Patents Assigned to Bowles Fluidics Corp.
  • Patent number: 8348606
    Abstract: An enhanced pump assembly includes an impeller and volute casing designed to provide high operating pressures (ā€œPā€) and flow rates (ā€œQā€) with low energy usage. The impeller has a central shaft carrying radially projecting curved primary vanes, and each primary vane also has a twist in the radial direction. Secondary impeller vanes define triangular connecting fillet-like wall segments connecting each primary vane to the impeller shaft. The casing of the pump has a slight spiral deviation so that the pump chamber's radial sidewall flares away from the swept area of the impeller's vanes to define a fluid outlet that contributes to higher P-Q performance, especially when pumping colder fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corp.
    Inventors: Shridhar Gopalan, Alan Romack, Chunling Zhao
  • Patent number: 8172162
    Abstract: An improved fluidic oscillator, that operates on a pressurized liquid flowing through the oscillator to generate a liquid jet that flows into the surrounding gaseous environment to form of an oscillating spray of liquid droplets, includes: a member into which is fabricated a two-portion, flow channel, with its first portion configured so as to create the flow phenomena in the member that yields the spray's oscillating nature, and its second portion includes a splitter that is used to divide the jet into component sprays whose centerlines assume a specified yaw or pitch angle relative to the centerline of the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corp.
    Inventors: Shridhar Gopalan, Gregory Russell, Daniel Eugene Steerman