US 12,339,014 B2
Automated temperature control of heating radiators
Pepin Gelardi, Brooklyn, NY (US); Joseph Gonzalez, Brooklyn, NY (US); Jingwen Zhu, Brooklyn, NY (US); Jackson Zhao, Brooklyn, NY (US); Jesse Klein, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Andrew Staniforth, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Therm Controls Incorporated, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Therm Controls Incorporated, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/019,607.
Application 17/019,607 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/660,891, filed on Jul. 26, 2017, granted, now 10,816,223.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,154, filed on Oct. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0408422 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. F24D 19/10 (2006.01); F24D 1/02 (2006.01); F24D 19/08 (2006.01)
CPC F24D 19/1003 (2013.01) [F24D 1/02 (2013.01); F24D 19/08 (2013.01); F24D 2220/2027 (2013.01); F24D 2240/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radiator temperature control apparatus comprising:
a first housing for enclosing at least a portion of a radiator air vent, the first housing comprising;
a sealing mechanism for forming a seal about an air outlet of the radiator air vent;
an internal chamber formed within the first housing and sealed at least partially by the sealing mechanism; and
a fluid outlet in a wall of the internal chamber, and
a second housing independent of the first housing, the second housing comprising:
a fluid inlet;
a fluid outlet;
a fluid path between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet;
an adjustable blockage for preventing fluid entering the second housing at the fluid inlet from exiting the second housing at the fluid outlet; and
an actuator for opening and closing the blockage;
wherein, when applied to a radiator air vent, the first housing encloses the at least a portion of the radiator air vent, and the second housing is fixed to the first housing such that the fluid outlet of the first housing is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet of the second housing,
wherein the sealing mechanism of the first housing is a gasket for sealing against the at least a portion of the radiator air vent and forming the internal chamber,
wherein the first housing further comprises a retainer for compressing the at least a portion of the radiator air vent against the gasket, wherein the retainer is a plunger, and wherein the at least a portion of the radiator air vent is sandwiched between the plunger and the gasket.