Patents Examined by David N Brandt
  • Patent number: 11976644
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compressor including a case, a compression unit provided inside the case, and a driving unit, wherein the compression unit includes a cylinder having a compression space, a piston reciprocating inside the cylinder, a discharge cover covering the compression space, a first plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and having a discharge space and a coupling space, a second plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and defining a movement channel through which refrigerant moves, a rib disposed in the movement channel, and a communicating portion through which the discharge space and the movement channel communicate with each other, wherein the refrigerant discharged from the compression space moves along the discharge space, the communicating portion, and the movement channel, whereby pulsation caused by the discharge of the refrigerant can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeongjun Lim, Kwangwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11976645
    Abstract: Air compressor systems that are configured to output compressed air. Each system includes a cabinet and at least one air compressor mounted at least partially in the cabinet. The air compressor includes a drive motor with a cooling air inlet through which cooling air can be input for cooling the drive motor. The cooling air inlet is directly fluidly connected to a cooling air opening of the cabinet so that the cooling air for the drive motor is drawn into the drive motor directly from the ambient environment instead of being drawn in from the interior space of the cabinet. In addition, the system includes an exhaust fan on the cabinet that vents the interior space of the cabinet to the ambient environment. During operation of the air compressor, a negative cabinet pressure is created in the interior space where the pressure is less than ambient pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Kasco Marine, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Dombrock
  • Patent number: 11971026
    Abstract: An improved air compressor is provided. The air compressor includes a cylinder block having a head deck that defines a piston bore for reciprocal movement of a piston therein. The head deck further includes first and second ramped surfaces that slope downward toward the peripheral edge of the piston bore. A valve plate is in direct contact with the upper surface of the head deck, the valve plate having a leaf valve. During an intake stroke of the piston, the leaf valve deflects downward into direct engagement with the first and second ramped surfaces. Because the air compressor lacks a lower gasket between the valve plate and the head deck, the cost and assembly time associated with the lower gasket are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventors: Chad Lemon, Ramesh Pai, Alan Williams
  • Patent number: 11971022
    Abstract: A system for dispensing abrasive materials includes a transfer pump configured to pump abrasive material to a metering pump configured to pump the abrasive material to an application. Dynamic interfaces within the pumps are at least partially formed by sleeved components of the pump interfacing with a seal configured to engage with the sleeved surface during relative movement between the sleeved surface and the seal. The smooth exterior surfaces of the sleeves interface with the seals to prevent abrasive particulate in the material from adhering to the sleeve, preventing the abrasive particulate from being pulled between the sleeve and the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Sinders, John R. Scopelite
  • Patent number: 11965497
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump includes a fluid end having a body defining a plunger bore that engages a plunger sleeve with a threaded interface, where the plunger sleeve defines throughbore configured to receive a plunger operatively reciprocating within the plunger bore during operation of the reciprocating pump. A packing assembly including a plurality of stacked annular seals is disposed between the plunger sleeve and the plunger. A packing nut having a threaded profile for engagement with a threaded surface of the plunger bore asserts a load against the packing assembly to ensure a positive engagement with the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: James Anthony Barnhouse
  • Patent number: 11952992
    Abstract: A linear compressor includes: a frame comprising a body portion, a flange portion extending from a front side of the body portion along a radial direction of the body portion, and a bearing communication hole that is in fluid communication with a front surface of the flange portion and an inner circumferential surface of the body portion, a cylinder coupled to the body portion, a piston that is disposed in the cylinder and that is configured to reciprocate along an axial direction of the cylinder, and a valve member that is disposed at the frame and that is configured to open and close the bearing communication hole based on a pressure of air between the cylinder and the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wooju Jeon, Kyungmin Lee, Sangik Son
  • Patent number: 11952993
    Abstract: A compressor assembly has a pulley assembly and a compressor, with a mounting plate mounted therebetween. The compressor includes a front head, a rear head, and a piston assembly operably mounted between the front head and the rear head. A plurality of case bolts extend through the mounting p late, the front head, and into the rear head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Steven M Sunday
  • Patent number: 11946464
    Abstract: A self-contained actuating magnetic pump (SCAMP) having an inlet valve and discharge valve, a piston, a compression cavity, an electromagnetic coil, a frame, and an armature to drive the piston. In one embodiment, the electromatic coils are isolated from the working fluid. In one embodiment, the SCAMP includes a housing that allows for thermal transfer from the electromagnetic coil to the working fluid. In one embodiment, the SCAMP includes a control unit that enables operation of the SCAMP in a power mode, a coast mode, and a retraction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: P3 Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Brandon A. Demski
  • Patent number: 11946465
    Abstract: A fluid end assembly comprising a plurality of fluid end sections positioned in a side-by-side relationship. Each fluid end section comprises a housing having a bore formed therein for housing a reciprocating plunger. Fluid is prevented from leaking around the plunger by a packing seal assembly. The packing seal assembly comprises one and only one packing seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Barnett, Micheal Cole Thomas, Kelcy Jake Foster, Nicholas Son, John Keith
  • Patent number: 11939971
    Abstract: A four-cylinder diaphragm pump includes a pump body having four pump chambers, and a drive mechanism that expands and contracts the four pump chambers with a predetermined phase difference, in which the pump body includes a first diaphragm having two diaphragm portions on a same plane, and a second diaphragm having two diaphragm portions on a same plane disposed to be located to be parallel to or coplanar with the plane of the first diaphragm, each of the diaphragm portions of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm constitute a portion of a different pump chamber, and the drive mechanism is configured to move the diaphragm portions of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm forward or backward with respect to the corresponding pump chambers with a predetermined phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SIBATA SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Ikedo
  • Patent number: 11932152
    Abstract: An air pump device includes an electric pump unit including a pump mechanism and a motor configured to drive the pump mechanism, a case housing the electric pump unit, and a vibration-proof member interposed between the electric pump unit and the case. The vibration-proof member is a plate-shaped member made of an elastic resin material and is wound around the electric pump unit to wrap the electric pump unit therein. A part of the vibration-proof member is sandwiched between the electric pump unit and one of facing surfaces that are inner surfaces of the case and face each other inside the case. Another part of the vibration-proof member is sandwiched between the electric pump unit and the other one of the facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Sakai, Kazuma Nishida, Takashi Yokoyama, Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11927275
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided a discharge port through which a discharge fluid of discharge pressure Pd passes, a suction port through which a suction fluid of suction pressure Ps passes, and a control port through which a control fluid of control pressure Pc passes, a rod configured to be driven by a solenoid, a main valve formed by a main valve seat and a main valve element and configured for opening and closing a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with a movement of the rod, and a CS valve provided between the control port and the suction port and controlled by a dynamic pressure of a fluid flowing from the discharge port to the control port at an opening state of the main valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Wataru Takahashi, Keigo Shirafuji
  • Patent number: 11920583
    Abstract: A fluid end assembly comprising a plurality of fluid end sections positioned in a side-by-side relationship. Each section comprises a housing containing a reciprocating plunger. One and only one packing seal is installed within the housing and surrounds and engages an outer surface of the plunger. A retainer compresses and holds the packing seal within the housing. The retainer is secured to the housing using a clamp, such that no threads are formed in the housing of the fluid end section and no threads are formed in the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Kelcy Jake Foster, Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett
  • Patent number: 11913438
    Abstract: An air inflation device includes an inflation unit defining an interior space, a handgrip unit connected to the inflation unit, and a pressure measuring mechanism disposed in the handgrip unit and including a first tubular member defining a receiving space, and a second tubular member defining a flow guide channel that has an air inlet communicating with the interior space, and an air guide hole communicating with the receiving space. A measuring unit is disposed in the receiving space and has a free end pushed to move relative to the first tubular member by air entering the receiving space from the flow guide channel. An indicating unit indicates a position of the free end in the first tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BETO ENGINEERING AND MARKETING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lopin Wang
  • Patent number: 11913473
    Abstract: A compressor device includes a coolant jacket cooperatively defined by a motor case and an outer motor housing. The coolant jacket includes a radial portion that spans about the motor case in a circumferential direction and an axial direction with respect to the axis of rotation of the motor. The coolant jacket includes an axial portion that spans in a radial direction across an axial end of the motor case. At least one of the plurality of flow passages fluidly connects the radial portion and the axial portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC
    Inventors: Carlos Chavez Castellanos, Adonis Spathias, Manuel Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11905941
    Abstract: A wastewater sump assembly for receiving and disposing of undesired fluid and, in some cases, solid waste (collectively “wastewater”). A sump basin includes an upstanding wall a base and a top. A sensor in the form, e.g., of a float switch extends into the basin and is operable to actuate a pump to remove collective wastewater from the basin. The sensor depends from a sensor support that is supported distally within the basin in a vertical manner and is supported proximately within the basin in a horizontal manner, with securement of the sensor support not requiring traversal of the basin top and with the distal basin support not needing to be accessed vertically through a pump access aperture in the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO., INC.
    Inventors: James J. Coffey, Petr Sramek, Steven C. Gray
  • Patent number: 11905940
    Abstract: A linear compressor includes: a shell including an intake pipe configured to suction a refrigerant, a piston including a piston body, an intake muffler including a first muffler that includes a first muffler body defining a main flow passage and a first muffler flange extending in a radial direction from the first muffler body, and at least one auxiliary flow passage disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the first muffler body and an inner peripheral surface of the piston body and configured to guide the refrigerant remaining between the first muffler body and the piston body to an outside of the piston. A cross-sectional area of the at least one auxiliary flow passage is less than a cross-sectional area of an inlet hole provided at a rear end of the main flow passage and greater than or equal to 10% of the cross-sectional area of the inlet hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngmun Lee, Hyeongjun Lim, Kiwon Noh
  • Patent number: 11898555
    Abstract: A plunger pump includes a cylinder having a cylinder chamber, and a first through hole and a second through hole that open from an inner circumferential surface toward an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder chamber, and a plunger inserted in the cylinder chamber and configured to make a reciprocating motion with respect to the cylinder chamber. An inner circumferential portion of the cylinder has an inner circumferential surface, and a helical first groove portion on the inner circumferential surface, the helical first groove portion being configured to communicate with at least one of the first through hole and the second through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunihiro Yamabe
  • Patent number: 11898562
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pumping assembly, a compressor and air conditioning equipment. The pumping assembly includes a first structural body, a rolling bearing assembly, a second structural body, a third structural body and a main shaft passing through the first structural body, the rolling bearing assembly, the second structural body and the third structural body. The pumping assembly includes: a first lubricating oil path passing through a second structural part, the sliding sheet backpressure cavity, a third structural part, a second structural part and a rolling body of the rolling bearing assembly; a second lubricating oil path passing through the sliding sheet backpressure cavity and a first pressure relieving groove of the first structural body; and a third lubricating oil path passing through the sliding sheet backpressure cavity, the first structural part and the rolling body of the rolling bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Huijun Wei, Jia Xu, Liying Deng, Guomang Yang, Shebing Liang, Pengkai Wan
  • Patent number: 11879446
    Abstract: A compressor includes a case, a compression unit having a cylinder, a piston disposed inside the cylinder, and a driving unit for reciprocating the piston, and a support unit elastically supporting the compression unit to be spaced apart from an inner surface of the case. The support unit includes a wire spring having a plurality of linear portions arranged in parallel with one another and curved portions each connecting two adjacent linear portions. The wire spring includes a first wire spring and a second wire spring symmetrically disposed with each other. The wire spring includes a connecting portion connecting the first wire spring and the second wire spring, and the connecting portion is supported by the case. Accordingly, a simplified structure can be obtained and a manufacturing cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwangwook Kim, Hyeongjun Lim