Patents Issued in November 21, 2017
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Patent number: 9822964Abstract: A lighting apparatus for use in a tool carrier includes a conduit made of a translucent material. The conduit defines a conduit path sized to extend along a perimeter of a tool carrier floor. Light sources are disposed in the conduit and are electrically connected to a power source retained by the tool carrier. The lighting apparatus provides light to the inside of the tool carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventors: Darrell A. Moreau, Andre W. Moreau, Reginald J. Moreau
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Patent number: 9822965Abstract: A multipurpose, hand-held device comprises a focused light source and a ducted fan. The device produces and directs light and airflow, for the purpose of illuminating an area while starting and maintaining a fire. The airflow feature rapidly accelerates combustion. With the added safety and convenience of a hand-held, integrated flashlight, the device's controllable airflow delivers the capability to rapidly ignite and maintain fires made with charcoal, wood, coal, fire starters, paper, newspaper, cardboard, dung, etc.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventor: James Kirk Jackson
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Patent number: 9822966Abstract: A quench system includes a housing having a longitudinal axis, a gas path for a gas within the housing, a steam input and output, and a dip tube within the housing. The dip tube includes tubing arranged to form a wall. A steam path, separate from the gas path, is disposed within the tubing in a thickness of the wall. The dip tube is configured to allow passage of the gas along the gas path. The steam input is fluidically connected to the steam output by the tubing. The quench system is configured to cool the gas along the gas path and heat steam along the steam path within the tubing of the dip tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rajeshwar Sripada, Paromita Bhattacharya, Pallab Karmakar, Atul Kumar Vij
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Patent number: 9822967Abstract: A burner assembly combines oxygen and fuel to produce a flame. The burner assembly includes an oxygen supply tube adapted to receive a stream of oxygen and a fuel supply tube arranged to extend through the oxygen tube to convey a stream of fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel into a flame chamber. Oxygen flowing through the oxygen supply tube passes through oxygen-injection holes formed in the fuel supply tube and then mixes with fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel passing through the fuel supply tube to create an oxygen-fuel mixture in a downstream portion of the fuel supply tube. This mixture is discharged into the flame chamber and ignited in a flame chamber to produce a flame.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Curtis L. Taylor
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Patent number: 9822968Abstract: A burner comprises a nozzle main body (7) which is installed along a central axis of a throat (4) provided on a furnace wall (3) and comprises an inner nozzle (11) in which an auxiliary combustion air (24) flows and an outer nozzle (9) which is provided on an outer side and concentrically with the inner nozzle and in which a pulverized coal mixed flow (18) obtained by mixing a carrying medium with a pulverized coal flow, a wind box (5) for accommodating the nozzle main body, a secondary air regulator (8) accommodated in the wind box and provided at a tip portion of the nozzle main body, an auxiliary combustion air intake pipe (23) for introducing a combustion air as an auxiliary combustion air (22) into the inner nozzle from the wind box, a pulverized coal flow supply pipe (16) for introducing a pulverized coal mixed flow into the outer nozzle, and an oxygen-containing gas supply pipe (17) for supplying an oxygen-containing gas (19) to the pulverized coal mixed flow and raising the oxygen concentration in theType: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Masato Tamura, Ryunosuke Itokazu
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Patent number: 9822969Abstract: According to various embodiments, a system includes a gasification fuel injector. The gasification fuel injector includes a tip portion, an annular coolant chamber disposed in the tip portion, a recessed surface for cooling control and a first structural support extending through the annular coolant chamber. The first structural support divides the annular coolant chamber into a first passage and a second passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Constantin Dinu
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Patent number: 9822970Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a combustion device which does not cause an increase in the amount of generated NOx or a degradation in efficiency due to a lower flame luminance, even when the combustion space is limited in the lengthwise direction of the flame. A fuel ejector is configured so as to be provided with at least a first fuel ejector and a second fuel ejector lined up in a specific direction as viewed in the lengthwise direction of fuel ejection, and is configured so that a first ejection stream ejected from the first fuel ejector and the second fuel ejector collide on the downstream side of ejection.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Hirano, Hitoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 9822971Abstract: A burner device includes a fuel tank and an ignition unit. The fuel tank includes a chamber, a first thread portion, and a check valve including a valve body. The ignition unit removably attached to the fuel tank. The ignition unit includes a second connecting portion engageable with the first thread portion, and a top pillar selectively to push against the valve body of the check valve to slide along a longitudinal axis. When the fuel in the fuel tank is depleted during the operation, a user can use a filling assembly to fill the supplemental fuel into the fuel tank or replace another fuel tank instantly to improve convenience.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Pro-Iroda Industries, Inc.Inventor: Yung-Chieh Lee
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Patent number: 9822972Abstract: A cremation system has an exhaust gas/warm water heat exchanger which exchanges the heat of exhaust gas from a re-combustion furnace with the heat of a medium, and a buffer tank and flow rate regulating valves for suppressing temperature changes of the medium. A medium turbine is driven by an evaporator which generates working medium steam by heating and evaporating a low-boiling working medium with the heat of the medium, and power is generated by a power generator. A buffer tank is further provided to suppress temperature changes of the medium flowing from the evaporator into the exhaust gas/warm water heat exchanger. A power control device supplies the generated power to devices constituting the cremation system, while covering any shortfall in power required by the devices with power from an external power source.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: TOKYO HAKUZEN CO., LTD.Inventor: Machiko Asaoka
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Patent number: 9822973Abstract: Sorbent components containing halogen, calcium, alumina, and silica are used in combination during coal combustion to produce environmental benefits. Sorbents such as calcium bromide are added to the coal ahead of combustion and other components are added into the flame or downstream of the flame, preferably at minimum temperatures to assure complete formation of the refractory structures that result in various advantages of the methods. When used together, the components reduce emissions of elemental and oxidized mercury; increase the level of Hg, As, Pb, and/or Cl in the coal ash; decrease the levels of leachable heavy metals (such as Hg) in the ash, preferably to levels below the detectable limits; and make a highly cementitious ash product.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: NOx II, Ltd.Inventor: Douglas C. Comrie
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Patent number: 9822974Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The vacuum pump includes a cylindrical member having an exhaust gas introduction port for introducing the exhaust gas to be treated and a gas outlet port for discharging gases which have been treated, a plurality of fuel nozzles provided at a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting a fuel, and a plurality of air nozzles provided at the circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting air so as to form a swirling flow of air along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall. The air nozzles are disposed at a plurality of stages spaced in an axial direction of the cylindrical member.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: EBARA CORPORATIONInventors: Kohtaro Kawamura, Toyoji Shinohara, Tetsuro Sugiura, Hideo Arai, Toshiharu Nakazawa, Keiichi Ishikawa, Seiji Kashiwagi, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Takashi Kyotani
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Patent number: 9822975Abstract: A gas valve unit for setting a gas volumetric flow to a twin-circuit gas burner of a gas appliance includes a valve body having a gas inlet and two gas outlets, and a control mechanism for adjusting the gas volumetric flow to at least one of the gas outlets in a multiple-stage manner. The control mechanism has a zero position in which the gas volumetric flow to the gas outlets is interrupted, and a switching position which is adjacent to the zero position and in which the gas volumetric flow is set to a maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Christophe Cadeau, Jörn Naumann
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Patent number: 9822976Abstract: A gas valve unit for controlling a gas throughput routed to a gas burner of a gas appliance includes a valve housing, an actuation shaft which is able to set an opening cross section of the gas valve unit, and a stop valve. A linearly-displaceable connection element transmits a movement of the actuation shaft to the stop valve. The connection element has a plastic bend forming an overpressure protection.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Christophe Cadeau, Jörn Naumann
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Patent number: 9822977Abstract: An internal combustion engine with a piston having a piston head with a resonance cavity opening onto the head, and where a fuel nozzle located in a cylinder head is positioned to inject a fuel such as natural gas into the combustion chamber where resonance formed within the resonance cavity will ignite the fuel without the need of a spark plug. Inlet and exhaust ports in the cylinder head allow for air and combustion gas enter or leave the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J Miller, Paul G Hicks
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Patent number: 9822978Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for improved gas pilot burners, which are capable of simultaneous flame ignition and flame detection. More particularly, the invention provides for an apparatus and method capable of simultaneous high-energy ignition and flame ionization detection in a high-energy igniter that utilizes a spark rod located in a fuel channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Chentronics, LLCInventor: Andrew H. Strong
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Patent number: 9822979Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber with a combustion chamber wall and with at least one shingle that is fastened to the combustion chamber wall at a distance from the same, wherein the shingle has a shingle edge that abuts the combustion chamber wall, wherein the combustion chamber wall and the combustion chamber shingle respectively have at least one mixed air hole, and wherein a tubular fastening element provided with a ring flange is inserted through the mixed air hole of the combustion chamber wall, abutting the side of the combustion chamber wall that is facing away from the combustion chamber shingle with the ring flange, characterized in that, at its exterior side, the fastening element is provided with first snap-in means that are in mesh with second snap-in means that are formed at a tubular snap-in element that braces the combustion chamber shingle against the combustion chamber wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventors: Kay Heinze, Stefan Penz, Ivo Szarvasy
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Patent number: 9822980Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a body defining an axial direction and a radial direction, a primary air passageway centrally defined axially in the body, and a plurality of concentrically-arranged nozzle tip projections disposed at a downstream portion of the body. Each of the plurality of nozzle tip projections has a radially inwardly facing fuel filming surface communicating with respective fuel passages. The fuel filming surfaces are disposed radially outwardly of an outlet of the primary air passageway. A method for delivering fuel from a fuel nozzle of a combustor of a gas turbine engine is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Eduardo Hawie, Nigel Davenport, Yen-Wen Wang
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Patent number: 9822981Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing arrangement for mixing a fuel with a stream of oxygen containing gas flowing along an axis in an axial channel, especially in the second combustor of a gas turbine with sequential combustion. The mixing is improved and the mixing length reduced by said mixing arrangement comprising an injector with at least one injector ring, which is passed by said stream of gas inside and outside.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Andrea Ciani, Hanspeter Knoepfel
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Patent number: 9822982Abstract: A modular cooking apparatus is provided. A base unit is configured to direct heat to a recess, the recess having a ledge therein configured to receive a stockpot. A griddle has a top griddle cooking surface, and a downward extending wall configured to engage the recess of the base unit. An oven has a substantially open bottom, and is configured to engage the top griddle cooking surface of the griddle, where the griddle cooking surface acts as the heat source for the oven. The base unit individually defines a stockpot cooker configuration, a combination of the griddle mounted on the base unit defines a griddle configuration, and a combination of the griddle mounted on the base unit and the oven mounted on the griddle defines an oven configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BABINGTON TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Robert S. Babington, Ramiro Andrade, Andrew D. Babington
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Patent number: 9822983Abstract: A household cooking appliance include a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening; and a door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a full glass inner panel that abuts the seal when the door is in a closed position. The full glass inner panel includes a surface having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is adjacent to a first area within the perimeter of the seal surrounding the opening and directly exposed to heating of the oven chamber, and the second portion is adjacent to a second area outside of the perimeter of the seal and not being exposed to heating of the oven chamber. The full glass inner panel extends substantially from edge-to-edge of the door.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: Ben Braden, Russell Dorsten, James David Green, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 9822984Abstract: The invention relates to a telescoping pull-out device for household appliances and furniture, especially a pull-out system for an oven. The telescoping pull-out device includes a first telescoping rail mounted in such a way that it can be displaced between a retracted position and an extended position. The telescoping pull-out device operates in a manner which prevents an uncontrolled and/or undesired automatic extension of the telescoping rail. The telescoping pull-out device includes a catch element for catching the first telescoping rail in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Martin Brunner, Manfred Hintermayer
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Patent number: 9822985Abstract: A radiant heating system includes a housing and a plurality of heating elements. The housing includes a top cover configured to cover and seal an upper surface of the housing and a coolant directing enclosure positioned on an upper interior surface of the top cover. The top cover includes a plurality of openings, an inlet configured to allow a coolant to enter into the housing and an outlet configured to allow the coolant to exit the housing. The plurality of heating elements are configured to be inserted into the plurality of openings of the top cover such that the plurality of heating elements project into the housing and contact a coolant. A diameter of the inlet is greater than a diameter of the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: DYNACURRENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Ray King
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Patent number: 9822986Abstract: A system and method for controlling a boiler comprising a microcomputer operatively connected to a microcontroller wherein the microcontroller is configured to provide flame safeguard operations and the microcomputer is configured to provide operating control instructions to the microcontroller. The boiler control system may operate either in a stand-alone, cascade master or cascade slave configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Harsco Technologies LLCInventors: Christopher Ellingwood, Andrew Demers, John Pollard, Mark Spiridigloizzi
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Patent number: 9822987Abstract: The dehumidifier container for storing desiccant includes a storage compartment and a holding compartment. The storage compartment has side walls and a bottom base to form a top opening with attachment devices. The attachment devices allow release of the storage compartment from the container for disposal of collected water without disturbing the desiccant material in the holding compartment. The holding compartment has a housing with openings along the bottom edge, a bottom panel, and a top panel with a vent. The bottom panel has a funnel portion and a drain outlet. Air flows through the vent of the top panel and openings of the housing. Fluid collected by the desiccant drains through the bottom panel to the storage compartment. There is a filter between the funnel portion and the drain outlet to maintain the desiccant in the holding compartment, while only fluid collects in the storage compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventor: Patrick Gwen
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Patent number: 9822988Abstract: A dehumidifying apparatus controls the amount of refrigerant flowing into a third heat exchanger serving as a condenser, so as to secure the amount of heat required for defrosting.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichi Ito, Fumitake Unezaki, Mamoru Hamada
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Patent number: 9822989Abstract: Systems and methods of stabilizing HVAC systems with multiple HVAC units configured to control return air temperature or discharge air temperature are provided. HVAC units that are controlled by the return air temperature compare the return air temperature to a setpoint that determines whether the HVAC unit's operation increases, decreases, or stays the same. By adjusting the setpoint of an HVAC unit based on certain criteria (e.g., a desired operational effort of an HVAC unit) the system can be stabilized. A temperature setpoint reset (TSPR) system can be included in each HVAC unit that resets the temperature setpoint (TSP) of the HVAC unit so that the HVAC unit operates within a desired operational effort (e.g. compressor speed or valve position). A master feedback loop and optimizer loop may be implemented to further control the behavior of the HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Vigilent CorporationInventor: Clifford C. Federspiel
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Patent number: 9822990Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for humidifying are described herein. One method includes determining a temperature in a space associated with a humidifying unit, determining a relative humidity in the space, determining an air speed associated with the humidifying unit, and adjusting an amount of water sprayed by the humidifying unit based, at least in part, on the temperature, the relative humidity, and the air speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Andrzej Peczalski, Tom Rezachek, Alex Gu, Brad Terlson
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Patent number: 9822991Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus support system has a smartphone including a GPS, a camera, a communication unit that communicates with a center computer, a screen, and a control unit. When the control unit is activated at a location at which the air-conditioning apparatus is installed, the control unit executes a step of assuming a location detected by the GPS to be the location at which the air-conditioning apparatus is installed and causing the center computer to register the location, and, after registration has been made, when the control unit is activated at the location at which the air-conditioning apparatus is installed, in the case where the air-conditioning apparatus is registered in the center computer, the control unit causes the screen to display information about the air-conditioning apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Takashi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9822992Abstract: A solar oven designed for year-round use is readily-accessible and easy to use by simply removing a protective oven cover. The solar oven replicates the mainstream cook's current pattern with standard stoves, requiring little set-up or storage. Access to the solar oven is from the front and solar heat is stored in an upper oven chamber. By changing the solar oven chamber above the door, heat remains in the trapezoidal-pyramid cover during transfers and condensation is reduced to a minimum. By raising and lowering the floor, the solar oven allows the gasketed oven chamber to perform food cooking while being protected to prevent loss of heat. The solar oven remains available in all weather, does not fade in color and is attractive to most mainstream cooks.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventor: Sharlene Judith Thomas
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Patent number: 9822993Abstract: A transcritical R-744 refrigeration system, especially used for refrigerating a skating rink, has a heat exchanger between the gas cooler followed by a throttling device and the flash tank (or receiver), in order to eliminate the need of a flash-gas bypass. The heat exchanger connects to an external mechanical refrigeration system operating at a higher evaporating temperature than the transcritical R-744 refrigeration system, and generally totally condenses the vapor of the R-744 refrigerant before it reaches the flask tank. A method for improving the energy efficiency of the transcritical R-744 refrigeration system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: SYSTEMES LMP INC.Inventors: Gaétan Lesage, Jordan Kantchev
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Patent number: 9822994Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle system, switching is allowed between a parallel operation mode and a series operation mode. In the parallel operation mode, a refrigerant, upon leaving a load side heat exchanger, parallelly flows through a high-pressure side passage of each of a first internal heat exchanger and a second internal heat exchanger and then flows into an expansion valve. In the series operation mode, the refrigerant, upon leaving the load side heat exchanger, flows through the high-pressure side passage of the first internal heat exchanger, further flows through the high-pressure side passage of the second internal heat exchanger, and then flows through a high-pressure side bypass pipe into the expansion valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoru Yanachi, Yohei Kato
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Patent number: 9822995Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus including a heat source side heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger connected in parallel; an air-sending device that supplies air, which is an object to be heat exchanged in the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, in a variable manner; solenoid valves that each opens and closes a refrigerant passage of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; a third refrigerant circuit that is parallelly connected to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; and a flow control valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant flowing in the third refrigerant circuit. The refrigeration cycle apparatus can improve continuity of control of a heat exchange capacity of a heat source side heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka, Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Yuji Motomura, Takeshi Hatomura
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Patent number: 9822996Abstract: An additive heat transfer unit (AHTU) can be part of or added to an air source heat pump HVAC system. The heat pump system can include a compressor, an expansion valve, first and second air source heat exchangers, and a reversing valve. The system can have a cooling mode and a heating mode, such that in the cooling mode the first air source heat exchanger functions as an evaporator and the second air source heat exchanger functions as a condenser, this being reversed in the heating mode. The AHTU can include a liquid source heat exchanger that can be used to increase the efficiency of the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventor: David Deng
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Patent number: 9822997Abstract: System and method for generating and storing electricity by electromagnetic induction using a magnetic field modulated by the formation, dissipation, and movement of vortices produced by a vortex material such as a type II superconductor and further including a vortex flux generator in cryostat and a refrigerant compartment having bi-directionally thermal transfer to the vortex flux generator. Magnetic field modulation occurs at the microscopic level, facilitating the production of high frequency electric power. Generator inductors are manufactured using microelectronic fabrication, in at least one dimension corresponding to the spacing of vortices. The vortex material fabrication method establishes the alignment of vortices and generator coils, permitting the electromagnetic induction of energy from many vortices into many coils simultaneously as a cumulative output of electricity. A thermoelectric cycle is used to convert heat energy into electricity.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Silicon Turbine Systems, Inc.Inventor: Richard Adams
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Patent number: 9822998Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a casing, an inlet guide vane, an impeller, a motor, a diffuser and a cooling medium delivery structure. The motor includes a rotor mounted on the shaft and a stator disposed radially outwardly of the rotor to form a gap between the rotor and the stator. The cooling medium delivery structure includes inlet and outlet conduits located to supply and discharge a cooling medium to and from the motor. The shaft has an external shape different than an internal shape of the rotor to form at least one axial passageway between the shaft and the rotor. The cooling medium is supplied through the gap and the at least one axial passageway to cool the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: DAIKIN APPLIED AMERICAS INC.Inventors: Joseph Layton Knopp, Jeffrey Allen Morgan, Ronald J. Formosa, Jr.
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Patent number: 9822999Abstract: Features for distributing a sorber gas in cooling, heating or refrigeration systems with sorbers are disclosed. The sorbers may adsorb gas onto a sorbent material and desorb gas therefrom. Distribution of the gas to and from the sorber may be done with porous, rigid tubes. The tubes may be formed of composite material having pores. The pores may be implemented by flowing fluids through the composite material while the material cures. The sorbers may be reinforced with rods to provide greater strength and stability in load-inducing environments. The tubes may extend through the sorbent and thereby provide a channel for the gas to flow to and from the sorbent and the rest of the cooling, heating or refrigeration system.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Rocky ResearchInventors: Uwe Rockenfeller, Kaveh Khalili
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Patent number: 9823000Abstract: This invention is about a cold dynamic cycle refrigeration apparatus, which makes up cold energy with cryogenic liquid refrigerant by liquid circulating pump boosting, after its temperature is increased via the cold regenerator, it flows through the expander to reduce pressure and temperature to provide the cold to the refrigeration apparatus, and then returns to the refrigerant tank via the cold regenerator, so as to form the cold dynamic cycle circuit of the refrigerant. This invention requires no circulation cooling water system as in a traditional steam compression refrigeration apparatus, so its maintenance and operation cost can be substantially reduced, with an apparatus of the same refrigerating capacity, it can save energy by more than 30% as compared with traditional ones, producing substantial economic, social and environmental protection benefits.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: NANJING RECLAIMER ENVIRONMENTAL TEKNIK CO., LTDInventor: Haibo Wang
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Patent number: 9823001Abstract: An air conditioning service system includes an accumulator defining an accumulator chamber, a pressure transducer operably connected to the accumulator chamber, a drain valve operably connected to the accumulator chamber, and a controller operably connected to the pressure transducer and the drain valve. The controller includes a processor configured to execute program instructions stored in a memory to determine a volume of liquid drained from the accumulator by: determining a volumetric flow rate of liquid through the drain valve by controlling the drain valve with the controller to an open position for a predetermined period of time; detecting an increased rate of pressure reduction while the drain valve is open; and determining an amount of liquid drained through the drain valve based upon the volumetric flow rate and a total time elapsed between opening the drain valve and the increased rate of pressure reduction.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dylan M. Lundberg, Mark W. McMasters
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Patent number: 9823002Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid cooler having separable and portable components. The liquid cooler has a liquid cooling section and a refrigerating system section. In an operative liquid cooling configuration, the components present in the liquid cooling section and the refrigerating system section are connected with each other with a first and second releasing coupler. In an operative defrosting configuration, the components of present in the liquid cooling section and the refrigerating system section are separated with each other by releasing the first and second releasing coupler and hence are easily portable. The separated liquid cooling section and the refrigerating system section enables easy periodic maintenance or replacement of faulty components in less time, labor and cost. Further, the liquid cooler is powered by power received from power mains or by power storage device such as battery.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Inventors: Jorge Delgado, Raul Monzon De Leon
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Patent number: 9823003Abstract: Provided is a first unit including a first unit including a compressor and a first heat exchanger; a plurality of second units each including a second heat exchanger and each being connected to the first unit via a plurality of branched pipes; a plurality of valves configured to open to permit refrigerant flows and close to not permit the refrigerant flows; a storage unit configured to store connection information indicating a relationship of connection between the plurality of second units and the plurality of pipes; a closed path pipe that is any of the plurality of branched pipes to which no second unit is connected, and a control unit configured to detect whether the closed path pipe is included in the connection information.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shogo Tamaki, Kazuyoshi Shinozaki
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Patent number: 9823004Abstract: A refrigerator and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A refrigerator includes a timer for measuring an interval of one hour after power is supplied to the refrigerator, a door opening/closing sensor for sensing opening and closing of a door, a storage unit for storing information whether door is opened in a sector defined as one hour by the timer and at least 7 sector units each having 24 consecutive sectors, and a control unit for predicting a refrigerator use pattern in 24 sectors by overlapping 7 sector units, performing a normal operation mode to maintain a storage compartment at a first desired temperature in a sector in which door opening is predicted, and performing a power-saving operation mode to maintain the storage compartment at a second desired temperature higher than the first desired temperature in a sector in which door opening is not predicted.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Byoungsuk Choi, Jinseok Hu, Heesun Kim
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Patent number: 9823005Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting and recovering from control instability caused by impeller stall in a chiller system are provided. In one embodiment, an impeller stall detection and recovery component of a chiller control unit calculates a control error signal frequency spectrum for an evaporator leaving water temperature, determines whether a high frequency signal content of the control error signal frequency spectrum exceeds acceptable limits, and adjusts a surge boundary control curve downward by a predetermined incremental value in order to resolve instability caused by impeller stall.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Thomas J. Clanin, Lee L. Sibik
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Patent number: 9823006Abstract: The disclosure includes a water tray member receiving raw water for ice-making from a water tank, an ice making unit cooling the raw water received in the water tray member and forming ice, a heating unit heating the raw water received in the water tray member, and a control unit controlling an operation of the heating unit such that the raw water received in the water tray member is heated before the ice making unit cools the raw water in the water tray member. According to the ice maker, the temperature of the raw water received in an ice-making water tray is raised to a preset temperature at the initial stage of an ice making process, thereby preventing the formation of an opaque layer in the central portion of ice.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Conway Co., LtdInventor: Se-Joo Kim
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Patent number: 9823007Abstract: A vessel for chilling wine with ice or ice-water mixture has an inner support chamber for standing up wine bottle and separating them from liquid water to avoid over chilling. The inner support as a plurality of perforations in an upper portion of the vessel to facilitate heat exchange. As ice outside the support melts, the water formed will remain below the perforations.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Meyer Intellectual Properties LimitedInventors: Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Edward S Sherman
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Patent number: 9823008Abstract: A storage compartment assembly is located within the interior of a compartment of a refrigerator such as a fresh food compartment of a refrigerator. The storage compartment assembly includes a storage container the temperature of which can be controlled independently of the temperature in the fresh food compartment. At least one of the sides of the storage container can be spaced away from a respective interior side of the refrigerator compartment and a housing located in the space between the side of the storage container and the interior side of the refrigerator compartment. The housing can contain components that are configured to function in the operation of the refrigerator, including the storage compartment assembly. The refrigerator can comprise a bottom-mount refrigerator and the fresh food compartment can be provided with double-doors for closing and opening the interior of the fresh food compartment.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventors: Nilton Carlos Bertolini, Edmund S. Richardson, Jerry R. Baack, David L. Hall, Cory Dale Simpson
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Patent number: 9823009Abstract: Methods and systems for de-icing an exterior heat exchanger of a vehicle's heat pump are presented. In one example, a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater provides heat to refrigerant that de-ices the exterior heat exchanger. In some examples, an additional PTC heater provides heat to engine coolant to warm a vehicle's passenger cabin when the vehicle's exterior heat exchanger is being de-iced.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Franco Ragazzi
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Patent number: 9823010Abstract: A refrigerator is provided that includes a low energy defrost system and method for melting frost formed on an evaporator of a cooling system for the refrigerator. The low energy defrost system includes using air from the refrigerator compartment or external air adjacent the refrigerator to be directed to the evaporator and passed adjacent the evaporator coils to melt any frost formed thereon. As the air is above freezing temperature, it will melt any frost formed on the coils without the need of use an electrical heater. Re-cooled air from the melted frost may then be directed back into the refrigerator compartment to be used to aid in cooling the refrigerator compartment or keeping the refrigerator compartment at the programmed or predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventor: Patrick J. Boarman
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Patent number: 9823011Abstract: A refrigerating device, in particular a refrigerator and/or a freezer cabinet, comprising a heat-insulating housing and a heat-insulating door. At least one component is provided on or in the door, said component being fluidically and/or electrically connected by means of a line to at least one element which is arranged on the housing. The door is articulated to the housing by means of a multilink hinge. A support, which supports the line when the door is open, is provided in the intermediate area between the door and the housing. The invention is characterised in that the inner chamber of the refrigerating device can be almost completely accessed, when a water dispensing unit is provided on the door and even with solid doors.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventor: Andreas Kempte
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Patent number: 9823012Abstract: A storage assembly for an appliance includes a shaft mounted to the bracket. A hinge is slidably mounted to the shaft, and a container is mounted to the hinge such that the container is movable relative to the shaft on the hinge. The container has a projection that is receivable within each opening of a series of openings of the shaft. A related refrigerator appliance is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Louis A. Wantland, Bagawathkumar Chellappan, Satish Gundala
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Patent number: 9823013Abstract: For the purpose of improving efficiency a home appliance device, in particular a home chiller appliance device, is proposed. The device includes an insert (16) which is insertable into a storage space (12) and which has a front cover element (32) and a cover support element (34), wherein the front cover element (32) is connected to the cover support element (34) in a form-fit manner in at least one first direction (36) and is in at least one pre-assembly state movable with respect to the cover support element (34) in at least one second direction (38) that is at least substantially perpendicular to the first direction (36).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Muharrem Uemit Caglin, Mehmet Ciyanoglu, Tanzer Yildizgoecer