Patents Issued in January 30, 2018
  • Patent number: 9879817
    Abstract: An adjustable, extendable beacon mount for a wireless communication or transmission tower. The mount mounts a beacon and allows the beacon to be raised and lowered as needed. The mount includes a lower weldment assembly with a base element and an upper weldment assembly to which a beacon is mounted. The upper weldment assembly is raised and lowered by a hand-cranked lever which activates a gear and, in turn, a ratchet pawl engages receiver notches on the upper weldment assembly, raising and lowering the upper weldment assembly. Alternatively, the hand crank could be replaced with an electric motor or other alternatively powered element to raise and lower the upper weldment assembly. The purpose is to raise the beacon above the communications or transmission antennas surrounding the top of a tower to provide a 360 degree unobstructed view for passing aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Jared G. Remus
  • Patent number: 9879818
    Abstract: A bracket assembly is provided that includes a first strap, a second strap, and a first fastener. The first strap has an openable aperture including a cutout operatively connected to a keyhole. The second strap has a first aperture positioned opposite the cutout. The first fastener has a head, a neck, and a shaft. The neck is receivable in the openable aperture of the first strap with the shaft received in the first aperture of the second strap. The first fastener and the openable aperture allow the shaft to pass vertically between the cutout and the keyhole, but prevent the neck from vertically passing through between the cutout and the keyhole. The first fastener and the openable aperture allow the head to pass axially through only the keyhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Jonathan Oral Adams
  • Patent number: 9879819
    Abstract: An accessory mounting track provides quick and easy removable attachment and positioning of various devices. The method of attachment of devices to the accessory mounting track may be compatible with the attachment of these devices to other mounting systems, allowing the accessory mounting track to be used interchangeably with those systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Luther Cifers
  • Patent number: 9879820
    Abstract: An eyeglass holder device for holding multiple eyeglasses of a variety of kinds, reading glasses, sunglasses, or protective eyewear type glasses used in a workshop, machine shop, laboratory, or other such work spaces. The eyeglass holder of the invention has a substantially crescent shaped front body portion having a plurality of flexible and thin substantially concave shaped rib structures attached to the inside surface of the front body structure creating the necessary voids to facilitate hanging the eyeglasses on the holder. An important function of the flexible rib structures is to deflect and exert tension on the eyeglasses and hold them stable within the voids to prevent them from moving around and getting damaged. The rectangular shaped back of the eyeglass holder has a recessed back side that accommodates a double sided adhesive tape to mount the holder on to a suitable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Marc Matson
  • Patent number: 9879821
    Abstract: An electronic sign having slotted frame cabinets, whereby each slotted frame cabinet can conveniently be attached to one or more vertically or horizontally positioned adjacent slotted frame cabinets by using connecting components which are generally located around the periphery of one or more slotted frame cabinets. Connecting components including splice bars, splice plates, and mounting clamps are aligned in, positioned along, and secured to backing bars which are co-located in backing bar slots in one or more of the slotted frame cabinets. Lift eyes can be variably located in one or more lift eye slots. The use of externally located connecting components, which do not extend through the cabinetry, minimize the entry of environmental elements into the interior of the electronic sign. Multiple slotted frame cabinets can be connected without the removal of LED display panels. Bracket assemblies and clamping assemblies are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Daktronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Kory D. Kludt, Jon M. Mammenga, Nathan W. Hart, Michael A. Hulscher
  • Patent number: 9879822
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fixing structure. The fixing structure comprises a seat and at least a fixing device, the fixing device including a connecting part and a sucking disc, on end of the connecting part being connected to the seat while the other end of the connecting part being connected to the sucking disc, and the sucking disc being used to be sucked on a surface of a mounting base. There is also provided a display device having the fixing structure in the disclosure. With the fixing structure mounted on the display device, the display device can be prevented from toppling down when an external force is applied thereto, thus improving the stability of the display device. Further, the fixing structure according to the disclosure is able not to damage the surface of the mounting base and can be reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongda Ma, Xinyin Wu, Jian Xu, Yuxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9879823
    Abstract: A reclosable strap assembly includes an elongate strap having a first end including a plurality of engaging segments. A clasp includes a frame that defines a frame opening for receiving the first end. Each of the plurality of engaging segments is sized to create an interference fit between the individual engaging segment and the frame when the individual engaging segment is inserted into the frame opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Lee Oberpriller, Robert Bruffey, Marcus Charles Phillips, James Hu
  • Patent number: 9879824
    Abstract: A system and method to detect non-ferrous debris from a non-ferrous roller bearing element. The system includes a trap in fluid communication with a lubrication fluid of the non-ferrous bearing and a sensor operably associate with the trap. The method includes trapping the non-ferrous material debris in the lubrication fluid with the trap and triggering the sensor upon detection of the non-ferrous material debris trapped within the trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: James M. McCollough, Ryan T. Ehinger, Troy Bunch
  • Patent number: 9879825
    Abstract: A high-pressure tank configured to store a fluid includes: a liner; and a fiber-reinforced resin layer configured to cover surface of the liner. The liner includes: a cylindrical liner portion in a cylindrical shape; and dome liner portions in a dome shape, each dome liner portion being connected with the cylindrical liner portion, such that an outer surface of the dome liner portion is inclined at a predetermined angle to an outer surface of the cylindrical liner portion. The fiber-reinforced resin layer includes a hoop layer provided by hoop winding that winds the fiber substantially perpendicularly to a central axis of the cylindrical liner portion. The hoop layer is formed, such that an outer surface of the hoop layer has a smaller angle than the predetermined angle to the outer surface of the dome liner portion at a boundary between the hoop layer and the dome liner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomonori Kaneko, Hirokazu Otsubo
  • Patent number: 9879826
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a tank, in particular a motor vehicle tank, for storing a fuel in a low-temperature state. The tank has an inner tank receiving the fuel, an outer skin surrounding the inner tank and an insulating layer arranged between the inner tank and the outer skin. The method i) introduces fuel into the inner tank, a temperature of 30° C. to 120° C., preferably of 70° C. to 85° C., being obtained by the fuel in the inner tank, and ii) generates negative pressure in an insulating layer arranged between the inner tank and the outer skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Klaus Szoucsek
  • Patent number: 9879827
    Abstract: A compressor system includes a first compressor having a first variable diffuser having a diffuser area; a second compressor having a second variable diffuser having a diffuser area; a third compressor configured to compress fluid discharged by the second compressor; a fourth compressor configured to compress fluid discharged by the third compressor; a fifth compressor configured to compress fluid discharged by the fourth compressor; a first channel configured to connect an outlet of the second compressor to an inlet of the third compressor; a first valve provided to the first channel; a second channel configured to connect the outlet of the second compressor to the inlet of the third compressor; a second valve provided to the second channel; a first intercooler; a second intercooler and a controller configured to control the first valve, the second valve, the first variable diffuser, and the second variable diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeongsoo Hwang
  • Patent number: 9879828
    Abstract: The present application relates to an arrangement for the advantageous construction of a hydrogen filling station. In this case, a special chemical substance class, which is called a Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC), is dehydrogenated and the hydrogen produced is pressed into the tank of a vehicle by compression. LOHCs have almost twice the quantity of hydrogen per liter compared with a 700 bar tank, but are, however, even stored at ambient temperature and ambient pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: HYDROGENIOUS TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Arlt, Peter Wasserscheid
  • Patent number: 9879829
    Abstract: The combination of a reservoir having an interface defining an aperture, the interface including a wall extending into the reservoir, the reservoir having a recessed groove in an upper surface about the aperture, the recessed groove including a plurality of recesses thereon: a head unit having an exterior shape complementary to the shape of the aperture, the head unit being positioned within the aperture; the head unit having an inwardly extending rim corresponding to the aperture circular wall, the head unit including a lug, the head unit lug engaging one of recesses, the head unit having a seal ring about an outer periphery of the head unit inwardly extending rim, the seal ring engaging the aperture wall and the head unit inwardly extending rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Shaw Development, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Delihas, Steven Milette, John R. Koonce, Donald G. Gardner
  • Patent number: 9879830
    Abstract: A device and method for chemicals to be fed into a water system, treating the water system as it enters, for example, a fire protection mains and/or fire protection systems (FPS) to protect and maintain the longevity of the water system preventing damages to the water system or enhancing the operation characteristics of the system. This device is a treatment system that may be installed as a portable or permanent device with chemicals such as, corrosion inhibitors, wetting agents, polymeric dispersants, biocides, biostats or other water chemical enhancing effects with means for injecting the chemicals into the fire protection system or a bypass feed system utilizing the fluid means without the need for any electricity. Activation of the pump occurs when water enters the FPS mains and FPS sprinkler system from an outside source. Valving is included to isolate the pump and drums, storage tank to prevent backflow from the FPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Huguenot Laboratories
    Inventors: Michael John O'Leary, Tim James O'Leary
  • Patent number: 9879831
    Abstract: A semiconductor lamp comprises a housing in which a driver is accommodated and at least one contact pin protruding from the housing outwards, wherein the contact pin is tubular and riveted to the housing and the driver is connected to the contact pin via an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into a cavity of the contact pin. A method serves for producing a semiconductor lamp, wherein at least one tubular contact pin is inserted into a feedthrough of a housing from outside till the contact pin abuts the housing, the contact pin is next riveted with the housing on the inside and a driver is inserted into the housing, whereby an electrically conductive connection element is inserted into the contact pin. The invention is particularly applicable to LED retrofit lamps for replacing bipin halogen lamps, in particular MR16 lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klafta, Dietmar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9879832
    Abstract: A paintless dent removal LED light module has a plurality of selectively illuminated LED strips. There is a small gap between a generally planar diffuser panel and the LED strips, so an image formed upon the diffuser panel has parallel bright strips separated by dark regions. The LED strips are supported upon a tray bottom surface, the tray also having a circumferential and vertically rising side wall, and a lip defining a second plane generally parallel with but displaced from the tray bottom. The diffuser panel rests upon the lip, and is secured by a band having an elastomeric exterior. The tray bottom may incorporate one or more ribs to provide additional strength and rigidity. A power supply has an entirely non-marring exterior with a supporting suction cup. A ball and socket neck having an entirely non-marring exterior mechanically and electrically couples the PDR light to the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Pro PDR Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: William L. Hulett
  • Patent number: 9879833
    Abstract: An example apparatus embodiment includes a flashlight operable from a primary electric storage battery and from another battery having an external casing that has a different outer diameter and possibly a different overall length than the primary battery. In some embodiments, a battery adapter extends a battery compartment to hold a longer substitute battery. In other embodiments a batter adapter holds a battery with a dimension, for example a diameter of the battery case, that is too large to allow the battery to slide into the battery compartment. Another example embodiment includes a battery adapter without a flashlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Nathaniel D. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9879834
    Abstract: A universal LED light module (ULLM) that can be used in nearly any conventional or nonconventional lighting application, with module interchangeability for enabling user customization of light color and lighting function. The ULLM includes a set of axially aligned batteries with axially opposed terminals, at least one LED cell with axially opposed terminals sandwiched between two of the axially aligned batteries, and a transparent or translucent sheath radially enveloping the batteries and the LED cell to bind them together and environmentally seal them from external moisture and foreign matter. The ULLM may be activated by an external circuit or may additionally include an integral conductor that selectively bridges the exposed battery terminals. The ULLM may additionally include a lighting function element having a form factor that matches that of the batteries, and disposed in axial alignment with the batteries within the radial sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventors: Don David Carpenter, Kirk Knoblauch
  • Patent number: 9879835
    Abstract: A lighting unit for a headlight, in particular a motor vehicle headlight, consisting of a plurality of light sources (1), a light guide unit (2) having a plurality of light guides (3), and a downstream projection lens having a focal plane (E), wherein each light guide (3) has a light decoupling face (4), wherein a.) the light decoupling faces (4) of at least two adjacent light guides (3) are offset in relation to one another with respect to the focal plane (E), and/or b.) at least two light guides (3) adjacent to one another in each case contact one another in a contact area (12) along an extension (b and b?), wherein the respective extensions (b and b?), measured with respect to the focal plane (E) of the lens, deviate from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Lukas Taudt, Gerald Bohm, Josef Plank
  • Patent number: 9879836
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a lighting device in a motor vehicle that includes a first light conductor and at least one second light conductor. The first light conductor propagates light by total internal reflection which impacts on a light coupling-out area of light conductor and is at least partially reflected toward and emits from an opposite light output area. The at least one second light conductor propagates light by total internal reflection which is coupled into the first light conductor by a midway coupling-in. The light that emits out of the second light conductor via a light output area enters into the first light conductor via the light coupling-out area. An air gap is formed between the light coupling-out area of the first light conductor and the light output area of the second light conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Kleiner
  • Patent number: 9879837
    Abstract: An optical structure for a lighting device of a motor vehicle headlight is disclosed. The optical structure is paired with or is a part of the lighting device such that it modifies a light distribution produced by the lighting device. The optical structure (1) includes two, three or more optical structural elements. Each structural element has a light-scattering effect. A first proportion of the structural elements is formed in such a way that beams generated by the lighting device and impinging on this first proportion of the structural elements pass through the proportion of the structural elements. Each beam is refracted by the relevant structural element to form a first exit beam, to form a second exit beam, and to form at least one further exit beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Dietmar Kieslinger, Josef Pürstinger, Markus Danner
  • Patent number: 9879838
    Abstract: A part made of transparent material comprising at least two individual portions each consisting of an input surface and an output surface, the output surface being focused on the input surface of the same portion, the output surfaces being contiguous so as to form an overall output surface of the part which is continuous. Furthermore, the input surfaces are separated at a distance from one another in order to prevent rays from a light source placed on the input surface of a portion from being able to pass through the output surface of the adjacent individual portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Meyrenaud
  • Patent number: 9879839
    Abstract: A lamp apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The lamp apparatus includes a light source that is configured to irradiate light, a light variable unit that is configured to implement a low beam by reflecting the light irradiated from the light source and transform a portion of the light into a plurality of angles to be reflected. The lamp further includes a first optical lens disposed to reflect light by the light variable unit to be incident and collect the incident light to be irradiated to the front and a second optical lens that transforms the light into the plurality of angles and reflected by the light variable unit to be incident. The angle-transformed and incident light irradiates to the front by the first optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jeong Gyu Yang
  • Patent number: 9879840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light guide for a vehicle lighting unit, having at least one light-conducting body, which conducts the light along at least one light direction; and at least one, in particular band-shaped, optically active flat material which interacts with the light guided into the body in order to produce a light effect. The light guide according to the invention is characterized in that the flat material with its longitudinal extension direction along the direction of light of the light-conducting body in the light-conducting body is completely surrounded and embedded by the same at least transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SMR PATENTS S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Daniel Fritz, Heiko Hoeber
  • Patent number: 9879841
    Abstract: A ventilation apparatus of a lamp module for vehicles may include a lamp housing, a lamp installed in the lamp housing and emitting light through a light transmitting part, a light transmitting lens covering an opening of the lamp housing and transmitting the light emitted from the light transmitting part, an intake hole part formed through the lamp housing and arranged at one side of the lamp, an exhaust hole part formed through the lamp housing and arranged at the other side of the lamp, an exhaust pipe coupled to the lamp housing and connected to the exhaust hole part, and an exhaust pump connected to the exhaust pipe and forcibly discharging the air between the lamp housing and the light transmitting lens through the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soo Bong Lee
  • Patent number: 9879842
    Abstract: Sunny Bright Solar Lighting is an easily mounted roof solar sunpipe that magnifies and concentrates the incoming sun light with an internally mounted and focused nonimaging Fresnel lens paired with a Kohler concentrator lens in order to magnify and concentrate the focused intense sun light onto a fiber optic illumination systems glass plate, used for solid core fiber optic lighting cables, and a bundle of seven 14 mm solid core endglow plastic fiber optic cables that carries only light waves in a visible light spectrum to seven different rooms that are up to thirty three feet away from the roof mounted sunny bright solar tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Loyd Edward Orfield
  • Patent number: 9879843
    Abstract: Lighting systems, devices and techniques are provided to construct solid-state lighting devices and systems that provide energy-efficient illumination, including personal lighting devices, desktop lighting devices, and ceiling/overhead lighting devices based on semiconductor-based solid-state light sources such as LEDs or laser diodes. The disclosed solid-state lighting devices and systems use an illumination plate to receive the generated light from one or more LEDs or laser diodes and to process the received light to exhibit desired spatial distribution of light power across the illumination plate and desired direction of the output light from the illumination plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Axlen, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Xu, Bo Pi, Anthony Hsu
  • Patent number: 9879844
    Abstract: Support structure includes at least one adjustable length pin configured to engage an adjacent support surface, and at least one engaging member configured to engage a supported device. A support bar might be provided with the at least one pin extending from one side of the bar, and the at least one engaging member extending from another side of the support bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TADD, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy Taylor
  • Patent number: 9879845
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Patent number: 9879846
    Abstract: A cord assembly includes a first end including a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C connector, a second end including a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C connector, a flexible, electrically-conductive cord connecting the first and second ends, an LED light disposed at the first end, an accelerometer configured to generate a signal in response to a predetermined amount of movement of the accelerometer, and a controller coupled to the light and the accelerometer. The controller is configured to, when the second end is connected to a power source and when the first end is not connected to a device, in response to receipt of the signal generated by the accelerometer in response to movement of the accelerometer, control supply of power to the light to illuminate the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Adam Rodriguez, David Ness Schneider
  • Patent number: 9879847
    Abstract: A decorative lighting apparatus including first laser light source providing a first light and a second laser light providing a second light, a switch, and a motion assembly. The switch including a first setting corresponding to the first light source being in an on condition and the second light source being in an off condition, and a second setting corresponding to the first light source and the second light source being in an on condition. The motion assembly being configured to secure at least one optical element in the path of the first light or second light being generated by the first and second laser light sources, and including a motor being coupled to the articulating element such that a movement generated by the motor is imparted to the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Telebrands Corp.
    Inventors: Ajit Khubani, Lou Lentine
  • Patent number: 9879848
    Abstract: An LED illumination apparatus includes a first lighting module, a second lighting module, a lamp cup, a heat pipe, and a plurality of heat dissipation fins. The first and second lighting modules are connected with each other and emit light in opposite directions, in addition being received by the lamp cup. The lamp cup includes two reflecting surfaces arranged in symmetrical mirror fashion. The light emitting from the first and second lighting modules are directed to respective reflecting surfaces and reflected toward a same direction by the reflecting surfaces. The heat pipe is disposed in between the first and second lighting modules. The heat dissipation fins are fitted over the heat pipe. The heat generated by lighting modules would transmit to the heat pipe and be guided to the heat dissipation fins in order to accelerate cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guo-Dung Su, Chih-Hao Hsu
  • Patent number: 9879849
    Abstract: An LED light fixture including a heat-conductive overstructure having upper and lower surfaces and a plurality of upwardly-protruding elongate fins which extend along the upper surface adjacent to at least one opening through the fixture permitting air flow from beneath the lower surface to above the upper surface. An LED light source is secured with respect to the lower surface. The fins have heights which gradually increase toward fin-ends proximal to the at least one opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Kinnune, David P. Goelz, Kurt S. Wilcox, Craig Raleigh
  • Patent number: 9879850
    Abstract: The T-bar includes an elongate rigid spine extending between terminal ends including either a fixed anchor or adjustable anchor for attachment to adjacent T-bars or other supports. An upper heat sink is provided on an upper portion of the spine to enhance heat transfer from the T-bar to air surrounding upper portions of the T-bar. A light housing is provided on a lower portion of the T-bar which is configured to support a lighting module therein, such as a light emitting diode (LED) light. A lower heat sink is provided above this light housing and integrated into a rest shelf which supports ceiling tiles adjacent the T-bar. A power supply is provided which can be removably attached to the T-bar and provide appropriately conditioned power for the lighting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Silvio Porciatti
  • Patent number: 9879851
    Abstract: An LED lamp is equipped with a plurality of light source units each having a mounting board on which a light emitting element is mounted, on a front surface of a substrate, the plurality of light source units are disposed around an axis C of the LED lamp with back surfaces of the respective substrates facing inside, and gaps G1 left from one another, and heat radiation fins that are disposed to be inclined with respect to an axial direction of the axis C are provided on the back surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ohno, Takayoshi Imanari, Moriyuki Sekine
  • Patent number: 9879852
    Abstract: An LED tube lamp including a glass lamp tube, an LED light strip disposed inside the glass lamp tube, and an end cap attached over an end of glass lamp tube is disclosed. The glass lamp tube includes a main body region, a rear end region, and a two-arc-shaped transition region connecting the main body region and the rear end region. The LED light strip includes a bendable circuit sheet being longer than the glass lamp tube to form a freely extending end portion. In addition, the end cap has at least one opening on surface to dissipating heat resulting from power supply and/or the process of heating of a hot melt adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tao Jiang
  • Patent number: 9879853
    Abstract: A steam generator is provided. The steam generator has a combustion chamber having a peripheral wall formed at least partially from gas-proof, welded steam generator pipes, at least two additional inner walls formed at least partially from additional steam generator pipes which are arranged inside the combustion chamber. The inner walls are connected one behind the other on the flow medium side by an intermediate collector. The steam generator has a high service life and is reliable. The flow medium on the inlet of the inner wall upstream of the intermediate collector has a lower temperature than that of the flow medium on an inlet of the peripheral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert
  • Patent number: 9879854
    Abstract: A method of fueling a flame, a fuel, and a fuel burning system is provided. The system has a melted wax reservoir, a fuel, a melting grate, and a wick. The fuel has a body, a priming section, a front wall, and a bottom surface. The priming section is vertically spaced from the bottom surface and extending from the front wall to create an overhang. The priming section extends along less than the entire length of the front wall. The melting grate is configured to support the fuel. The melting grate extends above the melted wax reservoir so that fuel melted on the melting grate can be received into the melted wax reservoir. The wick has an at least partially hollow core forming a burn chamber extending above the melting grate. The fuel is configured to be positioned so the overhang is located over or adjacent to the wick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Masterson Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Masterson, Dipan Surati
  • Patent number: 9879855
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gaseous fuel (including all mixtures thereof) burner structure, characterized in that it comprises: a housing defining a distal flame outlet end and a proximal gaseous fuel and air supply end, both ends having covers; a pressurized-air inlet arranged in the housing close to the proximal end, defining an inner pressurized-air-supply chamber; a pressurized-gaseous-fuel-supply duct arranged in the center, housed in a first mixing chamber and provided with a plurality of openings for the outflow of the gaseous fuel to said first mixing chamber, said first mixing chamber also comprising a plurality of openings for supplying pressurized air axially and radially; an igniter arranged inside said first mixing chamber for a first combustion; a second, over-mixing chamber arranged colinearly with said first chamber, the end of the fuel duct comprising a cover provided with openings via which gaseous fuel is axially supplied to said second, over-mixing chamber, and the wall of said second chamb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Jorge Rivera Garza
  • Patent number: 9879856
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas combustor which includes a gas container having a discharging nozzle, a fuel gas controlling device, and a piston disposed between the gas container and the fuel gas controlling device and capable of being reciprocally moved; through the pressure applied by a second spring provided in the fuel gas controlling device to the piston being greater than the pressure of a first spring and the fuel gas in the discharging nozzle and the pressure applied by the second spring to the piston being smaller than the pressure for vaporizing fuel in a vaporization chamber, the piston is enabled to be reciprocally and axially moved for opening or closing the discharging nozzle, thus the liquid gas can be effectively and fully vaporized and the combustion efficiency can be greatly enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Wei-Ming Tsai
  • Patent number: 9879857
    Abstract: The combustion and flue gas treatment system includes a furnace for combusting a fuel with an oxidizer generating a flue gas, ducting for the flue gas connected to a NOx removal unit and a SOx removal unit, and a recirculation line for recirculating a part of the flue gas back to the furnace. The SOx removal unit is located upstream of the NOx removal unit with reference to the flue gas flow. The recirculation line is connected to the ducting downstream the SOx removal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Stallmann, Wuyin Wang, Erik W. Böös
  • Patent number: 9879858
    Abstract: An inertial electrode launcher may be configured to project charged particles or a voltage comprising an inertial electrode proximate a flame or combustion gas produced by the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: David B. Goodson, Tracy A. Prevo, Joseph Colannino, Robert E. Breidenthal, Christopher A. Wiklof
  • Patent number: 9879859
    Abstract: In a suction fan type combustion apparatus, when an air supply/exhaust path of a combustion and heating unit is clogged, a combustion fan has a degraded fan current for the same fan rotation speed. Furthermore, the suction fan type configuration has the combustion and heating unit's internal pressure reduced as the combustion fan rotates faster. A combustion burner supplies fuel gas with a pressure applied thereto, which is regulated by a gas proportional valve. A degree of opening of the gas proportional valve is corrected in a direction allowing the pressure to be reduced, in accordance with a rate of degradation of a fan current relative to a reference current following a reference current characteristic. This control for correction is done with the fan current degradation rate smoothed (or low-pass filtered) in a time base direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rena Kusachi, Daisuke Konishi, Kenichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9879860
    Abstract: A flame detecting system includes a flame sensor to detect light and a calculating device, in which the calculating device includes an applied voltage generating portion configured to generate a pulse to drive the flame sensor, a voltage detecting portion configured to measure an electric signal flowing in the flame sensor, a storing portion configured to store sensitivity parameters of the flame sensor in advance, and a central processing unit configured to obtain a quantity of received light of flame using parameters of a known quantity of received light, a pulse width, and a discharge probability of the sensitivity parameters, and a discharge probability obtained from an actual pulse width and the measured number of discharge times, and in which a difference in sensitivity of individual flame sensors is corrected from sensitivity parameters related to a first flame sensor and sensitivity parameters related to a second flame sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventor: Raita Mori
  • Patent number: 9879861
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine variable porosity combustor liner has a laminated alloy structure. The laminated alloy structure has combustion chamber facing holes on one side and cooling plenum facing holes on a radially opposite side. The combustion chamber facing holes are in fluid communication with the cooling plenum facing holes via axially and circumferentially extending flow passages sandwiched between metal alloy sheets of the laminated alloy structure. Porous zones having respective different cooling flow amounts are formed in the laminated allow structure based on at least one of an arrangement of the combustion chamber facing holes, an arrangement of the cooling plenum facing holes, and an arrangement of the flow passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Pinnick, Kenneth W. Froemming, Bruce E. Varney, James C. Loebig, Todd Taylor
  • Patent number: 9879862
    Abstract: An afterburner is disclosed for use with a gas turbine engine and, in one form, is structured to receive a bypass air. The afterburner can be situated in a bypass duct and can be a toroidal combustor or a can combustor. In one embodiment, the afterburner includes a combustor arranged to receive bypass air and a plurality of vanes distributed downstream of a turbine of the gas turbine engine. The vanes can include one or more exit apertures through which hot combustion flow from the afterburner combustor can be injected. The exit apertures can be protrusions or slots in some forms. In one embodiment, a cooling passage is arranged around the exit apertures. An upstream vane portion can be positioned to inject fuel to be combusted via interaction with hot flow that is discharged through the exit apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith A. McCormick, Timothy C. Roesler, Albert J. Verdouw
  • Patent number: 9879863
    Abstract: A fire poker tool that may be utilized to lift and move a log. The fire poker tool of the invention includes talons and a hook that cooperate together to engage a log in a manner that minimizes required torque and gripping forces to lift a log. The tool is particularly useful as a campfire, fire place, or fire pit tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Ross Lazarov
  • Patent number: 9879864
    Abstract: A movable cooking appliance comprises a structure which is adapted to be placed on a kitchen worktop appliance or inside a cooking oven appliance and includes a heating element and releasable connector assembly for making electrical connection with power supply connectors. The heating element is an induction heating element and an electronic driving unit is mounted on the appliance. The releasable connector assembly comprising a plug connector having a plurality of terminals designed in order to provide a disconnection signal to the electronic unit before the power supply connectors are fully extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Diego Neftali Gutierrez, Gianpiero Santacatterina, Francesco Farachi
  • Patent number: 9879865
    Abstract: A cooking oven is disclosed. The cooking oven comprises a housing having an oven cavity and an oven door for access to the oven cavity, at least one air blower for generating heated air, one or more air channels for directing the heated air from the air blower toward the oven cavity, and one or more removable air plenums, wherein each removable air plenum is connected to one of the one or more air channels, comprises an air intake edge for receiving the heated air from the air channel, defines the top or the bottom of a cooking chamber within the oven cavity, and comprises a plurality of air vents for directing the heated air into the cooking chamber. The cooking oven may further comprise a control panel for separately and independently controlling each of the cooking chambers defined by the removable air plenums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip R. McKee, Lee Thomas VanLanen, Todd Coleman
  • Patent number: 9879866
    Abstract: A cooking device includes a casing, a heating chamber (102) provided in the casing and having an opening on a front side thereof, and a heat shield member (122) for blocking heat that transfers from the heating chamber (102) toward the casing. At least a part of the heat shield member (122) is located in a position that enables the heat shield member (122) to receive water droplets dropping through between the heating chamber (102) and the casing (101). The configuration reduces the possibility that a motor (133) and other components located below the heating chamber (102) fails by becoming wet due to condensate water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromi Suenaga, Shigenori Morimoto