Patents Issued in March 19, 2019
  • Patent number: 10234160
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, a system 200 and method 100 for identifying CO2 concentration in a building area using an imaging device 10 is disclosed. The disclosed method and system includes capturing the number of living beings present in a particular area of the building by the imaging device 10, identifying the active state of the living beings and categorizing the active state as per predefined criteria and identifying the CO2 concentration based on the size of the building area, total number of living beings present in the building area and the active state of the living beings at a given point of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Krishnamoorthy Raman, Gineesh Sukumaran
  • Patent number: 10234161
    Abstract: An electronic assembly may have a display, a display holder, and a printed circuit board (PCB). The display may have a front side for viewing the display, a back side, and side walls extending between the front side and the back side. The display holder may have a recess for receiving at least part of the display, where the display holder may extend adjacent part of the front side of the display and adjacent at least part of the side walls of the display. The PCB may be secured relative to the display holder and adjacent the back side of the display. The PCB may be in operative communication with the display. In some cases, a spacer may be situated between the back side of the display and the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Petr Adamik, Tarik Khoury, Steven J. McPherson, Arnold Kalla, Eugene J. Takach, Mohammad Aljabari, Tracy Lentz, David Mulhouse
  • Patent number: 10234162
    Abstract: A controller, an indoor environment adjustment system and an indoor environment adjustment method are provided so as to automatically adjust an indoor environment. The controller is connected to at least one sensor and at least one smart home device, and configured to acquire indoor environment parameters collected by the at least one sensor, and send an adjustment instruction to the at least one smart home device in accordance with the indoor environment parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Xiaochuan Chen, Ming Yang, Qian Wang, Rui Xu, Lei Wang, Peng Liu, Jiantao Liu
  • Patent number: 10234163
    Abstract: At least one aspect of the present disclose is directed towards a temperature control device that includes a face plate, a housing, and an adjustment mechanism. The housing may protrude away from the rear side of the face plate. The housing may include a mounting mechanism that includes a set of clamps configured to engage at least a portion of an inner surface. The set of clamps may be adjustable based on alterations to the adjustment mechanism. The housing may also include one or more cavities that may be configured to receive at least a portion of the set of clamps when the set of clamps is collapsed into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Gary Franklin Bart
  • Patent number: 10234164
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a casing, a heat exchanger and a blower. In the casing, an intake port is formed and a blow-off port is formed in a top surface section. The heat exchanger and the blower are housed in the casing. The blower is caused to rotate while a flammable refrigerant flows to the heat exchanger during an operation, an intake air is taken into the casing from the intake port, a heat exchange is carried out between the flammable refrigerant and the intake air in the heat exchanger, and the heat-exchanged air is blown out from the blow-off port to an exterior of the casing. A first refrigerant sensor that detects the flammable refrigerant is disposed on a downwind side of the heat exchanger inside the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Takeuchi, Satoshi Kawano, Shinya Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 10234165
    Abstract: An HVAC control system for a household central air conditioning, including an HVAC system controller, a centrifugal blower motor, a compressor motor, and an axial fan motor. The HVAC system controller includes an HVAC microprocessor, a sensor, an interface unit for motor control, a power supply part, and a signal processing circuit. The interface unit for motor control includes an inverter unit and a rotor position detection unit. At least one of the centrifugal blower motor, the compressor motor, and the axial fan motor is a permanent magnet synchronous motor in the absence of a motor controller. The HVAC microprocessor drives the permanent magnet synchronous motor in the absence of a motor controller via the inverter unit. The rotor position detection unit sends a rotor position signal of the permanent magnet synchronous motor in the absence of a motor controller to the HVAC microprocessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Ge Hu, Yiqiao Zhou, Chuping Lu
  • Patent number: 10234166
    Abstract: A first comparison-period specifier specifies a first to-be-compared period in a pre-implementation period before implementation of an energy saving control. A second comparison-period specifier specifies as a second to-be-compared period a to-be-compared candidate period having the highest similarity level between: parameters in a first parameter comparison period including a first comparison period and a first period immediately before or after the first comparison period, and parameters in a second parameter comparison period including a to-be-compared candidate period and a second period immediately before or after the to-be-compared candidate period. An energy saving diagnoser diagnoses the level of energy saving derived from the implementation of an energy saving control based on a power consumption amount in the first to-be-compared period and a power consumption amount in the second to-be-compared period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroko Izumihara
  • Patent number: 10234167
    Abstract: An air conditioner including a suction channel module having a suction module housing with a first and a second suction channel provided therein, and a suction connection channel to guide air between the first and second suction channels; a discharge channel module having a discharge module housing with a first and a second discharge channel provided therein, and a discharge connection channel to guide air between the first and second discharge channels; a first heat exchanger disposed between the first suction channel and the first discharge channel to exchange heat with air that passed through the first suction channel and operate as one of a condenser and an evaporator; and a second heat exchanger disposed between the second suction channel and the second discharge channel to exchange heat with air that passed through the second suction channel and operate as the other of the condenser and the evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangil Park, Doyong Ha, Yoonho Yoo, Taehee Kwak
  • Patent number: 10234168
    Abstract: The invention provides an HVAC duct having an inner composite tube and an outer composite tube. The inner composite tube has an interior metal wall, a primary foam wall, and an exterior metal wall. The outer composite tube has an interior metal wall, a secondary foam wall, and an exterior metal wall. In certain embodiments, the inner composite tube is nested inside the outer composite tube in an end-offset configuration. In these embodiments, the first end of the duct defines a male detent having a radially-outward-facing metal engagement face projecting beyond the interior metal wall of the outer composite tube, whereas the second end of the duct defines a female detent having a radially-inward-facing metal engagement face projecting beyond the exterior metal wall of the inner composite tube. Also provided is an HVAC ductwork assembly wherein two ducts of the described nature are connected in an advantageous end-to-end manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: AQC INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sterling P. Minter, James M. Lubratt
  • Patent number: 10234169
    Abstract: Transition castings are disclosed which comprise a steam tube, a water tube, and a pass-through tube, which are joined together by membranes. The ends of the tubes on one vertical end are aligned in a plane, while the ends of the tubes on the other vertical end are aligned in alternating planes, or put another way are angled instead of being in a straight line. The transition castings are used in a transition section of a boiler in which the furnace is divided into a lower furnace and an upper furnace. The lower furnace uses water-cooled membrane walls, while the upper furnace uses steam-cooled membrane walls that act as superheating surfaces. The transition section joins the lower furnace and the upper furnace together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Eric L Wells, Roger A Detzel, Albert J Bennett, Steven D Thayer
  • Patent number: 10234170
    Abstract: The present invention provides a boiler system, for example for use in heating a domestic hot water supply, and which is significantly more fuel efficient than existing boilers, the boiler system comprising a first reservoir and a second reservoir which together define a combustion enclosure, a storage tank positioned to define an upper wall or roof of the enclosure and being in fluid communication with the first water reservoir, a heat exchange tube located in the storage tank and being in fluid communication with the second water reservoir; and a burner arranged to directly heat atmospheric gases within the enclosure in order to indirectly heat the walls of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventor: Pat Kiely
  • Patent number: 10234171
    Abstract: Provided is an attachment structure for a water heater capable of easily and securely attaching the water heater to a wall surface without performing strict alignment, and capable of fine adjustment of an attachment position of the water heater even after the attachment. The attachment structure for the water heater includes a first metal fitting (1) having a wall surface attachment portion (11) configured to be attached to a wall surface (W), and a second metal fitting (2) having an instrument attachment portion (23) configured to be attached to a back surface of the instrument body (3). In the wall surface attachment portion 11, a support portion (12) configured to hang and support a weight of the water heater is extended in a direction separate from the wall surface (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Ando
  • Patent number: 10234172
    Abstract: A localized heating structure includes a spectrally-selective solar absorber, that absorbs incident solar radiation and reflects at wavelengths longer than 2 ?m, with an underlying heat-spreading layer having a thermal conductivity equal to or greater than 50 W/(mK), a thermally insulating layer, adjacent to the spectrally-selective solar absorber, having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.1 W/(mK), one or more evaporation openings through the spectrally-selective solar absorber and the thermally insulating layer, and an evaporation wick, disposed in one or more of the evaporation openings in the thermally insulating layer, that contacts liquid and allows the liquid to be transported from a location beneath the thermally insulating layer through to the spectrally-selective solar absorber in order to generate vapor from the liquid. The thermally insulating layer is configured to have a density less than the liquid so that the localized heating structure is able to float on the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: George Ni, Gang Chen, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Thomas Alan Cooper
  • Patent number: 10234173
    Abstract: The method is for conveying solar power from a sun. A solar concentrator conveys and concentrates solar power as rays into a cable. The solar concentrator has a tapering device disposed at a bottom thereof. The cable has a first curved glass loop section, a second curved glass loop section and a curved section. The curved glass section is connected to a storage unit wherein the light is converted into heat. The first loop section is rotated relative to the second loop section at a first gap and the second section is rotated relative to the curved section at a second gap so that the concentrator can follow the path of the sun during the day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Rodluvan Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Nordin, Mats Olof Erik Mattsson
  • Patent number: 10234174
    Abstract: In a flameless thermal oxidizer including a vessel configured to contain a matrix bed of media, and a vent gas stream conduit and an oxidizing agent conduit each extending into an interior of the vessel at least partially within the matrix bed of media, a method of delivering a vent gas stream and oxidizing agents into the vessel includes the steps of distributing the vent gas stream through the vent gas stream conduit; distributing the oxidizing agents through a mixing conduit; and combining the vent gas stream and the oxidizing agents in the mixing conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LINDE ENGINEERING NORTH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Gene H. Irrgang, Peter Falcone
  • Patent number: 10234175
    Abstract: A turbo refrigerator is provided with: a turbo compressor having a motor; an oil cooling unit which cools lubricating oil which is supplied to at least a portion of the turbo compressor; a refrigerant introduction part which introduces some of the refrigerant which circulates between an evaporator and a condenser into a motor accommodation space and the oil cooling unit; and a cooling unit which cools the refrigerant which is introduced into the motor accommodation space and the oil cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentarou Oda, Seiichiro Yoshinaga, Nobuyoshi Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10234176
    Abstract: A heat pump system includes a structure, in turn including a solid-state phase change material. The solid-state phase change material has a first phase state and a second phase state dependent on the temperature. A heat source is configured to supply heat to a first area of the structure, thereby creating a first domain having the first phase state and thereby storing latent heat in the first domain. The first domain is separated by domain walls from second domains having the second phase state. A heat sink is configured to receive heat from a second area of the structure. Furthermore, an electrical energy supply is configured to supply an electrical current to the structure, thereby moving the first domain and the corresponding latent heat stored in the first domain along the structure from the first area to the second area. A related thermal computing device, a related method, and a related computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernd W. Gotsmann, Fabian Menges
  • Patent number: 10234178
    Abstract: An evaporator for a cooling system has a slab coil having a plurality of refrigerant circuits with each refrigerant circuit being a fin-and-tube assembly that extends across the slab coil. At least one of the refrigerant circuits has a mini-slab circuit extender that has a fin-and-tube assembly that extends across only a portion of the fin-and-tube assembly of that refrigerant circuit and is disposed in front of that portion of the fin-and-tube assembly of that refrigerant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Vertiv Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel J. Schutte
  • Patent number: 10234179
    Abstract: A thermodynamic device includes a first liquid container configured to maintain a first pressure during operation, the first liquid container being partially filled with a working fluid during operation, a second liquid container configured to maintain a second pressure during operation, the second pressure being higher than the first pressure, the second liquid container being partially filled with the working fluid during operation; and a compensation pipe permeable to the working fluid and including an inlet arranged within the second liquid container so as to define, during operation, a working fluid level within the second liquid container, and including an outlet arranged within the first liquid container so that working fluid can be transported from the inlet into the outlet, the inlet being arranged to be higher up than the outlet in the installation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Efficient Energy GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Sedlak
  • Patent number: 10234180
    Abstract: A flow control cartridge is used with a cold plate to form a cold plate assembly within which a refrigerant circulates for cooling at least one heat generating device. The cartridge includes a thermal expansion valve and a sensing portion that with a bellows-type actuator within the cartridge. The bellows-type actuator is located directly in a stream of the refrigerant exiting the cold plate. The thermal expansion valve is comprised of a main body having an inlet orifice arranged to receive refrigerant that has been subcooled from a condenser of a vapor compression system or a recuperative heat exchanger, and a needle arranged in an expanded section of the main body in association with discharge ports in the expanded section for discharging the refrigerant in a two-phase state into the cold plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: David M. Sykes, Joshua C. Dominico, Robert P. Scaringe, Gregory S. Cole, Daniel A. Staples
  • Patent number: 10234181
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a fluid distribution manifold, a fluid collection manifold, and a plurality of tubes extending there between. A separator within the fluid distribution manifold includes a first fluid conduit and a second fluid conduit. The first fluid conduit extends through an inlet end and over at least a portion of the length of the fluid distribution manifold. A plurality of openings in the first fluid conduit fluidly couples the first fluid conduit to at least a first portion of the plurality of tubes. A first end of a second fluid conduit is arranged generally centrally within and parallel to the first fluid conduit. Refrigerant vapor is configured to flow through the second fluid conduit. Liquid refrigerant is configured to flow between the first fluid conduit and the second fluid conduit to at least the first portion of the plurality of tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jack Leon Esformes
  • Patent number: 10234182
    Abstract: Provided are a flash tank and an air conditioner having the same. The flash tank includes a flash tank liquid inlet (11) and a flash tank liquid outlet (12). The flash tank further includes: a plurality of flash chambers, wherein the flash chambers are arranged in sequence, every two adjacent flash chambers communicating; and a plurality of air replenishment openings (14), the air replenishment openings (14) and the flash chambers corresponding one to one and communicating with each other. The flash tank liquid inlet (11) communicates with the first flash chamber of the flash chambers, and the flash tank liquid outlet (12) communicates with the last flash chamber of the flash chambers. The flash tank may meet an air replenishment demand of a multi-stage compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Tang Zhou, Yu Zhou, Chenguang Wang, Juan Wang, Xianquan Liu, Cui Pan, Liang Wan, Chengzhao Jin
  • Patent number: 10234183
    Abstract: A compressing device of the present invention comprises a compressor, a heat exchanger, an expander, a power recovery unit, a condenser, a pump, a bypass flow passage for bypassing the expander, and a bypass valve. When a bypass condition for allowing a working medium to circulate through the bypass flow passage is satisfied, the bypass valve is caused to be opened, thereby allowing the working medium to circulate between the heat exchanger and the condenser through the bypass flow passage. As a result, a compressed gas discharged from the compressor is cooled by the working medium in the heat exchanger. This configuration makes it possible to cool the compressed gas by the working medium in the heat exchanger regardless of operation conditions of the expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Hashimoto, Kazumasa Nishimura, Shigeto Adachi, Yutaka Narukawa, Haruyuki Matsuda, Tetsuya Kakiuchi, Noboru Tsuboi, Kazunori Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 10234184
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for monitoring a status of a terminal compressor. The method includes: obtaining a working status parameter of a compressor in a first terminal; judging whether the working status parameter falls in a preset range; if the working status parameter does not fall in the preset range, determining that an abnormality of the compressor occurs; and analyzing a reason for the abnormality and transmitting preset information to a second terminal that controls the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Guangyi Han, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 10234185
    Abstract: A water purifier with an ice maker is provided that includes an ice making part having an evaporator and a circulation cooling part that circulates water stored in a cold water tank to the evaporator so that the water stored in the cold water tank is cooled by heat exchange with refrigerant flowing in the evaporator, to simultaneously make ice and cool water using a single evaporator and eliminating the need to make separate ice so as to cool water, thereby enhancing energy efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Coway Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jin Hwan Noh, Hee-Do Jung
  • Patent number: 10234186
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing powdered ice with salinity includes a water supply unit configured to supply a salted water; a spraying unit connected to the water supply unit and configured to generate a pressurized salted water-air mist; an ice generating unit connected to the spraying unit and configured to generate ice nuclei; a collecting unit connected to the ice generating unit and configured to grow the size of the powdered ice and to collect the powdered ice; and a reserving unit connected to the collecting unit and configured to transfer and store the powdered ice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventors: James Chun Koh, Shigeaki Sakaguchi, Masaaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10234187
    Abstract: Described is a device (1) for emitting a jet of fluid comprising a tubular member (2) having at least one air inlet opening (4) and one air outlet opening (5). Moreover, the device (1) comprises blowing means (6), located inside the tubular member (2) for sucking air from the inlet opening (4) and generating a flow of air coming out of the outlet opening (5); the blowing means (6) comprising a drive unit (7) and an air movement member (8) connected to the drive unit (7). The device (1) also comprises an apparatus (11) having at least one fluid delivery nozzle (12) and an air compression structure (13) connected to the delivery nozzle (12). More specifically, the drive unit (7) is connected to the air compression structure (13) to set it in action and they are both located inside a container (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNOALPIN HOLDING S.P.A.
    Inventor: Walter Rieder
  • Patent number: 10234188
    Abstract: At least one puck is used to manufacture a vacuum insulated panel with a shaped opening. A pair of barrier films are positioned about an insulated core having a shaped opening such as a through bore, cutout, or relief. The puck includes a protrusion having a shape similar to that of the opening of the insulated core. With the barrier films positioned about the insulated core, the pucks are inserted into the opening from opposite sides of the insulated core to thereby compress the barrier films between the shaped protrusions of the pucks to thereby prevent wrinkles and/or creases in the barrier films. The insulated core is then subjected to a vacuum to evacuate the insulated core of any gases and the barrier films are heat sealed to maintain the insulated core in the evacuated state. Excess barrier film is then removed to provide a wrinkle and/or crease free seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DOUBLEDAY ACQUISITIONS LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Siudzinski, Steven R. Eakins, Ross A. Moreland
  • Patent number: 10234189
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a plurality of storage compartments, a plurality of cooling units to cool the plurality of storage compartments, a temperature sensing unit to sense temperatures of the plurality of storage compartments, a drive unit to drive the plurality of cooling units, and a controller to control the drive unit to drive the cooling unit that satisfies a predetermined driving condition. If at least one cooling unit among the plurality of cooling units is being driven, the controller delays driving the other cooling unit even if the other cooling unit satisfies the driving condition. The refrigerator minimizes simultaneous driving a plurality of compressors, which may prevent generation of noise and vibration, as well as excessive power consumption, due to driving the plurality of compressors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Cho, Woo Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 10234190
    Abstract: A locking assembly for a refrigerator appliance having inner and outer doors includes a catch mounted to an inner door of the refrigerator. The catch includes a body having a support surface and a locking member. The support surface may be positioned between an outer surface of the inner door and an inner surface of the outer door. The locking assembly also includes a latch coupled to the outer door and operable to engage the latch member. In addition, the locking assembly includes a magnet positioned on the support surface, and the magnet is operable to exert a magnetic bias on the outer door towards the inner door along the transverse direction to compress a gasket that is operable to seal against the outer surface of the inner door or the inner surface of the outer door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis A. Wantland, Bagawathkumar Chellappan
  • Patent number: 10234191
    Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a cabinet (10) configured to define a first storage region in which food is stored, a door (20) rotatably connected to a first rotating shaft via a first hinge member (40) to open or close the first storage region, the first rotating shaft being located at the front of the cabinet (10), a gasket provided at the door (20) and a container (100) configured to define a second storage region, the second storage region being received in the first storage region, the container (100) being rotatably connected to a second rotating shaft via a second hinge member (200), the second rotating shaft being located at the door (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Choi, Myunghwan Kim, Jisu Park, Hyunbum Kim, Jindong Kim, Jihyun Im
  • Patent number: 10234192
    Abstract: A portable sound equipment comprises an equipment body, and the equipment body is mainly composed of a box body and a box cover capable of being folded and unfolded. A heat preservation cavity is arranged in the box body; and a sealing cover of the box cover is connected to an opening of the heat preservation cavity. The portable sound equipment has multiple functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NINGBO RIXING ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Tang
  • Patent number: 10234193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator (1) comprising a body (2) wherein foodstuffs and beverages are placed; a protector plate (3) placed into the body (2); at least one drawer (4) that is placed under the protector plate (3), wherein fruits and vegetables are placed; a separator plate (6) that is disposed over the protector plate (3) and that has more than one hole (5) enabling the air delivered to the protector plate (3) to at least partially reach the drawer (4); a shelf (7) that is situated above the protector plate (3) so that there is a distance between the protector plate (6) and the shelf (7); and at least one air blowing opening (122) that is arranged on the body (2) and that enables cold air to be blown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ARCELIK ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventors: Nihat Gunduz, Feyzi Alper Soysal, Isil Uslu, Serdar Kocaturk, Samet Akan, Levent Akdag
  • Patent number: 10234194
    Abstract: A method of making a gasket track for a gasket is provided. A first section of a c-shaped channel comprising from 50% to 75% of the c-shaped channel of a first plastic material is formed. A second section of a c-shaped channel comprising from 25% to 50% of the c-shaped channel of a second plastic material is formed. The first section is joined together with the second section to form all of the c-shaped channel. The c-shaped channel has a circular cross section that forms at least 65% of an ellipse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SUB-ZERO, INC.
    Inventor: Philip Francis Hottmann
  • Patent number: 10234195
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a body and a drawer. The body includes a storage compartment. The drawer is insertable or withdrawable into or from the storage compartment. The refrigerator also includes a support configured to supports an item accommodated in the drawer. The refrigerator further includes a lifting device configured to lift the support with respect to the drawer. The lifting device includes a driving part that provides a driving force to the support, a wire that transfers the driving force of the driving part to the support, and at least one pulley which guides the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Yasaka, Kentaro Kan, Katsumi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10234196
    Abstract: A device for drying hair extensions includes an elongated main body having a hinged door and an interior space. A blower unit having a fan and a heat element are positioned along the top end of the main body and function to deposit forced air into the interior space. A hanger unit is positioned within the interior space and aligns hair extensions beneath the forced air to dry the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Beaute' Innovante, Inc.
    Inventor: Tiarra McCloud
  • Patent number: 10234197
    Abstract: A dryer for a textile web includes a drying chamber having at least one air-permeable drum arranged in the drying chamber to rotate, wherein the drum includes an end face constituting an axially arranged suction side, the textile web is wrapable at least partially around the drum and heated drying air is flowable through the textile web. A hot gas source provides heated gas. A ventilator forms a suction draft via the suction side of the drum with drying air from inside of the drum and drying air that recirculates back into the drying chamber. At least one hot gas feeding ring encloses the suction draft and is configured to permit the hot gas from the hot gas source to flow essentially completely into the suction draft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TRUETZSCHLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Markus Böhn
  • Patent number: 10234198
    Abstract: A device and process for heating wood for the purpose of eradicating burrowed pests such as gypsy moths and emerald ash borer beetles are disclosed. The device is used for treating firewood and pallets made of wood to insure that burrowed pests are killed before transporting the wood across state lines in following of state regulations. The device comprises a conveyor adapted for transporting firewood or pallets an insulated and heated chamber. The wood core temperature of the wood is monitored using wireless temperature sensors. Conveyor speed is adjusted according to temperature readings in order to achieve a threshold wood core temperature and in order to maintain the threshold wood core temperature for the minimum required period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Robert Wiedemeier
  • Patent number: 10234199
    Abstract: An air dispenser for a paint drying chamber having a housing with a top, bottom, and a curvilinear wall extending between the top and the bottom. The wall has an elongated outlet extending between the top and the bottom and an air outlet is formed in the top or the bottom. The wall is generally circular in cross-sectional shape but with an outwardly protruding wall section adjacent the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hahn Marketing LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Hahn
  • Patent number: 10234200
    Abstract: A moisture removal system and method employing air movers, dehumidifiers, heaters and attendant methods for reducing moisture in a construction project. The method and system include operating moisture removal equipment and testing moisture content levels sufficient to reduce the moisture content levels to a desired threshold to reduce the likelihood of mold growing or moisture damage in the construction after it is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAVANNAH IP, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Weisenberger, Robert A. Weisenberger
  • Patent number: 10234201
    Abstract: A complex type dryer includes a rotational cylinder, a drying material, a hot air provider, a hot air chamber and a scraping unit. The drying material provider is disposed over the rotational cylinder and coats a drying material on a surface of the rotational cylinder. The hot air provider is connected to both sides of the rotational cylinder, and includes first and second hot air tubes. The first and second hot air tubes alternately provide a hot air into the rotational cylinder or alternately exhaust the hot air passing through the rotational cylinder. The hot air chamber is disposed along an outer surface of the rotational cylinder outside of the rotational cylinder. The scraping unit is disposed at a side of the rotational cylinder, and removes the drying material from the surface of the rotational cylinder after dried by the rotational cylinder and the hot air chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Korea institute of energy research
    Inventors: Sung-il Kim, Jong-Won Choi, Sang-Hyun Oh, Kye-Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 10234202
    Abstract: Disclosed is a condensate water control dryer. The condensate water control dryer includes: a dryer main body which has a drying space formed therein; a first condensate water panel which is attached, in a first direction, to an inner wall surface of the drying space of the dryer main body and has a superhydrophilic surface; a second condensate water panel which is attached, in a second direction that intersects the first direction, to the inner wall surface of the drying space of the dryer main body and has a superhydrophobic surface; and attachment members which attach the first condensate water panel and the second condensate water panel to the inner wall surface of the dryer main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, ADVANCED MANUFACTURE TECHNOLOGY CENTER, CHINA ACADEMY OF MACHINERY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Woon Bong Hwang, Zhongde Shan, Shuangfeng Wu, Byung Rak Park, Won Shik Kwak
  • Patent number: 10234203
    Abstract: An improved separator for separating lumber in a stack of a plurality of layers has a primary profile for minimizing the contact area and maximizing airflow between the separator and the adjacent boards and a secondary profile for improving frictional resistance between the separator and the adjacent boards. The primary profile comprises a plurality of grooves and a plurality of ridges formed therebetween. The secondary profile comprises a plurality of depressions on the ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: BREEZE DRIED INC.
    Inventor: David Townsend
  • Patent number: 10234204
    Abstract: Method for managing the metal charge in a melting furnace includes at least a step of depositing metal materials to be melted in a storage zone, a step of picking up and loading the metal materials from the storage zone onto feeding device by loading device, and a feed step in which the feeding device feeds the materials toward the melting furnace. The deposit step provides to divide the storage zone into a plurality of specialized areas in each of which a differentiated type of the metal materials is deposited, and during the pick-up and loading step, a processing device controls and commands the actuation of the feeding device which picks up the types of materials from the specialized areas and load them onto the feeding device according to a desired modality and quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ferruccio Della Vedova, Lorenzo Ciani
  • Patent number: 10234205
    Abstract: A method for charging pallet cars of a traveling grate for the thermal treatment of bulk material includes in a first step a first layer is applied as a hearth layer on a grate surface of the pallet car. In at least one second step a second layer at the same time or successively is applied as a side layer on two opposed side walls of the pallet car and a third layer is applied as green pellet layer between the side layers and on the hearth layer. The pellets used for the grate and the side layer differ in terms of their diameter and size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: OUTOTEC (FINLAND) OY
    Inventors: Georg Strüber, Markus Schuster, Siegfried Schimo, Roberto Valery, Stephanie Winkler, Suvi Rannantie, Matthias Bergmann, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Katharina Kremmer, Vincent Siauw, Basavan Salagundi, Michael Ströder, Roger Becker
  • Patent number: 10234206
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric arc furnace, containing a furnace shell, an electrode, a furnace shell moving mechanism that supports the furnace shell so as to be movable on an installation surface, and a first insulation that electrically insulates between the furnace shell and the furnace shell moving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Mizutani, Masato Ogawa, Kunio Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10234207
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling a fluid by surface water includes more than one tubes for containing and transporting the fluid in its interior, the exterior of the tube being in operation at least partially submerged in the surface water so as to cool the tube to thereby also cool the fluid. The cooling apparatus also includes at least one light source for producing light that hinders fouling on at least part of the submerged exterior, and at least one optic unit for enhancing the distribution of anti-fouling light on the submerged exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bart Andre Salters, Roelant Boudewijn Hietbrink
  • Patent number: 10234208
    Abstract: A tubular heat treatment apparatus comprising a number of tubes arranged in a number of groups. Each of the number of groups are arranged to process product within a pre-determined temperature interval. At least one of the groups is swept by a sheet such that heat transfer to or from the group is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Helén Löfdahl, Magnus Gullberg
  • Patent number: 10234209
    Abstract: To provide a heat exchanger that can control temperatures of fluids to be heat-exchanged. A heat exchanger 30 includes a honeycomb structure 1, a second fluid flow through portion 26 located at an outer periphery side of the honeycomb structure 1 serving as a flow passage for a second fluid, and a third fluid flow through portion 27 located at an outer periphery side of the second fluid flow through portion 26 serving as a flow passage for a third fluid. Cells 3 of the honeycomb structure 1 serve as a first fluid flow through portion 25 through which the first fluid passes. With the heat exchanger 30, the first fluid, the second fluid, and the third fluid can be heat-exchanged without being mixed with one another. Constituting the fluid flow passage with three flow passages allows controlling temperatures of two fluids to be heat-exchanged by the residual fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tokuda, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Makoto Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10234210
    Abstract: A system includes a radiant syngas cooler which receives and cools syngas generated in a gasifier. The radiant syngas cooler includes an outer shell of the radiant syngas cooler defining an annular space of the radiant syngas cooler and a heat exchange tube of the radiant syngas cooler positioned within the annular space and configured to flow a cooling medium. The heat exchange tube is configured to enable heat exchange between the syngas and the cooling medium to cool the syngas. The radiant syngas cooler includes a downcomer tube of the radiant syngas cooler which supplies the cooling medium to the heat exchange tube, where the downcomer tube includes a downflow portion positioned outside of the annular space of the radiant syngas cooler. The downflow portion is fluidly coupled to a header, and the header fluidly couples the downcomer tube to the heat exchange tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pallab Karmakar, Lien-Yan Chen, Qiong Zhou