Patents by Inventor Daniel Conrad
Daniel Conrad has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12173726Abstract: A ventilation unit (1) is formed by at least one fan (2), a heat exchanger, axially spaced from the fan (2), and a housing (3). The housing (3) has a first housing section (4), with a constant flow cross-section, where the heat exchanger is arranged. A second housing section (5) adjoins the first section (4) in the axial flow direction. The fan (2) is arranged on the second housing section (5) in the axial flow direction. During operation, the fan conveys air through the heat exchanger, arranged in the first housing section (4), and through the second housing section (5). The flow cross-section of the second housing section (5) is reduced in the flow direction from the first housing section (4) to the fan (2) by an adaptation to the form of housing wall sections (6, 6?) of the second housing section (5).Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Engert, Daniel Conrad, Dimitri Mehlmeister
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Patent number: 11976668Abstract: A flow guiding device for use on a fan assembly with a motor-operated radial impeller rotating about an axis of rotation. The guiding device has an outer housing and an inner diffuser. A flow duct is formed between the outer housing and inner diffuser. The flow duct extends along an axial flow direction. The outer housing forms a receiving space for the integral holding of the radial impeller. The impeller borders, in the axial direction, on the inner diffuser. The impeller, during operation, takes in a flow axially and blows it out radially into the flow duct. The flow duct is adapted to deflect the flow from a radial direction into an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Strehle, Björn Sudler, Daniel Conrad
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Patent number: 11555507Abstract: The invention relates to a turbocompressor (1) comprising a compressor housing (2) and a compressor wheel (4) with blades (5). The compressor wheel (4) is rotatably mounted relative to the compressor housing (2) and is arranged such that the exposed upper edges of the blades (5) are spaced from a compressor housing (2) wall (3) facing the blade upper edges across a head gap (7), wherein both the upper edges of the blades (5) as well as the housing wall (3) have at least one recess (11, 13) and at least one elevation (10, 14) over the respective Meridian contour, said recess and elevation interacting locally such that the head gap (7) defines a Z-shaped course in the region of the recesses (11, 13) and the elevations (10, 14) when viewed on a Meridian plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Engert, Angelika Klostermann, Daniel Conrad
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Patent number: 11519424Abstract: A return geometry fluidically connects a first and a second compressor stage of the turbocompressor. The return geometry has multiple partial helices that are evenly or unevenly distributed in the circumferential direction. The multiple partial helices extend at least in part in the circumferential direction. They form flow channels that extend at least in some sections, separately from each other, to fluidically connect the first and second compressor stages.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Engert, Angelika Klostermann, Daniel Conrad
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Publication number: 20220049712Abstract: The invention relates to a turbocompressor (1) comprising a compressor housing (2) and a compressor wheel (4) with blades (5). The compressor wheel (4) is rotatably mounted relative to the compressor housing (2) and is arranged such that the exposed upper edges of the blades (5) are spaced from a compressor housing (2) wall (3) facing the blade upper edges across a head gap (7), wherein both the upper edges of the blades (5) as well as the housing wall (3) have at least one recess (11, 13) and at least one elevation (10, 14) over the respective Meridian contour, said recess and elevation interacting locally such that the head gap (7) defines a Z-shaped course in the region of the recesses (11, 13) and the elevations (10, 14) when viewed on a Meridian plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Markus ENGERT, Angelika KLOSTERMANN, Daniel CONRAD
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Publication number: 20220025902Abstract: A ventilation unit (1) is formed by at least one fan (2), a heat exchanger, axially spaced from the fan (2), and a housing (3). The housing (3) has a first housing section (4), with a constant flow cross-section, where the heat exchanger is arranged. A second housing section (5) adjoins the first section (4) in the axial flow direction. The fan (2) is arranged on the second housing section (5) in the axial flow direction. During operation, the fan conveys air through the heat exchanger, arranged in the first housing section (4), and through the second housing section (5). The flow cross-section of the second housing section (5) is reduced in the flow direction from the first housing section (4) to the fan (2) by an adaptation to the form of housing wall sections (6, 6?) of the second housing section (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Markus ENGERT, Daniel CONRAD, Dimitri MEHLMEISTER
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Publication number: 20220018570Abstract: A method and an air treatment system with a fan arrangement having kmax fans. The respective speed ni of the fans is regulatable. A control and regulation system regulates the speeds ni, where i?[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . , k] of the k of kmax fans. A certain operating point of the air treatment system is set with a specific overall power Ptotal of the air treatment system as a function of the respective set speeds ni. The control and regulation system has a mechanism to determine the speed combination(s) of the speeds ni of the k fans where the total power Ptotal of the air treatment system is reduced or is minimal compared to other speed combinations of the speeds ni.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Daniel Conrad, Erik REICHERT
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Patent number: 10808719Abstract: A blower arrangement comprising an impeller, which has an axial intake opening formed by a cover plate covering impeller blades at least in sections, by an intake nozzle connected upstream of the impeller, which extends at least in sections into an overlap section in the intake opening of the impeller, wherein a circumferential nozzle gap is formed between the intake nozzle and the cover plate of the impeller, an outer nozzle, which is arranged spaced apart in the radial direction in relation to the impeller and the intake nozzle and enclosing them in the circumferential direction. A first circumferential radial gap is provided between the outer nozzle and the intake nozzle, which forms an inlet nozzle duct extending in the flow direction. A second circumferential radial gap is provided between the outer nozzle and the cover plate of the impeller, which forms a gap duct extending in the flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Conrad, Björn Sudler
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Publication number: 20200224667Abstract: A flow guiding device for use on a fan assembly with a motor-operated radial impeller rotating about an axis of rotation. The guiding device has an outer housing and an inner diffuser. A flow duct is formed between the outer housing and inner diffuser. The flow duct extends along an axial flow direction. The outer housing forms a receiving space for the integral holding of the radial impeller. The impeller borders, in the axial direction, on the inner diffuser. The impeller, during operation, takes in a flow axially and blows it out radially into the flow duct. The flow duct is adapted to deflect the flow from a radial direction into an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Michael Strehle, Björn SUDLER, Daniel CONRAD
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Patent number: 10612556Abstract: The disclosure relates to a blade edge of at least one blade of an air-conveying wheel with an axial-side blade edge contour which extends from a blade leading edge to a blade trailing edge along a curve, wherein the blade edge contour has at least one front section which adjoins the blade leading edge in the radial direction, a rear section which adjoins the blade trailing edge in the radial direction, and a central section which lies between the front section and the rear section. The blade edge contour has an S-shaped curve progression in the central section in a lateral cross-sectional view, thus increasing an axial height of the blade in the direction of the blade trailing edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Conrad, Christian Pfaff
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Publication number: 20200080569Abstract: A return geometry fluidically connects a first and a second compressor stage of the turbocompressor. The return geometry has multiple partial helices that are evenly or unevenly distributed in the circumferential direction. The multiple partial helices extend at least in part in the circumferential direction. They form flow channels that extend at least in some sections, separately from each other, to fluidically connect the first and second compressor stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Markus Engert, Angelika Klostermann, Daniel Conrad
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Patent number: 10309047Abstract: A laundry system performs a washing function to wash multiple load of fabric items. The system can include a first wash chamber for washing a first clothes load, a tub, and a wash basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a second wash chamber, which has a low capacity relative to a capacity of the first wash chamber. The laundry system is capable of performing a washing operation in the second wash chamber independently of a washing operation performed in the first wash chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Colleen Doyle, James Kendall, Lorraine L. Achterberg, Ameresh Viswanathan, Kristina Underly, Donald Tomasi, Daniel Conrad, Richard Sunshine
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Patent number: 10273618Abstract: A laundry system performs a washing function to wash multiple load of fabric items. The system can include a first wash chamber for washing a first clothes load, a drawer below the first wash chamber, a tub supported by the drawer, and a wash basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a second wash chamber, which has a low capacity relative to a capacity of the first wash chamber. The laundry system is capable of performing a washing operation in the second wash chamber independently of a washing operation performed in the first wash chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Colleen Doyle, James Kendall, Lorraine L. Achterberg, Ameresh Viswanathan, Kristina Underly, Donald Tomasi, Daniel Conrad, Richard Sunshine
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Publication number: 20180340547Abstract: The disclosure relates to a blade edge of at least one blade of an air-conveying wheel with an axial-side blade edge contour which extends from a blade leading edge to a blade trailing edge along a curve, wherein the blade edge contour has at least one front section which adjoins the blade leading edge in the radial direction, a rear section which adjoins the blade trailing edge in the radial direction, and a central section which lies between the front section and the rear section. The blade edge contour has an S-shaped curve progression in the central section in a lateral cross-sectional view, thus increasing an axial height of the blade in the direction of the blade trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Daniel CONRAD, Christian PFAFF
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Publication number: 20180335048Abstract: A blower arrangement comprising an impeller, which has an axial intake opening formed by a cover plate covering impeller blades at least in sections, by an intake nozzle connected upstream of the impeller, which extends at least in sections into an overlap section in the intake opening of the impeller, wherein a circumferential nozzle gap is formed between the intake nozzle and the cover plate of the impeller, an outer nozzle, which is arranged spaced apart in the radial direction in relation to the impeller and the intake nozzle and enclosing them in the circumferential direction. A first circumferential radial gap is provided between the outer nozzle and the intake nozzle, which forms an inlet nozzle duct extending in the flow direction. A second circumferential radial gap is provided between the outer nozzle and the cover plate of the impeller, which forms a gap duct extending in the flow direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Daniel Conrad, Björn Sudler
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Publication number: 20180030633Abstract: A laundry system performs a washing function to wash multiple load of fabric items. The system can include a first wash chamber for washing a first clothes load, a drawer below the first wash chamber, a tub supported by the drawer, and a wash basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a second wash chamber, which has a low capacity relative to a capacity of the first wash chamber. The laundry system is capable of performing a washing operation in the second wash chamber independently of a washing operation performed in the first wash chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: COLLEEN DOYLE, JAMES KENDALL, LORRAINE L. ACHTERBERG, AMERESH VISWANATHAN, KRISTINA UNDERLY, DONALD TOMASI, DANIEL CONRAD, RICHARD SUNSHINE
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Publication number: 20180030634Abstract: A laundry system performs a washing function to wash multiple load of fabric items. The system can include a first wash chamber for washing a first clothes load, a tub, and a wash basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a second wash chamber, which has a low capacity relative to a capacity of the first wash chamber. The laundry system is capable of performing a washing operation in the second wash chamber independently of a washing operation performed in the first wash chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: COLLEEN DOYLE, JAMES KENDALL, LORRAINE L. ACHTERBERG, AMERESH VISWANATHAN, KRISTINA UNDERLY, DONALD TOMASI, DANIEL CONRAD, RICHARD SUNSHINE
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Patent number: D821564Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Conrad, Christian Pfaff
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Patent number: D972110Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Strehle, Björn Sudler, Daniel Conrad
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Patent number: D972120Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Engert, Daniel Conrad, Dimitri Mehlmeister