Patents by Inventor Timothy Vogel
Timothy Vogel 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: 12117198Abstract: An air handling unit includes a rain hood configured to receive an air flow from an external environment surrounding the rain hood, and a sensor disposed within the rain hood and configured to monitor air flow parameters indicative of a flow rate of the air flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 12025326Abstract: A damper system includes a damper housing configured to flow air, a damper blade disposed in the damper housing and having an orifice, the damper blade being rotatable in the damper housing between a closed position and an open position. The orifice is configured to allow air to flow through the damper blade while the damper blade is in the closed position. An auto-balancing damper is disposed in the damper housing apart from the damper blade, and the auto-balancing damper is configured to regulate a flow of the air through the damper housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20240167709Abstract: A damper (e.g., a safety damper) includes a sensor configured to provide a damper blade position signal indicative of a position of one or more damper blades and a communication interface configured to provide a damper identification and a damper blade position information associated with the damper blade position signal at periodic intervals or in response to a change in position. The damper identification and damper position information can be provided to fire safety equipment, another damper, or a safety panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Kent S. Maune, Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20230013011Abstract: A damper system includes a damper housing configured to flow air, a damper blade disposed in the damper housing and having an orifice, the damper blade being rotatable in the damper housing between a closed position and an open position. The orifice is configured to allow air to flow through the damper blade while the damper blade is in the closed position. An auto-balancing damper is disposed in the damper housing apart from the damper blade, and the auto-balancing damper is configured to regulate a flow of the air through the damper housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 11402111Abstract: A damper system includes a damper housing configured to flow air, a damper blade disposed in the damper housing and having an orifice, the damper blade being rotatable in the damper housing between a closed position and an open position. The orifice is configured to allow air to flow through the damper blade while the damper blade is in the closed position. An auto-balancing damper is disposed in the damper housing apart from the damper blade, and the auto-balancing damper is configured to regulate a flow of the air through the damper housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 11243008Abstract: A frame assembly for an air distribution system includes a damper assembly, a louver assembly, and a screen frame. Air flows through the damper assembly and the louver assembly, where the damper assembly terminates in a first flange and the louver terminates in a second flange. The first flange and the second flange are coupled to one another about a screen frame such that the screen frame is captured by abutting the first flange and the second flange.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20210404697Abstract: An air handling unit includes a rain hood configured to receive an air flow from an external environment surrounding the rain hood, and a sensor disposed within the rain hood and configured to monitor air flow parameters indicative of a flow rate of the air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 11112141Abstract: An air handling unit includes a rain hood configured to receive an air flow from an external environment surrounding the rain hood, and a sensor disposed within the rain hood and configured to monitor air flow parameters indicative of a flow rate of the air flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: AIR DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES IP, LLCInventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 10982876Abstract: A wireless damper control and test system comprising a wireless controller for communicating with a wireless interface using an identifier whereby actuation timing of a damper actuator is transmitted by signal, the wireless interface connected to a damper to be controlled or tested using the transmitted signal, the wireless controller transmits the signals to the wireless interface for operational verification of the damper and damper actuator, and the wireless interface detects a damper state by contacts mounted on the damper and communicates the damper state to the wireless controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventors: Thomas R. Edwards, Josiah Wiley, Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20200217551Abstract: An air handling unit includes a rain hood configured to receive an air flow from an external environment surrounding the rain hood, and a sensor disposed within the rain hood and configured to monitor air flow parameters indicative of a flow rate of the air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20200064014Abstract: A frame assembly for an air distribution system includes a damper assembly, a louver assembly, and a screen frame. Air flows through the damper assembly and the louver assembly, where the damper assembly terminates in a first flange and the louver terminates in a second flange. The first flange and the second flange are coupled to one another about a screen frame such that the screen frame is captured by abutting the first flange and the second flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20200011566Abstract: A wireless damper control and test system comprising a wireless controller for communicating with a wireless interface using an identifier whereby actuation timing of a damper actuator is transmitted by signal, the wireless interface connected to a damper to be controlled or tested using the transmitted signal, the wireless controller transmits the signals to the wireless interface for operational verification of the damper and damper actuator, and the wireless interface detects a damper state by contacts mounted on the damper and communicates the damper state to the wireless controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Thomas R. Edwards, Josiah Wiley, Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 10415847Abstract: A wireless damper control and test system comprising a wireless controller for communicating with a wireless interface using an identifier whereby actuation timing of a damper actuator is transmitted by signal, the wireless interface connected to a damper to be controlled or tested using the transmitted signal, the wireless controller transmits the signals to the wireless interface for operational verification of the damper and damper actuator, and the wireless interface detects a damper state by contacts mounted on the damper and communicates the damper state to the wireless controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventors: Thomas R. Edwards, Josiah Wiley, Timothy A. Vogel
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Publication number: 20180119970Abstract: A damper system includes a damper housing configured to flow air, a damper blade disposed in the damper housing and having an orifice, the damper blade being rotatable in the damper housing between a closed position and an open position. The orifice is configured to allow air to flow through the damper blade while the damper blade is in the closed position. An auto-balancing damper is disposed in the damper housing apart from the damper blade, and the auto-balancing damper is configured to regulate a flow of the air through the damper housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventor: Timothy A. Vogel
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Patent number: 9673471Abstract: A method for the production of a biofilm at the surface of an electrode in a liquid medium containing bacteria and a substrate for growth of the bacteria, in which a system of electrodes constituted of two electrodes, which are connected to a direct electric current source, is used, these two electrodes are placed in the medium and a predetermined and constant potential difference is applied between the electrodes, by virtue of which biofilms form at the surface of the electrodes. Resulting electrodes and biocells.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S.), UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYONInventors: Timothy Vogel, Jean-Michel Monier, Naoufel Haddour
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Publication number: 20170138775Abstract: A gas flow monitoring system is disclosed that includes a plurality of first gas flow sensors. A primary probe transmitter is connected to the plurality of first gas flow sensors is configured to process data received from the plurality of first gas flow sensors to generate first gas flow data. A plurality of second gas flow sensors are connected to an ancillary probe transmitter and to the primary probe transmitter, where the ancillary probe transmitter are configured to process data received from the plurality of second gas flow sensors to generate second gas flow data. The primary probe transmitter further comprises a building automation system interface, and is configured to receive the second gas flow data from the ancillary probe transmitter and to transmit the first gas flow data and the second gas flow data to a building automation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Timothy A. Vogel, Josiah Wiley
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Patent number: 9641993Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to store a first access class barring parameter and a second access class barring parameter pertaining to emergency calls via a cell on which a wireless device is camped; receive an indication that an emergency call is to be established; select one or more values of the second barring parameter in response to a determination that a value of the first barring parameter indicates that the emergency call cannot be established via the cell; select a first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter; and determine whether the emergency call can be established via the first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter and system information pertaining to the first candidate cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Daniel Bahta, Timothy Vogel, Toby Varughese John
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Patent number: 9568349Abstract: A gas flow monitoring system is disclosed that includes a plurality of first gas flow sensors. A primary probe transmitter is connected to the plurality of first gas flow sensors is configured to process data received from the plurality of first gas flow sensors to generate first gas flow data. A plurality of second gas flow sensors are connected to an ancillary probe transmitter and to the primary probe transmitter, where the ancillary probe transmitter are configured to process data received from the plurality of second gas flow sensors to generate second gas flow data. The primary probe transmitter further comprises a building automation system interface, and is configured to receive the second gas flow data from the ancillary probe transmitter and to transmit the first gas flow data and the second gas flow data to a building automation system.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: RUSKIN COMPANYInventors: Timothy A. Vogel, Josiah Wiley
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Publication number: 20170006447Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to store a first access class barring parameter and a second access class barring parameter pertaining to emergency calls via a cell on which a wireless device is camped; receive an indication that an emergency call is to be established; select one or more values of the second barring parameter in response to a determination that a value of the first barring parameter indicates that the emergency call cannot be established via the cell; select a first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter; and determine whether the emergency call can be established via the first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter and system information pertaining to the first candidate cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Jonathan Daniel Bahta, Timothy Vogel, Toby Varughese John
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Publication number: 20160320087Abstract: A wireless damper control and test system comprising a wireless controller for communicating with a wireless interface using an identifier whereby actuation timing of a damper actuator is transmitted by signal, the wireless interface connected to a damper to be controlled or tested using the transmitted signal, the wireless controller transmits the signals to the wireless interface for operational verification of the damper and damper actuator, and the wireless interface detects a damper state by contacts mounted on the damper and communicates the damper state to the wireless controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Thomas R. Edwards, Josiah Wiley, Timothy A. Vogel