Ventilation inventions 12/06

20060292973 - Smoking enclosure and methods of use: Computer-controlled smoking enclosures that allows users to smoke inside without exposing individuals outside the enclosure to smoke and/or odor. Facilities for e-mail and Internet access, television programming, interactive multimedia programming, presentation of marketing messages, telephone service, and other services are provided within the smoking enclosures, as well as methods of... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20060292974 - Method of operating a change-over element of an exhaust system for vehicle: A method is provided for operating a change-over element of a motor vehicle exhaust system. The change-over element is moved into a first position or a second position, whereby a first or second flow path is adjusted in the exhaust system. For an optimized actuation of the change-over element from... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060292975 - Heat dissipating module and casing thereof: A heat dissipating module includes a casing and at least one fan. The casing includes a first casing body having at lease one air-guiding portion and at least one porous area. The air-guiding portion and the porous area are integrally formed as a monolithic unit. The fans are disposed within... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060292976 - Cord and cordless vent air conditioner: The cordless vents are attached to charger circuitry system built on window and split units. They detach from charger and can go throughout the home. They are three feet long and have fan and thermostat to circulate air. The cordless vents have five inch hoses connected to regular vents. These... Agent: Gregory Sales

20060292977 - Electrically powered air diffusers: An air diffuser 10 is provided which comprises a motor 54, an airflow control element 60 and a transmission between the motor 54 and the airflow control element 60 whereby, when the motor 54 is activated, the control element 60 is displaced either in the direction which allows airflow to... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20060292978 - Magnetic louver grille hanging system: A universal hanging system for securing louver grilles over duct openings that allows existing louver grilles to be interchanged. The hanging system comprises a ferromagnetic support member that is fastened to the surface adjacent a duct opening. A magnet is employed to removably attach a louver grille to the support... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20060292979 - Hinged ridge vent cover for mounting loose laid shingles over a ridge vent: Two rigid surfaces are joined by a hinge to form a cover for a building ridge vent formed at the apex of a pitched roof. The hinge lies along the building ridge vent with the two rigid surfaces extending down each side of the pitched roof. The rigid surfaces of... Agent: Albin H. Gess, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20060286916 - Injection compression moulding: A mould for injection compression moulding of an article includes a female mould part and a core for mounting in use on the platens of an injection moulding machine for movement towards and away from one another between an open and a closed position. A sealing ring surrounds the core... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20060286917 - Variable exhaust control for spray booths: An exhaust control system for a spray booth having at least one fan motor. The exhaust control system comprises a spraying activity detector and a speed control circuit for an electrical motor. The speed control circuit is connected to the fan motor and is linked to the detector so as... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20060286918 - Self-powered automated air vent: A self-powered automated air vent comprises a frame suitable for mounting to a duct which carries forced air, a set of louvers within the frame which can be positioned between closed and open positions, and a motor which adjusts the louvers in response to a drive signal provided by a... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20060286919 - Door actuator having dual output shaft for air conditioner of automotive vehicles: The present invention relates to a door actuator having a dual output shaft for an air conditioner of a vehicle, which includes a modulated feedback sensor having a hollow and fit to one of two output shafts of an output gear through the hollow for recognizing and controlling a feedback... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060286920 - Method and apparatus for a cleanspace fabricator: A fab can be constructed as a round or rectangular annular tube with a primary cleanspace located in-between its inner and outer tubes. The fab can be encircled with levels upon which tools can be densely packed while preserving unidirectional air flow. If only tool ports are inside, and robotics... Agent: Jonathan T. Kaplan Attorney At Law

20060286921 - Safe rooms and other such spaces and air processing systems for such safe rooms and spaces: In one example, an air processing system comprises an inlet portion defining a first inlet to receive internal air from a room and a second inlet to receive air external to the room. An air decontamination portion is downstream of the inlet portion. A first outlet portion to the room... Agent: Norris Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20060286922 - Exhaust fan controller: The invention makes the decision to turn on the exhaust fan and dry out the confined space in the event that a factory predetermined moisture level has been exceeded, thereby limiting any destruction or health risks caused by negligence on the part of users or infrequent maintenance. Periodic Maintenance schedules... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20060286923 - Air conditioner and control method thereof: An air conditioner and a method for controlling an air conditioner are provided for controlling the direction in which conditioned air is discharged during powerful operation. The air conditioner is provided with a control unit. The control unit is connected, among other things, to a compressor, a four-way switching valve,... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20060286924 - Axial flow fan improvements: An energy efficient and compact axial fan with a housing comprising a fan assembly comprising a drive motor and a propeller coupled thereto. The inlet opening and/or the outlet opening of the fan housing are provided with a shutter assembly positioned adjacent the propeller and having a plurality aerodynamically shaped... Agent: Angelo Milana

20060286925 - Hot swap fan and housing thereof: A hot swap fan, capable of being hot swapped in a system, includes a first housing, a second housing, an impeller and a terminal seat. The first housing is assembled with the second housing to form an accommodating space therebetween for accommodating the impeller therein. The terminal seat has at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060281398 - Jet generator and electronic device: A jet generator includes a casing containing a gas and having an opening, vibrators attached to the casing, and actuators for actuating the vibrators. The vibrators vibrate with the vibrational forces thereof being synthesized so as to attenuate each other, thereby vibrating the gas to eject a pulsating jet thereof... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20060281399 - Filter for suspended particles, especially for use in clean rooms: A filter for suspended particles for a clean room has at least one filter medium and at least one illumination device. The illumination device is arranged at least mostly within a vertical extension of the at least one filter medium. Alternatively, the illumination device is arranged in an area outside... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20060276120 - Exhaust filter module, and a method and apparatus for efficiency testing the same: A filter module configured for exhaust application, and a method and apparatus for testing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the filter module includes a downstream sampling port configured to allow a technician to sample flow, downstream of the filter module, from the cleanroom side of a filter module....

20060276121 - Rack enclosure: An enclosure is provided for housing electronic equipment that accommodates the different cooling and ventilating requirements of different types of equipment. The enclosure is constructed and arranged to support cooling airflow in a front-to-back configuration through the enclosure and in a side-to-side configuration from one side to an opposite side...

20060276122 - Electric fan: An electric fan includes a motor, two blade units, and two engaging units. The motor has a motor shaft that defines an axis and that has two axially opposite end segments. Each of the end segments has an engaging region. The engaging regions of the end segments are disposed at...

20060276123 - Air conditioner: A ceiling embedded type air conditioner that reduces short circuits without increasing drafts due to air currents blown out from outlets includes a casing and a fan. The casing includes a casing lower part formed by an alternating sequence of four panel side parts and four panel corner parts. The...