Patents Issued in November 9, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170321877
    Abstract: A wall- or surface-mounted light fixture with a housing containing one or more external visible light sources to illuminate the space where the light fixture is mounted, one or more UV emitters inside the housing to destroy bacteria and pathogens, and one or more fans inside the housing that recirculate the air in a space and subject the air to the UV radiation inside the housing, destroying bacteria and pathogens in the air passing though the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: John Polidoro
  • Publication number: 20170321878
    Abstract: A lighting structure for a ceiling fan includes a substrate. The substrate has a top surface and a bottom surface. At least a lamp is disposed on the bottom surface. A plurality of fins and an upright wall are disposed on the top surface. The upright wall extends upward and extends around an enclosure to form therein a receiving chamber for receiving a ceiling fan control device. A first connection portion is disposed near the top end of the upright wall and connected to the ceiling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Chao Chin Yao
  • Publication number: 20170321879
    Abstract: This invention relates to electric power industry, and more particularly to horizontal steam generators for nuclear power plants with a water-cooled water-moderated power reactor (VVER) and to reactor plants with a VVER reactor and a horizontal steam generator. A reactor plant with a VVER reactor and a horizontal seam generator, including a nuclear reactor with four circulation loops, each comprising a steam generator with a horizontal bundle of heat-exchange tubes divided into banks by means of inter-tubular tunnels and connected to primary circuit coolant headers inside a cylindrical pressure vessel with elliptical bottoms, a reactor coolant pump, and a primary circuit coolant main circulation pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Dmitriy Aleksandrovich LAKHOV, Aleksey Vladimirovich SAFRONOV
  • Publication number: 20170321880
    Abstract: The invention relates to steam generators for VVER nuclear power plants. We claim a steam generator with a horizontal heat-exchange tube bundle comprising a welded cylinder vessel manufactured of steel shells and equipped with at least one feed water supply connection pipe and one steam removal connection pipe, and two elliptical bottoms, vessel internals, inlet and outlet headers connected to the heat-exchange tube bundle forming a heat-exchange surface of the steam generator, wherein inner diameter dvess of the steam generator vessel is selected based on a formula. The steam generator vessel is filled with heat-exchange bundle tubes from the bottom upwards to the height of three quarters of its inner diameter or less, the remaining space in the top part of steam generator vessel is left for steam drying. The technical result is creation of a steam generator with a decreased specific amount of metal per structure wherein the generated steam is dried in one with the heat-exchange surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Dmitriy Aleksandrovich LAKHOV, Aleksey Vladimirovich SAFRONOV
  • Publication number: 20170321881
    Abstract: This invention relates to electric power industry, and can be used in horizontal steam generators for nuclear power plants (NPP) with a water-water energetic reactor (VVER). We claim a steam generator primary circuit coolant header with U-shaped tubes of a horizontal heat-exchange bundle designed as a thick-wall welded vessel with a perforated central cylindrical part designed so as to allow installation and fastening of a U-shaped heat-exchange tube bundle in the same, wherein the tubes are grouped into banks and separated by vertical inter-tubular tunnels, a lower cylindrical part designed so as to allow welded connection with the steam generator vessel connection pipe, and an upper cylindrical part with a conical adapter to the flange connection of the manhole with a lid, wherein primary circuit header outer diameter Dhead in the central part is selected based on formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Dmitriy Aleksandrovich LAKHOV, Aleksey Vladimirovich SAFRONOV, Aleksandr Grigorevich KONYUSHKOV, Dimitriy Evgenevich ALEKSEEV, Aleksandr Evegenevich GERONTIEV
  • Publication number: 20170321882
    Abstract: A process and a device are described for producing high purity and high temperature steam from non-pure water which may be used in a variety of industrial processes that involve high temperature heat applications. The process and device may be used with technologies that generate steam using a variety of heat sources, such as, for example industrial furnaces, petrochemical plants, and emissions from incinerators. Of particular interest is the application in a thermochemical hydrogen production cycle such as the Cu—Cl Cycle. Non-pure water is used as the feed-stock in the thermochemical hydrogen production cycle, with no need to adopt additional and conventional water pre-treatment and purification processes. The non-pure water may be selected from brackish water, saline water, seawater, used water, effluent treated water, tailings water, and other forms of water that is generally believed to be unusable as a direct feed-stock of industrial processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Greg NATERER, Zhaolin WANG, Edward SECNIK
  • Publication number: 20170321883
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for producing a superheated steam having a specified ratio of water vapor to combustion gases for injection into a well to enhance heavy oil production. Embodiments comprise indirect-contact steam generators and direct-contact steam generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: A. Burl Donaldson, Brian Hughes
  • Publication number: 20170321884
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for spraying cooling fluid in a steam-desuperheating device, includes: a nozzle body; a plug element movably attached to the nozzle body; and a splitter member fixed to a front face of the plug element. The splitter member has at least one splitter arm extending across the flow passage formed in the nozzle body as viewed from the front of the plug element to deflect flow of fluid sprayed through the flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Sanjay SHERIKAR
  • Publication number: 20170321885
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a mineral melt, the method comprising providing a circulating combustion chamber which comprises an upper zone, a lower zone and a base zone, injecting primary particulate fuel and particulate mineral material and primary combustion gas into the upper zone of the circulating combustion chamber, thereby at least partially combusting the primary particulate fuel and thereby melting the particulate mineral material to form a mineral melt and generating exhaust gases, injecting into the lower zone of the circulating combustion chamber, through at least one first burner, secondary combustion gas and gaseous fuel and secondary particulate fuel, wherein the secondary combustion gas and gaseous fuel and secondary particulate fuel are injected via a single first burner, wherein the amount of secondary combustion gas injected via each first burner is insufficient for stoichiometric combustion of the total amount of gaseous fuel and secondary particulate fuel injected via that
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Lars Elmekilde Hansen
  • Publication number: 20170321886
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plant and to a method for chemical looping oxidation-reduction combustion of a gaseous hydrocarbon feed, for example natural gas essentially containing methane. According to the invention, catalytic pre-reforming of the feed is performed in a pre-reforming zone comprising a fixed reforming catalyst, while benefiting from a heat transfer between the reduction or oxidation zone of the chemical loop and the pre-reforming zone adjoining the reduction or oxidation zone. Pre-reforming zone (130) and oxidation zone (110) or pre-reforming zone (130) and reduction zone (120) are thus thermally integrated within the same reactor (100) while being separated by at least one thermally conductive separation wall (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Florent GUILLOU, Beatrice FISCHER, Tiago SOZINHO, Ann CLOUPET, Stephane BERTHOLIN, Mahdi YAZDANPANAH, Hélène STAINTON
  • Publication number: 20170321887
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a plant for chemical looping oxidation-reduction combustion (CLC) of a gaseous hydrocarbon feed, for example natural gas essentially containing methane. According to the invention, catalytic reforming of the feed is performed within the reduction zone where combustion of the feed is conducted on contact with an oxidation-reduction active mass in form of particles. The reforming catalyst comes in form of untransported fluidized particles within the reduction zone. The catalyst thus confined in the reduction zone does not circulate in the CLC loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Mahdi YAZDANPANAH, William PELLETANT, Tiago SOZINHO, Stephane BERTHOLIN, Hélène STAINTON, Ann CLOUPET, Florent GUILLOU
  • Publication number: 20170321888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and to a unit for chemical looping oxidation-reduction combustion of a hydrocarbon feed, wherein heat exchanges are controlled through a level variation of a dense fluidized bed of active mass particles in an external heat exchanger (E1, E2), positioned on a transport line carrying particles circulating between a reduction zone (210) and an oxidation zone (200) for the particles in the chemical loop. The bed level variation is allowed through controlled application of a pressure drop on a fluidization gas outlet in the heat exchanger, said pressure drop being compensated by the level variation of an active mass particle bed in a reservoir zone provided on the particle circuit in the chemical loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Mahdi YAZDANPANAH, Thierry GAUTHIER, Florent GUILLOU
  • Publication number: 20170321889
    Abstract: The present invention demonstrates a solid fuel grade gasification-combustion dual bed poly-generation system, comprising a combustion system, a gasification system, a synthesized gas cooling and purifying system and a synthesized gas methanization system. The combustion system is connected with the gasification system through a circulating material return system. The gasification system mainly adapts the circulating fluidized-bed combustion mode. The gasification system adapts the fluidized-bed incomplete gasification method and the generated semi-coke is returned to the combustion system for re-utilization. The synthesized gas purifying and cooling unit adapts water cycling and combustible recycling. The by-products, CO2 and steam, in the methanization unit can be recovered, so the maximum utilization rate of energy in this system is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: JIANJUN NI, ZHEN YANG, NAN CHEN, JIE XIONG
  • Publication number: 20170321890
    Abstract: A candle wick extractor, for use with a candle having a candle wick that terminates at, proximate to, or below the top surface of a candle's wax, comprised of a rigid ergonomic handle and a tubular extension having a radial cutter on the distal end thereof. The handle is comprised of a first portion having a hand grip that is ergonomically shaped for a user to grasp, and a second portion having the tubular extension and a cutter supported longitudinally therefrom. The tubular extension is generally a hollow body having a first end and a second end. The first end is attached to a portion of the handle, whereby the central bore of the tubular extension is accessible from the top of the handle. The second end of the tubular extension supports a cutter and is adapted to be inserted longitudinally into the top wax surface of the candle with the central bore positioned over the wick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Delattre
  • Publication number: 20170321891
    Abstract: Disclosed is an evaporator arrangement (1) for evaporating liquid fuel for a mobile fuel-operated heating device, comprising: an evaporator unit (5) for distributing and evaporating liquid fuel; and at least one fuel supply line (6) for delivering liquid fuel to the evaporator unit (5). The evaporator unit (5) has at least one first section (B1) made of a metal wire mesh (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Klaus MOESL, Bengt MIEIER, Volodymyr ILCHENKO, Michael POEHNER
  • Publication number: 20170321892
    Abstract: An oxy-acetylene cutting torch tip cleaner includes an elongated body portion with at least one actuator and at least one associated housing bore for storing a cleaning pin. Each cleaning pin is coupled to an actuator movable from a first position with the cleaning pin contained in the housing bore to a second position with the cleaning pin extending from the housing bore, for abrading and cleaning the cutting torch tip. Each actuator, coupled to its cleaning pin with a slider, is biased to the first position and a lock engages each actuator in the second position such that when the lock is disengaged from the actuator at the second position with the cleaning tip extended from the body, the actuator automatically returns to the first position thereby retracting the cleaning pin back into the housing bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: David Hutcheson
  • Publication number: 20170321893
    Abstract: A radiant burner and method are disclosed. The radiant burner is for treating an effluent gas stream from a manufacturing process tool, the radiant burner comprises: a sintered metal fibre sleeve through which combustion materials pass for combustion proximate to an inner combustion surface of the sintered metal fibre sleeve; and an insulating sleeve surrounding the sintered metal to fibre sleeve and through which the combustion materials pass. In this way, a radiant burner is provided which does not crack due to rapid cycling caused by frequent idle steps during which the burner is extinguished. Also, by providing an insulating sleeve, the temperature within the radiant burner and the temperature of an outer surface of the radiant burner remain comparable with existing ceramic burners. This enables the radiant burner to be substituted in place of existing ceramic burners as a line-replaceable unit which does not suffer from cracking during such frequent and short-duration periods of process tool inactivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Andrew James Seeley
  • Publication number: 20170321894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat radiation chamber for boilers, consisting of parallel bars which are equidistant from each other, attached to two rings and supported on legs. Said chamber is arranged inside the combustion chamber of boilers. When combustion occurs, the heating of the bars improves the combustion and, as hot air passes between them, the temperature increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Hilario BLANCO GOMEZ
  • Publication number: 20170321895
    Abstract: An acoustic damping device is provided that includes a resonating tube defining a resonating cavity with a predetermined characteristic length and a tube end defining a cavity opening, as well as a case configured to reversibly secure the tube end in fluidic communication with a fluid volume enclosed by a liner. The cavity opening is connected with the resonating cavity. The case includes a vented ferrule adpressed over a perforated region of the liner. The vented ferrule defines a ferrule opening that is aligned with the perforated region of the liner and the cavity opening to form the fluidic communication between the fluid volume and the resonating cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kwanwoo Kim, Changjin Yoon, John Thomas Herbon
  • Publication number: 20170321896
    Abstract: Described embodiments include a system, method, and apparatus. The system includes a sensor device configured to measure an unburned fuel component in an exhaust stream from a gas-fueled combustion device. The system includes a feedback controller configured to generate a combustion management signal responsive to the measured unburned fuel component and to a target value for the measured unburned fuel component. The system includes a combustion controller configured to regulate an aspect of a combustion component delivered to a burner of the gas-fueled combustion device in response to the combustion management signal. In an embodiment, the system includes a user interface configured to display a quality of combustion information responsive to the measured unburned fuel component in a human perceivable format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: ALISTAIR K. CHAN, HON WAH CHIN, TOM DRISCOLL, W. DANIEL HILLIS, RODERICK A. HYDE, MURIEL Y. ISHIKAWA, JORDIN T. KARE, CLARENCE T. TEGREENE, CHARLES WHITMER, LOWELL L. WOOD, JR., VICTORIA Y.H. WOOD
  • Publication number: 20170321897
    Abstract: Described embodiments include a system, method, and apparatus. The system includes a sensor device configured to measure an unburned fuel component in an exhaust stream generated by a gas-fueled combustion device. The system includes a combustion analysis circuit configured to generate a quality of combustion information responsive to the measured unburned fuel component. The system includes a user interface configured to display the quality of combustion information in a human perceivable format. In an embodiment, the system includes a combustion component controller configured to regulate an aspect of a combustion component delivered to the gas-fueled combustion device in response to the combustion management selection entered by a human user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: ALISTAIR K. CHAN, HON WAH CHIN, TOM DRISCOLL, W. DANIEL HILLIS, RODERICK A. HYDE, MURIEL Y. ISHIKAWA, JORDIN T. KARE, CLARENCE T. TEGREENE, CHARLES WHITMER, LOWELL L. WOOD, JR., VICTORIA Y.H. WOOD
  • Publication number: 20170321898
    Abstract: A furnace a smart furnace monitoring system, comprising: a) a wireless communication module; and b) a control module in communication with the wireless communication module, wherein the wireless communication module is capable of sending one or more status information messages to one or more recipients via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Ryan Sean Randell
  • Publication number: 20170321899
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug (1) that includes: a ceramic heater (11); and a metallic outer cylinder (12) that holds the ceramic heater at one end and has the other end inserted in and fixed to a metallic housing (14), the housing having a first housing section (14a) and a second housing section (14b) coaxially arranged with each other, the method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug includes the steps of: inserting the ceramic heater in the outer cylinder; inserting the outer cylinder in the first housing section, the second housing section, and a ring-shaped filler material (18) in a state where the filler material is interposed between the first housing section and the second housing section; and joining the first housing section, the second housing section, and the outer cylinder by welding at a position where the filler material is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Katsumi Takatsu
  • Publication number: 20170321900
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug that includes: a ceramic heater; a metallic outer cylinder that holds the ceramic heater at one end and has the other end inserted in and fixed to a metallic housing; and lead wire that is connected to the ceramic heater and electrifies the ceramic heater, the method for manufacturing a ceramic heater-type glow plug includes the steps of: forming a metalized layer in a region of the ceramic heater that is connected to the lead wire; press-inserting at least the metalized layer of the ceramic heater in a connection fitting that connects the ceramic heater and the lead wire; and heating the ceramic heater and the connection fitting at a temperature at which a material for forming the metalized layer is brought into a semi-molten state and joining by mass transfer between the connection fitting and a solid layer of the metalized layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Katsumi Takatsu
  • Publication number: 20170321901
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for a gas turbine combustor includes a pilot fuel injector disposed on an axis of the fuel injection device; an annular main fuel injector encircling the pilot fuel injector; and a plurality of main fuel injection holes formed in the main fuel injector and spaced circumferentially from each other for injecting fuel axially rearward. The main fuel injector includes an annular fuel passage forming portion, an inner ring portion on an inner peripheral side of the fuel passage fowling portion, and an outer ring portion on an outer peripheral side of the fuel passage forming portion. One of a space between the fuel passage forming portion and the inner ring portion and a space between the fuel passage forming portion and the outer ring portion forms a pilot fuel supply passage, and the other one forms a main fuel supply passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke MATSUYAMA, Takeo NISHIURA
  • Publication number: 20170321902
    Abstract: A radiation heating device includes: a planar heat generation layer; a heat generation portion that is provided in the heat generation layer and that generates heat by energization; a plurality of heat radiation portions that are disposed in the heat generation layer and that radiate heat transferred from the heat generation portion; a low heat conduction portion that is provided around each of the heat radiation portions and that has a lower heat conductivity than the heat radiation portions; and a contact detection unit that detects contact of an object with the heat generation layer. The radiation heating device further includes an energization amount decrease unit that decreases an energization amount of the heat generation portion when the contact detection unit detects the contact of the object with the heat generation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kimitake ISHIKAWA, Hideaki KAKO, Hiroyasu OIDE, Hideki SEKI, Yoshinobu SUMIDA, Yasuhiro SAGOU
  • Publication number: 20170321903
    Abstract: A heating appliance includes an appliance cabinet having a plurality of sidewalls that defining a heating cavity. A door is operably connected to at least one of the sidewalls and operable between open and closed positions. A vertical translating assembly extends from the appliance cabinet to the door. The vertical translating assembly includes drive and offset arms and a power assist mechanism in operable communication with the drive arm. The power assist mechanism at least partially operates the door between the open and closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tushar Jadhav, Sachin Karade, Atul Nalawade
  • Publication number: 20170321904
    Abstract: A kitchen appliance (1) comprising at least one first fan (15) and a cavity (2), wherein said cavity (2) comprises at least one outlet opening (3) for exhaustion of vapor and/or steam out of the cavity (2) into a first duct (4), wherein said first duct (4) can be opened or closed by a first valve (5), and at least one inlet opening (6) for influx of air into the cavity (2) from a second duct (7), wherein said second duct (7) can be opened or closed by a second valve (8), wherein said first duct (4), particularly said first valve (5), is configured such that in an open stage of said first valve (5) said exhaustion of vapor and/or steam out of at least one outlet opening (3) of the cavity (2) into said first duct (4) is substantially due to an overpressure of vapor and/or steam within said cavity (2), and wherein said second duct (7), particularly said second valve (8), is configured such that in an open state of said second valve (8) said influx of air into at least one inlet opening (6) of the cavity (2) from
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Paolo Faraldi, Lorenzo Gattei, Nicola Guida
  • Publication number: 20170321905
    Abstract: A kitchen unit (200), for example an extraction hood, has a task lighting system (100) for illuminating an operative area (210) below the kitchen unit, the task lighting system comprising:—at least a plurality of fixed lighting elements (110) configured to generate, on the operative area, corresponding fixed elementary light spots (270) and macro light spots (280) by the union of the elementary light spots; and—a control unit (115) configured to receive a spot position signal indicative of a desired position of a macro light spot and to selectively activate, based on the spot position signal, the lighting elements to generate a macro light spot with said desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Luigi Buriola
  • Publication number: 20170321906
    Abstract: A manifold has a frame and a plurality of valves supported by the frame, each valve having a cross gear. The manifold also has a screw drive and a splined rotatable shaft parallel to the screw drive. The manifold further includes a slider driven by the screw drive over the splined rotatable shaft. The slider includes an actuator that protrudes from the slider to engage one of the cross gears to actuate a respective one of the plurality of valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Malcolm MacDuff, James MacDuff
  • Publication number: 20170321907
    Abstract: An HVAC system includes a dehumidifier having an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, and an expansion device. The dehumidifier is disposed in at least one of a main supply duct, a main return duct, and an indoor unit of the HVAC system. The dehumidifier comprises no application specific air moving device, as the airflow through the dehumidifier is generated solely by an indoor fan disposed in the indoor unit of the HVAC system such that all of the airflow through an air circulation path of the HVAC system passes through the dehumidifier, regardless of whether the dehumidifier is being operated to dehumidify or provide humidity to the airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Roy Crawford
  • Publication number: 20170321908
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to humidity adjustment. In some embodiments, a humidity adjustment device is provided. The humidity adjustment device comprises a container including a wall for defining an accommodating space. The wall includes a water separating element for separating a mixture of water vapor and liquid water, wherein the water separating element includes a sieve portion adapted to separate the mixture of water vapor and liquid water, characterized in that the sieve portion comprises holes whose sizes are in the range of 25-35 microns. Corresponding apparatus and method are disclosed as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: QIAO HUA, SHUANG CHEN, DONGHAI YU
  • Publication number: 20170321909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dehumidification system and method and, in particular, to a system and method for controlling the humidity of air in a process or location using a desiccant-coated fluid-air heat exchanger. The desiccant material adsorbs water at or above ambient temperatures during an adsorption cycle, and the resultant air stream is of a reduced humidity compared with the humidity of the supply air. The desiccant material may then be dried during a regeneration cycle through addition of heating fluid through the heat exchanger, driving water back into the vapour state with addition of latent energy of vaporization. The desiccant material may be cooled, during the adsorption cycle, through addition of cooling fluid through the heat exchanger to maintain the temperature within a range sufficient for water vapour to be removed from the stream of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Roger Philip DAVIES
  • Publication number: 20170321910
    Abstract: A heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. The unit comprises a heat exchanger or drain pan located inside a HVAC housing that has one or more access openings and ultraviolet light-sensitive components therein. The unit also comprises a light located inside of the HVAC housing and a light shield located between the heat exchanger or drain pan and the light source. The light source includes a network of open-ended cells, each cell having ultraviolet light reflective walls. The light shield is oriented to direct an ultraviolet light from the light source through the open-ended cells towards the heat exchanger or drain pan and away from the one or more access openings and ultraviolet light-sensitive components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Goel, Randall L. Lisbona
  • Publication number: 20170321911
    Abstract: The present teachings relate to various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system that can be readily transportable and assemblable and provide for maintaining a minimum inert gas volume and maximal access to various devices and apparatuses enclosed therein. Various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system of the present teachings can have a gas enclosure assembly constructed in a fashion that minimizes the internal volume of a gas enclosure assembly, and at the same time optimizes the working space to accommodate a variety of footprints of various OLED printing systems. Various embodiments of a gas enclosure assembly so constructed additionally provide ready access to the interior of a gas enclosure assembly from the exterior during processing and readily access to the interior for maintenance, while minimizing downtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Justin Mauck, Alexander Sou-Kang Ko, Eliyahu Vronsky, Shandon Alderson
  • Publication number: 20170321912
    Abstract: A system including a chilled air generation system, a forced air convection system, one or more phase change material (PCM) modules, and a controller. The controller is configured to regulate the temperature of a facility by selectively utilizing the chilled air generation system and the forced air convection system based on multiple factors, which may include energy source type(s), relative costs of the energy from the source(s), availability of energy from the source(s), facility temperature, PCM module temperature, and/or temperature of goods stored within the facility, among other considerations. The controller may thus advantageously and cost-effectively control the periods of time during which the chilled air generation system is used and those during which the thermal energy stored in the PCM modules is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Viking Cold Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Ansted, Michael P. Crisman, Stan Nabozny, Brian Hampton, Paul Robbins
  • Publication number: 20170321913
    Abstract: An air handling system includes a movable evaporative media section. The movable evaporative media section is movable between a closed position and an open position. When the movable evaporative media section is in an open position, the movable evaporative media section exposes an opening to the air flow and is positioned to allow at least a portion of the air flow in the volume to flow around the movable evaporative media section and through the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Paul A. Dinnage, Daniel Unge, Anders Nelson
  • Publication number: 20170321914
    Abstract: The electrical connections of a chamber or enclosure for a water tub can be protected through the use of spill element sensors. The spill element sensors can help to disable the delivery of power to the heater of a water tub in the event that the electrical connections become wet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Jeremy Livingston Miller
  • Publication number: 20170321915
    Abstract: A humidifying apparatus includes a nozzle and a base on which the nozzle is mounted. The nozzle has respective first and second air inlets, air outlets and interior passages for conveying air therefrom and thereto. The nozzle defines a bore through which air outside the humidifying apparatus is drawn by air emitted from the air outlets. The base generates first and second air flows through the respective first and second interior passages, and a water reservoir. First and second air passageways convey the first and second air flows to the respective first and second air inlets. As the second air passageway conveys the second air flow over the water in the reservoir, water stored in the reservoir is agitated. An ultraviolet radiation generator irradiates the agitated water for a period of time before water stored in the reservoir is atomized to increase the humidity of the second air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Joseph STANIFORTH, Daniel James BEAVIS, Jude Paul PULLEN
  • Publication number: 20170321916
    Abstract: Devices are provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in a liquid-containing storage tank (e.g. water-storage tank). The devices include a first fluid flow path that is physically isolated from a second fluid flow path and a convection device for moving a first fluid along the first fluid flow path toward at a desired destination and for exhausting the first fluid at the desired destination at a desired velocity. Methods are also provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in liquid-containing storage tanks (e.g. water-storage tanks). The methods involve blowing a first fluid through a ventilation device into a liquid-containing storage device at a velocity sufficient to achieve a desired mass transfer rate of volatile chemicals from the liquid in the liquid-containing storage device to air in the headspace and flowing the contaminated air back through the ventilation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Fiske, Robin Giguere, Ethan Brooke
  • Publication number: 20170321917
    Abstract: A system and method for a controller of economizers operatively connected to HVAC equipment. The controller is adapted to maintain the temperature within a facility based on inside air setpoints and outside air setpoints. The controller receives inside air temperature readings and compares them to inside air setpoints in order to determine the cooling demand for the facility. The controller also receives outside air temperature readings and compares them to outside air setpoints in order to determine which economizers may be activated. The outside air setpoints may be dynamically adjusted to adapt and meet the cooling demand of the facility. The controller compares the outside air setpoints to predetermined maximum and minimum setpoints in order to determine whether to adjust the outside air setpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kenneth Earl Nickel, Scott Hicks, Edward F. Goggin, David Charles Moore
  • Publication number: 20170321918
    Abstract: An air-conditioning management device includes: a power consumption obtaining unit that obtains both individual air-conditioned area and overall power consumption amounts in one day; an overall excess coefficient calculation unit that calculates an overall excess coefficient on a monthly basis; an individual excess coefficient calculation unit that calculates individual excess coefficients each indicating a degree of excess from the individual target value on a monthly basis; an excess determination unit that determines whether the overall excess coefficient is larger than a set threshold value; an energy saving control setting unit that sets energy saving control conditions for the respective air-conditioned areas to provide high energy saving effects in descending order of the individual excess coefficients when the overall excess coefficient is determined to be larger than the set threshold value; and an operation control unit that performs energy saving operation of the air-conditioning apparatuses based
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Satoshi ASADA
  • Publication number: 20170321919
    Abstract: A generic user interface for rapid application development on a stand-alone control platform. A user interface may be designed using generic menu methodology consisting of predefined tables, fonts, and templates, such that table entries and menu selections are made based on the platform. An example platform may be designed from function blocks from a function block engine. An application may be developed to run on the control platform (within the constraints of the hardware and function block engine), and a corresponding user interface may be automatically generated by populating the generic tables of the user interface methodology based on simple user input during placement of the function blocks, as an example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Paul C. Wacker
  • Publication number: 20170321920
    Abstract: A controller for a Heating Ventilation or Air Conditioning system (HVAC system) such as a mini split system is disclosed for adding control features that incorporate an observed operational status and occupancy/motion detection utilizing control commands already provided as part of the HVAC system as manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Howard Rosen
  • Publication number: 20170321921
    Abstract: A thermal control apparatus and method are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining terminal status information of a terminal, where the terminal status information includes at least a terminal temperature parameter; obtaining environment status information and/or user status information, where the environment status information includes at least an environment temperature parameter and/or an environment humidity parameter, and the user status information includes at least one of a user body temperature parameter, a user electrocardiogram parameter, a user electroencephalogram parameter, or a user skin resistance parameter; and determining and executing a thermal control policy according to the terminal status information and either of or both of the environment status information and the user status information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Wenjuan Chen, Wen Song
  • Publication number: 20170321922
    Abstract: In a ventilation control device, a ventilation-path setting unit is configured to set a ventilation path based on environmental information acquired by an information acquisition unit. A ventilation-quantity setting unit is configured to set a ventilation quantity based on the environmental information and the ventilation path. The ventilation-path setting unit sets a plurality of candidate paths having priorities in descending order of expected ventilation effects. In the case where a first candidate path having the highest priority is identical with a previously set ventilation path, the ventilation-path setting unit sets the first candidate path as the ventilation path, when a difference value between a room temperature previously acquired and a room temperature presently acquired is equal to or more than a threshold. The ventilation-path setting unit sets, as the ventilation path, a second candidate path having the second highest priority, when the difference value is less than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hayato TAKAHASHI, Nobuaki YABUNOUCHI, Naoki MURO
  • Publication number: 20170321923
    Abstract: A building alarm management system for a building includes a processing circuit configured to receive one or more alarms from building equipment of the building and receive location information for the building equipment located in the building and one or more mobile devices associated with one or more users located in the building. The processing circuit is further configured to retrieve role information including roles associated with the one or more users and send the one or more alarms to the one or more mobile devices based on the roles associated with the one or more users and the locations of the one or more mobile devices and the building equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Garrett Wiens-Kind, Adam R. Grabowski, Mohammad Arif Mansoor, Michael Robert Seidel, Prashant P. Taralkar, Ann M. Cook
  • Publication number: 20170321924
    Abstract: A smoke vent including a curb and door assembly utilizing a continuous hinge assembly that extends an entire length of a door. Hinge members of the door assembly and curb define continuous, extruded hinge members such that the door is supported across the entire length of the hinge members, whereby localized deflection of the curb is avoided. By supporting the door across the entire length of the hinge member, a door seal can be evenly compressed against the curb so as to prevent moisture/water intrusion when the door is in a closed disposition. The door assembly can further include a dome member that substantially defines an upper and lower surface of the door(s). Each door can comprise a plurality of retainer clips that positively couple the dome member to extruded members that define a door frame while providing a moisture resistant seal between the dome member and the door frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ian M. Taylor, Steven G. Stepp
  • Publication number: 20170321925
    Abstract: An HVAC actuator configured to actuate an HVAC component may include a rotatable output shaft having a full range of rotation between a first end position and a second end position, a drive mechanism configured to selectively drive the output shaft, and a housing having a front side that faces away from the HVAC component. The HVAC actuator may include a range adjustment lever manipulatable from the front side of the housing that allows a user to selectively limit rotation of the output shaft to a reduced range that is a subset of the full range. In some instances, the range adjustment lever allows the user to select between two or more predetermined reduced ranges. The two or more predetermined reduced ranges may each include the first end position but have a different second stop position, or include the second end position but have a different first stop position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Jack Du, David J. Emmons, Bin Wang
  • Publication number: 20170321926
    Abstract: An inter-axial inline fluid heater is presented. The inter-axial inline fluid heater includes an outer retaining sheath defining a first area, and an interior flow tube disposed within the outer sheath and capable of having fluid flow therethrough. Further, the interaxial inline fluid heater includes a resistance wire disposed between the interior flow tube and the outer retaining sheath, the resistance wire capable of producing heat for heating a fluid passing through the interior flow tube when power is applied to the resistance wire. Also includes is a dielectric heat transfer material disposed between the interior flow tube and the outer retaining sheath and surrounding at least a portion of the resistance wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Evans