian David Smith, Stephen John Thornton
  • Patent number: 12196418
    Abstract: A method for the post-combustion of exhaust gases comprising carbon monoxide from metallurgical processes includes conditioning the exhaust gas prior to post-combustion by metering a combustion gas and/or one additional gas in feedback-controlled fashion. The feedback control depends on the composition of the exhaust gas dependent on the exhaust gas volume flow. A device for post-combustion of exhaust gas during vacuum treatment of liquid steel comprises a flare stack at an exhaust outlet, means for feeding combustion gas to the flare stack, means for feeding an inert gas into the exhaust gas channel of the vacuum pump, means for ascertaining the exhaust gas volume flow and/or for measuring the exhaust gas velocity within the exhaust gas channel, means for analyzing the exhaust gas composition, means for metering the combustion gas and the inert gas, and means for feedback control of the metering of the combustion gas and/or the inert gas dependent on the exhaust gas composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Wiegmann, Frank Dorstewitz, Andreas Kemminger, Helmut Biehl
  • Patent number: 12193594
    Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a wall portion having a wall inner surface and a wall outer surface, a base portion having a base inner surface and a base outer surface, at least a portion of the wall portion and the base portion forming a vessel to retain fluid therein, at least part of the base portion configured to receive heat, and a plurality of shaped portions with at least three sides extending above, each shaped portion of the base inner surface including at least three sides and polygonal shaped tops, each of the plurality of shaped portions capable of supplying heat from the sides to fluid adjacent to the sides, the plurality of shaped portions including the polygonal shaped tops to induce creation of a plurality of hexagonal convection cells in contact with a surface of the fluid which increases heat transfer from a heating source to the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Richard J. Schoofs, Gregory R. Schoofs
  • Patent number: 12196457
    Abstract: A thermal cell panel system for heating and cooling using a refrigerant includes a plurality of solar thermal cell chambers, and a piping network for a flow of the refrigerant through the plurality of solar thermal cell chambers. In addition, the system includes a compressor having a motor coupled to a variable frequency drive (“VFD”), where the compressor is coupled to the piping network upstream of the plurality of solar thermal cell chambers and the VFD is configured to adjust a speed of the motor in response to the pressure of the refrigerant within the plurality of solar thermal cell chambers. The piping network includes an inlet manifold coupled to the inlet of each solar thermal cell chamber, and an outlet manifold coupled to the outlet of each solar cell chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: COMMERCIAL ENERGY SAVING PLUS, LLC
    Inventor: Stewart Kaiser
  • Patent number: 12196455
    Abstract: A thermal energy storage (TES) bin assembly for a high temperature, particle-based solar power plant, the TES bin assembly including a TES bin for storing hot particles therein and a feeder assembly configured to insert the hot particles inside of the TES bin. The TES bin has a base, a lid separated from the base, and a hollow body extending between the base and the lid. The hollow body is made of a plurality of cylindrically shaped structures. The innermost cylindrically shaped structure defines an interior of the TES bin together with the lid and the base. The innermost cylindrically shaped structure is made with abrasion resistant bricks. A second cylindrically shaped structure is made of an insulating material and surrounds the second structure. A third cylindrically shaped structure surrounds the second structure and includes expansion joints. The base has a funnel shape and the lid has a removable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaker Saeed Mohammed Abdullah Alaqel, Rageh Saadallah Ali Saeed, Nader Shaif Saleh, Eldwin Djajadiwinata, Saeed Mohammed Alzahrani, Hany Abdurrahman Al-Ansary, Abdelrahman Mahmoud Elleathy, Sheldon Jeter, Zeyad Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Zeyad Ammar Almutairi, Syed Noman Danish
  • Patent number: 12186700
    Abstract: The integrated device for adsorptive purification and catalytic regeneration of VOCs is provided and includes a filtration adsorption coupling filter, a catalytic combustion regeneration box and a housing, where the housing includes a filter inner cavity and a combustion inner cavity that are communicated in sequence. The VOC exhaust gas is adsorbed and filtered by the filtration adsorption coupling filter. Moreover, under an operating condition of desorption regeneration, the catalytic combustion regeneration box is utilized to perform thermal desorption and regeneration on the filtration adsorption coupling filter, and catalytically combust and purify the VOC exhaust gas obtained by thermal desorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing Vehicle Emissions Management Center, Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Eco-Environmental Protection
    Inventors: Aijun Shi, Lei Nie, Wanqing He
  • Patent number: 12181157
    Abstract: A combination appliance includes a hob including a cooking module and having a suction opening, and a fume extraction device located, at least in part, below the cooking module. The fume extraction device includes a blower located below the suction opening and having an air inlet opening, and a filter unit located at the suction opening and having a grease filter. The fume extraction device includes a separating plate which separates the filter unit from the blower located below the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastien Flesch, Guillaume Laurent
  • Patent number: 12173896
    Abstract: A system includes a gas plant having an inlet slug catcher, downstream processing equipment fluidly connected to the inlet slug catcher, and a downstream flare system fluidly connected to the inlet slug catcher. The system also includes an upstream plant connected to the inlet slug catcher via a transmission pipeline. The upstream plant includes an upstream flare system fluidly connected to the transmission pipeline, wherein the inlet slug catcher has a design pressure equal to or greater than the transmission pipeline design pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Chidozie Eluwah, Nasser Humaid, Waleed Alhazmi, Ibrahim Al-Hamdan
  • Patent number: 12173906
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cooking appliance. The present disclosure includes an exhaust passage that is formed inside an exhaust duct and has one side connected to the inside of a cooking chamber through an exhaust port and the other side that is open to an upper portion of a top plate, and a blocking part that is provided inside the exhaust duct having the exhaust passage and blocks at least a portion of a movement path of water flowing downward toward the exhaust port from the exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yeonsik Ha
  • Patent number: 12173895
    Abstract: Disclosed are an oxygen-enriched acid gas incinerator burner. A refractory lining is arranged on an inner wall of a housing. A rear part of an inner cavity of the housing is connected to a throat opening. A pure oxygen spray gun, an acid gas spray gun, and a fuel gas spray gun are arranged in a pipe-in-pipe structure from outside to inside. A rear part of the pure oxygen spray gun is fixed within the inner cavity. A front part of the acid gas spray gun is fixed through a flange at an outer end of the pure oxygen spray gun. A front part of the fuel gas spray gun is fixed through a flange at an outer end of the acid gas spray gun. A combustion-supporting air inlet is formed on the housing, and a lower part thereof is communicated with a gas collection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Luoyang Xinpu Petrochemical Equipment Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongmin Shan, Ligang Deng, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 12173907
    Abstract: The fireplace includes a hearth suspended on a support. The hearth is defined laterally by a peripheral wall that is equipped with at least one combustion air inlet. There is a discharge pipe for discharging the combustion gases, that includes a bottom portion secured to a top part of the hearth, and a top portion opposite the bottom portion. The fireplace also includes at least one combustible fluid burner that is arranged in the hearth opposite at least one air inlet and a combustible fluid supply column that extends between a first end connected to a combustible fluid source and a second end connected to at least one burner. The supply column passed down through the discharge pipe from its top portion to its bottom portion and opens in the hearth in order to convey the combustible fluid from the combustible fluid source to at least one burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Atelier Dominique Imbert
    Inventors: Dominique Imbert, Alexis Guy, Sylvain Raymond
  • Patent number: 12161263
    Abstract: An articulating outdoor grill includes a central post that everything is attached to. A upper and lower support member which have slideable coupling members configured to engage and interlock with each other. A basket support which is configured to be slidingly disposed over the central post. A basket assembly where food will be cooked. A basket tong which have a first set and a second set of basket hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Inventor: Brent Kesler