Patents Issued in May 14, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200149746
    Abstract: Provided is an oven including a door for opening and closing a cooking chamber, in which a locking portion provided on a glass holder for supporting an outer glass moves along a locking slot provided in a chassis to be fitted to the locking slot, so that assembly of the door is facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Hwan LEE, Han Seong KANG, Han Beom KOO, Yeong Hyeok KIM, Duck Jin SUNG, Hyun Ju LEE, Ji Ho JEONG, Pung Yeun CHO, Hyung-Jin KIM, Soo Hyoung HEO
  • Publication number: 20200149747
    Abstract: An exhaust hood includes a housing, which is open towards a bottom face to capture cooking by-products from a cooking appliance positioned below the exhaust hood. The housing has a first wall and a second wall opposite to the first wall. The second wall is at least partly inclined inwardly from the bottom face towards a top face of the housing and has an exhaust vent to extract cooking by-products captured by the housing. The exhaust hood has a fresh air fan and the first wall forms a first duct which has openings located in a row along a lower edge of the first wall adjacent to the bottom face and oriented inside the housing. A side wall extension extends from one side wall and forms a lateral skirt that defines a pass-through window having vertically and horizontally extending faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd
    Inventors: Michael SPERKA, Wolfgang KUNZE, Ireneusz CZAPP, Mark ASHLEY
  • Publication number: 20200149748
    Abstract: A building system comprising of a plurality of panels wherein the building system is configured to be either superposed an existing structure or a ground surface. The plurality of panels of the building system are shaped so as to be mateable when place adjacent to each other. The panels include a bottom and walls that form an interior volume. The bottom and walls of the panels are manufactured from a thermally conductive material such as but not limited to metal. The interior volume of the panels are filled with a lightweight structural material such as but not limited to polyurethane foam or autoclaved concrete. A first temperature source is disposed within the panels and is configured to have a fluid pass therethrough. A second temperature source is present and is a heating element. The panels are operable to utilize either temperature sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Francesco Giovanni Longo
  • Publication number: 20200149749
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system includes a heating system. The heating system portion of the HVAC unit can comprise an array of heat exchanger tubes attached to a first side of a heat exchanger panel and a burner assembly attached to a second side of the heat exchanger panel. The burner assembly can comprise one or more tabs to facilitate installation and removal of the burner assembly within the HVAC system. The heat exchanger panel can comprise one or more slots that receive the one or more tabs of the burner assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Karl S. Tallakson, Kenneth D. Frederick
  • Publication number: 20200149750
    Abstract: An air treatment device and an air conditioner indoor unit are provided. The air treatment device has an air outlet frame of a purification air duct. The air outlet frame has a ventilation hole and a cooperation hole. A water tank drawer is moveable on the air outlet frame and has two spaced-apart cooperation protrusions on a bottom wall thereof. A safety locking member of the air treatment device has a rotating shaft and a locking member. The rotating shaft is rotatable in the cooperation hole to switch the locking member between a locking position of the locking member and a movement-permitting position of the locking member. At the locking position, the locking member engages the cooperation protrusions to prevent the displacement of the cooperation protrusions. At the movement-permitting position, the locking member is located between the two cooperation protrusions to avoid engagement with the cooperation protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changlin YAN, Liangrui CHEN, Hongliang YUAN, Zhiqiang LIU, Xianyou MAO, Daijie PENG, Zhiqiang YANG, Liang SHEN
  • Publication number: 20200149751
    Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner capable of improving heating performance in a cold region by reducing a refrigerant pressure loss in an outdoor heat exchanger in a heating operation. The air conditioner includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, and an indoor heat exchanger. The outdoor heat exchanger may include a plurality of unit channels into which a refrigerant channel is partitioned, and a separating device installed in each of the plurality of unit channels and configured to separate a liquid refrigerant component and a vapor refrigerant component in each of the plurality of unit channels in a heating operation. The air conditioner may further include a compressor suction channel connecting a heating-operation outlet of the outdoor heat exchanger and an inlet of the compressor, and a bypass pipe connecting the separating device and the compressor suction channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Eunjun CHO, Kiwoong PARK, Hyungyul YUM, Pilhyun YOON
  • Publication number: 20200149752
    Abstract: An outdoor unit of a refrigeration apparatus includes: a fan that generates an upward flow of air passing through a heat exchanger; an electric component box that accommodates a group of electric components; and a casing that includes a panel disposed at a predetermined position opposite to the electric component box. The panel is divided into at least a first panel and a second panel in a lateral direction as viewed from a front view of the panel. The first panel is opposed to at least part of the electric component box. The first panel is detachable from the casing while the second panel remains attached to the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Daiki HIRAWA, Fumiaki KOIKE, Shigeki KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20200149753
    Abstract: An air control system to control a flow of warm air and/or cold air within a building, the air control system including a furnace to provide the warm air to rooms within the building, an air conditioning unit to provide the cold air to the rooms within the building, a plurality of thermostats/sensors disposed in the rooms within the building to sense temperatures in each of the rooms, and to allow a user to manually change the temperatures in each of the rooms, a plurality of mechanical vents disposed in each of the rooms to open and close based on the sensed temperatures in each of the rooms, and a computer to control the furnace and the air conditioning unit to turn on and/or off based on temperature settings set by the user in each of the rooms, and to control the plurality of mechanical vents to open and close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jacob Twerski
  • Publication number: 20200149754
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system that has a first circuit and a second circuit that each have a compressor and a condenser, a conduit extending from the second circuit downstream of the condenser to the first circuit upstream of the compressor, a valve along the conduit that may manage flow therethrough, and a controller that may operate the HVAC system in a first mode such that each circuit separately circulates the refrigerant in each circuit and transition to a second mode such that refrigerant-sharing occurs between the circuits. In response to a request to transition from the second mode to the first mode, the controller may determine an amount of refrigerant subcooling, compare the amount to a threshold value associated with the first mode, and instruct opening of the valve upon a determination that the amount is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Baskaran K, Karan Garg, Curtis W. Caskey, Norman J. Blanton, Anthony J. Reardon, Zhiwei Huang
  • Publication number: 20200149755
    Abstract: The invention provides an air purifier with independent duel channel, which has separate first channel portion and second channel portion, wherein the first channel portion is used to filter particulate matters in the air and the second channel portion is used to purify the air. The invention mainly separates the channels and processes of the filtered air and the purified air, and more matches the selection of specific suction fan and intake fan so as to meet the different flow velocities required for air filtration and purification respectively, thereby achieving the optimal air filtration and purification effects, and improving the ineffective problem caused by the simultaneous filtration and purification of the air in the same channel of the existing air purifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Jason YAN, Wen-Lung KAN
  • Publication number: 20200149756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-component air conditioning system that cools air below the pre-treatment wet bulb temperature without the use of a mechanical vapor compression system. A heat exchanger cools air followed by an evaporative cooling process that further cools the air through the vaporization of water. A heat rejection unit removes warm air from the system and cools water that can be recycled into a reservoir. A chamber separation plate can be moved to adjust the capacities of the cooling unit and the heat rejection unit. The flow of water through the system can also be controlled. This allows greater variability of capacity and temperature control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ee Ho Tang, Fuyun Li, Tze Wei Timothy Ang, Lok Lee Hillary Yap, Tsz Kin Clifford Cheung
  • Publication number: 20200149757
    Abstract: A method for performing extremum-seeking control of a plant includes determining multiple values of a correlation coefficient that relates a control input provided as an input to the plant to a performance variable that characterizes a performance of the plant in response to the control input. The performance variable includes a noise-free portion and an amount of noise. The method includes determining an adjusted correlation coefficient by scaling a first value of the correlation coefficient selected from the multiple values relative to a second value of the correlation coefficient selected from the multiple values. The adjusted correlation coefficient relates the noise-free portion of the performance variable to the control input. The method includes using the adjusted correlation coefficient to modulate the control input provided as an input to the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Timothy I. Salsbury, Carlos Felipe Alcala Perez, John M. House
  • Publication number: 20200149758
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a field of humidifiers and in particular to an atomization humidifier that increases an amount of vapor through a specially designed atomizing air channel. The atomization humidifier includes a main body and an atomizing chamber arranged in the main body. The atomizing chamber includes an atomizing generator. An atomizing air channel is arranged on the atomizing generator. A flow guide plate is obliquely arranged on a top end of the atomizing air channel. A water inlet is arranged on an upper end of the atomizing air channel. An opening of the water inlet is upward. A lower end of the atomizing air channel is an air guide tube with hollow vacancies. The atomization humidifier realizes water vapor concentration by setting the atomizing air channel arranged on the atomizing generator, which improves an atomizing efficiency of the atomization humidifier by optimized structure, and is low in cost and good in atomizing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: SHAOWEI DENG, ZEZHI JING, TAO ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200149759
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ventilator, aiming easier cleanup even in the position mounted on the ceiling or wall. According to the present invention, a ventilator may comprise an outer casing having a mounting space in an inside thereof, an inner casing mounted in the mounting space of the outer casing, a blowing fan received in an inner space of the inner casing, and a motor rotating the blowing fan, wherein a wave-shaped flow path is formed on each inner wall surface of the inner casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Tae Joong KIM
  • Publication number: 20200149760
    Abstract: A heat exchange ventilator includes an exterior casing, and a heat exchanger that includes a heat exchange element of quadrangular-prism shape and heat exchanger frames each of which is mounted to each of four corners of the heat exchange element. The heat exchange ventilator includes guide rails that are mounted inside the exterior casing and engage the heat exchanger frame to guide the heat exchanger. Each of the guide rails includes an end-face-facing part facing an end face of the heat exchanger frame, a side-facing part providing a clearance between a side of the heat exchanger frame and the side-facing part, a holding part projecting from the side-facing part toward the heat exchanger frame, and a seal member that is provided in the clearance and seals a gap between the heat exchanger frame and the guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki MORIKAWA, Kenta OKEYA
  • Publication number: 20200149761
    Abstract: A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine an active operating condition of the heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system based on the active operating data related to the HVAC system, retrieve an existing service log having a maintenance procedure corresponding to the active operating condition of the HVAC system, and record an entry service log. The entry service log includes the active operating data, the active operating condition, and an updated version of the maintenance procedure corresponding to the active operating condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Burns, Theresa N. Gillette, Tyler P. McCune
  • Publication number: 20200149762
    Abstract: To provide a biosafety cabinet that issues a warning if exhaust duct connection is performed in an improper method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichi ONO, Tomoyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200149763
    Abstract: A forced air handling system includes an automated monitoring system. A method of operating the automated monitoring system includes initiating a calibration mode of operation via a controller. A plurality of dampers may then close via the controller. Once closed, a duct in communication with the plurality of dampers may be pressurized. A first air flow measuring exiting each one of the plurality of dampers may be obtained by a flow sensor. The duct is then depressurized and a second airflow measurement is taken, via the controller, exiting each one of the plurality of dampers. The controller calculates a statistical difference between the first and second airflow measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kushal Mukherjee, Rohan Chabukswar, Anarta Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20200149764
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a headless thermostat device and an adapter unit. The headless thermostat device includes one or more circuits configured to receive a control input from a user device via a local wireless network and generate a control signal for HVAC equipment based on the control input. The adapter unit includes one or more circuit configured to receive the control signal from the headless thermostat device via the local wireless network and provide the control signal to the HVAC equipment for operation of the HVAC equipment in accordance with the control input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Vineet Sinha, Yingchun Xu, Patrick W. Mulcahy, August Lu, Bing Mao, Karl F. Reichenberger, Theresa N. Gillette, Andrew M. Boyd, Thomas D. Chase, Madhuka M. Jayarathne
  • Publication number: 20200149765
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an overflow sensor assembly of an HVAC unit includes a sensor mounting bracket that is configured to be coupled to a mounting surface of the HVAC unit such that sensor probes of the overflow sensor assembly are suspended within and extend into a condensate drain pan of the HVAC unit. The sensor probes are defined by a sensor element that is coupled to the sensor mounting bracket and a spring that is coupled to the sensor element. The sensor probes are configured to activate an overflow detection circuit when the sensor probes come in contact with condensate fluid collected in the condensate drain pan prior to the condensate fluid overflowing from the condensate drain pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Robert L. Long, Kenneth D. Frederick, Kevin M. Ray, Karl S. Tallakson, Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan
  • Publication number: 20200149766
    Abstract: A device that can accurately detect clogging of a filter and that has a simple structure is provided. A device for measuring clogging of a filter in an air conditioner (2) having a blower (30) that blows gas (40), (42) through a duct (10) and a filter (20) that is provided in the duct (10) and filters dust floating in the gas, comprises a device (26) for measuring a sound pressure that is provided in the duct (10), a data processor (70) that extracts data on the sound pressure at a specific frequency from the data on the sound pressure that have been measured by means of the device (26) for measuring a sound pressure, and an estimating device (70) that estimates clogging of the filter based on the data on the sound pressure at the specific frequency that have been extracted by means of the data processor (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiro Kisakibaru, Isao Honbori, Akira Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20200149767
    Abstract: A system cools a space toward target conditions using an air conditioning process based on a bank of different cooling device types. Some device types consume relatively less energy and are suitable for mild environmental conditions, others consume more energy and are needed for extreme conditions, while others may fill a middle ground. To help save energy, the system alters the air conditioning process by selecting one or a mix of cooling device types expected to be sufficient for current conditions. Current conditions corresponds to a supply air position on a psychrometric chart. Selection of the appropriate cooling device type(s) is made according to the location of the supply air position relative to a dew point, which is determined from the target conditions set by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Mohamed Farouk SALEM, Michael Robert SULLIVAN
  • Publication number: 20200149768
    Abstract: An air handling unit (AHU) or rooftop unit (RTU) or other building device in a building includes one or more powered components and is used with a battery, and a predictive controller The battery is configured to store electric energy and discharge the stored electric energy for use in powering the powered components. The predictive controller is configured to optimize a predictive cost function to determine an optimal amount of electric energy to purchase from an energy grid and an optimal amount of electric energy to store in the battery or discharge from the battery for use in powering the powered components at each time step of an optimization period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel
  • Publication number: 20200149769
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for remote control of a thermostat by a network-based server, when the thermostat is not connected to a local or wide-area network. A network-based server calculates a modified temperature profile for a thermostat based on a utility's time-of-use pricing and/or weather forecasts. After the server has calculated the modified temperature profile, it is provided to a mobile device via a wide-area network, and the mobile device provides the modified temperature profile directly to the thermostat when the mobile device is within range of the thermostat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20200149770
    Abstract: A method in a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes retrieving a control input from a remote computing system via a cellular network responsive to determining that a connection to a local wireless network cannot be established and generating a control signal for HVAC equipment based on the control input or generating a control signal for HVAC equipment by executing a backup control algorithm responsive to determining that a connection to a local wireless network cannot be established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Vineet Sinha, Yingchun Xu, Patrick W. Mulcahy, August Lu, Bing Mao, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Publication number: 20200149771
    Abstract: A thermostat gateway device includes one or more circuits configured to receive a control input from a user device or from a sensor device via a first frequency band of a local wireless network, generate a control signal for the HVAC equipment using the control input, and provide the control signal to the HVAC equipment via a second frequency band of the local wireless network to affect operation of the HVAC equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Vineet Sinha, Yingchun Xu, Patrick W. Mulcahy, August Lu, Bing Mao, Karl F. Reichenberger, Nathan Zimmerman, Nicholas J. Schaf, Robert C. Hall, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200149772
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control method for an air conditioning system. The air conditioning system at least includes a compressor, a heat exchanger and a throttle device. The operation phase of the air conditioning system at least includes a start-up phase and a stable phase. The control method includes an action that in the start-up phase, the operating time of the compressor is set as t, when t is greater than 0 and less than 60s, an operating frequency F of the compressor is controlled to be less than 75 Hz, and a frequency rise speed per second Vf of the compressor is controlled to be less than 1.25 Hz/s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Guangfei Wei, Qiang Gao
  • Publication number: 20200149773
    Abstract: An HVAC system may include a building controller and one or more sensors. The building controller may be configured to receive one or more temperature readings from the one or more sensors located in a building and determine an extremum temperature reading. The building controller may be configured to control one or more components of an HVAC system of a building to control the extremum temperature in accordance with a programmed temperature set point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: John Amundson, David J. Emmons
  • Publication number: 20200149774
    Abstract: Provided is an air conditioning apparatus capable of sufficiently raising the temperature of hot air to be blown out when receiving a request for high-temperature air temporarily raising the temperature of the hot air. A first use side unit includes a first use side heat exchanger and a first use side fan. A second use side unit includes a second use side heat exchanger and a second use side fan. When the first use side unit receives a request for the high-temperature air and the second use side unit receives no request for the high-temperature air, the air conditioning apparatus shifts to a mode that performs control so as to reduce the airflow volume of the second use side fan or make the airflow volume of the second use side fan zero such as reducing the number of revolutions of the second use side fan in another room by 40 rpm in step (S7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro NAKANO, Takeshi YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200149775
    Abstract: A flanged ring connector (50) for connecting adjacent ends of HVAC ducting (52) includes an insertion flange portion to engage within the interior of the ducting. A mating flange portion (56) extends laterally or transversely to the insertion flange portion (54). A seat (58) is formed along the mating flange portion (56) to receive and retain a seal (60) and/or a reinforcing member or bead (90).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jeffrey Allen Hermanson
  • Publication number: 20200149776
    Abstract: An air control system 20 and associated methods including a flexible duct 30 having air exit holes 40, 42 and a flexible liner 50, 60 sheet within the duct 30 and extending longitudinally along the duct, the liner 50 sheet having opposite longitudinal edges 52, 54 connected to the duct 30 along the longitudinal length of the duct 30, the liner 50 sheet being permeable in one aspect and regulating air flow through the exit holes 40, 42 when the sheet is pressed against the portion of the duct having the exit holes, and an air deflector positioned externally the duct to modify airflow exiting the duct. The duct 30 may also have multiple liner sheets 50, 60 arranged end-to-end and/or layered in various duct segments such that the different liners may be independently controlled to regulate the outflow of air from the duct as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: RYAN LEITERMAN
  • Publication number: 20200149777
    Abstract: A filter, a manufacturing method for a filter, and an air conditioner are provided. The filter includes a casing (10), a transition tube (20), and a filter screen assembly (30). The filter screen assembly (30) is provided in the casing (10), fitted with and connected to an inner wall of the casing (10), the casing (10) is an integrally formed piece, and two axial ends of the casing (10) have neck sections (11), and two neck sections (11) are both fixedly connected to the transition tube (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Tiegang ZHANG, Yongfeng XU, Tongbing LAO, Yandong WU, Shiqiang HE, Chunlei CUI
  • Publication number: 20200149778
    Abstract: A termination block of an HVAC unit comprises an elongated body that is coupled to the frame of the HVAC unit. The elongated body securely retains a refrigerant pressure gauge port therein and mounts a filter drier thereto such that copper tubing to and/or from the refrigerant filter drier and the refrigerant pressure gauge port is held in position to assist with brazing the copper tubing to other copper tubing and/or components of the HVAC unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Robert L. Long, Kenneth D. Frederick, Karl S. Tallakson
  • Publication number: 20200149779
    Abstract: An on-demand heater includes a plurality of heater banks disposed in series with one another between a heater fluid inlet and heater fluid outlet. Power to one or more of the heater banks is adjusted when a sensed exit fluid temperature from a heater bank differs from the partial fluid temperature increase assigned to that heater bank, such that the total desired fluid temperature increase is achieved at the heater fluid outlet in a controlled manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hector Joel Castaneda, Jorge Ramirez
  • Publication number: 20200149780
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a furnace that includes a blower configured to operate to force a fluid through the furnace, a motor having a rated speed, in which the motor is coupled to and configured to actuate the blower, and a controller configured to receive data indicative of an operating characteristic of the furnace and regulate operation of the motor to be at or below an operational speed limit. The controller is configured to set the operational speed limit based on the data indicative of the operating characteristic of the furnace, such that the operational speed limit is less than or equal to the rated speed of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas D. Chase
  • Publication number: 20200149781
    Abstract: A furnace system featuring baffles, each set of baffles including one or more movable vanes, and systems for controlling the positioning of movable vanes during furnace operation. Actuators may be used to move vanes between deployed and retracted positions, the actuators controlled by units within the furnace or linked to the power sources for furnace elements which are specific to either heating or cooling operations. The movable vanes may alternately be positioned by using springs with stiffness selected to place vanes in a deployed position when under heating airflows and in a retracted position when under cooling airflows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Angus Robert LEMON, Nathan WAGERS
  • Publication number: 20200149782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solar heat absorber including: an inlet through which a heat collecting medium enters the solar heat absorber; a passage member configured to be fluidly connected with the inlet such that the heat collecting medium enters the passage member through the inlet; and a collection member configured to be fluidly connected with the passage member such that the heat collecting medium enters the collection member through the passage member. In the solar heat absorber according to the present disclosure, the ceramic particles are used as the heat collecting medium. In addition, the present disclosure also provides a solar heat collecting system including the solar heat absorber, and a solar power generation system including the solar heat collecting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Lei YANG, Xiaofei GAO, Yangyang YANG, Cheng ZHANG, Yuan TIAN, Jianrong ZHANG, Ping LIN
  • Publication number: 20200149783
    Abstract: A linear motor (1) including: a stator (2) defining at least an air gap area (10), at least one coil (3) associated to the stator (2), wherein a magnetic flow moves over at least one portion of the stator (2) and over a portion of the air gap area (10), wherein the linear motor (1) includes a magnetic body (5) disposed in the air gap area (10), wherein a movement parameter of the magnetic body (5) in the air gap area (10) causes movement of a piston (7) of the linear motor (1), wherein the linear motor (1) further includes: at least one magnetically permeable element (20, 20A, 20B) disposed in the air gap area (10) and adjacently to the magnetic body (5), wherein the movement parameter of the magnetic body (5) is cooperative to the movement parameter of the magnetically permeable element (20, 20A, 20B). A compressor, cooling equipment and stator (2) applicable in a linear motor are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Embraco Industria de Compressores e Solucoes em Refrigeracao Ltda.
    Inventor: Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie
  • Publication number: 20200149784
    Abstract: An ejector refrigeration cycle includes a compressor, a radiator, a branch portion, an ejector, a suction side decompressor, a windward evaporator, and a leeward evaporator. The ejector includes a nozzle portion and a pressure increasing portion. The windward evaporator and the leeward evaporator include at least one outflow side evaporation portion. The leeward evaporator includes a suction side evaporation portion. An outflow side evaporation temperature is a refrigerant evaporation temperature in the at least one outflow side evaporation portion of the leeward evaporator. A suction side evaporation temperature is a refrigerant evaporation temperature in the suction side evaporation portion of the leeward evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi MAEDA, Hiroshi OSHITANI, Yoichiro KAWAMOTO, Yohei NAGANO, Daisuke SAKURAI, Masahiro ITO, Hang YUAN
  • Publication number: 20200149785
    Abstract: The invention provides a highly reliable refrigeration apparatus configured to cool the interior of a casing of a heat source unit by means of a refrigerant and can reduce a possibility that liquid compression is caused by supply of the refrigerant to a heat exchanger for cooling the interior of the casing. An air conditioner (10) includes a heat source unit (100), a utilization unit (300) having a utilization heat exchanger (310) and constituting a refrigerant circuit (50) along with the heat source unit, and a controller. The heat source unit includes a compressor (110), a heat source-side heat exchanger (140) configured to cause heat exchange between a refrigerant and a heat source, a casing, a cooling heat exchanger (160) supplied with the refrigerant and configured to cool the interior of the casing, and a valve (162) configured to switch to supply or not to supply the cooling heat exchanger with the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: AKIHARU KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200149786
    Abstract: A sublimator includes a porous plate having a first surface comprising a low pressure side and a second surface comprising a high pressure side such that refrigerant is configured to move through the porous plate from the high pressure side to the low pressure side. The second surface defines a primary heat transfer surface. The porous plate further includes a plurality of secondary heat transfer surfaces integrally formed on the primary heat transfer surface to facilitate flow and evenly distribute refrigerant across the high pressure side of the porous plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jesse Joseph Stieber
  • Publication number: 20200149787
    Abstract: A closed loop refrigeration system using a gas hydrate having a temperature below 0° C. has: a first circulation loop extending through a gas hydrate formation device 1, an object 2 to be cooled and a separator 3 and back to the formation device 1 and including a gas hydrate line 10 for transporting a gas hydrate having a temperature below 0° C.; and a second circulation loop for gas extending through the formation device 1, a compressor 4, a cooler 5 and a decompressor 6 and back to the formation device 1, wherein an object to be transported in the first circulation loop is transported together with a liquid carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Takuya ISHISAKA
  • Publication number: 20200149788
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a device for increasing the heat yield of a heat source comprising: a heat sink; a heat pump with a condenser and an evaporator; and a heat sink feed and a heat sink return providing a thermal coupling to the heat source with a heat exchanger. The condenser is thermally coupled to the heat sink feed for emitting heat to the heat sink. The evaporator is thermally coupled to the heat sink return for absorbing heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jochen Schäfer, Florian Reissner
  • Publication number: 20200149789
    Abstract: A novel air conditioning system includes a compressor; an outdoor heat exchanger; an indoor heat exchanger; and a four-way valve arranged among the compressor, the outdoor heat exchanger, and the indoor heat exchanger and configured to switch to a cooling mode and a heating mode; a first separator connected between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger; an auxiliary branch connected to the indoor heat exchanger in parallel and arranged between the gas-liquid separator and the four-way valve. With the first separator, the gaseous refrigerant and the liquid refrigerant is separated, and the gaseous refrigerant is directly bypassed to an outlet of the evaporator by means of the auxiliary branch between the first separator 108 and the four-way valve, thereby reducing the resistance to the refrigerant flowing in the evaporator and raising the energy efficiency of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Zhirong HONG, Ming SONG, Yuzhao ZHANG, Fudang WEI, Yiyang MO
  • Publication number: 20200149790
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat pump system. The heat pump system removes heat generated during the generation of electric energy using a power generator and also performs heating using waste heat. Since an additional heat source is created in order to meet a heating requirement, heating control is effectively achieved, and electric power is produced so as to meet the demand of electric energy. When the power generator is likely to be over-cooled in the cold season, cooling of the power generator is stably performed by controlling the temperature and the flow rate of a cooling medium moving to the power generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hoon CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200149791
    Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigeration system including a heat transfer fluid circulation loop configured to allow a refrigerant to circulate through the circulation loop. A purge gas outlet is in operable communication with the heat transfer fluid circulation loop. The system also includes at least one gas permeable membrane having a first side in operable communication with the purge gas outlet and a second side. The membrane includes a separation layer including a porous inorganic material with pores of a size to allow passage of contaminants through the membrane and restrict passage of the through the membrane, and a polymer coating over the separation layer. A permeate outlet is in operable communication with the second side of the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Rajiv Ranjan, Yinshan Feng, Haralambos Cordatos, Parmesh Verma, Zissis A. Dardas
  • Publication number: 20200149792
    Abstract: A liquid temperature-control apparatus and method. The liquid temperature-control apparatus comprises: a circulating cooling unit for providing thermal energy and a cooling capacity for an object to be cooled; a circulating coolness application unit connected to the circulating cooling unit and used for circularly providing coolness to the object to be cooled; a heat exchange unit for carrying out heat exchange between the circulating cooling unit and the circulating coolness application unit; and a temperature detection and control unit for monitoring the temperature of the circulating cooling unit and that of the circulating coolness application unit. With the most fundamental circulating cooling unit, there is no need to weld and add any component to the circulating cooling unit, there are less welding spots in the circulating cooling unit, and there is no risk of refrigerant leakage, such that the reliability is relatively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ming WANG, Baotong HAO, Liuyang DU
  • Publication number: 20200149793
    Abstract: A compressor may include a shell, a first scroll, and a second scroll. The shell may include a first inlet, a second inlet, and an outlet. The first scroll may include a first end plate and a first spiral wrap. The second scroll may include a second end plate and a second spiral wrap, the first and second spiral wraps cooperating to define a series of moving compression pockets therebetween. The moving compression pockets decrease in volume as the moving compression pockets move from a radially outer position to a radially inner position. The moving compression pockets may receive working fluid from the first inlet at the radially outer position and provide working fluid to the outlet at the radially inner position. The second end plate may include a fluid cavity receiving working fluid from the second inlet and fluidly isolated from working fluid within the moving compression pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirill M. IGNATIEV, Robert C. STOVER, Michael M. PEREVOZCHIKOV
  • Publication number: 20200149794
    Abstract: An ice maker evaporator assembly having an evaporator pan with a back wall and left, right, top and bottom sidewalls extending from the back wall, and a freeze plate located within the evaporator pan. A serpentine tubing is thermally coupled to the back wall of the evaporator pan opposite the left, right, top and bottom sidewalls. A first layer of insulation is formed on the serpentine tubing. An evaporator housing having a housing back wall and housing left, right, top and bottom sidewalls extending from the housing back wall is attached to the evaporator pan and covers serpentine tubing. A second layer of insulation is formed on top of the first layer of insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: TRUE MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kevin KNATT, Edward W. HARTMAN
  • Publication number: 20200149795
    Abstract: The Situational Atmospheric Vectoring Equipment (abbreviated in this document as equipment) provides a system to disperse an aqueous liquid in a solid or gaseous form. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the equipment comprises: a pressure vessel or external source for the aqueous liquid, a mechanical pump if required, a pressure vessel for the cryogen, mechanical lines connecting the aqueous liquid and cryogen allowing for flow control, a nozzle for fluid acceleration and, optionally, a mechanical fan for dispersal. Previous inventions of this category require the proper environmental conditions are present whereas the equipment, as described in this text, does not have this limitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Kim, Melanie Kim