Patents Issued in October 29, 2009
  • Publication number: 20090266076
    Abstract: A power generating system including a working fluid circuit. The power generating system includes a condenser system in the working fluid circuit and a condensate polisher circuit. The condenser system receives a working fluid that includes steam or a combination of water and steam and condenses at least a portion of the working fluid into a condensate. The condensate has a temperature above a predetermined upper operating temperature. The condensate polisher circuit is branched off from the working fluid circuit and receives and treats said condensate from the working fluid circuit and returns treated condensate to the working fluid circuit. The condensate polisher circuit includes a heat exchanger that reduces the temperature of the condensate at least to the upper operating temperature and a condensate polisher that removes contaminants from the condensate to bring the condensate to a predetermined purity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Bellows
  • Publication number: 20090266077
    Abstract: A mixing chamber with a wall and at least one vortex generating element arranged on the wall is provided. The vortex generating element has at least three surfaces, at least one of the surfaces forming a top surface and the other surfaces forming at least first and second side surfaces, the first and second side surfaces arranged not in parallel, the top surface being in contact with the wall via a front edge of the top surface, the front edge extending traverse to a flow direction, the top surface further abutting the first and second side faces forming first and second edges, the first side surface extending in parallel to the flow direction so that the first edge does not contribute to generating a vortex, and the second side surface extending not in parallel to the flow direction so that the second edge contributes to generating the vortex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Khawar Syed
  • Publication number: 20090266078
    Abstract: An anti-flow interruption system is configured to provide a supply of fuel in the event of a fuel flow interruption from a fuel tank. The anti-flow interruption system includes a reservoir, a reservoir conduit, and a vapor bleed system. The reservoir conduit has an end disposed at the bottom of the reservoir and another connected to a fuel pump. The vapor bleed system includes a vapor bleed conduit and a vapor bleed restrictor. One end of the vapor bleed conduit is attached to the top of the reservoir and the other end is connected to the fuel pump. The vapor bleed restrictor is disposed in the vapor bleed conduit between the fuel pump and the reservoir. If fuel flow is interrupted and results in vapor being present in the reservoir, liquid fuel remaining in the reservoir continues to be supplied to the fuel pump while the vapor bleed system removes the vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Stephen G. Murray
  • Publication number: 20090266079
    Abstract: Premix nozzles and gas turbine engine systems involving such nozzles are provided. In this regard, a representative industrial gas turbine engine includes: a combustion section having a nozzle assembly operative to provide a fuel-air mixture for combustion, the nozzle assembly having an array of shuttered nozzles and non-shuttered nozzles; each of the shuttered nozzles being operative in an open position, in which air is directed through the shuttered nozzle for mixing with fuel, and a closed position, in which a reduced amount of air is directed through the shuttered nozzle; each of the shuttered nozzles being inoperative to independently alter an amount of air being directed therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventor: Brian G. Donnelly
  • Publication number: 20090266080
    Abstract: A turbomachine including an annular combustion chamber fitted with fuel injectors and nozzle vanes arranged at the outlet from the chamber, the number of nozzle vanes being an integer multiple of the number of fuel injectors, and the head of each injector being situated angularly half-way between the leading edges of two consecutive nozzle vanes, these leading edges being in alignment with primary air holes and/or with dilution air holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Christophe PIEUSSERGUES, Denis Jean Maurice SANDELIS
  • Publication number: 20090266081
    Abstract: Pyrolyzing gasification system and method of use including primary combustion of non-uniform solid fuels such as biomass and solid wastes within a refractory lined gasifier, secondary combustion of primary combustion gas within a staged, cyclonic, refractory lined oxidizer, and heat energy recovery from the oxidized flue gas within an indirect air-to-air all-ceramic heat exchanger or external combustion engine. Primary combustion occurs at low substoichiometric air percentages of 10-30 percent and at temperatures below 1000 degrees F. Secondary combustion is staged and controlled for low NOx formation and prevention of formation of CO, hydrocarbons, and VOCs. The gasifier includes a furnace bed segmented into individual cells, each cell is independently monitored using a ramp temperature probe, and provided with controlled air injection. Gasifier air injection includes tuyere arrays, lances, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Robert G. Graham
  • Publication number: 20090266082
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a clearance between a blade tip of a turbine engine and a blade track spaced radially outward of the blade tip is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of operably coupling an elongate member to a blade track in a turbine engine. The method also includes the step of directing a fluid stream having a temperature in proximity to the elongate member. The temperature of the fluid stream can change over time. The method also includes the step of transferring heat between the fluid stream and elongate member to a change a size of the elongate member and move the blade track radially relative to a centerline axis of the turbine engine. An exemplary apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Mark O'Leary
  • Publication number: 20090266083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a regenerator using a rotation type magnet member and an active magnetic regenerator, and a magnetic refrigerator using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: DAEWOO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Shin, Dong Kwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20090266084
    Abstract: A subcooler (15) for a vapor compression cycle having a refrigerant. The subcooler (15) including a conduit (45) and one or more thermoelectric modules (17). The conduit (45) being in fluid communication with the vapor compression cycle for flow of the refrigerant therethrough. Each of the one or more thermoelectric modules (17) has a cold side in thermal communication with an inner volume of the conduit (45) for subcooling the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Xiaomei Yu, Gregory M. Dobbs, David Tew, Michael K. Sahm, Chung-Yi Tsai
  • Publication number: 20090266085
    Abstract: A refrigeration device for compostable materials, comprising, a recycling bin adapted to receive compostable materials, a liner element adapted to receive the recycling bin; and refrigeration means adapted for cooling the liner element wherein when compostable materials are positioned within the recycling bin and the recycling bin is positioned within the liner element, the refrigeration means cools the liner element, the recycling bin and the compostable materials positioned therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Robert Jason Goodwin, Reginald Joseph Leblanc
  • Publication number: 20090266086
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for containing LNG. The apparatus includes an LNG tank containing liquid phase LNG and boil-off gas of LNG, and an circulating device. The circulating device includes an intake port and a discharge port. The circulating device further includes an flowing pathway from the intake port to the discharge port that does not include a forced LNG liquefying device. The intake port is located in an upper portion of the LNG tank, and the discharge port is located in a lower portion of the LNG tank substantially lower than the intake port. The circulating device is configured to suction, through the intake port, boil-off gas from the upper portion of the LNG tank and to discharge boil-off gas, through the discharge port, to the lower portion of the LNG tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JUNG HAN LEE, DONG KYU CHOI, YOUNG SIK MOON, YOUNG SOO KIM
  • Publication number: 20090266087
    Abstract: A system and a process are provided for transferring a cryogenic fluid such as liquefied natural gas between a floating transport vessel and a storage vessel. The fluid is transferred through at least one submerged/subsea/subsurface catenary flexible conduit, the conduits being configured to avoid damage from waves and abrasion or contact with the other conduits, the vessels, or other objects. A conduit transfer vessel is provided for storing the conduit in the water, delivering the conduit to each transport vessel, but standing off from the transport vessel during cryogenic fluid transfer, and then retrieving the conduit from the transport vessel, which greatly improves the safety of the cryogenic fluid transfer operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Jimmie Dean Adkins, David T. McDonald
  • Publication number: 20090266088
    Abstract: A cold trap is provided with a cold panel provided in a pumping path such that the panel is exposed, a refrigerator thermally coupled to the cold panel and operative to cool the cold panel; and a controller configured, in a regeneration process for evaporating a gas frozen on the surface of the cold panel and discharging the gas outside using the vacuum pump, to control the refrigerator so as to raise the temperature of the cold panel to a temperature exceeding a non-liquefaction temperature range and to adjust a pressure in the pumping path at the temperature so that the gas frozen on the surface of the cold panel is evaporated without being melted, the non-liquefaction temperature range being a range in which it is guaranteed that a gas frozen on the surface of the cold trap is evaporated without being melted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20090266089
    Abstract: In an air conditioning unit for a car, which air conditioning unit has a refrigerant circuit with a primary consumer branch having a compressor, condenser, and an evaporator, which air conditioning unit also has at least one auxiliary consumer branch that is connected parallel to the primary consumer branch and has a cold accumulator and its own evaporator, a stop valve is arranged in front of each evaporator. After operational phases charging the cold accumulator, the stop valve of the primary consumer branch is regularly opened for only a predetermined opening time that depends on particular operating parameters. The substantial operating parameters are the air inlet temperature and the air mass flow at the evaporator of the primary consumer branch. The method thus makes possible the alternating charging operation of the cold accumulator parallel to the cooling mode at low air temperatures at the evaporator of the primary consumer branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Roland Haussmann
  • Publication number: 20090266090
    Abstract: An improved refrigerator is provided with a freeze tolerant valve for the water tank assembly in the refrigerator. The valve includes a body with an internal plastic spool which minimizes the volume of water within the valve, and which provides a space in the valve to accommodate freezing water in the valve. The valve will not crack or fail in the event of a temperature control problem in the refrigerator which results in frozen water within the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James H. Jenkins, JR., Thomas C. Anell
  • Publication number: 20090266091
    Abstract: A system and method is provided to control and operate a compressor to have two or more discrete output capacities in response to an outdoor temperature measurement. During operation of the compressor in an air conditioning or cooling mode, the compressor has a first output capacity in response to the outdoor temperature being greater than a first temperature setpoint and the compressor has a second output capacity in response to the outdoor temperature being less than a second temperature setpoint. During operation of the compressor in a heating mode, the compressor has different output capacities based on the outdoor ambient temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: BRISTOL COMPRESSORS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: John Willard Tolbert, JR.
  • Publication number: 20090266092
    Abstract: An HVAC system and method for configuring a controller to control a compressor including a detection system provided to determine a type of compressor. The detection system includes a processor; and a load sensing circuit connected between the processor and a controller. The controller has a plurality of output connections connectable to a compressor. The load sensing circuit senses whether a load is present on each output connection of the plurality of output connections and provides a load signal to the processor indicating whether a load is present on each output connection. The load signals are processed with the processor to determine the type of compressor is present. The controller is configured to control the compressor in response to the determined type of compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: YORK INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Ralph HARROD, Jeffrey Lee TUCKER
  • Publication number: 20090266093
    Abstract: A refrigerating air conditioning system is provided with a refrigerant circuit which includes a compressor 3, an indoor heat exchanger 6, a first pressure reducing device 10, an outdoor heat exchanger 11, and a switching device 4 for switching a direction of a refrigerant flow between heating and cooling modes for supplying heat from the indoor heat exchanger 6. In the system, a refrigerant temperature detection sensor 14c of the outdoor heat exchanger 11 and an outdoor air temperature detection sensor 14d are provided for determining a state of a frost formed on the outdoor heat exchanger 11. Two types of defrosting inhibition time values ?1 and ?3 are allowed to be set in accordance with a previous defrosting time ?2 for continuously performing heating operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090266094
    Abstract: A system and method of operating a vehicle air conditioning system having an engine driven, fixed capacity refrigerant compressor and a compressor clutch is disclosed. The method may comprises setting a preliminary evaporator air temperature target; charging a cold storage apparatus in the vehicle air conditioning system; determining if the cold storage apparatus has reached a predetermined threshold; if the cold storage apparatus has reached a predetermined threshold, determining a new evaporator air temperature target by: determining a maximum allowable dewpoint evaporator air temperature for maintaining a passenger compartment humidity below a predetermined value; determining a maximum allowable mode evaporator air temperature based on a mode to which the vehicle air conditioning system is set; and setting the evaporator air temperature target to the lower of the dewpoint evaporator air temperature and the mode evaporator air temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Major, John I. Frey, Kenneth L. Porrett
  • Publication number: 20090266095
    Abstract: A refrigerated preservation unit, particularly for domestic use, includes an internal compartment provided with an access door and with a refrigeration means. The unit includes an atmosphere control device constituted by a nitrogen generator, a control PLC, an oxygen analyzer, an overpressure/negative pressure valve, and a flexible plenum chamber. These components are all installed in a lower region of the unit, in the compartment normally used to accommodate the compressor and the condenser in traditional domestic refrigerators. The present invention allows to considerably improve the preservation times of food products stored inside home refrigerators when they are preserved loose and/or when the packages that contain them are not hermetically closed. The present invention allows in some cases to even treble the preservation time of the preserved products with a minimal additional energy expenditure of the electrical appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Marco Pruneri
  • Publication number: 20090266096
    Abstract: An apparatus for cooling, comprising: a liquid pump for transport of fluid through a heating cycle, an external heat source for heating the fluid in the heating cycle, for example a solar heater directly connected to the heating cycle or connected through a heat exchanger, an expander with an expander inlet and an expander outlet, the expander inlet having a fluid connection to the external heat source for receiving fluid in the gas phase to drive the expander by expanding the fluid, a compressor with a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the compressor being driven by the expander for compressing working fluid from a low pressure compressor inlet gas to a high pressure compressor outlet gas, a first heat exchanger with a fluid connection to the compressor outlet and connected to the expander inlet for transfer of heat from the high pressure compressor outlet gas to the fluid in the heating cycle, a second heat exchanger with a condenser for condensing the working fluid from the expander by energy trans
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Gunnar Minds, Soren Minds, John Steen Jensen
  • Publication number: 20090266097
    Abstract: An assembly for providing either of auxiliary power and/or convective heating of an auxiliary exhaust, such as provided via a water jacket surrounding the engine exhaust interposed between an auxiliary generator and the truck tail pipe and circulated by a pump to provide heat to the cab interior. A further alternate variant provides for solar panels mounted to an exterior cab location and for operating the vehicle electric motor with or without the need for batteries. An associated articulating or pivoting mechanism is provided for displacing the solar panels from a first position in which it is stored against a rear surface of the cab, and to a second position in which is it arrayed upwardly above the cab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: David Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20090266098
    Abstract: An electronic equipment includes a cooling system using boiling and condensation of a refrigerant, especially stabilizes the cooling performance, and reduces the influence which vibration accompanying phase change of boiling and condensation gives to the electronic equipment. Electronic equipment includes a cooling system including a cooling part which cools heat generating from a heat generator such as a heat generating component by using boiling of a refrigerant and is thermally connected to the heat generator such as the heat generating element, a heat radiation part which radiates heat absorbed by the refrigerant in the cooling part by condensation, a refrigerant drive part for delivering the condensed refrigerant to the cooling part again, and piping which fluidly connects them, and the electronic equipment includes preliminary heating means for heating the refrigerant, which flows to the cooling part from the refrigerant drive part, between the refrigerant drive part and the cooling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Noriyo NISHIJIMA, Shigeo OHASHI, Nariaki SHIGYO, Tatsuo MORITA
  • Publication number: 20090266099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a HVAC drainage system. There is a need for an HVAC drainage system which operates well in a vehicle which moves over rough terrain. An HVAC unit is mounted at a central portion of an inner roof panel over an air inlet opening. A collection recess is formed by the panel and surrounds the air inlet opening. Concentric walls formed by the inner roof panel in the collection recess surrounding the HVAC unit. Each wall has one or more gaps formed therein. The gaps in adjacent walls are mis-aligned with respect to each other so that fluid is prevented from flowing in a straight line through gaps in adjacent walls. Drainage ports are formed in the inner roof panel. Drainage grooves formed in the inner roof panel communicate the collection recess with corresponding drainage ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Bruss, Kyle D. Seibold
  • Publication number: 20090266100
    Abstract: A temperature-controlled vehicle including a cascade refrigeration system having a booster cooling line configured to supplement the cooling capacity of the cascade refrigeration system by expanding and venting a portion of a cryogenic refrigerant to the atmosphere during peak demands while the cascade refrigeration system continues to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: THERMO KING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Herman H. Viegas
  • Publication number: 20090266101
    Abstract: beverage dispensing apparatus for enclosing and cooling a keg (1) containing a beverage, comprising means for guiding the beverage from the keg (1) to a dispending tap for controlling the beverage output from the dispensing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a cooling system provided with heat transfer means (4) being in direct thermal contact with the keg (1). The cooling system is provided with an adsorbent cooling device (3) comprising a liquid chamber (5) for containing and vaporizing a liquid working substance (8), and an adsorbent chamber (6) containing an adsorbent (9) for adsorbing the vaporized working substance. The liquid chamber (5) is connected through a control valve (12) with the adsorbent chamber (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Eric Mark Sloot, Joldert Maria Boersma, Hugui Wang, Marcelinus Johannus Maria Bruggeman, Roland Van Straaten, Paulus Cornelis Duineveld, Johan Bernard Kuperus
  • Publication number: 20090266102
    Abstract: A housing for a refrigeration device with an interior compartment that is surrounded by an insulation layer and an external skin that surrounds the insulation layer. Said external skin comprises at least one wall which has at least two zones with different thermal conductivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
  • Publication number: 20090266103
    Abstract: Cooling device for a drink container, including:—a drink container compartment (2) including a placing opening in or close to the top side thereof for placing of the drink container,—a cooling compartment (3) for placing a cooling therein, wherein:—the cooling compartment (3) can be connected in thermal contact to the drink container compartment (2), and in the position of use the drink container compartment (2) is arranged at least partly higher than or above the cooling compartment (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Groeneveld
  • Publication number: 20090266104
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has header tanks each including a header forming plate, a tube connecting plate, and an intermediate plate interposed between the two plates, the plates being arranged in superposed layers and brazed to one another. Each of the plates is made from a metal plate by press work. The header forming plate has an outward bulging portion. The tube connecting plate has tube insertion holes. The intermediate plate has communication holes causing tube insertion holes to communicate with the interior of each outward bulging portion therethrough. Heat exchange tubes have opposite ends placed into the respective insertion holes and brazed to the respective tube connecting plates. The heat exchanger including such header tanks is reduced in the number of components, can be fabricated with a high work efficiency, and exhibits improved heat exchange performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Ichiyanagi
  • Publication number: 20090266105
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (102) for use in a refrigeration unit (101), comprising a metal plate (201) and a metal tube (202) for containing refrigerant (203). The metal plate (201) has a first face (204) and a second face (205), and the tube (202) is attached to said first face (204) of the metal plate by a plurality of spot welds (405,406). The spot welds are laser spot welds and said welds extend through only a portion of the thickness of the plate (201), such that the second face (205) of the plate is undisturbed by the welds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: BUNDY REFRIGERATION INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS B.V.
    Inventors: Bengt Ake Viklund, Gote Gunnar Berggren, Niels Liengard
  • Publication number: 20090266106
    Abstract: A method of producing a clathrate hydrate slurry, includes a step of heat-exchanging an aqueous solution of a guest compound for the clathrate hydrate or a slurry of the clathrate hydrate dispersed or suspended in an aqueous solution or water with a refrigerant thereby generating the clathrate hydrate in the aqueous solution or the slurry, in which a part of the clathrate hydrate deposited on the heat transfer surface in the process of heat exchange with the refrigerant is removed by adjustment of a temperature of the refrigerant and flow force of the aqueous solution or the slurry and the rest is kept remained as it covers the heat transfer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Hidemasa Ogoshi, Naoyuki Furumoto, Hiroyuki Ida
  • Publication number: 20090266107
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for the operation of a distillation tower containing a controlled freezing zone and at least one distillation section. The process and tower design are utilized for the additional recovery of hydrocarbons from an acid gas. In this process, a separation process is utilized in which a multi-component feedstream is introduced into an apparatus that operates under solids forming conditions for at least one of the feedstream components. The freezable component, although typically CO2, H2S, or another acid gas, can be any component that has the potential for forming solids in the separation system. A dividing wall is added to at least a portion of the lower distillation section of the apparatus to effect the separation of at least some fraction of the hydrocarbons in that portion of the tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Vikram Singh, Edward J. Grave, Paul Scott Northrop, Narasimhan Sundaram
  • Publication number: 20090266108
    Abstract: A lasting memento derived from the ashes of a cremated human or pet, and a method of manufacture thereof. A rough gem stone of either natural or man made chemistry can have a hole or plurality of holes that are drilled into them. The ashes are subsequently inserted into the drilled hole, whereupon, the holes are permanently sealed with known materials and sealing techniques. The rough stones are then faceted using conventional faceting and polishing procedures. The same techniques may be used to ‘drill and fill’ completed, faceted gem stones and man made synthetic crystals, resulting in the same permanent memento that may be incorporated into an article of jewelry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: PET GEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Craig M. Balme, Stephen D. Balme
  • Publication number: 20090266109
    Abstract: Jewelry containing at least one stone being specifically cut for replicating a shape of a country of origin of a wearer. The jewelry includes a setting and a stone. The stone is set in the setting, and is specifically cut for replicating the shape of the country of origin of the wearer of the article of jewelry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Kushal Sacheti
  • Publication number: 20090266110
    Abstract: A known SiO2 slurry for the production of quartz glass contains a dispersion liquid and amorphous SiO2 particles with particle sizes to a maximum of 500 ?m, wherein the largest volume fraction is composed of SiO2 particles with particle sizes in the range 1 ?m-60 ?m, as well as SiO2 nanoparticles with particle sizes less than 100 nm in the range 0.2-15% volume by weight (of the entire solids content). In order to prepare such a slurry for use, and to optimize the flow behavior of such a slurry with regard to later processing by dressing or pouring the slurry mass, and with regard to later drying and sintering without cracks, the invention suggests a slurry with SiO2 particles with a multimodal distribution of particle sizes, with a first maximum of the sizes distribution in the range 1 ?m-3 ?m and a second maximum in the range 5 ?m-50 ?m, and a solids content (percentage by weight of the SiO2 particles and the SiO2 nanoparticles together) in the range 83%-90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Waltraud Werdecker, Norbert Traeger, Juergen Weber
  • Publication number: 20090266111
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a glass, including, in order to obtain an excellent refining effect: preparing a raw glass batch including: an antimony compound containing pentavalent antimony; and an oxidizing agent (a cerium oxide, a sulfate, a nitrate); and melting the raw glass batch. In preparing the raw glass batch, it is preferable that the antimony compound be premixed with the oxidizing agent. When the nitrate is used as the oxidizing agent, the raw glass batch is prepared so as to include the antimony compound in an amount of more than 0.5 parts by mass and at most 3 parts by mass, in terms of an amount of antimony pentoxide, per 100 parts by mass of a base glass composition expressed in terms of an amount of an oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicants: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited, NH Techno Glass Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihito Nagashima, Kengo Maeda
  • Publication number: 20090266112
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine has a frame, a rotatably disposed dial, a dial cam support for a dial cam mounted in the frame and a dial cam shaft, which is disposed rotatably and coaxially in the dial cam support and is intended for driving the dial. The dial is disposed rotatably and coaxially on the dial cam support with adjustable bearing clearance and is preferably connected coaxially to the dial cam shaft by a spring plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Dietmar Traenkle
  • Publication number: 20090266113
    Abstract: A laundry appliance having a vibration detection device includes a frame, a drum received in the frame, and an electric motor assembly for driving the drum. The electric motor assembly includes an electric motor and an integrated motor controller mounted to the electric motor. An accelerometer as the vibration detection device is provided in the motor controller for detecting vibration of the drum. By integrating the accelerometer to the electric motor assembly, the laundry machine can more accurately detect vibration of the drum and the time and cost for assembling the washing machine are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Musser, Gregory A. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20090266114
    Abstract: A laundry system comprises a first laundry appliance, a second laundry appliance, and a vertical laundry module. The vertical laundry module can have a housing with a width less than the width of each of the first and second laundry appliances. The vertical laundry module can have a drawer that slidably opens from a face of the housing and a backsplash extending above an upper surface of the housing. The backsplash can further have a functional element that can be a storage compartment, a light, a control panel, or a power outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James William Kendall, Lorraine L. Achterberg, Ameresh Babu Viswanathan, Colleen Marie Doyle, Richard A. Sunshine
  • Publication number: 20090266115
    Abstract: The present invention has disclosed a washing machine with improved waterway system, said waterway system is comprising softening-electrolysis waterway, modifier-liquid waterway and ion-exchange-resin regeneration waterway, when this washing machine is at work, modifier-liquid combined with alkaline-electrolysis water could replace detergent for washing; meantime, said ion-exchange-resin regeneration waterway could greatly prolong the service life of softening-electrolysis system, and avoid the refluence of wastewater to cause pollution in the washing machine in prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicants: HAIER GROUP CORPORATION, QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chunhua CAO, Peishi Lv, Sheng Xu, Song Gai, Yuling Chen, Zeheng Li
  • Publication number: 20090266116
    Abstract: A laundry system comprises a first laundry appliance, a second laundry appliance, and a vertical laundry module. The vertical laundry module can have a housing with a width less than the width of each of the first and second laundry appliances. The vertical laundry module can have a drawer that slidably opens from a face of the housing and a hanging rod positioned in drawer. The vertical laundry module can further have a functional element that performing drying, refreshing, and/or sanitizing, and a control panel for controlling the operation of the functional element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: James William KENDALL, Lorraine L. ACHTERBERG, Ameresh Babu VISWANATHAN, Colleen Marie DOYLE, Richard A. SUNSHINE
  • Publication number: 20090266117
    Abstract: A laundry system comprises a first laundry appliance, a second laundry appliance, and a vertical laundry module. The vertical laundry module can have a housing with a width less than the width of each of the first and second laundry appliances and a stain treatment assembly. The stain treatment assembly can include a screen slidable mounted to the housing of the vertical module for supporting a fabric item and a wand extendable from the housing for applying a stain treatment agent to the fabric item on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: James William Kendall, Lorraine L. Achterberg, Ameresh Babu Viswanathan, Colleen Marie Doyle, Richard A. Sunshine
  • Publication number: 20090266118
    Abstract: A laundry system comprises a first laundry appliance, a second laundry appliance, and a vertical laundry module. The vertical laundry module can have a housing with a width less than the width of each of the first and second laundry appliances. The vertical laundry module can have a drawer that slidably opens from a face of the housing and/or a door that opens from the face of the housing. The vertical laundry module can further have an exterior hanging element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James William Kendall, Lorraine L. Achterberg, Ameresh Babu Viswanathan, Colleen Marie Doyle, Richard A. Sunshine
  • Publication number: 20090266119
    Abstract: A locking clamp device is provided with first and second clamping members. The first clamping member includes a base member with a first clamping surface and a locking member movable with respect to the base member between a securing position and a releasing position. The second clamping member is slidably engaged with the first clamping member and selectively movable to a plurality of clamping positions. The second clamping member includes a second clamping surface opposite the first clamping surface. The lockout device further includes a means for preventing movement of the locking member from the securing position to the releasing position. The locking member is configured to secure the second clamping member in one of the plurality of clamping positions when the locking member is in the securing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: MASTER LOCK COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Michael BROJANAC, Mark JOHNSON, Frank SCOTT, John WEBER
  • Publication number: 20090266120
    Abstract: A door lock includes a bracket fixed to a door. A linking rod is slideably mounted to the bracket and includes a slot. A draw member includes a first end pivotably connected to the bracket and a second end operably connected to a retractor. The draw member further includes a guide slot. A pin slideably extends through the slot and the guide slot such that the movement of the linking rod causes pivotal movement of the draw member, which in turn, urges the retractor to move a latch bolt from an extended position to a retracted position. A follower is coupled to the pin to move therewith. An adjusting member is in threading connection with the follower and rotatable to move the follower and the pin relative to the linking rod to adjust a position of the second end of the draw member relative to the retractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Hung-Jen Tien
  • Publication number: 20090266121
    Abstract: The device for childproofing a door lock is a device that fits on a standard lockset and prevents a lever or doorknob from turning when the device is engaged. The childproof door lock includes a substantially rectangular base plate and a circular disk that mounts atop the base. A sliding plate mounted on the base has a cylindrical locking post that engages a notch on the circular disk and prevents it from turning. The sliding plate may be spring-biased to hold the locking post in the notch. A lever may be attached to the sliding plate to disengage the locking post from the notch and allow the circular disk to turn freely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Timothy D. Craig
  • Publication number: 20090266122
    Abstract: A rod guide portion (5) is protruded on a frame body (4), and a lock rod (10) is disposed in the rod guide portion (5) so as to be freely movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. A guide-side weak portion (13) and a rod-side weak portion (14) are provided on the rod guide portion (5) and the lock rod (10), respectively. A deadlock mechanism (15A) is provided, which locks a tip end side of the lock rod (10), the tip end side being cut off at the rod-side weak portion (14), at a position at a point of time when the lock rod (10) is cut off when the rod guide portion (5) and the lock rod (10) are cut off at positions of the guide-side weak portion (13) and the rod-side guide portion (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Okada, Kenjirou Hayashi, Ryuichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090266123
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lock device comprising a key and a lock cylinder, said lock cylinder comprising a fixed cylinder housing and a cylinder core mounted to rotate therein. The key shaft (10.3) has an edge profile and may be inserted in a key way of the cylinder core in which displaceable tumblers (41, 42) are located transverse to the above. The key shaft (10.3) has profiled recesses running in the longitudinal direction, comprising a pair of follow points for each tumbler (41, 42) for coding the key, whilst the tumbler (41, 42) has a pair of counter follow points which are the basis of the corresponding counter coding. According to this invention, a space-saving design of the lock device may be achieved with a large range of variation for the coding wherein both follow points are on the key shaft (10.3) in the form of recesses, arranged on opposing lateral surfaces to an edge (57.2; 57.3) of the edge profile of the key shaft (10.3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Matthias Habecke, Dirk Jacob
  • Publication number: 20090266124
    Abstract: The present invention has the purpose of unlocking the cylinder into the pantographic-type locks and identify the code with no need to disassembly the cylinder, which consists on a pantographic-type key with a channel, where wires with angled curved-ends move with the purpose of aligning the throats set in respect to the cylinder tangent; and the jacket line where the handle of the pantographic-type key and piston are placed to move the wire with angled-ends. To perform the code reading, three metal plates and two labels will be used with the representation of the printed throats levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: Abel Ferreira Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20090266125
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in some embodiments, a plant fertilizing composition and a method of producing the plant fertilizer. Other embodiments of the invention provide natural, organic, non-pathogenic enzymes for soil and water immobilization and microencapsulated bacterial enzymatic complexes. Various embodiments of the invention are particularly suited for use in agriculture to increase the health and yield of crop plants. In other embodiments, the composition may be utilized to reduce waterborne contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventor: An Tung Thien Doan