Patents Examined by Lee A Holly
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Patent number: 11817751Abstract: In a method for firmly connecting a shaft to a rotor-housing part, the rotor-housing part is provided having a bearing flange and the shaft is provided having a recess, extending in the circumferential direction of the shaft, on an outer circumference of the shaft. The shaft is inserted into the bearing flange such that the recess and the bearing flange overlap one another. Material of the bearing flange is introduced into the recess. With the connection, created in this way, between the shaft and bearing flange, a high press-out force is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: PWO AGInventors: Patrick Werner, Nicolai Schindler
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Patent number: 11802655Abstract: A display panel mounting system includes a plate and an adjustment device. The plate includes a plate opening. The adjustment device includes a body, a sleeve, a coupler, and a nut. The body includes a receiver. The body is configured to be received within the plate opening. The sleeve is received within the body. The coupler includes a slot that receives the receiver such that the coupler is coupled to the body. The nut is coupled to the body such that the sleeve is repositionable within the body when the nut is coupled to the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: PEERLESS INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Derrik Lam, Richard Kahn
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Patent number: 11794795Abstract: A method for reconditioning a railcar coupler is disclosed, including determining, using a gauge, an amount of wear to a coupler pulling lug; cleaning a surface of the coupler pulling lug experiencing the wear; and applying a weldment to the surface of the coupler pulling lug experiencing the wear to increase the thickness of the coupler pulling lug. The amount of weldment applied to the coupler pulling lug is preferably equal to the amount of wear experiencing by the coupler pulling lug to bring the thickness of the coupler pulling lug back to its original thickness or very close thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: A. Stucki CompanyInventor: Robert Brest
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Patent number: 11788663Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of tube plug installation in a heat exchanger or pressure vessel is provided. The method includes verifying the suitability of a selected tube plug with a specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel before installation of the selected tube plug. The step of verifying being performed with a device having an app, software, or user interface and after having entered or accessed data concerning the selected tube plug and entering or accessing data concerning the specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel and operating parameters of the specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: EST GROUP, INC.Inventors: Andrew Hall, Alex Kotlyar, Ka'ren Sarkissian
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Patent number: 11788571Abstract: A multi-head bolt having a bolt shaft defining a longitudinal axis of the multi-head bolt and a multi-head disposed at a first end of the bolt shaft, the multi-head having at least three pawls, each pawl having a fixed radial orientation relative to the bolt shaft and having a primary plane being aligned with the longitudinal axis of the bolt shaft and having a support surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: PERI SEInventors: Julian Huber, Andrew Read, Florian Sturm
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Patent number: 11781301Abstract: A method for making a sink with a supporting structure including providing a sink including at least one basin and a rim extending outwardly from at least one side of the at least one basin, and coupling a support structure in the form of at least one channel to an underside of the at least one side of the rim using a tool. The tool includes a channel support configured to receive one channel of the at least one channels.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: Jason R. Miller, Brian Siehr, Theodore Nikolai, Joseph Bolden
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Patent number: 11781583Abstract: A sleeve for the centering of fasteners when installing structural parts on substructure of a building envelope is designed substantially as a hollow cylindrical sleeve body or split hollow cylindrical sleeve body. It has at least two gutter-like shell elements each having a head end and a rear end. The shell elements are grouped symmetrically about a central axis A and span between them a middle space with inner surfaces facing each other. The shell elements are spaced apart from each other and separated by axially parallel longitudinal slots, except for a connecting joint section at the head end. These sleeves are placed on a fastener and allow a precise centering in the predrilled hole of a facade plate, for example. The sleeve remains in the predrilled hole until such time as the centering of the fastener has been accomplished and is then ejected safely by driving the fastener home.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SFS Group International AGInventors: Yves Pöltinger, Roland Mair
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Patent number: 11772822Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for lifting an object. The system comprises a first floor, a second floor, and an object rack supported on the second floor. The system further comprises an object advance apparatus coupled with the object rack. The object advance apparatus is configured to advance one object from the plurality of objects from an advancing position to a lifting position. The system additionally comprises a lifting cylinder that is configured to extend from a retracted position below the lifting position to an extended position above the first floor, such that the one object in the lifting position is removed from the object rack and lifted adjacent to the assembling body. The system also comprises a floor flap configured to open and close in synchronization with the extension and retraction of the lifting cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Pierig Bonnefoy
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Patent number: 11773888Abstract: A rod connector is provided including a disc portion, a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion. The disc portion has a first side configured to engage a first rod and a second side configured to engage a second rod. The first shaft portion extends from the first side of the disc portion and includes threads along at least a portion of the length thereof for engaging threads of the first rod to draw the first rod into engagement with the disc portion. The second shaft portion extends from the second side of the disc portion and includes threads along at least a portion of the length thereof for engaging threads of the second rod to draw the second rod into engagement with the disc portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: House of Atlas, LLCInventors: Jason Moss, Alan Arthur Ford
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Patent number: 11774016Abstract: A coupling system for quickly connecting fluid conveying conduits.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: AGI INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: David A. Patterson, Anthony E. Taylor, Craig C. DeRouen
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Patent number: 11754044Abstract: A method is provided for installing a continuous pliant add-on device (e.g., a vibration suppression device) onto a blade of a wind turbine, wherein the blade is mounted to a rotor that is atop a tower. The method includes, with the rotor, positioning the blade to a first position. A first end of the add-on device is fixed to a first end of the blade. The blade is then rotated with a pitch control system while supplying the add-on device in a first direction along a span of the rotating blade to wrap the add-on device around the blade towards an opposite second end of the blade in a first wrap pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Darren John Danielsen
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Patent number: 11746393Abstract: A method of strengthening a component made of a metallic material. The method includes subjecting the component to a mechanical grinding process incorporating a relative motion between a tool and the component forming a gradient structure on the surface of the component, resulting in increased tensile strength of the component. A method of strengthening a component made of a TWIP steel. The method includes subjecting the component made of TWIP steel to a mechanical grinding process incorporating a relative motion between a tool and the component forming a gradient structure containing a surface nanolaminate layer, a shear band layer, and an inner deformation twinned layer, resulting in increased tensile strength of the component. A component made of a TWIP steel containing a gradient structure with a surface nanolaminate layer, a shear band layer, and a deformation twinned layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Jie Ding, Qiang Li, Zhongxia Shang, Xinghang Zhang
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Patent number: 11745280Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heat exchanger including stacking a set of plates parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction so as to define a plurality of passages suitable for the flow in the longitudinal direction of a first fluid to be brought into a heat-exchange relationship with at least a second fluid, said plates being delimited by a pair of longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction and a pair of lateral edges extending in a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and forming at least one of the plates by superposing at least a first flat product and a second flat product on top of one another, having at least one groove that extends parallel to the plates and leads towards the outside of the stack through at least one opening in a lateral or longitudinal edge.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges ClaudeInventors: Jacopo Seiwert, Marc Wagner, Marie-Adelaide Cremieux, Younes Belmekki
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Patent number: 11739867Abstract: A coupling for joining pipe elements has segments surrounding a central space with cusps which engage lobes of a seal to maintain the segments in spaced apart relation in a preassembled state. While the coupling is in the preassembled state the pipe elements may be inserted into the central space without disassembling the coupling, and portions of the seal adjacent to attachment members on the segments seat within a channel defined by the segments between the cusps. The lobes of the seal contact a second surface of the shoulders of the segments adjacent to the attachment members when the segments are in spaced relation.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Victaulic CompanyInventor: Philip Wayne Bancroft
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Patent number: 11724893Abstract: An assembly line having a carrier for transporting components which is structured and dimensioned for receiving components of two different devices, so that the assembly line can be switched from assembling one device to assembling the other device without changing or altering the series of carriers on the assembly line, and a method of operating the assembly line.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: RENAISSANCE LAKEWOOD, LLCInventors: Jeff Steward, Bob Wood
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Patent number: 11725884Abstract: A heat pipe operating noiselessly by preventing, or reducing the effects of, the mixing of working fluid at different temperatures includes a hollow tube, a capillary structure, a working fluid, and a bushing. The porous capillary structure able to carry the fluid is disposed on an inner wall of the tube. The bushing is hollow, and the bushing is disposed on a surface of the capillary structure away from the tube. The heat pipe is divided into evaporation, adiabatic, and condensation sections, the capillary structure being at all sections. The working fluid is disposed in the capillary structure of the evaporation section, the bushing is disposed on a side of the capillary structure of the adiabatic section.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: CHAMP TECH OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CORPORATIONInventor: Fu-Ping Xiao
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Patent number: 11712733Abstract: A joint module for forming a joint section from a tube that is formed at an operational speed by a roll forming machine may include a carriage positioned proximate the back end of the roll forming machine and configured to move in a longitudinal direction relative to the back end. A pleat die assembly may be mounted on the carriage and configured to repeatedly engage the tube to form a series of pleats thereby bending the tube to form the joint section, and a crimp die assembly may be mounted on the carriage and configured to engage the tube to crimp an end of the joint section and to sever the end of the joint section from the tube. The carriage may move relative to the frame while the tube is engaged with at least one of the crimp die assembly and the pleat die assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventors: Marcus Lee Poppler, Nathan Michael McCrimmon
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Patent number: 11713139Abstract: A movable carriage system for an aircraft element, such as an aeroplane engine, has a first movable module (10) and a second movable module (20). Each movable module has a frame (12, 22) equipped with at least three wheels, a lifting device adapted to be able to move said aircraft element at least in a vertical direction, and at least one link arm (16, 17) adapted to be able to secure together the frame of said first module and the frame of said second module and to allow data to be transferred between them. The movable modules are adapted to be able to be controlled in a mutually coordinated manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: EXCENT FRANCEInventors: Clémence Larroque, Alexandre Bonneau
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Patent number: 11684968Abstract: Equipment including a rigid plate provided with a plurality of cutters configured to be impressed in sequence against a swaged annular collar of an inner ring of a wheel hub, the collar being formed with a first radial profile; the cutters sliding axially through the plate and towards a first face of the plate resting in abutment against the collar; wherein the first face of the plate is provided in the region of the cutters with a concave annular seat having a second radial profile configured to copy at least partly the first radial profile of the collar, the annular seat being configured to be passed through by the cutters during the step for impression against the collar and to contain any radial flow of the metallic material which forms the collar.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Fabio Bogliacino, Alessandro Ferrero, Giorgio Missiaggia
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Patent number: 11686255Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine including a central pinion, an outer crown, N planet pinions, where N?3, each planet pinion including a first stage meshing with the central pinion, and a second stage meshing with the outer crown, the method including the assembly marking, wherein N teeth of the central pinion are marked, and N pairs of teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are marked, the N planet pinions each being marked identically, and the assembly of the mechanical reducer, so that the teeth of the pairs of marked teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are disposed on either side of a marked tooth of the central pinion.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Dhafer Ghribi