Patents by Inventor Mark Eldo Groskreutz

Mark Eldo Groskreutz 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).

  • Patent number: 10520228
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system has a first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, a first ducted variable speed indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, and a second indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Nicholas Shin
  • Publication number: 20190093928
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system has a first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, a first ducted variable speed indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, and a second indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Nicholas Shin
  • Publication number: 20170219255
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system has a first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, a first ducted variable speed indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, and a second indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Nicholas Shin
  • Patent number: 9625184
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system has a first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, a first ducted variable speed indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, and a second indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Nicholas Shin
  • Publication number: 20160010888
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a system controller having a location determination module configured to cause determination and/or reporting of the location of the HVAC system in response to a first run and/or initialization of the HVAC system. The location determination module may determine and/or report location information via global positioning system (GPS) capability, a service provider (SP), customized data provider (CDP), Internet sites, LAN, WAN, 3G, 4G, and/or any other type of network infrastructure to effect reporting of the location of the HVAC system. The system controller may select a climate-based operation parameter value for the HVAC system as a function of a geographic location of the HVAC system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Karl Mutchnik, Gregory Brown, Kit William Klein, Stuart Allen Means
  • Publication number: 20150211807
    Abstract: A heat exchanger used in a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system may include a first row of substantially parallel tubes and a second row of substantially parallel tubes disposed downstream of the first row of tubes, where the first row of tubes and the second row of tubes are disposed through a pattern of holes in a plate-like fin that may include a notch on a leading edge of the fin. The notch may be disposed between adjacent tubes in the first row and substantially aligned with a tube in the second row of tubes with respect to an airflow travelling in a primary airflow direction across the fin. The notch may serve to increase the amount of heat exchange and/or the heat exchange efficiency between the incoming airflow and the second row of tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventor: Mark Eldo Groskreutz
  • Publication number: 20140228983
    Abstract: An HVAC thermostat has a processor configured to control at least one component of an HVAC system in response to temperature and at least one of (1) receive voice over internet protocol (VOIP) data and (2) transmit VOIP data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Richard Lee Jameson
  • Publication number: 20140208776
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system has a first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, a first ducted variable speed indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit, and a second indoor unit configured to selectively exchange refrigerant with the first variable refrigerant flow outdoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Mark Eldo Groskreutz, Nicholas Shin