Patents Examined by Matthew W Jellet
  • Patent number: 10323393
    Abstract: A water delivery device includes a body, a user interface, a mixing valve, a first capacitive sensor pad, and a second capacitive sensor pad. The body includes a spout. The user interface is provided on the spout. The mixing valve is contained within the body and is configured to be in fluid communication with a hot water source and a cold water source. The first capacitive sensor pad is provided below the user interface. The second capacitive sensor pad is provided below the user interface laterally adjacent to the first capacitive sensor pad, and is physically separated from the first capacitive sensor pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: KOHLER MIRA LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Ian Thompson, Xiangzhen Zhu
  • Patent number: 10203045
    Abstract: An electrically or electromagnetically operated valve has a movable structural group with a magnetic armature, which is movable along an axis between a first and a second position to open or close the valve. The valve has a valve sleeve in which the magnetic armature is movable between the first and the second position, the magnetic armature defining on its axial sides two volumes in the valve sleeve. There is provided a throttling element elastic in the radial direction, which is arranged between the first volume and the second volume such that upon axial movement of the movable structural group it throttles an air stream between the first volume and the second volume in order to decelerate a movement of the movable structural group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Rausch & Pausch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Schieweck, Herwig Greiner, Christoph Zeug
  • Patent number: 10161490
    Abstract: Control equipment for generating a rotational travel motion from a rotational drive motion includes a drive shaft, an intermediate body, a reference body, and an output body that are movable relative to each other. The control equipment includes a first transmission and a second transmission, which is different from the first transmission. The first transmission transforms a rotational movement of the drive shaft relative to the reference body into a linear motion component of the intermediate body relative to the reference body, and the control equipment has a displacement line along which the intermediate body moves via the linear motion component of the intermediate body relative to the reference body. The second transmission transforms the linear motion component of the intermediate body relative into a rotational movement of the output body relative to the reference body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kurt Stoll, Alfons Riek, Martin Sigrist, Elmar Mock, Samuel Malzach
  • Patent number: 9353886
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a plunger head, an actuating device, a seal sheet and an air tap assembly. The actuating device has a connection member coupled with the plunger head. The seal sheet is disposed on the actuating device. The air tap assembly is secured to the actuating device and has a cavity. The air tap assembly includes a main body, a first and a second tubes. The first tube protrudes from the main body and defines a first through hole. The main body defines a second through hole communicated with the first through hole and the cavity. The second tube defines a third through hole. The main body defines a fourth through hole extended from the third through hole and a fifth through hole extended from the fourth through hole to the cavity. The plunger head is used to seal the second and fifth through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KOGE MICRO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Kai Tung, Sheng-Min Yang