Ventilation inventions 04/09

20090111369 - Portable work station: A portable work station including a main housing, a fan and motor housing, transition housing and an exhaust housing with the housings being selectively removably secured together rather than being welded as in the prior art. The work station includes a ballast compartment in the main housing into which ballast... Agent: Thomte Law Office, L.L.C.

20090111370 - Ventilating air intake arrangement with mobile closing device: The invention concerns a ventilating air intake arrangement with mobile sealing device. The arrangement comprises at least one air passage channel (12) with an air vent (14), and is designed to ventilate at least one confined zone (11) in an aircraft with fresh air entering upstream, through the air vent,... Agent: James E. Ledbetter Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher

20090111371 - Exhauster baffle: An exhauster baffle is provided that may be used to prohibit fluid flow through a cavity except when a pressure on one side of the exhauster baffle is greater than a pressure on another side of the exhauster baffle. The exhauster baffle includes a body portion defining an opening, a... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090111372 - Series fan and frame set thereof: A serial fan is provided and includes a first fan and a second fan. The first fan includes a first frame, and the second fan includes a second frame. The first frame and the second frame form a frame set. The first frame has at least one first locking portion.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090111373 - Motorized gear and coupling system: A system for controlling airflow in a plenum, that comprises a worm gear and planetary gear that are removably coupled to a worm shaft and planetary shaft, respectively. The planetary shaft controls the movement of a damper between an open position permitting maximum airflow through the plenum, and a closed... Agent: Brian J. Lum

20090104865 - Air distribution duct in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to an air distribution duct (2) integrated in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle comprising at least one rigid hollow crossmember (1) that reinforces the structure of the vehicle, characterized in that the duct (2) is made by extrusion and is placed in the crossmember (1)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090104866 - Ventilation device: A ventilation device has a frame (12) made of a first material component, and a non-return flap element (14) made of a second material component, wherein the first material component is harder than the second material component. The non-return flap element (14) includes a movable non-return flap (18), which is... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090104867 - Building aperture mounted ventilation apparatus: A ventilation apparatus provides an intermediate space between a building window and the outside the building and provides means for controlling air flow to or from the intermediate space to or from the a building window and the outside of the building. The apparatus can be used in three modes:... Agent: John F. Sherman

20090104868 - Construction ventilation cover: One possible embodiment of the invention could be a construction ventilation cover for HVAC air outlets comprising of a body, the body having a top cover, the top cover having a top and a bottom; a box support attached to the bottom, wherein the box support is sized and shaped... Agent: Long & Chybik

20090098815 - User specific climate control system: A climate control system is provided with a control vent unit that a driver may adjust for a desired direction of airflow. After the driver does so, a control system automatically and/or simultaneously adjusts the position of the remaining vents so as to direct respective air flow to substantially the... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090098816 - Air-handling device: A method for handling air when distributing air inside an elongated vehicle includes supplying air to a roof air duct (15) inside the vehicle. A device for handling air when distributing air inside an elongated vehicle is also disclosed. It is significant of the method according to the present invention... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090098817 - Air conditioner for vehicle: A vehicle air conditioner includes a drive device for adjusting open degrees of mode doors, and a control portion which controls operation of the drive device. Air-outlet opening portions include a face opening portion for blowing conditioned air toward an upper side of a passenger compartment, and a foot opening... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090098818 - Vehicle register air flow straightener: An HVAC duct system of a vehicle includes an air duct for providing a passageway for forced conditioned air. The air duct having a first imaginary axis extending substantially parallel with the passageway. An air duct register having plurality of vane-like members for directing the flow of air as it... Agent: Automotive Components Holdings LLC C/o Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090098820 - Air conditioning apparatus: An air conditioning apparatus includes a casing and a dividing cosmetic panel. The casing has a suction port and a discharge port. The dividing cosmetic panel has a plurality of dividing panels and an opening/closing moveable mechanism for varying the positions of the dividing panels relative to the suction port.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090098819 - Ventilation device: A device is described for controlling the airflow through an airduct, the airduct having a housing, an inlet and an outlet. The device comprises a self-regulating valve having a diaphragm, the position of the diaphragm being determined by the difference between the pressure at the inlet and the pressure at... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090093206 - Onboard air conditioning system: In an onboard air conditioning system, a light source (25) for conditioned air is provided in association with an air outlet (31), and the color of the light emitted from the light source changes in dependence on the temperature of the conditioned air. The light source may consist of a... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090093207 - Door for air conditioner in vehicle: The present invention relates to a door for an air conditioner in a vehicle, which includes a sheet member adapted to surround a door body, joining means for fixing both end portions of the sheet member to the door body, and support portions protrudingly formed on sides of the door... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090093208 - Outside air introduction grill for inducting natural convection in air influx room: The present invention discloses that outside air flows into an APU room by using a difference in pressure of the inside and the outside of the APU room during driving of a bus to induct a natural convection in the APU room and thus cool an air drier provided in... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090093209 - Damper for an air duct: A damper device for use with an air duct provides a paddle positioned within the duct and an axle extending distally from, and in a common plane with, the paddle through the duct wall, to a position for manual adjustment of the paddle within the duct. A bushing is tightened... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20090093210 - Damper suitable for liquid aerosol-laden flow streams: A flow control device has a duct section with a plurality of damper blocking elements, each having a major plane. The damper blocking elements are pivotably connected to the duct section and movable in a range that is limited to ensure that, when the duct section is mounted in a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090088060 - Exhaust flue cap and filter device for a gas fired appliance: An exhaust flue cap and filter device for a gas fired appliance in communication with an exhaust flue opening having an outer pipe and a coaxial liner. The device includes a tubular cap with an open lower end, an opposed open upper end, and a plurality of ventilation holes wherein... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20090088061 - Workstation enclosure: A domed shaped housing (10) and a divider wall (16) forms a two-compartment structure. A forward compartment forms a workstation enclosure having hand-receiving openings (34, 36), a vacuum system (70, 72, 74, 76) and an air delivery tube (78). The rear section (86) of an articulated boom (82) may extend... Agent: Barnard Intellectual Property Law, Inc.

20090088062 - Vehicle body pressure relief system: A battery pack cooling and body pressure relief system for a vehicle having a passenger cabin is disclosed. The system may include an intake air flow duct connected between the passenger cabin and the battery pack, and an air flow duct connected between the exhaust air outlet and the body... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090088063 - Cabin air supercharged aircraft internal combustion engine: An aircraft having a user region therein within which pressurized air at selected pressures can be maintained using an environmental control system provided in the aircraft, and a utility region outside a utility boundary wall of the user region within which selected equipment for the aircraft is located. An internal... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090088064 - Motor vehicle air cooling method and system: A motor vehicle air cooling method and system in which electric fans are installed in the rear side of a motor vehicle to draw hot air out of the inside space of the motor vehicle so as to cause negative pressure in the motor vehicle for sucking outside cooling air... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090088065 - Air extractor to prevent wind throb in automobiles: An air extraction apparatus for automotive vehicles opens an air flow path through the passenger compartment of the vehicle when wind throb conditions are sensed in the operation of the vehicle. The air extraction opening is located in a rear facing surface of the vehicle and is covered by a... Agent: Miller Law Group, PLLC And Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20090088066 - Shielding electronic components from liquid: Shielding liquid from electronic components may be accomplished by a variety of systems, devices, and techniques. A shielding device may include a substantially vertical channel mounted to a fuel dispenser component; an airflow inlet; a plurality of arrays of angled protrusions; and a plurality of substantially vertical protrusions. The channel... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090088067 - Trickle vent: A trickle vent incorporates an automatically controlled movable damper or multiple movable dampers to control the volume of fresh air entering an occupied space of a building through the trickle vent. The trickle vent includes a heating element to condition the fresh air prior to entry into the occupied space.... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell