Patents Issued in March 21, 2024
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Publication number: 20240093908Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of modulating energy consumption by a water provision system, the water provision system comprising a heat pump configured to transfer thermal energy from the surrounding to a thermal energy storage medium and a control module configured to control operation of the water provision system, the water provision pot system being configured to provide water heated by the thermal energy storage medium to a water outlet, the method being performed by the control module and comprising: setting a first temperature for heated water being provided to the water outlet; setting a second temperature for heated water being provided to the water outlet, the second temperature being different from the first temperature; and upon determining that the water outlet is turned on, alternating a temperature of heated water provided to the water outlet between the first temperature and the second temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: OCTOPUS ENERGY HEATING LIMITEDInventor: Peter KONOWALCZYK
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Publication number: 20240093909Abstract: A controller interface (B12) between a hot water tank controller (B13) and a heat pump controller (B2) in a heating system is provided. The controller interface (B12) comprises a response module configured to receive, from the hot water tank controller (B13), a first signal indicative of a temperature. The response module provides a response signal based on the first signal and a temperature response characteristic and communicates the response signal to the heat pump controller (B2). The controller interface (B12) enables interoperability of a heat pump controller (B2) and a legacy hot water tank system and hot water tank controller (B13).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Mixergy LimitedInventors: Peter ARMSTRONG, Christopher RANDALL
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Publication number: 20240093910Abstract: Provided is a method of signalling energy usage to a user of a hot water outlet of a hot water supply system, the hot water supply system including: a thermal energy store that is supplied with energy from a source of renewable energy; a renewable energy source; an auxiliary water heater coupled to a networked energy supply; a flow transducer operable, when a water flow passes through the hot water outlet, to provide flow rate data for the water flow; and a processor coupled to the flow transducer; the hot water supply system being operable, under the control of the processor, to heat water that is to be supplied to the hot water outlet to a target system supply temperature using a selection of one or more of the auxiliary water heater, the renewable energy source, and energy from the thermal energy store.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Octopus Energy Heating LimitedInventor: Peter Konowalczyk
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Publication number: 20240093911Abstract: Provided is a method of signalling a command to a water heating appliance remote from a controllable water outlet fed from the appliance via a water supply installation, the method comprising: monitoring the water supply that feeds the controllable water outlet; detecting a sequence of changes in a property or state of the water supply consequent on operation of the controllable water outlet; correlating the sequence of changes with a stored pattern; detecting a match above a stored threshold; interpreting the match as a command. It is thus possible to manipulate a tap, or other controllable water outlet, to signal to a processor so that the temperature or flow rate of water supplied by the outlet can be increased. Thus a water supply system may have default flow and temperature levels designed for economy and low water usage, but a user can on demand override one or both of these limitations without the necessity of needing to go to the appliance to reset it.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: OCTOPUS ENERGY HEATING LIMITEDInventor: Peter Konowalczyk
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Publication number: 20240093912Abstract: A crimper for joining truss leg components to form a unitary truss foundation with the ground without needing mechanical fasteners. A crimping tool has upper and lower crimp guides that register the position of jaws on the crimping tool with respect to grooves formed in a connecting portion of a truss cap and in a driving coupler of a driven screw anchor. Registering the position of the jaws ensures that blind crimps between the upper leg and screw anchor and upper leg and truss cap are performed consistently each time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Ojjo, Inc.Inventors: Tyrus Hudson, Johann Karkheck, Charles Almy, Jack West, Greg McPheeters
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Publication number: 20240093913Abstract: A tiered mounting system includes a base plate including a mounting guide rail having a plurality of mounting grooves that extend along opposing sides of the guide rail. The system also includes an object mount connector having a plurality of mounting ridges. The object mount connector is configured to: slidingly engage the mounting guide rail via insertion of one or more of the plurality of mounting ridges within a corresponding one or more of the plurality of mounting grooves, and lock in place along the mounting guide rail via a bolt placed through the object mount connector and secured tightly to an inner track of the mounting guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Chad Robinson
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Publication number: 20240093914Abstract: An installation including a pipe supplying or discharging a cooling fluid, at least one hybrid solar panel, the panel including: a photovoltaic module, a heat exchanger in which a cooling fluid flows, and a connector connecting the heat exchanger to the pipe. The connector includes a tubular body around the pipe, a tube on an external wall of the tubular body, which provides fluid communication between the pipe and the heat exchanger, the tube and external wall form a single piece, the heat exchanger has a wall in which a hole is made, wherein the tube fits freely into the hole, the tube has a seal that makes the connection between the tube and hole sealed to fluids, the tubular body is assembled by elastic fitting on the heat exchanger which fitting is carried out by means of members which are separate from the hole and fit the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: DUALSUNInventors: Laetitia BROTTIER, Jérôme MOUTERDE
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Publication number: 20240093915Abstract: Disclosed are a prefabricated energy pile, a construction method and a heat pump heat exchange system. The energy pile includes a pile body and a heat exchange pipeline. The pile body includes a stainless steel pipe, a metal lining pipe extending within the stainless steel pipe and a concrete pipe between the metal lining pipe and the stainless steel pipe. A heat conductor between the stainless steel pipe and the metal lining pipe is in contact connection with the stainless steel pipe and the metal lining pipe. The heat exchange pipeline includes a first pipe section and a second pipe section in communication with each other, through which a heat exchange medium flows in turn. Tops of the first pipe section and the second pipe section protrude upward out of the energy pile. The second pipe section is in contact connection with the metal lining pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Kesheng ZHANG, Wenchao LIU, Yufeng LIU, Zhiwei YU, Zhuohua SONG
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Publication number: 20240093916Abstract: Dilution refrigeration device comprising a working circuit comprising a mixture of helium-3 isotope (3He) and helium-4 isotope (4He), the working circuit comprising a mixing chamber, a boiler and a transfer member, the circuit connecting an outlet from the mixing chamber to an inlet of the boiler and an outlet of the boiler to an inlet of the transfer member, and configured to connect an outlet from the transfer member to an inlet of the mixing chamber, the device further comprising at least one cooling member in heat exchange with the working circuit, the at least one cooling member comprising a cryogenerator, the device comprising a support member, a fluid-tight enclosure, an open end of the enclosure being mechanically connected to the support member via a flexible fluid-tight bellows, an upper end of the cryogenerator being secured to the support member, the device further comprising a fluid-tight sheath which is received in the enclosure, a lower end of the cryogenerator extending in the sheath inside thType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l’Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Olivier GUIA, Marc STORA
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Publication number: 20240093917Abstract: A thermoacoustic system for transfer of energy by an acoustic wave, includes a process volume. The process volume is filled with a fluid through which the acoustic wave propagates, and includes an acoustic network including a compliance volume, a thermoacoustic core and a fluidic inertia; the thermoacoustic core including a cold heat exchanger, a hot heat exchanger and a regenerator; the cold heat exchanger arranged on a first side of the hot heat exchanger with the regenerator between the hot and cold heat exchangers; a thermal buffer zone is positioned adjoining the hot heat exchanger on a second side thereof. The thermoacoustic system includes a partitioning element that is arranged in the thermal buffer zone adjacent to the hot heat exchanger. The partitioning element is configured for blocking mass flow of the fluid through the thermal buffer zone in a direction of acoustic wave propagation in the thermal buffer zone, while allowing passage of the acoustic wave through the thermal buffer zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Jan-Aiso Lycklama a Nijeholt, Moulay EL Hassan Tijani
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Publication number: 20240093918Abstract: A heat pump includes a compressor that is connected via two refrigerant-conveying fluid lines to a heat pump component through which refrigerant flows, wherein each fluid line has a longitudinal axis, wherein an imaginary direction vector which coincides with the longitudinal axis points, on the route between the compressor and the heat pump component, at least once in a different direction to an imaginary starting direction vector which begins at the compressor, where it likewise coincides with the longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axis extends in a space having three imaginary, mutually perpendicular planes. The fluid line is shaped such that the direction vector, on the route between the compressor and the heat pump component, and with respect to all three planes, extends so as to be rotated by an angle of more than 180° relative to the starting direction vector at least once.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: VIESSMANN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SEInventors: Thorsten SCHMIDT, Eduard LANG
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Publication number: 20240093919Abstract: A vacuum system, including a condenser including a first inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet, a first ejector connected to a motive fluid source, and a second ejector connected to the motive fluid source and the condenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: William Joseph Kubik, Christopher Donald Przybysz, Peter Richard Corbelli, JR.
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Publication number: 20240093920Abstract: A dual reclaim coil with a smart control application is provided that allows the refrigerant inlet to the HVAC unit switch between the two sides of the condenser is aimed to use the high temperature and pressure of the condenser/gas cooler outlet while a CO2 refrigerant system is operating above critical point. This occurs in hot ambient conditions, when the need for heating in the space is not as great as in the wintertime and the available heat at the condenser/gas cooler's outlet is sufficient to satisfy the heating load. This also mitigates space overcooling, while increasing the CO2 transcritical system's efficiency by subcooling the refrigerant for applications involving dehumidification HVAC systems which often results in a phenomenon called “overcooling” during the dehumidification season.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Bryan ELLIOTT, Saman ZAMANZADEH HARATBAR, Laura Janke SEMIDEY
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Publication number: 20240093921Abstract: A cooling system partially floods the low temperature low side heat exchangers (e.g., freezers) in the system. An accumulator is positioned between the low temperature low side heat exchangers and the low temperature compressor. The accumulator collects the refrigerant (both liquid and vapor) from the flooded low temperature low side heat exchangers. Refrigerant discharged by the low temperature compressor is fed through the accumulator so that heat can be transferred to the refrigerant collected in the accumulator. As a result, the temperature of the refrigerant discharged by the low temperature compressor drops before that refrigerant reaches the medium temperature compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shitong Zha, Douglas Cole
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Publication number: 20240093922Abstract: An open-close valve unit includes a block body, a first open-close valve, and a second open-close valve. The block body includes a first main flow path and a second main flow path. The first main flow path has a first opening and a second opening. The second main flow path has a third opening and a fourth opening. The first open-close valve includes a first valve body movable to open and close the first main flow path. The second open-close valve includes a second valve body movable to open and close the second main flow path. The first open-close valve is in an open state when in an energized state. When the first open-close valve is in the energized state, the second open-close valve is in a de-energized state, and placed in an open state by a dynamic pressure of the fluid flowing in the second main flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shota KUMOKAWA, Katsuhiro ISHIMURA, Hiroyuki OKANO
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Publication number: 20240093923Abstract: There is provided a valve for a reversible heat pump system, including six ports and three flow paths for a refrigerant, the three flow paths being selectable between different pairs of the six ports, wherein: two of the three flow paths are non-restrictive flow paths; and one of the three flow paths is a restrictive flow path. There is also provided a reversible heat pump system, including: the valve; a compressor; a process heat exchanger having input and output sides through which refrigerant is supplied and discharged respectively; and a rejection heat exchanger having input and output sides through which the refrigerant is supplied and discharged respectively, wherein the valve interconnects the compressor, the process heat exchanger and the rejection heat exchanger such that a refrigeration cycle can be established.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Matthew Graham LEGG
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Publication number: 20240093924Abstract: The device (100) for pre-cooling a flow of a gas comprises: a separator (135) of a coolant flow (125), downstream from a compressor (155), into two flows: one coolant flow (140) referred to as “medium-pressure”; and one coolant flow (145) referred to as “low-pressure”; a first exchanger (105) exchanging heat between the flow (120) of the gas to be pre-cooled and at least the medium-pressure coolant flow (140) comprising at least nitrogen; an expander (150) of the low-pressure coolant flow; a second exchanger (110) exchanging heat between the flow of a gas and the expanded low-pressure coolant flow on output from the second expander; and a third exchanger (115) exchanging heat between the flow of a gas and the low-pressure coolant flow on output from the second heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Florian JALIA, Hamza FILALI, Audrey HUBERT
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Publication number: 20240093925Abstract: A reversible heat pump device (100) is described by means of an appropriate direction of air flows, with R744 refrigerant (natural gas, non-toxic, non-flammable, readily available), for the production of hot and cold air; the device object of the present invention is composed of a suction damper system (1) consisting of concentric cylinders (A, B, C), designed to implement the reversibility of the operation between heating and cooling), and a refrigeration circuit comprising: cold exchanger (2) and a hot exchanger (3), located between the intake damper system (1) and the delivery damper system (4) consisting of concentric cylinders (D, E, F), also designed to implement the reversibility of operation in a manner consistent with the system of intake dampers (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Luigi BUTTIGLIONE, Massimiliano MARANI, Vincenzo DIRELLA
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Publication number: 20240093926Abstract: A method for increasing the performance of a thermoelectric system with one or more thermoelectric assemblies to provide heating, cooling, and ventilation through electrical pulsing. The thermoelectric assemblies are individually controllable with constant or pulsing controls so that the performance of the thermoelectric system can be increased. In a multi-assembly system, the thermoelectric system is comprised of thermoelectric assemblies, a control unit that determines the optimal pulsing conditions, and fans to supply and exhaust heating or cooling to an occupied space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MIMIC Systems Inc.Inventors: Berardo MATALUCCI, Theodorian BORCA-TASCIUC
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Publication number: 20240093927Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a method for controlling the temperature of a surface. In some embodiments, the method includes applying a variable input to a heat pump (e.g., a Peltier) in thermal communication with the surface. The variable input may vary about a voltage and may include a powered period and an unpowered period. In some embodiments, the method includes measuring a temperature of an element in thermal communication with the surface, determining, based on the temperature of the element, whether a temperature of the surface is within a safe temperature range for a user in thermal communication with the surface, in response to determining the surface is not within the safe temperature range, adjusting the voltage of the variable input to the heat pump, and in response to determining the surface is within the safe temperature range, continuing operation of the variable input at the voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Tylan A. TSCHOPP, Lauren Lynch CLAYTON, Ashok Samuel BASKAR, Christopher Lee GARBUTT, Zara Elizabeth JONES, Yen Lim Lee, Jianquan Li, Liangxiong Huang, Yunfei Zhong, Yamin Jiang
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Publication number: 20240093928Abstract: A method for controlling a refrigerator of the present invention includes turning on the heater when ice making is completed; moving the second tray to a standby position in a forward direction when the movement condition of the second tray is satisfied; turning off the heater when a turn-off condition of the heater is satisfied after the second tray moves to the standby position in the forward direction; determining whether the heater is turned off and a predetermined time has elapsed; and moving the second tray to the ice separation position in the forward direction when it is determined that the predetermined time has elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Donghoon LEE, Wookyong LEE, Seungseob YEOM, Donghoon LEE, Yongjun BAE, Sunggyun SON, Chongyoung PARK
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Publication number: 20240093929Abstract: A mobile locker includes one or more dispensing units. Each dispensing unit consists of an accessible product space where each product space also includes a temperature monitor. A passible environmental control incudes a multiple of containers located around the perimeter of each accessible product space. Further, each of the containers incorporates a phase change material (PCM) that is used to temperature condition each accessible product space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Adam Tracy, Ryan Braunstein
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Publication number: 20240093930Abstract: A cooling system for a variable frequency drive (VFD) of a transport refrigeration unit (TRU) is disclosed. The system comprises a conduit disposed within the vehicle and extending between a opening provided at a first predefined position on the outer body of the vehicle and the VFD being positioned at a second predefined position within the vehicle. The opening facilitates the inflow of ambient air within the conduit that carries the ambient air towards the VFD to enable cooling of the VFD. The system includes a grill cover adapted to be removably attached to the opening and/or the first end of the conduit, which allows entry of the ambient air within the conduit and restricts entry of outside objects and/or living organisms within the conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Samuel Venne, larry Jedik, Chad Kosakowski, Parmesh Verma
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Publication number: 20240093931Abstract: An appliance includes a vacuum insulated structure that defines a first compartment and a second compartment with a trim breaker proximate the first and second compartments. A mullion extends between the first compartment and the second compartment. A reinforcement assembly is disposed between the vacuum insulated structure and the trim breaker. The reinforcement assembly includes a perimeter frame disposed on a peripheral edge of the first compartment and the second compartment and a central plate proximate the mullion. Attachment plates extend orthogonally from the central plate and connect the perimeter frame with the central plate. At least one door is hingedly coupled to the vacuum insulated structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventor: Arunkumar Harikrishnasamy
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Publication number: 20240093932Abstract: A cooling appliance includes a storage compartment for receiving goods to be cooled, and an air duct assembly in fluid communication with the storage compartment. The air duct assembly includes at least one air duct for suctioning the cool air from the storage compartment. A sensing element senses the temperature of the cool air of the storage compartment. The air duct has a first duct housing part with an air suctioning entrance opening through which the cool air enters into the air duct, and an external second duct housing part on which the sensing element is provided. The external second duct housing part is configured to be selectively connected to the first duct housing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ashish Modi, Veysel Tekce, Necati Bora Gürel
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Publication number: 20240093933Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet and a door configured to open and close a storage space of the cabinet. The door includes an outer plate defining a plate opening, a door liner defining a liner opening, a panel assembly configured to shield the plate opening and the liner opening. The panel assembly includes a first display through which the inside thereof is visible, and a screen is output, a second display disposed at a position that is spaced apart from the first display, and a frame provided between the outer plate and the door liner. The frame includes a first mounting part that mounts the panel assembly, a second mounting part that mounts the second display, and a wire guide part that connects the first mounting part to the second mounting part and accommodates a wire connected to the second display.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Chanuk KANG, Dongrim WOO
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Publication number: 20240093934Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet including a storage space, a drawer door located in the storage space, the drawer door including a door part and a drawer part connected to the door part, a control panel located on an upper surface of the door part, the control panel being configured to display or manipulate a setting of the storage space, and an electric wire guide module connected to the cabinet and a rear surface of the door part to connect an electric wire in the cabinet to the control panel. The electric wire guide module includes a mounting plate, a rotation connection member rotatably mounted to the mounting plate, a guide head coupled to the rear surface of the door part, and at least one connecting member connecting the rotation connection member and the guide head, the electric wire extending through the at least one connecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yongrak JUNG, Kihyun PARK, Seongjin NA
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Publication number: 20240093935Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet including a storage space, a drawer door located in the storage space, the drawer door including a door part and a drawer part connected to the door part, a control panel located on an upper surface of the door part, the control panel being configured to display or manipulate a setting of the storage space, and an electric wire guide module connected to the cabinet and a rear surface of the door part to connect an electric wire in the cabinet to the control panel. The electric wire guide module includes a mounting plate, a rotation connection member rotatably mounted to the mounting plate, a guide head coupled to the rear surface of the door part, and at least one connecting member connecting the rotation connection member and the guide head, the electric wire extending through the at least one connecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yongrak JUNG, Kihyun PARK, Seongjin NA
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Publication number: 20240093936Abstract: An embodiment of a method for supplying refrigerants to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility includes: advancing a first refrigerant from a first storage device to a heat exchanger, the first refrigerant having a first temperature; advancing a second refrigerant from a second storage device to the heat exchanger, the second refrigerant having a second temperature different than the first temperature; flowing the first refrigerant and the second refrigerant through the heat exchanger; adjusting the second temperature based on at least a transfer of heat between the first refrigerant and the second refrigerant in the heat exchanger; and transferring the first refrigerant and the second refrigerant to the LNG facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Paul R. DAVIES, James L. Harris
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Publication number: 20240093937Abstract: Liquid hydrogen is produced while reducing emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Provided is a liquid hydrogen production device including: a carbon dioxide cycle plant (2), which includes a turbine (23) using a carbon dioxide fluid as a driving fluid, and is configured to drive the turbine (23) to generate motive power with use of a carbon dioxide cycle in which the carbon dioxide fluid discharged from the turbine (23) is increased in pressure and heated and is then re-supplied to the turbine (23); and a liquefaction plant (4) configured to cool gaseous hydrogen by heat exchange with a refrigerant, to obtain liquid hydrogen. The motive power generated by driving of the turbine (23) is used as motive power to be consumed in the liquefaction plant (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohide MURAOKA, Masataka NAKANE, Tomoharu INOUE, Takatoshi NAGAI
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Publication number: 20240093938Abstract: A method of transporting a single gas or a gas mixture, pure or with impurities, through a pipeline, wherein the gas has a critical pressure, a critical temperature, a cricondenbar, and/or a cricondentherm and wherein the gas flows above the critical pressure, the critical temperature, the cricondenbar, the cricondentherm, and/or the anomalous state from the inlet to exit of the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Vish PRASAD, Guo-Xiang WANG, Kuruvilla JOHN, Huseyin BOSTANCI, Hamid SADAT, Laura ALMARA
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Publication number: 20240093939Abstract: An efficient heat pump ejector vacuum dryer system and associated method of use for drying items that includes a drying vessel having a condenser and having a first evaporator where the first evaporator has an input that is connected to an output of the first expansion valve, a first expansion valve connected in fluid communication between the condenser and the first evaporator, a second expansion valve connected between the condenser and the second evaporator, a compressor having an input connected to an output of the first evaporator, an ejector that receives a vapor stream from an output of the compressor and receives a vapor stream from the output of the second evaporator generates as an output a high-temperature vapor provided to a condenser of the drying vessel to dry the items and generate an output of moisture, and a water reservoir that accumulates water from the drying vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hongbin Ma, Ramy Abdelhady, Shahabeddin K. Mohammadian, Jeremy Spitzenberger, Xiaoqin Susan Liu
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Publication number: 20240093940Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a first chamber having a supply port for supplying a treating fluid; a second chamber in combination with the first chamber defining a treating space; a support member configured to support a substrate in the treating space; and a baffle unit installed in the first chamber to face the support port, and wherein the baffle unit includes: a first baffle assembly including a first baffle having first holes through which the treating fluid flow; and a second baffle assembly installed at a position farther from the support port than the first baffle assembly, and including a second baffle having second holes through which the treating fluid flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: HAE-WON CHOI, JAE SEONG LEE, HONG CHAN CHO
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Publication number: 20240093941Abstract: A method can be used to cool bulk material in a fine material cooler. The method may involve admitting bulk material to be cooled into the fine material cooler through a material inlet, conveying the coarse material with a first mechanical or pneumatic conveying unit, and conveying the fine material with a second conveying unit in a conveying direction through the fine material cooler to a material outlet. The bulk material may have a fine material proportion of 70% to 95% and a coarse material proportion of 5% to 30%. The fine material may have a grain size of 10-5 mm to 4 mm, and the coarse material may have a grain size of 4 mm to 100 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Stefanie RICHTER, Ludwig KOENNING, Jochen ALTFELD
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Publication number: 20240093942Abstract: The present invention provides an electrically heated apparatus (1) at least comprising: —an electrically heated furnace (2) having walls (2A, 2B) defining a space (3); —a first row (4) of tubes (10) running through the space (3), wherein the tubes (10) have an inlet (11) and outlet (12) outside of the space (3); —a second row (14) of tubes (10) running through the space (3), wherein the tubes (10) have an inlet (11) and outlet (12) outside of the space (3); —a first set (5) of electrical radiative heating elements (20) located in the space (3), wherein the first set (5) comprises electrical radiative heating elements (20) located between the first (4) and second rows (14) of tubes (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Govert Gerardus Pieter VAN DER PLOEG
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Publication number: 20240093943Abstract: A heat exchanger having: front and aft ends; heat exchanger cores in an annular loop that define circumferential gaps between adjacent pairs of the cores, the cores, individually or as axially aligned sets, extend from the front to aft ends and have facing inlet sides and circumferentially facing outlet sides configured such that the inlet sides and the outlet sides from the adjacent pairs of the cores face into the same circumferential gaps; and core guide vanes disposed in the circumferential gaps, the core guide vanes have an aft portion that extends from the front end to the aft end of the heat exchanger, wherein: at the front end the heat exchanger, the core guide vanes are closer to the outlet side of the cores; and at the aft end the heat exchanger, the core guide vanes are closer to the inlet sides of the cores.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Joseph E. Turney, Robert H. Dold, Kathryn L. Kirsch
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Publication number: 20240093944Abstract: The present invention application relates to a spiral heat exchanger and a heat exchange device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SHANGHAI XINGYE MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng GAO, Zaixiang LIU, Yanfeng CHEN, Yuanfeng CAI, Bing WANG, Zhengyan NIU
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Publication number: 20240093945Abstract: An outdoor heat exchanger includes: a group of windward flat tubes, a group of leeward flat tubes and a distributor. When the outdoor heat exchanger acts as an evaporator, the refrigerant flows through the plurality of second flat tubes, the plurality of fourth flat tubes, the plurality of third flat tubes, and the plurality of first flat tubes in this order, and when the outdoor heat exchanger acts as a condenser, the refrigerant flows through the plurality of first flat tubes, the plurality of third flat tubes, the plurality of fourth flat tubes, and the plurality of second flat tubes in this order.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi MAEDA, Satoru YANACHI, Shin NAKAMURA, Atsushi MORITA
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Publication number: 20240093946Abstract: A thermal module includes a radiating fin unit having a plurality of superposed radiating fin assemblies, and a plurality of groups of heat pipes. The heat pipes respectively have a heat absorbing section and a heat dissipating section formed at two opposite ends thereof. The heat absorbing sections in each heat pipe group is in contact with a heat source, and the heat dissipating sections in the same heat pipe group is sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the radiating fin assemblies. The thermal module is characterized in that the heat dissipating sections are horizontally extended through the radiating fin assemblies from one of two opposite shorter sides to another shorter side along two parallel longer sides thereof, such that the heat dissipating sections not only have a maximum contact area with the radiating fin assemblies, but also give the radiating fin unit an enhanced structural strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Sheng-Huang Lin
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Publication number: 20240093947Abstract: Provided is an energy bank including a heat exchanger, the energy bank comprising an enclosure, and within the enclosure: an input-side circuit of the heat exchanger for connection to an energy source; an output-side circuit of the heat exchanger for connection to an energy sink; and a phase-change material for the storage of energy; the energy bank including one or more sensors to provide measurement data indicative of the amount of energy stored as latent heat in the phase change material, the energy bank comprising an optical source to launch light into the phase change material, and the one or more sensors includes an optical sensing arrangement to detect light launched from the optical source after the light has passed through the phase change material, wherein the optical source and the optical sensing arrangement is configured to give a graduated measure of a plurality of different energy storage states from empty to full.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Peter Konowalczyk
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Publication number: 20240093948Abstract: A thermal storage unit is purposed to convert electrical energy and store the energy in the form of heat in a more efficient and cost-effective way. It may include a chamber having a predetermined amount of solid particulate. A chamber inlet may be in fluid communication with a pressurized fluid gas. A chamber outlet may allow the pressurized fluid gas to exit the chamber. A plenum disposed between the chamber inlet and the chamber outlet may pass the pressurized fluid from the chamber inlet to the solid particulate to form a fluidized bed of the solid particulate in the chamber prior to the pressurized fluid exiting the chamber outlet. A heating element may be thermally coupled to the fluidized bed, where the heating element is configured to convert electrical energy into thermal energy and transfer the thermal energy to the fluidized bed of the solid particulate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Brian Oslin
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Publication number: 20240093949Abstract: In one aspect, thermal energy storage systems are described herein. In some embodiments, such a system comprises a container, a heat exchanger disposed within the container, and a phase change material (PCM) disposed within the container. The heat exchanger comprises an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe; and a number n of plates in fluid communication with the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe, wherein n is at least 2. The inlet pipe, outlet pipe, and plates are arranged and connected such that a fluid flowing from the inlet pipe and to the outlet pipe flows through the plates in between the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe. The PCM disposed within the container is also in thermal contact with the plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: PHASESTOR LLCInventors: A. Scott Queen, Reyad I. Sawafta, Rami M. Saeed, Domenico FEO, Byron Owens
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Publication number: 20240093950Abstract: A green boiler includes a thermal energy storage vessel containing a captive bed of a thermal mass composition operable to store thermal energy, an array of heaters embedded in the mass, and at least one heat exchanger comprising a tube bundle. The heaters in one embodiment may be electric and coupled to an electric power source to heat the thermal mass. The tube bundle comprises tubes embedded in the thermal mass composition which are configured to convey heat transfer fluid (e.g., water or other) through a tube-side of the tubes. In operation, the heat transfer fluid is heated by absorbing stored thermal energy from the thermal mass composition. The thermal mass composition may be heated by power extracted from the power grid during off-peak demand periods in some embodiments. The vessel may produce heated water or steam for district heating, or steam for power generation or industrial uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: HOLTEC INTERNATIONALInventor: Krishna P. SINGH
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Publication number: 20240093951Abstract: A heat exchanger is disclosed. Different cooling media are circulated in respective independent flow channels between the first heat-exchanging plate and the second heat-exchanging plate so as to perform heat exchange while preventing mixing between the different cooling media. A first guide of the first heat-exchanging plate and a second guide of the second heat-exchanging plate are layered to form an overlapping structure, and thus coupling capability and durability are improved when the first heat-exchanging plate and the second heat-exchanging plate are welded to each other. A discharge path is provided in order to detect internal leakage after welding between the first heat-exchanging plate and the second heat-exchanging plate, thereby making it possible to determine that there is malfunction in the heat exchanger based on the cooling media exposed from the discharge path when the cooling media leaks due to an internal defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Hyeong Gi Lee
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Publication number: 20240093952Abstract: A heat exchanger having: an inlet header having inlet tubes stacked against the first side of the heat exchanger; an outlet header having outlet tubes stacked against the second side of the heat exchanger, first inlet and outlet tubes have a same length as each other, second inlet and outlet tubes have the same length as each other and are longer than the first inlet and outlet tubes, and third inlet and outlet tubes have a same length as each other and are longer than the second inlet and outlet tubes; core channels extend from the first side to the second side of the heat exchanger, the core channels connect the inlet tubes to the outlet tubes such that: the first inlet tube and third outlet tube are connected; the second inlet tube and second outlet tube are connected; and the third inlet tube and first outlet tube are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Joseph E. Turney, Robert H. Dold, Kathryn L. Kirsch, Matthew B. Kennedy
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Publication number: 20240093953Abstract: A method for cleaning the interior of a pipe using a cleaning device which has a tube. The tube is set into an axial movement along a main axis H within the pipe, and the insertion depth E of the tube into the pipe is detected. It is determined whether the tube has reached an end position, and the axial movement is terminated when the tube reaches the end position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Adrian BERNARD, Bodo SKALETZ, Reinhard EISERMANN
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Publication number: 20240093954Abstract: An improved bolt and bolt carrier with integral gas key having an extension nozzle threadedly secured and pinned to the gas key for use with a direct gas operated firearm is provided. The extension nozzle is designed to receive a portion of the host firearm's gas operating system. The firing pin retaining pin is oriented so as to expose its widest profile to the firing pin's annular flange, increasing its service life. The bolt has a plurality of lugs extending from its forward end. The extractor recess is constructed so that the face of the bolt is round and the adjacent lugs fully supported. The extractor engages approximately 17% more of a seated ammunition cartridge's rim as compared to the prior art AR15/M16 extractor. The result is an improved bolt and bolt carrier which provides for increased operational reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Jesus S. Gomez
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Publication number: 20240093955Abstract: A firearm magazine adapter to be affixed to a non-native magazine to allow the adapted magazine to fit and function in a firearm that normally cannot accept the non-native magazine. Embodiments comprise two or three primary elements: two clamshell halves for the body or a one-piece body, and an ejector which is captive, along with a non-native magazine, in the body. In one embodiment, two screws hold the clamshell halves together and secure the ejector via a partial cylindrical negative volume. The assembly is permanently affixed to a non-native magazine. A single unmodified release on the firearm releases the adapted magazine from the firearm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Blind Squirrel Enterprises, LLCInventors: Paul Kintz, Alexander Kintz, Stephen Bukowsky
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Publication number: 20240093956Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for firearm fire control mechanisms. The firearm includes a safety bar configured to engage with a safety selector and with a trigger and to transition between a first safety configuration and a second safety configuration, and a sear configured to engage with the trigger and to transition between a first sear configuration and a second sear configuration, wherein in the first sear configuration, the sear or trigger is engaged with a hammer to prevent the hammer from being released to fire the firearm, and in the second sear configuration, the sear does not prevent the hammer from being released to fire the firearm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Henry RAC Holding Corp d/b/a Henry Repeating ArmsInventor: Geoffrey Louis Ader
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Publication number: 20240093957Abstract: A suppressor that includes a mount having a first flow path through the mount, the mount configured to connect directly to a barrel of a semi-automatic pistol. The suppressor includes a base tube having an initial expansion chamber and having a second flow path through the initial expansion chamber with the base tube being connected to the mount, the second flow path aligned with the first flow path. The suppressor includes a single baffle having a third flow path connected to the base tube, the third flow path aligned with the second flow path. The suppressor includes an end cap having a fourth flow path connected to the single baffle, the fourth flow path aligned with the third flow path. The single baffle may be the only baffle positioned between the base tube and the end cap. The suppressor does not include any wipes and may include a tube extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Jacob KUNSKY