Patents Examined by Vivek K Shirsat
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12157205
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a flamed-based vacuum generator, including a shell and a combustion assembly, where the shell has a cavity, the cavity being a space having at least one opening, and the combustion assembly includes a combustible object and an igniter, the igniter being configured to ignite the combustible object, the combustible object generating a flame in the cavity, and the flame extinguishing in the cavity. In the present disclosure, through in-depth study of the internal mechanism of vacuum generated by flame combustion, it is found that the extinguishing process of a flame is the key to the generation of vacuum, and a larger flame and more sufficient combustion indicate a higher vacuum pressure generated in the cavity after the flame is extinguished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin Li, Xufeng Shen, Ting Han, Yingjie He
  • Patent number: 12158413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a food analysis apparatus including a cooking chamber provided in a cooking appliance, a measuring unit mounted in the cooking chamber and configured to irradiate food placed in a cooking region inside the cooking chamber with light and then sense spectral characteristics of reflected light, and an analyzing unit configured to analyze the spectral characteristics transmitted from the measuring unit to detect molecular information of the food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BEYOND HONEYCOMB INC
    Inventor: Hyun Ki Jung
  • Patent number: 12156613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to exothermically heated and portable heater tray assemblies, systems, their use, including related methods of manufacture and kits. In addition, mobile applications utilized in conjunction with the heater tray assemblies and systems contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: FOREVER YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel L. Young
  • Patent number: 12152784
    Abstract: A hob system comprising a cooking goods carrier for carrying cooking goods, at least one heating unit arranged on the cooking goods carrier for heating the cooking goods, and a fume extractor device for extracting cooking vapors downward, wherein a total width of the hob system is a maximum of 600 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: WERKHAUS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Bruckbauer
  • Patent number: 12152775
    Abstract: A lighter includes a fuel casing, a gas-releasing nozzle, a supporting frame provided on the fuel casing, a fuel mounting frame, a spark wheel, a flint member and an actuator. The flint mounting frame has an upper operative frame detachably mounted on the supporting frame, and a lower mounting frame extended into the fuel casing. The spark wheel is rotatably supported on the upper operative frame of the flint mounting frame. The flint member is detachably mounted in the lower mounting frame of the flint mounting frame and extended toward the upper operative frame to communicate with the spark wheel. When the flint mounting frame is detached from the supporting frame and the fuel casing, the flint member is capable of being detached from the lower mounting frame for replacement of a new flint member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Zhuowen Luo
  • Patent number: 12153454
    Abstract: A gas valve assembly includes a gas valve and a control circuit. The gas valve is configured for variably controlling a flow of gas through the gas valve assembly. The control circuit includes a controller programmed to determine a first setting for the gas valve in response to a received commanded flow, adjust the first setting to a second setting based on a measured temperature when the measured temperature is one that may induce changes to the flow of gas through the gas valve assembly, and control the gas valve based on the second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Copeland Comfort Control LP
    Inventors: Daniel L. Furmanek, Ryan Jensen, John F. Broker
  • Patent number: 12152782
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a door for closing a cooking compartment and a guide device which guides the door when moving into and out of a stowage compartment and includes a guide track in a stowage-compartment delimiting wall and a guide carriage connected to the door and including a guide runner guided in the guide track and connected to a connecting rod of the guide carriage. A door-opening device automatically moves the door between closed and open positions and includes a coupling rod which is mechanically coupled directly to the connecting rod such as to permit a relative movement between the coupling rod and the connecting rod, and which is mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation oriented in a heightwise direction so that, when the coupling rod is pivoted about the axis of rotation, the connecting rod is carried along in a depthwise direction of the cooking appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Brunner, Bortolo Inserra, Daniel Hausner
  • Patent number: 12146550
    Abstract: Various ways of creating polynomial interpolations in one, two and three dimensions using purely mechanical means are disclosed. Various arrangements of gears are disclosed that can constrain certain rotating elements to rotate equal to the average or difference of the rotation angles of other rotating elements. These arrangements are combined in various ways to create mechanical arrangements having a set of rotating elements that are constrained to be linear or polynomial functions in one or many dimensions. Various uses of mechanical polynomial interpolation are disclosed, including focusing rays of the sun onto a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Udayan Kanade
  • Patent number: 12135145
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a moveable ventilation system comprising a supporting frame having at least one plenum, and at least one biofilter module mounted on the plenum for allowing air to flow through the biofilter module from an air inlet to an air outlet via a growth medium and a vegetation. The plenum is rotatably connected to the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Adam Cornish
  • Patent number: 12135134
    Abstract: A universally applicable regulation function is provided for a gas-operated heating device with more than one burner. The function facilitates start-up, regulation, and deactivation processes. A first valve and a second valve are connected together in a gas-tight manner. The first valve has an ignition lock which closes the main gas flow in the event of an ignition, a thermoelectric ignition fuse, a thermostat, and optionally an integrated pressure regulator. The start-up of the first valve allows the activation and deactivation of the gas flow. The first valve has two gas outlets, a first outlet for connecting the second valve, wherein the first outlet is located downstream of the ignition fuse and the optional pressure regulator and upstream of the thermostat, and a second outlet downstream of the thermostat, the second outlet leading to a first burner. The second valve is a thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAXITROL GMBH CO. KG
    Inventor: Barbara Happe
  • Patent number: 12135133
    Abstract: An oven muffle is provided with a cavity wrapper disposed between and connected to each of a bottom cap and a top cap. A lower rack-support embossment is formed on a peripheral skirt of the bottom cap, and at a position vertically below a seam where the cavity wrapper and the bottom cap are joined. The peripheral skirt can have first and second curved sections with a linear section disposed therebetween, when viewed in cross-section. The lower rack-support embossment has embossed features, each having a respective contour that is or converges to tangent to the linear section of the peripheral skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Funk, Mikel Woodall, Robert W. Smith
  • Patent number: 12129202
    Abstract: A panel is disclosed. The panel has an exposed surface and a plurality of liquid-repelling elements disposed directly on the exposed surface in a discontinuous pattern. The liquid-repelling elements include a non-hydrophobic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Margherita Basso, Cesare Cristiano Guidi, Christine Nortey
  • Patent number: 12127383
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes an electronic display and a panel located within a housing such that the panel is spaced apart from a rear surface of the electronic display. An airflow pathway fluidly connected to an ambient environment extends through at least a portion of the housing. At least a portion of the airflow pathway extends behind the electronic display and forward of the panel. At least one electronic component for operating the electronic display assembly is located at a rear surface of the panel. The at least one electronic component may be directly adhered to the rear surface of the panel, such as to provide thermal coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: William Dunn