Patents by Inventor Michael Birnkrant

Michael Birnkrant 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).

  • Publication number: 20240035692
    Abstract: A gas purification assembly for an air-conditioning indoor unit, the gas purification assembly comprising: a filter device arranged at or near an air inlet end of the air-conditioning indoor unit, for filtering particles entrained in the gas entering through the air inlet end; an ion generator located downstream of the filter device along the gas flow direction, for increasing the content of positive and/or negative ions in the gas flow; an atomizing device located downstream of the ion generator along the gas flow direction, for increasing the humidity and the amount of ions of the gas flow, and eliminating the ozone generated by the ion generator; and a photocatalytic device located downstream of the atomizing device along the gas flow direction, for performing a photocatalytic reaction on the humidified gas flow. An air-conditioning indoor unit equipped with the gas purification assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Huanan Li, Ran Yang, Peter McKinney, Hongsheng Liu, Michael Birnkrant, Huaxi Li
  • Publication number: 20240001376
    Abstract: An electronic air cleaner includes a control housing including an ion generation device and a brush array having at least one brush assembly extending therefrom. The brush array is connectable to the control housing in both a first configuration and a second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Birnkrant, Hongsheng Liu, Huanan Li, Yan Yu, Ronghai Hu, Zhiwang Guo
  • Publication number: 20230341160
    Abstract: A detection assembly operable to detect a refrigerant leak event includes a sensor network and a controller. The sensor network is operable to generate sensor outputs including triggering-sensor (TS) outputs and triggering-sensor context (TSC) outputs. The controller is operable to perform a sensor-reading context analysis on the sensor outputs. The sensor-reading context analysis includes accessing a set of the sensor outputs that occurred within a context time window, along with determining that a pattern of the set of sensor outputs represents the refrigerant leak event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ziyou Xiong, Michael Birnkrant, Marcin Piech
  • Publication number: 20230073702
    Abstract: An optical monitoring device includes a housing including a plurality of walls and an interior space disposed therebetween, an opening disposed in a wall of the plurality of walls, and a movable panel, the opening forms a window through the wall, and the movable panel is configured to be moved to access the interior space; a lamp assembly disposed within the interior space and positioned to project light at the window; a camera including an image receiving lens, the camera positioned within the interior space with the image receiving lens is in optical communication with the window; a memory storage device for storing image data; and a controller in electrical communication with the camera and the memory storage device, wherein the controller is configured to compare instant image data from the camera to image data stored on the memory storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ziyou Xiong, Michael Birnkrant, Marcin Piech, Richard Lord, Sarath Chandra Srikakulapu, Anup Kumar, Hari Keerthana Akumalla
  • Publication number: 20230020905
    Abstract: A method of indicating the presence of a target gas in a gas volume comprising providing a gas sensing core, configured for detection of the target gas, and a condition sensor within the gas volume, providing a controller, allowing gas to fluidly interact with the gas sensing core, monitoring a target gas measurement output from the gas sensing core, monitoring a parameter output from the condition sensor, recording a parameter output minimum value, calculating a parameter difference, calculating a rate of change of the parameter with respect to time, and indicating the presence of a target gas is detected in the gas volume when the target gas measurement exceeds a target gas measurement threshold value and the parameter difference is less than a parameter difference threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ziyou Xiong, Michael Birnkrant, Marcin Piech