Patents Issued in June 21, 2016
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Patent number: 9371958Abstract: A support for supporting equipment includes at least one elongate leg element at least partially supporting an apex selectively, detachably mountable to equipment, where the leg includes a first end proximate the apex and a second end distal the apex, and where the leg is pivotal about an axis proximate the first end throughout a limited arc. A securement assembly pivotably interconnects the first end of the leg with the apex. The securement assembly has selectable resistance to movement along the arc as a result of selectively increasing or decreasing the resistance between at least three friction plates having surfaces in face-to-face engagement with one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Really Right Stuff, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Johnson, Matthew L. Burk
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Patent number: 9371959Abstract: A support for an electronic appliance comprises a hollow profile 1 for disposing one or more electronic appliances 10 thereon. Within a first channel 4 which has a cylindrical basic shape, a similarly cylindrical connection plug may be positioned for connection to the electronic appliances 10, so that the connection plug is freely slidable in the longitudinal direction and at the same time pivotable within a predetermined angular range transversal to the support about the cylinder axis of the first channel 4. Thereby, one or more electronic appliances 10 may be stored on the support and may be conveniently and securely connected to the connection plug for charging their accumulators or for synchronizing the data stored thereon.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Marcus Kuchler
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Patent number: 9371960Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for use on a cable, particularly to a power line or cable inspection and/or monitoring apparatus or robot. The apparatus typically comprises a power module to power the apparatus, a pair of links serially coupled via at least one joint, a gripper arrangement coupled to each link for attaching the apparatus to the cable, wherein each gripper arrangement is controllable to grip and/or release the cable as an end effector, and grip the cable as a base in a serial manipulator fashion; and a control arrangement configured at least to control displacement of the links and the gripper arrangements to grip and/or release the cable. The invention also extends to a method of inspecting and/or monitoring a cable; an inspection and/or monitoring system for inspecting a cable; and to a method of operating an apparatus on an elongate cable to avoid an obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, ESKOM HOLDINGS SOC LIMITEDInventors: Trevor Gareth Lorimer, Edward Sidney Boje
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Patent number: 9371961Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an installation part and a module, relating to the field of mechanical designs and capable of reducing the quantity of installation parts and increasing the efficiency of assembling and disassembling an article that needs to be installed. The installation part includes: a slot configured to be clamped with a hoop, where the hoop is configured to fix a pole part onto a pole together with the pole part; and a first screw hole configured to be connected to a conversion bracket, where the conversion bracket is configured to connect the pole part and an article that needs to be installed. The embodiments of the present invention are applied to the installation of modules.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guohui Zou, Wenjie Wei
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Patent number: 9371962Abstract: A swivel cover assembly includes a mounting plate with an opening and a door closing the opening for supporting a swivel hanger. The mounting plate forms a socket for suspending the swivel hanger. The door is hinged to the mounting plate to pivot downwardly from the mounting plate about an axis parallel to the plane of the mounting plate. A hinge member is integrally formed with the mounting plate and door. A fastening member latches the door in the closed position. The fastener can be a screw or a bendable tab that is manually bent to hold the door closed.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Mahran H. Ayrton
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Patent number: 9371963Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricant distributor (1), in particular for use in central lubricating systems for machines, vehicles, construction machines, or agricultural machines, for conveying and distributing lubricant from a lubricant source to predetermined lubricant discharge points by means of one or more lines,comprising a main distributor (2). The lubricant distributor is characterized in that the lubricant distributor comprises at least one line-break monitor (3) for detecting a pressure drop in at least one line, and in that the at least one line-break monitor (3) is structurally arranged in or on the main distributor (2) in order to create a rigid unit comprising the main distributor (2) and the line-break monitor (3).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Baier and Koeppel GmbH and Co.Inventor: Jürgen Brendel
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Patent number: 9371964Abstract: This high pressure gas tank is a tank in which a fiber-reinforced resin layer is formed around an outer periphery of a tank liner by fibers impregnated with thermosetting resin being wound around the outer periphery of the tank liner. The fiber-reinforced resin layer includes an inside layer formed on the tank liner side, and an outside layer formed on an outer periphery of the inside layer. The inside layer is formed as a dense layer, while the outside layer is formed as a layer that is less dense than the inside layer by forming a larger number of airspaces in the outside layer than there are in the inside layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Shinji Miyoshi, Kentaroh Hioki
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Patent number: 9371965Abstract: A microfluidic device includes an input source characterized by a source pressure and an input channel in fluid communication with the input source. The microfluidic device also includes an output channel and a valve having an open state and a closed state. The valve is disposed between the input channel and the output channel and is characterized by a static pressure. The microfluidic device further includes a control channel coupled to the valve and characterized by a control pressure. In the closed state, the control pressure is greater than atmospheric pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Fluidigm CorporationInventors: Naga Gopi Devaraju, Marc A. Unger
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Patent number: 9371966Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lighting fixture that is configured to transfer heat that is generated by a light source and any associated electronics toward the front of the lighting fixture. The lighting fixture includes a heat spreading cup that is formed from a material that efficiently conducts heat and a light source that is coupled inside the heat spreading cup. The heat spreading cup has a bottom panel, a rim, and at least one sidewall extending between the bottom panel and the rim. The light source is coupled inside the heat spreading cup to the bottom panel and configured to emit light in a forward direction through an opening formed by the rim. Heat generated by the light source during operation is transferred radially outward along the bottom panel and in a forward direction along the at least one sidewall toward the rim of the heat spreading cup.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: John R. Rowlette, Jr., Craig William Hardin, Scott Schwab
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Patent number: 9371967Abstract: A lighting apparatus, comprising: a light source that emits light; a hollow heat-transfer member including an outer surface on which the light source is disposed; and a light guiding member that covers the light source and at least part of the outer surface along the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Mitsuaki Kato, Katsumi Hisano, Masataka Shiratsuchi, Tomonao Takamatsu, Tomoyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9371968Abstract: A lighting device may include: a rod-shaped carrier body with at least one first and one second mounting side and a main direction of extent, first semiconductor light-emitting elements on first mounting faces of the first mounting side, and second semiconductor light-emitting elements on second mounting faces of the second mounting side, wherein the first and the second mounting sides face away from one another, wherein the mounting faces are formed by depressions in the mounting sides, which depressions are arranged so as to be spaced apart along the main direction of extent, and wherein the first semiconductor light-emitting elements are identical to one another and the second semiconductor light-emitting elements are identical to one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Gerhard Kuhn, Ales Markytan, Christian Gaertner
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Patent number: 9371969Abstract: A display device is provided that is a transparent, colored glass-ceramic with a front-side indication side, a rear-side illumination side, and at least one luminous element disposed in the region of the illumination side. The display device further includes a color compensation filter and a at least partially transparent intermediate layer between the color compensation filter and the glass-ceramic.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan, Gerold Ohl, Silke Heinrich
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Patent number: 9371970Abstract: A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.Inventors: Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Hua Huang
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Patent number: 9371971Abstract: This invention is a removable flashlight insert for fitting into an oil-type cigarette lighter outer case. The flashlight insert contains an LED lamp module with a movable switch element and a battery module contained within a top chamber and a bottom chamber respectively of an outside metal shell. The outside metal shell provides a direct conduction path between a battery terminal in the bottom chamber and the movable switch element in the top chamber. The flashlight insert may contain two different LEDs, where either of the two LEDs may be user selected by a separate switch. A rechargeable flashlight insert is also shown having an electronic circuit contained inside the outer metal shell. Lamp and battery modules are also provided in a kit to transform an oil-type cigarette lighter insert into a flashlight insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: John Alfred Ayres
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Patent number: 9371972Abstract: An electronic flameless candle including a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a sidewall between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a cavity defined by the top surface, the bottom surface and the sidewall, the body configured in shape and size to simulate a true flame candle. The candle may also include a light source operably connected to the body, the light source electrically operated to illuminate in a way that simulates a natural flicker of a real candle flame. The candle may also include a scent component, operably connected to the body, the scent component configured to emit a scent when heated and/or a sensor component, operably connected to the body, the sensor component configured to sense an environmental condition and affect a mode of the light source upon the sensing of the environmental condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
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Patent number: 9371973Abstract: An electronic lighting device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electronic lighting device may comprise a core, which may comprises an enclosure, a light-emitting element, a flame sheet and a swing mechanism. The flame sheet is movably supported or suspended on the enclosure, and may comprise an upper sheet which is of a flame-like shape. The upper sheet is configured to expose above the top of the enclosure. The light-emitting element may be installed on the enclosure. A light outgoing direction of the light-emitting element may be intersected with the surface of the upper sheet so that the light of the light-emitting element is projected on the surface of the upper sheet. The swing mechanism is disposed beneath the flame sheet and can apply a force on the flame sheet to actuate the flame sheet to sway or swing. By the present application, a visual experience of true fire can be achieved and an interestedness and appreciation can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SHENZHEN LIOWN ELECTRONICS COMPANY LTD.Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
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Patent number: 9371974Abstract: A lighting device includes: a circuit board placed on a base; and a transformer provided in the circuit board. The transformer includes: a winding pattern formed on the circuit board; and a core having an outer leg portion. The circuit board has an outer leg insertion portion through which the outer leg portion of the core is inserted, and the circuit board and the base have therebetween a gap which is air space. The base and at least a lateral face of the outer leg portion are bonded together by a first resin that is insertable from the outer leg insertion portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Nakano, Masatoshi Ueno, Masashi Kichima, Kazuya Kato
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Patent number: 9371975Abstract: A light source device including a light emitting diode (LED) chip and a molding lens is provided. The molding lens is directly formed on the LED chip and includes a center of a bottom where the LED chip located at and a light exiting surface formed corresponding to the center. The light exiting surface comprises a concave portion, a first light exiting region surrounding the concave portion and a second light exiting region surrounding the first light exiting region. The first light exiting region connects between the concave portion and the second light exiting region.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Formosa Epitaxy IncorporationInventors: Zhi-Ting Ye, Fen-Ren Chien
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Patent number: 9371976Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a frame, an optical base plate, a light source and an optical film. The optical base plate is disposed in the frame and has a first protrusion portion at the center of the optical base plate. The first protrusion portion has at least a reflective surface and a top surface, which are connected with each other. The light source is disposed in the frame and located adjacent to the periphery of the optical base plate. The light source is disposed corresponding to the reflective surface and has a plurality of light-emitting elements. Each light-emitting element has an optical axis direction, and the optical axis directions extend toward the first protrusion portion. The optical film is disposed at the frame, and the first protrusion portion of the optical base plate protrudes toward the optical film.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Chih-Chieh Kang, Jeng-Feng Lin, Ching-Yu Chen, Syue-An Ceng, Kai-Ming Chuang, Yu-Rui Yang
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Patent number: 9371977Abstract: The present invention relates to an article having at least one colored luminous zone, in particular a display zone, said article comprising at least one glass-ceramic substrate having a luminous transmission ranging from 0.8% to 40% and an optical transmission of at least 0.1% for at least one wavelength in the range extending from 420 to 780 nm, at least one light source and at least one filter so as to form at least one colored luminous zone, in particular a display zone, in at least one zone of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: EUROKERA S.N.C.Inventors: Pierrick Guiset, Jean-Yves Laluet, Claire Mallet, Pablo Vilato
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Patent number: 9371978Abstract: A solar panel assembly with a lighting pattern includes a solar panel and an energy storage device. An electroluminescence layer is disposed on a light receiving face of the solar panel. The electroluminescence layer includes a plurality through-holes. The number and the overall area of the plurality of through-holes are configured to permit incident light rays entering the electroluminescence layer to activate the solar panel to proceed with optical-electrical conversion, providing a light receiving effect and a light emitting effect on the same area of the solar panel. A patterned light-transmittable layer is coated on a face of the electroluminescence layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventors: Tsai-Hui Chen, Tsui-Huang Li
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Patent number: 9371979Abstract: The present invention provides an enhanced light out-coupling device for extraction of light radiation from a light source. The enhanced light out-coupling device comprises a grid having a plurality of channels, a reflective material layer coated on the grid, and a high refractive index fluid layer. In addition, the grid can be filled with phosphor particles for light converting. The device of the presently claimed invention is able to effectively avoid the scattering problem generated from the sapphire substrate and phosphor particles, as well as reduce light adsorption by the array of grid during the light extraction, leading to better image quality.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: NANO AND ADVANCED MATERIALS INSTITUTE LIMITEDInventors: Tsang Ming Michael Choi, Yuen Yan Gena Tsang, Kwok Keung Paul Ho
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Patent number: 9371980Abstract: The backlight device 12 of the present embodiment includes: a plurality of LEDs 17; a chassis 14 that is a plate-shaped member and on which the LEDs 17 are arranged; a plurality of diffusion lenses 40 that are fixed to the chassis 14, that individually cover the LEDs 17 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, and that exert optical effects on the light from the LEDs 17; a reflective sheet 21 that covers the plate surface of the chassis 14, that exposes the LEDs 17, and that has the lens insertion holes 21 through which the diffusion lenses 40 are respectively inserted; and reflective sheet holding members 30 that hold the reflective sheet 21 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, that engage the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40, and that extend on the sheet surface of the reflective sheet 21 between the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuuki Namekata
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Patent number: 9371981Abstract: An LED lamp includes a heat conductive housing, a light source module and a light-pervious cover. The interior of the heat conductive housing is provided with a heat conductive partition plate capable of dividing the interior of the heat conductive housing thereby forming an accommodation space having a cavity at one end of the heat conductive housing. The light source module is disposed in the accommodation space and includes a circuit board and at least one LED disposed on the circuit board. The light-pervious cover is formed with a sleeve opening, and the periphery of the sleeve opening is protrudingly formed with an annular wall, the outer edge of the annular wall is mated and engaged with the inner edge of the cavity, thereby enabling the circuit board to be pressed by the annular wall so as to be tightly fastened on the heat conductive partition plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Yu-Syuan Chen
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Patent number: 9371982Abstract: In implementations, a glass-based multichip package includes a photodefinable glass-based substrate, at least one electronic component disposed on the photodefinable glass-based substrate, and a portion of the photodefinable glass-based substrate that has been exposed to ultraviolet light, where the portion of the photodefinable glass-based substrate includes ceramic. Additionally, the sensor package may include additional electronic components, a glass touch panel, and/or a printed circuit board. In implementations, fabricating the sensor package device includes receiving a photodefinable glass-based substrate, etching the photodefinable glass-based substrate, and forming a ceramic portion of the photodefinable glass-based substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventor: Tiao Zhou
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Patent number: 9371983Abstract: Disclosed is a retractable lighting fixture having a retractable LED lighting layer. One or more optical layers (40, 240A/B, 340A/B, 440) may optionally be provided over the LED lighting layer (30, 230, 330, 430). The optical layer(s) and the LED lighting layer may optionally be movable relative to one another between at least being in an expanded spaced relation to one another and a compressed relation to one another. One or more LEDs (34, 134, 234A/B, 334A/B, 434) on the LED lighting layer may be individually controllable and such LEDs (34, 134, 234A/B, 334A/B, 434) may be selectively extinguished when they are in a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Dirk Valentinus René Engelen, Anthonie Hendrik Bergman, Tim Dekker, Bram Knaapen, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Jochen Renaat Van Gheluwe
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Patent number: 9371984Abstract: A light irradiation apparatus includes a housing configured to house a light irradiation device including a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged, a drive substrate having a circuit to which a constant current generation device is electrically connected, a heat dissipation member having a plate-shape, and a cooling pipe. The light irradiation device is disposed on one main surface of the heat dissipation member, and the constant current generation device is disposed on the other main surface of the heat dissipation member or on the drive substrate, the drive substrate being disposed on the other main surface of the heat dissipation member.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinya Uchida
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Patent number: 9371985Abstract: A device is described that can be situated with one or more solid objects within overtop of a lighting device's outer surface. A container component contains one or more cavities that can be accessed via one or more openings. The one or more solid objects can be inserted into said cavity through the one or more openings. A closure component covers one or more of said openings and thereby restricts access to said cavity. A banding device that comprises one or more banding implements provides a means to maintain the container component, the closure component, the banding device itself and said one or more solid objects with in the cavity in said situated location. The container component, closure component and banding device are fabricated from a material that is appropriate for a maintenance in said situated location.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Collin Maximillian Kowalchuk
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Patent number: 9371986Abstract: Flexible LED light arrays particularly suitable for use in clothing and other articles are disclosed. The light arrays are disposed on flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). The flexible PCBs include substantially sinusoidal metal contact traces, along which the LEDs are attached at an angle preselected to minimize stresses in the expected directions of bending. The flexible PCBs may have control electronics provided on separate, attachable control boards, which may be either flexible or rigid. The flexible LED light arrays may also be arranged in master-slave configurations with a number of arrays, in which one master control array or board is attached to a number of slave arrays and handles external communication for the slave arrays.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Erogear, Inc.Inventor: Anders Kristofer Nelson
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Patent number: 9371987Abstract: A method for reducing corrosion of a superheater of a steam boiler. The superheater includes a superheater piping. The superheating piping includes a steam pipe where the steam to be superheated is directed. The steam pipe is separated by a protective shell having a surface settling in the flue gas space has a temperature that rises above an upper critical temperature, above which temperature in the flue gas space the compounds from the fuel are substantially in a gaseous form. A superheater of a steam boiler and a circulating fluidized bed boiler.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Valmet Technologies OyInventors: Pertti Petänen, Kari Mäkelä, Kari Kuukkanen, Ari Kokko
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Patent number: 9371988Abstract: An improved candle is provided. The candle includes a traditional body made of wax. A coil spring is positioned longitudinally within the candle's body. The coil spring is in tension with the coil spring's top adjacent to the candle body's top. In addition, the candle includes a non-combustible wick which is not consumed as the candle burns. The wick is affixed to the coil spring's top end. As the candle wick burns and the candle body is consumed, the coil spring causes the wick to retract downwardly.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Scott E. Jewett
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Patent number: 9371989Abstract: A combustor nozzle includes a first and second liquid fuel passages that terminate at first and second fuel ports. A first diluent passage terminates at a first diluent outlet radially surrounding the second fuel ports. A second diluent passage terminates at a second diluent outlet between the first diluent outlet and the second fuel ports. A third diluent passage surrounds at least a portion of the first and second diluent passages. A method for supplying fuel to a combustor includes flowing a liquid fuel through a first fuel passage and flowing an emulsified liquid fuel through a second fuel passage. The method further includes flowing a first diluent through a shroud surrounding the second fuel passage to a first diluent passage surrounding at least a portion of the second fuel passage and flowing a second diluent through a second diluent passage radially disposed between the first diluent passage and the second fuel passage.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Geoffrey David Myers, William Thomas Ross
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Patent number: 9371990Abstract: A gas turbine engine lean burn fuel injector includes a fuel injector head which has a first air swirler, a second air swirler arranged around the first air swirler, a pilot fuel injector arranged radially between the first air swirler and the second air swirler. A third air swirler arranged around the second air swirler, a fourth air swirler arranged around the third air swirler and a main fuel injector arranged radially between the third air swirler and the fourth air swirler. A shroud is arranged around the fourth air swirler. A downstream end of the shroud is generally circular in cross-section in a plane perpendicular to the axis (Y) of the fuel injector head and an upstream end of the shroud is generally elliptical in cross-section in a plane perpendicular to the axis (Y) of the fuel injector head.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Anthony John Moran, Christopher Luke Ford, Jonathan Frederick Carrotte, Alastair Duncan Walker
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Patent number: 9371991Abstract: An apparatus and process for vaporizing and, optionally, igniting a liquid fuel, preferably, a distillate fuel. The apparatus includes the following components: a heat-conductive reticulated screen positioned within a chamber; a first inlet path into the chamber for delivering a liquid fuel onto the screen; a second inlet path into the chamber for contacting an oxidant with the screen and fuel; a means for heating the screen to a temperature sufficient to vaporize and, optionally, ignite the liquid fuel; and a recuperator in fluid communication with the chamber for transferring heat from the chamber to the second inlet path. The apparatus is suitably employed in compact and portable oxidation reactors, for example, in external combustion engines, catalytic partial oxidation reformers, and hybrid combustors operating in flame and/or catalytic modes.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC.Inventors: Richard Mastanduno, David Spence, Subir Roychoudhury, Bruce Crowder
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Patent number: 9371992Abstract: A burner includes a cylindrical tube that terminates in a burner discharge end. An annular disk, affixed to the discharge end, defines a hole. An oxidizer intake delivers oxidizer into the tube. A fuel nozzle delivers fuel into the tube. A cylindrical slotted member has an interrupted outer surface and is disposed within a portion of the tube. The slotted member is affixed to the annular disk and defines an interior void that opens to the hole. The tube and the slotted member define an annular passage therebetween. Elongated slots pass through the outer surface of the slotted member, each directed along a different non-diametrical chord of the slotted member. The elongated slots direct a gaseous stream into the interior void so as to impart both an inwardly-directed radial velocity component and a tangential velocity component to the gaseous stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Plum Combustion, Inc.Inventor: Yedidia Neumeier
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Patent number: 9371993Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for oxidizing gases. In some embodiments, a reaction chamber is configured to receive a fuel gas and maintain the gas at a temperature within the reaction chamber that is above an autoignition temperature of the gas. The reaction chamber may also be configured to maintain a reaction temperature within the reaction chamber below a flameout temperature. In some embodiments, heat and product gases from the oxidation process can be used, for example, to drive a turbine, reciprocating engine, and injected back into the reaction chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ENER-CORE POWER, INC.Inventor: Jeffrey Armstrong
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Patent number: 9371994Abstract: In a combustion system, a charge source is configured to cooperate with a collection plate and a director conduit to cause at least one particle charge-to-mass classification to be reintroduced to a flame for further reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATIONInventors: David B. Goodson, Tracy A. Prevo, Joseph Colannino, Robert E. Breidenthal, Igor A. Krichtafovitch, Christopher A. Wiklof
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Patent number: 9371995Abstract: A method of flushing liquid fuel from valves and nozzles in a gas turbine is conducted via a mixing valve including flow passages for fuel and water. In the method, water is flowed through the flow passages, and the flow is interrupted for a period of no flow. This flow profile is repeated such that the water flow is pulsed through the flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joshua Adam Bagwell, Mark Jason Fisher, Kenneth Eugene Selfridge
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Patent number: 9371996Abstract: Grate bar for a furnace. The grate bar comprises a first air duct (46) at a first lateral side of the grate bar. The first air duct is provided at an angle other than 90 degrees with respect to a longitudinal axis of the grate bar.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: TISKA GMBHInventor: Wolfgang Schmid
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Patent number: 9371997Abstract: A combustor includes an end cover having an outer side and an inner side, an outer barrel having a forward end that is adjacent to the inner side of the end cover and an aft end that is axially spaced from the forward end. An inner barrel is at least partially disposed concentrically within the outer barrel and is fixedly connected to the outer barrel. A fluid conduit extends downstream from the end cover. A first bundled tube fuel injector segment is disposed concentrically within the inner barrel. The bundled tube fuel injector segment includes a fuel plenum that is in fluid communication with the fluid conduit and a plurality of parallel tubes that extend axially through the fuel plenum. The bundled tube fuel injector segment is fixedly connected to the inner barrel.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Patrick Benedict Melton, James Harold Westmoreland, III, James Scott Flanagan
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Patent number: 9371998Abstract: A pilot liquid tube having a pilot liquid fuel inlet, a pilot liquid fuel conduit, a pilot liquid fuel nozzle, and a shroud configured to shield the pilot liquid fuel nozzle. The pilot liquid tube may be installed and/or removed from an injector of a gas turbine engine while the shroud remains fixed to pilot liquid fuel conduit.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventors: Donald James Cramb, James Scott Piper, Sean Kelly Spivey, Michael John Ramotowski, Matthew Mayer
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Patent number: 9371999Abstract: A fireplace draft blocker which is easily assembled and disassembled is provided with a seal around its periphery of faux fur, bristles, or soft fabric and is supported by crossed rods which hold the four corners of the fireplace draft blocker in position and away from the fireplace itself.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ShurTech Brands, LLCInventors: Brian A. Vulpitta, Vageesh Bakhshi, Daniel Festa
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Patent number: 9372000Abstract: An oven includes a cooking chamber, a gas-fired heat exchanger external of the cooking chamber and a flow path for circulating air from the cooking chamber past the heat exchanger to pick-up heat and then back to the cooking chamber under operation of a blower. A first combustion path gas flow path runs from the heat exchanger to an exhaust system for delivering combustion path gases away from the oven, and a second combustion path gas flow path runs from the heat exchanger to the cooking chamber for delivering combustion path gases into the cooking chamber. A control arrangement is configured to selectively control the flow of combustion path gases along at least one of the first combustion gas flow path or the second combustion gas flow path.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Michael J. Ploof, Robert Keehan, Joseph V. Nelson
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Patent number: 9372001Abstract: A home cooking appliance with a side swing door is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a self capturing latch mechanism that secures and seals the side swing door in the closed position, the self capturing latch mechanism including a stationary hook and a receiver that receives and draws part of the stationary hook into a secured position within the receiver when the side swing door is moved into the closed position to secure the side swing door in the closed position. The receiver provides a variable closing force that varies from a first closing force at an initial engagement of the receiver with the part of the stationary hook to a predetermined second closing force, which is greater than the first closing force, at a completed engagement of the receiver with the part of the stationary hook to seal the side swing door in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: James Gayle, Joseph Geiger
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Patent number: 9372002Abstract: A household cooking appliance includes a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter thereof. An oven door covering the opening and being moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The oven door includes an outer door skin having an outer glass panel, a full glass inner panel having an inner surface that abuts the seal when the oven door is in a closed position, the full glass inner panel closing an inner side of the outer door skin, and an integrated drip tray assembly that collects condensation from the full glass inner panel. The integrated drip tray assembly is sealed to the full glass inner panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: Samuel Harward, Donald Hendricks, Rose Marie Parker
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Patent number: 9372003Abstract: A surface cooking module for a household cooking appliance is provided in which the surface cooking module includes a frame having a front end and a rear end, a front fixation bracket on the front end of the frame, the front fixation bracket for engaging a corresponding first fixation element in a chassis of the household cooking appliance and enabling the frame to pivot about the front end of the frame when engaged with the first fixation element, and a spring clip coupled to the rear end of the frame, the rear end of the frame being opposite the front end of the frame, the spring clip for engaging a second fixation element in the chassis of the household cooking appliance when the cooking module is pivoted downward about the front end of the frame into a mounted position on the household cooking appliance.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: Samuel Harward, Clifford Henegar, Michael Rutherford, Donnie Smith
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Patent number: 9372004Abstract: A filter unit, system and method for removing grease, oil and other particulates from air. The filter unit includes a housing having upstream and downstream walls and a cavity therebetween. The upstream wall has an entrance opening aligned with a downstream wall portion, and the downstream wall has first and second exit openings aligned with first and second upstream wall portions. A heat exchanger is disposed within the cavity and includes first and second upstream conduits within the entrance opening and first and second downstream conduits within the first and second exit opening. The entrance and exit openings are arranged to define S-shaped air flow paths through the housing between the entrance and exit openings, each of which flows around a downstream side of one of the upstream conduits then around an upstream side of one of the downstream conduits before exiting through one of the exit openings.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Blissfield Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Daniel W. Sikkenga, Christopher L. Schultz, Thomas A. Parott, Richard L. Ricker, Antonio R. Galvan, Brian A. Ford, Frederick D. Morrison, Patrick D. Farver, Bruce A. Eppink
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Patent number: 9372005Abstract: An oven includes a heat exchanger with flattened segments providing low thermal resistance between flue gases being conveyed through the heat exchanger and a peripheral wall of the heat exchanger to increase the efficiency of heating of the peripheral wall of the heat exchanger to facilitate increasing a temperature of heated air that is delivered by a fan, across an outer surface of the peripheral wall of the heat exchanger, and through a cooking volume of the oven.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.Inventors: J. K. Raghavan, Jan Bartelick
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Patent number: 9372006Abstract: A compact oven is disclosed. The compact oven includes a housing having a cavity for receiving food items, and one or more blowers for directing heated air into the cavity. The compact oven also includes an air deflection plate coupled to a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles for capturing and directing a portion of heated air from the blower to the cavity via nozzles located between the air deflection plate and the nozzle plate, while allowing the remaining heated air exiting the blower to move into the cavity via nozzles not located between the air deflection plate and the nozzle plate such that the velocities of heated air exiting all nozzles into the cavity are as close to each other as possible.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Ovention, Inc.Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Lee Thomas Vanlanen, Alex Johnson
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Patent number: 9372007Abstract: When the air conditioner implements the temperature controlling operation, the ventilator performs ventilation in a normal ventilation mode where a ventilation amount is set at a certain ventilation amount or more. When the air conditioner implements the operation not intended for temperature control, the ventilator performs ventilation in a ventilation suppressed mode where the number of rotations of an exhaust fan is made greater than that of an air supply fan to place indoor space in a negative pressure and ventilation is performed at an amount smaller than the certain ventilation amount or ventilation is stopped. In the ventilation suppressed mode, a ventilation amount is set to be smaller in response to a greater heating load that is increased by ventilation performed during the operation not intended for temperature control.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yoshitaka Matsugi