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Combustion February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110045416 - Compressor and method for compressing gaseous fuel: A method for compressing gaseous fuel is disclosed. The method includes, ingesting gaseous fuel into a chamber, ingesting air into the chamber and mixing the gaseous fuel with the air, igniting and partially combusting the resulting mixture of gaseous fuel and air in a confined space such that a predominant... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110045415 - Lamp with heat-responsive decoration: A lighting product including a holder for an illumination source, a frame, attached to the holder including a back plate having a front surface adjacent to the illumination source, and a layer of a thermochromic material, which is disposed on the front surface of the back plate so as to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20110045418 - Multi-fuel oil furnace: A multi-fuel oil furnace system includes a burner that may use waste oil for fuel, and a heat exchanger for providing a warmed air output from the burning of the waste oil. The burner need not require a reservoir for continuously keeping the fuel hot as may be required by... Agent: Roger Russell

20110045417 - Thermocouple shutoff for portable heater: Provided is an assembly comprising a combustion-powered heater, a target component, and a transducer operatively engaged with said target component. A combustion-powered heater may comprise a combustion site adapted to power said heater. A target component may be engaged with the combustion site. A transducer may be adapted to measure... Agent: Brouse Mcdowell Lpa

20110045420 - Burner monitor and control: A monitoring and control apparatus (220) adapted to monitor the combustion of each individual burner (224) in a furnace (1). It includes at least one laser (221) for providing a beam (223) through a flame of a burner (224) in a furnace (1), and at least one detector (222) for... Agent: Alstom Power Inc.

20110045421 - Method and apparatus of controlling oxygen supply for boiler: An apparatus of controlling oxygen supply for a boiler having wind boxes 2a and 2b arranged on left and right of a boiler body 1 is configured to control supply balance of oxygen by adjusting oxygen supply opening degrees of the left and right oxygen distribution dampers 15a and 15b... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110045419 - Method for burning liquid fuels: A method for burning liquid fuels, wherein an amount of total combustion air required for burning is introduced into the liquid fuel in the form of small air bubbles to provide a highly variable overall heat output, particularly at least within a range of one to fifty times the amount... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110045422 - Optical flue gas monitor and control: A plurality of optical monitoring systems 220,320 sense the concentration of at least one constituent in flue gasses of a furnace 1 and its emission control devices. The monitoring devices 220,320 includes at least one optical source 221 for providing beams 223 through a sampling zone 18 to create a... Agent: Alstom Power Inc.

20110045423 - Gas pilot burner assembly: A pilot burner assembly for easy removal of a thermo-electric or other device is disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, a burner tube, thermo-electric device, and/or spark source are retained in a desired position via a bracket and resilient clip. The bracket may include retention features built into the bracket to... Agent: Honeywell/stw Patent Services

20110045424 - Candle: A candle comprising a body of combustible wax and a wick, there being dispersed within the body inclusions of a combustible wax that has a higher melting point than has the wax of the body, said inclusions comprising a modifier, typically a fragrance or a pyrotechnic substance.... Agent: Curatolo Sidoti Co., Lpa

20110045425 - Meso-scaled combustion system: A meso-scaled combustion system. In one aspect, the system has a housing with a housing wall, a top portion defining an exhaust port, and a bottom portion having a bottom surface. A combustion chamber is positioned therein the interior volume of the housing. The combustion chamber wall has a proximal... Agent: Mckeon Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC

20110045426 - Method and apparatus for enhanced flameholding in augmentors: Techniques for the enhancement of the stability of an afterburning flame in the viscinity of a low pressure loss augmentor are provided by various geometrical modifications of the base region of the augmentor.... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20110039217 - Method and gas regulator fitting for monitoring the ignition of a gas device: A method and a gas regulator fitting for monitoring the ignition of a gas appliance in which the danger of the accumulation of an increased amount of unburned gas in a combustion chamber before the ignition of a main burner (2) is reduced. In addition, an immediate renewed attempt to... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20110039216 - Process for controlling the addition of an auxiliary fuel: The invention relates to a process for controlling the addition of an auxiliary fuel to combustion of at least one combustible material in a combustion chamber. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the process, in which the concentration is measured in the flue gas of at least... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110039218 - Candleholder: A candleholder (20) for receiving disk-shaped candles, in particular tea candles, has a receiving body (21); and an envelope body (22) implemented independently of the receiving body, and which is an annular sleeve having a substantially L-shaped or U-shaped cross-section, and includes an envelope shell (40) that covers a peripheral... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20110033805 - Low-energy flame thrower arrangement and a related method: A method for creating flames, wherein combustible powder material is injected into a gas stream (120) and the dispersed mixture of powder and gas is ignited and discharged through a nozzle (124). An arrangement suitable for implementing the method is also disclosed.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20110033806 - Fuel staging in a burner: A method for a staging operation at start up of a burner for a gas turbine engine combustor is provided. The method will stabilize the combustion of a lean-rich partially premised low emission burner for a gas turbine combustor at all engine load conditions. The method includes, adding fuel mixed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110033807 - Method for decreasing nitrogen oxides of a pulverized coal boiler using burners of internal combustion type: A method for decreasing nitrogen oxides of a pulverized coal boiler using burners (2) of internal combustion type comprising: designing or changing all or part of burners of the pulverized coal boiler as internal combustion type burners (2), in which the ignition sources may be plasma generators (1) or ignition... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20110033808 - Method for regulating and controlling a firing device and firing device: A method is proposed for regulating a firing device taking into account the temperature and/or the burner load, in particular with a gas burner, comprising the regulation of the temperature (Tactual) produced by the firing device using a characteristic which shows a value range corresponding to a desired temperature (Tdesired)... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110033809 - Connection duct: The invention is a connection duct between the blower and a mixing device of a burner. The connection duct expands wedge-shaped along a first direction and diverts air from the blower to a second direction. The connection duct further comprises diverting means for diverting the air in a circular flow... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20110033810 - Insulated burner system for gas-fueled lighters: A burner assembly for gas-fueled lighters includes a metallic burn chamber rigidly connected to a fuel metering valve. The burner and fuel valve are rigidly connected through an insulated coupling component. This provides a more reliable structure and reduces heat transfer from the burner to the fuel source, reducing vapor... Agent: Metz Lewis, LLC

20110027728 - Size scaling of a burner: A method for upscaling the size of a burner of a gas turbine engine including a burner housing is provided. The burner is provided with a mixture of fuel and air at an upstream end from a premixing channel that sustains a main flame at a downstream end of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110027729 - Off-gas flare: An off-gas flare system for disposing of a waste gas stream containing BTEX and VOC contaminants, and for safely handling slugs of excess liquids entrained in the waste gas stream. The flare system includes a flare stack, an enclosed steam tank disposed within the flare stack for receiving the waste... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20110027730 - Combustion accelerator for engines and burner: Described is an invention for the catalytic acceleration of combustion processes of fuels and heating oils, comprising dimensionally stable, tin-containing elements in a flow vessel for the production of tin organic compounds in the form of a flow vessel having an alloy structure or pads in a fuel filter container... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20110027731 - Combustion method and apparatus: A burner has a port facing into a combustion chamber along an axis. A secondary fuel injector structure has secondary fuel injection ports that face into the combustion chamber at locations spaced radially outward from the burner port. A tertiary fuel injector structure has tertiary fuel injection ports that face... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20110027732 - Burner of a gas turbine: The burner of a gas turbine includes two or more part cone shells arranged offset with respect to one another and defining a cone shaped chamber with longitudinal tangential slots for feeding air therein. A lance carrying a liquid fuel nozzle arranged centrally in the cone shaped chamber is also... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20110027733 - Burner: The burner includes a housing 1, an intake pipe 3 and a burner head 4. Gas in the housing 1 is supplied to the burner head 4 through the intake pipe 3. An electric wire 8 extends through the intake pipe 3 which connects a piezoelectric element 7 to a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20110027734 - System and apparatus for applying an electric field to a combustion volume: According to an embodiment, combustion in a combustion volume is affected by at least two sequentially applied non-parallel electric fields. According to an embodiment, a combustion volume is equipped with at least three individually modulatable electrodes. According to an embodiment, an electric field application apparatus for a combustion volume includes... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20110027735 - Candle having a planar wick and method of and equipment for making same: A candle having a body of a meltable fuel and a planar wick. When lit, the candle provides a unique flame formation, usable in a variety of decorative applications. The wick can be configured to evenly deplete the meltable fuel, while allowing for candles having relatively large and unique body... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110027736 - Candle having a planar wick and method of an equipment for making same: A candle having a body of a meltable fuel and a planar wick. When lit, the candle provides a unique flame formation, usable in a variety of decorative applications. The wick can be configured to evenly deplete the meltable fuel, while allowing for candles having relatively large and unique body... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20110027737 - Candle having a planar wick and method of and equipment for making same: A candle having a body of a meltable fuel and a planar wick. When lit, the candle provides a unique flame formation, usable in a variety of decorative applications. The wick can be configured to evenly deplete the meltable fuel, while allowing for candles having relatively large and unique body... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20110027738 - Supporting structure with height difference and vapor chamber having the supporting structure: A vapor chamber having supporting structure with height difference, includes a shell, tissue wick structure, working fluid filled into the shell and supporting structure with height difference, disposed over inner walls of the shell, accommodated in the shell, abutted against the wick structure, and including first corrugated piece and second... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20110027739 - Premixing-less porous hydrogen burner: This invention describes a new porous hydrogen burner that is intended to be installed on different types of furnaces requiring a precise monitoring of the thermal flux, and in particular furnaces for vapor-reforming of natural gas or naphtha.... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.