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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8147302 | Multipoint air sampling system having common sensors to provide blended air quality parameter information for monitoring and building control A system for monitoring air quality conditions, comprising, a multi-point air monitoring system comprising, a plurality of sensors for collecting air quality data from a plurality of at least partially enclosed areas; one or more data processing units for processing... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7850513 | High efficiency solar powered fans Highly efficient solar fans used in portable and built in configurations. A ventilation fan can be used for exhausting air out from underneath roofs, and/or for being portable in use and application. The fan can include optimized airflow blades having a twisted conf... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7662035 | High efficiency solar powered fan Highly efficient ventilation fans for exhausting air out from underneath roofs, and for being portable in use and application. The fan can include optimized airflow blades having a twisted configuration that can move at a rotational speed operation of up to approxim... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7625276 | Shroud for axial flow fan An axial flow fan shroud fixes and supports the axial flow fan and a driving motor while surrounding the axial flow fan. The shroud includes a housing having a ventilation hole at the center of the housing and surrounding the axial flow fan; a motor fixing part at t... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7585210 | Negative air supplied (NAS) crawlspace system A system for drying the crawlspace of a home, reducing mold in the crawlspace and in the living area of the home, and that creates healthy air exchanges in the living area of the home with fresh air from the outside. The Negative Air Supplied (NAS) crawlspace system... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7357394 | Modular shooting range Disclosed is a modular, expandable, and portable shooting range system. The system can include one or more shooting modules that mount together to provide different numbers of shooting lanes with various lengths. The shooting modules are pre-engineered with removabl... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7326387 | Air decontamination devices Air decontamination devices in one example include a filter directly exposed to ultraviolet (“UV”) radiation on an upstream side and a downstream side. Ozone may be provided to permeate the filter, as well. Reflectors may be provided to reflect UV radiation emit... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7262705 | Recessed detector assembly for detecting and venting airborne substances A recessed detector assembly having the capability to detect and evacuate air laden with airborne substances from within the assembly. The assembly includes a detector frame adapted to be flush mounted into a mounting box mounted in a ceiling or a wall, the frame ha... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7250000 | Building with improved vent arrangement A system and method of vent placement within a building is provided for improved passive ventilation. Vents are provided within the dividing structures or material layers that form the building's exterior and interior walls, ceiling, roof, floor, and/or intermediate... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244179 | Suspension type oscillation mechanism A suspension type oscillation mechanism including a frame set having an upper frame with a frame hole, a casing secured to the frame set, a crank set, an axial barrel and a fastening rod. The crank set has cranks rotationally joining to each other and an end of the ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7105037 | Semiconductor manufacturing facility utilizing exhaust recirculation A semiconductor manufacturing process facility requiring use therein of air exhaust for its operation, such facility including clean room and gray room components, with the clean room having at least one semiconductor manufacturing tool therein, and wherein air exha... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7044851 | Air handling system for specialized facility An air handling system for a specialized environment, such as an operating room in a hospital or other health care facility is presented. The air handling system includes an air recirculation system having a blower for drawing air from the specialized environment fo... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040057 | Architectural system adaptable to patient acuity level An architectural system adaptable to patient acuity level has a headwall unit with a cavity, a ceiling unit, and a column coupled to the ceiling unit. The column is movable between a first position in which at least a majority of the column is situated in the cavity... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029518 | Method and apparatus for the preparation of clean gases A method and apparatus for preventing contamination of a substrate or a substrate surface, and particularly relates to prevention of contamination of raw materials, semi-finished products, base materials of products and substrate surface in a high-tech industry such... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013655 | Method and systems to provide pre-engineered components and custom designed components to satisfy the requirements of an engineered air conditioning system A method to manufacture an engineered air-conditioning system that satisfies desired air-conditioning specifications, the engineered air-conditioning system including a refrigeration component coupled to at least one of an energy recovery system and an indirect evap... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6966937 | Patient isolation unit A patient isolation unit including a foldable frame body, a flexible envelope made of a flammable resin sheet which can be attached to the assembled frame body, and an exhauster to discharge or exhaust the air from the envelope. The exhauster includes a UV lamp, an ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6935944 | Air systems for vehicles A vehicle with an air system for directing a flow of air at the rear of a head and/or neck of a person occupying the vehicle and/or for directing a flow of air to a space under a roof or canopy of the vehicle to dissipate hot air beneath the roof or canopy. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932850 | Pleated filter and a method for making the same A filter may comprise a plurality of pleats, at least one pleat including a pair of pleat legs and pleat tip region. In some embodiments, a thickness of pleat tip region at a point spaced about one to four pleat leg thicknesses from the end of the pleat tip region m... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6920874 | Intelligent ventilating safety range hood An improved ventilating range hood that drives a variable speed fan according to the state of four distinct air quality sensors: temperature, humidity, Carbon monoxide and smoke. A micro-controller is used to integrate the four signals and determine the appropriate ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6869457 | Clean room for semiconductor device A clean room has an equipment installation area where an apparatus for treating an object to be treated such as a semiconductor wafer is installed, a process area 4 where the object is loaded in or unloaded from the apparatus, and an operation area where oper... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6783054 | System for controllably conducting welding operations adjacent flammable materials and method of welding adjacent flammable materials A system (10) for conducting welding adjacent flammable materials (12) on a platform (11) is disclosed having a chamber (13) defining an interior space (16). The system also includes a welding apparatus (48) operable within ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6709475 | Installation for processing wafers An installation for processing wafers that includes fabrication units, which are located in a clean room, and includes a supply system for supplying and discharging operating substances for the fabrication units. The supply system has first supply lines and first di... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6675739 | Livestock cooling system A livestock cooling system creates an environment for protecting the health and productivity of animals, particularly dairy cows. One or more cooling fans are connected to programmable oscillation means, enabling the herds man to program fan oscillation a... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6675542 | Housing for an internal combustion engine A housing includes side walls having a plurality of offset sections with air exit gaps defined between adjacent sections and a roof with an air exit gap defined therein. The housing also includes an air intake section and a door section. The air flow is b... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6514137 | Modular clean room plenum In accordance with the present invention, a modular clean room plenum is provided. This modular clean room plenum includes a rectangular plenum body with an air barrier forming a top surface of the modular clean room plenum and a ceiling grid forming a bo... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6444289 | Perforated faced insulation assembly An insulation assembly for a forced gas unit comprises a facing layer and a porous insulation layer joined together by an adhesive. The facing layer includes pressure-balancing and non-pressure-balancing regions. Perforations are formed in the facing laye... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6402612 | Column fan unit An air handling system for use in a building is used in combination with an elevated floor assembly for mounting on a principal floor of the building, this assembly including a working area floor which lies above the principal floor so as to provide an ai... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6361431 | Method for ventilating an internal space by rotating air flow A method for ventilating an internal space by rotating air flow comprises a step of blowing out a jet of internal air having a vertically long rectangular cross section and uniform blowout velocity distribution over the cross section horizontally along th... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6267665 | Column fan unit An air handling system for use in a building is used in combination with an elevated floor assembly for mounting on a principal floor of the building, this assembly including a working area floor which lies above the principal floor so as to provide an ai... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6248014 | Self-contained activity module A self-contained activity module comprises a base assembly, a first service housing and distribution unit positioned on the base comprising walls forming at least one service passage, and a second service housing and distribution unit positioned on the fi... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6132309 | Modular clean room plenum A modular clean room plenum includes a rectangular plenum body with an air barrier forming a top surface of the modular clean room plenum and a ceiling grid forming a bottom surface of the modular clean room plenum. The modular clean room plenums are atta... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6123617 | Clean room air filtering system An air filtering system for a clean room has a make-up air handling unit that supplies filtered make-up air to a primary air handling unit. The make-up air that enters the make-up air handling unit is supplied from an outside source (such as the air outsi... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6099405 | Damper blade system A damper blade system for positioning proximate a duct includes a housing with two, opposing sides; a first damper blade; and a second damper blade. The first damper blade is rotatably supported between the two sides of the housing, and one end of the fir... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6053809 | Smoke detection and ventilation system A system for detecting the presence of smoke within a building and providing means to remove the smoke, into the airspace above the ceiling thereby preventing or at least alleviating smoke inhalation, property damage, and allowing more time for the safe e... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5868528 | Clean air bulk material handling method and system In order to decrease or eliminate environmental contaminants from fluent particulate matter that is removed from bulk material carriers by conventional vacuum conveyor systems, the bulk material carrier is moved into an enclosure which can be closed off f... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5722886 | Ventilator A ventilator which includes a male member is telescopically received within a female housing. The male member is longer than the passage in the female housing such that the male member protrudes from the passage of the female housing. Radial air flow pass... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5690165 | Ventilation device for a space zone The invention relates to a ventilation device. Provision is made that the air propulsion plant (20) conveys at least a portion of the air in an air circulating mode by means of at least one variable volume chamber (6) in a pulsating manner at a very low f... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5639188 | Clean air bulk material handling system In order to decrease or eliminate environmental contaminants which are added to fluent particulate matter removed from bulk material carriers by vacuum conveyor systems, the bulk material carrier is moved into an enclosure which can be closed off from the... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5453049 | Corner air filtration unit Air purification or filtration unit having a triangular housing, with the open front face being the hypotenuse of the triangle. The unit is particularly adaptable for use with conventional sized high efficiency particulate air, or HEPA filters and low pen... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5344287 | Fan shroud adaptor and assembly A combination fan and fan shroud adaptor assembly includes a fan with a circumferential wall, front and rear grill faces and a driven fan blade between the faces and within the wall. The fan shroud adaptor has a substantially flat frame which is attachabl... | 09/06/1994 |
