Patents Issued in March 28, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190093855
    Abstract: A lampshade contains: two connection elements, a covering connecting with a bottom of each of the two opposite connection elements, and two fixing rings. The covering is made of fabric material, and the two fixing rings are made of metal material, and each of the two fixing rings connects with each connection element. Furthermore, the covering has an inner surface of a first end of thereof, and the covering has an outer surface of a second end of the covering connecting with the inner surface of the first end of the covering. Thereby, the lampshade is simplified and is assembled quickly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Sheng-Chi Chung
  • Publication number: 20190093856
    Abstract: An outside door handle, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a handle body comprising an outer contour, having a light source received by the handle body for a front area lighting and/or for a door handle cup lighting, and having a diffuser for scattering the light irradiated by the light source into diffuse light that is inwardly arranged in the handle body at a spacing from its outer contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Lukás Mrnustík
  • Publication number: 20190093857
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus. The apparatus includes a light diffusion portion comprising a same shape and approximately a same two dimensional size as a bottom surface of a light source, a light redirection device coupled to a perimeter of the light diffusion portion, wherein the light redirection device redirects a first portion of light emitted from a light source in a direction opposite a second portion of light emitted from the light source that travels through the light diffusion portion, and at least one mechanical coupling member coupled to the light redirection device, wherein the at least one mechanical coupling member is to connect to a corresponding portion of the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yinan Zhang, Sam Acacia, Chakrakodi Vishnu Shastry
  • Publication number: 20190093858
    Abstract: An exemplary vehicle lens assembly includes, among other things, a transparent base and a transparent film. The transparent film includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is bonded directly to the transparent base. The second layer is polymethylmethacrylate-based and is more resistant to ultraviolet radiation than the first layer and the transparent base. An exemplary lens manufacturing method includes, among other things, coextruding a first layer having a first material composition together with a second layer having a second material composition to provide a transparent film. The method further includes bonding the first layer to a transparent base of a vehicle lighting lens. The second material composition is more resistant to ultraviolet radiation than the first material composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Richard H. Wykoff, II, Barry K. Loucks
  • Publication number: 20190093859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spotlight adapted for a light device, said spotlight comprising a support and at least one light module adapted for producing a light beam and comprising at least one light source, such as a light-emitting diode (LED) and an optical element, such as a lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Yvan Peard
  • Publication number: 20190093860
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a spotlight adapted for a light device, said spotlight comprising a support and at least one light module adapted for producing a light beam and comprising at least one light source, such as a light emitting diode (LED) and an optical element, such as a lens, wherein the light source and optical element are adapted for being positioned in extension of each other in an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Yvan Peard
  • Publication number: 20190093861
    Abstract: A zoom LED lamp comprises a chip receiving cylinder, a chip fixing column, a lens receiving cylinder, and a fixing cylinder. The chip receiving cylinder comprises a radial positioning ring, a receiving groove, and an elastic sealing ring. The chip fixing column comprises a column body and at least two ears. The two ears are fixed in the chip receiving cylinder. The lens receiving cylinder comprises a lens cylinder and two openings respectively inserted into the two ears. The zoom LED lamp not only fixes the position of the lens cylinder in the radial direction, but also allows the elastic sealing ring to fix the position of the lens cylinder in the axial direction of the chip receiving cylinder when no external force is applied. In addition, the sliding path of the lens cylinder in the axial direction of the chip receiving cylinder can also be limited, so that the irradiation range of the zoom LED lamp can be regulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Bozhang Xu, Haitao Wu, Guancong Shan
  • Publication number: 20190093862
    Abstract: A medical headlamp, having a tubular housing, an electrical conductor, entering the housing, and an electrical network connected to the electrical conductor. An LED assembly is connected to the electrical network, and has a front surface, through which light is emitted. An iris assembly, including a toroidal housing, an iris diaphragm defining a width-adjustable aperture, seated in the housing, and an actuator, permitting a user to adjust the width of the width adjustable aperture. Further, the toroidal housing defines a front interior space, to the front of the iris diaphragm and a rear interior space, to the rear. A prime lens is placed in front of the iris diaphragm and has a rear surface. A further optical assembly, including at least a light-focusing lens is placed in front of the iris assembly. Finally, the prime lens rear surface has an opaque annular coating, acting as an annular light block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventor: JOHN THOMAS FERGUSON
  • Publication number: 20190093863
    Abstract: A LED module (14) including a circuit board (20) provided with electrical conductors and defining opposed circuit board first and second surfaces (61 and 62); a power input (40) electrically coupled to the electrical conductors; LEDs (22) provided on the circuit board first surface (61), each LED (22) defining a light emitting surface (23) facing substantially away from the circuit board (20), the LEDs (22) being electrically coupled to the electrical conductors for being powered when the power input is powered; an encapsulation layer (50) having an encapsulation layer index of refraction and covering the circuit board first surface (61) and the LEDs (22); a CCT correcting layer (48) having a CCT correcting layer index of refraction and coating at least part of at least one of the light emitting surfaces (23) and provided between the at least part of the at least one of the light emitting surfaces (23) and the encapsulation layer (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Lozeau, Andrew Piaskowski
  • Publication number: 20190093864
    Abstract: A downlight apparatus is designed to be installed in a cavity of a ceiling. The downlight apparatus includes a base part, a major part and a connector. The base part has a shape to be fixed in the cavity of the ceiling. The base part has a base housing for defining a through hole and a light window. The major part includes a major housing, a light source and a driver circuit. The connector connects the major housing and the base housing. The connector provides multiple candidate positions for a user to configure to change a relative position of the base part and the major part so as to change an output light defined determined by the light window and the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: ZhenKun Huang, Maojin Zeng, Qiqing Yu
  • Publication number: 20190093865
    Abstract: A portable light apparatus for vehicle-related uses including as a temporary headlight or taillight is disclosed. The portable light includes an adjustable light beam, a swivel joint or hinge for aiming the light beam, and multiple attachment means to facilitate use on various types of vehicles and in a wide variety of situations. An exemplary embodiment of the herein disclosed portable light apparatus comprises a magnetic base for attaching to a vehicle, the magnetic base having one or more magnets and forming a strap slot of receiving a vehicle attachment strap; a light assembly having a light fixture, a battery, a switch, a lens cap, and a lens cap base; and, a hinged joint adjustably connecting the magnetic base to the light assembly and for aiming the portable light apparatus, the hinged joint having a tightening means for securing the hinged joint in place once aimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Forrest Walser
  • Publication number: 20190093866
    Abstract: A portable lamp comprises a central body, a boom arm, flat tripod stand, and a light unit. The central body is extendable along its vertical axis to a predetermined length. The boom arm is of adjustable length and is rotatably fixed to the upper end of the central body with a positively locking elbow joint, including a ratchet and pawl. The lower end of the central body is fixed with a foldable locking flat tripod stand adapted to hold and provide mobility to the portable lamp. Flat tripod stand includes a spring-biased latch and detents that hold legs in a folded or a down position. The central body, the boom arm, the tripod stand and the light unit are configured to provide up to twelve degrees of freedom jointly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Jacob M. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190093867
    Abstract: A portable lamp includes at least one lighting device and at least one handle body. The at least one handle body has two end portions and a turning space defined between the two end portions. The at least one lighting device is rotatably mounted between the two end portions of the at least one handle body. The at least one lighting device is selectively arranged to be maintained in the turning space of the at least one handle body as a folded state and rotated with the at least one handle body to have an included angle between the at least one lighting body and the at least one handle body as an unfolded state. The portable lamp can adjust the state of the at least one lighting device without moving the at least one handle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Fujun QIU
  • Publication number: 20190093868
    Abstract: A metalized layer can be added between a light effect material and a viewer so that components creating a light material viewing effect are masked by the metalized layer when the light material viewing effect is not activated. The metalized layer, light effect material and or an article of manufacture incorporating them can be designed so that the light material viewing effect, when activated, enhances a visual design (such as artwork). The metalized layer can be incorporated into a self-contained module or be separately incorporated into an article of manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Carmen Rapisarda
  • Publication number: 20190093869
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a semiconductor lamp having at least one semiconductor light source, including multiple separately produced components, wherein at least two of the components are connected to one another by means of joint extrusion coating. Various embodiments further relate to a method for producing a semiconductor lamp having at least one semiconductor light source. The method includes at least, inserting at least one open driver housing and a cover for the driver housing into an injection mold, and extrusion coating the components inserted into the mold using potting material so that these components are permanently connected to one another by the potting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Klafta, Hubertus Breier, Michael Rosenauer, Marianne Auernhammer
  • Publication number: 20190093870
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lamp strip, wherein the lamp strip comprises an outer casing, an inner casing and a light-emitting component, the light-emitting component comprises a substrate and an LED light source, wherein the inner casing is provided with a light exit through which the light of the LED light source directly passes. Cut marks are arranged between the light exits, and the side facing the LED light source of the outer casing is of light transmission. The invention facilitates the user to cut the lamp strip and greatly prolongs the service life of the lamp strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Huabo Liu, Xiaoping Li
  • Publication number: 20190093871
    Abstract: The invention provides a wavelength conversion member which can draw heat efficiently away from a region that is prone to generating heat under irradiation of light with a high energy density and which can suppress the thermal quenching of phosphor, and provides a method for manufacturing such wavelength conversion members, and a light-emitting device having such a wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yumi SATO, Yoshifumi TSUTAI, Takashi ABE, Yutaka SATO
  • Publication number: 20190093872
    Abstract: A light source device includes a housing having a great length along a predetermined direction, a plurality of light emitting elements which are placed in the housing and are arranged along the predetermined direction, and one or more heat dissipation members which are placed in the housing and are thermally connected with the light emitting elements. A first intake port through which air is sucked into the housing is provided in one end in the housing. An exhaust port through which air is discharged to an outside is provided in the other end in the housing. A space where the other side in the predetermined direction faces the heat dissipation member is formed in the housing. A second intake port through which air is sucked into the space from the outside is provided in a side surface between the first intake port and the exhaust port in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kyoichi MURAYAMA, Keita UMENO, Hiroya KASHIWABARA, Ryotaro MATUI
  • Publication number: 20190093873
    Abstract: A moving-body lighting device includes: a first light source; a second light source that is disposed forward of the first light source and emits light forward; a reflector in a shape of a segment of a spheroid, and that reflects the light emitted by the first light source; a projection lens that receives the light emitted by the first light source and reflected by the reflector; and a shade disposed between the second light source and the projection lens, proximate a second focal point. The projection lens includes a first lens region that receives the light emitted by the first light source and reflected by the reflector, and a second lens region that receives the light emitted by the second light source. The major axis of the spheroid is oblique to a horizontal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya NISHI
  • Publication number: 20190093874
    Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly comprising a thermally conductive thermoplastic polymer as a heat sink to provide thermal management for an electrical/electronic component and a reaction injection molded (RIM) polyurethane to replace the potting compound typically used in such assemblies. In addition to replacing the potting compound, the cured polyurethane forms the part, such as the base of the LED bulb, which heretofore has been a separate component, thus reducing the number of components and saving a production step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Terry G. Davis, David Rocco, Mikhail Sagal, Jessee McCanna, Nicolas Sunderland, James Lorenzo, Mark Matsco, Kevin Dunay
  • Publication number: 20190093875
    Abstract: A linear LED lighting fixture includes an elongated housing having a plurality of LEDs and a light transmissive cover. An interior end cap is attached to an end of the housing. An exterior end cap is attached to the interior end cap to form a junction box therebetween. Waterproof seals are formed between the housing and the junction box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: LIGHT EMITTING DESIGN, INC.
    Inventor: Zorak Ter-Hovhannisyan
  • Publication number: 20190093876
    Abstract: A light for use with a hot stick includes an elongate body having a first connector configured to connect to the hot stick and a second connector configured to connect to a tool associated with the hot stick. The light also includes a first light source supported by the elongate body and having a first light emitting diode configured to emit light in a first direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the body, a second light source supported by the elongate body and having a second light emitting diode configured to emit light in a second direction relative to the longitudinal axis that is different than the first direction, a power source positioned within the elongate body and electrically coupled to the first light source and the second light source, and a user interface supported on the elongate body to control operation of the first and second light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: David Proeber
  • Publication number: 20190093877
    Abstract: A multiple-purpose makeup organizer includes a housing, a cover, the cover is operably attached to the housing whereby the cover opens and closes and thereby exposing an interior of the housing when the cover is open, an attachment mechanism, wherein the attachment mechanism is operably attached to a surface of the housing, the attachment mechanism attaches the housing to another surface, a light source operably attached to the housing, a battery, and a microcontroller operably in electrical communication with the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Steve Soffer
  • Publication number: 20190093878
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery boiler in producing glass beads includes an equipment base arranged at the lower part of the waste heat recovery boiler. The upper part of the equipment base is connected with a cylindrical combustion production chamber, the lower part of the combustion production chamber is provided with a raw material inlet with single-layer or staggered layers. A finished product outlet is arranged at the lower end inside the combustion diffusion chamber, a membrane wall is arranged outside the combustion diffusion chamber, a steam-water lead-out straight tube system is symmetrically arranged at the upper end of the combustion diffusion chamber, a top annular water collecting tank is connected between the steam-water lead-out straight tube system and a steam-water lead-out tube system, and the steam-water lead-out tube system is connected with an upper drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Shang-yong HUANG
  • Publication number: 20190093879
    Abstract: A boiler for producing hot water or steam, comprising a containment enclosure, which forms a heating chamber that contains water to be heated, and accommodating a firebox body, which forms internally a combustion chamber with a burner associated therewith which has a combustion head, accommodated in the combustion chamber, and a device for premixing air and gas which is connected to the combustion head. According to the invention, the premixing device comprises an air supply duct, which is connected to the combustion head, and a mixing tubular body, which is extended coaxially to the supply duct in order to create, between the internal lateral wall of the supply duct and the external surface of the sidewall of the mixing tubular body, an intake region which has a transverse air passage section that is narrower than the air passage section formed by the supply duct upstream of the mixing tubular body, along the air flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: I.C.I. CALDAIE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni PISANI
  • Publication number: 20190093880
    Abstract: A pressure gain combustor comprises a detonation chamber, a pre-combustion chamber, an oxidant swirl generator, an expansion-deflection (E-D) nozzle, and an ignition source. The detonation chamber has an upstream intake end and a downstream discharge end, and is configured to allow a supersonic combustion event to propagate therethrough. The pre-combustion chamber has a downstream end in fluid communication with the detonation chamber intake end, an upstream end in communication with a fuel delivery pathway, and a circumferential perimeter between the upstream and downstream ends with an annular opening in communication with an annular oxidant delivery pathway. The oxidant swirl generator is located in the oxidant delivery pathway and comprises vanes configured to cause oxidant flowing past the vanes to flow tangentially into the pre-combustion chamber thereby creating a high swirl velocity zone around the annular opening and a low swirl velocity zone in a central portion of the pre-combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: ALEJANDRO JUAN
  • Publication number: 20190093881
    Abstract: A burner apparatus (10) includes a fluid-based flame stabilizer for discharging a stabilized flame therefrom, a burner tile (44), and fuel lances associated with the burner tile. Each of the fuel lances has a discharge nozzle (40). A Coanda feature (34) having a Coanda surface directs a portion of the stabilized flame from the passage defined by the burner tile at the discharge end of a primary flow passage (32) toward at least one first fuel lance of the plurality of fuel lances to cross light the at least one first fuel lance. In another embodiment, a method of combustion includes supplying a first gaseous fuel to fuel lances of a burner apparatus and igniting and sustaining combustion of a gaseous fuel by cross lighting at the discharge nozzles of the fuel lances by flow from the fluid-based flame stabilizer along a Coanda surface of a Coanda feature toward the discharge nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Izaak RISSEEUW, Jeffrey KLOOSTERMAN, Xianming Jimmy LI, Robert Gregory WOLF, Reed Jacob HENDERSHOT, Franciscus Arnoldus Maria JEUNINK
  • Publication number: 20190093882
    Abstract: An oxygen fired fluidized bed combustor system (Oxy-FBC) is provided. The system provides means of producing a nearly pure stream of carbon dioxide for storage at high efficiency by controlling the oxygen content within certain regions of the combustor to control the rate of heat release allowing efficient transfer of heat from the combustor to the boiler tubes while avoiding excessively high temperatures that will cause ash melting, and simultaneously remove sulphur from the combustor via sorbents such as limestone and dolomite. The present invention utilizes a coarse oxygen carrier bed material to distribute heat and oxygen throughout an Oxy-FBC, while injecting fine sulphur sorbent that will continuously be removed from the bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Robin W. Hughes, Dennis Y. Lu, Robert T. Symonds, Firas N. Ridha
  • Publication number: 20190093883
    Abstract: Sorbent compositions containing calcium and iodine are added to coal to mitigate the release of mercury and/or other harmful elements into the environment during combustion of coal containing natural levels of mercury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Douglas C. COMRIE
  • Publication number: 20190093884
    Abstract: An integrated fuel combustion system with gas separation (adsorptive, absorptive, membrane or other suitable gas separation) separates a portion of carbon dioxide from a combustion gas mixture and provides for recycle of separated carbon dioxide to the intake of a fuel combustor for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Andre BOULET
  • Publication number: 20190093885
    Abstract: A gas delivery system for gas grills is provided, the delivery system including one gas valve that controls the gas flow to a plurality of burner tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Weber-Stephen Products LLC
    Inventor: Anton Kalisiak
  • Publication number: 20190093886
    Abstract: A combustion system includes a perforated flame holder, a camera, and a control circuit. The perforated flame holder sustains a combustion reaction within the perforated flame holder. The image capture device takes a plurality of images of the combustion reaction. The control circuit produces from the images an averaged image and adjusts the combustion reaction based on the adjusted image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: JOSEPH COLANNINO, DOUGLAS W. KARKOW, ROBERT GEIGER, CHRISTOPHER A. WIKLOF
  • Publication number: 20190093887
    Abstract: An apparatus that regulates the size and intensity of a torch flame by controlling the release of oxygen and a fuel, such as propane. The apparatus releases oxygen and fuel by pivoting a flame control plate that opens and closes mini ball valves using a mini ball connecting bracket. The further forward the plate is pivoted, the more open the valves become increasing the size and intensity of the torch flame. Slotted holes at different angles on the mini ball valve connecting bracket cause the apparatus to release oxygen first resulting in a quiet flame ignition and to release oxygen last to blow out the last flow of fuel, resulting in a safe operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Gabriel James Hodges
  • Publication number: 20190093888
    Abstract: The combustion device includes: a burner; an igniter; a fuel supply unit that supplies fuel to the burner; a blower fan that supplies air for combustion; an exhaust port that discharges combustion exhaust; a device control unit that, before ignition of fuel supplied to the burner by operation of the igniter, performs air purge of the burner at a predetermined air blowing amount by driving the blower fan; and a setting means that is set when a check valve for preventing back flow of exhaust is connected to the exhaust port. When the setting means is set to indicate that the check valve is connected, the device control unit controls the operation of the blower fan so that slow-start air purge is performed in which the time interval from the start of air purge until the predetermined air blowing amount is reached becomes longer, than in the case in which no such check valve is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro MASUMOTO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Tetsunori KURIYAMA, Keiichi MANDAI, Makoto KUSAKABE, Isao SATO, Tomofumi KINUGASA
  • Publication number: 20190093889
    Abstract: A safety device for a gas burner includes an ignition-gas unit and a lever is pivotably connected to the installation port. The lever extends beyond a cover on the ignition-gas unit and includes a free end to which a restriction member and a spring are connected. The spring drives the restriction member toward the cover to restrict the lever from being pushed to ignite the gas burner. When the restriction member is moved, the user can push the free end downward to activate the ignition-gas unit to ignite the gas burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: TA-JEN HO
  • Publication number: 20190093890
    Abstract: A blow torch includes a casing, an igniter received within the interior, and a safety control device for preventing the actuator being operated from an unactuated position to an actuated position movably coupled to the casing and connected to the igniter. The safety control device includes an actuator movably coupled to the casing, a release movably coupled to the actuator, a first biasing member positioned between the actuator and the release, a retainer movably coupled to the actuator, and a second biasing member positioned between the actuator and the retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Jian-Jhang Shen
  • Publication number: 20190093891
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein relate to a dome of a gas turbine assembly configured to suppress pressure pulsations. The systems and methods provide a dome having an aperture configured to surround an injector assembly of a combustor. The dome having a front panel extending radially from the aperture. The systems and methods couple a first cavity to the front panel. The first cavity includes a series of ducts. A first duct of the series of ducts is configured to receive airflow into the first cavity from a compressor and a second set of ducts of the series of ducts and a third duct of the series of ducts are configured to direct airflow to the combustor from the first cavity, wherein the third duct has a larger diameter than the second set of ducts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Owen Graham, Kwanwoo Kim, Nicholas Magina, Sharath Nagaraja, Fei Han
  • Publication number: 20190093892
    Abstract: A combustion chamber comprises an upstream end wall structure and inner and outer annular wall structures. The upstream end wall structure comprises an upstream wall and a plurality of circumferentially arranged heat shields secured to the upstream wall. The upstream wall has a plurality of circumferentially spaced fuel injector apertures. Each heat shield has radially outer and radially inner ends and a fuel injector aperture aligned with a corresponding fuel injector aperture in the upstream wall. The radially outer and inner ends of each heat shield have outer and inner rails spacing the heat shield from the upstream wall. The radially outer and inner ends of each heat shield have first and second pluralities of circumferentially spaced apertures extending there-through and through the associated outer and inner rails to direct coolant over the surface of the outer and inner annular wall structures to form respective films of coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: John E. RIMMER, Damian MARTIN, David P. WILSON
  • Publication number: 20190093893
    Abstract: A combustion chamber assembly group includes a burner seal with a bearing section that extends along a longitudinal axis and has a passage hole for positioning a fuel nozzle at a combustion chamber of an engine, and a heat shield which, when mounted according to the intended use at the combustion chamber of the engine, is located inside the combustion space of the combustion chamber and has a passage hole through which the bearing section of the burner seal extends. The burner seal that is manufactured in an additive manner and the heat shield form a constructional unit in which the heat shield is received at least partially between a radially outwardly pointing opening edge of the burner seal and a radially outwardly extending web of the burner seal, so that any separation of the heat shield from the burner seal along the longitudinal axis is excluded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Carsten CLEMEN, Ruud EGGELS
  • Publication number: 20190093894
    Abstract: An air mixer includes an annular body defining a center axis. A plurality of slots are defined in the annular body circumferentially spaced apart from one another. Each slot defines a respective center injection axis extending from an outer surface of the annular body to an inner surface of the annular body. Each respective center injection axis is parallel to a respective plane bisecting the annular body. At least one of the slots is intersected by the respective bisecting plane parallel to its respective center injection axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jason A. Ryon, Lev Alexander Prociw, Jacob Greenfield
  • Publication number: 20190093895
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a fuel injector assembly and a gas turbine engine including the fuel injector assembly. The fuel injector assembly includes a centerbody extended along a lengthwise direction. The centerbody defines a first fuel nozzle. An annular shroud defining a second fuel nozzle surrounds the centerbody and is extended along the lengthwise direction. A passage is defined through the annular shroud and extended generally along the lengthwise direction. The passage defines an exit opening disposed at a downstream end adjacent to the combustion chamber and in fluid communication therewith. The annular shroud defines a fuel inlet opening disposed at an upstream end of the passage. The annular shroud further defines an air inlet opening in fluid communication with the passage. The air inlet opening is disposed between the fuel inlet opening and the exit opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: David Albin Lind, Gregory Allen Boardman
  • Publication number: 20190093896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nozzle for a combustion chamber (3) of an engine (T) for providing a fuel-air mixture at a nozzle exit opening of the nozzle (2). According to the invention, an extension (5) for guiding the fuel-air mixture extending in the axial direction with respect to a nozzle longitudinal axis (DM) is provided at an air guide element (271b) of a radially outwardly located air channel (27b) of the nozzle (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Carsten CLEMEN, Benno WURM, Ruud EGGELS
  • Publication number: 20190093897
    Abstract: A combustion chamber assembly group includes a nozzle providing a fuel-air mixture at a nozzle exit opening. An end of a fuel guiding channel is bordered at the nozzle exit opening by a flow-off edge located radially outside, and an air guiding element of an air guiding channel of the nozzle located radially outside projects with respect to this flow-off edge in the axial direction with respect to a nozzle longitudinal axis such that: a reference angle present between the nozzle longitudinal axis and a straight boundary line extending through a point at the flow-off edge and tangentially to the axially projecting air guiding element, and/or a reference angle present between the nozzle longitudinal axis and a straight boundary line extending through a point at the flow-off edge and a point of the air guiding element that projects maximally beyond the flow-off edge in the axial direction is ?50°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Max STAUFER, Miklos GERENDAS, Ruud EGGELS
  • Publication number: 20190093898
    Abstract: A fire effect device for holding, controlling and displaying fire and methods of attaching and mounting such a device to furniture, such as umbrella tables. This includes an internal chamber 11 which houses a fuel dispersion assembly 12 and a rigid hollow tube which may be mounted to the chamber or be of unitary construction with the chamber. The rigid hollow tube is designed to be inserted into a hole or ape11ure of a table, such as an umbrella hole, and connected to a gas valve and thereafter a fuel line or source, such as a propane tank. The device is attached and detached to the table with ease by i) engaging or disengaging the fuel line from the fire effect device and, ii) the simple turning of a nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Cameron Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20190093899
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination system of a cooking appliance that includes at least one burner and an associated knob. The system comprises an electric circuit associated with the knob, with a display device in a second electrical branch that lights up when an electric current with a minimum value circulates through the second electrical branch. Activation means in a first electrical branch is operated by means of turning the knob. Both the first and second electrical branches are connected in parallel. Acting on the knob causes a change in voltage drop in the first and second electrical branches, and the illumination system is configured to control the electric current circulating through the display device depending on said voltage drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: José Ignacio MUGICA ODRIOZOLA, Jesús Ignacio ERRASTI BADIOLA, Iñigo PEÑAGARICANO BADIOLA
  • Publication number: 20190093900
    Abstract: A cooking appliance, in particular to a commercial cooking appliance with a housing, with a cooking chamber that is arranged in the housing and that has a cooking chamber opening that is surrounded by a circumferential door seal that is arranged at the door inner side and/or a housing area adjacent to the cooking chamber opening and that can be opened and closed by a cooking chamber door, wherein the cooking chamber door has an inner pane that is adjacent to the cooking chamber and that, in the, closed state of the cooking chamber door, abuts a door seal as well as an outer pane that is arranged at a distance to the inner pane and that together with the inner pane delimits a cooking chamber door interior space, and with an optoelectronic sensor, wherein, in the closed state of the cooking chamber door, the optoelectronic sensor projects into a reception area of the cooking chamber door interior spaces arranged outside the door seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hannes Wild, Stan Smits, Herbert Fischhaber
  • Publication number: 20190093901
    Abstract: A method for detecting a cleaning need of a commercial cooking appliance with at least one cooking surface. The method includes the steps of capturing at least one image of at least a part of the cooking surface and/or at least a part of a cooking product, comparing the captured image of the part of the cooking surface with a prestored reference image of a contaminated cooking surface requiring cleaning and/or of the captured image of the part of the cooking product with a prestored reference image of the cooking product in a cooking status indicating a need for cleaning the cooking surface, and deciding, based on the result of the comparison, whether a cleaning is needed. A further aspect relates to a quality management monitoring system as well as a commercial appliance with a quality management monitoring system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Ludwig Weber
  • Publication number: 20190093902
    Abstract: A downdraft ventilation system includes a vertically movable chimney with two ventilation inlets and a baffle arranged within the chimney between the inlets. The combination of upper and lower ventilation inlets and internal baffle can function to increase the amount of cooking emission captured and exhausted by the downdraft system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kurt Limberg, Brent Lillesand, Richard R. Sinur, Marjorie Schwanke
  • Publication number: 20190093903
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling the operation of a cooking appliance, such as an oven range. The cooking appliance includes a door with multiple spaced apart glass panels. The method uses an interlocking mechanism that interferes with the installation of at least one of the plurality of glass panels in the door if at least one of the glass panels is not installed properly. The method further uses a switch with a plunger can be installed in the door, which allows the appliance to operate only when a failsafe electrical circuit is closed corresponding to a selected position of the plunger when the door is closed. The plunger is prevented from retaining that selected position if at least one of the glass panels is improperly installed or if a top cap is not properly seated or installed above the glass panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Bryan Thomas Phillips, Brian Martin, Steven Baas
  • Publication number: 20190093904
    Abstract: A device and water system for preventing the proliferation of living beings in the water pipes of buildings and that can be applied to taps with a supply of hot and cold water to improve the health standards of public and private constructions with hot water circulation systems, or without, by recirculation within the hot, warm or cold water system. The same permits the prevention of the freezing of the piping. The device has a bypass between the hot and cold water pipes that supply a tap, with a pump that causes recirculation of the water via the bypass, a mechanism for regulating the flow of water located in the bypass, a temperature probe in the water pipe above the bypass, a mechanism for activating and deactivating the pump, and a system for controlling the flow regulation mechanism, the activation and deactivation of the pump and functioning of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: AQUARETURN, S.L.
    Inventor: Alfonso CUERVO-ARANGO Y DE CACHAVERA