Patents by Inventor Marco Marques
Marco Marques 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: 11519651Abstract: An ice maker for mounting into a household cooling appliance includes a storage container for ice that is formed with an opening which is accessible from the top. A fan generates an air stream in the ice maker. An air guiding duct above the storage container is bounded by a first lateral duct wall, which is oriented in the depth direction of the ice maker and extends in the height direction, and is bounded by a second duct wall, which is a roof wall. The air guiding duct has a first opening towards the bottom so that an air stream escapes towards the bottom. The first opening of the air guiding duct is arranged offset viewed in the width direction of the ice maker so that the air stream exiting from the first opening of the air guiding duct flows along an outer side of the storage container.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: BSH HAUSGERAETE GMBHInventors: Mathias Sigl, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Schmidt, Marco Marques
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Patent number: 11466913Abstract: An ice maker for mounting into a household cooling appliance, the ice maker includes an ice producer for producing ice; a storage container for storing ice; a driving unit for driving the storage container, the driving unit having a drive housing; and an air duct formed in the drive housing. The air duct has an air duct outlet configured in a front wall of the drive housing which faces towards the storage container and an air duct inlet provided in a side wall of the drive housing which faces towards the ice producer. A fan is arranged in the air duct. The fan generates an air stream from the ice producer to the storage container through the air duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Mathias Sigl, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Schmidt, Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20210207863Abstract: An ice maker for mounting into a household cooling appliance, the ice maker includes an ice producer for producing ice; a storage container for storing ice; a driving unit for driving the storage container, the driving unit having a drive housing; and an air duct formed in the drive housing. The air duct has an air duct outlet configured in a front wall of the drive housing which faces towards the storage container and an air duct inlet provided in a side wall of the drive housing which faces towards the ice producer. A fan is arranged in the air duct. The fan generates an air stream from the ice producer to the storage container through the air duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: MATHIAS SIGL, JORGE CARLOS MONTALVO SANCHEZ, JULIO CESAR SCHMIDT, MARCO MARQUES
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Publication number: 20210207864Abstract: An ice maker for mounting into a household cooling appliance includes a storage container for ice that is formed with an opening which is accessible from the top. A fan generates an air stream in the ice maker. An air guiding duct above the storage container is bounded by a first lateral duct wall, which is oriented in the depth direction of the ice maker and extends in the height direction, and is bounded by a second duct wall, which is a roof wall. The air guiding duct has a first opening towards the bottom so that an air stream escapes towards the bottom. The first opening of the air guiding duct is arranged offset viewed in the width direction of the ice maker so that the air stream exiting from the first opening of the air guiding duct flows along an outer side of the storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: MATHIAS SIGL, JORGE CARLOS MONTALVO SANCHEZ, JULIO CESAR SCHMIDT, MARCO MARQUES
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Publication number: 20210074254Abstract: An ice bucket for storing ice pieces having noise dampening characteristics is provided for use in a refrigerator. For example, a noise dampening lining material is disposed on at least a portion of at least one the bottom wall or the side wall in the interior space of the ice bucket. Alternatively, at least a portion of at least one of the bottom wall or the side wall is reinforced with a honeycomb pattern, thereby to reduce vibration transmission and sound amplification. Still further, at least one grommet is disposed on an exterior portion of the bottom wall of the ice bucket so as to rest on a floor of the ice compartment region, thereby to reduce vibration transmission and sound amplification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Horst Drotleff, Marco Marques
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Patent number: 10634346Abstract: A heater device including at least one control and/or regulating unit, which is provided to set an air ratio of a combustion process to a setpoint air ratio. It is provided that the control and/or regulating unit is provided to ascertain a power correction factor in at least one operating state and take it into consideration in the setting of the air ratio.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: BOSCH TERMOTECNOLOGIA S.A.Inventors: Duarte Nuno Fernandes Garcia Lima, Joel Filipe Pereira, Luis Miguel Pacheco Monteiro, Mauro André Oliveira Simoes, Ricardo Jorge de Sousa Vieira, Sergio Salustio, Marco Marques
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Patent number: 10465966Abstract: A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment; a freezer compartment; an ice compartment disposed in the refrigerator compartment; an ice maker assembly disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker assembly including an ice maker tray/evaporator having an evaporator cooling tube which is in direct contact with the ice maker tray portion; an ice bucket for storing ice disposed in the ice compartment; and an air handler/auger motor assembly disposed at a rear portion of the ice compartment behind the ice bucket. The air handler/auger motor assembly includes an air passage having a fan disposed therein. An inlet of the fan communicates with an airflow passage under the ice maker tray/evaporator, such that the fan creates a suction and draws cool air from the ice maker tray/evaporator and discharges the cool air through the air passage and to the ice bucket to prevent any ice in the ice bucket from melting.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Nilton Bertolini, Marco Marques, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Marco Rotonda
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Publication number: 20190108824Abstract: An ice bucket for storing ice pieces having noise dampening characteristics is provided for use in a refrigerator. For example, a noise dampening lining material is disposed on at least a portion of at least one the bottom wall or the side wall in the interior space of the ice bucket. Alternatively, at least a portion of at least one of the bottom wall or the side wall is reinforced with a honeycomb pattern, thereby to reduce vibration transmission and sound amplification. Still further, at least one grommet is disposed on an exterior portion of the bottom wall of the ice bucket so as to rest on a floor of the ice compartment region, thereby to reduce vibration transmission and sound amplification.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Horst Drotleff, Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20190011166Abstract: A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment; a freezer compartment; an ice compartment disposed in the refrigerator compartment; an ice maker assembly disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker assembly including an ice maker tray/evaporator having an evaporator cooling tube which is in direct contact with the ice maker tray portion; an ice bucket for storing ice disposed in the ice compartment; and an air handler/auger motor assembly disposed at a rear portion of the ice compartment behind the ice bucket. The air handler/auger motor assembly includes an air passage having a fan disposed therein. An inlet of the fan communicates with an airflow passage under the ice maker tray/evaporator, such that the fan creates a suction and draws cool air from the ice maker tray/evaporator and discharges the cool air through the air passage and to the ice bucket to prevent any ice in the ice bucket from melting.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Nilton Bertolini, Marco Marques, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez, Marco Rotonda
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Publication number: 20180209648Abstract: A heater device including at least one control and/or regulating unit, which is provided to set an air ratio of a combustion process to a setpoint air ratio. It is provided that the control and/or regulating unit is provided to ascertain a power correction factor in at least one operating state and take it into consideration in the setting of the air ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Duarte Nuno Fernandes Garcia Lima, Joel Filipe Pereira, Luis Miguel Pacheco Monteiro, Mauro André Oliveira Simoes, Ricardo Jorge de Sousa Vieira, Sergio Salustio, Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20150233578Abstract: A method for regulating a heating unit, and heating unit, are provided. A method is provided for regulating a heating unit, and to a heating unit which includes a combustion chamber, combustion air being introduced into the combustion chamber via a controllable blower. A rotational speed of the blower wheel is detected. The purpose is to make it possible to ascertain an air volume flow with little complexity. The method is characterized in that a static pressure and/or a power consumption of the blower is/are ascertained, a volume flow of the combustion air being determined on the basis of the rotational speed in conjunction with the static pressure or the power consumption. For this purpose, the heating unit includes a rotational speed sensor and a pressure sensor and/or a power sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Luis Monteiro, Marco Marques, Mauro Simoes, Gerardo Rocha, Ricardo Jorge de Sousa Vieira
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Publication number: 20080034768Abstract: A refrigeration control system in combined refrigeration appliances of the type comprising: a refrigerating compartment; a freezing compartment; a compressor; an evaporator; a refrigerating compartment fan and a freezing compartment fan; and a control means to activate and deactivate the compressor and both the refrigerating compartment fan and the freezing compartment fan as a function of the activation and deactivation temperatures detected by the refrigerating compartment temperature sensor and the freezing compartment temperature sensor. The control means is operatively associated with the refrigerating compartment fan to selectively and periodically adjust the speed of the latter, so that the temperature of the refrigerating compartment reaches a deactivation value of the refrigerating compartment fan at the same time in which the temperature of the freezing compartment reaches a deactivation value of both the freezing compartment fan and the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2005Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: WHIRLPOOL S.A.Inventors: Fabio Pimentel, Moacyr Mezavila, Alexandre Schmid, Rogerio Rodrigues, Alexandre Rebello Rucker, Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20070137242Abstract: An arrangement for air distribution in a freezer compartment of the type closed by a front door (11) and to which is generally mounted, close to a respective rear wall, an air cooling compartment (30) in which an evaporator (40) and a fan (50) are lodged, said arrangement comprising at least one distributing tube (60) provided in an upper portion of the freezer compartment (10) and having: a rear end (61) maintained in fluid communication with the interior of the air cooling compartment (30); a front end (62) disposed in the front region of the freezer compartment (10) adjacent to the front door (11) thereof and provided with at least one front opening (63) facing said front region of the freezer compartment (10) and the region of the front door (11) of the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2004Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Multibras S.A. EletrodomesticosInventors: Marco Marques, Publio Duarte, Moacyr Mezavila
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Publication number: 20070125120Abstract: An improvement in a refrigeration system for cabinets provided with a top cover and with internal peripheral walls made of metallic sheet and around which is seated an evaporating means (1) connected to the outlet of an expanding device (2) which is connected to the outlet pf a condenser (3) and to the suction of a compressor (4) of the refrigeration system, said evaporating means (1) comprising at least two tube extensions (10), each of them being seated around a respective height portion of the internal peripheral walls (P) and having a refrigerant fluid inlet end maintained in fluid communication with a respective expanding device (2), and a refrigerant fluid outlet end maintained in fluid communication with the compressor (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2004Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: Multibras S.A. ElectrodomesticosInventor: Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20060225460Abstract: An evaporator for a refrigeration appliance comprising a tube extension presenting an inlet (11) for the refrigerant fluid in liquid state and an outlet (12) for the refrigerant fluid in gaseous state, said tube extension (10) comprising at least two tube portions (10a, 10b) arranged in series and having different diameters which are dimensioned to guarantee, to the refrigerant fluid flow, a more uniform speed in the interior of the evaporator, without altering the flow rate of this refrigerant fluid between the inlet (11) and the outlet (12) of the tube extension (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2004Publication date: October 12, 2006Applicant: Multibras S.A. EletrodomesticosInventor: Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20060218962Abstract: An airflow control system in refrigerators and freezers, which comprise: a refrigerating compartment (10; an air cooling compartment (20) lodging an (21) and a fan (22); and an air distributing plenum (23), receiving a forced airflow from the fan (22) and having a front wall (24) provided with air passages (25) through which the forced airflow is supplied to the interior of the refrigerating compartment (10), at least part of the air passages (25) provided in the front wall (25) of the air distributing plenum (23) being operatively associated with respective closing means (40), which are selectively displaced to different operative positions, in which they maintain the air passages (25) with a free area dimensioned as a function of the intensity of the forced airflow toType: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2004Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Multibras S.A. ElectrodomesticosInventors: Marco Marques, Publio Duarte
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Publication number: 20060196217Abstract: An arrangement for the forced air circulation in refrigerators and freezers, whose cabinet (10) defines at least one compartment (20, 30), a respective door (21, 31), and an air-cooling chamber (11) lodging an evaporator (12) and from which the compartment is supplied with a forced cooling air-flow. The arrangement comprises: at least one suction duct (40), incorporated to the door (21, 31) and which is provided with air inlets (41), opened to the interior of the respective compartment (20, 30), and with at least one air outlet (42) turned to the interior of the cabinet (10). A return fan (50) is mounted so as to draw the air from different levels of the front part of the compartment, and to form inside the suction duct (40) a return airflow that is directed to the air outlet (42) of the suction duct (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2004Publication date: September 7, 2006Inventors: Publio Otávio Duarte, Marco Marques, Enrica Monticelli
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Publication number: 20050247077Abstract: An evaporator for a refrigeration system, comprising a tube provided with fins and mounted in the form of a coil, conducting a refrigerating fluid therewithin and comprising tube portions (20a) arranged parallel to each other and which are transversal to the direction of a forced airflow (F) that passes externally through the evaporator (10), from a first end region (11) of air admission, to a second end region (12) of air outlet of the evaporator (10). The tube portions (20a) are arranged in the form of at least one coil (S), having an inlet end (21) provided in the second end region (12) of the evaporator (10) and an outlet end (22) provided in the first end region (11) of the evaporator (10), so that the refrigerating fluid flows through the coil (S) in counterflow in relation to the forced airflow (F).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2003Publication date: November 10, 2005Applicant: MULTIBRAS S.A. ELETRODOMESTICOSInventors: Christian Hermes, Marco Marques
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Publication number: 20050229624Abstract: An air distribution system for combined refrigerators of the type that comprises: a freezing compartment (10) and a refrigerating compartment (20); an air-cooling compartment (40) lodging at least one evaporator (45); a distributing duct (60) having a rear window (62) opened to the air-cooling compartment (40), at least one front opening (65) communicating with the freezing compartment (10) and one end opening (64) maintained in communication with the refrigerating compartment (20); and at least one fan (46, 47) producing a forced airflow from the air-cooling compartment (40) to the freezing compartment (10) and to the refrigerating compartment (20), said distributing duct (60) carrying a conduct (63), having a first end coupled to the end opening (64) of the distributing duct (60), and a second end selectively placed in fluid communication with one of the parts defined by the distributing duct (60) and by the air-cooling compartment (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2003Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Multibras S.A. EletrodomesticosInventors: Alexandre Schmid, Adriano Cargnin, Marco Marques, Rogerio Junior
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Publication number: 20050126205Abstract: An air duct arrangement for a refrigerator with forced air circulation of the type that comprises a refrigerating compartment (20) provided with a diffusing duct (23) receiving a refrigerated forced airflow from an air cooling compartment (40). The arrangement comprises at least one distributing duct (60) disposed in the upper portion of a space (V) defined below at least one of the shelves (22). The distributing duct (60) presents a rear end (61) opened to the inside of the diffusing duct (23) and a front end (62) opened to the front region of said space (V) adjacent to the front door (21) of the refrigerating compartment (20) and provided with a plurality of front openings (64, 65, 66) turned to the front region of said space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Applicant: Multibras S.A. EletrodomesticosInventors: Alexandre Schmid, Claiton Amaral, Ignacio Santos Junior, Adriano Cargnin, Rogerio Rodrigues Junior, Edson Izui, Marco Marques