Patents by Inventor Steven Marshall
Steven Marshall 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: 12636933Abstract: An HVAC unit including: a first aperture, a second aperture and a third aperture, the first aperture and the second aperture being arranged to receive an exterior airflow, and the third aperture being arranged to receive an interior airflow; a first door; a second door, separate from the first door; and a third door; wherein the HVAC unit defines a fresh air mode when the first door is in the open position, the second door is in the open position, and the third door is in the closed position; a partial-recirculation air mode when the first door is in the open position, the second door is in the closed position, and the third door is in the partially-open position; and a recirculation air mode when the first door is in the closed position, the second door is in the closed position, and the third door is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Tim Mayer, Cody Barnebee, Steven Marshall, Richard Sikorski, Jason Kreucher
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Publication number: 20260097622Abstract: The invention relates to a HVAC system including a housing and a blend door being pivotable along a pivot axis between a full hot position defining a 100% blend position and a full cold position defining a 0% blend position. The blend door includes a front side parallel to the pivot axis and two lateral sides and the housing includes a shade area configured to wrap around the front side, the lateral sides and the corner linking the front side to the lateral sides of the blend door, so as to restrict at least one air gap between the housing and the front side, at least one air gap between the housing and the lateral sides, and at least one air gap between the housing and the corner, when the blend door is in a predetermined angular range defined between the full hot position and the full cold position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 9, 2026Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Cody BARNEBEE, Steven MARSHALL
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Patent number: 12502930Abstract: A defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case, having a defrost channel starting in a mixing chamber and terminating in a defrost outlet with a defrost door, a demist channel starting in the mixing chamber and terminating in a demist outlet with a demist door, and a bypass channel connected directly with the pre-door defrost channel, the post-door defrost channel, the pre-door demist channel and post-door demist channel. The first bypass channel is configured to allow airflow from the mixing chamber to the defrost outlet when the defrost door is in the closed position and the demist door is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Steven Marshall, Cody Barnebee, Timothy Mayer, Richard Sikorski, Abhishek Patil, Jayakumar Selvan, Jason Kreucher
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Patent number: 12496870Abstract: A defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case, having a defrost channel starting in a mixing chamber and terminating in a defrost outlet with a defrost door, a demist channel starting in the mixing chamber and terminating in a demist outlet with a demist door, and a bypass channel connected directly with the post-door defrost channel and the post-door demist channel, and indirectly with the pre-door demist channel and the pre-door defrost channel. The first bypass channel is configured to allow airflow from the mixing chamber to the defrost outlet when the defrost door is in the closed position and the demist door is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 16, 2025Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Steven Marshall, Cody Barnebee, Timothy Mayer, Richard Sikorski, Jayakumar Selvan
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Publication number: 20250342505Abstract: Adjusting internet advertising bids in internet advertising campaigns, including maintaining at least one auction rule that that specifies how to adjust a bid for a search term in an internet advertising auction in the case that the auction is determined to be uncontested, where a successful bid for a search term results in a corresponding paid ad provided by an advertiser to appear in a search engine results page (SERP), and, where in an uncontested auction the SERP displays only one paid ad, the paid ad provided by the advertiser, receiving a search term, computing a contest score that estimates the likelihood that an auction for the search term is uncontested, determining, based on the contest score that the auction is uncontested; and performing an uncontested auction method that executes a bid for the search term.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2025Publication date: November 6, 2025Inventors: Matt LeBaron, John Holsworth, Steven Marshall
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Patent number: 12392354Abstract: A blower device for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, including: a blower housing defining an internal volume with an inlet and an outlet; a blower wheel with blower blades, arranged within the internal volume of the blower housing; a motor configured to rotate the blower wheel in a first direction around a central axis; a preswirler arranged within the inlet upstream of the blower wheel and including a plurality of vanes extending towards the blower wheel. Each vane of the plurality of vanes includes a first section and a second section, both extending along the central axis toward the blower wheel, with the second section being closer to the blower wheel than the first section is. The vanes of the plurality of vanes slope in a second direction as they extend along the central axis towards the blower wheel, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 19, 2025Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Cody Barnebee, Anshuman Shevade, Steven Marshall, Timothy Mayer
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Publication number: 20250198420Abstract: A blower device for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, including: a blower housing defining an internal volume with an inlet and an outlet; a blower wheel with blower blades, arranged within the internal volume of the blower housing; a motor configured to rotate the blower wheel in a first direction around a central axis; a preswirler arranged within the inlet upstream of the blower wheel and including a plurality of vanes extending towards the blower wheel. Each vane of the plurality of vanes includes a first section and a second section, both extending along the central axis toward the blower wheel, with the second section being closer to the blower wheel than the first section is. The vanes of the plurality of vanes slope in a second direction as they extend along the central axis towards the blower wheel, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: June 19, 2025Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Cody BARNEBEE, Anshuman SHEVADE, Steven MARSHALL, Timothy MAYER
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Publication number: 20250178407Abstract: An HVAC unit including: a case defining a first aperture, a second aperture, a third aperture, and an outlet aperture, a first door rotatably attached to the case, a second door, rotatably attached to the case, and a third door rotatably attached to the case, with the first door being arranged to partially allow the exterior airflow in its closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: June 5, 2025Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Timothy MAYER, Cody BARNEBEE, Steven MARSHALL, Steve HRUSKA, James SALO, Jason KREUCHER
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Publication number: 20250074143Abstract: An HVAC unit including: a first aperture, a second aperture and a third aperture, the first aperture and the second aperture being arranged to receive an exterior airflow, and the third aperture being arranged to receive an interior airflow; a first door; a second door, separate from the first door; and a third door; wherein the HVAC unit defines a fresh air mode when the first door is in the open position, the second door is in the open position, and the third door is in the closed position; a partial-recirculation air mode when the first door is in the open position, the second door is in the closed position, and the third door is in the partially-open position; and a recirculation air mode when the first door is in the closed position, the second door is in the closed position, and the third door is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Tim MAYER, Cody BARNEBEE, Steven MARSHALL, Richard SIKORSKI, Jason KREUCHER
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Publication number: 20240174050Abstract: A defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case, having a defrost channel starting in a mixing chamber and terminating in a defrost outlet with a defrost door, a demist channel starting in the mixing chamber and terminating in a demist outlet with a demist door, and a bypass channel connected directly with the pre-door defrost channel, the post-door defrost channel, the pre-door demist channel and post-door demist channel. The first bypass channel is configured to allow airflow from the mixing chamber to the defrost outlet when the defrost door is in the closed position and the demist door is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Steven MARSHALL, Cody BARNEBEE, Timothy MAYER, Richard SIKORSKI, Abhishekpatil DILIPPATIL, Jayakumar SELVAN, Jason KREUCHER
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Publication number: 20240174047Abstract: A defrost airflow assembly for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) case, having a defrost channel starting in a mixing chamber and terminating in a defrost outlet with a defrost door, a demist channel starting in the mixing chamber and terminating in a demist outlet with a demist door, and a bypass channel connected directly with the post-door defrost channel and the post-door demist channel, and indirectly with the pre-door demist channel and the pre-door defrost channel. The first bypass channel is configured to allow airflow from the mixing chamber to the defrost outlet when the defrost door is in the closed position and the demist door is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Steven MARSHALL, Cody BARNEBEE, Timothy MAYER, Richard SIKORSKI, Jayakumar SELVAN
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Patent number: 11718150Abstract: A HVAC system (100) includes a housing (10) with at least one first inlet (20) and at least one second inlet (30) formed thereon, at least one first door (20a), at least one second door (30a) and an intermediate door (40). The first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) is for ingress of a first fluid stream and a second fluid stream inside the housing (10). The first door (20a) and the second door (30a) moves with respect to the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) respectively to define an open configuration, a closed configuration and a partially open configuration thereof. The intermediate door (40) is disposed between the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) and moves between a deployed and an un-deployed configuration to respectively disrupt and allow fluid flow there across. The intermediate door (40) is a sliding door.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Earl Buckman, Darshan Parikh, Sally Dagher, Steven Marshall, Richard Sikorski
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Publication number: 20220379685Abstract: A HVAC system (100) includes a housing (10) with at least one first inlet (20) and at least one second inlet (30) formed thereon, at least one first door (20a), at least one second door (30a) and an intermediate door (40). The first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) is for ingress of a first fluid stream and a second fluid stream inside the housing (10). The first door (20a) and the second door (30a) moves with respect to the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) respectively to define an open configuration, a closed configuration and a partially open configuration thereof. The intermediate door (40) is disposed between the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) and moves between a deployed and an un-deployed configuration to respectively disrupt and allow fluid flow there across. The intermediate door (40) is a sliding door.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Earl Buckman, Darshan Parikh, Sally Dagher, Steven Marshall, Richard Sikorski
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Patent number: 11458813Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for managing air mixing door kinematics of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The assembly includes a first door configured for allowing passage of a first air flow, a second door configured for allowing passage of a second air flow, obtaining means configured to obtain a temperature command indicating a target temperature for a passenger cabin, identifying means configured to identify a pattern of non-linear door kinematics for mixing the first air flow and the second air flow based on the temperature command, coordinating means configured to coordinate the non-linear door kinematics between the first door and the second door, and mixing means configured to mix the first air flow and the second air flow.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Richard Sikorski, Darshan Parikh, Sally Dagher, Steven Marshall
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Patent number: 11340592Abstract: A compressor controller for operating a compressor within an industrial automation environment is provided. The compressor controller includes a control module, configured to control the compressor via control settings, and a machine learning module, coupled with the control module. The machine learning module is configured to receive a set of supervised data related to the compressor, and to train with the supervised data to produce a Newtonian physics model representing the inputs and outputs of the compressor within the industrial automation environment. The machine learning module is also configured to receive performance data related to the compressor, receive environment data related to the compressor, and to process the performance data and environment data to produce predicted future performance data for the compressor, and to produce control settings for the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Mazur, Steven Marshall, Scotty Bromfield, Rob Alan Entzminger
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Patent number: 11279325Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor lens defining an axis, a first nozzle and a second nozzle positioned a same perpendicular direction from the axis and spaced along a direction parallel to the axis, and an air source fluidly connected to the nozzles. The nozzles are oriented to emit respective airstreams intersecting the axis and directed apart at an acute angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Andre Sykula, Venkatesh Krishnan, Segundo Baldovino, Steven Marshall, Michael Whitney
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Patent number: 11241931Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for supplying different mixed air flows simultaneously is disclosed. The assembly includes first blend kinematics configured for allowing passage of a first air flow, second blend kinematics configured for allowing passage of a second air flow, obtaining means configured to obtain a temperature command indicating a target temperature for two different locations outside the HVAC assembly, identifying means configured to identify a pattern for the first blend kinematics and the second blend kinematics for modifying the first air flow and the second air flow based on the temperature command, and coordinating means configured to coordinate each of the first blend kinematics and the second blend kinematics simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Steven Marshall, Darshan Parikh, Steven Hruska, Sally Dagher, Richard Sikorski
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Publication number: 20210188035Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for supplying different mixed air flows simultaneously is disclosed. The assembly includes first blend kinematics configured for allowing passage of a first air flow, second blend kinematics configured for allowing passage of a second air flow, obtaining means configured to obtain a temperature command indicating a target temperature for two different locations outside the HVAC assembly, identifying means configured to identify a pattern for the first blend kinematics and the second blend kinematics for modifying the first air flow and the second air flow based on the temperature command, and coordinating means configured to coordinate each of the first blend kinematics and the second blend kinematics simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Steven Marshall, Darshan Parikh, Steven Hruska, Sally Dagher, Richard Sikorski
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Publication number: 20210170830Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for managing air mixing door kinematics of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The assembly includes a first door configured for allowing passage of a first air flow, a second door configured for allowing passage of a second air flow, obtaining means configured to obtain a temperature command indicating a target temperature for a passenger cabin, identifying means configured to identify a pattern of non-linear door kinematics for mixing the first air flow and the second air flow based on the temperature command, coordinating means configured to coordinate the non-linear door kinematics between the first door and the second door, and mixing means configured to mix the first air flow and the second air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Richard Sikorski, Darshan Parikh, Sally Dagher, Steven Marshall
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Publication number: 20210026334Abstract: A compressor controller for operating a compressor within an industrial automation environment is provided. The compressor controller includes a control module, configured to control the compressor via control settings, and a machine learning module, coupled with the control module. The machine learning module is configured to receive a set of supervised data related to the compressor, and to train with the supervised data to produce a Newtonian physics model representing the inputs and outputs of the compressor within the industrial automation environment. The machine learning module is also configured to receive performance data related to the compressor, receive environment data related to the compressor, and to process the performance data and environment data to produce predicted future performance data for the compressor, and to produce control settings for the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: David C. Mazur, Steven Marshall, Scotty Bromfield, Rob Alan Entzminger