Patents Examined by Connor J Tremarche
  • Patent number: 11746766
    Abstract: Related is an electric oil pump, and the electric oil pump includes a pump housing having an inner pump cavity, where the inner pump cavity includes a first cavity and a second cavity; a first rotor assembly disposed in the first cavity; a stator assembly and a second rotor assembly that are disposed in the second cavity; an electric control board; a supporting member at least partially disposed between the stator assembly and the electric control board; and a connecting terminal. The electric oil pump can reduce deformation of the connecting terminal when the connecting terminal is respectively connected to the stator assembly and the electric control board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SANHUA INTELLIGENT CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bingjiu Yin, Wei Ye, Yongfeng Sun, Kai Zhang, Fangxu Qian, Liyang Huang
  • Patent number: 11739739
    Abstract: Non-limiting exemplary embodiments of a pumping system and methods for operating the pumping system in a region of high pressure or a region of high flow are disclosed. The pumping system includes a piston disposed within a piston cylinder, a drive shaft, an eccentric coupled to the drive shaft, a connecting arm having opposing first and second ends, and a controller for controlling the rotation of the drive shaft such that the piston oscillates within a region of high pressure or a region of high flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan K. Colby
  • Patent number: 11732700
    Abstract: An automatic bidirectional valve includes: a valve body, a central conduit that crosses the valve body and is provided with a first opening in a first end of the valve body and a second opening made in an opposite second end thereof, and a peripheral conduit made in the valve body, provided with a first opening, made in a portion of the valve body between the first and second ends, and a second opening made in the second end. A first shutter is movable between a closing position and an opening position, a first elastic element configured to generate a force adapted to maintain the first shutter in the closing position, a second shutter movable between a closing position, and an opening position, a second elastic element configured to generate a force to maintain the second shutter in the closing position, and a retaining body fixed to the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ANNOVI REVERBERI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Pierluigi Argentino
  • Patent number: 11725652
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a pump housing provided with an a first cavity and a second cavity; a first rotor assembly disposed in the first cavity; a stator assembly and a second rotor assembly that are disposed in the second cavity; an electric control board assembly; an isolating member, where the stator assembly is disposed at a first side of the isolating member, the electric control board assembly is disposed at a second side of the isolating member; and a wiring terminal fixedly connected to the isolating member; where a connecting position between the wiring terminal and the isolating member is sealed and a connecting position between the isolating member and the pump housing is sealed. The electric oil pump can prevent working medium from affecting the performance of the electric control board assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SANHUA INTELLIGENT CONTROLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bingjiu Yin, Wei Ye, Yongfeng Sun, Kai Zhang, Zhiwang Wu, Fangxu Qian
  • Patent number: 11725655
    Abstract: An oil pump includes: a housing case made of a metal and having a rotor housing portion in which a rotor is rotatably housed, and a discharge hole through which oil within the rotor housing portion is introduced to the outside of the rotor housing portion by rotation of the rotor; and a housing made of a resin and having a case holding portion in which the rotor housing portion is held, and a discharge groove portion provided on a bottom portion of the case holding portion. The housing case has a fitting groove portion that is provided on a bottom portion of the rotor housing portion and that is fitted to the discharge groove portion so as to cover the discharge groove portion. The discharge hole is formed in the fitting groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Sakai, Wataru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11725639
    Abstract: A swash plate-type axial piston pump, in particular for hydraulic systems, has a cylinder drum (3) rotatable about an axis of rotation (7) in a pump housing (1) and in which pistons (9) are arranged axially movable. The actuating ends of the pistons are accessible from outside of the cylinder drum (3) and are supported at least indirectly on a swash plate (15). In order to set the stroke of the pistons (9) and the fluid system pressure generated, the swash plate can be swiveled to the desired angle of inclination relative to the axis of rotation (7) by an adjustment device (21), which has at least one swiveling lever (23) that can be deflected and returned in at least one direction by an actuator and that each has in at least one hydraulically actuated actuating cylinder (31, 43) one actuating piston (35) acting on one end on an articulation point (29) of the swivel lever (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HYDAC DRIVE CENTER GMBH
    Inventor: Manuel Kronpass
  • Patent number: 11725654
    Abstract: A method for conveying a fluid through a screw pump, wherein at least one drive spindle of the screw pump is driven by an asynchronous motor, wherein, the asynchronous motor is operated at a first nominal frequency, a gas/liquid mixture being conveyed as fluid, a measurable variable depending on a liquid content of the fluid is registered, and after a fulfillment of a frequency-change condition depending on the measurable variable the asynchronous motor is operated at a second nominal frequency, reduced in comparison with the first nominal frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LEISTRITZ PUMPEN GMBH
    Inventor: Roland Maurischat
  • Patent number: 11725646
    Abstract: A fluid control device includes a housing. The housing includes a first main plate, a second main plate, and a side plate connecting the first main plate and the second main plate. The housing has a pump chamber defined by the first main plate, the second main plate, and the side plate. The fluid control device also includes a driver, a first hole that extends through the first main plate or the second main plate, and a first recess formed in the first main plate between a center and a circumference or the second main plate between a center and a circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11703040
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump flow path and electrodes and dielectric members in the pump flow path to allow a fluid to pass through the electrodes and the dielectric members in a flowing direction. The electrodes and the dielectric members are alternately stacked in the flowing direction so that a dielectric member is located between adjacent electrodes. Among the electrodes, an inter-electrode polarity of each pair of electrodes is different from that of an adjacent pair of electrodes. The dielectric members include a first dielectric member at a position of an odd-numbered dielectric member counted from the most upstream side of the flowing direction and a second dielectric member at a position of an even-numbered dielectric member counted from the most upstream side of the flowing direction. Material of the first and second dielectric members provide signs of a zeta potential opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Moriasa, Shuichi Kawata, Masahiko Shigaki, Yuichi Kusano
  • Patent number: 11661935
    Abstract: A piezoelectric blower includes a valve unit, a pump unit, a controller, and an outer housing. The valve unit includes a plurality of ejection holes and film holes. The pump unit includes a plurality of communication holes and suction holes. The outer housing covers the valve unit and the pump unit with a gap between the outer housing and each of the valve unit and the pump unit. Thus, the outer housing forms vent passages between the outer housing and the valve unit and between the outer housing and the pump unit. The inlet communicates with the vent passage. The outlet communicates with the vent passage. At least one of the inlet and the outlet is displaced from a central axis of the pump chamber. The ejection holes, the film holes, the communication holes, and the suction holes are symmetric about the central axis of the pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Daisuke Kondo, Hiroaki Wada
  • Patent number: 11661951
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing an impeller wheel assembly (e.g., an impeller wheel attached to one or more additional components) are provided. In one example, a method includes casting an impeller wheel without a hub feature in a mold and holding the cast impeller wheel in a fixed position using a holding plate during subsequent stages of fabrication (e.g., the addition of a shaft via friction welding).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Turbonetics Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel J. Barlog
  • Patent number: 11639714
    Abstract: A pump device includes a first piezoelectric pump, a second piezoelectric pump connected in series to the first piezoelectric pump on an upstream side of the first piezoelectric pump, a driver unit that supplies alternating-current input power to the first piezoelectric pump and the second piezoelectric pump, and a distribution setting unit that sets a distribution ratio of the input power to be supplied from the driver unit to each of the first piezoelectric pump and the second piezoelectric pump, wherein the distribution setting unit sets a ratio of the input power for the second piezoelectric pump to the input power for the first piezoelectric pump to a value greater than 1 and equal to or less than 1.57.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11639727
    Abstract: A tail gas exhausting pressure stabilization control system is provided. The system can control the pressure and the flow rate of a gas and a driving gas inputted therein, such that when the gas and the driving gas are mixed and outputted to a tail gas exhausting outlet, the pressure thereof can be controlled under a predetermined pressure. Besides, when the back pressure is generated because of the exhausted gases from the outlet, an energy-saving module can adjust the pressure of the driving gas outputted to an eductor in accordance with the detecting result of the back pressure in order to resist the back pressure. Thus, the exhausted gases from the outlet can be still under the predetermined pressure between the gas and a gas distribution component so as to stabilize the pressure and flow rate of the exhausted gases from the outlet and save the driving gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: KINETICS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chung-Hsiang Chang
  • Patent number: 11635151
    Abstract: A power end assembly includes a crankshaft section, a crosshead section, and a connector section coupled together by one, two, or more sets of stay rods. The power end may include one or more support plates that are coupled to the crankshaft section and/or crosshead section. The crosshead section includes a plurality of individual crosshead frames. The connector section may include a plurality of individual connector plates or may be a unitary connector plate. The power end is configured to be coupled to a fluid end assembly by coupling the fluid end assembly to the connector plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co
    Inventors: Kelcy Jake Foster, Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett, Nicholas Son, John Keith, Mark S. Nowell, Guy J. Lapointe, Michael Eugene May
  • Patent number: 11635068
    Abstract: A power end assembly includes a crankshaft section, a crosshead section, and a connector section coupled together by one, two, or more sets of stay rods. The power end may include one or more support plates that are coupled to the crankshaft section and/or crosshead section. The crosshead section includes a plurality of individual crosshead frames. The connector section may include a plurality of individual connector plates or may be a unitary connector plate. The power end is configured to be coupled to a fluid end assembly by coupling the fluid end assembly to the connector plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Kelcy Jake Foster, Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett, Nicholas Son, John Keith, Mark S. Nowell, Guy J. Lapointe, Michael Eugene May
  • Patent number: 11635072
    Abstract: A pump (10) includes: a flat plate (20); a piezoelectric element (21); a flat plate (30); a side wall (40); a support member (22); a support member (32); a shielding plate (500); a ventilation hole (23); a ventilation hole (33); a film valve (61); and a film valve (62). The film valve (61) is arranged in a region where the flat plate (20) and the shielding plate (500) face each other. The film valve (62) is arranged in a region where the flat plate (30) and the shielding plate (500) face each other. A center side of one of the film valve (61) and the film valve (62) is fixed in a state in which an outer edge side is movable, and the outer edge side of the other is fixed in a state in which the center side is movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Masaaki Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11624363
    Abstract: A fluid pumping system comprises a housing, an electric motor, a rotatable first input, a rotatable second input driven by the electric motor, a gerotor including an inner rotor, an outer rotor; and a cam ring in sliding receipt of the outer rotor. The cam ring is selectively rotatable by one of the first input and the second input. The inner rotor is rotatable by the other of the first input and the second input. The housing includes a first fluid inlet passage on a first side of the cam ring and a second fluid inlet passage on an opposite side of the cam ring. Fluid entering a cavity between the inner rotor and the outer rotor flows parallel to the axis of rotation of the first input. The cam ring includes a radially extending outlet port and pumped fluid flows radially out of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hanon Systems EFP Canada Ltd.
    Inventor: Matthew Williamson
  • Patent number: 11619223
    Abstract: An overflow valve is built into a metering head for a metering pump used with aggressive media and under high pressure. The overflow valve follows the suction valve or expands it, and directly lowers a critical pressure that occurs in the metering head, using an overflow line. In this way, the safety of the arrangement is improved, and at the same time, less construction space is used up by the additional valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Lutz-Jesco GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Roth, Peter Bernard Militzer
  • Patent number: 11619232
    Abstract: A control system comprising: a suction line; an exhaust line; an operating liquid line; a liquid ring pump comprising a suction input coupled to the suction line, an exhaust output coupled to the exhaust line, and a liquid input coupled to the operating liquid line; a motor configured to drive the liquid ring pump; a first sensor configured to measure a first parameter of an exhaust fluid of the liquid ring pump; a second sensor configured to measure a second parameter of a gas being received by the liquid ring pump via the suction line; and a controller operatively coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and the motor, and configured to control the motor based on sensor measurements of the first sensor and the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Joeri Coeckelbergs, Mark Gordon Glaister, Andries Daniel Jozef De Bock
  • Patent number: 11614079
    Abstract: A suction cover assembly for a frac pump includes a suction cover having an annular base flange defining a sealing interface proximate to the base flange. The suction cover is dimensioned to be accommodated within a bore well of a fluid cylinder in the pump. An annular seal is seated on the sealing interface proximate to the base flange of the suction cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Lane Poehls, Justin Rand Cummings, Edward Charles Kotapish, Adalberto Cortes, Johnny E. Deleon, II