Ambient Air Aspirated Through Inner Flow Path Patents (Class 239/425.5)
  • Patent number: 11454393
    Abstract: A gas burner includes a burner body that defines a fuel chamber and a plurality of flame ports. The plurality of flame ports are configured for directing a flow of fuel and air out of the fuel chamber. The plurality of flame ports are distributed along a circumferential direction on the burner body such that the plurality of flame ports are uniformly spaced from a center of the fuel chamber along a radial direction. The plurality of flame ports may be oriented to direct flames away from a void within the plurality of flame ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Bryan Cadima
  • Patent number: 9267702
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed with regard to a transition used in air conditioning systems having box evaporator coils. One embodiment includes a method for accessing box evaporator coils. The method may include opening an access panel located on a transition having a first opened end and a second opened end located opposite of the first opened end, wherein the first opened end securably aligns with an opened end of a furnace, and the second opened end securably aligns with one opened end of a box housing the box evaporator coils. Further, the method may include extending a member through the access panel for interacting with the box evaporator coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Inventors: Claudio Santini, Nicholas Raissis
  • Patent number: 8418938
    Abstract: A shower head includes a nozzle, a connector mounted on an open top of the nozzle, a fastening member secured on the open top of the nozzle and abutting the connector to limit the connector on the nozzle, and a bushing mounted in the connector. Thus, when the water flows through the shower head, the ambient air is introduced through the connector and the bushing to break the vacuum state in the shower head and to perturb the water flow in the shower head so as to produce a turbulent flow in the shower head so that the water flow injected from the nozzle is broken and divided into multiple straight water beams and multiple irregular water bubbles so as to increase the flushing angle and area of the shower head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sunrise Shower Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kun-Chih Chen
  • Publication number: 20120241535
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in one embodiment, to a water atomization and water mist delivery system in which water and a gas are mixed in an aspirating device and provided to a nozzle. The mixture may be delivered from the nozzle to provide fire protection and suppression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: ADA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Thierry Carriere, Scott Merkley, Norm Haberkorn, James Butz, Andrew Brewer
  • Patent number: 8096280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection system for a combustion engine. The system comprises a source of fuel, an injector and a means for delivering pressurized fuel strokes to said injector, said injector being arranged for generating at least two fuel jets with different jet parameters at closely adjacent locations and having directions such that the jets interact with each other along a surface interface therebetween so as to generate a fine spray. The jet breakup time is shortened and the droplet size is substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: AADI Inc.
    Inventor: Murad M. Ismailov
  • Patent number: 7850097
    Abstract: An aerating nozzle assembly has at least one aerating nozzle, and each aerating nozzle has a body, an annular air casing and at least one air tube. The body is tubular and has a channel and a constriction. The constriction is formed around the body and has multiple air holes formed through the constriction and communicating with the channel. The annular air casing is hollow and is mounted around the air holes in the constriction and has an air chamber, an annular surface and at least one air supply hole formed through the annular surface. The at least one air tubes are mounted securely respectively in the air supply holes. Accordingly, the air holes around the constriction allow air to be drawn into the liquid and more completely and homogenously aerate the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventors: Kuo-Tang Tseng, Kuo-Hung Tseng
  • Patent number: 7677467
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for aerosolizing medicament to be inhaled by a user. A housing is provided with an aerosol generator contained within the housing. A medicament feed system supplies medicament to the aerosol generator. A mouthpiece has separate medicament and air flow passages. The medicament flow passage provides aerosolized medicament from the aerosol generator to an outlet of the medicament flow passage, and the air flow passage has an inlet in fluid communication with an ambient atmosphere. The outlets of the medicament and air flow passages are provided at an end of the mouthpiece to provide simultaneous flows of medicament and air that mix in the user's mouth upon inhalation by the user at the end of the mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Novartis Pharma AG
    Inventors: James B. Fink, Nicanor A. Domingo
  • Patent number: 7478763
    Abstract: A spray apparatus for coating material, in particular for coating powders, contains a spray outlet spraying the coating material, a shaping air outlet in the form of a plurality of holes shaping the spray jet and an ambient-air passage radially configured between the spray outlet and the holes to aspirate ambient air by means of the flow suction effect of the spray jet and/or of the shaping air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Vieli, Hanspeter Michael
  • Patent number: 7300000
    Abstract: An internal cleaning apparatus includes a rotary shaft which, having a liquid flow passage, is provided so as to be axially rotatable, a revolving rotary shaft which, having a liquid flow passage connected to the liquid flow passage and being provided in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rotary shaft, is installed so as to be revolvable about the rotary shaft and axially rotatable, and a nozzle provided at a leading end of the revolving rotary shaft, wherein a gas flow passage is provided along the liquid flow passage of each of the rotary shaft and the revolving rotary shaft from a gas inflow opening provided in the rotary shaft, wherein a configuration is such as to eject a gas-liquid mixture flow having a gas supplied from outside the object to be cleaned mixed with the liquid ejected from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Shibuya Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahito Kitamura, Takahisa Tsukamoto, Taketoshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 7156320
    Abstract: A clog-resistant injector spray nozzle allows relatively unobtrusive insertion through a small access aperture into existing ductwork in occupied buildings for atomized particulate sealing of a ductwork. The spray nozzle comprises an easily cleaned and easily replaced straight liquid tube whose liquid contents are principally propelled by a heated propellant gas, such as heated air. Heat transfer is minimized from the heated propellant gas to the liquid tube until they both exit the injector, thereby greatly reducing the likelihood of nozzle clogging. A method of duct sealing using particles driven by heated propellant gas is described, whereby duct-sealing operations become both faster, and commercially practicable in inhabited commercial and residential buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Duo Wang, Mark P. Modera
  • Patent number: 6986473
    Abstract: In an atomizer device for the production of a liquid-gas mixture (4), the mixture (4) is introduced, particularly for compression, into a nozzle arrangement (3) in which the kinetic energy of the mixture (4) is in large part converted into compression energy by a pressure rise of the air. The atomizer device (2) includes a central air feed (16) and a nozzle chamber (18) for the supply of liquid surrounding the air feed. At or in the atomizing device, means (17) are arranged in the nozzle chamber for producing a swirled liquid flow in the nozzle chamber (18), and the swirled liquid flow emerges via a nozzle aperture (19) surrounding the air feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Jansohn, Alexander Ni, Sasha Savic
  • Patent number: 6981660
    Abstract: A pneumatic inhaler that is able to deliver a controlled burst or dose of aerosol from a reservoir of liquid or powder medication. A supersonic jet of gas is emitted from a nozzle and shock waves are developed in the jet. In one embodiment the supersonic jet is directed into a shock chamber. Liquid or micronized powder material is introduced into the supersonic jet to form an aerosol. In one embodiment, smaller aerosol particles are separated from larger aerosol particles with a separator. In another embodiment, the produced aerosol is contained in an aerosol storage chamber prior to inhalation by the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Evit Labs
    Inventor: Samuel David Piper
  • Patent number: 6869031
    Abstract: A three-stream atomizing nozzle that has an air stream divider that separates the atomizing air from the source into three streams. The first stream is a straight air stream staying closest to and around the atomized water jet. The second stream is a swirl running around the first straight stream. The third stream is also a straight stream that wraps around the first straight stream and the second swirl. The nozzle also has a mixing chamber in which the three air streams are mixed together for the atomizing purpose. From the combination of the three air streams the nozzle can produce fine water droplets that are suitable for many uses and more importantly creates a tailorable water mass profile. The mass profile can be tailored into a shape that is close to a square shape which creates minimal coupling between adjacent zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: ABB Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizhong Duan
  • Patent number: 6739522
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injection device for the metered injection of two liquids, in predeterminable quantity ratios, into a reaction chamber, the device having a housing (1) that includes an injection nozzle, the opening (13) of which forms an injection valve with the valve seat (14) in the housing (1) and a valve body (15) that can be positioned on the valve seat (14); the valve body (15) can be moved by a first actuator; the collection chamber (16) of the device is associated with the nozzle opening (13), and is connected to a supply line (17) for the first liquid (A) and a supply line (21) for the second liquid (B), with a metering valve (22) being set up to block at least one supply line (21) to the collection chamber, the valve being actuated by a second actuator; one of the two liquids is under a higher pressure than the other liquid; the device further has a control device (10), which can actuate the two actuators as a function of a load-stipulated total injection quantity and as a function of a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: FEV Motorentechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Josef Laumen
  • Patent number: 6712293
    Abstract: Nozzle attached to the boom of agricultural sprayers each include an improved air eduction system and discharge slot eliminating the need to change the angle of the boom and nozzle to ensure a comprehensive spray pattern irrespective of boom height and improved penetration of the material sprayed into and under the crop canopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Hypro Corporation
    Inventor: Trevor William Bartlett Swan
  • Patent number: 6460784
    Abstract: In the field of jet technology a nozzle of a liquid-gas jet apparatus for feed of an active liquid medium has a central channel and a peripheral annular channel and the total surface area of the outlet cross-section of the nozzle channels is determined from the following formula: S=S&mgr;(1+{square root over ((Skc/S&mgr;)3)}), where S—is the total surface area of the outlet cross-section of the nozzle; S&mgr;—is the surface area of the outlet cross-section of the central channel of the nozzle; and Skc—is the surface area of the minimal cross-section of the mixing chamber. A liquid-gas jet apparatus with the above-mentioned features has a higher efficiency and an improved reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Inventor: Serguei A. Popov
  • Patent number: 6203186
    Abstract: A fluid mixing device includes a nozzle having a first element mounted therein, and connected to a hollow, tubular element having a series of openings formed therein adjacent the first element. The hollow, tubular element extends outwardly from the nozzle, through an exit opening and may have a second element mounted thereon. The second element may take various shapes, including having a number of protrusions thereon, to vary the atomization of fluid flowing from the nozzle exit. An outer end of the hollow, tubular element may be free to suck in atmosphere, or may be attached to a tube immersed in a container, to draw in a second fluid to mix with the first fluid through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Inventor: Luis R. Cruz