Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
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Patent number: 12066180Abstract: A light source device includes: a light source having an upper surface including a light-emitting surface, the light source including a plurality of light-emitting parts arranged in a two-dimensional array; a lens located above and spaced apart from the light-emitting surface of the light source, wherein the lens includes an optically functional part, and a flange part located along an outer periphery of the optically functional part; and a support part formed of a light-shielding member and configured to support at least the flange part of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Daizo Kiba, Takashi Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Okahisa
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Patent number: 12066181Abstract: A light shaping assembly comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), a two-dimensional (2D) array formed of a plurality of rows, each row comprising a plurality of light sources mounted on the PCB, and a Fresnel lens. The Fresnel lens redirects a light beam emitted by each light source at an angle that increases as a function of a distance between each light source and a selected point on the PCB, so that the light beams emitted by the light sources are collectively directed toward a common target.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SACO TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Bassam Jalbout, Brian Wong
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Patent number: 12066182Abstract: Control instructions are transmitted to receivers by modulating light sources to generate light beams that are modulated with digital data streams for inducing control instructions in the light beams. Each light beam is applied to a pixel shaper element of a pixel shaper assembly to produce a light pixel, each light pixel carrying the control instructions of the light beam, each light pixel having a perimeter defined by the pixel shaper element. The pixel shaper assembly combines the light pixels into an image without significant overlap or voids between the light pixels emitted by the pixel shaper assembly. The light pixels are directed toward a projector lens for transmission toward the receivers. In a receiver, an optical receiver detects a light pixel. A controller decodes the control instructions received in the detected light pixel and uses the control instructions to control a function of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SACO TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Bassam Jalbout, Brian Wong
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Patent number: 12066183Abstract: A steam supply system having a wet steam source and a steam separator disposed to separated wet steam into dry saturated steam and a saturated condensate. The dry saturated steam is heated in a superheater to produce superheated steam, while the saturated condensate is cooled in a subcooler to produced subcooled condensate with a target temperature selected to prevent immediate evaporation of the subcooled condensate when mixed with the superheated steam. The subcooled condensate is sprayed into a stream of superheated steam using spray nozzles and gradually evaporates downstream of the spray nozzles to produce process steam of a desired % quality. A cooling fluid passing through the subcooler is utilized to cool the saturated condensate. The flow rate of the cooling fluid through the subcooler can be utilized to achieve process steam of a desired % quality.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2024Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: En-Fab Inc.Inventors: Thanneeru D. Rao, Mayur Borad, Abdulla Khalifa Khamis Al Hinai, Dane Anderson
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Patent number: 12066184Abstract: A low NOX air heating swirl burner includes at least one burner unit, the burner unit comprising a combustion air duct, a fuel gas supply pipeline, a combustion nozzle and a fire protection baffle. The fire protection baffle comprises a fin and a base plate for generating swirl combustion air. The base plate includes a plurality of elongated holes and air guide blades disposed obliquely on air outlet sides of the elongated holes. The combustion air flows out of the elongated holes in the base plate of the fire protection baffle, generates a rotational flow under the action of the air guide blades to be strongly mixed with fuel gas sprayed from the combustion nozzle for combustion. The burner is in a modular form, which can adopt a corresponding splicing shape according to structural features of a heating space to meet the heating requirement.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ANDERSON THERMAL SOLUTIONS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Senwei Dai, Renquan Sun, Zhuanbo Ren, Liangyan Sun, Hongxing Sun
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Patent number: 12066185Abstract: According to an embodiment, a monitoring device, comprising: a sensor for sensing inflow gas information including a component and a concentration of an inflow gas introduced into a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO); and a processor for determining residual gas information including a component and a concentration of a residual gas in the RTO by using the inflow gas information, and updating an inflow amount per unit time of the inflow gas according to a risk level of the RTO determined based on the residual gas information, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TAESUNG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.Inventors: Gi Yeol Yun, Seok Man Kim, Nam Goo Moon, Seong Hee Kang
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Patent number: 12066186Abstract: A method for controlling a gas furnace including measuring an indoor temperature, comparing the indoor temperature with a set temperature for heating, and operating the gas furnace in weak heating with a predetermined heating capacity, which is lower than a maximum heating capacity of the gas furnace, when the set temperature for heating is higher than the indoor temperature by a temperature value, which is less than a predetermined temperature value. The predetermined heating capacity for weak heating is maintained at a current heating capacity for weak heating, when the gas furnace operates in weak heating, and when an operating duration with the current heating capacity for weak heating is less than a first time value.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Doyong Ha, Yongki Jeong, Janghee Park, Jusu Kim, Hansaem Park
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Patent number: 12066187Abstract: A combustor includes a skeleton mesh structure having a plurality of structural elements configured to mesh together to form the skeleton mesh structure. The combustor also includes an inner liner and an outer liner mounted to the skeleton mesh structure to define a combustion chamber. The inner liner includes a plurality of inner planks mounted to an inner side of the inner liner and a plurality of outer planks mounted to an outer side of the inner liner. The outer liner includes a plurality of inner planks mounted to an inner side of the outer liner and a plurality of outer planks mounted to the outer side of the outer liner.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath
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Patent number: 12066188Abstract: An assembly is provided for an engine. This engine assembly includes an engine structure and a fuel injector. The engine structure includes an injector aperture and a fuel supply passage. The injector aperture extends longitudinally through the engine structure along a centerline. The fuel supply passage extends laterally within the engine structure to the injector aperture. The fuel injector is mated with the injector aperture. The fuel injector includes a nozzle passage and a nozzle orifice. The nozzle passage extends longitudinally along the centerline within the fuel injector to the nozzle orifice. The nozzle passage is fluidly coupled with the fuel supply passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson, Jose R. Paulino, Anthony Van, Timothy S. Snyder
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Patent number: 12066189Abstract: A method of optimising the performance of combustion equipment of a gas turbine engine includes providing a fuel flow into the combustion equipment via a plurality of fuel injectors circumferentially disposed about a principal rotational axis at a plurality of injector positions; determining a plurality of temperatures of combustion gases at a plurality of circumferential positions downstream of the combustion equipment using a plurality of temperature measurement devices; ranking the plurality of circumferential positions based on the plurality of temperatures of the combustion gases determined using the plurality of temperature measurement devices; and repositioning at least some of the plurality of fuel injectors between the plurality of injector positions based at least on the ranking of the circumferential positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLCInventors: Haidong Li, Krishnat Sadashiv Patil, Stewart J. Dawson
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Patent number: 12066190Abstract: A small stove assorted with smokeless combustion of combustible solids/semisolids, a stove core and a shape of briquette are to ensure that a cylindrical briquette stack is quickly ignited in a smokeless state. A section A stove core inner ring and a flame concentrator are made of a selected high-whiteness aluminum silicate fiber with superior thermal insulation/resistance effects, and are processed for, e.g., blocking the micropores inner circumferential surface, and a stove core outer ring is made of cheaper foam glass, foam ceramic or calcium silicate modules. An underlying briquette with a concave top is designed to enable an easy, convenient and fast alignment of vent holes. The overall cross-sectional area of the vent holes is expanded by 30%-50% as compared with the area of the anthracite briquettes with the same diameter, and the inner ring vent holes are mainly expanded.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Ailin Dai
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Patent number: 12066191Abstract: A solid pellet fueled heater having a base unit with forced air blowers and a dual tube chimney structure is disclosed. The dual tube chimney structure may be used to warm incoming air for distribution around the heater. The pellet heater may also include a dual auger system and multi/high speed auger motor. The dual auger may include first and second auger blades mounted on a single auger shaft having blade pitches configured to convey solid fuel in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: WH PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Paul J. Simon, Michael R. Giebel, Xianjia Fan
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Patent number: 12066192Abstract: A venting system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a ventilation fan and one or more sensors coupled to the ventilation fan. The ventilation fan is positioned to vent air from an indoor environment. The sensors are positioned to monitor conditions in the indoor environment and selectively operate the ventilation fan to condition air in the indoor environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLCInventors: Mike Moore, Richard R. Sinur, Jason Asmus, Seddik Rougab, Taylor Schroeder, Eric Theriault
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Patent number: 12066193Abstract: In a method for preparing a cooking product, an image is captured of a cooking product by a camera, and a virtual image of the cooking product is provided to show a cooking state of the cooking product as captured by the image at a later cooking time.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Julien Adam, Victorien Bierg, Flavien Martos
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Patent number: 12066194Abstract: A temperature control system for controlling the temperature of a room and a composite element for a temperature control system.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Klaus Zeyn
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Patent number: 12066195Abstract: Heat exchanger output control device in a one-pipe heating network characterized in that a first T-branch, which is connected to a second T-branch interconnected to a primary outlet pipe connection of a primary outlet pipe to a heat source through a primary outlet, is connected to the primary inlet pipe connection through a primary inlet. The first T-branch is connected to a secondary supply pipe connection through a secondary supply pipe with a secondary supply temperature sensor, and the second T-branch is connected to a secondary return pipe connection through a secondary return pipe with an additional secondary return temperature sensor. An impeller of a pump is connected to a secondary circuit to pump the heat-transfer medium from the first T-branch through a heat exchanger back to the second T-branch, and to connected to a electrical motor provided with a control unit connected to secondary supply and return temperature sensors.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZEInventors: Jir̆i Dostál, Tomás̆ Bäumelt, Jan Hauser, Jir̆i Kubes̆, Jir̆í Valtr, Ondr̆ej Zlevor
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Patent number: 12066196Abstract: An isolation mounting arm for use with an expansion tank has a passageway with a first end portion, a second end portion, and a medial portion located between the first end portion and the second end portion with the drain port located at the terminal end of the second end portion. A first tee is located in the first end portion with oppositely disposed first and second ports. A second tee is located in the second end portion, with oppositely disposed fourth and fifth ports. A first valve member is coupled to the first port, a second valve member is coupled to the second port, and a third valve member is located adjacent to the drain port. An expansion tank is coupled to either the fourth port or the fifth port with a plug coupled to the other port.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NIBCO Inc.Inventor: Christopher W. Mason
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Patent number: 12066197Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that provides a polymer heat exchanger with internal microscale flow passages. The system includes a set of plates comprised of a polymer that includes internal microscale flow passages, which are configured to carry a liquid. The set of plates is organized into a stack, wherein consecutive plates in the stack are separated by fins to form intervening air passages. The system includes a liquid flow pathway, which flows from a liquid inlet, through the internal microscale flow passages in the stack of plates, to a liquid outlet. It also includes an airflow pathway, which flows from an airflow inlet, through the intervening air passages between the consecutive plates in the stack of plates, to an airflow outlet. The liquid flow pathway flows in a direction opposite to a direction of the airflow pathway to provide a counterflow design that optimizes heat transfer between the liquid flow pathway and the airflow pathway.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Vinod Narayanan, Erfan Rasouli
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Patent number: 12066198Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a passive-ventilation system of a building, comprising: determining an outdoor air temperature of air in an environment of the building; determining an indoor air temperature of at least one zone inside the building; calculating a temperature difference by subtracting the determined outside air temperature from the determined indoor air temperature; and, if the calculated temperature difference is greater than zero, controlling a state of at least one passive-ventilation device of the passive-ventilation system to be in any of a closed state, an open state, and one of one or more intermediate states between closed and open state. Each of the states corresponds to one value of an opening fraction value of the at least one zone inside the building varying between 0 and 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Charalampos Angelopoulos, Daniel Coakley
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Patent number: 12066199Abstract: Airstream sensor devices, systems, and related methods are disclosed. The sensor devices, systems, and methods are incorporated in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) ducts and plenum spaces for providing data used to monitor, manage, troubleshoot and/or control such systems. In an example embodiment, an airstream sensor device includes a housing and a plurality of sensors disposed on the housing. The plurality of sensors is configured to detect the temperature, airflow, and relative humidity of an airstream passing on, over, or through the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: EBTRON Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Urbaniak, David S. Dougan, John C. Lewis
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Patent number: 12066200Abstract: An occupancy fan control method to detect a Heating, Ventilating Air Conditioning (HVAC) fan is operating based on a fan-on duration control selected by a user and after a fan-on time delay selected by the user, providing at least one fan-on alarm message prior to overriding the fan-on duration control. The method further comprises monitoring an occupancy sensor signal to determine an occupancy in a conditioned space served by an HVAC system and after the fan-on time delay selected by the user, automatically overriding the fan-on duration control to save energy when the conditioned space is unoccupied. The overriding may comprise operating the HVAC fan based only on a thermostat call for cooling or heating, operating the HVAC fan for a non-zero time less time than the fan-on duration control, or operating the HVAC fan for a non-zero frequency less than the fan-on duration control.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2024Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: Robert J. Mowris, James Lau
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Patent number: 12066201Abstract: Provided is an air conditioning system capable of detecting in advance a device that consumes more power than the power that can be fed by a power feed unit. An air conditioning system includes a refrigerant cycle, a power feed unit, and a controller. The refrigerant cycle includes an outdoor unit and a plurality of indoor units. In a case where a power source for at least one indoor unit of the plurality of indoor units has been interrupted, the power feed unit feeds power from an auxiliary power source to the indoor unit for which the power source has been interrupted. When a predetermined device has been connected to at least part of the plurality of indoor units and the power feed unit, the controller performs deactivation of at least one of functions of the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakayama, Atsushi Okamoto
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Patent number: 12066202Abstract: Steam cylinders for humidifies require periodic replacement as well as replacement to address failures etc. However, field replacement of steam cylinders is not a straight-forward operation and there is significant risk and potential for damage to the replacement cylinder and the humidifier as fluidic seals for the water inlet and steam outlet must be unmade as well as electrical connections for heater elements, level sensors etc. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide solutions for the deployment of replacement cylinders etc. for domestic, retail, and commercial systems that reduce the likelihood of damage to the fluidic seals, electrical connectors etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Condair Ltd.Inventors: Shahram Lotfi, Dmitry Elman
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Patent number: 12066203Abstract: Methods and related systems for diagnosing a loss of capacity of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes summing a runtime of an auxiliary heat source of the HVAC system over a plurality of time blocks. Additionally, the method includes summing an expected runtime of the auxiliary heat source over the plurality of time blocks. Further, the method includes comparing the runtime sum with the expected runtime sum, wherein the expected runtime for each of the plurality of time blocks is a function of an outdoor ambient temperature over a time-delay block beginning before the corresponding time block.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventors: Christopher Blake Smith, Evan Brunner, Jonathan Edward Thrift
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Patent number: 12066204Abstract: A thermostat for a building space can include a processing circuit. The processing circuit can cause building equipment to heat or cool the building space via one or more heating outputs or one or more cooling outputs. The processing circuit can record the length of time that the processing circuit causes the building equipment to heat or cool the building space. The processing circuit can simulate a thermal plant model to determine a simulated runtime, wherein the thermal plant model is a thermal plant model of the building space and the building equipment. The processing circuit can determine a number of hours saved based on the simulated runtime and the recorded length of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Nathan M. Zimmerman, Michael J. Ajax
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Patent number: 12066205Abstract: Systems/methods for measuring airstream parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: EBTRON Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Urbaniak, David S. Dougan, Darryl W. DeAngelis
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Patent number: 12066206Abstract: There are disclosed systems and methods for managing object configurations within a structure. For one embodiment, a fixed object profile including dimensions and locations of ventilation of a building space and a non-fixed object profile including dimensions and a location of a non-fixed object are identified. One or more contaminant risk locations of the building space are determined in response to determining the air flow within the building space associated with an HVAC unit. The air flow is determined based on incoming air flow streams to the building space and outgoing air flow streams away from the building space. One or more object positions are provided at an output device based on the contaminant risk location(s). For another embodiment, the contaminant risk location(s) are selected from possible people locations. A person position is displayed at an output device, in proximity to the building space, based on the contaminant risk location(s).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Building Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Tsz Ling Elaine Tang, Mareike Kritzler, Lucia Mirabella, Tanuj Mohan, Daniel Stephen Pare
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Patent number: 12066207Abstract: A blower includes a motor with variable rotational speed, and a first controller. The motor has a shaft supported by a bearing with a lubricant sealed in. The first controller rotationally drives the motor. The first controller executes first control to decrease the rotational speed of the motor when a first temperature, which is the temperature of the bearing, decreases during operation in which the motor is rotated in a predetermined low rotational speed range. This air conditioner includes: an indoor unit having the blower, a temperature sensor that measures the first temperature, and a heat exchanger; and a second controller that controls the blower to perform air conditioning operation in a space to be air-conditioned in which the indoor unit is installed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Nakano, Yoshinori Takayama
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Patent number: 12066208Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices provided in accordance with various embodiments are generally related to the field of thermal management systems for buildings (or volumes in general), such as cold storage, food processing, or other buildings that have areas that are kept below freezing. Embodiments generally pertain to the management of temperature and humidity within these spaces. Some embodiments include system for the management of moisture and temperature inside cold spaces. Some embodiments include a heat and mass transfer exchanger, such as a direct constant gas liquid heat and mass transfer exchanger. Examples of such heat and mass transfer exchangers generally include wet scrubbers. Embodiments also generally include a series of ducts, pipes, heat exchangers, dampers, and/or valves that may allow the system to provide useful temperature and relative humidity levels to one or more spaces or volumes.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rebound Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russell Goldfarbmuren, Luke Erickson
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Method for producing a ductwork damper, ductwork damper, and ductwork damper unit incorporating same
Patent number: 12066209Abstract: A method for producing an air duct damper includes the steps of punching from sheet metal stock a damper preform having a body and two diametrically opposed arms extending from opposite sides of the body; and forming an indentation in the damper preform extending between and up to respective ends of the two arms.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Capital Hardware Supply, LLCInventor: David Yoskowitz -
Patent number: 12066210Abstract: The present disclosure includes an HVAC system that includes a plurality of dampers each corresponding to one building zone of a plurality of building zones, a plurality of sensors each corresponding to the one of the plurality of building zones, and a control board communicatively coupled with the plurality of dampers and sensors. The control board includes a plurality of status light sources, each corresponding to one damper the plurality of dampers, a plurality of communication light sources each corresponding to one sensor of the plurality of sensors, and a microcontroller programmed to control operation of equipment in the HVAC system. The microcontroller is configured to perform “a hardware test mode” to facilitate diagnosis of the plurality of dampers by causing the plurality of status light sources to sequentially execute a first light scheme or a second light scheme in response to instructions to the plurality of dampers.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventor: Shaun B. Atchison
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Patent number: 12066211Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a housing, a motor bracket provided in the housing; and a water pan. The housing includes a top cover provided with a mounting hole and a handle movably provided in the mounting hole in a vertical direction. A gap is formed between the handle and a circumferential wall surface of the mounting hole. The motor bracket includes a top wall below the gap, and the top wall is provided with an overflow hole. The water pan is provided below the overflow hole and configured to receive water flowing out via the overflow hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiming Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang
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Patent number: 12066212Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a hot water sub-system including a first heat exchanger and a condenser, a cold water sub-system including a second heat exchanger and an evaporator, and a refrigerant sub-system for transferring heat from the cold water sub-system to the hot water sub-system. The first and second heat exchangers transfer moisture and heat between a liquid desiccant and air. The refrigerant sub-system includes a compressor, the condenser, an expansion valve, the evaporator, and a refrigerant-air heat exchanger. The condenser transfers heat from compressed refrigerant to the hot water sub-system. The evaporator transfers heat from the cold water sub-system to uncompressed refrigerant. The refrigerant-air heat exchanger transfers heat from a portion of the compressed refrigerant to air in a first operating mode, and transfers heat from the air to a portion of the uncompressed refrigerant in a second operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Copeland LPInventor: William J. Dean
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Patent number: 12066213Abstract: A prefabricated wall with a ventilation mechanism is provided in the present invention. Generally, it includes a ventilation mechanism that lets air exchange in a room from the wall. People can adjust the inlet airflow with a controller. The ventilation mechanism has several holes on the outer surface which face to outside. The outdoor air can pass through the holes and filter into the inner room, consequently fulfilling the function of the ventilation duct. The room equipped such a prefabricated wall does not rely on an HVAC system to have fresh air exchange.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: A&C Future IncInventors: Zhuangboyu Zhou, Jiuqi Wang, Keguan Zou, Sichen Li, Han Qin, Jiayang Qin
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Patent number: 12066214Abstract: An air curtain air cleaner and sanitation system that incorporates established active UVC light projection technology with threshold air delivery air curtains to provide conditioned airflow by outward UVC light beam projection into the return airflow in a structure while maintaining an air control barrier between openings in a structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: Philip Thomas, David Johnson, David Rimbey
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Patent number: 12066216Abstract: A building management system (BMS) gateway comprises a BMS router and a water heater hub configured to be communicatively coupled to a plurality of water heaters. The BMS router facilitates communication of status and control data between a BMS and the water heaters connected to the water heater hub. Connecting multiple water heaters to a single BMS gateway provides simplified installation and networking requirements. For installations with more water heaters than are able to be coupled to the water heater hub, additional BMS gateways may be installed. Local controls for water heaters managed by the BMS are typically disabled or overwritten by the BMS to prevent changes to settings. A local BMS user interface (UI) is configured to connect with the BMS gateway(s) and facilitate secure access, display, and/or adjustment of water heater status and control data for the plurality of water heaters connected to the BMS gateway(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rinnai America CorporationInventors: Michael Scott Knoblett, John-Mark Peckham, Iain Twiss
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Patent number: 12066217Abstract: A fuel-fired heating appliance comprises a fuel source, an air source, a chamber in which fuel and air mix, a burner downstream from the mixing chamber, an igniter proximate the burner, a heat exchanger, a blower and a flue pipe. An ambient air inlet may be defined by at least one of the outlet end of the blower and the flue pipe extending between the interior of the flue pipe and an area ambient to the flue pipe. A flow rate of combustion gas may be controlled to a level below a steady-state flow rate during appliance warm-up.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Shawn A. Reed, Mickey E. Batson, Michael D. Williams, Christopher R. Taylor, Tyson J. Cogburn
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Patent number: 12066218Abstract: The present disclosure provides a solution-processed selective solar absorption coating and a process for the preparation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Baoling Huang, Yang Li
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Patent number: 12066219Abstract: A cooling system includes a refrigerant circulator which circulates a refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant circulator includes a first compressor configured to pressurize the refrigerant in gaseous state; a first cooler configured to cool the refrigerant pressurized by the first compressor; a first gas-liquid separator configured to separate the refrigerant cooled by the first cooler into a first refrigerant flow of a gas component and a second refrigerant flow of a liquid component; a second compressor configured to pressurize the first refrigerant flow; a second cooler configured to cool the first refrigerant flow pressurized by the second compressor; a second gas-liquid separator configured to separate the refrigerant cooled by the second cooler into a third refrigerant flow of a gas component and a fourth refrigerant flow of a liquid component; a first expansion member configured to decompress the fourth refrigerant flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG HEAVY IND. CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae Yun Kim, Hyun Ki Park, Chul Woo Kim, Dong Hun Lee
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Patent number: 12066220Abstract: A refrigeration unit with dynamic air cooling is described. It includes a centrifugal compressor with an electric drive, whose outlet is connected to a working element, whose outlet is connected to the inlet of a turbine. The turbine is connected to an electrical energy generator, where the outlet of the turbine is directed towards a wall-pipe heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is connected to a pump. Between the centrifugal compressor and the working element there is a pipe-wall exchanger of the air-air type, to which a fan is connected. The working element of the unit has a cylindrical hollow profile comprising helical recesses with a substantially oval shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DAC SP. Z O.O.Inventors: Olha Razumtseva, Oleksandr Razumtsev, Pavel Panasjuk
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Patent number: 12066221Abstract: A hydronic economizer module is configured for use in a chiller system that has a vapor compression cycle. The hydronic economizer module includes a heat exchanger assembly located within a housing having at least one heat exchanger coil, a fan assembly having at least one fan generally aligned with at least one heat exchanger coil, and at least one valve is movable between a plurality of positions to control a flow of fluid into the heat exchanger assembly. When the at least one valve is in a first position, the economizer module is arranged in parallel with a flat plate heat exchanger. When the at least one valve is in a second position, the economizer module is arranged in series with the flat plate heat exchanger. The flat plate heat exchanger includes at least one fluid port for communicating with a component of the vapor compression cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Frank Silva, Biswajit Mitra, Richard G. Lord
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Patent number: 12066222Abstract: At a refrigeration cycle device, an injection pipe and an economizer heat exchanger are provided at a main refrigerant circuit. In addition, the refrigeration cycle device includes a sub-refrigerant circuit having a sub-usage-side heat exchanger. At the refrigeration cycle device, the sub-usage-side heat exchanger functions as an evaporator of a sub-refrigerant and cools a main refrigerant that has been cooled at the economizer heat exchanger, or functions as a radiator of the sub-refrigerant and heats the main refrigerant that has been cooled at the economizer heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kumakura, Ikuhiro Iwata, Kazuhiro Furusho, Ryusuke Fujiyoshi, Hiromune Matsuoka
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Patent number: 12066223Abstract: Modular heating and cooling systems may include one or more modules connected to a fluid input and fluid output. Conventional modular heating and cooling systems typically use a single fluid in the cooling, heating and source fluid loops due to the mixing of fluids in the system. According to an aspect there is provided a modular heating system comprising at least one heating and cooling apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger and a third heat exchanger. The apparatus further comprises a refrigerant line system coupled to the first (e.g. cooling), second (e.g. heating) and third (e.g. source) heat exchangers and configurable for selectively directing refrigerant fluid through the heat exchanger to provide multiple modes of operation. The heating, cooling and source fluid loops may be separate and independent such that the fluids do not mix.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Arctic Cool Chillers LimitedInventor: Changiz Tolouee
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Patent number: 12066224Abstract: An evaporator includes a housing having a first end longitudinally opposing a second end. The evaporator includes an inlet disposed on the housing and configured to receive a fluid. The evaporator also includes a tube bundle disposed in the housing and configured to evaporate the fluid to provide a vapor stream arranged to exit through an outlet on the housing. Additionally, the evaporator has a flow balancer provided between the tube bundle and the outlet on the housing, and the flow balancer is configured to balance refrigerant quality between the first end and the second end of the evaporator by controlling the vapor stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Justin D. Piggush
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Patent number: 12066225Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for controlling pressure of units with height drop, and an air conditioner device. The method includes: monitoring an operating mode of the unit; obtaining an operating parameter corresponding to the operating mode according to the operating mode; and adjusting an opening degree of an electronic expansion valve according to the operating parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of ZhuhaiInventors: Yuhai Su, Jianguo Xiong, Shiqiang Zhang, Huachao Jiao, Lianfa Wu, Han Gao
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Patent number: 12066226Abstract: A traveling service tool that is configured to removably attach to a fluid access port of a refrigerant system. The fluid access port can be the fluid access port described herein or an existing fluid access port. When used with the fluid access port described herein, the traveling service tool is configured to hold a removable core during processing, and ultimately install the core into the fluid access port at a suitable stage in the processing operations. In an embodiment, the traveling service tool remains attached to and travels with the refrigerant system for the refrigerant system to be processed at two or more separate fluid processing stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FasTest, Inc.Inventors: Robert Danielson, Allen Wagenius
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Patent number: 12066227Abstract: An air-conditioning management system includes: an air conditioning apparatus configured to carry out a refrigerant recovery operation of recovering a refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit that connects an outdoor unit and an indoor unit and sending the recovered refrigerant to each recovery unit of the outdoor unit; and a control unit configured to make a determination whether all the recovered refrigerant is sendable to each recovery unit before a start of the refrigerant recovery operation by the air conditioning apparatus, and to output, when determining that all the recovered refrigerant is not sendable to each recovery unit, a command for notifying the determination.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuuta Iyoshi, Yoshiki Yamanoi, Kumiko Saeki
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Patent number: 12066228Abstract: A heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) control system. The HVAC control system includes a sensor that detects a refrigerant released from an HVAC system and emits a signal indicative of the detection. The HVAC control system also includes a switch that blocks a flow of electricity to an enclosed space and a controller that receives the signal from the sensor and activates the switch to block the flow of electricity in response to detection of the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventor: William F. McQuade
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Patent number: 12066229Abstract: An HVAC system includes a compressor, condenser, and evaporator. A sensor measures a value associated with the refrigerant in the condenser or the evaporator, and a controller is communicatively coupled to the compressor and the sensor. The controller determines, based on an operational history the compressor, that pre-requisite criteria are satisfied for entering a sensor validation mode. After determining the pre-requisite criteria are satisfied, an initial sensor measurement value is determined. Following determining the initial sensor measurement value, the compressor is operated according to a sensor-validation mode. Following operating the compressor according to the sensor-validation mode for at least a minimum time, a current sensor measurement value is determined. The controller determines whether validation criteria are satisfied for the current sensor value. In response to determining that the validation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that the sensor is validated.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Lennox International Inc.Inventors: Rakesh Goel, Siddarth Rajan, Edward Robinson, Patric Ananda Balan Thobias
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Patent number: 12066230Abstract: An evaporator apparatus for a refrigeration cycle of an HVAC system or a refrigeration system is disclosed that includes: a primary evaporator pathway for a working fluid of the refrigeration cycle extending through a primary expansion device and a primary evaporator; a secondary evaporator pathway for the working fluid in parallel with the primary evaporator pathway and extending through a secondary expansion device and a secondary evaporator; a coolant circuit for cooling a device, the secondary evaporator configured for heat exchange between the working fluid and process fluid of the coolant circuit; and a controller configured to control: the primary expansion device to maintain a target superheat of working fluid at a primary control location downstream of the primary evaporator; and the secondary expansion device based on monitoring a temperature of process fluid to maintain a target temperature of process fluid at a coolant control location in the coolant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Thermo King LLCInventors: Pavel Houdek, Martin Galansky, Martin Maska