Patents Issued in January 9, 2018
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Patent number: 9863680Abstract: An apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor that compresses a refrigerant, an indoor-side heat exchanger serving as a radiator that exchanges heat between the refrigerant and a heating target, an expansion valve that decompresses the refrigerant by opening-degree adjustment, and an outdoor-side heat exchanger serving as an evaporator that exchanges heat between a heat-exchange target and the refrigerant are connected by pipes. The apparatus includes: an outdoor air temperature sensor that detects a temperature of outdoor air serving as the heat-exchange target; a discharge-side temperature sensor that detects a discharge temperature of the refrigerant discharged by the compressor; and a controller that, when the controller determines that a rotation speed of the compressor is a maximum and the temperature of the heat-exchange target is lower than a preset temperature, controls an opening degree of the expansion valve by using the discharge temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Komei Nakajima, Kosuke Tanaka, Hiroaki Makino, Kazuhide Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9863681Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling an HVAC system electronic expansion valve (EEV) include determining an optimal EEV position for the HVAC system as a function of a variable related to an ambient environment enthalpy and operating the HVAC system as a function of the optimal EEV position.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventors: Hunter Ian Golden, Jason Thomas LeRoy, Raymond Walter Rite
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Patent number: 9863682Abstract: A water distributor for an ice maker having a first reservoir comprising a bottom and an inlet passageway, a central wall comprising a first central wall portion and a second central wall portion, and a second reservoir separated from the first reservoir by the central wall, the second reservoir comprising a bottom. A population of teeth separated by a population of gaps are disposed along the central wall. Water flows from the first reservoir to the second reservoir through the population of gaps. A population of outlet passageways are disposed in the second central wall portion proximate the bottom of the second reservoir. Water exits the second reservoir substantially horizontally through the population of outlet passageways.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: True Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventor: John Allen Broadbent
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Patent number: 9863683Abstract: An ice cube tray assembly having an insulating box, a lower chamber and an upper chamber. The insulating box having a base and an upstanding structure, with a cavity. A top surface has an inner and outer perimeter, with the inner perimeter defining the opening of the cavity. The lower chamber includes an upper deck portion and container structure depending therefrom. The upper chamber includes a top wall and an inner container structure depending from the top wall. The upper and lower chambers are positioned in sealing engagement.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Crystal Cubes LLCInventors: John Joseph Baumbach, Douglas Carl Allan, Brendan Hingston Lake, Justin Eakes
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Patent number: 9863684Abstract: An ice maker includes, among other things, an ice cube mold, an ice cube remover and a force sensor comprising a piezo dielectric elastomer (PDE). The ice cube mold has at least one cavity for receiving liquid. The ice cube remover is configured to apply a removal force to either the mold or an ice cube. The force sensor is provided on either the mold or the remover and provides an output indicative of the removal force. Upon the removal of an ice cube from the cavity, the ice cube remover applies a removal force to the mold or the ice cube to effect the removal of the ice cube from the cavity and the force sensor outputs a signal indicative of the removal force.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Alberto R. Gomes, Yen-Hsi Lin, Andrew M. Tenbarge
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Patent number: 9863685Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet, an ice maker disposed within the refrigerator cabinet, and an ice mold in the ice maker. The ice maker is configured to provide cooling air from a cool air source along a bottom side of the ice mold during freezing of water to make ice. The ice maker is further configured to provide warm air from a warm air source along the bottom side of the ice mold to facilitate harvesting of the ice. The warm air source may be a refrigeration compartment disposed within the refrigerator cabinet. The ice maker may be disposed within the refrigeration compartment or the freezer compartment. The ice maker may be configured to make clear ice. The ice mold may be fixed in place during the harvesting of the ice.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventor: Patrick J. Boarman
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Patent number: 9863686Abstract: A device for adjusting a full-ice level includes: an ice making tray for making ice; an ice making tray fixing unit positioned on both sides of the ice making tray to support the ice making tray; an ice storage unit positioned below the ice making tray and for storing ice that is separated from and drops from the ice making tray; a full-ice level sensor for sensing the highest level of ice stored in the ice storage unit; a sensor guide on which the full-ice level sensor is installed, and positioned in the ice storage unit; and a motor on one side of the ice making tray fixing unit and coupled with the sensor guide, and for moving the sensor guide upward and downward in the ice storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Dongbu Daewoo Electronics CorporationInventor: Won Gu Park
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Patent number: 9863687Abstract: Self-heating apparatus and methodology for customizing a time-temperature profile thereof. The layered apparatus includes at least a layer of phase change material and a layer of air- or oxygen-activated material. When the air- or oxygen-activated material is activated, heat is released rapidly and is absorbed by the phase change material. The phase change material then releases the absorbed heat over a long period of time. Time-temperature profiles can be adjusted based on type, amount, and configuration of phase change and air-activated materials used. The apparatus and methodology allows rapid heat-up of times of a few minutes and lasts several hours at near constant tunable temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: Aydin K. Sunol, Sermin G. Sunol, Emilee Chassanne Bannister, Pamela Alvarez Moreno, Kyle Louis Cogswell
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Patent number: 9863688Abstract: A refrigerator includes a compressor, a cold storage medium, a power supply to convert AC power supplied from an outside of the refrigerator, and to receive DC power during interruption of electric power, and a controller to perform a control operation to supply a cooling capacity to an interior of the refrigerator by driving the compressor based on the supplied AC power when no interruption of electric power occurs, and to perform a control operation to supply a cooling capacity to the interior of the refrigerator based on the supplied DC power and the cold storage medium during the interruption of electric power. Accordingly, consumption of electric power during interruption of electric power is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Byoungsuk Choi, Jinseok Hu, Heesun Kim, Shinhyun Park
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Patent number: 9863689Abstract: A refrigerator includes a storage chamber; an evaporator; an evaporator receiving portion and a defrost water tray slantingly arranged at a lower side of the evaporator receiving portion; a machinery chamber having an evaporation tray; an upper hose communicated with the defrost water tray; a lower hose connected to the upper hose while extending to the evaporation tray, the lower hose being provided, at one side thereof, with an air inlet hole to introduce outside air. The air inlet hole is formed at a slanted mounting surface protruding inside of a vertically-extending portion of the lower hose while being slanted downward. An opening and closing unit is provided in the vertically-extending portion of the lower hose that is configured to open the air inlet hole by an internal pressure of the storage chamber during opening of the door, and to close the air inlet hole by gravity.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun Nam Lee, Sang Soo Kim, Sang Gyu Jung, Mu Yeol Sun, Sang Hyeok Park
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Patent number: 9863690Abstract: For the purpose of providing a home appliance device with improved characteristics regarding a user convenience, a home appliance door, in particular a home chiller appliance door, is proposed: The home appliance door has at least one door unit with an outer wall and an inner wall; and at least one covering element which at least partly covers at least one feature of the inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Taha Demiroez, Tanzer Yildizgoecer
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Patent number: 9863691Abstract: A hinge device for a door of a refrigerator, etc. moves the center of rotation of the door by interlocking with the opening/closing operations of the door, while stabilizing the opening/closing operations without any hindrance such as rattling. The hinge device comprises: a shaft member which is mounted on a refrigerator main body and comprises a hinge pin; a bearing member which is mounted on a door and comprises a long hole which is in contact with the hinge pin to be relatively movable or relatively rotatable with respect to the hinge pin; and a cam which is installed on the hinge pin and constitutes a cam unit by contacting a cam follower of the bearing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Kikuchi, Toshiaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9863692Abstract: Disclosed herein are a refrigerator capable of reducing a manufacturing cost by reducing the number of members constituting a sliding apparatus to simplify the sliding apparatus. A refrigerator includes a main body, a storage chamber provided in the inside of the main body, wherein the front part of the storage chamber opens, a storage box accommodated in the storage chamber, and including side surfaces and a bottom surface, a guide rail coupled with the storage box, and configured to guide the storage box to be slidingly pushed into and pulled from the storage chamber and a closing apparatus configured to accumulate an elastic force when the storage box is pulled, and to transfer, when the storage box is pushed, the accumulated elastic force, thereby assisting the pushing of the storage box, wherein the closing apparatus is directly coupled with the bottom surface of the storage box.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Wook Moon, Young Jin Cho, Dong Hyun Chun
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Patent number: 9863693Abstract: There is disclosed a refrigerator; a lighting device provided in the storage chamber, a first door rotatably coupled to the case to open and close the storage chamber, an auxiliary storage chamber provided in the first door, a second door, a front panel formed of a transparent material, an evaporation treatment unit evaporated on an overall back surface of the front panel to transmit lights partially, a variable transparency film attached to a back surface of the evaporation treatment unit provided in the front panel to get transparent when the power is supplied, a frame unit with an opening having a corresponding size to an opening provided in the first door, an insulation panel distant from the front panel, a power supply unit for supplying an electric power to the variable transparency film and the lighting device, a proximity sensor provided in the second door to sense a user's approaching.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Woonkyu Seo, Soonho Jung, Jinhee Park
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Patent number: 9863694Abstract: A method of interacting with a refrigeration appliance using a portable electronic device, wherein the refrigeration appliance comprises a refrigeration system comprising one or more refrigeration components and a controller adapted to control the one or more refrigeration components and wherein the portable electronic device comprises an application for interacting with the controller of the refrigeration appliance. The method comprising the steps of positioning the portable electronic device in proximity to the refrigeration appliance, establishing a wireless communication connection between the refrigeration appliance and the portable electronic device, and displaying information on the portable electronic device corresponding to the refrigeration appliance to which the portable electronic device is connected.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: True Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventor: John Allen Broadbent
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Patent number: 9863695Abstract: A container with active temperature control is provided. The container has a body with a chamber that receives a liquid. A temperature control system housed in the portable body has one or more heating element in thermal communication with at least a portion of the chamber to heat the liquid. Control circuitry controls the operation of the one or more heating elements and one or more power storage elements to provide electrical energy to the one or more heating element and/or control circuitry. The control circuitry controls the one or more heating elements to add heat to the liquid in the receiving portion to maintain the temperature of the liquid at a predetermined temperature or increase the temperature of the liquid above said predetermined temperature. The container can have a cooling element (e.g., a phase change material) that can remove heat from the liquid poured into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Ember Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Frank Victor Baumann
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Patent number: 9863696Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a process for liquefaction of a natural gas. The process includes cooling the natural gas with a first refrigerant provided by a first cooling system and cooling the natural gas with a second refrigerant provided by a second cooling system. The second cooling system is a single phase cooling system. The first and second cooling systems operate independently from each other. The second refrigerant is cooled with the first refrigerant so that the cooling capacity of the second refrigerant and the second cooling system is increased.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: KEPPEL OFFSHORE & MARINE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE PTE LTDInventors: Wen Sin Chong, Xiaoxia Sheng, Ravindu Atapattu, Kok Seng Foo
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Patent number: 9863697Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for liquefying a natural gas feed stream to produce an LNG product. The natural gas feed stream is liquefied, by indirect heat exchange with a gaseous methane or natural gas refrigerant circulating in a gaseous expander cycle, to produce a first LNG stream. The first LNG stream is expanded, and the resulting vapor and liquid phases are separated to produce a first flash gas stream and a second LNG stream. The second LNG stream is then expanded, with the resulting vapor and liquid phases being separated to produce the second flash gas stream and a third LNG stream, all or a portion of which forms the LNG product. Refrigeration is recovered from the second flash gas by using said stream to sub-cool the second LNG stream or a supplementary LNG stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mark Julian Roberts, Yang Liu, Fei Chen
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Patent number: 9863698Abstract: A heated air moving device for drying wet surfaces and materials includes a housing. A controller, a first power module and plurality of sockets are coupled to the housing. The first power module is operationally coupled to the controller. The sockets are operationally coupled to the first power module and are configured to couple electrically powered equipment to the first power module. An intake is positioned in a respective opposing side of the housing. A nozzle, fluidically coupled to the internal space, is coupled to the housing. A fan and a heater are coupled to the housing and is positioned in an internal space defined by the housing. The fan is configured to draw air through the intake and expel the air through the nozzle. The heater is configured to heat the air such that air expelled from the housing dries an area proximate to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventor: Bradley Turner
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Patent number: 9863699Abstract: Embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatuses for lyophilizing, storing, and transfusing materials are described. In embodiments, the materials may include whole blood or a component of whole blood such as plasma.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Terumo BCT, Inc.Inventors: Frank Corbin, III, Dennis J. Hlavinka, Rajesh Pareta, Mark E. Hillam
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Patent number: 9863700Abstract: For providing inline sterile freeze drying of a product containing solid matter and a solvent, such as water, in a plurality of trays accommodated in at least one trolley, a system comprises a filling station having an inlet end and an outlet end, or a docking station, a freeze storage, a freeze dryer unit, an emptying station having an inlet end and an outlet end, or a docking station, a plurality of trays adapted to be accommodated in at least one trolley. A cleaning and sterilizing unit is provided between the outlet end of the emptying station and the inlet end of the filling station.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: GEA Process Engineering A/SInventors: Morten Woldsted Pedersen, Christian Grønborg
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Patent number: 9863701Abstract: Methods of preparing dried powders of biologically active compositions are disclosed. They are designed to provide dried material that maintains biological activity at low economic cost. Compositions made by the above methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Aerosol Therapeutics, LLCInventor: Thomas D. Robinson
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Patent number: 9863702Abstract: A process for ore moisture removal by exposure of the ore to a hot and dry air stream is described. Also described is a conveyor belt and a transfer chute adapted for the use of the above process. Among other aspects, the process has the function of reducing moisture in ores prior to the shipping stage of this material.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: VALE S.A.Inventors: Thiago Cesar de Souza Pinto, Márcio de Alcântara Costa, Laurindo de Salles Leal Filho, Danilo da Fonseca Silva e Silva
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Patent number: 9863703Abstract: A grain drying tower comprises a heater and blower separating a heating plenum and a cooling plenum. The dryer is provided with a heat reclamation/heat recycling system and/or counter-flow cooling to reduce the energy requirements of the tower dryer. The heat reclamation system comprises a chamber external to the outer wall of the tower and which is and located at a point along the drying path. The bottom of the chamber is open to the atmosphere. Hot exhaust air enters the heat reclamation chamber at the top of the chamber and is drawn back into the tower by the blower as the exhaust air exits the open bottom of the chamber. In the counter-flow, the walls defining the grain path of the in the cooling section are not air permeable, and air is drawn into the cooling section through outer wall ducts which are closed at the inner wall. The entering air travels up through heated grain to be warmed, and then enters the plenum through inner wall ducts, which are closed at the outer wall of the tower.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: The GSI Group, LLCInventor: David Morrison
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Patent number: 9863704Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a dryer for removing hydrocarbons and/or moisture from metal chips is provided. The dryer includes a top portion and a base portion. The top portion comprises an elongated tubular chamber containing a scrap conveyor. The base portion comprises a burner, a heat exchanger, a high temperature VOC elimination chamber and a vent for returning reduced VOC gasses to the top portion. The top portion is configured to receive the metal chips at an inlet and transport the metal chips to an outlet while receiving heated air from the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: PYROTEK, INC.Inventor: Chris T. Vild
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Patent number: 9863705Abstract: A continuous process and a system for drying solid organic substances in an aqueous phase or a mixed (water/organic solvent) phase, which includes feeding a continuous stream of such substances into a continuous drier, to obtain a continuous output stream of dried powder material and steam at a temperature in excess of 100° C. for delivery to an apparatus separating the powder material from the steam. A continuous run of the powder material and a continuous run of steam are discharged from the apparatus for recirculation to the drier, with the steam pressure inside the drier and the separating apparatus kept constant at a value to ensure that substantially no oxygen is present, or that the powder material cannot be ignited. The recirculation is carried out by continuous drawing, downstream of the separating apparatus, an amount of steam corresponding to the amount of steam generated within the drier.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Vomm Chemipharma S.r.l.Inventor: Giuseppina Cerea
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Patent number: 9863706Abstract: The invention relates to a sidewall for use in a sintering pallet car. The sidewall has a base for connection to a frame of the pallet car and a wall extending upwardly from the base to a top. The wall has opposing ends, opposing interior and exterior faces, and a height as measured from the base to the top. An elongate brace is disposed on the exterior face intermediate of the opposing ends, the brace extending downwards from the top towards the base. The sidewall may include an arcuate protrusion disposed on the interior face intermediate the opposing ends of the sidewall or a cap extending between the opposing ends of the sidewall and joining the exterior and interior faces, the cap having a protruding lip extending from the exterior face. The sidewall may comprise a top segment and a bottom segment, releasably securable to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Cast Steel Products LPInventors: Cristobal J Gonzalez, Ray Hernandez, Jr.
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Patent number: 9863707Abstract: A furnace is provided suitable for metallurgical processes, comprising at least one section comprised of refractory bricks with an outer shell plate adjacent to the refractory bricks, including exterior bricks whose external faces adjacent the shell plate define gaseous media cooling channels extending along the exterior of the refractory bricks between them and the shell plate. The furnace further comprises cooling plates within the cooling channels and joints between the successive courses of bricks. Advantageously, the conductivity of the cooling plates is at least 5 times the conductivity of the refractory lining into which it is inserted. Suitable materials include copper and copper-based alloys, brasses, bronzes, cast irons, aluminum alloys, silver, high-temperature steels, refractory metals and their alloys, graphite, silicon carbide, and aluminum nitride.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Hatch Ltd.Inventors: Sean Southall, Bert Wasmund, Maciej Jastrzebski, Frank Stober, Michael Parravani, Robert Veenstra, John Andrew Ferguson Shaw
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Patent number: 9863708Abstract: Refractory ceramic gas purging element, comprising: a refractory ceramic body, a chamber is arranged at the first end (10u) of the refractory ceramic body (10), which chamber extends over at least 50% of the cross section of the refractory ceramic body at its first end, a gas feeding line enters into said chamber, at a distance to said refractory ceramic body, at a section towards the refractory ceramic body the chamber is at least partially permeable to gas, the chamber comprises at least one plate, which is freely moveable in an axial direction of the gas purging element between a first end position and a second end position, the plate is dimensioned, shaped and placed in the chamber such that a gas flow from the gas feeding line through said chamber up to the first end is even secured when the plate is in its second end position.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: REFRACTORY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bojan Zivanovic, Bernhard Handle
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Patent number: 9863709Abstract: A device for measuring the temperature of a melt, particularly of a molten metal, includes an optical fiber and a guiding tube having an immersion end and a second end opposite to the immersion end. The optical fiber is partially arranged in the guiding tube. An inner diameter of the guiding tube is larger than an outer diameter of the optical fiber. A first plug is arranged at the immersion end of or within the guiding tube proximate the immersion end of the guiding tube. The optical fiber is fed through the first plug and the first plug reduces a gap between the optical fiber and the guiding tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.Inventors: Guido Jacobus Neyens, Michel Thys, Frank Stevens
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Patent number: 9863710Abstract: A laminated total heat exchange element that includes a plurality of laminated plates, a first spacing member forming a first flow path between the laminated plates, and a second spacing member forming a second flow path between the laminated plates, wherein the first flow path is formed to allow fluid to pass from one side to another side of the laminated total heat exchange element, the second flow path is formed to allow fluid to pass from the another side to the one side of the laminated total heat exchange element, a third flow path, which communicates with the first flow path on the one side and extends substantially parallel to a lamination direction of the laminated plates, is formed, and a fourth flow path, which communicates with the second flow path on the another side and extends substantially parallel to the lamination direction of the laminated plate, is formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kise, Masaru Shinozaki, Masaru Takada, Hajime Sotokawa, Yuichi Ishimaru, Hidemoto Arai
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Patent number: 9863711Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a molded plastic object that includes at least one vapor chamber within the plastic object. A wicking material is in contact with at least a portion of an inner wall of the vapor chamber. A working fluid located within the vapor chamber is configured to distribute heat from warmer regions of the plastic object to cooler regions of the plastic object. In some embodiments, the molded plastic object is part or all of a solid inkjet printhead.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATEDInventors: John S. Paschkewitz, David M. Johnson
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Patent number: 9863712Abstract: A heat pipe includes a reservoir of liquid that is connected to a horizontal portion of the heat pipe via a capillary connection. The heat pipe includes a temperature sensor in proximity to a heat interface in the horizontal portion and a controller that controls a heater for the reservoir. As power into the heat pipe increases, the controller turns on the heater, causing the temperature of the liquid in the reservoir to rise. Liquid then passes from the reservoir through the capillary connection into the horizontal portion, thereby dynamically increasing the amount of liquid in the heat pipe, which increases performance of the heat pipe at higher power levels. When the heater is off, as the heat pipe cools, the liquid condenses and flows back through the capillary connection into the reservoir. The result is a heat pipe that provides demand-based charging of the liquid based on power level.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William J. Anderl, Bret P. Elison, Phillip V. Mann, Arvind K. Sinha
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Patent number: 9863713Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for protecting various products and materials that are sensitive to variations in temperature, during the time that such sensitive products and materials are in transit or in storage. Phase Change Materials (“PCM”) are used to absorb heat, and thereby protect the sensitive products and materials. Various systems and methods for measuring current levels, and changes in, the residual latent energy in the PCM, and thereby determining the expected duration of temperature control for the sensitive products and materials. Various systems and methods for aggregating the measurements of changes in the residual latent energy of the PCM, and for communicating such measurements by wireless or wireline communication to an outside receiver of such information. Various systems and methods for taking action, based on measurements of changes in residual latent energy of the PCM, for protecting the temperature sensitive products or materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: CARTE-SENSEInventor: Yaron Kaufmann
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Patent number: 9863714Abstract: A heat exchanger including a plurality of horizontally arranged tubes, headers to support the tubes and to enable a refrigerant to flow in the tubes, and a corrugated fin horizontally disposed between the tubes, wherein the corrugated fins includes a vertical fin body, flat contact parts formed at an upper part and a lower part of the fin body, the flat contact parts being in surface contact with a top and a bottom of the tubes, and curved contact parts extending from opposite ends of the flat contact parts, the curved contact parts being in surface contact with the sides of the tubes, the fin body includes drainage guides formed outside the flat contact parts in a lateral direction, and each drainage guide includes protruding parts protruding more upward and downward than the flat contact parts.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang Tae Seo, Yong Ki Baek, Gaku Hayase
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Patent number: 9863715Abstract: A plate heat exchanger may include a plurality of stacked plates, each formed of flat troughs fitted into each other having substantially flat bottoms and connected at respective trough edges. The plurality of plates may separate first and second chambers from one another which are arranged alternately succeeding within the plate stack formed by the troughs. A first fluid may flow in parallel through the first chambers connected in parallel via associated openings in the plates, and a second fluid flow may flow in parallel through the second chambers connected in parallel via associated second openings. The plate heat exchanger may include a base plate for holding an end face of the plate stack. The base plate may be arranged on the end face of the plate stack, the end face formed by a convex side of a plate. The plate heat exchanger may include a flange.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Andreas Gruener, Clemens Schupp
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Patent number: 9863716Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed which includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates. Each plate has a plurality of hollowed out pins arranged in a pin fin pattern. Each plate also includes an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture in fluid communication with one another. A plurality of heat pipes are defined by several of the plurality of hollowed out pins. A wicking material is arranged within the several hollowed out pins. A heat transfer fluid at least partially fills each heat pipe.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Jay W Kokas, Leo J Veilleux, Jr., Rudolph Thomas Beaupre
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Patent number: 9863717Abstract: A heat transferring device comprises two massive thermally conductive bodies arranged vertically on top of one another and spaced apart by a variable distance. One or more spreading elements are positioned between the thermally conductive bodies and respectively comprise two horizontally movable wedges with wedge tips pointing in opposite directions and a spring pressing apart the wedges. The thermally conductive bodies have corresponding sliding surfaces extending parallel to the wedge surfaces. Motion of the wedges in the horizontal direction is converted into vertical motion of the thermally conductive bodies to thereby automatically adapt the height of the entire device to a respective installation situation.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Pentair Technical Solutions GMBHInventors: Michael Joist, Stefan Curatolo
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Patent number: 9863718Abstract: Enclosures for use in hazardous areas include heat exchangers for active thermal management. The enclosures are coupled to a device having heat transfer capabilities. Equipment within the enclosures produces heat within the enclosure. The heat exchanger removes heat produced from the equipment and manages the internal temperature of the enclosures to a level suitable for hazardous locations. The enclosures can be actively cooled or heated using the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Joseph Michael Manahan, Marc Raymond Kozlowski
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Patent number: 9863719Abstract: A support assembly is disclosed for use with a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger support assembly may include a frame configured to receive a heat exchanger. The frame may include a top section, a bottom section, and first and second side sections. The heat exchanger support assembly may also include at least one support member configured to mount a tank associated with the heat exchanger to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Sudhakara Reddy Gopireddy, Hardik Hasmukhlal Shah, Sumeeth Shantharaju Sivanagere, Jianlong Xu, Steven James Eveker, Dongming Tan
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Patent number: 9863720Abstract: A cooling pad support system for holding a cooling pad may include a support array; a pivoting platform configured to be pivotably connected with respect to the support array and a support finger configured to be pivotably connected to the pivoting platform. The cooling pad may be sandwiched between the support finger and support array.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventors: Ray Wells, Chuck Walker, Allen Loggins, Jr.
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Patent number: 9863721Abstract: This heat exchanger (100) includes a core portion (1), a header portion (2), and an intermediate member (3), and the curvature radius of a corner (31a to 31d) of the intermediate member is configured to be smaller than the curvature radius at a header portion side.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujita, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Akihiro Tanabe
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Patent number: 9863722Abstract: A refrigerator includes a body, first and second storage compartments, first and second refrigerating units to cool the first and second storage compartments, and a heat exchanger to individually condense first and second refrigerants of the first and second refrigerating units and a second refrigerant of the second refrigerating unit. The heat exchanger includes first and second headers each having an opening formed in the outer wall, a tube inserted into the first and second headers through the openings, and a baffle disposed in the internal space of the first header so as to partition off the internal space of the first header. The tube includes a plurality of channels spaced apart from each other by a predetermined gap, and the baffle blocks at least one of the plurality of channels.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Kim, Myoung Hun Kim, Gab Jung Kim, Sang Soo Kim, Gyu Wan Choe
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Patent number: 9863723Abstract: An integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger and method of use are provided. The integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to input an internal fluid; a first conductive bellows connected to the inlet, configured to accept the internal fluid from the inlet, configured to transfer heat between the internal fluid and an external fluid, and configured to compensate for a pressure by compressing in length; and an outlet configured to accept the internal fluid from the first conductive bellows and to output the internal fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventor: Silvio Giachetti
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Patent number: 9863724Abstract: A helical coil is supported inside a heat exchanger tube by at least one inside protrusion on the inside wall of the tube, the at least one protrusion supports the helical coil on a contact point of the helical coil against downwards movement in the tube and supports the helical coil on the end point of the helical coil against rotational movement in a first rotational direction relative to the tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/SInventors: Peter Schoubye, Morten Thellefsen
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Patent number: 9863725Abstract: Ammonium carbamate-based methods and systems for management of thermal loads, particularly low-quality, high-flux thermal loads. The increase in temperature in heat sensitive devices is mitigated by the endothermic decomposition of ammonium carbamate into carbon dioxide and ammonia gases. This process has an energy density an order of magnitude greater than conventional thermal management materials and is particularly useful for temperatures between 20° C. and 100° C. Systems incorporating ammonium carbamate may be controlled by regulating the fluid flow, overhead pressure, temperature, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Douglas S. Dudis, Joel E. Schmidt, Douglas J. Miller
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Patent number: 9863726Abstract: A cooling medium circulating apparatus includes first and second flow paths configured to circulate a cooling medium, and a flow path switchover unit for connecting or disconnecting between the first and second flow paths. A method for controlling a cooling medium circulating apparatus includes detecting temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the flow paths. The method further includes calculating a temperature difference between temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the first and second flow paths. In the cooling medium circulating apparatus and method, a prescribed cycle is set, and connecting and disconnecting periods are set. The connecting and disconnecting periods are periods for connecting and disconnecting, respectively, between the flow paths in the prescribed cycle. The flow path switchover unit is controlled based on the connecting and disconnecting periods. The prescribed cycle becomes shorter as the temperature difference becomes larger.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Maeda
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Patent number: 9863727Abstract: A mobile multi-function hydro-blast cleaning and tube lancing apparatus and system built into a containment vessel (tank) to enable it to be transported to a facility with ease and preform hydro-blasting/tube lancing with the ability to contain all the fluids involved in the cleaning and lancing process. The system comprises several key pieces of machinery working within a containment tank to make the process of cleaning more versatile. All the cleaning and lancing equipment is either controlled by the operator or computer automation that has been preprogrammed for a more hands free environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Inventor: David C. Van Fleet
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Patent number: 9863728Abstract: A cylinder breech block device (100) of a repeating firearm has a breech block cylinder (200) pivoted in a system housing (160) of the repeating firearm for execution of repetitive action thereof and capable of being locked to said system housing (160) for firing a round. A firing pin (140) capable of being cocked by a tension spring is mounted for linear displacement in the direction of a cartridge (141) stored in a magazine (141) of a barrel (143). Cocking of the firing pin (140) is effected by causing rotation, through a predefined angle, of a breech bolt handle (300) rigidly connected to a tension crown ring (400) that is pivoted on a central shaft (210) of the breech block cylinder (200).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Carl Walther GmbHInventors: Wulf-Heinz Pflaumer, Franz Wonisch, Thomas Bretschneider, Sebastian Rosner
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Patent number: 9863729Abstract: A firearm including a receiver, a barrel, a breech bolt assembly, and a trigger assembly. The bolt assembly has a bolt including a body portion, a lug portion, and a firing pin bore. The lug portion includes outward extending lugs, a cartridge recess, and an off-center hole. The bolt assembly also includes an extractor and an ejector pin. At least some of the lugs on the lug portion of the bolt have a tapering outer surface so that a rearward surface of the respective lug is taller than a forward surface of the respective lug and at least part of each tapered outer surface is taller on one side of a circumferential centerline than on another side of the circumferential centerline.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Sharps Rifle Company, Inc.Inventor: Michael H. Blank