| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 261026000 | Automatic control | 22 |
| 20090108475 | Device for applying cooling mist and dry air to individuals - An apparatus and method are disclosed for cooling one or more exercising or resting individuals by applying a water mist and dry air. The apparatus can be free standing, fixed to the walls or ceiling, or attached to an object on which an individual is resting or exercising. The mist and dry air can be applied together or separately, simultaneously or alternately, with varying timing and intensity. In some embodiments, the mist and dry air are manually controlled or operate according to the passage of time. In other embodiments the need for cooling is determined by one or more physiological parameters measured by sensors directed toward or attached to an individual, or embedded in an object on which an individual is resting or exercising. Still other embodiments estimate the heating of the individual by measuring the amount of work performed or the rate of energy expenditure. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090184432 | Air Freshener Device And Methods For Controlling An Amount Of Evaporated Scented Material Emitted From The Air Freshener Device - A method for controlling an amount of evaporated scented material emitted from an air freshener device include generating a first control signal to induce the motor to rotate fan blades at a first rotational speed during a first time interval which urges air flow toward the aperture of the container to induce evaporation of the scented material in the container. The method further includes generating additional control signals to induce the motor to increase a rotational speed of the fan blades during a second time interval to increase air flow toward the aperture of the container, the second time interval being after the first time interval, such that first and second mass rates of evaporated scented material from the container during the first and second time intervals, respectively, are maintained within a predetermined mass rate range. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20100001417 | FRAGRANCE DEVICE WITH FRAGRANCE AMOUNT INDICATOR - Methods and compositions of providing a signal when a fragrance dispenser has reached a predetermined amount of fragrance. In one embodiment of the invention, a dispenser is provided that includes a fragranced polymer pad. The pad shrinks as the fragrance is exhausted. After the pad has shrunk to a predetermined level, an actuator causes a signal to be emitted, indicating that the fragrance should be supplemented. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100052193 | Adjustable cycle timer control for aerators - A liquid container aeration system for replenishing gases dissolved in a selected liquid present in an interior of said liquid container that checks on an electrical power source capability to continue operation and allows selected liquid substitution in the interior of the container. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100090355 | LIQUID TREATMENT DEVICE - The invention relates to a device which can be used to aerate a body of liquid such as wine. The device is provided to be portable and to be used with a body of liquid which is held within a container from which the liquid can be directly consumed. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110006445 | Multiple brand ice beverage dispenser - A beverage dispenser for dispensing beverages includes a touch panel assembly, removable fittings in a carbonator, a carbonator probe, and a carbonator pump assembly removable from a front of the beverage dispenser. The touch panel assembly includes a light source for backlighting a user interface and providing the dispenser with a visual presence. Electrode traces in the touch panel assembly detect interruptions in electrode fields and are accepted as user inputs for dispensing a beverage. A controller conducts the lighting, dispensing, and reconfiguring operations for the flavor selection areas on the user interface. The touch panel assembly further includes provisions for increasing a user interface area to increase visibility of a particular flavor, as well as bonus flavors on a beverage dispenser. The removable fittings each include an orifice for entry of water to be carbonated into the carbonator. The carbonator probe is a single wire probe with timed refill. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110068486 | HUMIDIFIER WITH VARIABLE WATER DELIVERY - A humidifier for adding humidity to an air stream of an HVAC system during a call for humidity includes an air intake configured to fluidically interface with an HVAC duct, a humidifier pad, a valve for controlling delivery of water from a water source to the humidifier pad, and a controller for controlling the valve. The controller may be configured to cause the valve to deliver a variable amount of water over a particular call for humidity. For example, and in some instances, the controller may cause the valve to deliver water to the humidifier pad for substantially less than all of the time for a particular call for humidity. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110309534 | Decontamination liquid supply device - A gas supply passage | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120018907 | Cooling Tower System With Chemical Feed Responsive to Actual Load - A system for controlling chemical feed to a cooling tower system may include a controller that may receive at least one input signal and send a control signal to a controllable feed apparatus to enable or disable the chemical feed to be delivered to the cooling tower system. The control signal may be sent in response to the at least one input signal. The system also may include a monitoring device to monitor consistency of the delivery of chemical feed to the cooling tower system. The monitoring device may send a monitor signal to the controller evaluating the consistency of the delivery of chemical feed to the cooling tower system. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120074600 | ELECTRICALLY ACTIVATED CARBURETTOR - In order to create an electrically activated carburettor for petrol engines with an air funnel for sucking in fuel from a fuel line leading into the air funnel which is connected to a fuel chamber and between fuel chamber and orifice in the air funnel a fuel jet for adjusting a fuel quantity that can be sucked in from the fuel chamber because of vacuum in the air funnel that can be flexibly adapted as carburettor more preferably for power implements, which overcomes the abovementioned disadvantages of the prior art and has a simple, sturdy construction which allows constant long-term behaviour, it is proposed that in series connection with the fuel jet at least two Tesla diodes are provided, between which a pumping chamber with a pumping unit is located. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120161340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MINERAL BUILDUP ON DRIFT ELIMINATORS OF A COOLING TOWER - Apparatuses, methods and systems directed to reducing mineral buildup on drift eliminators of a cooling tower. Some embodiments of the invention allow irrigation of the drift eliminators of the cooling tower with fluid in the basin of the cooling tower to reduce mineral buildup. In other embodiments, the systems disclosed can be integrated with the drift eliminators to provide constant irrigation of to reduce mineral buildup. In some other embodiments, a control unit is used to selectively irrigate the drift eliminators based on the fluid temperature in the basin and the temperature inside and outside of the cooling tower. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20130049236 | Device and Method for Dispensing Volatile Compounds and Cartridge for Use Therewith - A device for dispensing and/or diffusing a volatile compound such as a fragrance, or other similarly volatile compounds, comprises a controller unit connected to a motorized fan unit for producing an airflow in an airflow path between an air inlet and an air outlet. The device also comprises a removable cartridge containing a substrate bearing the volatile compound(s); the cartridge being generally located in the airflow path, typically downwind from the fan unit. The airflow flowing through the device picks up the volatile compound molecules from the substrate, typically from its surface, and carries them such as to dispense them in the air. The cartridges are provided with a computer-readable unit having stored therein information which can be retrieved by the controller unit, the controller unit being configured for retrieving and updating the information and for driving the fan unit based on the information retrieved from the computer-readable unit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20150130087 | Low Dispersion Scent Sampler for Point of Sale Display - A low dispersion scent sampler for point of sale display has a housing with a front panel to which a label advertising products sold at the point of sale may be affixed. Inside of the housing is a blower connected to a timer control circuit and battery through a pushbutton actuated switch. A scented material is provided in the air flow path from the blower to one or more exhaust ports. When the pushbutton is pressed by a consumer, the blower turns on for a brief period of time to force air over the scented material and then through the exhaust ports for sampling of the scent emitted by the scented material. The on time for the blower is brief to limit exposure to the scent to the space occupied by the consumer. | 05-14-2015 |
| 261027000 | Liquid inlet | 9 |
| 20090200687 | TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR LIQUID - An aeration tank used in a method of treating effluent includes a pipe for transporting the effluent from the source to the tank bottom and a discharge duct having a siphon effect for tapping off an overflow from the tank as more effluent is added from the source. An array of air diffusion members is located in the center of the tank. Above each of the air diffusion members is provided a collector guide surface which collects bubbles as they get too large and channels them to outwardly from the center into a honeycomb filter medium formed in part annular members around the center. The filter medium receives the air and directs it back into the center around the guide surface to act as a growth medium for a biomass of bacteria. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20120299205 | SYSTEM FOR DENITRIFYING EXHAUST GAS CAPABLE OF PREVENTING BLOCKAGES IN A UREA WATER INFLOW PATH AND AN INJECTION NOZZLE, AND DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING UREA WATER CAPABLE OF PREVENTING THE COAGULATION OF UREA WATER - A system for denitrifying exhaust gas, including a urea water injection unit for supplying urea water and air to a reaction chamber, wherein the urea water injection unit includes: an air supply unit for supplying external air to an injector through an air supply line; a urea water supply unit for supplying urea water to the injector through a urea water supply line; a water supply unit for supplying water to the injector through a water supply line connected to one side of the urea water supply line; a flow control valve for selectively supplying water or urea water to the injector through the urea water supply line; and the injector respectively connected to the air supply unit and the urea water supply unit to selectively discharge air, urea water or water to the reaction chamber through an injection nozzle. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130119567 | CARBURETOR FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A purge and prime assembly for a carburetor includes a purge and prime pump that alternately takes in and discharges fluid, and a plurality of passages through which fluid is routed. The passages may include a purge passage through which fluid is drawn by the purge and prime pump, a return passage through which fluid is discharged from the purge and prime pump and discharged from the carburetor, and a priming passage through which a portion of the fluid discharged from the purge and prime pump is routed to a main bore of the carburetor. The assembly may also include a purge valve that prevents fluid from being discharged from the purge prime pump through the purge passage, and a return valve that prevents fluid in the return passage from being drawn into the purge and prime pump. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130234345 | FUEL METERING DIAPHRAGM WITH BACKING PLATE - In at least some implementations, a carburetor having a fuel metering system including a diaphragm assembly that moves in response to pressure changes in a metering chamber to actuate a metering valve may include a flexible diaphragm adapted to carried by a body of the carburetor at a periphery to define part of the metering chamber. The portion of the diaphragm that defines part of the metering chamber defines a chamber projected area of the diaphragm. A backing plate is attached to the flexible diaphragm and arranged to be located outside the metering chamber. The backing plate having an outer perimeter defining a plate projected area, wherein an area ratio of the plate projected area to the chamber projected area is greater than about 0.1. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130256924 | LIQUID TREATING DEVICE - A liquid treating device includes a liquid guide cylinder having liquid suction and ejection ports, a liquid supply unit that supplies liquid to the liquid suction port, a pumping-up unit that is provided within the liquid guide cylinder and suctions liquid from the liquid suction port and ejecting liquid from the liquid ejection port, a liquid ejection space part that enlarges liquid, which has been ejected from the liquid ejection port by the pumping-up unit, in an upper part of a closed tank, a gas supply unit that supplies gas in the liquid ejection space part under pressure, a reflux passage that circulates liquid from the liquid ejection space part through space between the tank and the liquid guide cylinder to a lower part of the liquid guide cylinder, and treated liquid taking-out piping that takes out treated liquid from a lower part of the tank to an exterior. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20150130088 | VOLATILE SUBSTANCE DELIVERY SYSTEM - A volatile substance delivery system includes a volatile substance container to contain a volatile substance, a volatile substance delivery structure, and a volatile substance drop delivery system to deliver a drop of the volatile substance to the volatile substance delivery structure for delivery to an ambient environment. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150328599 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC CARBONATOR FLUID LEVEL CONTROL MECHANISM - A carbonator tank assembly is disclosed for use in a beverage machine wherein the beverage dispensed therefrom is a carbonated beverage. The carbonator tank includes walls defining a carbonator tank interior. A probe assembly is provided for coupling in a gaseous and fluid-type manner to the walls of the carbonator tank. The probe assembly has no floats but includes elongated probes having removed ends configured to extend into the interior of the carbonator tank and near ends exposed exteriorly. An electronics module is adapt to fluidly enclose an electronics assembly therein. The electronics module includes walls adapted to receive an electrical cable carrying electrical energy from a remote source. Elements within the electronics module, such as integrated circuits, receive the electrical energy from the cable and provide it to electrodes extending from the walls of the electronics module. The electrodes and the electronics module are adapted to removably couple to the probe assembly such that the electrodes provide energy from the electronics assembly located in the interior of the electronics module and receive signals back from the probes and provide these signals to the electronics assembly. The signals are a function of an immersed/exposed condition of the removed ends of the probes, the immersed/exposed conditions reflecting an immersion or exposure to the fluid level in the carbonator tank of carbonated fluid. The signals received by the electronics assembly are sent to the pump and other elements of the dispensing assembly to control the pump so as to provide water to the carbonator tank responsive to a low-fluid signal. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150352505 | GAS-LIQUID DISSOLVING TANK AND MICROSCOPIC BUBBLE GENERATOR - This invention provides a microscopic bubble generator that can stably/efficiently generate a large amount of microscopic bubbles in liquid in a short time and can be easily cleaned in an assembled state and in a disassembled state, and a gas-liquid dissolving tank that can be suitably used for the apparatus. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160121257 | CAPTURE AND RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR GASES AND PARTICLES - A system for capturing and recovering polluting gases and particles by means of self-priming pumping caused by induced flow pumps which are part of a close circuit of steam under pressure, thereby allowing a high efficiency in the decontamination and cleaning of the gas being extracted from environments having a high concentration of gases and particles, thus achieving low energy requirements and reintegrating the clean air to the atmosphere, also recovering and recycling the condensed steam resource which has been used in the process. | 05-05-2016 |
