Including Unitary Housing Having Both Inlet And Outlet Airways Patents (Class 454/234)
  • Patent number: 11885514
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Jin Kim, Ju-Hyun Kang, Young-Jae Kim, Byung Yul So, Yong-Gak Kim, In-Jung Baek, Na Yeong Byeon, Moo Gyo Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Seung Cheon Yu, Sang Woo Lee, Hyo Kyu Lee, Jin Ho Lim, Min-Gi Cho, Hyeong Kyu Cho, Jun Hwang, Do Yeon Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Woo Seog Song, Hyun-Joo Song, Young Sun Shin, Joon-Ho Yoon, Bu Youn Lee, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Min Gu Jeon, Hee Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 11300129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flow generator. A flow generator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a suction portion into which air is suctioned; a fan introducing the air introduced into the suction portion in an axial direction to discharge the air in a radial direction; a fan housing in which the fan is installed and which guides the air discharged from the fan; and a cover surrounding the fan and the fan housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changhoon Lee, Seokho Choi
  • Patent number: 11035583
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Jin Kim, Ju-Hyun Kang, Young-Jae Kim, Byung Yul So, Yong-Gak Kim, In-Jung Baek, Na Yeong Byeon, Moo Gyo Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Seung Cheon Yu, Sang Woo Lee, Hyo Kyu Lee, Jin Ho Lim, Min-Gi Cho, Hyeong Kyu Cho, Jun Hwang, Do Yeon Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Woo Seog Song, Hyun-Joo Song, Young Sun Shin, Joon-Ho Yoon, Bu Youn Lee, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Min Gu Jeon, Hee Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 10921006
    Abstract: A green HVAC system for single or multi level commercial or residential buildings including: a building having a lower elevation and higher elevation. (i) The lower elevation blower that can blow air to higher elevation or outside of building, or can suck air from higher elevation or outside of building (ii) The higher elevation blower that can blow air to lower elevation or outside of building, or can suck air from lower elevation or outside of building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventor: Cyrous Gheyri
  • Patent number: 10314283
    Abstract: A curtain machine has a sealed control enclosure. The control enclosure, disposed in a machine interior of a machine housing, forms an enclosure interior and is configured to form a moisture impermeable seal separating the environment of the control enclosure from the environment of the machine interior and the external environment of the curtain machine. A motorized threaded member is configured to move a load block within the machine interior, for example to actuate a cable-based curtain mechanism, with both the load block and threaded member disposed outside the enclosure interior. The enclosure interior of the control enclosure includes a control circuit configured to operate the motor, and a mechanical limit switch configured to be mechanically actuated by the load block to stop the motor responsive to the load block moving along the threaded member beyond a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Hog Slat, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Glenn King
  • Patent number: 9322409
    Abstract: A ventilation unit is arranged to effect flow reversal, according to two opposite directions, of a gas flow generated by a fan without reversing the rotation direction of the fan. The ventilation unit includes a fan, at least a first piping arrangement through which a gas flow is intended to pass in one of the two possible directions depending on whether it is blown or sucked by the fan, and a switching assembly arranged between the fan and the at least a first piping arrangement, at least a pair of switching devices being provided in the switching assembly and being movable between two positions for selectively and alternately connecting the at least a first piping arrangement to a delivery duct and to a suction duct of the fan, so as to allow the passage of a gas flow in a direction or in the opposite direction within the at least a first piping arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Entsorgafin S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pietro Paolo Cella Mazzariol, Gian Francesco Galanzino, Alessandro Avonto
  • Publication number: 20140315479
    Abstract: A turbo fan includes a main plate rotated by power provided from a fan motor, blades each having one end connected to the main plate to perform rotation movement, and a shroud having an inner circumferential part and an outer circumferential part, an other end of each of the blades connected to the shroud. The shroud includes a plurality of curved parts each having one side connected to the inner circumferential part and an other side connected to the outer circumferential part, the plurality of curved parts each having a predetermined curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Namjoon CHO, Kyungrock KIM, Dongkeun YANG
  • Publication number: 20140099872
    Abstract: The ventilation system is a system for ventilating a building and comprises an air supplier/exhauster comprising air supply function and exhaust function and a ventilation control device controlling the operation of the air supplier/exhauster. Upon operating the air supplier/exhauster, the ventilation control device determines which the air supplier/exhauster conducts, air supply operation or exhaust operation, based on wind information regarding the outdoor wind. The ventilation through the ventilation passage from the air supplier/exhauster to a vent provided in the building is conducted when the air supplier/exhauster conducts air supply operation. Alternatively, the ventilation through the ventilation passage from the vent to the air supplier/exhauster is conducted when the air supplier/exhauster conducts exhaust operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUMOTO, Hirotoshi YANO, Toshiaki YOSHIKAWA, Komi MATSUBARA, Masami HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20140076541
    Abstract: A device and methods for directing hazardous gases away from a the portion of the pipe that is emitting the gases wherein the device includes a split column having a first opening and a second opening at opposing ends of the split column, the split column further including a split that passes through the tubular section and that extends from the first opening to the second opening and a third opening in the split column that is located between the first opening and the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.
    Inventor: James L. Loveland
  • Publication number: 20140065939
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a substantially constant volume exhaust or ventilation air terminal system is shown for controlling exhaust and/or return airflow rates in a system having a central fan or ventilator. The system and method permits zone-by-zone or area-by-area airflow regulation or control in non-demand areas in response to a demand or call for ventilation in demand areas. In one embodiment, the system employs at least one constant airflow controller or regulator situated in a damper. In one embodiment, a terminal houses a plurality of sub-ducts each having an airflow regulator. At least one of the sub-ducts has a damper. When the damper is open, a maximum airflow through the terminal is a sum of maximum airflow permitted by the regulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: AMERICAN ALDES VENTILATION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dennis R. Dietz, John Robert Harrell, Dwight Ray Shackelford
  • Patent number: 8505529
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to 90% Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency gas or oil burning devices that depend on external air for combustion. More particularly it discloses an alternate intake apparatus for air for combustion that opens automatically when the inlet air conduit from outside is blocked or severely restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Inventor: Jerry J. King
  • Publication number: 20130090052
    Abstract: An air handling device includes a fan that has a fan hub and a set of fan blades that extend from the fan hub. The set of fan blades defines a fan diameter and the fan hub defines a hub diameter. The fan has an inlet side for air intake and an outlet side for air discharge. An annular fan inlet passage is arranged at the inlet side of the fan, and an annular fan outlet passage arranged at the outlet side of the fan. The fan inlet passage and the fan outlet passage each define an outer diameter that is substantially equivalent to the fan diameter and an inner diameter that is substantially equivalent to the hub diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventor: Salman Akhtar
  • Patent number: 8372339
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sterilization device (1), to sterilize media, equipment and/or decontamination of waste material, said sterilization device (1) comprising a chamber (2), at least one exhaust line (6) arranged to said chamber (2) and at least one gas generator arranged to said chamber (2), at least two sterile filters (8a, 8b) arranged in series in the exhaust line (6), at least one vacuum means (7) connected to the chamber (2) via said exhaust line (6) and said at least two filters (8a, 8b). At least one heating means (9) is arranged to said exhaust line (6) between said two sterile filters (8a, 8b) in order to vaporize condensate that develops between the filters. Furthermore, it is disclosed a sterilization process for sterilization of media, equipment and/or decontamination of waste material, a vaporizing system (12) of a sterilization device and use of such a vaporizing system (12) in a sterilization device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Getinge Sterilization AB
    Inventors: Joakim Larsson, Bjarne Pedersen, Mats-Åke Åhlund, Stefan Nilsson
  • Publication number: 20130023194
    Abstract: An indoor unit of air conditioner comprises: a panel body (2) enclosing side portions of the air conditioner for installing a front panel (1), a rear shell, and the front panel (1) closely connected to the panel body; the rear shell, the panel body (2) and the front panel (1) form an inner chamber of the air conditioner in which a heat exchanger (5), a control element, and a ventilating component (4) are provided; an air outlet is provided at a lower portion of the front panel (1), and an air deflector (3) is mounted on the front panel (1) or is arranged on the panel body (2) for opening or closing the air outlet; a vortex forming device is provided at a bottom surface of the air outlet. The vortex forming device is configured as a serrated surface with a plurality of concave grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hui Zhang, Shaolin Chen, Jianqun Yang, Wenwei Ji, Zhi Meng, Jian Li, Liu Cao
  • Patent number: 8267164
    Abstract: A system and method for energy recovery and humidity control comprises an enclosure (12) with a plurality of ports (86,90,92,94,86) connected to a plurality of ducts (14,16,18,20,22) The system has an enthalpy exchange core (136) exchanging heat and humidity between first air stream (35) and a second air stream (37), and a heat exchange sub-core (134) exchanging heat between the first air stream (35) and a third air stream (39), and fans (34,38,36) for circulating the first air stream (35), the second air stream (37) and the third air stream (39) respectively, and a controller (40) for controlling the fans (34,36,38) and regulating the flows of the first air stream (35), the second air stream (37) and the third air stream (39).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Air Tech Equipment Ltd.
    Inventors: Marc Richard Lestage, George Robert Lestage, Patrick Paul Boudreau
  • Patent number: 8124009
    Abstract: Aeration drying and disinfecting grain crops in bulk and pretreating seeds includes passing through a bulk of grain crops and seeds disinfecting and drying agents including an ozone and air mixture and surrounding air, subdividing the disinfecting and drying agents into a plurality of streams spaced from one another in a vertical direction, and passing the streams at different heights through levels located at corresponding heights of the bulk of grain crops and seeds transversely in a substantially horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Vitaliy G. Danchenko, Ronald T. Noyes, Larysa P. Potapovych
  • Patent number: 8021217
    Abstract: A self-contained pre-manufactured roof top unit is used to circulate fresh air, heat or cool a building. The housing has a blower connected into a circulation system to circulate air into and out of the building. The unit has a pressure relief opening for connection into the building that is used to relieve air pressure buildup within the building. The pressure relief opening is part of a pressure relief passage that is independent of the blower and has an exhaust vent that opens and closes automatically in response to pressure differential between the building and ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: MNE Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Greig J. Tollar
  • Patent number: 8011114
    Abstract: A vehicle dryer includes an energy-conserving rotatable inlet butterfly valve to selectively admit or block air to a fan encased in a blower housing. The valve includes a plate mounted on a shaft that extends across the inlet portion of the blower housing. The plate is rotated by its shaft to either an opened position for admitting air into a blower housing, or a closed position for blocking air from entering into the blower housing. A crank arm is coupled to the valve shaft, and a pneumatic cylinder includes a piston rod for turning the crank arm through a ninety-degree angle, thereby rotating the valve plate between its opened and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Superior Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: Archie L. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7967669
    Abstract: The invention relates to a variable air volume control apparatus which compensates an open area ratio to be in direct proportion to an opening ratio at a low opening ratio range according to an open angle of a damper blade to achieve accurate and precise air volume control. The variable air volume control apparatus includes a damper blade disposed rotatably within the duct for opening or closing an air flow path and an actuator for rotating the damper blade. The apparatus also includes an air flow path expansion mechanism having a curved surface for expanding the air flow path in accordance with an open angle of the damper blade. The invention allows obtaining the open area ratio in direct proportion to the opening ratio at the low opening ratio range through simple structural improvements, thereby improving linear characteristics of an air volume change ratio with respect to the opening ratio to more accurately and precisely control the air volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventor: Wan-Ki Baik
  • Patent number: 7635296
    Abstract: Various systems and apparati as well as devices and structures are provided which may be used or incorporated into air handling systems (e.g. (air) ventilation systems and apparati) for the manipulation or control of air in a enclosure such as a building, a room of a structure such as a residence, and the like. Such air handling systems (e.g. ventilation apparati or systems) may for example include an element for the transfer of heat from warm exhaust air (taken from inside an enclosure e.g. a building) to cooler exterior fresh air (drawn into the enclosure e.g. building). The present invention further relates to air handling systems (e.g. ventilation systems and apparati) which may not only exhaust stale interior air to the outside of an enclosure but as desired or necessary also intermingle a portion of such stale air with fresh air for delivery of the intermingled air back into the enclosure (during cold or warm weather). The present invention in particular relates to air handling systems (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Venmar Ventilation Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Gagnon, Éric Charlebois, Michel Julien, Daniel Marcoux, Jean-Bernard Piaud
  • Publication number: 20090263706
    Abstract: A pressurized underground enclosure includes a battery venting system having a battery within a battery box in a sealed enclosure. A first pipe is fluidly connected to the battery box and an ambient atmosphere and includes a vacuum generator for reducing a pressure in the battery box. A second pipe is fluidly connected to the battery box and the ambient atmosphere and includes a one-way valve permitting airflow to the battery box and precluding airflow from the battery box to the ambient atmosphere. The enclosure includes a scissors lift including scissor linkage units having arms pivotally connected at terminal ends and at central positions. The scissor linkage units are moveable from a retracted to an extended position by pneumatic cylinders. The internal pressurization of the enclosure is selectively released and locking mechanisms are retracted before a rack of the scissors lift is extended through an opening of the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventor: Robert J. Schilling
  • Publication number: 20090203306
    Abstract: An arranging facility, a parking facility, a handling facility, and a ventilation device. A vehicle maintenance facility as the arranging facility comprises a vehicle maintenance booth as an arranging space and a forcible air supply/discharge mechanism. The vehicle maintenance booth is surrounded by side walls and a ceiling wall as partition walls on its periphery. A maintenance vehicle on which a fuel battery as an energy converter is mounted is temporarily disposed in the vehicle maintenance booth. Also, the air supply/discharge mechanism comprises an air intake device feeding air to the vehicle maintenance booth and an air discharge device discharging the air from the vehicle maintenance booth to dilute hydrogen gas leaking from a vehicle under maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventor: Akihiko Sugata
  • Patent number: 7547250
    Abstract: A portable outdoor enclosure protects occupants from at least some elements of nature and includes a wall panel forming an outer wall of the enclosure. The wall panel has an opening formed of sufficient size to allow an air conditioning unit to be inserted through the opening in the flexible material wall panel. A sleeve of flexible material is connected to the wall panel and extends in at least one of an inwardly direction and an outwardly direction. The sleeve includes at least one outer peripheral end spaced from the side wall capable of being snugly engaged with an external surface of an air conditioning unit to be installed through the sleeve. At least one flap can be provided for covering the opening through the wall panel when the air conditioning unit is not installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Inventors: Bethan O'Neill, Kenneth J. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 7441588
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat exchanger unit that can save space, even when performing air conditioning in addition to ventilation. The heat exchanger unit performs heat exchange ventilation with a supply air channel flowing from an outdoor space to an indoor space and an exhaust air channel flowing from the indoor space to the outdoor space and includes an optical deodorization portion and a first blowing portion. The optical deodorization portion is provided so as to be linked to at least the indoor space and performs air conditioning with a circulation channel. The circulation channel is provided in the vicinity of either the supply air channel or the exhaust air channel. The first blowing portion includes a double-suction first impeller having a first suction inlet and a second suction inlet. Here, one of the supply air channel and the exhaust air channel that is provided in the vicinity of the circulation channel is provided at the first suction inlet side of the first impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Matsugi, Akira Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20080139104
    Abstract: A heat exchange system including ductwork for transporting fresh, preheated air into the interior space of a building. The ductwork has a header and at least one lateral in fluid communication with the header. The lateral includes a trunk passing through an opening in the exterior wall of a building. The trunk extends upwardly into the interior space of the building from the opening to an apex whose elevation is higher than the opening. A branching arm extends outwardly from said apex and has an open, terminal end remote from the trunk that serves as an air outlet. A tubular sleeve loosely encloses the trunk from the apex downwardly through the opening in the exterior wall so as to form an annular space between the trunk and the sleeve through which air is exhausted from the building. Air passing through the annular space conducts heat to the trunk, warms the trunk, and preheats the air within the trunk being blown into the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Gregory B. Lemke
  • Patent number: 7332006
    Abstract: Ventilating and air purifying device including a case having a blower therein provided to a ceiling or a wall, a first flow passage provided between the blower and a room for making an outdoor, the blower, and the room in communication, a second flow passage for making the room, an inside of the case, and the outdoor in communication, and a damper in the case for isolating the first flow passage from the second flow passage so that room air is discharged to the outdoor and the room air is guided to the blower, or making the first flow passage and the second flow passage in communication so that the room air introduced into the second flow passage is guided to the blower, thereby ventilating and purifying the room air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong-Yong Kim, Ho Seon Choi, Kwan Ho Yum, Gi Seop Lee, Ju-Youn Lee, Kyung Hwan Kim, Baik Young Chung
  • Publication number: 20070298704
    Abstract: A cabinet combination section has a ventilation device. The ventilation device has a first air duct for conditioning outdoor air and supplying the conditioned air as supply air to a room and a second air duct for removing return air from the room and discharge the return air as exhaust air to the environment. The ventilation device comprises various components including a fan. The components are situated in the first air duct and/or in the second air duct. The cabinet combination section has a lower section, a middle section and an upper section lying on top of another. The components of the ventilation device are situated in the lower section and/or the upper section of the cabinet combination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Urs Weidmann
  • Patent number: 7081049
    Abstract: Ventilating system including a case mounted on a ceiling of a room, an inlet in a bottom surface of the case, and an outlet in a side surface of the case, a partition for dividing the case into an upper space, and a lower space, a fan in the upper space of the case, for drawing room air through the inlet, and discharging through the outlet, a first duct in communication with the upper space of the case for guiding outdoor air into the case, a second duct in communication with the lower space of the case for guiding the room air introduced into the case to an outside of the room, and a guide member provided to the outlet for guiding the air discharged into the room space toward a desired direction, thereby providing a ventilating system having an air purifying function, and preventing the air discharged into the room space from being directed to one side of the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: In Ho Choi, Jeong Yong Kim, Kyung Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 7011577
    Abstract: Ventilating system including a case mounted on a ceiling of a room, an inlet in a bottom surface of the case, and an outlet in a side surface of the case, a partition for dividing the case into an upper space, and a lower space, a fan in the upper space of the case, for drawing room air through the inlet, and discharging through the outlet, a filter assembly at the outlet for purifying air being discharged to the room, a first duct in communication with the upper space of the case for guiding outdoor air into the case, and a second duct in communication with the lower space of the case for guiding the room air introduced into the case to an outside of the room, thereby providing a ventilating system having an air purifying function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Gi Seop Lee
  • Patent number: 7007498
    Abstract: A cabinet for air handling equipment includes two similarly sized covers that are each nonsymmetrical about their vertical centerline. Each cover has an original supply or return air duct opening plus space for an alternate opening. The original and alternate openings are of different shapes to accommodate round or rectangular ducts. The two covers can be interchanged with each other and inverted to provide various supply and return air duct configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: American Standard International Inc.
    Inventor: William G. Hansen
  • Patent number: 6629886
    Abstract: A demand ventilation module for use with HVAC/R systems for ventilating inside space of a structure through an air pressure differential between return air and outside air. The demand ventilation module includes an integrated damper and an electronic control device capable of marking, setting, and/or storing air condition setpoints for ventilation activation. The electronic control device is configured to automatically control the activation of an actuator in conjunction with an inside sensor that measures air conditions in direct proportion to actual real-time air condition demands. A method for installing a demand ventilation module on return portions of HVAC/R systems may include: evaluating the return portion of an HVAC/R system to ascertain return air negative static pressure; and determining where to install the demand ventilation module on the return portion based upon a location corresponding with a range of return air negative static pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Inventor: Kevin Estepp
  • Patent number: 6623353
    Abstract: An air handling system for a building having a ceiling and enclosed space, the system including four interconnected induction units for mounting adjacent the ceiling. These units form four sides of a rectangular assembly. Each induction unit includes an air plenum section and an air mixing section connected to a side of the air plenum section and forming an elongate air mixing chamber that extends downwardly to an air outlet. Supporting members mount the induction unit assembly at the ceiling so that each air mixing section when viewed in transverse, vertical cross-section extends at a substantial angle, which in a preferred embodiment is about 90 degrees, to the ceiling during use of the apparatus. Return air is drawn by venturi effect created by a fast flow of primary air into each air mixing chamber and heated or cooled at the heat exchanging coils. The units can provide a mixed air flow that flows downwardly from the outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Air Handling Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Salman Akhtar, Gerhard Granek
  • Patent number: 6551185
    Abstract: An air intake and blowing device, comprising a blowing fan (11) such as a turbo fan capable of blowing air in all directions which is installed inside a main casing (2) provided with an air intake port (5) and an air blowing port (9) enclosing the air intake port (5), the air blowing port (9) being provided with a vortex flow creating member which creates a spiral blowing vortex air flow to form a spirally swirl-blowing air flow, and air surrounded by the blowing air flow being formed in a stable tornado flow and sucked strongly into the air intake port (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Miyake, Yoshimasa Kikuchi, Toru Iwata, Masashi Kamada
  • Patent number: 6536222
    Abstract: An air conditioning unit having a return air inlet and a supply air outlet upon the roof of a vehicle that includes a mounting frame located within an opening in the roof of a vehicle with the frame extending into the comfort region of said vehicle, with said comfort region having a front and rear section. The air conditioning unit is supported upon the top of the frame so that the return air inlet and supply air outlet are in fluid flow communication with the interior of said frame, which is enclosed at the bottom by a floor panel. A partition extends across the width of the frame dividing the frame into a return air compartment that communicates with the return air inlet of the air conditioning unit and a supply air compartment that communicates with the supply air outlet of the air conditioning unit. Longitudinal supply ducts are mounted in the opposed end walls of said frame and are in direct fluid flow communication with the frame supply air compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Young-Kill Ahn, Jcong-Un Lyu, Jong-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 6514138
    Abstract: A demand ventilation module is provided for use with HVAC systems in order to ventilate inside space of a structure through an air pressure differential between return air and outside air. The demand ventilation module includes an integrated damper. The demand ventilation module can further include and an air restrictor plate that defines an air-restricting opening and an electronic control device capable of marking, setting, and/or storing air condition set-points for ventilation activation, and configured to facilitate ventilation control, economizer operation, and HVAC unit operation. The electronic control device is electrically connected to and controls the activation of an actuator in conjunction with inside and outside sensors that measure air conditions. The electronic control device can cause the actuator to automatically shift the damper in direct proportion to actual real-time air condition demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: Kevin Estepp
  • Patent number: 6514137
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a modular clean room plenum is provided. This modular clean room plenum includes a rectangular plenum body with an air barrier forming a top surface of the modular clean room plenum and a ceiling grid forming a bottom surface of the modular clean room plenum. The modular clean room plenums are attached to the primary support structure of a clean room building in whatever number and configuration is required by the clean room layout. By providing, in one modular component, the air barrier layer, the ceiling grid, the framework between the two layers, the fire sprinkler system, the air transfer ducts, the balancing dampers and all of the normal components of the ceiling grid, the cost and time required for construction can be significantly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventors: Paul Giulo Panelli, David Emmett Benson, Howard Lyle Gile
  • Patent number: 6460365
    Abstract: The present invention provides an indoor unit of a package air conditioner sustaining a high air cooling efficiency and improved exterior appearance by constituting the front lower panel of indoor unit with a plate and a frame and making the imbibed indoor air dispersed evenly over the entire heat exchanger through a first air inlet port provided between the plate and the frame and second air inlet ports on the side of the frame. The front lower panel 11 of the indoor unit 10 according to the present invention is consisted of a frame 11a installed on the front lower portion of the main body and of a plate 11b placed with an inclination of the predetermined angle for the frame 11a and has a first air inlet port 12 and second air inlet ports 12′ through which the indoor air is flown, wherein the first air inlet port 12 is formed between the plate 11b and the frame 11a and the second air inlet ports 12′ is formed on the side portion of the frame 11a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Mando Climate Control Corporation
    Inventor: Jung-suk Kim
  • Patent number: 6460366
    Abstract: A reinforced structure of the front lower panel for a package air conditioner may comprise a front lower panel, which is mounted on the front lower portion of the indoor unit of the air conditioner having a blower device for air circulation, evaporator coils for heat exchange, permitting the air inside the interior space to flow into the indoor unit for passing across the evaporator coils through the air inlets 12 and 12′, and includes the reinforcement structures formed on the inner corner portion between a front frame 11a and a side portion of the frame 11c having air guides 20 of the front lower panel 11, to strengthen the structural rigidity of the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Mando Climate Control Corporation
    Inventor: Jung-suk Kim
  • Publication number: 20020016149
    Abstract: Inside a blown-out air duct in the air conditioner through which conditioned air reaches a blowing-out port, there is provided a rectifying box having a air passage therein, for rectifying a flow of the conditioned air toward a predetermined flowing direction in order to prevent any dew condensation at the blowing-out port in the air conditioner. In the meantime, in order to suppress noise, rectifying plates for reducing an inflowing angle of air flowing into the fin tips of a heat exchanger are interposed between an axial fan and the heat exchanger for taking in the air from the axial fan for heat exchanging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Kondou, Jun Kitamura, Takahiro Murayama, Motoo Sano, Shinichi Suzuki, Hiroaki Ishikawa, Akira Takamori, Hiroshi Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 6260375
    Abstract: An air conditioner blowing cool air to many directions includes a housing having a hollow chamber, a face plate formed in a bottom of the housing. The face plate has a wind inlet and plural wind outlets. A wind box is provided on the wind inlet and in the hollow chamber of the housing. The housing and the wind box both have a windpipe connected to a wall and then the windpipe is connected to the air conditioner. Thus a single air conditioner can blow cool air to every corner of a room by means of the wind outlets, having at the same time functions of wind blowing and wind returning, with its cost reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Inventor: Chin-Sheng Kuo
  • Patent number: 6132309
    Abstract: A modular clean room plenum includes a rectangular plenum body with an air barrier forming a top surface of the modular clean room plenum and a ceiling grid forming a bottom surface of the modular clean room plenum. The modular clean room plenums are attached to the primary support structure of a clean room building in whatever number and configuration is required by the clean room layout. By providing, in one modular component, the air barrier layer, the ceiling grid, the framework between the two layers, the fire sprinkler system, the air transfer ducts, the balancing dampers and all of the normal components of the ceiling grid, the cost and time required for construction can be significantly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Inventors: Paul Giulo Panelli, David Emmett Benson, Howard Lyle Gile
  • Patent number: 6093097
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes an air inlet and an air outlet, an electric dust collector for removing dust from the air, a refrigerant-conducting heat exchanger for changing a temperature of the air, a fan for circulating air through the air conditioner, and an electrical heater which is energized when the fan and the electrical dust collector are energized, for heating the cleaned air. The electric dust collector communicates with only a lower portion of the air inlet. A closure mechanism for opening and closing the air inlet is operable to open only the lower portion of the inlet to insure that all of the air entering the air conditioner passes through the electrical dust collector during an air cleaning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Seok Cho
  • Patent number: 5938524
    Abstract: A damper blade system for positioning proximate a duct includes a housing with two, opposing sides; a first damper blade; and a second damper blade. The first damper blade is rotatably supported between the two sides of the housing, and one end of the first damper blade is coupled to a damper gear. The second damper blade is also rotatably supported between two sides of the housing adjacent the first damper blade, and one end of the second damper blade is coupled to another damper gear. The system further includes a support disposed on the side of the housing with the damper gears; a rack, having a plurality of teeth engaging the damper gears, movably disposed in the support; and a drive means for moving the rack along the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: NRG Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ashley Cunningham, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5836814
    Abstract: A damper blade system for positioning proximate a duct includes a housing with two, opposing sides; a first damper blade; and a second damper blade. The first damper blade is rotatably supported between the two sides of the housing, and one end of the first damper blade is coupled to a damper gear. The second damper blade is also rotatably supported between two sides of the housing adjacent the first damper blade, and one end of the second damper blade is coupled to another damper gear. The system further includes a support disposed on the side of the housing with the damper gears; a rack, having a plurality of teeth engaging the damper gears, movably disposed in the support; and a drive means for moving the rack along the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: NRG Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ashley Cunningham, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5764149
    Abstract: A smoke detector which includes a cover that is attached to a housing base by a mechanical latch. The housing contains a fan that induces an airflow through the housing, a smoke detector that can detect smoke in the airstream, and a flow sensor that can measure the flowrate created by the fan. The flow sensor and fan can be captured by plates that slide into inner walls of the housing and are secured by the cover. The cover also has a latch for securing a grill to the smoke detector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventors: Jayant D. Patel, Brian Matthews
  • Patent number: 5746655
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having an air inlet at its lower end. An air outlet is formed in an air discharge member which is mounted at an upper end of the housing. The discharge member is vertically movable relative to the housing, whereby the outlet is closed by a portion of the housing when the discharge member is in a lowermost position and becomes progressively opened as the discharge member is raised. Sensors are provided for detecting various positions of the discharge member during its vertical movement. The discharge member is moved by a main electric motor, and an auxiliary motor is moved into an operative position for vertically moving the discharge member when the main motor malfunctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gab-Youl Lee
  • Patent number: 5522768
    Abstract: A noise reduction curb for use as an interface with a rooftop air conditioning unit by forming a base upon which the air conditioning unit rests and is mounted on a roof of a building. A noise reduction supply air duct is oriented in the longitudinal dimension of the air conditioning unit and has a supply air inlet fluidly coupled to the supply air source and a supply air outlet fluidly coupled directly to the supply ducts in the building. The supply air inlet is longitudinally displaced from the supply air outlet and is separated therefrom by a flow turbulence reducing substantially straight duct section. A noise reduction return air duct is oriented in the lateral dimension of the air conditioning unit and has a return air inlet fluidly coupled directly to the return air ducts in the building and a return air outlet fluidly coupled to the air conditioning unit. The return air inlet is laterally displaced from the return air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: American Standard Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence R. Brodt, Gregory L. Meeuwsen, Richard T. Weisbecker
  • Patent number: 5453049
    Abstract: Air purification or filtration unit having a triangular housing, with the open front face being the hypotenuse of the triangle. The unit is particularly adaptable for use with conventional sized high efficiency particulate air, or HEPA filters and low penetration air, or ULPA filters, to create a highly filtered clean air environment. The unit includes a circulating fan within the housing to draw air through the filters and housing and to exhaust the air through the top housing wall for recirculation, and can also be ducted to exhaust filtered air from the environment, either in whole or in part. A germicidal ultra violet light may be placed within the housing for additional air purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Isolate, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard W. Tillman, Jr., Van B. Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5376045
    Abstract: An airhouse for supplying conditioned air to the interior of an enclosed building. Matched twin blowers symmetrically arranged within the airhouse enclosure are operated in unison to insure a balanced air flow into the airhouse and through the blowers. A burner unit mounted intermediate the blowers is flanked by matching outside air inlets having controllable dampers, preferably of a canister-type, operable in opposition. A building return air inlet located midway between the blowers likewise has canister-type dampers operable in opposition. The blowers may be independent and operated at the same speed by separate drive means, or they may be mounted on a common shaft operated by a single drive means. A controller may be provided for varying the speed of the drive means. In one embodiment dampers may be provided for the building air outlets along with dampered openings from the blower enclosures to the external atmosphere for rapidly expelling contaminated air from the building interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Professional Supply, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Kiser
  • Patent number: 5368072
    Abstract: A terminal unit for an air handling system and comprised of a housing having a conditioned air inlet for receiving forced conditioned air in the housing. A main outlet opening and a by-pass air outlet opening are provided in the housing. An air flow path is defined between the air inlet and the outlet openings. An air divider gate is slidingly displaceable transverse to the air flow path to deflect air entering the inlet to one or both of the outlet openings. The divider gate has an outlet obstructing rear end and an upstream deflecting face. A linkage assembly is connected to the divider gate to displace the gate across the flow path to simultaneously open one of the outlet openings and close the other, in equal proportions, as desired, while maintaining a substantially constant total outlet opening area as well as maintaining substantially constant inlet air flow conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: E. H. Price Ltd.
    Inventor: Anthony Cote