Patents Issued in July 4, 2013
  • Publication number: 20130167531
    Abstract: Example embodiments include a vapor forming apparatus, system and/or method for producing vapor from radioactive decay material. The vapor forming apparatus including an insulated container configured to enclose a nuclear waste container. The nuclear waste container includes radioactive decay material. The insulated container includes an inlet valve configured to receive vapor forming liquid. The radioactive decay material transfers heat to the vapor forming liquid. The insulated container also includes an outlet valve configured to output the vapor forming liquid heated by the radioactive decay material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLC
    Inventors: Eric P. Loewen, Jordan E. Hagaman
  • Publication number: 20130167532
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a two-part system with a gas generator and a driven engine system. In the two-part system, the first part of the system is the gas generator which produces power to operate and drive an engine. The driven engine is considered the second part of this two-part system. This method includes operating a gas generator combustion chamber that receives fuel, oxidizer, and water; an igniter coupled to the combustion chamber; and a computer controller that includes-sensors to sense pressure and temperature in the combustion chamber, wherein the computer controller controls the amount of fuel, oxidizer, and water in the chamber, and actuates the igniter. The combustion of the fuel and oxidizer combined with the steam that is produced are used to drive an engine. The system may also use an auxiliary unit to assist in the functions of the gas generator and the driven engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Richard A. Parenti
  • Publication number: 20130167533
    Abstract: A waste heat steam generator for a gas and steam turbine power plant is provided. The generator has economizer, evaporator and superheater heating surfaces which form a flow path and through which a flow medium flows. An overflow line branches off from the flow path and leads to injection valves arranged downstream at a flow side of a superheater heating surface in the flow path. The overflow line permits a brief power increase of a downstream steam turbine without resulting in an excessive loss in efficiency of the steam process. The brief power increase is permitted independently of the type of waste heat steam generator. The branch location of the overflow line is arranged upstream of an evaporator heating surface at the flow medium side and downstream of an economizer heating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Jan Brückner, Frank Thomas
  • Publication number: 20130167534
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heating and cooling a working fluid (2) using at least one thermochemical heat accumulator medium (3), wherein the working fluid (2) is guided through at least one thermochemical heat accumulator (6) comprising the heat accumulator medium (3), wherein the working fluid (2) is guided without contact to the heat accumulator medium (3), wherein upon charging of the heat accumulator medium (3) a heat flow (Q) is transferred from the working fluid (2) to the heat accumulator medium (3) and at least one substance (15) is released from the heat accumulator medium (3) and discharged from the heat accumulator (6), and wherein upon discharging of the heat accumulator medium (3) the substance (15) is fed with release of heat to the heat accumulator medium (3) or at least to a reaction product of the heat accumulator medium (3) that was produced during charging of the heat accumulator medium (3), and a heat flow (Q) is transferred to the working fluid (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: LEUPHANA UNIVERSITAT LUNEBURG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruck, Oliver Opel
  • Publication number: 20130167535
    Abstract: An engine/heat pump is shown. The preferred model has at least one expander, being a centrifugal pump and at least one compressor, being a centrifugal pump, the rotor for the expander and the rotor for the compressor being on the same axle. The axle and rotors and all rapidly moving parts are surrounded by the working fluid, which is a monatomic gas within a substantially stationary container not pierced by any moving part. An electric dynamo also completely surrounded by the gas rotates magnets in an aerodynamic configuration simulating a group of horseshoe magnets. The dynamo coils between the ends of the magnets are also in an aerodynamic structure but stationary. The output wires extend through the gas container wall. Heat exchangers are on the paths between compressor and expander.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Ronald Edward Graf
  • Publication number: 20130167536
    Abstract: A multistage pressure condenser includes, a high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber, a pressure partition wall which partitions an inner portion of the low pressure chamber to an upper portion and a lower portion, a cooling pipe group which condenses low pressure side steam to low pressure side condensate, a reheat chamber positioned in the lower portion of the low pressure chamber and in which the low pressure side condensate which flows down through the porous plate is stored, high pressure side steam introduction portion for introducing high pressure side steam in the high pressure chamber to the reheat chamber, liquid-film forming portion which guides the low pressure side condensate which flows down through the porous plate to the reheat chamber while dispersing the low pressure side condensate on a surface, and air feeder for promoting the flow of the high pressure side steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130167537
    Abstract: A clamp assembly for facilitating attachment and removal of a first component to or from a second component includes plural clamp bodies, each having at least two mutually perpendicular surfaces arranged about the first component. A substantially rigid ring is located between one surface of the clamp body and a surface of the first component. At least one fastener is provided for each of the plural clamp bodies, adapted to extend through a respective one of the plural clamp bodies and into the second component. Tooling is provided to allow for simultaneous tightening or loosening of all bolts on a single combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Alan DAVI, Rahul Jaikaran CHILLAR, Stephen Hugh BLACK, John William HERBOLD
  • Publication number: 20130167538
    Abstract: A fuel shroud assembly (100) into which fuel (118) is injected for mixing with an air stream (120) in a fuel manifold. The shroud assembly (100) comprises a plurality of parallel fuel scoops (102) each receiving the injected fuel (118). The fuel stream (118) flows through each scoop (102), exiting at an open scoop end (114A). The air stream (120) flows between scoops, creating a shear region proximate each scoop end (114A) where the fuel exits. The shear causes mixing of the air (120) and the fuel (118) streams, wherein the degree of mixing is not dependent on the momentum ratio of the air (120) or fuel (118) streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Walter R. Laster, Elizabeth R. Colore, David A. Little
  • Publication number: 20130167539
    Abstract: Fuel nozzles for gas turbines are provided that include liquid fuel cartridges. In one embodiment, a fuel nozzle includes a fuel plenum plate separating an air plenum from a fuel plenum. The fuel nozzle also includes a plurality of mixing tubes extending through the fuel plenum from the fuel plenum plate to a face plate. Each mixing tube includes an air inlet configured to receive air from the air plenum, a fuel inlet disposed in a tube wall within the fuel plenum to direct fuel from the fuel plenum into the mixing tube to produce a fuel-air mixture, and a fuel-air outlet configured to discharge the fuel-air mixture away from the face plate into a combustion region. The fuel nozzle further includes a liquid fuel cartridge extending through the air plenum and the fuel plenum to the face plate. The liquid fuel cartridge includes a liquid fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Jonathan Dwight Berry
  • Publication number: 20130167540
    Abstract: A combustor of a turbomachine is provided and includes an assembly defining an interior and being configured to direct air to flow along an annulus in a first direction about the interior and in a second direction toward the interior, the first and second directions being substantially opposed, a manifold configured to be supplied with fuel and a tubular body defining a pathway along which the air is transmittable in a third direction from the annulus to the interior, the third direction being transverse to the first and second directions. The tubular body includes a sidewall extendible through the manifold. The sidewall defines an injection hole within the manifold by which transmitted air is mixable with the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Vaibhav Nadkarni
  • Publication number: 20130167541
    Abstract: A swirler assembly in a gas turbine combustor includes a hub, a shroud, and a plurality of vanes connected between the hub and the shroud. A vane angle of the plurality of vanes is adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Mahesh Bathina, Amulya Panda
  • Publication number: 20130167542
    Abstract: A flowsleeve of a turbomachine component is provided. The flowsleeve includes an annular body including an upstream casing and a downstream casing. The upstream casing defines a fuel feed, and the downstream casing defines an airway opening, and a premixing passage. The premixing passage is fluidly coupled to the fuel feed and the airway opening and has a passage interior in which fuel and air receivable from the fuel feed and the airway opening, respectively, are combinable to form a fuel and air mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Lucas John Stoia, Russell Pierson DeForest, Patrick Benedict Melton
  • Publication number: 20130167543
    Abstract: A transition nozzle for use with a turbine assembly is provided. The transition nozzle includes a liner defining a combustion chamber therein, a wrapper circumscribing the liner such that a cooling duct is defined between the wrapper and the liner, a cooling fluid inlet configured to supply a cooling fluid to the cooling duct, and a plurality of ribs coupled between the liner and the wrapper such that a plurality of cooling channels are defined in the cooling duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Kevin Weston McMahan, Ronald James Chila, David Richard Johns
  • Publication number: 20130167544
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel injector is disclosed having a plurality of fuel injection circuits that are structured to deliver fuel to air passageways. In one non-limiting embodiment, one of the fuel injection circuits includes a plain jet airblast injector that delivers fuel to an air passageway. In some applications the plain jet can extend across the air passageway and deliver a fuel to an opposite surface to form a fuel film. The fuel film can then be sheared between an air in the air passageway and an air in a nearby air passageway. Another of the fuel injection circuits includes a fuel filmer structured to deliver fuel to an air passageway that can then be sheared by an air in the air passageway and an air in the air passageway that included the plain jet airblast injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Dan Nickolaus
  • Publication number: 20130167545
    Abstract: A combustor system for use in a turbine engine is provided. The turbine engine includes turbine assembly that includes a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a combustion gas path defined therebetween. The combustor system includes a first combustor assembly and a second combustor assembly. The first combustor assembly is coupled to the turbine assembly for channeling a first flow of combustion gases through the turbine assembly. The first combustor assembly is oriented adjacent to the turbine assembly inlet to channel the first flow of combustion gases to the turbine assembly through the turbine assembly inlet. The second combustor assembly is coupled to the turbine assembly along the combustion gas path for channeling a second flow of combustion gases through the turbine assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Ahmed Mostafa Elkady, Christian Lee Vandervort, Narendra Joshi, Sherif Mohamed
  • Publication number: 20130167546
    Abstract: A combustor is provided in which a fuel and working fluid can be injected in an annulus. In one form the fuel and working fluid is circumferentially flowed within the annulus and traverses the annulus in an axial direction from one side to another side where the flow exits. The working fluid and air can be co-axially admitted to the combustor and in one form the working fluid can be swirled about the fuel dispensed from a fuel injector. The combustor can provide for a rich burning zone. In one embodiment the combustor is configured as an inter-turbine combustor having an outlet at one axial side of the combustor. A lean burn region can be created within a flow path of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Jushan Chin
  • Publication number: 20130167547
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a gas turbine engine includes a combustor, a fuel nozzle placed in an end of the combustor, and a passage configured to receive an air flow from a compressor discharge casing, wherein the passage directs the air flow into a chamber downstream of the nozzle, wherein a chamber pressure is lower than a compressor discharge casing pressure. The gas turbine engine also includes a flow control device configured to control the air flow from the compressor discharge casing into the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Lucas John STOIA, Patrick Benedict MELTON, Predrag Peja POPOVIC
  • Publication number: 20130167548
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a compressor, a combustor downstream from the compressor and a heat transfer system, wherein the heat transfer system receives a compressed working fluid from the compressor. A fluid coupling between the heat transfer system and the combustor, wherein the fluid coupling receives the compressed working fluid from the heat transfer system. A conditioner in fluid communication with the compressor and a fluid coupling between the heat transfer system and the conditioner, wherein the fluid coupling receives a cooling media from the heat transfer system. A method for operating the gas turbine includes flowing a compressed working fluid from the compressor to the heat transfer system, transferring heat energy from the compressed working fluid to the heat transfer system, flowing the compressed working fluid from the heat transfer system to a combustor, and flowing a cooling media from the heat transfer system to a compressor inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Predrag Popovic, William Francis Carnell, JR., Andrew Mitchell Rodwell
  • Publication number: 20130167549
    Abstract: A method of controlling a turbine engine. The method may include adjusting a position of a plurality of guide vanes of a compressor. The adjusting the position of the plurality of guide vanes may be a function of a compressor temperature signal. The method may further include adjusting a quantity of fuel delivered to a combustor via a pilot assembly. The adjusting of the quantity of fuel may be a function of a temperature difference resulting from the adjusting a position of the plurality of guide vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Chad M. Holcomb, Jason W. Ritchie
  • Publication number: 20130167550
    Abstract: A method of delivering a purge flow through a gas turbomachine includes generating a purge flow, guiding the purge flow through at least one of a combustor assembly and a turbine portion of the gas turbomachine, determining a cumulative purge volume passing through the one of the combustor assembly and the turbine portion of the gas turbomachine to determine a predetermined purge volume, and discontinuing the purge flow once the predetermined purge volume has passed through the one of the combustor assembly and the turbine portion of the gas turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David August Snider, Christopher John Morawski
  • Publication number: 20130167551
    Abstract: A turbine includes a compressor to intake a fluid and to compress the fluid, a combustion chamber to heat the fluid from the compressor, a turbine section to rotate a shaft with the heated fluid from the combustion chamber, and a bypass circuit to generate a bypass flow by removing a portion of the fluid from the compressor, to heat the bypass flow, and to insert the bypass flow to the turbine section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Moorthi Subramaniyan, Umesh Garg, Joshy John, Lakshmanan Valliappan
  • Publication number: 20130167552
    Abstract: An exhaust strut is provided and includes a body having an airfoil-shaped cross-section defining a lead edge portion and a trailing edge portion opposite the lead edge portion, the lead edge portion and the trailing edge portion being connected by a pressure side and a suction side opposite the pressure side, at least the lead edge portion and respective sections of the pressure side and the suction side proximate to the lead edge portion being formed of shape memory alloy, and a temperature control system operably disposed at the lead edge portion and the respective sections of the pressure side and the suction side proximate to the lead edge portion to modify a temperature of the shape memory alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mayur Abhay Keny, Thangaraj Subbareddyar, Hariharan Sundaram
  • Publication number: 20130167553
    Abstract: A hyperstatic truss including connecting rods, used for suspension of a first ring, forming part of an engine case, inside a second ring concentric to the first ring, the connecting rods being secured at one end to the first ring and at the other end to the second ring. The tensile stiffness of the connecting rods is greater than the compressive stiffness thereof. The truss for example can be used for suspension of a ducted-fan turbine engine with an elongate bypass duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Francois Robert Bellabal, Thomas Alain Christian Vincent
  • Publication number: 20130167554
    Abstract: A method of assembling a temperature sensing device for a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes providing a temperature sensor and providing a housing configured to envelop the temperature sensor. The method further includes mounting the temperature sensor within the housing such that a portion of the temperature sensor is disposed outside of the housing and such that the housing is configured to receive a flow of cooling air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: John Patrick Parsons
  • Publication number: 20130167555
    Abstract: An airfoil includes, among other possible things, a main body extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge. Channels are formed into the main body, with a plurality of ribs extending intermediate the channels. A cover skin is attached to the main body. The cover skin is welded to the main body at outer edges. An adhesive is placed between inner surfaces of the cover skin and the main body. The adhesive is deposited inwardly of the outer edges of the cover skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Michael A. Weisse
  • Publication number: 20130167556
    Abstract: A cooling and heating apparatus for vehicle seats and a method of controlling the same, which can control the cooling or heating temperature by sensing the temperature of air before the air is introduced into a cooling and heating module. The apparatus includes: a blower fan installed in a housing so as to forcibly blow cool or hot air to an air supply channel of a vehicle seat; a temperature sensor mounted in the housing at a location at which the temperature sensor comes into contact with sucked air and senses a temperature of the sucked air; and a control unit receiving a temperature signal from the temperature sensor and controlling a cooling or heating temperature according to a characteristic value that corresponds to a state of the sucked air and is selected from characteristic values stored therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KBAUTOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kbautotech Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130167557
    Abstract: A power plant includes a compressor configured to compress inlet air for combustion. The power plant also includes an air separation unit configured to receive and remove nitrogen from an air supply. The power plant further includes a fluid manipulator operably coupled to the air separation unit and the compressor, wherein the fluid manipulator is configured to receive nitrogen removed from the air separation unit at an inlet pressure and an inlet temperature and produce a modified pressure and a modified temperature of the nitrogen prior to selectively delivering the nitrogen to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kihyung Kim, Barrett David Gardiner, Diego Fernando Rancruel
  • Publication number: 20130167558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry cleaning apparatus comprising an arrangement for cooling fluid being used as solvent in the apparatus, and a method for cooling the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX LAUNDRY SYSTEMS SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Ahmed Al Jassani, Hakan L. Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20130167559
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a heat pump and a control method thereof. The heat pump includes an outdoor unit including a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and a first expansion valve, an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and a second expansion valve, a hydro unit including a hot water heat exchanger and a third expansion valve, the hydro unit heating or cooling water through heat exchange between a refrigerant and the water, a refrigerant flow path switching member to switch refrigerant flow paths among the compressor, the outdoor heat exchanger, the indoor unit, and the hydro unit such that simultaneous heating and cooling operations and/or simultaneous cooling and heating operations through the indoor unit and the hydro unit are performed in a heat recovery mode to recover and reuse residual heat, and a controller to control the refrigerant flow path switching member such that at least one of the simultaneous operations is performed in the heat recovery mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130167560
    Abstract: An energy-saving optimized control system for a chiller plant room comprises an industry control computer (1), a flow sensor (4), a temperature sensor (5), an outdoor temperature and humidity sensor (6), a three-phase active power transmitter (7), a water pump variable speed driver (9) and a cooling tower fan variable speed driver (10), which are respectively connected with a programmable controller (2), wherein the programmable controller (2) communicates with the industrial control computer (1) through an industrial Ethernet; and an RS485 communication interface module (3) is connected with chillers and communicates with the industrial control computer (1) through a ModBus protocol. An energy-saving optimized control method for a chiller plant room is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: WELDTECH TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyuen Wong, Gang Wu
  • Publication number: 20130167561
    Abstract: An upwardly helical flow path of cryogen-rich air inside a cryogenic spiral freezer may be used to chill or freeze products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP
    Inventor: David C. Braithwaite
  • Publication number: 20130167562
    Abstract: An upwardly helical flow path of cryogen-rich air inside a cryogenic spiral freezer may be used to chill or freeze products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP
    Inventor: David C. Braithwaite
  • Publication number: 20130167563
    Abstract: In order to accomplish the objective of the present invention, according to one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for storing ice comprises: a housing which has heat insulation characteristics and the interior of which has a storage space; an ice maker which is accommodated in the housing, and which contains an ice tray for making ice; an ice bin arranged below the ice maker to store the ice made by the ice maker; a transfer member arranged within the ice bin to discharge the ice to the outside of the ice bin; a refrigerating cycle which extends into the housing, and which includes an evaporation unit attached to the outer surface of the ice tray to cool the ice tray; and a control unit which controls the operation of the refrigerating cycle and of the transfer member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Taehee Lee, Youngjin Kim, Junsung Lee, Kyunghan Jeong
  • Publication number: 20130167564
    Abstract: A system and method of controlling a multiple condenser air conditioning system that provides for efficient regulation of air temperature. The refrigeration system includes one or more valves whose operation is preferably controlled by programmable control logic to regulate flow through the refrigerant condenser(s) and sequentially control compressor discharge pressure and temperature in response to demands for heating or reheating of a supply air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Desert Aire Corp.
    Inventors: Craig Michael Burg, Harold Mark Sindelar
  • Publication number: 20130167565
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling an operation of a refrigerator. Different operation modes are selected according to whether a refrigerator door is opened and closed, and according to an inner temperature and an ambient noise. Freezing capacity of a compressor, the number of rotations of an evaporator fan, and the number of rotations of a condenser fan are varied in conjunction with one another, to reduce a noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jindong Kim, Myoungju Kang, Hosan Kim
  • Publication number: 20130167566
    Abstract: An ejector (200; 400; 600; 700; 800) has a housing (202) and an insert. The housing has an upstream end (206) and a downstream end (208) and a branch (220). A primary flowpath extends from the upstream end and a secondary flowpath passes through the branch to join the primary flowpath. The insert (204; 402) is within the housing and extends from an upstream end (250) to a downstream end (252). The insert has a motive nozzle (240) having an inlet and an outlet. A mixer (242) is at least partially downstream of the motive nozzle. One or more passages (304) are positioned such that the secondary flowpath extends through the branch and through the one or more passages to join the primary flowpath, at least one portion of the insert being of less robust material than a material of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Abbas A. Alahyari
  • Publication number: 20130167567
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes low-pressure side pressure detecting means for detecting the pressure of a refrigerant being sucked by a compressor, suction refrigerant temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of the refrigerant being sucked by the compressor, frequency detecting means for detecting the operation frequency of the compressor, cooling target fluid inflow temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of a cooling target fluid flowing in an evaporator, cooling target fluid outflow temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of the cooling target fluid flowing out of the evaporator, and flow rate calculating means (measuring unit, computing unit, and storage unit) for calculating the absolute quantity of the flow rate of the cooling target fluid flowing in the evaporator using a value detected by each detecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Fukui, Fumitake Unezaki, Makoto Saito
  • Publication number: 20130167568
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring concentration of a liquid-state refrigerant of a nonazeotrope refrigerant mixture. A container is disposed in such a way that a liquid-state refrigerant mixture of the nonazeotrope refrigerant mixture in a saturated state is temporarily stored with set quality. By measuring temperature and pressure of the liquid-state refrigerant mixture, concentration of the liquid-state refrigerant can be calculated from a database regarding a relationship between a saturation vapor pressure, temperature, quality, and concentration of the previously-stored nonazeotrope refrigerant mixture in the saturated state. Thus, a configuration for measuring the concentration of the liquid-state refrigerant-absorbent mixture includes a container, a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor and thus is very simple and the cost for the configuration can be reduced. In addition, the container can be easily mounted on existing equipment without disturbance of a flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventor: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
  • Publication number: 20130167569
    Abstract: A structure of an auger motor assembly capable of easily installing an auger motor to drive an auger at an inside an ice making compartment, a solenoid valve to select whether to crush ice, an ice making compartment fan to flow the air at an inside the ice making compartment, and a drain hose to discharge the defrost water of the ice making tray to an outside the ice making compartment, so that the auger motor assembly is installed easily at an inside the ice making compartment by being inserted into the inside the ice making compartment through an open front surface of the ice making compartment in a sliding manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130167570
    Abstract: A conduit used only at one end of, and mildly defrosting, an evaporator without causing excessive heat to affect the evaporator in proximity to the evaporator. A tube includes at least one central passageway, at least one peripheral passageway, and at least one intermediate passageway. A refrigerant flows through the at least one peripheral passageway. A hot refrigerant gas flows through the at least one central passageway, and blends with the refrigerant flowing through the tube so as to form a defrosting blend. The defrosting blend defrosts along the full length of the tube, which occurs very rapidly due to contact of the hot refrigerant gas on the way to the end of the tube and then back through the at least one intermediate passageway of the tube as the blend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Jose Bouloy
  • Publication number: 20130167571
    Abstract: A controller controls the operations of a humidity control apparatus and an air conditioner. The controller includes a power consumption detector, a target value setting processor, and an operation control unit. The power consumption detector detects the power consumption of the humidity control apparatus and the air conditioner. The target value setting processor performs optimal target value setting processing by performing first or second processing. The first processing lowers a target operating frequency of a humidity controlling compressor and a target evaporation temperature in a utilization-side heat exchanger. The second processing raises the target operating frequency and the target evaporation temperature. The optimal target value setting processing sets the target operating frequency and the target evaporation temperature so as to minimize the power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20130167572
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus uses a zeotropic refrigerant mixture, in which its saturated liquid refrigerant temperature is lower than the saturated gas refrigerant temperature under the same pressure condition, as the heat source side refrigerant. When one or some of a plurality of heat exchangers related to heat medium functions as an evaporator, the air-conditioning apparatus executes an anti-freezing control that prevents the heat medium from freezing by estimating occurrence of freezing of the heat medium on the basis of a value obtained by subtracting a freezing temperature correction value that is set as a positive value larger than zero from an evaporating temperature of the refrigerant in the heat exchanger related to heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130167573
    Abstract: An aseptic ice making system includes an ice making system to receive water from a water supply. The ice making system includes an ice producing subsystem to produce ice and a positive air pressure subsystem to maintain a positive air pressure environment within the ice making system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Almblad, Susan Clickner
  • Publication number: 20130167574
    Abstract: A structure of an ice making tray of a refrigerator configured to discharge the excess water to generate ice having a suitable size and to crush the link of the ice generated at an ice making tray to prevent the ice from being stuck when the ice is separated from the ice making tray, the ice making tray including a bottom, a sidewall extended toward an upper side thereof from the bottom in order to form an ice making space, an opening formed at the sidewall to discharge the water supplied in excess, a partial wall unit to divide the ice making space, and a cutting rib formed at an upper side of the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130167575
    Abstract: A structure of a driving apparatus capable of easily organizing a driving apparatus that is configured to drive an ejector of an ice maker, and preventing frost from being formed on inner compartments, the driving apparatus including a case and a driving module detachable to the inner side of the case, wherein the driving module includes an ice separating motor to drive the ejector, a circuit board to control an ice making process, an electro-motion member to deliver a rotational force of the ice separating motor to the ejector, and a module case to accommodate the components of the driving module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130167576
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator has a refrigerator body including a storage chamber to store foods, a door configured to open or close the storage chamber, an ice maker mounted on the door and an ice maker cover to at least partially cover the ice maker, the ice maker cover including a cool air inlet port for introducing cool air at an upper portion thereof. The ice maker includes a first guide coupled to a lower portion of the ice maker to guide cool air to pass through the lower portion of the ice maker and a second guide provided at an upper side of the ice maker to guide cool air introduced through the cool air inlet port to be branched off and flowed into the upper and lower portions of the ice maker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
  • Publication number: 20130167577
    Abstract: A combined heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (“HVACR”) system including an HVAC sub-system and a refrigeration sub-system. The HVAC sub-system is in communication with an open space of an indoor environment and includes a first condenser, a first evaporator, and a first compressor at least partially defining a first refrigerant circuit circulating a first refrigerant for selectively conditioning an airflow within the HVAC subsystem that conditions the open space. The refrigeration sub-system is in communication with an enclosed space within the indoor environment and includes a second con-denser, a second evaporator, and a second compressor and at least partially defining a second refrigerant circuit circulating a second refrigerant for selectively conditioning the enclosed space. Heat from the second refrigerant is selectively transferred to the airflow within the second condenser to reheat the airflow prior to the airflow being discharged into the open space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: HUSSMANN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norm E. Street, Roger J. Voorhis, Doron Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20130167578
    Abstract: There has been a problem of dew condensation, during a cooling operation, on a wind vane or the like provided at an air outlet because the wind speed of blown air leaking from ends in longitudinal direction of the air outlet is low, causing the entanglement of room air. Walls that form an air outlet from which air that has exchanged heat in a heat exchanger is blown are provided. End portions of each of the walls in a longitudinal direction of the air outlet have respective recesses such that a passage of the air therein is made wider than in a central portion of the wall. In the longitudinal direction of the air outlet, the recesses each have a downstream-side width that is smaller than an upstream-side width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Koji Yamaguchi, Masatomo Hatta, Masahiko Takagi, Makoto Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20130167579
    Abstract: A salad bar cooler comprises a top chamber 695, pan chiller chamber 680, return air chamber 695 and is integrated with a convertible and compact refrigeration system 501 to cool food held in food pans 930.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Hector Delgadillo
  • Publication number: 20130167580
    Abstract: In a compressor, a single refrigerant of hydrofluoroolefin having a double bond of carbon or a mixed refrigerant containing hydrofluoroolefin and hydrofluorocarbon having no double bond of carbon is used, and moreover a refrigerating machine oil containing an additive for suppressing deterioration of the refrigerating machine oil and an antiwear agent is used, the compressor including a sliding portion which is exposed to the mixed refrigerant and the refrigerating machine oil and which has a hardness of 47-55 HRC. Thus, decomposition and polymerization of the refrigerant and the refrigerating machine oil can be inhibited (i.e., occurrence of sludge can be inhibited), and antiwear property of sliding portions, e.g. vane and piston, of the compressor can be maintained. As a result, reliability of the compressor and the refrigerating cycle apparatus using the compressor can be ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ishida, Noboru Iida, Shingo Oyagi, Shigehiro Sato