Ventilation inventions 03/07

20070072536 - Rack-mounted equipment cooling: A gas distribution unit for use in a rack, that holds rack-mounted equipment that produces heat during operation, includes a housing defining a cavity, an exhaust port in a top wall of the housing, and at least one intake port configured to provide fluid communication between the cavity and a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070072537 - Air diffuser: An improved air diffuser for shooting ranges and the like is both inexpensive, easy to transport, and easy to maintain. Flexible plastic is utilized for the diffuser plates providing easier manufacture and shipment of an unassembled diffuser.... Agent: Randall B. Bateman BatemanIPLaw Group

20070072538 - Modular vent assembly for a sewage pumping station: Improved modular vent assemblies for filtering and venting gases from a sewage pumping substation. A basic non-filtering vent assembly comprises a concave plastic hood with an internal enclosure, and a stop-ring mounted in the internal enclosure. A rigid grate is secured atop the main conduit, the grate comprising a rigid... Agent: Royal W. Craig Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver

20070072540 - Externally baffled ridge vent: Ridge vents and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a rollable ridge vent for covering an opening of a roof ridge includes: an elongated flexible member having a central panel portion, a pair of lateral edges and a pair of transverse ends; a pair of vents disposed... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070072541 - Passive ventilation control system: A passive ventilation control system and method. The system includes passive vents throughout a building. The vents may be arranged in multiple sets, with each set being substantially vertically aligned through multiple floors or the entire height of the building. Sensors are positioned inside and/or outside the building for sensing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070072539 - Ventilating cap for the ridge of a roof: A ventilating device for a roof having at least one vent opening. The ventilating device includes a cover extending along the vent opening. The cover may include two plies of material, a top ply and a bottom ply that are spaced apart by connecting members extending between the plies. The... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070066203 - System for the control of painting process in a spray booth, and spray booth therefor: A system for the control of the painting process in a spray furnace booth is provided, comprising a first ventilation group for the inlet air to the booth, a second ventilation group to extract air from said booth, a device for heating the inlet air into the booth and a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070066204 - Load port: A load port is provided with a table and a plate. The table is arranged on a side of a front wall of an atmospheric transfer unit for transferring a piece of material under processing and is adapted to mount on it a container with the piece of material received... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070066205 - Clean room unit: A clean room unit which is equipped with a work room and a clean bench unit can be independently installed inside a building, can generate an air shower in the work room, and can realize miniaturization and cost reduction. The clean room has a work room, a clean bench unit... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070066206 - Air outlet device for vehicle cabin: In an air outlet device for a vehicle cabin, primary wind-direction adjustment plates are rotated between a parallel condition and a series condition, to thereby provide a wind distribution function of opening the outlet opening of a tubular body and adjusting the flow direction of air and a wind shutoff... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070066207 - Vehicle roof mounted exterior air extraction unit: A vehicle roof mounted exterior air extraction unit with an elevated profile to exclude moisture from entering the vehicle, incorporating a fan for removing hot air from inside the vehicle on hot days, powered by a photovoltaic solar cell activated by an infra-red signal when the vehicle is stationary, with... Agent: Michael Smith And Associates Limited

20070066208 - Enhanced acoustic heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning unit: The present invention relates to a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning unit, particularly for a motor vehicle interior, comprising a box (1) comprising at least one canal (10, 28, 96) having at least one wall (50, 64, 90) channelling an air flow in the box (1). The wall (50, 64,... Agent: Valeo Climate Control Corp. Intellectual Property Dept

20070066209 - Fan with laminar flow element in front of the suction hole: A radial fan (1) with a housing (2) and a fan impeller (3) disposed therein, an air inlet (4) and an air outlet (5) is provided, a pressure space (6) being formed between the latter, and in front of the air inlet (4) a laminar element (7) being disposed which,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070066210 - Windshield system for a saddle-type vehicle: The effect of a windshield for a saddle-type vehicle such as a low-slung type of motorcycle or three-wheeled vehicle is enhanced, and pressure is sufficiently adjusted in an open space at the back of the windshield using an inventive windshield system. The vehicle includes a leg shield in front of... Agent: Carrier, Blackman & Associates, P.C.

20070066211 - Air distributor device or air mixing device: The invention relates to an air distributor device (1) comprising an air conduction housing (2) and a displaceable flap (6) that is located in the air conduction housing (2). Said air conduction housing is equipped with an air inlet (3) and at least two air outlets (4, 5), which can... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070066212 - Nozzle array, especially for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a nozzle array (4), especially for a ventilation system of a motor vehicle, comprising a nozzle (1) arranged on one end of the flow channel and a grid (2) arranged in the outlet of the nozzle, wherein the grid (2) covers partly the outlet of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070066213 - Variable air volume time modulated floor terminal: A floor terminal for positioning in a passageway in a raised floor system having conditioned air. The floor terminal includes an air delivery system, a damper coupled to the air delivery system, and a grate assembly coupled to the air delivery system. The air delivery system includes a pair of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070066214 - Flush mounted frame for an access panel or register: A frame apparatus capable of being flush mounted relative to a wall, ceiling or floor surface, is made up by joining linear frame sections each providing interconnected elements formed by an extrusion process. A first planar element is spaced apart from a second planar element and positioned for abutting a... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070066215 - Air conditioning apparatus: An air conditioning apparatus is provided. The air conditioning apparatus includes a cover assembly having an indoor air suction hole, a filter assembly cleaning indoor air sucked through the indoor air suction hole, and a grill. The grill includes a discharge grill formed on a side for discharging the indoor... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070066216 - Exterior roofing surface comprised of foam: An external roofing surface comprised of foam is non-ignitable, insect resistance, very strong and extremely lightweight. The foam is also easily shaped by a number of shaping techniques, which allows for a more aesthetically pleasing appearance and can be used to make a roofing system that interlocks and has channels... Agent: Manuel F. De La Cerra

20070060034 - Gaming machine smoke control systems and processes: Smoke control systems and processes for controlling tobacco smoke in areas near a slot machine and similar gaming machines, in which the smoke control system is associated with the gaming machine.... Agent: Eugene Berman Law Offices Of Eugene Berman

20070060035 - Air exhausting device, in particular for a vehicle and corresponding method for exhausting air: The invention relates to an air extracting device (1) and a corresponding method for extracting air which is used, in particular for a vehicle and comprises at least one supplied air stream (8). The out-flowing characteristic of the inventive device (1) varies between a scattering characteristic (12) and a spot... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070060036 - Air conditioner and method for assembling the same: In an air conditioner having a main body provided with a panel 1 including a front panel 1a and a top panel 1b, the main body incorporating an air passage connecting an air inlet 2 and an air outlet 3, an air filter 4, a heat exchanger 5, a blower... Agent: Venable LLP

20070060037 - Shroud for axial flow fan: Disclosed therein is a shroud for an axial flow fan, which can fix and support the axial flow fan and a driving motor while surrounding the axial flow fan. The shroud for the axial flow fan includes a housing having a ventilation hole (10a) formed at the center thereof and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070060038 - Air conditioning equipment, fan equipment, method of reducing noise of equipment, pressure pulsation reducer for refrigeration cycle equipment, pressure pulsation reducer for pump equipment and method of reducing pressure pulsation of equipment: Air conditioning equipment that ensures sufficient noise reduction in the low frequency range of a few hundred hertz or below. The air conditioning equipment is characterized by including a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between air and refrigerant of a refrigeration cycle, a fan that supplies air to the heat... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070060039 - Arrangement and method to sense flow using mechanical stress microsensors: A fluid flow control assembly includes at least one flow control device movably attached to a structure through which fluid flows, the flow control device operable to at least partially regulate fluid flow through the structure. The assembly also includes an actuator, at least one rotatable mechanical element and a... Agent: Elsa Keller Legal Assistant, Intellectual Property Department

20070060040 - Register for air conditioning: An air-conditioning register includes a cylinder-shaped retainer, a plurality of horizontal fins, a connecting rod, an actuating member, and a moving member. The cylinder-shaped retainer has opposite upper and lower walls and opposite side walls, which form an outlet opening and an air passage. The horizontal fins have a swing... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070060041 - Hybrid metal-plastic roof vent: A vent for a tile roof is disclosed. The vent includes a first member preferably substantially formed of a metal, a second member preferably substantially formed of a plastic material, and a connector attached to the underside of the second member. The second member is positioned below and spaced apart... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070054610 - Three flow architecture and method for aircraft obiggs: An air separation system and method wherein the outlet of a primary air separation module (one or more modules or bundles of fiber membranes) is split into two flow paths, a low flow path and a high flow path. The outlet of a secondary air separation module (one or more... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar

20070054611 - Fan cover assembly: A fan cover assembly is proposed for installing one or more fans therein, including: a fan frame having a first blocking portion, a second blocking portion, and a third blocking portion, wherein the second block portion includes at least an upper blocking portion and at least a lower blocking portion,... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070054612 - Roof ridge vent, assembly and method of installation: A roof ridge vent has a pair of opposed, spaced-apart, elongate strips of ventilation material providing ventilation passageways transversely therethrough and forms opposed longitudinally-extending sides of the vent. The elongate ventilation strips are interconnected by a plurality of supports extending transverse relative to the elongate ventilation strips. Each adjacent pair... Agent: Howson And Howson

20070049188 - Aircraft cabin pressure control system and method for reducing outflow valve actuator induced cabin pressure oscillations: A cabin pressure control system and method that reduces or inhibits gear train backlash and the concomitant cabin pressure oscillations associated therewith. The cabin pressure control system includes a variable proportional-integral (PI) controller that implements a proportional function with a variable gain term and an integrator function with variable saturation... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070049189 - Ventilator: A ventilator is provided. The ventilator includes blowers 60 and 70; ducts 62 and 72 that are connected to the blowers 60 and 70 to form a blow path having at least one bent part; and a sound-absorbing material 90 that is provided in the bent part of the blow... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070049190 - Ventilating moisture barrier for roof vent: The present invention relates to a protective barrier adapted to fit over a roof vent, particularly an off-ridge roof vent, which provides for ventilation and also restricts pass-through of wind-driven rainwater. The barrier comprises two parallel orifice plates, such as louvered panels with passages, that are spaced apart a desired... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.