Patents Assigned to Worthington Industries, Inc.
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Patent number: 11602987Abstract: A support system is provided for a vehicle. The support system can include one or more bracket assemblies in which each includes a coupling member and a curved member in which the coupling member is affixed to a structure of the vehicle. A housing can be supported by the one or more bracket assemblies in which the housing encloses a container that stores a material such that the housing protects the container and the material. The support system provides movement between a length of the container so as to reduce deterioration of the support system.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES INC.Inventors: James B. Rike, Steven J. Tiede, Michael A. Pintz
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Patent number: 11585297Abstract: A fuel module system is provided. The fuel module system can be mounted on a chassis of a vehicle and deliver a material from a container to an engine at a regulated pressure and a target temperature for optimization of the vehicle. The flow of material can be from the one or more containers to the fuel module system and then to a portion of the engine, wherein the material housed within the one or more containers has a first temperature, a first pressure, and a first flow rate and at the delivery to the portion of engine, the material is adjusted by the fuel module system.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES INC.Inventor: James B. Rike
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Patent number: 11396230Abstract: An integrated fill system is provided for a vehicle. The integrated fill system can include a receptacle, a cap that mates with the receptacle, and a fill line that is in fluid communication between the receptacle and a container. The integrated fill system can further include a valve between an opening on an end of the container and an end of the fill line to allow one-way fluid communication for entry of compressed material into the container. The integrated fill system can further include a draw line on an opposite end of the container to maintain separate lines for filling and drawing compressed material into/from the container.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventor: James B. Rike
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Patent number: 11364795Abstract: A compressed natural gas fueling system includes a frame arrangement with at least one tank disposed therein and an inlet that can receive a compressed natural gas fueling nozzle to fill the at least one tank. The fueling system can be attached with and supported by frame rails behind a cabin of a vehicle such that the inlet is positioned above the frame rails.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES INC.Inventors: Trevor Milton, Morgan Mackelprang, Ralph Hilton, Isaac Sloan
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Patent number: 11192447Abstract: A volume tank that houses a material is provided. The volume tank can include a first bulk head, a second bulk head opposite the first bulk head, a non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section, a cylindrical shell section and a transition section in between the non-symmetrical frustoconical shell section and the cylindrical shell section. The volume tank is configured to be coupled to a portion of a frame of a vehicle, and in a non-limiting embodiment, to a school bus.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: James M. Getter, Kassandra M. Williams, Xiaoting Liang
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Patent number: 10906395Abstract: Provided is a compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system that can include a frame and at least one container. The frame can include a first side and a second side, with each side being configured to partly define a portion of an interior space. The at least one container can be configured to house or contain CNG and can be engaged to and partly encased by the frame. The at least one container can be partly located within the interior space of at least one of the first side or the second side. The frame assembly can be engaged to a chassis of a vehicle such that the at least one container is located either at least partially underneath a cab of the vehicle or at least partially behind a cab of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES INC.Inventors: Gary Gibb, Michael Pintz, Stephen Polatas
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Patent number: 10889181Abstract: An integrated fill system is provided for a vehicle. The integrated fill system can include a receptacle, a cap that mates with the receptacle, and a fill line that is in fluid communication between the receptacle and a container. The integrated fill system can further include a valve between an opening on an end of the container and an end of the fill line to allow one-way fluid communication for entry of compressed material into the container. The integrated fill system can further include a draw line on an opposite end of the container to maintain separate lines for filling and drawing compressed material into/from the container.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES INC.Inventor: James B. Rike
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Patent number: 10875704Abstract: Provided is a pressure reducing tilt nozzle that includes a body defining a cavity having an inlet and an outlet, and a piston disposed in the cavity. The piston is biased in a first piston position away from the inlet allowing flow through the inlet and is movable toward the inlet to a second piston position preventing flow through the inlet when pressure in the cavity overcomes a biasing force biasing the piston in the first piston position.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Micah Matthew Snyder, Jody Alan McKinley
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Patent number: 10760007Abstract: An LPG reclaim system for withdrawing and reclaiming liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from an unspent LPG cylinder. The reclaim system has a reclaim station for reclaiming unspent LPG from LPG bottle containers, a compressor for applying a vacuum on the reclaim station and pressurizing LPG vapor from the reclaimed LPG fluid, and a receiving tanlc for receiving a stream of pressurized liquid LPG. The reclaim system has a pair of shell-and-tube heat exchangers include cold-side tubes and a hot side shell. The reclaimed LPG fluid is passed through the cold-side tubes, while the pressurizing LPG vapor is passed through the hot-side shell of the heat exchanger. The heat applied to the cold-side reclaimed LPG fluid promotes evaporation of the LPG fluid to LPG vapor for pressurizing, and the cooling applied to the hot-side pressurized LPG vapor promotes condensation of the LPG vapor to LPG liquid for the refill containers.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Michael Joseph Goessl, Isaac Ray Ainsworth, Jeremiah Hurst, Jay Alan Haddock, James Norman Rettler, Jody Alan McKinley
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Patent number: 10668807Abstract: A compressed natural gas fueling system includes a frame arrangement with at least one tank disposed therein and an inlet that can receive a compressed natural gas fueling nozzle to fill the at least one tank. The fueling system can be attached with and supported by frame rails behind a cabin of a vehicle such that the inlet is positioned above the frame rails.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: worthington industries, inc.Inventors: Trevor Milton, Morgan Mackelprang, Ralph Hilton, Isaac Sloan
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Patent number: 10597221Abstract: Provided is a pressure reducing tilt nozzle that includes a body defining a cavity having an inlet and an outlet, and a piston disposed in the cavity. The piston is biased in a first piston position away from the inlet allowing flow through the inlet and is movable toward the inlet to a second piston position preventing flow through the inlet when pressure in the cavity overcomes a biasing force biasing the piston in the first piston position.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Micah Matthew Snyder, Jody Alan McKinley
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Patent number: 10518195Abstract: Methods of separating a multiphase mixture are provided. The multiphase flow can include petrochemicals. The multiphase flow is flowed through a vane assembly having a plurality of curved passages. The multiphase mixture is gradually decelerated such that it collides with surfaces of the vane assembly at relatively oblique angles and at lower relative speeds. Such a configuration can reduce droplet breakup which, in turn, can preserve larger droplet sizes that are more likely to settle to a liquid bed below the inlet diverter due to gravity.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Patrick R. Walker, Shaun J. Pressly, Charles Mark Bevington, Patrick J. Siewny, Naethan Eagles, David J. Hesse
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Patent number: 10449853Abstract: A compressed natural gas fueling system includes a frame arrangement with at least one tank disposed therein and an inlet that can receive a compressed natural gas fueling nozzle to fill the at least one tank. The fueling system can be attached with and supported by frame rails behind a cabin of a vehicle such that the inlet is positioned above the frame rails.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Trevor Milton, Morgan Mackelprang, Ralph Hilton, Isaac Sloan
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Patent number: D866293Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Gary Gibb, Michael Pintz, Stephen Polatas
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Patent number: D868665Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventor: James B. Rike
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Patent number: D901563Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Michael Cogliati, Jeffrey Neto
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Patent number: D933196Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Gary Gibb, Michael Pintz, Stephen Polatas
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Patent number: D949283Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Christopher Kampf, Jeffrey Neto, Ken Cerpovicz, Jody McKinley
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Patent number: D990406Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Cory Blaine Shoup, Adam Joseph Erwin, Jennifer Marie O'Brian
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Patent number: D1022695Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Worthington Industries, Inc.Inventors: Chase Evans, Ryan Berrigan, Ryan T. Victory