Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Curtin
Daniel J. Curtin 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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Publication number: 20180338393Abstract: A hot aisle modules and hot aisle containment system for an IT or computer facility, such as a data center. The hot aisle containment system includes a plurality of the modules that are connected by girders or other support members. The modules include a chute and telescopable legs that support the chute such that the height of the chute is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, Daniel B. KENNEDY, Rachel E. MORRISON
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Patent number: 10058012Abstract: A multizone variable damper for air passageways having a plurality of damper zones, a plurality of opposed blades that are rotatable about a horizontal axis, a pair of blades of the plurality of blades being provided in each zone of the plurality of damper zones, and an actuator for each pair of blades, each actuator being configured to independently rotate each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades so as to selectively and independently control a degree of openness of each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades in each damper zone of the plurality of damper zones.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: TATE ACCESS FLOORING LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Publication number: 20180100305Abstract: An elongated structural ceiling grid member including an open-ended upper portion, an open-ended lower portion, and first and second flanges. The open-ended upper section is formed by a floor and a first set of second parallel and spaced sidewalls extending from and substantially perpendicular to the floor. The open-ended upper portion has an opening opposite the floor and defined by the first and second parallel and spaced sidewalls. The open-ended lower portion is formed by a ceiling and a second set of parallel and spaced sidewalls that extend from and are substantially perpendicular to the ceiling. The open-ended lower portion has a second opening opposite the ceiling and defined by the third and fourth parallel and spaced sidewalls. The first flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the third parallel and spaced sidewall and the second flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the fourth parallel and spaced sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Peter R. STRAPP, Daniel KENNEDY
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Patent number: 9771718Abstract: An elongated structural ceiling grid member including an open-ended upper portion, an open-ended lower portion, and first and second flanges. The open-ended upper section is formed by a floor and a first set of second parallel and spaced sidewalls extending from and substantially perpendicular to the floor. The open-ended upper portion has an opening opposite the floor and defined by the first and second parallel and spaced sidewalls. The open-ended lower portion is formed by a ceiling and a second set of parallel and spaced sidewalls that extend from and are substantially perpendicular to the ceiling. The open-ended lower portion has a second opening opposite the ceiling and defined by the third and fourth parallel and spaced sidewalls. The first flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the third parallel and spaced sidewall and the second flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the fourth parallel and spaced sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, Peter R. Strapp, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Publication number: 20160205812Abstract: A panel assembly that is attached to the support structure of a server or IT rack. The panel assembly includes a panel and a bracket. The panel is rotatably attached to the support structure by the bracket, about a vertical axis. The panel is rotatable between open and closed positions. When in the closed position, the panel extends between two members of the server or IT rack support structure and prevents cooling airflow through the space behind the panel and between the two members. When in the open position, the panel does not impede cooling airflow through that space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Peter STRAPP, Michael CHOI
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Patent number: 8733060Abstract: A grate access floor panel comprising a support frame and a plurality of vanes supported by the frame, each of the plurality of vanes having an upstream end and a downstream end with respect to a direction of airflow across the plurality of vanes and faces that extend between the upstream and downstream ends, wherein at least some of the vanes have openings that extend through the faces thereof and have angled tips.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Patent number: 8511022Abstract: An access floor panel is disclosed that has a top plate with a plurality of non-directional air passageways intermingled with a plurality of directional air passageways. The directional air passageways are configured to direct airflow through them at an angle to the upper surface of the top plate of other than 90°. The directional air passageways include an opening in the top plate and a tab adjacent to each opening that is at an angle with respect to top surface of the top plate of other than 90°. Due to the intermingling of the non-directional air passageways and the directional air passageways, the composite air flow direction through the non-directional air passageways and the directional air passageways is at an angle with the top plate of other than 90°.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Publication number: 20130186026Abstract: An access floor panel is disclosed that has a top plate with a plurality of non-directional air passageways intermingled with a plurality of directional air passageways. The directional air passageways are configured to direct airflow through them at an angle to the upper surface of the top plate of other than 90°. The directional air passageways include an opening in the top plate and a tab adjacent to each opening that is at an angle with respect to top surface of the top plate of other than 90°. Due to the intermingling of the non-directional air passageways and the directional air passageways, the composite air flow direction through the non-directional air passageways and the directional air passageways is at an angle with the top plate of other than 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: KINGSPAN HOLDINGS (IRL) LIMITEDInventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Daniel B. KENNEDY
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Publication number: 20130125486Abstract: An access floor panel is provided that includes a support frame that supports a phase change material. The phase change material changes phases at a certain temperature. The support frame may form a shell having a cavity. The cavity may be filled with the phase change material or with a mixture of the phase change material and a fill material. The access floor panels can be every panel in an access floor system or selected panels in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: KINGSPAN HOLDINGS (IRL) LIMITEDInventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Daniel B. KENNEDY, Peter R. STRAPP, Daniel J. CATALFU, Steven A. ENGLAR, John K. HAN
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Patent number: 8415562Abstract: An air seal device having a housing with a passageway, a core body that is configured to fit tightly within the passageway to restrict air flow through the passageway and to seal the interface between the core body and the housing, and a top ring that locks to the housing and engages and compresses the core body within the housing. The core body has a slit extending vertically therethrough that allows an elongated member or members to pass through the core body while providing an airtight interface between the member or members and the slit of the core body.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Publication number: 20130078901Abstract: A cooling system for selectively cooling the hot aisles of a data center is disclosed. The cooling system includes a source of cooling air, a relief damper configured to selectively allow cooling air from the source of cooling air to enter directly into the hot aisle, and a mechanism to move the relief damper between open and closed positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: KINGSPAN HOLDINGS (IRL) LIMITEDInventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Daniel B. KENNEDY, Peter STRAPP
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Publication number: 20120223489Abstract: An air seal device having a housing with a passageway, a core body that is configured to fit tightly within the passageway to restrict air flow through the passageway and to seal the interface between the core body and the housing, and a top ring that locks to the housing and engages and compresses the core body within the housing. The core body has a slit extending vertically therethrough that allows an elongated member or members to pass through the core body while providing an airtight interface between the member or members and the slit of the core body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Daniel B. KENNEDY
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Publication number: 20120156981Abstract: A multizone variable damper for air passageways having a plurality of damper zones, a plurality of opposed blades that are rotatable about a horizontal axis, a pair of blades of the plurality of blades being provided in each zone of the plurality of damper zones, and an actuator for each pair of blades, each actuator being configured to independently rotate each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades so as to selectively and independently control a degree of openness of each of the pairs of blades of the plurality of opposed blades in each damper zone of the plurality of damper zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. CURTIN, William W. REYNOLDS, Daniel B. KENNEDY
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Patent number: 4545620Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the solution mining of a mineral from a subterranean formation. More specifically, the invention relates to an improved process which enhances significantly the recovery of a mineral from a subterranean formation via solution mining. The improvement comprises periodically ceasing injection of leach solution while continuing production to alter the path of flow of the leach solution between an injection well and a production well and subsequently injecting leach solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1978Date of Patent: October 8, 1985Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: Daniel J. Curtin
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Patent number: 4460473Abstract: A method and system for desalination of water by so called membrane distillation, wherein saline water is evaporated through the pores of a membrane whose proper operation requires that it not be wetted by either the distilland or distillate. Therefore, liquid intrusion into the pores of the membrane through which the distillate passes must be prevented by the surface tension of the liquid. Surfactants normally found in the saline feed water which have been found to cause liquid intrusion into the pores of the membrane are removed immediately prior to the distillation step by physical or chemical means such as adsorption by activated charcoal.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1981Date of Patent: July 17, 1984Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: Daniel J. Curtin
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Patent number: 4287051Abstract: A method of denitrogenating viscous oils containing a relatively high content of nitrogenous compounds and of disposing of a resulting high nitrogen content oil stream, characterized by forming a raw oil stream and a first viscous bottoms stream that would not be operably pumpable to a partial oxidation unit without the inclusion of viscosity lowering constituents; extracting the nitrogenous compounds from the raw oil stream with an operable acid solvent to produce a raffinate oil of low nitrogen content oil and an extract stream of low viscosity, high nitrogen content oil; recovering the acid solvent from the extract stream, simultaneously producing a small volume stream of low viscosity, high nitrogen content oil; admixing the low viscosity high nitrogen content oil with the high viscosity bottoms stream to provide a pumpable mixed stream; sending the mixed stream to a partial oxidation unit to produce hydrogen; employing the produced hydrogen for hydrogenation of the raffinate oil at mild conditions; and rType: GrantFiled: November 8, 1979Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Atlantic Richfield CompanyInventor: Daniel J. Curtin
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Patent number: D636099Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Patent number: D664270Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Patent number: D668359Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Tate Access Floors Leasing, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Daniel B. Kennedy
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Patent number: D795454Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: TATE ACCESS FLOORS LEASING, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Curtin, William W. Reynolds, Peter R. Strapp