Patents Examined by L. Susmitha Koneru
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Patent number: 11976728Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device of a system for sealing a fluid passage from a first component (1) to a second component (2), comprising at least one first sealing element (3) which is of an annular design to allow fluid to pass through it, includes at least one expansion slot (4) and has a first sealing surface (5) sealingly associated with the first component (1) and has a second sealing surface (8) sealingly associated with the second component (2), said at least one first sealing element (3) being flexible and said expansion slot (4) being designed in such a way that radial and resultant axial pressure of the fluid passing through there will cause the first sealing element (3) to expand in the radial direction and thus press radially in the direction against the first component (1), with said first sealing surface (5) with the expansion slot (4) being sealed against the first component (1) by abutment in the direction of the latter, and in such a way that the first sealing element (3) will pressType: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: MAAG AUTOMATIK GMBHInventors: Jochen Schroth, Manfred Stark
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Patent number: 11946545Abstract: The present invention provides a method of replacing a failed pump seal of a pump having a pump housing and a rotating pump shaft. As part of the method, there is provided a specially configured rescue seal. The rescue seal is placed on the pump shaft above the failed seal so that the pump shaft extends through both the failed seal and the rescue seal. In order to affix the rescue seal to the pump shaft and above the failed seal, a plurality of studs are first attached to the pump housing after removing some of the bolts that fasten the failed seal to the pump housing. The failed seal is then secured to the studs with nuts. Nuts are then placed on the studs to secure the rescue seal to the studs above the failed seal.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventor: S. Elwood Yandle, II
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Patent number: 11933403Abstract: A metallic sealing assembly between a rotating shaft and a fixed frame comprises: a flexible metallic seal having two tori, inner and outer, that are concentric and of different average diameters, comprising a metal envelope which encases and holds the inner and outer tori; a shaft rotating about an axis of rotation, comprising an annular shoulder against which the seal comes to press; a counter-face, comprising a contact face against which the seal comes to press; a wedge block positioned around the rotating shaft such that the seal is held between the wedge block and the contact face, the wedge block mounted to slide on the rotating shaft; a metal part which forms a cap through which the rotating shaft passes and which is secured to the frame and/or to the counter-face, the rotating shaft being free to rotate with respect to the cap and axially secured to the cap.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TECHNETICS GROUP FRANCE SASInventors: Laurent Guimet, Jean-François Juliaa, Michel Lefrancois, Christophe Darles, Olivier Constant
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Patent number: 11933252Abstract: A sealing device includes a metal ring 110 with a cylindrical section 111 and an inward flange section 112 disposed at one end of the cylindrical section 111. A resin seal 120 has an outer circumference side fixed to the metal ring 110 and an inner circumference side configured to slidably and closely come into contact with an outer circumference surface of the rotary shaft in a state deformed to curve toward a sealing target region. A flat spring 130 includes a plate-shaped annular metal member and has an outer circumference side fixed to the metal ring 110 and an inner circumference side configured to deform to curve along the resin seal 120 and press the inner circumference side of the resin seal 120 radially inward. A metal slide bearing 140, is sandwiched between the resin seal 120 and the inward flange section 112 and configured to slide on the outer circumference surface of the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Eguchi
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Patent number: 11920681Abstract: A seal assembly includes a first and second machine element, a seal and a support ring. The support ring has a first side edge facing a high-pressure side which is partially convexly curved, formed obliquely or is partially formed at an acute angle relative to a movement axis of the two machine elements. The seal has a retaining portion and a primary sealing lip extending from the retaining portion on the high-pressure side and abuts in a dynamically sealing manner against a sealing surface of the second machine element. The primary sealing lip directly abuts and is supported over the majority of its longitudinal extent on the first side edge of the support ring on the low-pressure side. The retaining section of the seal is held clamped between the support ring and the first machine element and abuts the first machine element in a statically or indirectly statically sealing manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbHInventors: Holger Jordan, Mandy Wilke
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Patent number: 11885278Abstract: A cylinder head gasket is disclosed having a carrier layer, in which at least one through-opening for a combustion chamber is located, and a combustion chamber sealing element, which is inserted in the through-opening and extends in an intrinsically closed manner. In some examples, at least one gap is formed at least in some sections between the carrier layer and the combustion chamber sealing element, the gap extending around the combustion chamber sealing element at least in some sections. Further, in some example, the carrier layer has at least one slot-like or groove-like channel, which extends from the at least one gap between the carrier layer and the combustion chamber sealing element to the outer edge of the carrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBHInventors: Jochen Salzmann, Johann Waldvogel
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Patent number: 11878807Abstract: A highly adaptive seal for use in advanced aircraft propulsion and missile systems is provided. The seal is capable of effectively limiting invasive thermal energy and corrosive airflow from entering the internal systems and hardware of the aircraft by managing and controlling the incoming air flow. The seal is configured to be disposed between component parts of the aircraft and create a tortuous path for air flow. The seal maintains contact with the component parts between which it seals by allowing for significant radial and axial displacement freedom of the component parts. Accordingly, hot gas intrusion may be limited in a wide variety of dynamic environments and component displacement conditions. Limiting such hot gas intrusion has a substantial impact on component survivability over the course of free flight of an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Dan L. Reller, Nicholas F. Collison, Paul T. Hudak
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Patent number: 11873902Abstract: Systems and methods include providing an annular seal for an assembly. The seal includes a metallic annular body comprising an inner sealing leg having a first sealing lip, a second sealing lip, and a valley disposed between the first sealing lip and the second sealing lip. The valley contains a plating reserve, such that the plating thickness in the valley is greater than the plating thickness on the first sealing lip and the second sealing lip.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas George, Mark W. Armitage
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Patent number: 11846355Abstract: A seal assembly includes a rotatable shaft and a stationary housing circumscribing the shaft to form radially inner and radially outer boundaries of a seal cavity and a buffer cavity adjacent to the seal cavity. A retention member engaging the housing within the seal cavity includes an end plate extending radially at the axial boundary between the seal and buffer cavities and a protrusion extending from the end plate into the buffer cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Joseph B. Phelps, Sean P. McGee, Aneil S. Hegde
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Patent number: 11796065Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to disclose a piston rod sealing unit that solves the problems that have been mentioned from the prior art disclosures.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Arne Høeg
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Patent number: 11788623Abstract: A sealing interface seals between an air dryer cartridge and a base for an air dryer cartridge. The sealing interface has at least one sealing element, at least one sheet metal element on the air-dryer-cartridge side, and at least one base-side extension, wherein the base-side extension has a bearing surface for the sealing element, which bearing surface is directed radially inward relative to the longitudinal axis of the base and of the air dryer cartridge. The sheet metal element is fastened on the air-dryer-cartridge side, and, in the assembled state, the sealing element presses against the bearing surface. A holding element is provided which, in the assembled state, is arranged such that the sealing element is held between the sheet metal element and the bearing surface at least partially in the axial and/or radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis by the sheet metal element and/or the holding element.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Andreas Leinung
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Patent number: 11781653Abstract: A sealing device includes a reinforcing ring having annular shape around an axis line and an elastic body part formed from an elastic body, the elastic body part being attached to the reinforcing ring and having an annular shape around the axis line. The elastic body part includes an annular seal lip and an annular side lip that is provided on an outer side of the seal lip and that extends toward the outer side. In an inner peripheral surface of the side lip on an inner periphery side, at least one circumferential groove which is a groove having an annular shape around the axis line is provided and at least one axial groove which is a groove extending along a direction of the axis line is provided. The circumferential groove and the axial groove are connected with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventors: Takumi Yamada, Hiromi Sugihara, Hisato Yonai, Toshiki Watanabe, Satoshi Yamanaka, Yu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11784480Abstract: A gel sealing device includes a gel sealing block (5) which provides a sealing section (22) through which the elongate parts (13, 14) extend. The gel sealing block (5) includes an upper flange (11) and a lower flange (12) with a support section (11a, 12a, 12b) disposed therebetween. The upper and lower flanges (11, 12) sandwiches, in direction of extension of the elongate parts (13, 14), a gel inner ring (7) supported by said support section (2) and a gel outer ring (6, 10a) covering the gel inner ring (7) in a radial direction extending transverse to said extension direction. The gel inner ring (7) and the gel outer ring (6, 10a) are made of a gel sealing material.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBAInventors: Robert Vanhentenrijk, Ronnie Rosa Georges Liefsoens, Pieter De Coster
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Patent number: 11761538Abstract: A sealing unit for a drive shaft driving a working fluid; the sealing unit comprising a sleeve attached to the drive shaft and a gland attached to the housing, a static seal ring attached to the gland and in close proximity to the sleeve, and a stuffing box about the static seal ring, fibrous packing seal blocking the distal and proximal ends of the stuffing box and a first sealant comprising a viscous, non-Newtonian fluid that is injected into the stuffing box under a first pressure exceeding the pressure of the working fluid; the sealing unit further comprising an inner fluid seal of a Newtonian fluid between the first sealant and the drive shaft upstream of the first sealant, such that the Newtonian fluid seal is kept at a pressure slightly higher than the pressure of the working fluid and prevents the working fluid from reaching the first sealant.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Tamar (R.C.) Technologies Development Ltd.Inventor: Vaitzman Cohen-Zada
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Patent number: 11761543Abstract: A labyrinth seal including a stator and a non-contacting rotor, and annular elastomeric seals. The confronting surfaces of the stator and rotor define at least one interface passage, including a radially-outermost annular interface passage between an annular, outermost, radially-extending projection of the stator and an annular rearwardly-extending distal projection of the rotor that overlaps the radially-extending projection of the stator, the radially-outermost annular interface passage tapering outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle relative to an axial reference line. The annular elastomeric seals are stationary with the stator during dynamic operation of the rotor, and are not contacted by a surface of the rotor during dynamic operation. The interface can also have two radially-disposed exclusion chambers, the outer exclusion chamber being defined in part by a radially-inboard projection of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ORION ENGINEERED SEALS, LLCInventors: Randall Jaskot, Woodrow Nepa, Todd Brickson
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Patent number: 11761342Abstract: A sealing assembly for a gas turbine engine. The sealing assembly includes first and second gas turbine walls defining a channel therebetween. Additionally, the second gas turbine wall further defines a passage extending therethrough. Furthermore, the sealing assembly includes a leaf seal partially positioned within the channel and a seal holder coupled to the second gas turbine wall. Moreover, the sealing assembly includes a spring compressed between the seal holder and the leaf seal such that the leaf seal is in sealing engagement with the first gas turbine wall. In addition, the sealing assembly includes a pin extending through the passage defined by the second gas turbine wall to couple the seal holder and the leaf seal such that the pin is thermally unconstrained by the second wall during operation of the gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Todd Radwanski, Darrell Glenn Senile
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Patent number: 11753964Abstract: A seal system has: a first member; a seal carried by the first member and having a seal face; and a second member rotatable relative to the first member about an axis. The second member has: a seat on a first piece of the second member, the seat having a seat face in sliding sealing engagement with the seal face; and a radially outwardly closed collection channel for collecting centrifuged oil; a second piece encircling and attached to the first piece and having a circumferential array of apertures; and cooperating with the first piece to define a plenum; and a flowpath from the collection channel passing radially outward axially spaced from the seat face to cool the seat face and passing axially away from the seat face in the plenum.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: Nigel David Sawyers-Abbott, Armando Amador, Todd A. Davis
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Patent number: 11732804Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic tool mount having a bore into which a sealing piston is inserted, wherein the sealing piston comprises a pin, a seal and a head which are arranged one behind the other in an axial direction (A) and thus form a stack, wherein the seal comprises a circumferential sealing lip for abutment and sealing against an inner wall of the bore in order to achieve a first sealing effect, and the bore comprises a sealing seat which, when the sealing piston is inserted, forms a stop for the head in axial direction (A), so that, in an end position of the sealing piston, the head abuts the sealing seat and thereby closes the bore in order to achieve a second sealing effect. The invention further relates to a corresponding sealing piston.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Santhosha Boregowda, Josef Konrad Herud
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Patent number: 11719343Abstract: A radial shaft seal has an elastomeric sealing lip with an inner side facing a shaft to be sealed. The sealing lip has a first circumferential ring arranged at the inner side and resting against the shaft to seal a medium side from an air side. Return conveying elements are arranged circumferentially about the sealing lip at the inner side and at a side of the first circumferential ring facing the air side. They return leakage medium, independent of a rotational direction of the shaft, to the medium side. A second circumferential ring at the inner side is positioned at a side of the return conveying elements facing the air side. The first circumferential ring is an elevation with depressions, also formed as elevations, distributed circumferentially thereabout. The depressions extend toward the second circumferential ring and are positioned, respectively, between two of the return conveying elements neighboring each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: KACO GmbH + Co. KGInventors: Wilhelm Wunder, Konstantin Rempel
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Patent number: 11717869Abstract: A seal (100) for sealing a lubricant space prevents lubricant (320) escaping. A rolling stand has a seal of this kind. The seal (100) is made at least partially from elastic material. To enable a pressing force FR, with which the bottom face (112) of the seal is pressed against an opposite contact surface (218), for example of a roll journal (212), to be variably set, the seal (100) has at least two cavities, which are separated from each other in the circumferential direction and which are open towards the lubricant space of the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SMS group GmbHInventors: Johannes Alken, Daniel Knie, Andrej Tucak, Ralf Seidel, Matthias Kipping