Patents Issued in April 21, 2020
  • Patent number: 10627101
    Abstract: An LED light includes a housing, a mounting member and a body respectively mounted on two opposite ends of the housing to simultaneously obtain a vertical installation, a horizontal installation or an inclined installation. The mounting member includes a base, a connecting portion connected to the base and a first seal connected between the base and the connecting portion to waterproof the connecting portion. The housing includes a mounting portion, a supporting portion and a slot surrounded thereby. The mounting portion includes a first fixing bole and the connecting portion includes a corresponding second fixing hole and a rotating shaft passing through the first and second fixing holes in turn to rotate the connecting portion in the slot in a rotation angle range between 0 degree and 90 degree. The base includes four first inlets and a second inlet simultaneously perpendicular to the four first inlets thereby supporting a variety of connection modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen Guanke Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qing Lan
  • Patent number: 10627102
    Abstract: A lighting enclosure protected against water and dust is described. An example lighting enclosure comprises: a first elongated part comprising a longitudinal groove element; a second elongated part attached to the first elongated part, wherein the second elongated part comprises an outwardly bent longitudinal edge element engaged with the longitudinal groove element; a linear gasket inserted in a gap between the longitudinal groove element and the outwardly bent longitudinal edge element; and a compression strip inserted between a base of the outwardly bent longitudinal edge element and a longitudinal overhanging element of the first elongated part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xeleum Lighting
    Inventor: Mehrdad Ghalebi
  • Patent number: 10627103
    Abstract: A steam generator that reduces the thermal and hydraulic unevenness in the steam generator, improves the filling capacity of the steam generator with heat exchange tubes, organizes an economizer portion of the heat exchange surface in the steam generator, and reduces the concentration of corrosive impurities in the weld zone of the primary circuit to the horizontal shell. To solve the task in such steam generator containing the horizontal shell and other component, the heat exchange tubes are located in vertical planes, and the inlet and outlet manifolds of the primary circuit are arranged horizontally. The steam generator can also be equipped with at least two output manifolds of the primary circuit furthers, the feed water dispenser can be located below the heat exchange tubes of the steam generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Joint Stock Company “Experimental and Design Organization “Gidropress” Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Czsr Order of Labour”
    Inventors: Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Lakhov, Andrey Alekseevich Gritsenko
  • Patent number: 10627104
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for commissioning steam turbine generator power plants to advance the cleanliness of the complete steam cycle by the conditioned discharge of steam to the plant surface condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Boyle Energy Services & Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Bloch
  • Patent number: 10627105
    Abstract: A ground supported single drum power boiler is described combining a refractory lined and insulated V-Cell floor; refractory lined and insulated combustion chamber; integrated fuel chutes configured to pre-dry wet solid fuel; top mounted fuel bin; internal chamber walls; configurable combustion air systems; and a back pass with after-burner ports and cross flow superheaters. The boiler can be configured in pre-assembled modules to minimize the field construction time and cost. An alternative embodiment is adaptable as a gasifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel R Higgins, Eugene Sullivan
  • Patent number: 10627106
    Abstract: A high voltage can be applied to a combustion reaction to enhance or otherwise control the combustion reaction. The high voltage is switched on or off by a grid electrode interposed between a high voltage electrode assembly and the combustion reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igor A. Krichtafovitch, Christopher A. Wiklof
  • Patent number: 10627107
    Abstract: A hydrogen gas burner structure includes a first cylinder tube, a second cylinder tube, a third cylinder tube, and an ignition device. An inside of the first cylinder tube is configured such that hydrogen gas flows. A space between the first cylinder tube and the second cylinder tube is configured such that a first combustion-supporting gas containing oxygen gas flows. A space between the second cylinder tube and the third cylinder tube is configured such that a second combustion-supporting gas containing oxygen gas flows. The ignition device is configured to ignite mixed gas. The tip of the first cylinder tube is located upstream of the tips of the second and third cylinder tubes in a gas flow direction in which the hydrogen gas and the first combustion-supporting gas and the second combustion-supporting gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Hirata, Daisuke Sakuma, Kenshiro Mimura
  • Patent number: 10627108
    Abstract: Process and device for pneumatically conveying a powdery material comprising the steps of Pneumatically conveying a powdery material in a pneumatic conveying pipeline (first) and into said recipient by a flow generated by a blower, A powdery material dosing step, A fluctuation step of pressure drop in said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient, wherein a sonic device generates sonic waves inside said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient and provides a counteraction on the fluctuation step of the pressure drop in said pneumatic conveying pipeline or up to said recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: S.A. Lhoist Recherche et Developpement
    Inventors: Hugues Baquet, Johan Heiszwolf, Joel Letouzey, David Lyons, Chad Timothy Metz, Howard Braxton Fitzgerald, Gregory M. Filippelli
  • Patent number: 10627109
    Abstract: A handheld computer case having an integral lighter for providing a flameless lighter in a case for a mobile phone includes a case body defining a rigid housing sized to fit a conventional handheld computer, a lighter actuator for selectively availing and activating an electric lighter, and a lighter housing in which the electric lighter is disposed. In operation, a user may apply manual force to mechanically actuate the lighter actuator, thereby causing both the lighter housing to open and expose the electric lighter and an electrical switch to direct electricity from an internal battery to a heating element which defines the electric lighter. Once the user is finished with the lighter, the manual force may be removed to cause the lighter housing to automatically close and the flow of electricity to the heating element to be interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventor: Luis Tijerina
  • Patent number: 10627110
    Abstract: A combustor cooling panel has a first channel and a second channel through which a cooling medium flows. Relative to an end zone in a longitudinal direction of the first channel, the second channel has: an overlapping zone that overlaps the end zone in an extension direction of the end zone by extending in the extension direction while being separated from the end zone in a circumferential direction intersecting the extension direction; and a non-overlapping zone that does not overlap the end zone in the extension direction. A bent portion that is bent toward the end zone in the circumferential direction is formed in the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shibata
  • Patent number: 10627111
    Abstract: A fuel mixer for mixing a fuel and an oxidizer prior to detonation in a rotating detonation engine includes a combustion channel configured to transport a final mixture of the fuel and the oxidizer for combustion. The fuel mixer also includes a mixture channel positioned upstream from the combustion channel and configured to transport a first mixture having at least some of the fuel and at least some of the oxidizer. The fuel mixer also includes a secondary outlet positioned upstream from the combustion channel and configured to output a supplemental mixture of the fuel and the oxidizer that includes at least one of the fuel or the oxidizer such that the first mixture and the supplemental mixture combine in the combustion channel to form the final mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES COPRORATION
    Inventors: Adam Takashi Holley, Christopher Britton Greene, Peter A T Cocks
  • Patent number: 10627112
    Abstract: Combustion apparatus for use with a solid fuel has a firebox constructed at least in part of a fired refractory carbide material. The fired refractory carbide material has a catalytic effect on the combustion process providing a cleaner and more efficient combustion. The fired refractory material also absorbs heat from the combustion process directly or indirectly by heat exchange with combustion products and dissipates the absorbed heat over an extended period of time providing space heating after the combustion process is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: LANDY VENT UK LIMITED
    Inventor: David Owen Ashmore
  • Patent number: 10627113
    Abstract: A fuel-burning cooking burner includes a base defining an outer periphery and an inner open area. The burner further includes a cap coupled with the base around the outer periphery thereof and extending over the open area to define a distribution cavity on an interior side of the cap. The cap further defines a convex outer surface extending opposite the distribution cavity and a plurality of outlets extending through the cap from the distribution cavity to the exterior surface. The outlets are distributed over the entire exterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Javier Aguilar, Jonathan Tovar Balderas, Francisco Javier Soria Contreras, Victor Ruelas Fajardo, Victor Gerardo Caloca Galindo, Ana Katia Silva Jiménez
  • Patent number: 10627114
    Abstract: A cooktop appliance includes a gas burner assembly with one or more burner bodies that define a first plurality of flame ports, a first fuel chamber, a second plurality of flame ports and a second fuel chamber. A fan is coupled to the gas burner assembly such that the fan is operable to urge a flow of air into only the second fuel chamber. An operating speed of the fan is fixed such that a firing rate of the second plurality of flame ports is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Cadima
  • Patent number: 10627115
    Abstract: A cooktop appliance is provided including a top panel, an electric heating element, a drip pan, and a temperature switch. The drip pan may be attached to the top panel and positioned below the electric heating element. A switch bracket may be mounted to the top panel and may include a cantilevered mounting plate that is biased toward or interferes with the drip pan. The temperature switch may be mounted to the mounting plate using two elongated pins passing through two apertures in the mounting plate such that the temperature switch may pivot relative to the mounting plate and self-align with the drip pan. The temperature switch may be operable to limit the power supplied to the electric heating element at a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: James Lee Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10627116
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a heating cavity defined therein, wherein a heat source is in thermal communication with the heating cavity. A cooling channel is disposed proximate a sidewall of the housing. A blower selectively operates to move at least cooling air through the cooling channel and to an air outlet. A vent aperture extends through the sidewall between the heating cavity and a ventilation channel. The ventilation channel includes a narrowed portion proximate the vent aperture, wherein during operation of the blower, the narrowed portion defines a low static pressure region of the ventilation channel that draws cavity air from the heating cavity and directs the cavity air into the ventilation channel to be combined with the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary J. Bruin-Slot, Massimiliano Daniele, Robert Scott Donarski, Emilio Fagundes, Gregory Tadeu Gargioni, Vando Sestrem, Yasmim Silvano
  • Patent number: 10627117
    Abstract: A cook top includes an inputter configured to receive input of a user manipulation, and a cooker configured to heat a cooking device placed on the cook top. A communicator is configured to perform communication with a user terminal device and a range hood. A processor is configured to: control an operating state of the cooker according to the user manipulation, transmit a signal for controlling an operating state of the range hood to correspond to the operating state of the cooker to the range hood, and control the communicator to transmit state information of the cook top that includes information of the operating state of the cooker to the user terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sook-young Ji, Jin-seok Kwon, Seung-hun Choi, Dong-wook Kim
  • Patent number: 10627118
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes a humidity sensor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the humidity sensor senses a humidity level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong, Stephen Bernard Froelicher
  • Patent number: 10627119
    Abstract: An air cleaning system for an oven that includes a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product includes a catalytic converter, an input array and a preheater. The catalytic converter may be configured to clean air expelled from the cooking chamber. The input array may include perforations through which cleaned air that has been processed by the catalytic converter is provided into the cooking chamber. The preheater may be disposed proximate to the cooking chamber to use heat generated by the cooking chamber to preheat the cleaned air prior to entry of the cleaned air into the cooking chamber through the input array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Marco Carcano, Michele Sclocchi, Michele Gentile
  • Patent number: 10627120
    Abstract: The invention relates to a building panel intended for creating heating and/or cooling walls of buildings, comprising: a base element defined by an upper face, a lower face and several lateral faces, circulation means (12) for the circulation of a heat-transfer or cooling fluid, which are arranged on the inside of said base element, a substantially flat conducting element, fixed to the upper face of the base element so as to cover it entirely or almost entirely, said conducting element having good thermal conductivity, mechanical connection means secured to said base element, said mechanical connection means being able to allow removable attachment of said building panel to an identical or similar building panel arranged adjacent to the latter, fluidic-connection means designed to allow the heat-transfer or cooling fluid to circulate between said building panel and an identical or similar building panel attached thereto, leak detection means able to detect a leak of heat-transfer or cooling fluid at the lower
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Keoki Company SA
    Inventors: Alberto Baratti, Fausto Bocciolone, Paolo Cassetta
  • Patent number: 10627121
    Abstract: An indoor unit includes axial-flow fans, which are provided on downstream of an air inlet. Further, a plurality of first bars are provided to the air inlet. In plan view, leading edge portions of blades of the axial-flow fan are inclined in a direction of rotation of the axial-flow fan from a rotary shaft side of the axial-flow fan to an outer peripheral side. Further, in plan view, the plurality of the first bars are inclined in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the axial-flow fan from the rotary shaft side of the axial-flow fan to the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Fukui, Hiroshi Hirosaki, Kenichi Sakoda, Masayuki Oishi, Shuhei Yokota
  • Patent number: 10627122
    Abstract: Box fan securing devices are disclosed. Methods of making and using box fan securing devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventor: Clifford Frank Entrekin
  • Patent number: 10627123
    Abstract: A thermostat for a building space includes a communication interface and a processing circuit. The communications interface is configured to communicate with one or more user devices and a master device. The processing circuit is configured to determine a master temperature setpoint based on input received from the master device via the communications interface and determine a non-master temperature setpoint based on input received from the one or more user devices via the communications interface. The processing circuit is configured to select one of the master temperature setpoint and the non-master temperature setpoint based on an operating mode of the thermostat. Based on the selected temperature setpoint, the processing circuit is configured to generate and provide control signals for building equipment. The control signals cause the building equipment to control an ambient temperature of the building space to the selected setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: William P. Alberth, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10627124
    Abstract: A method for testing a cooling component in a building HVAC system uses a state-based testing procedure. The method includes providing a control signal to the cooling component. The control signal instructs the cooling component to activate. The method includes monitoring feedback from a temperature sensor configured to measure temperature affected by the cooling component and evaluating a state transition condition by comparing the feedback from the temperature sensor to a threshold value. The state transition condition is satisfied if the feedback is less than the threshold value and not satisfied if the feedback is not less than the threshold value. The method includes transitioning into a pass state in response to the feedback from the temperature sensor satisfying the state transition condition and transitioning into a fail state in response to the feedback from the temperature sensor not satisfying the state transition condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: J. Carlin Walser, Saman Beyhaghi, Matthew J. Asmus
  • Patent number: 10627125
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are used for controlling an air conditioning system for automotive body painting to regulate temperature and humidity in a paint booth based on difference between enthalpy of outside air and enthalpy of supply air. The apparatus includes a first temperature sensor measuring temperature of outside air, a first humidity sensor measuring humidity of outside air, a second temperature sensor measuring temperature of supply air, a second humidity sensor measuring humidity of supply air, and a controller calculating first enthalpy based on the temperature and humidity of the outside air, calculating second enthalpy based on the temperature and humidity of the supply air, and controlling the air conditioning system to regulate the temperature and humidity of the supply air when difference between the first enthalpy and the second enthalpy is below or exceeds a reference enthalpy range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyung Mo Jang
  • Patent number: 10627126
    Abstract: A thermostat includes a housing, a touch-sensitive display configured to display visual media and receive user inputs, processing electronics configured to operate the touch-sensitive display, and a mounting plate. The housing includes a base that has walls that define an internal volume. The housing also includes a display mount cantilevered upward from the top wall. The display mount includes a mounting surface perpendicular to the top wall of the base. The housing also includes a touch-sensitive display configured to display visual media and receive user inputs. The touch-sensitive display is attached to the mounting surface of the display mount. The processing electronics are positioned within the interior volume of the base. The mounting plate is configured for attaching the housing to a mounting surface. The mounting plate is attached to the bottom wall by a hinge so that the housing may pivot between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Joseph R. Ribbich, Nicholas S. Van Derven
  • Patent number: 10627127
    Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner which can suppress refrigerant leakage in a room and has a high safety even when using a flammable refrigerant. The air conditioner includes an indoor apparatus placed in a room, and an outdoor apparatus placed in an outside of the room separated from the room by a wall. The indoor apparatus includes a first refrigerant pipe in which a flammable refrigerant flows. The outdoor apparatus includes a second refrigerant pipe which is connected to the first refrigerant pipe and in which the flammable refrigerant flows. The second refrigerant pipe has a portion smaller in thickness than a minimum-thickness portion of the first refrigerant pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10627128
    Abstract: Systems and method for retrofitting heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems with a variable speed electronically commutated motor (ECM) are provided. A speed setting controller is adapted to be connected with a furnace main control board and a motor controller, and provides detecting, speed setting, and control functions that are required to operate the ECM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Great Lakes Electric, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Zhang, Steve J. Cook, Ze Jiang, Yifeng Yu
  • Patent number: 10627129
    Abstract: For operating a thermal energy exchanger (1) for exchanging thermal energy between a thermal transfer fluid and air, a plurality of measurement data sets are recorded in a control system (40). The measurement data sets include for a different point in time data values which define a normalized energy transfer that represents the thermal energy transferred in the thermal energy exchanger (1) normalized by one or more normalization variables. The control system (40) calculates for each of the measurement data sets a normalized data point defined by the normalized energy transfer. The control system (40) further determines for the thermal energy exchanger (1) a characteristic energy transfer curve which fits the normalized data points. Normalizing the energy transfer makes it possible to operate the thermal energy exchanger (1) more efficiently over a wider range of changing conditions, as saturation can be prevented using more appropriate fixed or variable thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: BELIMO HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Forest Reider, Marc Thuillard, Stefan Mischler, Ronald Aeberhard
  • Patent number: 10627130
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioning system is provided. The indoor unit according to an exemplary embodiment includes a blower fan, a plurality of micro-holes configured to discharge cool air flowed in from the blower fan, a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature, and a processor configured to control a speed of the blower fan, wherein the processor, in a first mode, controls the speed of the blower fan according to a temperature sensed by the temperature sensor, and in a second mode, corrects the sensed temperature by applying a temperature correction coefficient and controls the speed of the blower fan according to the corrected temperature, and wherein the temperature correction coefficient is a coefficient set for compensating a difference between the sensed temperature and a temperature of a target height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-min Cho, Yeon-a Hwang, Jae-sung Kwon, Sung-min Yoo, Ki-sup Lee, Il-yong Cho
  • Patent number: 10627131
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a damper for ducting comprising at least one fin comprising an intumescent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Polyseam Limited
    Inventors: Kjetil Bogstad, Wolodymyr Hluchan
  • Patent number: 10627132
    Abstract: An air conditioner, including: a housing (10) having an air inlet (11) and an air outlet (12); a centrifugal fan (20) rotatably disposed in the housing (10), the centrifugal fan (20) including a plate portion (21) and blades (22) disposed on the plate portion (21); a heat exchanger (30), the heat exchanger (30) being disposed in the housing (10); and a slidable support portion (40) disposed in the housing (10) to support the centrifugal fan (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Zhihui Liang, Xianlin Wang, Zhi Meng, Jiebin Yu, Shuangjin Li, Qilong Wang, Zhilin Wang
  • Patent number: 10627133
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, comprising at least a double shell, wherein the lower portion of the inner space of the inner shell is filled with liquid phase change medium, and at least one coiler is provided in the upper portion. The heated fluid flows in the coiler. After the downstream side pipe of the coiler is pierced through the inner shell, at least one surrounding pipe is formed in the cavity between the double shells. The bottom heat exchange plate of heat exchanger of the inner shell is located above the heat source. The cavity between the two shells forms the flue gas passage. After bottom heat exchange plate of the inner shell is heated by the heat source, the flue gas rises from the bottom of perimeter of the inner shell along the flue gas passage and the heat is transferred to the heated fluid in the surrounding pipe. The heat device using the heat exchanger according to the present invention can significantly improve the efficiency of heat utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qiuwang Wang, Zhoutuo Tan, Yunjia Yao, Chengning Yao, Jiapei Yang, Yougang Ruan
  • Patent number: 10627134
    Abstract: An improved solar heater and ventilator device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the solar heater and ventilator system is a multi-functional device that can be used in a variety of ways to provide heat, produce and store electricity, and provide natural ventilation. In one embodiment, the device is comprised of a main frame, multiple columns of interconnected movable cubes and a distributor panel. Through the interconnected movable cubes, the solar heater and ventilator system can easily switch functionalities between a solar heater and a ventilator and cooling system. The device is easy and inexpensive to operate, as it does not require any external electricity, and its functionalities can be changed with simple touches of buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Masoud Valinejadshoubi, Mannan Ghanizadehgrayli, Masoud Rasoulilarmaeie
  • Patent number: 10627135
    Abstract: A modular solar-energy and rainwater collection apparatus (10) comprising: a collector mount (12) adapted both for securement to a building and to an angularly-adjustable support (110); a plurality of rainwater collectors (14) supportable by the collector mount (12), each rainwater collector (14) having a base (18), and at least one solar-cell retainer (20), for securing at least one solar cell (22) relative to the base (18) of at least one said rainwater collector (14); and connection means (16), for rigidly interconnecting a plurality of like rainwater collectors (14) so that the bases (18) are in abutted liquid communication with each other thus forming a modular rainwater collection area (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: INTUITIVE DESIGNS (JERSEY) LTD
    Inventor: Wendy Thomson
  • Patent number: 10627136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a tracker control unit and, therefore, the tracker device of a solar module of a solar power plant, wherein the tracker device comprises a control unit, an actuator element and a support means for supporting the solar module, comprising the steps of detecting a particular event, interrupting power supply to the control unit of the tracker device for a predetermined time period in reaction to the detection of the particular event, resuming power supply after the predetermined time period and in reaction to the resumed power supply actuating the support means by the actuator element to move the support means into a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Saint-Augustin Canada Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Ziegler, Unver Senol, Johannes Wullner
  • Patent number: 10627137
    Abstract: A refrigerated transportation cargo container includes a container and a refrigeration unit to provide a flow of refrigerated supply air for the container. The refrigeration unit has refrigerant flowing there through and includes a compressor and an engine (36) powered by a flow of fuel and driving the compressor. A regeneration heat exchanger (50) gasifies the fuel prior to the fuel entering the engine via a thermal energy exchange with the refrigerant flowing through the regeneration heat exchanger. A method of operating a refrigeration unit includes connecting an engine to a compressor and enabling a flow of refrigerant through the refrigeration unit. The refrigerant is directed through a regeneration heat exchanger as a flow of liquid fuel. The fuel is gasified at the regeneration heat exchanger via a thermal energy exchange with the refrigerant. The gasified fuel is directed to the engine to power the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Swab
  • Patent number: 10627138
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes firstly a refrigerant circuit in which a condenser, an expander, an evaporator, a compressor, and an oil separator are connected by pipes, and secondly an oil return circuit configured to return oil from the oil separator to the compressor. The compressor includes an oil concentration sensor configured to detect oil concentration inside the compressor. The oil return circuit includes multiple solenoid valves that are each opened or closed corresponding to the oil concentration detected by the oil concentration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shuhei Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10627139
    Abstract: A suction duct is disposed within a shell and tube heat exchanger. The suction duct is located relatively high and above the tube bundle so as to not entrain liquid or droplets that may be splashing and spraying upward. The suction duct is configured with an area schedule in fluid communication with a flow path inside the suction duct. The flow path is in fluid communication with an outlet of the shell. This is advantageous relative to traditional top of the shell outlets which generally have higher vertical footprints. The area schedule of the suction duct can facilitate and/or maintain relatively smooth vapor flow within the shell. The area schedule can achieve vapor flows that have some uniformity along the length of the shell, which can manage and/or avoid localized vapor flow and/or local currents, such as where high velocity may be present and where entrainment can result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jon P. Hartfield, H. Kenneth Ring, Jr., Steven E. Meloling, Florian Weber, Alain Fleurette, Benjamin Elias Dingel
  • Patent number: 10627140
    Abstract: A receiver having a receiver housing that has a fluid-receiving chamber, a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet. A drier is provided in the fluid-receiving chamber. The receiver is has an inlet channel protrudes into the fluid-receiving chamber, which inlet channel has a channel outlet in the fluid-receiving chamber and conducts fluid into the fluid-receiving chamber from the fluid inlet as a channel inlet, the inlet channel being shaped in such a way that the fluid flowing out of the channel outlet flows out in a lateral direction. A condenser having the receiver is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kaspar, Herbert Hofmann, Uwe Foerster
  • Patent number: 10627141
    Abstract: The Smart Accumulator Fluid Scrubbing System includes a drying mechanism and filtration system with liquid level control all in one housing to protect compressors or compressor systems from moisture, contaminants, and liquid ingestion. The Smart Accumulator is connected to the compressor or compressor systems inlet. The Smart Accumulator only allow dry, clean gas to enter the compressor and compressor system. The switch in conjunction with the heating elements and compressor circuits prevents the compressor from running, while heating elements boil off excess liquid. The Pressure equalizing port prevent compressor to start at high delta pressure and or reduces extremely high-pressure compressor or system operation that may be detrimental to mechanical failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventor: Shawket Bin Ayub
  • Patent number: 10627142
    Abstract: An air conditioning service unit and method of using same provide increased accuracy in determining respective amounts of refrigerant and oil recovered during service of an air conditioning system by taking into account the quantity of dissolved refrigerant in oil recovered from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: William Brown, Mark McMasters, Mahendra Hospet Basavapura Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 10627143
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a first refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a first refrigerant and that includes a first compressor, a first condenser, a first expansion device, and a first evaporator, a second refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a second refrigerant and that includes a second compressor, a second condenser, a second expansion device, and a second evaporator, a first valve unit installed at an outlet side of the first compressor, and a first hot gas path configured to extend from the first valve unit to the second evaporator and configured to supply the first refrigerant to the second evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hosan Kim
  • Patent number: 10627145
    Abstract: A vector control system is used to control a vapor compression circuit that includes a compressor motor. The vector control system is used to monitor the vapor compression circuit and adjust the speed of one or more motors within the vapor compression circuit to increase efficiency of the system by taking into account the torque forces placed on the compressor motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Rocky Research
    Inventors: Kaveh Khalili, Uwe Rockenfeller
  • Patent number: 10627146
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor and a controller for a refrigeration or HVAC system having a compressor. The sensor senses a temperature of the compressor during operation of the compressor. The controller is configured to determine a rate of change of the temperature relative to time and to perform one or more procedures to protect the compressor based on the rate of change of the temperature. The one or more procedures to protect the compressor include shutting down the compressor, throttling a pressure regulator valve of an evaporator associated with the compressor, adjusting an expansion valve associated with the evaporator, reducing speed of the compressor, and partially or wholly unloading the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank S. Wallis, Randall Knick, Diane Belinda Patrizio, Richard Allen Miu
  • Patent number: 10627147
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes an ice maker is disposed within a freezer compartment. The ice maker includes a water fill assembly for conveying water from a source of pressurized water to an ice tray. The water fill assembly includes a water fill tube fluidly connected to the source of pressurized water. A removable fill and heater assembly includes a plate disposed above the ice tray of the ice maker. The plate has an opening positioned above the ice tray. A shroud extends from an upper surface of the plate and has an inlet end fluidly communicating with the water fill tube. An outlet end of the shroud directs water into the ice tray in a predetermined direction. A heating element is disposed on the upper surface of the plate for applying heat to the plate to maintain a portion of the plate at a temperature in excess of 0° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas McCollough, Lisa French
  • Patent number: 10627148
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a portable cold storage box having at least six identical square cold storage pieces capable of being put together to form a cuboid or cubic box. A through-hole is provided in the middle of each square cold storage piece. The periphery of each through-hole has one surface formed with a recess and an opposite surface formed with a step-shaped protrusion which can be snapped in a corresponding recess. Engageable tooth-shaped teeth are formed on opposite sides of the square cold storage pieces. A refrigerant is stored inside the square cold storage pieces in a sealed manner. The portable cold storage box of the present disclosure is advantageous in that it does not require a power source. It is easy to assemble, and after disassembling, the disassembled pieces can be quickly stacked up without being scattered around.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen Dezhongxing Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pinling Dai
  • Patent number: 10627149
    Abstract: There is provided improved utilisation of the cooling capacity in dry ice. An apparatus comprises at least one sealed container for dry ice enclosed within another sealed container, wherein the at least one sealed container for dry ice is operatively connected to a storage container for cooling the storage container to a target temperature or to a target temperature range by sublimed dry ice from the at least one sealed container for dry ice, and the at least one sealed container for dry ice is operatively connected to said another sealed container for conducting sublimed dry ice from the at least one sealed container for dry ice to said another sealed container, when the target temperature of the storage container is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: VAKAVA TECHNOLOGIES LTD OY
    Inventors: Arto Pitsinki, Mikko Ranta
  • Patent number: 10627150
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance having a targeted cooling zone for cooling objects within the fresh-food compartment. The cooling zone may include one or more identifying features. The identifying features may be positioned adjacent an outlet of an air flow channel supplying the cooling air stream from a cooling source. The identifying features may have insulating and/or non-insulating properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mark Wilson
  • Patent number: 10627151
    Abstract: A hinge coupling assembly includes a first coupling incorporated within a first hinge section coupled to a door, including a first end and an opposite second end connecting a first coupling passage formed within the first coupling, and a second coupling incorporated within a second hinge section separate from the first hinge section and coupled to a door frame, the second coupling including a first end and an opposite second end connecting a second coupling passage formed within the second coupling. Connection and disconnection of the first coupling to the second coupling to create a single sealed continuous passage formed by the first coupling passage and second coupling passage is simultaneous upon installation and removal of the door to the door frame. The sealed continuous passage is maintained upon radial and axial displacement of the first coupling with respect to the second coupling upon opening and closing of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Colder Products Company
    Inventors: Dennis Daniel Downs, Jaime Richard Erickson