Patents Examined by Anthony Donald Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11519319
    Abstract: An electromagnetic silicone oil water pump clutch, comprising: a water pump body, a pump shaft, an electromagnetic solenoid coil, a belt pulley, a coupling shaft sleeve, a driven disc, a spring piece, a coupling disc, a driving disc, and a silicone oil cavity shell. The pump shaft is provided at the center of the water pump body; a fixing plate is provided at one end of the water pump body; the electromagnetic solenoid coil is provided on the fixing plate; the belt pulley is provided on the water pump body; the silicone oil cavity shell is pressed and riveted on one side of the belt pulley; the coupling shaft sleeve is fixed to one end of the pump shaft; the spring piece is provided on the outer side of the coupling shaft sleeve; the coupling disc is provided on the spring piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU RISING UNITED AUTO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD.
    Inventors: Mingjiang Dong, Dajin Gong, Dunlv Liu, Haifeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11512715
    Abstract: A device for protection of wastewater pumps for wet accumulation chambers has a separation chamber provided with a discharge pipe for discharging wastewater into a sewerage network. A supply pipe connected to the separation chamber supplies solid particles containing wastewater into the separation chamber. A reversing valve arranged between the supply pipe and the separation chamber prevents reverse flow of wastewater into the supply pipe. A bidirectional pipe connected to the separation chamber connects the separation chamber with a pump, where the bidirectional pipe serves to supply wastewater from the separation chamber into the pump positioned in the wet accumulation chamber and for reverse flow of wastewater from the pump into the separation chamber to a discharge pipe. A solid particles separator arranged between the separation chamber and the bidirectional pipe separates solid particles contained in wastewater in the separation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Aqua4um s.r.o.
    Inventors: Roman Rusnák, L'ubo{hacek over (s)} Krivu{hacek over (s)}, L'ubo{hacek over (s)} Hurban, Tomá{hacek over (s)} Matulik
  • Patent number: 11512701
    Abstract: A cutting system for a grinding pump, including a cutting disc attached to the pump near an inlet and having a cutting surface with multiple cutting orifices, and a rotating cutter attached to the rotating shaft of the pump and having two cutting blades, each blade having a cutting edge on a forward-facing side of the rotating cutter. The rotating cutter is located on the upstream side of the cutting disc, and cooperates with the cutting orifices of the cutting disc to perform cutting actions. Each cutting orifice has a hole extending from the cutting surface through the cutting disc to form a feeding orifice, and a cutting protrusion protruding from the cutting surface and surrounding the hole region. The multiple cutting orifices define recessed areas of the cutting surface between the cutting orifices. The cutting system can prevent uncut floating matters from being trapped, and is effective and safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Chengli Li
  • Patent number: 11499564
    Abstract: A free-tipped axial fan assembly features a shroud barrel comprising an inlet, the radius of said inlet at its upstream end being greater than the radius of said inlet at its downstream end. An angle, in a plane including the fan axis, between the surface of said inlet and the direction of the fan axis varies non-monotonically with respect to a surface coordinate which increases with distance along the surface of the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert J. Van Houten, Yoonshik Shin
  • Patent number: 11493921
    Abstract: According to an exemplary method, a smoothing module can be used in an ADV to iteratively perform a smoothing operation on a raw reference segment using an ordered list of sets of smoothing parameters, starting from the set of strictest parameters, until the smoothing operation is successful. The method includes the operations of generating multiple sets of smoothing parameters, including a first set of smoothing parameters, a second set of smoothing parameters, and at least one set of smoothing parameters interpolated in between; for each set of smoothing parameters, performing a quadratic programming (QP) smoothing operation on the raw reference line segment until the QP smoothing operation is successful; and controlling the ADV according to a smoothed reference line segment generated by the successful QP smoothing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11491743
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a gas turbine casing out of composite material of varying thickness, the method including making a strip-shaped fiber texture by three-dimensional weaving; winding the fiber texture as a plurality of superposed layers onto a mandrel of profile corresponding to the profile of the casing that is to be fabricated, so as to obtain a fiber preform of shape corresponding to the shape of the casing that is to be fabricated; and densifying the fiber preform with a matrix; wherein, before beginning to wind the fiber texture onto the mandrel, a reinforcing band of width smaller than the width of the fiber texture is placed on the mandrel in a zone that is to form a retention zone of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Son Le Hong, Roland José Yann Mortier, Antoine Phelippeau
  • Patent number: 11466702
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods for cleaning a filter are described, including apparatuses that include a built-in mechanism for cleaning a filter screen. The system can include a brush mounted in contact with a filter screen, adapted so that the brush can be moved to clean the filter screen. In some versions, the brush rotates with an axis of rotation perpendicular to a plane defined by a substantially planar filter screen. In other versions, the brush is adapted to be moved by a gravitational force along a surface of a filter screen upon removal of a pump housing from a pump well. In still other versions, a substantially cylindrical brush is mounted nested with a substantially semi-cylindrical filter screen, and the brush can be rotated while in contact with the filter screen and with an axis of rotation aligned with a longitudinal axis of the filter screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Kickstart International, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin John Fisher, Alan Charles Spybey, Simon Maina Mugo
  • Patent number: 11465461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a construction machine, road milling machine, stabiliser, recycler, surface miner, and a to method for controlling a construction machine. The construction machine has a machine frame 2 supported by a chassis 1 and a plurality of hydraulic systems 15, 16, each of which has at least one hydraulic component 18, 22, at least one hydraulic pump 17, 21 for conveying hydraulic fluid for the at least one hydraulic component and at least one hydraulic line 28, 31 for transporting the hydraulic fluid from the at least one hydraulic pump to the at least one hydraulic component. The drive device of the construction machine comprises at least one internal combustion engine 24. A power transmission device 44 is provided for transmitting at least part of the drive power from the internal combustion engine 24 to the hydraulic pumps 17, 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Frank Burkhard
  • Patent number: 11454159
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a coolant circuit. In one example, the coolant circuit comprises high and low-temperature radiators, where only one pump is configured to conduct coolant through the entire coolant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Guenter Quix, David van Bebber, Jan Mehring, Antonio Farina, Herbert Ernst
  • Patent number: 11434857
    Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to an automatic drain system for use with a fluid water separator. The automatic drain system includes a liquid-in-fuel sensor. The liquid in-fuel sensor is configured to detect a liquid level in a water sump. The solenoid has an open state and a closed state. A control unit is configured to activate the solenoid in response to a signal from the liquid-in-fuel sensor. Activation of the solenoid causes the solenoid to go from the closed state to the open state. The automatic drain system is placed in a condition for allowing fluid flow through the automatic drain system from the water sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Brian K. Wagner, Bryan P. Steffen, Ayesha Saha, Erica C. Clark-Heinrich, Anil I. Sawant, Sonal Laxman Chirme, Mahesh Suresh Chindarkar, Barry Mark Verdegan
  • Patent number: 11434018
    Abstract: An air inlet device for an air inlet of an aircraft. The air inlet device has air guide arrangements. An air guide arrangement has an inlet plate, an outlet plate, and pivot plates arranged therebetween. The outlet plate and the pivot plates can be rotated about a central axis of the air inlet device by adjustment rings, so that the air guide arrangement is transitioned from a linear state to a curved state, and vice versa. The air inlet device allows for selective switching between a state with low radar signature and a state with high performance of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Stangl
  • Patent number: 11428149
    Abstract: A cooling device for an in-wheel motor may include: a cooling circuit configured to form a flow path of oil in an in-wheel motor; an oil tank connected to the cooling circuit, and configured to supply oil to the cooling circuit or store oil from the cooling circuit; a valve installed on a pipeline connecting the cooling circuit to the oil tank, and configured to control movement of oil according to a control signal; and a controller configured to receive a traveling condition of a vehicle and a temperature of the in-wheel motor, and transmit a control signal to control the operation of the valve and adjust the amount of oil flowing through the cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hae Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 11421634
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine that includes a first fuel pump that sucks fuel through a fuel filter, and a second fuel pump that supplies the fuel to a fuel injection device. The internal combustion engine comprises: a first fuel pipe that interconnects the fuel filter, the first fuel pump, and the second fuel pump set to have a pressure higher than a pressure of the first fuel pump; and a second fuel pipe that connects the second fuel pump to the fuel injection device that injects fuel into a combustion chamber formed in a cylinder portion of the internal combustion engine, a shielding wall covering an outside of the cylinder portion is provided between at least a part of the second fuel pipe and the cylinder portion, and the shielding wall includes a holding portion that holds at least the first fuel pipe and the second fuel pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sayaka Yasoshina, Manabu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11408358
    Abstract: A throttle drive actuator for an engine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor connects with a valve of a throttle body to rotate the valve, to open a close an air passage of the throttle body of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KOHLER CO.
    Inventors: Martin L. Radue, William D. Koenigs
  • Patent number: 11409289
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize a rich motion expression of an autonomous mobile object by easier attitude control. The information processing device includes: a motion control unit that controls a motion of an autonomous mobile object, wherein the autonomous mobile object includes a wheel that can be stored inside a main body and that can be protruded to an outside of the main body, and the motion control unit keeps a standing state by making the wheel protruded to the outside of the main body and performs driving control of the wheel and attitude control of the autonomous mobile object in movement of the autonomous mobile object, and makes the autonomous mobile object remain still in a seated state during a stop thereof by storing the wheel inside the main body is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS. INC
    Inventors: Noriaki Takagi, Masahiro Shimase, Tomoyuki Sonoda, Daisuke Watanabe, Kohei Takada
  • Patent number: 11401882
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a status of a heater core isolation valve (HCIV) housing in an engine coolant circuit including a first coolant loop and a second coolant loop. In one example, a method may include indicating degradation of the HCIV based on a difference between a first coolant loop temperature and a second coolant loop temperature upon activation of coolant system pumps and deactivation of a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater housed in the cabin heating loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sitaram Rejeti, Robert Roy Jentz, Sridhar Kalivarapu
  • Patent number: 11384781
    Abstract: A turnbuckle for adjustably locking a component of a gas turbine engine to an engine static structure is disclosed. In various embodiments, the turnbuckle includes an outer body having a first internal threading and an outer body witness hole, the outer body defining a first end configured for attachment to the component; an inner body having a first external threading, the inner body defining a second end configured for attachment to the engine static structure; and a coupling body having a second internal threading configured to threadedly engage the first external threading and a second external threading configured to engage the first internal threading, wherein the outer body witness hole extends through the outer body and is configured to detect a first short-threading of the second external threading within the first internal threading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Seth Michael Glaser, James Evans, Michael C. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 11384700
    Abstract: Control of a spark ignited internal combustion in response to an exhaust manifold pressure measurement of an engine is disclosed. An engine out NOx amount for at least one cylinder is determined at least in part in response to the exhaust manifold pressure measurement and a brake mean effective pressure of the at least one cylinder. An operating condition of the engine is adjusted in response to the engine out NOx amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Feng Hsieh, Andrew G. Kitchen, Axel Otto zur Loye, Jinghua Zhong, Richard A. Booth, Robert J. Thomas, Jisang Sun
  • Patent number: 11352939
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling an oil pump for a vehicle which may control the speed of the oil pump. The apparatus includes a controller configured to control the speed of the oil pump based on the temperature information of a motor and oil and the speed and torque information of the motor, and, when the vehicle is being driven, the controller confirms whether or not a motor or oil temperature is higher than or equal to a first set temperature, controls the speed of the oil pump to a maximum speed value when the motor or oil temperature is higher than or equal to the first set temperature, and calculates a control speed value and controls the speed of the oil pump to the calculated control speed value when the motor or oil temperature is lower than the first set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Neung Seop Oh
  • Patent number: 11339692
    Abstract: An engine oil filtration and temperature regulation assembly (1) mountable on a vehicle engine fluidically connectable to an engine oil circulation system (1). The assembly includes an oil filtration group (2), a heat exchanger group (3) and a support and fluidic connection group (5) to engage to the engine and to support the filtration group (2) and the heat exchanger group (3). The group (5) includes a base plate (50) fluidically connected to receive and return oil from and to the engine. The group (5) includes a support and fluidic connection device (500), between the base plate (50) and the filtration group (2) and/or heat exchanger group (3) having a multi-layer assembly (510) having plate-shaped elements (5101, 5102, 5103, 5104, 5105, 5106) overlappable to constitute respective ducts to create a fluidic connection between the engine and oil filtration group (2) and/or heat exchanger group (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: UFI FILTERS S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Girondi