Patents by Inventor Michael William Schultz
Michael William Schultz 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: 11467939Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley
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Publication number: 20210397533Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A. Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley
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Patent number: 10753644Abstract: A water heater system includes a primary heat exchanger including a tank and at least one flue, and a secondary heat exchanger including a core and a flue gas flow path. The water heater is operable in a heating mode in which a combustor produces hot flue gas and a water pump flows water through the core of the secondary heat exchanger and into the tank, and in a non-heating mode in which the combustor and the water pump are inoperative. The flue gas flows from the combustor through the at least one flue to heat the water in the tank and then through the flue gas flow path to heat water in the core before being exhausted.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: A. O. Smith CorporationInventors: Zhongsheng Niu, Michael William Schultz, Meng Yang
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Patent number: 10612817Abstract: A gas-fired appliance includes a tank configured to store a fluid to be heated, a powered anode extending into the tank and configured to generate an electric anode current, and a combustion chamber including a burner configured to generate products of combustion. The appliance also includes an exhaust structure, a heat exchanger, and an electronic processor coupled to the powered anode. The products of combustion flow from the combustion chamber to the exhaust structure via the heat exchanger. The electronic processor is configured to determine a duty cycle of the burner, determine whether the duty cycle of the burner exceeds a predetermined threshold, increase a magnitude of a protection parameter of the powered anode from a first value to a second value when the duty cycle of the burner exceeds the predetermined threshold, and control the powered anode according to the second value of the protection parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: A. O. SMITH CORPORATIONInventors: Ray Oliver Knoeppel, Michael William Schultz, Timothy Edward Rooney, Thomas G. Van Sistine
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Patent number: 10330344Abstract: A water heater including a storage tank including a water inlet and a water outlet, a pump, an upper temperature sensor, a lower temperature sensor, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive an upper temperature signal and a lower temperature signal, compare the upper temperature signal to a sum of a setpoint temperature threshold minus a temperature differential, and compare the lower temperature signal to a high limit temperature threshold. The electronic processor is further configured to activate the pump in response to the first upper temperature signal being less than the sum of the setpoint temperature threshold minus the temperature differential and the first lower temperature signal being less than the predetermined high limit temperature threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: A. O. SMITH CORPORATIONInventors: Yingwu Teng, Michael William Schultz, Carl Edward McDow
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Publication number: 20190041092Abstract: A water heater system includes a primary heat exchanger including a tank and at least one flue, and a secondary heat exchanger including a core and a flue gas flow path. The water heater is operable in a heating mode in which a combustor produces hot flue gas and a water pump flows water through the core of the secondary heat exchanger and into the tank, and in a non-heating mode in which the combustor and the water pump are inoperative. The flue gas flows from the combustor through the at least one flue to heat the water in the tank and then through the flue gas flow path to heat water in the core before being exhausted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Zhongsheng Niu, Michael William Schultz, Meng Yang
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Publication number: 20190024944Abstract: A water heater including a storage tank including a water inlet and a water outlet, a pump, an upper temperature sensor, a lower temperature sensor, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive an upper temperature signal and a lower temperature signal, compare the upper temperature signal to a sum of a setpoint temperature threshold minus a temperature differential, and compare the lower temperature signal to a high limit temperature threshold. The electronic processor is further configured to activate the pump in response to the first upper temperature signal being less than the sum of the setpoint temperature threshold minus the temperature differential and the first lower temperature signal being less than the predetermined high limit temperature threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Yingwu Teng, Michael William Schultz, Carl Edward McDow
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Publication number: 20180128514Abstract: A gas-fired appliance includes a tank configured to store a fluid to be heated, a powered anode extending into the tank and configured to generate an electric anode current, and a combustion chamber including a burner configured to generate products of combustion. The appliance also includes an exhaust structure, a heat exchanger, and an electronic processor coupled to the powered anode. The products of combustion flow from the combustion chamber to the exhaust structure via the heat exchanger. The electronic processor is configured to determine a duty cycle of the burner, determine whether the duty cycle of the burner exceeds a predetermined threshold, increase a magnitude of a protection parameter of the powered anode from a first value to a second value when the duty cycle of the burner exceeds the predetermined threshold, and control the powered anode according to the second value of the protection parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Ray Oliver Knoeppel, Michael William Schultz, Timothy Edward Rooney, Thomas G. Van Sistine
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Patent number: 9605871Abstract: A burner system for a furnace. The system may have a wedged or other shaped burner box. An air-fuel mixer may be attached to a smaller end of the burner box at virtually any angle relative to a direction of a gas and air mixture leaving the larger box end. A burner head may be attached to the larger end of the box. The burner head may be sufficient for numerous heater sections of a heat exchanger. A spacer and a radiation shield may be situated between the burner head and heat exchanger. An addition of the radiation shield may reduce the operating temperature of the burner box, burner head and/or spacer. A fan may move the gas and air mixture from the mixer, through the box and the burner head. The mixture may be ignited into a flame which is moved into the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Michael William Schultz, James Holmberg, Douglas Perry, Tim J. Smith, Curtis Taylor
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Patent number: 9453648Abstract: A furnace is disclosed that includes a burner with a firing rate that is variable between a minimum and a maximum firing rate. After a call for heat is received, the firing rate is set to an initial level above the minimum firing rate, and the burner is ignited. The firing rate is then modulated downward toward the minimum firing rate. If the flame is lost during or after modulation, the burner is reignited and the firing rate is maintained above the firing rate at which the flame was lost until the current call for heat is satisfied. In some cases, the firing rate is maintained until one or more subsequent calls for heat are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Michael William Schultz, Jonathan McDonald, Victor J. Cueva
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Publication number: 20150053197Abstract: A furnace is disclosed that includes a burner with a firing rate that is variable between a minimum and a maximum firing rate. After a call for heat is received, the firing rate is set to an initial level above the minimum firing rate, and the burner is ignited. The firing rate is then modulated downward toward the minimum firing rate. If the flame is lost during or after modulation, the burner is reignited and the firing rate is maintained above the firing rate at which the flame was lost until the current call for heat is satisfied. In some cases, the firing rate is maintained until one or more subsequent calls for heat are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Michael William Schultz, Jonathan McDonald, Victor J. Cueva
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Patent number: 8876524Abstract: A furnace is disclosed that includes a burner with a firing rate that is variable between a minimum and a maximum firing rate. After a call for heat is received, the firing rate is set to an initial level above the minimum firing rate, and the burner is ignited. The firing rate is then modulated downward toward the minimum firing rate. If the flame is lost during or after modulation, the burner is reignited and the firing rate is maintained above the firing rate at which the flame was lost until the current call for heat is satisfied. In some cases, the firing rate is maintained until one or more subsequent calls for heat are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Michael William Schultz, Jonathan McDonald, Victor J. Cueva
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Publication number: 20130302737Abstract: A burner system for a furnace. The system may have a wedged or other shaped burner box. An air-fuel mixer may be attached to a smaller end of the burner box at virtually any angle relative to a direction of a gas and air mixture leaving the larger box end. A burner head may be attached to the larger end of the box. The burner head may be sufficient for numerous heater sections of a heat exchanger. A spacer and a radiation shield may be situated between the burner head and heat exchanger. An addition of the radiation shield may reduce the operating temperature of the burner box, burner head and/or spacer. A fan may move the gas and air mixture from the mixer, through the box and the burner head. The mixture may be ignited into a flame which is moved into the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Michael William Schultz, James Holmberg, Douglas Perry, Tim J. Smith, Curtis Taylor
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Publication number: 20130230812Abstract: A furnace is disclosed that includes a burner with a firing rate that is variable between a minimum and a maximum firing rate. After a call for heat is received, the firing rate is set to an initial level above the minimum firing rate, and the burner is ignited. The firing rate is then modulated downward toward the minimum firing rate. If the flame is lost during or after modulation, the burner is reignited and the firing rate is maintained above the firing rate at which the flame was lost until the current call for heat is satisfied. In some cases, the firing rate is maintained until one or more subsequent calls for heat are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Michael William Schultz, Jonathan McDonald, Victor J. Cueva
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Publication number: 20130213378Abstract: A burner system for a furnace. The system may have a wedged or other shaped burner box. An air-fuel mixer may be attached to a smaller end of the burner box at about a right angle relative to a direction of a gas and air mixture leaving the larger box end. A burner head may be attached to the larger end of the box. The burner head may be sufficient for numerous heater sections of a heat exchanger. A spacer and an orifice shield may be situated between the burner head and heat exchanger. A fan may pull in the gas and air mixture from the mixer, through the box and the burner head. The mixture may be ignited into a flame which is pulled into the heat exchanger. Some of the flue gas from the exchanger exhaust may be recirculated by being added with air to the mixer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Michael William Schultz