Patents Examined by Kelsey E Cary
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Patent number: 11975170Abstract: Roller clamp for regulating the flow of a fluid through an elastically deformable tubing including a generally channel-shaped body whose bottom wall has a clamping surface with a longitudinal groove with a cross-section decreasingly variable from an initial end towards a terminal end. The longitudinal groove is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the lateral walls of the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRIE BORLA S.P.A.Inventor: Gianni Guala
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Patent number: 11971114Abstract: A solenoid adapter for a solenoid valve that permits use of different solenoids with different solenoid bowls is provided. Specifically, a reverse flow solenoid adapter enables use of a reverse flow solenoid with a forward flow solenoid bowl, while a forward flow solenoid adapter enables use of a forward flow solenoid with a reverse flow solenoid bowl. The adapters include a lower section to mount into a valve solenoid bowl, an upper portion including an adapter solenoid chamber to receive a solenoid, and flow-reversing passages that duct a vent passage flow path from the valve solenoid bowl to the adapter solenoid chamber such that the flow path transitions from a flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl to a flow configuration required for the solenoid to function and returns to the flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl as the path circulates back to the valve solenoid bowl.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Rain Bird CorporationInventors: Kevin Mark Irwin, Kevin James Markley, Nicholas James Watts
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Patent number: 11971112Abstract: An electromagnetic valve manifold includes an electromagnetic valve including a discharge port, a manifold base including a discharge passage that is connected to the discharge port, and a check valve. The check valve includes a valve member, a valve housing including a valve seat, and an urging member. The valve housing includes a valve chamber that accommodates the valve member, a peripheral wall that defines the valve chamber, a valve hole that connects the valve chamber to the discharge port, and a discharge opening that connects the valve chamber to the discharge passage. The check valve is disposed in the discharge passage. The discharge opening is formed in the peripheral wall, at least a part of the discharge opening overlapping with the valve seat in a direction orthogonal to a moving direction of the valve member.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CKD CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuo Hayashi, Hisashi Hatano, Mitsuhiro Kosugi, Shinji Itoh
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Patent number: 11969726Abstract: A fluid guiding module includes a housing having a sensor chamber having first and second chamber ends. The fluid guiding module includes a first connection region for connecting to a second fluid guiding module. The first connection is located on a first outer side of the housing and has a first redirection channel having first and second redirection channel ends. A chamber inlet channel fluidly couples the first redirection channel end to the first chamber end of the sensor chamber. The first redirection channel is adapted to be fluidly coupled to a chamber outlet channel of the second fluid guiding module.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KGInventors: Holger Lippert, Thomas Pfauch, Maik Thormann
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Patent number: 11953103Abstract: At a preparing stage, a tool is placed in contact with an inner wall of a rotation transmitting portion of an adjustment screw. Then, at an adjustment rotation amount calculating stage, a pre-adjustment oil pressure, which is an output oil pressure of an oil pressure control valve at a pre-adjustment rotational position of the adjustment screw under a predetermined drive condition of a drive device, is sensed, and thereafter an adjustment rotation amount of the adjustment screw from the pre-adjustment rotational position to a target rotational position of the adjustment screw, which corresponds to a target oil pressure, is calculated based on: a differential pressure between the pre-adjustment oil pressure and the target oil pressure; and a correction amount which corresponds to a product characteristic of the oil pressure control valve. Then, at a rotating stage, the adjustment screw is rotated by the adjustment rotation amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akinori Hirano
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Patent number: 11953031Abstract: A hydraulic control assembly includes means for holding pressure in a cylinder to inhibit boom or arm drop of a machine in the event that a hose between the cylinder and a main control valve (MCV) ruptures. The pressure holding means of the hydraulic control assembly include a hydraulic valve and a parts-in-body check assembly both configured for insertion into a valve cavity defined by a valve body. The hydraulic valve comprises a proportional piloted valve that controls pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HydraForce, Inc.Inventors: Travis Schmidt, Valeriy Kazak, Brian Del Bene
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Patent number: 11953101Abstract: A spool valve for controlling the flow of a fluid into a reciprocating piston cylinder. A spool is slideably inserted into an outer casing, the spool valve having a first and a second non-waisted end portions and having a waisted middle portion. The casing has an intake port and output port for fluids entering and exiting the casing. A first non-waisted end portion covers the intake port during a first valve-closed event as the spool slides in one direction within the casing. The waisted middle portion is sufficiently wide to uncover both the intake port and the output port during a valve-open event as the spool slides in one direction within the casing. A second non-waisted end portion covers the output port during a second valve-closed event as the spool slides in the same one direction within the casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Southwest Research InstituteInventors: Riccardo Meldolesi, Anthony Perkins, Clive Lacy, Dustin Kramer
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Patent number: 11953102Abstract: A control slide for use in a slide valve is disclosed. The control slide has a central axis and at least one first portion which is circular-cylindrical with respect to the central axis, all the first portions having the same diameter. The control slide further has at least one assigned second portion which is adjacent to each first portion, which second portion ends toward the first portion with an end face which extends inclined by at least 45° in relation to the central axis so that the first portion, together with the end face, forms a circular ring edge which extends around the central axis in a circular ring shape having a substantially constant cross-sectional shape. The control slide is made of steel. The at least one first portion is surface-hardened such that the hardness on the surface of the control slide decreases from the first portion via the circular ring edge toward the end face.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Haist, Holger Stehling
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Patent number: 11946569Abstract: An actuating and sensing module is disclosed and includes a bottom plate, a gas pressure sensor, a thin gas transportation device and a cover plate. The bottom plate includes a pressure relief orifice, a discharging orifice and a communication orifice. The gas pressure sensor is disposed on the bottom plate and seals the communication orifice. The thin gas transportation device is disposed on the bottom plate and seals the pressure relief orifice and the discharging orifice. The cover plate is disposed on the bottom plate and covers the gas pressure sensor and the thin gas-transportation device. The cover plate includes an intake orifice. The thin gas transportation device is driven to inhale gas through the intake orifice, the gas is then discharged through the discharging orifice by the thin gas transportation device, and a pressure change of the gas is sensed by the gas pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Shih-Chang Chen, Jia-Yu Liao, Hung-Hsin Liao, Chung-Wei Kao, Chi-Feng Huang, Yung-Lung Han, Chang-Yen Tsai, Wei-Ming Lee
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Patent number: 11933411Abstract: Hydraulic fluid flushing valve for hydrostatic units usable in closed hydraulic circuit propel applications, having a flushing valve housing with a first inlet port connected to a first working line, a second inlet port connected to a second working line, and a discharge port for draining hydraulic fluid. A two-sided flushing valve flushing valve spool which can be shifted is mounted within the flushing valve housing in a cylindrical valve bore, which, in a shifted position, enables a fluid flow from one of the first or the second inlet port at which the lower hydraulic pressure is present, to the discharge port. The flushing valve spool includes on each side a pressure surface each of which is connected to one of the two inlet ports.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS GMBH & CO. OHGInventors: Arne Streblau, Martin Wüstefeld
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Patent number: 11933425Abstract: Provided is a linear solenoid valve having at least one notch that opens on an end surface of the land of the spool on the drain chamber side and is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the land. In response to movement of the spool, a state is formed in which the end surface of the land on the drain chamber side is located inside the communication chamber and the output chamber and the drain chamber communicate with each other via the notch and the communication chamber, and a state is formed in which the end surface of the land on the drain chamber side is located inside the output chamber and the output chamber and the drain chamber communicate with each other via the communication chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Tsuchida, Takahiro Kokubu, Shuichi Takeda, Satomi Hoshino, Shingo Kurimoto
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Patent number: 11933410Abstract: A method for producing a base body of a valve housing for a hydraulic control valve includes machining a front-side section of a control edge into an unmachined base body for the base body with a cutting process in a front-side machining step. In the cutting process, a cutting tool is guided from a coupling side through a machining valve pocket to the front-side section of the control edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Patrick Maurer, Herbert Scholl
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Patent number: 11927272Abstract: A valve assembly includes a first sleeve defining a piston bore therein. A second sleeve defines a piston bore therein. The piston bore of the first sleeve and the piston bore of the second sleeve are axially aligned. A piston is slidingly engaged in the piston bores of the first and second sleeves. A seal carrier with a plurality of pieces is axially between the first sleeve and the second sleeve. The plurality of pieces of the multi-piece seal carrier are circumferentially spaced apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: August M. Coretto, Glenn Gradischer, Francis P. Marocchini, Peter M. Ballard, Scott J. Beloncik
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Patent number: 11927277Abstract: A valve unit has a main valve and a pilot valve device which is applied thereto, wherein the pilot valve device includes a first pilot valve which is arranged in a valve longitudinal direction between the main valve and a second pilot valve. The main valve can be actuated by way of a pilot fluid through a first pilot working channel which is connected to the first pilot valve and through a second pilot working channel which is connected to the second pilot valve. The second pilot working channel passes through a first pilot valve housing of the first pilot valve, wherein it has a receiving space channel section which passes through an actuation member receiving space of a hand actuation device which is formed in the first pilot valve housing and in which a manually actuatable hand actuation member is arranged. In this manner the valve unit can be realised with a low construction width.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Jonas Muschter, Michael Ruthardt
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Patent number: 11927269Abstract: A seal for a butterfly valve includes an end cap with an outer tubular side wall surrounding an inner tubular side wall, both extending in the same direction providing a gap therebetween. At least the inner side wall is made from a resiliently deformable material. The end cap abuts a conduit entrance, and the inner and outer side walls extend therein, the outer side wall abutting an inner surface of the entrance of the conduit. A rotatable pivotal disk mounted inside the inner side wall within the entrance is rotatable between a position where the periphery of the disk engages the inner side wall to seal the entrance and a position where the disk is angled relative to the entrance, opening the entrance so a fluid may pass through the conduit. A butterfly valve assembly and a vacuum cleaner including the seal or the assembly are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Marek Turisin, Clemens Duenser
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Patent number: 11913553Abstract: In a spool-type switching valve in which a recessed groove in which a packing is mounted is provided at a land portion of a spool, a groove bottom of the recessed groove is formed of an inclined surface that has an axial length half or larger than the length of the groove bottom in the direction of an axis and that continuously decreases in diameter from an upstream end to a downstream end, the inner periphery of the packing is brought into pressure-contact with the groove bottom with stress concentration at a pressure contact point that defines an upstream end of the inclined surface, and an angle ? that a connection surface connecting the pressure contact point on the groove bottom and the upstream end forms with the axis is within the range of 0°????, where ? is an angle that the inclined surface forms with the axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Miyazoe, Kazuhiro Noguchi
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Patent number: 11913381Abstract: A system includes an injector having a scheduling valve assembly and a nozzle in fluid communication with the valve assembly. The scheduling valve assembly is configured for regulation of flow from an inlet of the injector to the nozzle. The injector includes two fluid circuits between the inlet of the injector and two respective outlets of the nozzle for staged flow output from the nozzle. A first one of the two fluid circuits is a primary circuit, and a second one of the two fluid circuits is a secondary circuit. A solenoid valve is connected in fluid communication with the scheduling valve assembly, wherein the solenoid valve is configured to adjust position of a hydromechanical valve spool of the valve assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Brandon P. Williams, Jason A. Ryon, Todd Haugsjaahabink, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, Charles E. Reuter
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Patent number: 11898642Abstract: A valve may have a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The valve may include a valve stem having a lumen extending from a first opening at a proximal portion of the valve stem to a second opening at a distal end of the valve stem. A plurality of seals may be positioned relative to the valve stem. The valve stem and seals may be configured so that a fluid entering the inlet is prevented from flowing to the outlet in a first position of the valve stem and relative to the inlet and the outlet. The valve stem and the seals may be configured so that a fluid entering the inlet flows to the outlet in a second position of the valve stem relative to the inlet and the outlet, the second position being more distal than the first position relative to the inlet and the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Larry Stanton, Allyn Jensrud, James Scutti, Colby Harris, Robb Gavalis
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Patent number: 11891794Abstract: A system for transmitting liquids between a stationary core and a rotatable story of a building includes annular buffer ducts, each having a lower duct portion and an upper duct portion in liquid communication with and slidingly engaging the lower duct portion via an interface. The lower and upper duct portions are fixed to the stationary core and rotatable story respectively, or vice versa, so that the lower and upper duct portions are rotatable relative to each other. The buffer ducts internally define a transmission chamber into which liquid enters through inlet ports formed by the upper duct portion, and from which liquid exits through outlet ports formed by the lower duct portion. The buffer ducts also include a supply duct connected to clean water pumps for increasing the water pressure in clean water accumulation tanks to a desired value. The transmission chamber is at atmospheric pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: LM TECH S.R.L.Inventor: Lorenzo Mercolini
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Patent number: 11879555Abstract: A solenoid valve device with a pressure-responsive slide mechanism, including: a body including at least three channels for flow of a liquid; a slide that can be moved in the body by a pressurised fluid, between a position with fluid communication between a first and a second channel among the three flow channels, and a position with fluid communication between the second channel and the third channel; a selector for selecting an activation threshold for movement of the slide, among at least one first and at least one second pressure threshold; and a regulator for regulating at least the activation thresholds of the slide.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BONTAZ CENTREInventors: Frédéric Daniel Bernard Pineau, Stéphane Pascal Perotto