Patents Examined by Charles W Nichols
  • Patent number: 11125242
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor system including a first compressor having: an inlet at which a first inlet guide vane is provided; and an outlet pressure sensor unit configured to measure a pressure at an outlet of the first compressor; a second compressor including an inlet at which a second inlet guide vane is provided; a first control unit configured to adjust a degree of opening of the first inlet guide vane based on the pressure measured by the outlet pressure sensor unit, configured to set the outlet pressure of the first compressor as a set pressure, and configured to generate a first signal including information about the degree of opening of the first inlet guide vane; and a second control unit configured to receive the first signal, and configured to adjust a degree of opening of the second inlet guide vane to control an amount of fluid flowing into the second compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: HANWHA POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sungsoon Park, Joosang Eom
  • Patent number: 11118588
    Abstract: A pump system includes dual centrifugal pumps mounted on a fabricated skid. Both pumps are belt driven by one motor. The pumps are piped with three two-way valves and crossover piping configured such that the pumps can be operated in either series or parallel flow using a single inlet and outlet for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Cornell Pump Company
    Inventors: William Schlittler, James Garvin, Andrew Enterline
  • Patent number: 11085432
    Abstract: An inflating device comprises a valve body and a gasbag, the valve body being provided with a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a gas storage chamber; the gas inlet has a gas intake valve device provided therein, and the gas outlet has a gas exhaust valve device provided therein; the gas storage chamber is communicated with the gasbag; and the gas inlet is communicated with the gas outlet through a chamber body of the valve body, and the gas storage chamber is communicated with the chamber body. In the invention, gas can be fed into an inflatable product by continually pressing with hands, without requiring electricity or blowing with mouth. The inflating device of the invention is convenient to operate, clean and sanitary. The inflating device of the invention has a small volume and is thus convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Zhiming Liu
  • Patent number: 10876540
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotating apparatus may include an electromagnet winding that consumes power generated during regeneration. A motor voltage monitoring circuit detects that a voltage at a motor driving main circuit is higher than a voltage during normal operation, due to overshoot or the like after arrival at a set speed during deceleration or acceleration of a motor. The motor voltage monitoring circuit transmits a high-voltage detection signal to a braking current adjusting circuit and a magnetic bearing control circuit. Upon receiving the high-voltage detection signal, the braking current adjusting circuit reduces a braking current command value for the motor so as to maintain an excitation voltage for the motor constant or reduce this excitation voltage, and an amplifier control circuit in the magnetic bearing control circuit increases a bias current flowing through an electromagnet winding to increase power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Hideki Omori
  • Patent number: 10823204
    Abstract: A pump equipped with a plurality of systems includes a first system and a plurality of second systems, each of the plurality of systems containing an enclosed gas placed in contact with an internal liquid, it being possible for the enclosed gas to be placed at a depressed pressure or at a raised pressure in relation to the pressure of surroundings external to the system by variations in level of the liquid. The respective liquid environments of the plurality of systems are connected continuously so that compression or depression of the gas enclosed in the first system leads to successive variations in the levels of liquid in the second systems following successive applications of raised pressure or depressed pressure to the gases contained in the plurality of systems so as to allow the pumping of an external liquid in contact with the internal liquid of one of the systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Le Bemadjiel Djerassem
  • Patent number: 10801479
    Abstract: A control device of a piston pump unit comprising at least two piston-cylinder units that operate in a phase-shifted manner for the purpose of liquid chromatography and to a piston pump unit is described. The control device corrects fluctuations of the system pressure while switching from one piston cylinder unit to the respective other piston cylinder unit. The fluctuations can occur as a result of the cooling of the liquid medium that is heated in an adiabatic manner during a pre-compression phase in the working piston. The control unit controls the piston speed of at least one piston-cylinder unit during the transition phase depending on at least one characteristic, which is ascertained from chronologically previously detected pressure values, such that variations of the system pressure as a result of the cooling of the adiabatically heated medium are at least partially compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: DIONEX SOFTON GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Strobl
  • Patent number: 10738773
    Abstract: A piezoelectric blower includes a first valve, a first housing, a vibrating plate, a piezoelectric element, a second housing, and a second valve. The first housing forms, together with the vibrating plate, a first blower chamber. A first top plate portion includes a first vent hole that allows an inside of the first blower chamber to communicate with an outside of the first blower chamber. The second housing forms, together with an actuator, a second blower chamber. A second top plate portion includes a second vent hole that allows an inside of the second blower chamber to communicate with an outside of the second blower chamber. The vibrating plate includes an opening portion and a third vent hole, the opening portion allowing an outer periphery of the first blower chamber and an outer periphery of the second blower chamber to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10731647
    Abstract: A high pressure compressor according to the present disclosure and a refrigerating cycle device to which the high pressure compressor is applied may include a casing having a sealed inner space; drive motor provided in the inner space of the casing; a compression unit provided in the inner space of the casing, and provided with a compression space for compressing refrigerant, and provided with a suction port for guiding refrigerant into the compression space, and provided with a discharge port for guiding refrigerant compressed in the compression space into the inner space of the casing a discharge valve provided in the compression unit to selectively open or close the discharge port according to a difference between a pressure of the inner space of the casing and a pressure of the compression space of the compression unit; a first valve configured to suppress refrigerant discharged from the inner space of the casing from flowing backward into the inner space of the casing; a bypass pipe connected between a d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jingyu Lee, Jeonghyeon Park, Yeongcheol Ko
  • Patent number: 10724534
    Abstract: A blood pump includes a housing and a rotor within the housing configured to rotate along an axis. The rotor may include a hub, the hub having regions with blades and regions without blades. The regions without blades may have a constant outer diameter and may extend along at least one fourth the length of the hub. The regions with blades may have an increasing outer diameter. Blades may be disposed on a downstream end region of the hub and extend downstream of the hub. Blades may begin approximately halfway along the axial length of a motor stator located about a hub and extend downstream of the motor stator. Blades may have portions that produce axial fluid flow and radial fluid flow with improved flow characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TC1 LLC
    Inventors: Yi-Ren Woo, Onur Dur, Steven H. Reichenbach
  • Patent number: 10704550
    Abstract: Liquid injected screw compressor with an inlet valve and blow-off valve; a liquid circuit with injector; a controller for the transition from unloaded to loaded, whereby when unloaded the inlet valve is closed and the blow-off valve is open, and when loaded the inlet valve is open and the blow-off valve is closed, and whereby during an aforementioned transition, when the injection pressure is below a minimum threshold, the inlet valve remains closed and is opened with a certain delay and that there are means to gradually increase the injection during this delay and to open the inlet valve when the injection pressure has reached the minimum threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Pieter De Schamphelaere
  • Patent number: 10648368
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment includes, among other things, an epicyclic gear train having an input and an output, the input coupled to a first turbine, the output coupled to an accessory drive shaft, and at least one engagement feature on a component of the gear train. An actuator is engageable with the at least one engagement feature to cause the accessory drive shaft to rotate. A method of driving a section of a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Slayter, Tyler L. Klipp
  • Patent number: 10641258
    Abstract: An inflating device comprises a valve body and a gasbag, the valve body being provided with a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a gas storage chamber; the gas inlet has a gas intake valve device provided therein, and the gas outlet has a gas exhaust valve device provided therein; the gas storage chamber is communicated with the gasbag; and the gas inlet is communicated with the gas outlet through a chamber body of the valve body, and the gas storage chamber is communicated with the chamber body. In the invention, gas can be fed into an inflatable product by continually pressing with hands, without requiring electricity or blowing with mouth. The inflating device of the invention is convenient to operate, clean and sanitary. The inflating device of the invention has a small volume and is thus convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Inventor: Zhiming Liu
  • Patent number: 10612533
    Abstract: A reciprocation pump has a supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber and a waste liquid side sub-pumping chamber for containing and sending out liquid adapted to communicate with the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and with the waste liquid-side pumping chamber, respectively. The supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber are interlocked with a reciprocation mechanism to vary their volume reversely to that of the volume variation of the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side pumping chamber, respectively. The reciprocating motion of the reciprocation mechanism enables the liquid to be supplied to the objective apparatus through the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and the supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber. Also, it enables the waste liquid from the objective apparatus to be discharged to the outside through the waste liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nikkiso Company Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10598175
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a linear compressor, and a linear compressor operable with high power and low noise are provided. The apparatus may include a reference operating frequency determiner that determines a reference operating frequency at which a linear motor is operated, and an actual operating frequency determiner that determines an actual operating frequency as an arbitrary value included in a predetermined numerical value range in a vertical direction around the reference operating frequency. A correction signal may be determined by the actual operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungseok Kang, Jaeyoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 10578112
    Abstract: The invention provides method and system of controlling flow rate in a pipeline network for fluids. The system includes a demand management system to monitor fluid flow rate in the pipeline network (10) and a pump (34) to increase the fluid flow rate when the demand management system determines an increase in fluid flow rate is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: RUBICON RESEARCH PTY LTD
    Inventor: David John Aughton
  • Patent number: 10557357
    Abstract: A seal structure includes: a first member and a second member facing a combustion gas flow passage; a third member on an outer side of the combustion gas flow passage; a heat-resistant coating on at least one of a first end face and a second end face, both of the first end face and the second end face being closer to the combustion gas flow passage; and a contact part in each of the first end face and the second end face, further on the outer side of the combustion gas flow passage than the heat-resistant coating. The contact part is configured to restrict relative movement of the first member and the second member by directly or indirectly coming into contact with the first member and the second member in a state where a clearance is left between the heat-resistant coating and the end face facing the heat-resistant coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kondo, Shinya Hashimoto, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10544809
    Abstract: A dry roughing vacuum pump includes a valve (10; 15) with a through-passage arranged in the discharge line (9), the valve (10) with a through-passage being able to move between a closed position in which the valve (10; 15) with a through-passage is in contact with a seat of a mouth (12) of the discharge line (9) and an open position in which the valve with a through-passage is moved away from the mouth (12) of the discharge line (9), the vacuum pump including a motor gas injection device (13) that is configured to inject a motor gas into the inlet (11a) of the Venturi-effect passage (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUM
    Inventors: Thierry Neel, Serge Brandolin
  • Patent number: 10533672
    Abstract: An inflation device includes an airbag and an air valve. An air inlet is provided at an upper end of the air valve, an air outlet is provide at a lower end of the air valve, an inlet valve that is unidirectionally opened. inwards the air valve is provided at the air inlet, the inlet valve can be opened to a deflation position, an outlet valve is provided at the air outlet that is unidirectionally opened outwards the air valve, a push aim extending towards the outlet valve is configured in the air valve and is movable up and down, the push arm is actuated to move towards the outlet valve if the inlet valve is opened, and is pressed against the outlet valve if the inlet valve is at the deflation position. The deflation operation of the inflation device is simple due to the configuration of the push arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG TRAVELMALL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiming Liu
  • Patent number: 10495075
    Abstract: A method is provided for actively compensating for pressure changes of a working fluid within a conduit. A first cavity is provided in fluid communication with the conduit. A second cavity is in fluid communication with a control fluid. A plunger is in communication with both the first cavity and the second cavity and is movable in response to pressure changes of the working fluid in the conduit. The plunger is re-centered. Re-centering the plunger includes the following steps. Position data representative of movement of the plunger is collected. The position data is analyzed with a control unit to determine an average position of the plunger which is offset relative to a center position. The average position of the plunger is compared, with a control unit, to the center position. A signal is relayed from the control unit to a control valve to urge the plunger toward the center position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Paul C. Stavrou
  • Patent number: 10480504
    Abstract: A rotational speed control apparatus for an engine is provided. The engine configured to drive a compressor that compresses a cooling medium for air conditioning. The rotational speed control apparatus includes electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (a) correct a torque of the engine through feedback in accordance with a deviation between a rotational speed during idle operation and a target rotational speed; (b) (i) calculate a load torque of the compressor, and (ii) correct the calculated load torque through feedback in accordance with a deviation between the rotational speed of the engine and the target rotational speed and correct a required value of the torque of the engine in accordance with the corrected load torque, in a predetermined period from a start of a changeover between a driven state of the compressor and a stopped state of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Yasumichi Inoue