Patents Issued in December 4, 2018
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Patent number: 10145545Abstract: A light-emitting element includes at least one flat light emitter having a first electrical contact portion formed on a side surface, and a housing partially surrounding the side surface of the flat light emitter, the housing including a second electrical contact portion formed on an inner surface of the housing and configured to mate with the first electrical contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBHInventors: Joerg Farrnbacher, Stefan Gschloessl, Christoph Gaerditz, Christian Kristukat
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Patent number: 10145546Abstract: A lighting unit in which an electronic assembly is sealed within a watertight package. The electronic assembly has a PCB with a top side to which LEDs, an on/off switch and electronics are mounted and powered by a battery which may be mounted to the underneath side of the PCB. The watertight package is formed by sealing a first member to a second member, with the electronic assembly being sealed within it in a cavity and oriented so that its top side is more proximate the bottom housing than the underneath side, while a transparent space is created between the bottom housing and the LEDs, and the on/off switch can be actuated by pressure. The lighting unit can be used with a light effect material so as to create a light material viewing effect.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Carmen Rapisarda
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Patent number: 10145547Abstract: A cable light includes a battery receptacle that is electrically coupled to a first light module and a second light module. The battery receptacle includes a battery port that receives and retains a battery, such as a power tool battery pack. The first light module and the second light module each include a housing supporting a lens, a light emitter such as an LED, a reflector, and a hanger to hang the light modules on a workpiece. The first light module is electrically coupled to the battery receptacle, and the second light module is electrically coupled to the battery receptacle via a connection with the first light module. The battery receptacle communicates electrical power from the battery pack to the light modules to power the light emitters.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITEDInventors: Patrick L. Wills, Matthew T. Aaron, Brian Mertel, W. Steven Register, Ryan Altenburger
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Patent number: 10145548Abstract: A motion sensing lighting device includes a base seat, an illuminating assembly, and a sensing component. The base seat has a pivotal portion. The illuminating assembly includes a pair of illumination lamps. The illuminating assembly has an adapter module rotatably mounted to the pivotal portion, and a pair of illumination lamps. The adapter module is pivotally connected to the pivotal portion. The pair of illumination lamps are rotatably arranged at two sides of the adapter module. The sensing component is pivotally connected to the pivotal portion and is selectively used to start the illuminating assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Chia-Teh Chen
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Patent number: 10145549Abstract: The present invention relates to a candle warmer having a touch type on/off means, which allows a lamp constituting the warmer to flicker by touching a certain portion of a candle body and, more specifically to, a candle warmer having a touch type on/off means, comprising a contact sensor having a dimming function, wherein power supplied to the lamp can be turned on or turned off by bringing the contact sensor into contact with the warmer body to touch a certain portion of the warmer body, and the evaporation loss of an aromatic candle can be controlled by adjusting the output of the lamp.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LEPANTO CO., LTDInventor: Ji Yun Kang
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Patent number: 10145550Abstract: A downlight assembly comprising:—(i) a mounting ring having a tubular body with an opening at a rear, the mounting ring being formed from a material that withstands temperatures used for fire rating tests and having a lower peripheral annular flange extending outwardly from a bottom end of the tubular body, and an upper peripheral annular flange extending inwardly from an upper end of the tubular body, said upper peripheral annular flange enabling the rear of the mounting ring to be substantially closed if required; (ii) a solid state lighting element comprising one or more LEDs mounted on a circuit board formed from a material having a melting point lower than 1000 degrees C.; (iii) a heat sink formed from a material having a melting point lower than 1000 degrees C.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AURORA LIMITEDInventor: Andrew Johnson
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Patent number: 10145551Abstract: An LED lamp employing active cooling chambers is presented. The lamp features a housing having two active cooling chambers. One chamber, i.e. the first or cold chamber, contains an LED driver and one or more cooling fans, while the second chamber, i.e. the hot chamber, contains one or more LED modules secured to a heat sink. Fluid (air) communication between the two chambers is controlled by the one or more cooling fans. In operation, the fans draw ambient cooling air inside the cold chamber via air intake openings in the housing. The cooling air is then forced through a plurality of heat sink fins and heat transfer channels and exhausted from air exhaust openings in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TITAN LED, INC.Inventors: Brian Brown, Brian Hennessy, Kevin Sanders
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Patent number: 10145552Abstract: The present disclosure describes example magnetic LED lighting systems. A lighting apparatus in accordance with the present disclosure may include LEDs connected in series with a resistor. The LEDs are each coupled, directly or via thermal vias through a mounting element, to one or more magnets. The magnets may serve dual purposes: as a heat sink to dissipate heat and enable LEDs to be used, and as a mounting device to mount the lighting apparatus to a desirable location, such as on an automobile or an industrial machine. The dual-purpose magnets may eliminate the need for an additional heat sink element, thereby reducing weight and/or size of the lighting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Lux Lighting Systems, LLCInventor: Jonathan Eric Fay
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Patent number: 10145553Abstract: A lighting luminaire is provided for implementing enhanced performance for multiple applications. A lighting fixture includes a housing defining a novel heat management system optionally formed by a unitary member or formed by two generally identical housing sections. The housing includes a predefined profile and features for heat transfer including an upper compartment where heat sensitive components are installed and a lower compartment where lighting modules, such as LED modules, are installed. The housing lower compartment includes an upwardly facing lower lens member and predefined features to minimize or prevent heat from traveling upwardly into the upper housing compartment.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: A.L.P. Lighting & Ceiling Products, Inc.Inventors: Ronald L. Richardson, Thanh Minh Vo, Donald Joseph Gaither
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Patent number: 10145554Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a front enclosure and a back enclosure including guide slots formed thereon. A mounting plate including a plurality of LEDs mounted thereon is attached to the back enclosure. A circuit board is attached to the mounting plate. A center extrusion is attached to the back enclosure. A plurality of spaced fin extrusions are attached to the mounting plate and positioned in the guide slots of the back enclosure. Side rails are attached to the mounting plate and back enclosure and spaced from the fin extrusions. The plurality of spaced fin extrusions and side rails allow passage of air in an upward direction between the spaced extrusions and side rails transferring heat generated from the lighting apparatus to the air.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LUMENEX SOLERGIA SPAInventor: James Bears
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Patent number: 10145555Abstract: A Cast Guard Unit (CGU) light fixture is suitable for dry and wet areas and seals a wiring cavity using a single O-Ring. A cylindrical projection of the CGU center telescopingly engages a cylindrical cavity in the CGU top to varying depth and flanges on the CGU center and CGU top sandwich a light shade. The engagement of the cylindrical projection into the cylindrical cavity is free to vary to accommodate varying thicknesses of various light shades. The O-Ring resides between the cylindrical projection and the cylindrical cavity sealing the wiring cavity.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Jeffrey Ohai
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Patent number: 10145556Abstract: A method is provided to vaporize a working fluid using a heat sourcing fluid. A first portion of the heat sourcing fluid passes through the first section, in counter-flow with the working fluid. A second portion of the heat sourcing fluid passes through the second section, in co-flow with the working fluid. Both the first and second portions pass through the third section, in overall counter-flow with the working fluid. The working fluid passes sequentially through the third section, the first section, and the second section. The method may be used in a Rankine cycle for waste heat recovery or in a refrigerant cycle.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Michael Reinke, Gregory Mross
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Patent number: 10145557Abstract: A method supplies reactants, including fuel gas, to burners that discharge the reactants into a furnace process chamber. In a stable flame mode of operation, stable flames are projected from the burners into the furnace process chamber. At a time when the furnace process chamber has a temperature at or above an autoignition temperature of the fuel gas, a diffuse combustion mode is initiated by supplying a selected burner with additional reactants, including reactants diverted from another burner, to blow off the stable flame at the selected burner.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Fives North American Combustion, Inc.Inventors: John N. Newby, Thomas F. Robertson, Bruce E. Cain
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Patent number: 10145558Abstract: A method for determining the temperature of an aggressive and/or abrasive gas is described using an acoustic transmitter and an acoustic receiver. The transmitter emits an acoustic signal with varying frequencies and the receiver extracts from the acoustic input signal a frequency of the maximum. Based on this the frequency of this maximum the temperature of the gas between transmitter and receiver is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Bruno Schuermans, Dominik Wassmer
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Patent number: 10145559Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprising a combustion liner defining a combustion chamber, wherein the combustion liner has at least one opening into which a combustor liner mount is received. The combustor liner mount can have at least one cooling passage defined therein having an inlet defining an inlet axis and an outlet defining an outlet axis, wherein the inlet axis is not collinear with the outlet axis for providing enhanced cooling to at least one of the combustor liner mount and an adjacent combustion component, such as an igniter or a borescope plug.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Craig Alan Gonyou, William Thomas Bennett
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Patent number: 10145560Abstract: The valve, notably for a combustion system, is comprised of a valve body, at least a first fluid inlet pipe, at least one outlet pipe for the fluid arranged on the valve body, a shutter mounted movably within the valve body and capable of ensuring fluid communication between the pipes, and an actuating device of the shutter mounted within the valve body and capable of being controlled electrically. The valve also contains a cooling circuit arranged within the valve body and surrounding at least part of the actuating device, at least one cooling fluid inlet pipe, and at least one outlet pipe for the fluid arranged on the valve body and in fluid communication with the cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: GE Energy Products France SNCInventors: Mohamad-Maher Aboujaib, Ezio Pena
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Patent number: 10145561Abstract: A bundled tube fuel nozzle assembly including a fuel plenum and an air plenum. A plurality of mixing tubes extend through the fuel plenum and the air plenum. At least one resonator is positioned in the air plenum surrounding at least one of the plurality of mixing tubes.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Lucas John Stoia, Donald Mark Bailey, Sven Georg Bethke, Mohan Krishna Bobba
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Patent number: 10145562Abstract: A steam-based faux fireplace comprising a boiler configured to receive a fluid and generate steam, and a manifold configured to receive the steam from the boiler and emit the steam to generate a steam plume at an output. A very realistic faux flame with a significant length is generated from the low power boiler. The manifold includes a deflector configured to receive directly impinging steam directed thereat from the output, causing the steam to lose some energy and velocity, and turbulently billow about the deflector. The turbulently billowing steam is illuminated to create a realistically looking flame.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MODERN FLAMES, LLCInventors: Jason Swanson, David Daniel, Jeff Doss, Josh Wedge
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Patent number: 10145563Abstract: Method for manufacturing a gas burner of the type comprising a cup, provided with at least one tubular tapered part of a mixer with axial Venturi effect, and shaped to couple with a burner head provided with at least one flame-spreader, wherein said cup is made in a single piece by casting or die-casting in an apposite mold.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SABAF S.P.A.Inventor: Massimo Dora
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Patent number: 10145564Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a cabinet defining an exterior appearance of the cooking appliance and a top plate disposed on the cabinet. The top plate includes a first cooking unit configured to perform cooking using a heat source. The cooking appliance also may include a second cooking unit provided in the cabinet, the second cooking unit being configured to perform cooking using a heat source. The cooking appliance further includes a control panel with one or more manipulation units coupled to a front portion of the top plate and a bracket coupled to the top plate and configured to detachably couple the control panel to the front portion of the top plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Jaebong Jang
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Patent number: 10145565Abstract: The present invention relates to a door (3) of a domestic cooking oven (1), in particular of the pyrolytic type. The door (3) comprises at least a first and a second plate (31, 32) and a first and a second upright beam (8, 9). The first plate (31) defines an outer surface of the door (3) and the two upright beams (8, 9) receiving at least the second plate (32) are fixed internally relative thereto. The door (3) further comprises a first and a second locking element (14, 15) removably engaged to the first and second upright beams (8, 9) and configured to be selectively movable between an operating position, wherein they are engaged to the respective upright beams (8, 9) in such a way as to lock at least the second plate (32) in a mounting position, and at least one unlocked position, wherein they enable the second plate (32) to be extracted from the door (3).Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool EMEA S.p.A.Inventors: Fabio Gambardella, Matteo Scoponi
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Patent number: 10145566Abstract: A door (1) for an oven (100) for closing and opening a cooking chamber (120) of the oven (100), comprising a frame (20) able to be hinged to the oven (100), and a first panel (30) fixed to the frame (20), comprising at least a second panel (31,32) associated to the frame (20) removably by means of jointing fastening elements (24,213,222).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TECNO S.P.A.Inventor: Antonio Di Tommaso
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Patent number: 10145567Abstract: A cooking device comprises a frame including supporting parts to support a tray on which food is put; a partitioning plate to divide an inner space of the frame into a cooking chamber and an air flow chamber; a burner in the air flow chamber; and a fan in the air flow chamber, wherein the partitioning plate includes an air inlet to introduce air inside the cooking chamber into the air flow chamber, and air outlets to discharge air heated by the burner in the air flow chamber to the cooking chamber, and the air outlets include a first air outlet and a second air outlet located at a lower level than the first air outlet, at least a part of the second air outlet is located at a lower level than the tray while the tray is supported by a lowermost supporting part of the supporting parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ingyu Yang, Hyunwoo Park, Jongho Lee
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Patent number: 10145568Abstract: A gas burner for a cooking appliance includes a body defining perimeter and having a plurality of first groups of respective pluralities of first outlets a plurality of second groups of respective pluralities of second outlets. Each of the first outlets respectively defines a first outlet area, and each of the second outlets defines respective reduced outlet areas that are less than the first outlet area. Further, the first groups and second groups are alternately arranged around the perimeter, and a total number of first outlets is greater than a total number of second outlets.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Jonathan Tovar Balderas, Francisco Javier Soria Contreras, Victor Ruelas Fajardo, Victor Gerardo Caloca Galindo, Ana Katia Silva Jiménez
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Patent number: 10145569Abstract: Techniques for use with vent covers of furnace ductworks are described herein. A vent cover may include a fan to actively pull air from the ductwork and into a room at least in part in response to a number of open or closed vents in ductwork to which the vent cover is connected. Active air movement through the vent cover may lower air pressure and/or temperature within the ductwork and increase airflow through heat exchangers of the furnace, thereby compensating for zones created by closed vent covers. A system may monitor factors consistent with a furnace over-temperature event, such as furnace operation, closed vent covers, high air pressure or temperature in ductwork, etc. A fan of a vent cover may be turned on to actively draw air through a vent covered by the vent cover. The fan may turn off after conclusion of at least one of the monitored factors.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventors: David S. Thompson, David A. Divine
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Patent number: 10145570Abstract: An air conditioner condenser coil covering and filtering device for preventing dirt, debris, leaves, and the like from clogging an air conditioner condenser unit coils. The device includes a cover having a closed upper end, an open lower end, and one or more sidewalls extending therebetween, defining an interior volume, wherein the interior volume can receive a condenser. A slit extends from the lower end of the cover towards an upper end thereof so as to allow the cover to be moved between an open and closed configuration. A lower end of a sidewall can fold towards the upper end of the cover and secure onto a hook in order to enable the cover to remain in an open configuration for allowing access to the interior volume thereof. Fasteners extending from lateral sides of the slit secure across the slit to allow the cover to remain in a closed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: David Johnson
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Patent number: 10145571Abstract: A system for drying first and second enclosures includes first and second drying units, each drying unit including a process air stream moving through a process chamber, a reactivation air stream moving through a reactivation chamber and a rotating desiccant wheel configured such that a process wheel portion is located such that the process air stream moves therethrough, and such that a reactivation wheel portion is located such that the reactivation air stream moves therethrough. The reactivation air stream passes through a heating coil before passing through the reactivation wheel. A liquid heating unit circulates first and second heated liquid flows through the heating coils of the corresponding first and second drying units located respectively to dry the first and second enclosures. A flow control is operative to adjust a volume of the first and second heated liquid flows.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DRYAIR MANUFACTURING CORP.Inventors: Claude Bourgault, Grant Blandin
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Patent number: 10145572Abstract: An air handling system includes a movable evaporative media section. The movable evaporative media section is movable between a closed position and an open position. When the movable evaporative media section is in an open position, the movable evaporative media section exposes an opening to the air flow and is positioned to allow at least a portion of the air flow in the volume to flow around the movable evaporative media section and through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Munters CorporationInventors: Paul A. Dinnage, Daniel Unge, Anders Nelson
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Patent number: 10145573Abstract: A humidifying apparatus comprising a base comprising a chamber, a water tank removably mounted on the base for supplying water to the chamber, an impeller and a motor for driving the impeller to generate an air flow, an inlet duct for conveying the air flow to the chamber, humidifying means for humidifying the air flow with water from the chamber; and an outlet duct for conveying the humidified air flow from the chamber, wherein a lower internal surface of the water tank comprises a raised portion and a feeder trough, which is lower than the raised portion when the water tank is mounted on the base.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Thomas Greer Duvall, Daniel George Cowen
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Patent number: 10145574Abstract: The vent port employs a pair of mated housing parts that define a space for two flap valves. Each flap valve is formed of an aluminum bracket with an aperture for the passage of air and a silicone flap that closes over the aperture. The flap valves are oriented so that gravity enhances the closing of the flaps. Resistors are mounted on the brackets to heat the brackets at a low wattage. In one embodiment, the flap valves are vertically arranged over each other. In another embodiment, the flap valves are horizontally disposed in criss-crossing relation.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: COMPONENT HARDWARE GROUP, INC.Inventor: Thomas Graham
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Patent number: 10145575Abstract: An air conditioner control system comprises air conditioners configured to condition an environment in a target space, an integrated controller configured to control the air conditioners based on control parameter data, sensor devices configured to measure the temperature of the target space and transmit measurement data, and wireless master devices configured to create control parameter data based on the measurement data. The wireless master devices each determine sleep times so that at least two sensor devices run out of battery charge around the same time according to the remaining charge amount of each of the sensor devices. The sensor devices each will be in the sleep mode in which power consumption is lower than in the normal mode according to the sleep time decided by the wireless master devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi Endo, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toshihiro Mega, Kazuo Tomisawa, Tomoyuki Kamimura
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Patent number: 10145576Abstract: A method determines values of the airflow measured in the conditioned environment during the operation of the air-conditioning system and selects, from a set of regimes predetermined for the conditioned environment, a regime of the airflow matching the measured values of the airflow. The method selects, from a set of models of the airflow predetermined for the conditioned environment, a model of airflow corresponding to the selected regime and models the airflow using the selected model. The operation of the air-conditioning system is controlled using the modeled airflow.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Petros T. Boufounos, Piyush Grover, Boris Kramer, Mouhacine Benosman
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Patent number: 10145577Abstract: A novel small format touch screen user interface for displaying, adding and editing program setpoints is described. When editing a setpoint the user's input is constrained such that the user can only alter one parameter (either time or temperature). As soon as the user begins to drag a setpoint icon in either a horizontal (i.e. adjusting time), or vertical (i.e. adjusting temperature), the other parameter is constrained. Additionally, the disclosed user interface includes displaying information as to how the setpoint was most recently added or adjusted. For example the display can be used to indicate whether a setpoint was added or adjusted (1) on the thermostat itself; (2) by an automated learning algorithm; (3) by a user on a web client; or (4) by a user using a mobile client (such as a smart phone or tablet PC). Further, the name of the particular device is also displayed if known.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Timo A. Bruck, David Sloo, Clemens M. Knieper
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Patent number: 10145578Abstract: A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. Likewise, the checkout mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. A mode selector may be provided to select a particular mode, after which, the menu screens that correspond to the selected mode may be sequentially displayed to the user. Other features and aspects are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Steven Hoglund, Paul G. Schwendinger
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Patent number: 10145579Abstract: A building automation system may be controlled in response to a natural language voice message. The natural language voice message may be recorded and then sent to a voice command manager via a network. The natural language voice message is then translated into a command recognizable by a building automation controller of the building automation system. Voice recognition software may be used to create a natural language text based message from the recorded natural voice message, and the natural language text based message may then be translated into the command recognizable by the building automation controller. In response to the command, the building automation controller may perform the desired action.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Marcus D. Stoner, Soumitri Kolavennu, Brad Paine, Christopher Goh
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Patent number: 10145580Abstract: A duct for air transport comprises an inner jacket having an inlet end for connecting the duct to an air supply and an outlet end for connecting the duct to a duct for a further transport or distribution of air, and an outer jacket made of an impervious material and surrounding the inner jacket spaced therefrom. An insulating chamber is formed between the inner jacket and the outer jacket. The inner jacket and the outer jacket are adapted to conduct from the interior space of the inner jacket through the insulating chamber into the ambient atmosphere, namely in an amount of 0.02 to 100‰ of the total volume of air fed into the inner jacket. The area for conducting air into the insulating chamber and the area for conducting air away from the insulating chamber are spaced from each other during the operation of the duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PRIHODO s.r.o.Inventor: Zdenek Prihoda
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Patent number: 10145581Abstract: A condensate pan for a condensing furnace includes a main chamber to receive exhaust gases, a condensate trap separate from the main chamber and internal the condensate pan and a main drain.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Tabraiz Ali Khan
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Patent number: 10145582Abstract: An indoor unit for an air conditioning device that can increase the strength of a casing of the indoor unit, increase the stability of the indoor unit, and promote cooling of an electric component is disclosed. The indoor unit for the air conditioning device includes a casing formed with an intake air port in a lower portion thereof, and formed with an exhaust air port in an upper portion thereof, a fan arranged inside the casing, and generating air flow from the intake port to the exhaust port, a heat exchanging device arranged below the fan inside the casing to exchange heat with the air taken into the casing from the intake port, and an electric component case provided at a position adjacent to a lateral side of the fan in a circulation space of the air in the casing and configured as a strengthening member of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Motonari Yamaguchi, Miki Yamada
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Patent number: 10145583Abstract: Heating apparatus includes an air inlet, a plurality of air outlets, an impeller, a motor for rotating the impeller to draw air through the air inlet, a user interface for allowing a user to select a rotational speed of the motor from a user selectable range of values, and a plurality of heater assemblies each comprising at least one positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heating element for heating air passing from the air inlet to a respective air outlet. The magnitude of a current drawn by the heater assemblies is detected, and the rotational speed of the motor is controlled independently from the rotational speed selected by the user depending on a characteristic of the current drawn by the heater assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Yuen Kee Leow, Jun Hong Lee, Ying Fang Tan, I Made Artha Yoga Ajnyana, John David Wallace
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Patent number: 10145584Abstract: A method of determining presence of a flame in a furnace of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The method comprises determining, using a controller, whether a processor signal (G) is active, responsive to a determination that the processor signal (G) is active, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of a flame-test input control signal, an output state of a first comparator, responsive to a determination that the output state of the first comparator is high, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of the flame-test input control signal, an output state of a second comparator, and responsive to a determination that the output state of the second comparator is low, transmitting, using the controller, a notification that a flame is present.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.Inventor: Michael Engler
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Patent number: 10145585Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum heat transfer type efficient solar panel heat absorption system, including a flat plate collector, wherein a heat absorption coil is arranged in the flat plate collector, and a heat absorption coil valve is arranged on the heat absorption coil stretching out from the flat plate collector; a heat exchange coil is arranged in a pressure bearing water tank, a water inlet and a water outlet are formed in the pressure bearing water tank, a vacuum pump is arranged on a heat transfer pipeline, the heat absorption coil, the heat transfer pipeline and the heat exchange coil are all copper tubes, the interiors of the copper tubes are in vacuum states, and heat absorption coating is coated on an outer surface of the heat absorption coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HENAN SHUIMU ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Bo Wang, Wanpin Tian, Zhenyu Luo, Shuhong Song, Yuanhui Guo, Yulong Chen, Shixi Wang, Wanying Wang, Huanhuan Xia, Guangyin Liu, Boheng Hao
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Patent number: 10145586Abstract: A flameless heater includes a diesel engine, a hydraulic or electric load that is powered by the diesel engine thereby generating heat, a heat exchanger that transfers heat to air flowing through the air from the flameless heat source, and possibly other heat exchangers for heating the air flowing therethrough with engine coolant and/or with exhaust gases. The system may be operated to maintain relatively high load on the engine for at least the majority of the time so as to reduce or negate the need for parked regeneration. The system may also control airflow through the system and possibly other system parameters to obtain a given setpoint such as a given discharge air temperature. In one embodiment, airflow through the system is controlled by louvers under the power of an electric motor or other actuator controlled by the system's controller.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Wacker Neuson Production Americas LLCInventors: Dave Mencel, Justin Andreas, John Lane, Michael Hanson
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Patent number: 10145587Abstract: A refrigeration device having a closed circuit in which a flow rate of coolant is circulating is provided. The closed circuit has a condenser and a main branch provided with a reciprocating compressor inside which a defined flow rate of the coolant enters, from the main branch, at a defined suction pressure, of an evaporator and a first expansion valve that is arranged between the condenser and the evaporator. The closed circuit further has a first secondary economizer branch for a first fraction of flow rate of the coolant, the first secondary economizer branch fluidically connecting the compressor to a section of the closed circuit between the condenser and the first expansion valve, wherein the compressor has a first side inlet port for the entrance of the first fraction of coolant flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ANGELANTONI TEST TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L.Inventor: Maurizio Ascani
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Patent number: 10145588Abstract: An ejector refrigeration cycle has a compressor, a radiator, an ejector, a swirl flow generator, an evaporator, and an oil separator. The compressor compresses refrigerant, mixed with refrigerant oil compatible with a liquid-phase refrigerant, and discharges the high-pressure refrigerant. The ejector has a nozzle and a body having a refrigerant suction port and a pressure increasing part. The swirl flow generator is configured to cause a decompression boiling in the refrigerant by causing the refrigerant to swirl about a center axis of the nozzle. The oil separator separates the refrigerant oil from the high-pressure refrigerant compressed by the compressor and guides the refrigerant oil to flow to a suction side of the compressor. The oil separator decreases a concentration of the refrigerant oil in the refrigerant, which is to flow into the swirl flow generator, so as to promote the decompression boiling of the refrigerant in the swirl flow generator.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Youhei Nagano, Haruyuki Nishijima, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 10145589Abstract: A refrigerator and method are provided where the refrigerator includes two or more cooling compartments monitored by temperature sensors and cooled by a plurality of evaporators. The cooling for the evaporators is provided by a compressor operating on a recurring cooling cycle. A processor provides varying levels of voltages to the compressor and sets the recurring cooling cycle. The recurring cooling cycle comprises at least two cooling periods and a rest period. The method includes determines the length of the rest period as compared a predetermined rest period range. When the rest period falls outside the predetermined range, the processor selects the voltage to send to the compressor during a subsequent cooling cycle. The processor selects the voltage based on at least one of the temperature of the first and second compartments and the voltage to the compressor during the cooling cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Alberto R. Gomes, Stephen L. Keres, Andrew D. Litch
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Patent number: 10145591Abstract: A temperature control unit includes a ring-shaped magnetocaloric material temperature control body (28) over which heat transfer medium can flow, a rotatable temperature control body receiving housing (12), a temperature control body receiving space, temperature control sectors (I, II, III, IV) following each other in a circumferential direction, each with a cooling area (30) and a magnetic field heating area arranged next to the cooling area, in at least two adjacent temperature control sectors, a heat transfer medium circulation (40) from the magnetic field heating area of one sector to the cooling area of another sector and from the cooling area of the other sector to the magnetic field heating area of the one sector. In one sector, heat input fluid may flow through the cooling area—feeding heat into the sector or/and in one sector, heat discharge fluid may flow through the magnetic field heating area for discharging heat.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Michael Humburg
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Patent number: 10145592Abstract: According to some embodiments, a beverage heating and cooling assembly is provided which includes a collar and beverage retainer assembly for connection to retain the assembly below a mounting substrate. The beverage retainer assembly may include a housing with an active heating or cooling system, such as a thermoelectric engine, which is positioned within or adjacent to the housing and beneath the mounting substrate or similar planar structure. The assembly allows for a clean installation of an active thermal system for beverages in order to keep the beverages cold or warm as desired.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Dometic Sweden ABInventors: William Joseph Liptak, Charlie Alvin Barefoot, Jr., Ronald A. Pabisz, Jr.
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Patent number: 10145593Abstract: An air conditioner is provided. The air conditioner may include a subcooling heat exchanger that evaporates a refrigerant, a compressor that compresses the refrigerant, an injection flow channel through which the evaporated refrigerant flows into the compressor, an injection valve that opens and closes the injection flow channel, an oil separator that separates oil from refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and an oil injection line, which communicates at a first end thereof with the oil separator and at a second end thereof with the injection flow channel so as to guide the oil separated by the oil separator toward the injection flow channel. The oil separated by the oil separator may selectively flow into the compressor through the oil injection line and the injection flow channel in accordance with a mode of operation of the air conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seungjun Lee, Juhyeong Lee
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Patent number: 10145594Abstract: A two-stage proportional control valve configured for use in a fluid system includes a valve body having a longitudinally extending valve body bore formed therethrough. A first stage microvalve is mounted within the valve body bore, and a second stage spool assembly is mounted within the valve body bore downstream of the microvalve. The second stage spool assembly includes a sleeve and a spool slidably mounted within the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DunAn Microstaq, Inc.Inventors: E. Nelson Fuller, Parthiban Arunasalam, Joe A. Ojeda, Gengxun K. Gurley, Chen Yang, Jennifer O'Keefe
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Patent number: 10145595Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit connecting a compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and a use-side heat exchanger to each other by connecting pipes, an outside air temperature sensor configured to detect an outside air temperature, and a controller configured to operate the refrigeration cycle apparatus and to switch between a normal operation mode for controlling the refrigerant circuit based on an operation load of the use-side heat exchanger and a refrigerant amount determining mode for determining whether or not an amount of refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit is appropriate. The controller is configured to switch the normal operation mode to the refrigerant amount determining mode when the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor is within a set temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masafumi Tomita, Kazuki Okada, Masanori Aoki