Patents Examined by Christopher Brunjes
  • Patent number: 10190832
    Abstract: An integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger and method of use are provided. The integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to input an internal fluid; a first conductive bellows connected to the inlet, configured to accept the internal fluid from the inlet, configured to transfer heat between the internal fluid and an external fluid, and configured to compensate for a pressure by compressing in length; and an outlet configured to accept the internal fluid from the first conductive bellows and to output the internal fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie Srl
    Inventor: Silvio Giachetti
  • Patent number: 10145372
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor may include a shell, a first cylinder, a plate, a second cylinder, and a piston. The first cylinder may be disposed within the shell and may include a first valve. The plate may be fixed relative to the first cylinder and may include a second valve. The second cylinder may be axially aligned with the first cylinder and may be moveable relative to the first cylinder between first and second positions. The piston may be disposed within the second cylinder and may include a third valve. The piston may reciprocate relative to the first and second cylinders. The piston and the plate may define a first compression chamber therebetween. The piston and the first cylinder may define a second compression chamber therebetween. A fluid-injection passage extending through the first cylinder selectively provides a working fluid from a source to the second compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank S. Wallis
  • Patent number: 10125583
    Abstract: A borehole pump assembly operable in association with for a borehole with a well casing therein, the borehole pump assembly including an elongate pump rod operably connected to a reciprocating drive and mounting a reciprocating pump at the lower end within the well casing and an air chamber provided immediately above the reciprocating pump and concentrically about the pump rod to provide hydraulic shock absorption between the reciprocating pump and a delivery pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Wendell Hammer
  • Patent number: 10119505
    Abstract: A high pressure pump includes a pressurization portion, a discharge portion, a body portion, a valve member, an urging member, valve hold member and a limiting portion. The body portion includes a relief passage, an inlet, a valve seat, and an outlet. The valve member includes a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion. The small diameter portion is located between the valve seat and the large diameter portion and has an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the large diameter portion. The valve hold member surrounding and holding the large diameter portion. The limiting portion capable of limiting a motion of the valve hold member in a separation direction. According to this, a pressure in a fuel rail from extraordinarily increasing again after the relief valve is opened once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru Oda, Shinichiro Koshimoto, Shinobu Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10107294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coreless donut-type fan, and more particularly, to a coreless donut-type motor fan for ventilation and cooling, in which a rotating force is generated by wings themselves, without a separate rotational power such as a motor provided in a central portion thereof, and a through hole is formed in the central portion thereof to prevent a “wind barrier” phenomenon during rotation at a high speed, thereby maintaining smooth air flow, minimizing power consumption, in particular, preventing rotational noise due to induction of smooth rotation, and improving rotational efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Inventor: Suk Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 10107292
    Abstract: A vacuum/blower device is provided with a drive motor and a fan operatively connected to the drive motor and driven by the drive motor. A switching device is provided that switches the vacuum/blower device from a vacuum operation to a blower operation and from the blower operation to the vacuum operation. A suction pipe with an intake opening is provided, wherein, in the vacuum operation of the vacuum/blower device, a suction air flow is sucked in from the intake opening toward the fan in a first flow direction. The switching device switches a rotational direction of the fan, wherein the fan in the blower operation conveys a blower air flow through the suction pipe in a second flow direction that is oriented from the fan toward the intake opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kevin Schäffler, Cornelius Gindele, Markus Hittmann, Christian Barth
  • Patent number: 10100640
    Abstract: An electric compressor to be mounted on an engine in an engine compartment of a vehicle includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a motor driving circuit, a housing, a first mounting leg and a second mounting leg. The housing accommodates therein the compression mechanism, the electric motor and the motor driving circuit. The first mounting leg projects from the housing at a position adjacent to the compression mechanism. The second mounting leg projects from the housing at a position adjacent to the motor driving circuit. Each of the first mounting leg and the second mounting leg includes a fastening portion to be fastened to a portion of the engine and a connecting portion that connects the fastening portion with the housing. The connecting portion of the first mounting leg is made to be broken more easily than connecting portion of the second mounting leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takuro Yamashita, Tomoyoshi Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10094365
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine of swashplate type of construction includes a rotatable cylinder drum that has a plurality of cylinder bores, which are arranged approximately axially, formed in the cylinder drum. A piston is inserted into each cylinder bore at one side. At the other side, each cylinder bore is freely connected via a respective passage opening to a face surface of the cylinder drum. The face surface bears against a static distributor disk. The respective mouths arranged at the face surface, or the passage openings as a whole, have a cross section that has two or four widenings with rounded corners so as to enlarge the cross-sectional area in relation to the circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Bidell, Wolfgang Mayer, Raimund Roth
  • Patent number: 10087774
    Abstract: A variable-nozzle turbocharger includes a variable vane mechanism that has an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into a bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and a plurality of two-piece self-centering spacer assemblies connected between the nozzle portion of the insert and the nozzle ring. Each spacer assembly comprises a tubular sleeve and a separate pin that passes through the through-passage of the sleeve, end portions of the pin being secured respectively to the nozzle ring and the nozzle portion. One end of each sleeve has a conical surface and engages in a corresponding conical countersink in the adjacent face of the nozzle ring or nozzle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Barthelet, Nicolas Morand, Emmanuel Severin, Calogero Beltrami, Vincent Eumont, Francis Abel, Arnaud Gerard, Aurelien Tingaud, Jayavenkateshwaran Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 10077776
    Abstract: A submersible pump apparatus providing a motor assembly, a pump assembly, and a plastic pump housing. The motor assembly is either a canned motor assembly or a four inch motor assembly. The canned motor assembly is designed to prevent the immediate destruction of the submersible pump apparatus upon the occurrence of the breaching or leaking of the seals. The pump assembly is designed with either a single stage pump or multiple stage pump that utilizes a unique combination of propellers and intermediate flow straighteners, and driving mechanisms for the same. The plastic pump housing is designed to accommodate attachment of either the canned motor assembly or the four inch motor assembly to the same pump assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Inventor: Willis Dane
  • Patent number: 10072666
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor driving device, which drives a hermetic compressor provided with an HPS (High Pressure Switch) therein, includes parameter detection units (a voltage detection unit, an overcurrent detection unit, and a position and open-phase detection unit) that detect an overcurrent, a bus voltage, and an open phase, which are generated during the opening operation of the HPS within the hermetic compressor; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the hermetic compressor; and a control unit to which data acquired by the parameter detection units and the temperature detection unit is input. When detecting an abnormality on the basis of the data and upon determining the abnormality as a resumable abnormality, the control unit outputs a drive signal; and, upon determining the abnormality as being not a resumable abnormality, outputs an abnormality signal so as to stop the driving of the hermetic compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takamasa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10072660
    Abstract: A pumping device for pumping oil in a transmission system of a hybrid drive for a motor vehicle has an oil pump and a direct drive for driving the rotor and an electric drive for driving a rotor part that surrounds the rotor. A stationary housing surrounds the rotor part and has an inlet connection and an outlet connection of the oil pump. The oil pump allows a selective drive via the direct drive or the electric drive in a simple manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Böhm
  • Patent number: 10024158
    Abstract: A hydrostatic positive displacement machine has a cylinder drum (4) located in a housing (9) and rotatable around an axis of rotation (2). During rotation of the cylinder drum (4), a piston bore (5) is placed in alternating communication with an inlet side (E) and an outlet side (A). The inlet side (E) and outlet side (A) comprise connections (21; 22) to a control plate (12). A reversing device (30) is located in a reversing area (25; 26) between the connections (21, 22) on the control plate (12). The reversing device (30) damps the pressure adjustment between a displacement chamber (V) and the pressure present in the connection (21; 22). The reversing device (30) includes at least two flow connections which are actuated simultaneously by the displacement chamber (V) as it moves along the reversing area (25; 26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Hofmann, Martin Bergmann
  • Patent number: 10018194
    Abstract: A micro pump is formed on a substrate having a common inlet channel and a common outlet channel by a plurality of pumping elements, each pumping element having an inlet coupled to the common inlet channel and an outlet coupled to the common outlet channel, the inlet and outlet connected by a microfluidic channel, the microfluidic channel comprising a valvular conduit having low fluid flow resistance in a direction from the inlet to the outlet and high fluid flow resistance in a direction from the outlet to the inlet, and an actuating element arranged to cause fluid to be pumped through the microfluidic channel from the inlet to the outlet, wherein the actuating element is based on one or more of piezoelectric, thermal, electrostatic or electromagnetic transduction. A controller is coupled to actuate the actuating elements at mutually staggered relative timing so as to produce a substantially continuous steady flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: ATOMJET LTD.
    Inventor: Robert Alan Harvey
  • Patent number: 10006458
    Abstract: The electric pump of the present application includes a motor unit including a stator, a rotor core disposed inside the stator and a shaft coupled to the rotor core; a pump unit including an internal rotor coupled to the shaft and having an external lob formed thereon and an external rotor disposed outside the internal rotor and having an internal lob formed to be engaged with the external lob; a housing unit including a motor housing including the motor unit and a pump housing connected to the motor housing and having a pump accommodating part, in which the pump unit is inserted, formed therein; and a cover unit coupled to the housing unit to cover the pump accommodating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Eop Yoon
  • Patent number: 10001118
    Abstract: A rapid-discharge-valve structural body (2) allows air to flow from an input-side space (9A) to an output-side space (9B) in accordance with the flow rate of air to be supplied to a supply passage (101). Accordingly, the flow rate of air to be discharged from a discharge passage (113) also changes. As a consequence, flow rate peaking can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: OKENSEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Fukami
  • Patent number: 9970409
    Abstract: An adaptive hydraulic pressure generator is provided for systems in which the mechanical force producing energy varies significantly, especially for wave energy systems. The pressure generator includes at least two fluid chambers with a piston surface/displacement surface arranged to reciprocate with the fluid chamber, whereby the piston surface/displacement surface acts on the fluid in the chamber by means of the said mutual reciprocating movement. The pressure generator is equipped with a control system which is arranged to connect the chambers to each other and/or to different pressure ducts in such a way that the effective area of the piston/displacement surfaces changes in accordance with the changes in the driving force exerted on the piston/displacement surfaces and/or the body forming the fluid chamber in such a way that the pressure produced by the pressure generator in the fluid supplied to the application exceeds the threshold pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Aalto University Foundation
    Inventors: Olof Calonius, Juha Elonen, Heikki Eskonen, Jyrki Kajaste
  • Patent number: 9957957
    Abstract: A plate spring is attached to the distal-end portion of a piston. The distance L1 between the distal-end portion of a plunger and a core (recessed portion) that faces the distal-end portion of the plunger is set to be shorter than the distance L2 between the distal-end portion (plate spring) of the piston and the projecting end surface of a valve main body that faces the distal-end portion of the piston with drive of a solenoid portion stopped. Consequently, when the solenoid portion is driven, the plate spring collides against the projecting end surface of the valve main body so that the plunger does not collide against the core. As a result, a shock applied to the piston can be absorbed by the elastic force of the plate spring, which suppresses generation of a sound of collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Ishikawa, Takahiro Kokubu, Masaya Nakai, Tomomi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9951761
    Abstract: A pressure pulse dampener for a compressor system is disclosed herein. The pulse dampener includes a housing having inlet passageway and an outlet passageway. A radially expanding annular passageway is formed downstream of the fluid inlet. A toroidal passageway is formed downstream of the annular passageway, the toroidal passageway being configured to direct fluid in a generally circumferential path around the central body. A connecting passageway is formed through the central body to provide fluid communication between the toroidal passageway and the fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Michael John Lucas, Larry Rodney Stutts, James Richard Lindsey
  • Patent number: 9951769
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump includes a quick discharge valve unit that comprises a vessel including a supply passage, a check valve seat, a delivery passage and a discharge passage, and an elastic member configured to partition an internal space of the vessel into an input-side space connected to the supply passage and an output-side space connected to the delivery passage and the discharge passage. The elastic member includes a check valve body to prevent an inflow of air from the output-side space to the input-side space, and a discharge port valve body configured to close the discharge passage when air is supplied to the input-side space through the supply passage. The vessel includes a connecting path having a sectional area smaller than an area of a section of the supply passage, and configured to release pressurized air in the input-side space to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: OKENSEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Fukami