SAFETY SYSTEM FOR GAS GRILL
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240019127A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US18222404

    申请日:2023-07-14

    IPC分类号: F24C3/12 F23N5/24

    摘要: A specialized miniature housing installable between a source of gas and gas burners provides an aftermarket safety system for a gas grill. The system prevents accidental accumulation of gas in an enclosed volume within or around an unignited grill, thereby reducing or eliminating the risk of explosion. The housing includes a microcontroller coupled to an internal flow sensor, an external temperature sensor, and a valve. In response to signals received from the sensors, the microcontroller commands the valve to remain open only when positive flow through the housing is coincident with sufficient temperature at the burners. Otherwise, or upon loss of power, the valve closes to cut off gas supply to the grill.

    BURNER AND WATER HEATING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240003536A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18210781

    申请日:2023-06-16

    摘要: A burner includes a mixing chamber having therein a space in which fuel and air are mixed to form a mixture, a chamber lower cover that is coupled to the mixing chamber while covering an opening formed in the mixing chamber in a reference direction and has a combustion opening opened in the reference direction, a porous distribution unit that includes a metallic sintered material, through which the mixture passes in the reference direction, and covers the combustion opening, a distribution plate that has a plurality of distribution through-holes, through which the mixture passing through the porous distribution unit passes, and covers the combustion opening on the downstream side of the porous distribution unit in the reference direction, and an ignition unit that covers the combustion opening on the downstream side of the distribution plate to ignite the mixture passing through the distribution plate.

    Method for operating a premix gas burner, a premix gas burner and a boiler

    公开(公告)号:US12025309B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US17442580

    申请日:2020-03-25

    IPC分类号: F23N1/02 F23D14/02 G06F30/20

    摘要: A method for operating a premix gas burner wherein an air flow rate and/or a fuel gas flow rate are controlled so as to generate heat with the premix burner in accordance with a heat demand related value. The fuel gas comprises hydrogen and the method further provides a desired air excess factor relation of the air/fuel gas mixture which defines the relation between a desired air excess factor and an input variable like the heat demand related value, an air flow rate related value, or a fuel gas flow rate related value. The desired air excess factor is not a constant factor but varies for different input variable values. The fuel gas flow rate and/or the air flow rate are controlled such that an actual air excess factor converges towards the desired air excess factor while meeting the heat demand.

    COOKTOP INCLUDING A SINGLE INPUT CONTROL OF MULTIPLE HEATING ELEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20240077206A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US17902001

    申请日:2022-09-02

    IPC分类号: F24C3/12 F23N1/00 F24C3/08

    摘要: A cooktop appliance includes a first heating element; a second heating element adjacent to the first heating element; a first supply line in upstream fluid communication with the first heating element to direct fuel thereto; a second supply line in upstream fluid communication with the second heating element to direct fuel thereto, the second supply line being in fluid parallel with the first supply line; a first supply valve provided on the first supply line upstream from the first heating element; a second supply valve provided on the second supply line; a supplemental line providing fluid connection from the first supply valve to each of the first supply line and the second supply line; a supplemental line valve provided on the supplemental line; and a controller operably coupled with the supplemental line valve, the controller being configured to selectively open the supplemental line valve.

    Modulating gas furnace and associated method of control

    公开(公告)号:US11739983B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-29

    申请号:US17024252

    申请日:2020-09-17

    摘要: A method is provided for controlling combustion in a modulating gas furnace. The method includes receiving an indication of a firing rate setpoint for a burner assembly, and applying the firing rate setpoint to first and second continuous functions that map the firing rate setpoint to air-to-fuel ratio and combustion system pressure setpoints. A variable-speed draft inducer blower is set to drive to a combustion system pressure setpoint, and the modulating gas valve is controlled during combustion in the combustion system. In this regard, a combustion system pressure measurement is obtained and applied to an inverse of the first continuous function that outputs an adjusted firing rate for the combustion system pressure measurement. The adjusted firing rate is applied to a third continuous function that maps the firing rate to gas valve position, and outputs a gas valve position to which the modulating gas valve is set.