Patents Examined by Nicholas L Foster
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Patent number: 11306822Abstract: A sealing device seals a gap between a housing and a rotational shaft located in a shaft hole provided in the housing. The sealing device includes: a mounted part that is to be mounted on the shaft hole; an inner annular part; a seal lip that is to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft; a bellows part connecting the mounted part with the inner annular part; a sound insulation ring fixed to the mounted part; and a circular annular sound insulation lip projecting from the inner annular part or the bellows part toward the sound insulation ring. The sound insulation lip protrudes obliquely radially outward. The sound insulation ring includes a circular annular part with which the distal end of the sound insulation lip is in contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11293135Abstract: The invention relates to a seal for a clothes dryer adapted to be interposed between a first part and a second part of the dryer. The seal comprises a first portion adapted to be connected to the first part of the dryer and a second portion adapted to be placed in contact with the second part of the dryer. The second portion comprises an at least partially curved stretch and such an at least partially curved stretch comprises a flocked surface layer adapted to be placed in contact with said second part of the dryer.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: INDUSTRIE ILPEA S.P.A.Inventors: Sandro Mazzaro, Paolo Cittadini
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Patent number: 11289888Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a seal apparatus for sealing an opening of a structure having a thickness at the opening. The seal apparatus includes a first section disposed at a proximal end, a second section disposed at a distal end, and an intermediate section disposed between the first and second sections. The first section defines a cone-like configuration. An opening extends through the first section, the second section, and the intermediate section.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Thomas L. Warren
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Patent number: 11280209Abstract: A hydrostatic advanced low leakage seal configured to be disposed between relatively rotatable components. The seal includes a base. The seal also includes a shoe extending circumferentially. The seal further includes a first beam operatively coupling the shoe to the base, the first beam having a first thickness. The seal yet further includes a second beam operatively coupling the shoe to the base, the second beam having at least a portion thereof with a second thickness that is less than the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Scott D. Virkler
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Patent number: 11280410Abstract: An annular gasket for use between facing flanges of two flow conduit sections, the gasket including an annular gasket substrate made of polytetrafluoroethylene and having a first face opposite a second face. The first face includes a plurality of first serrations wherein the plurality of first serrations includes a plurality of first grooves and a plurality of first peaks, and the second face includes a plurality of second serrations wherein the plurality of second serrations includes a plurality of second grooves and a plurality of second peaks. The plurality of first peaks is aligned with the plurality of second peaks. The plurality of first peaks and the plurality of second peaks are compressible to a substantially flat surface when the conduit sections are joined together in a bolted configuration. An outer guide ring may be positioned exteriorly to the annular gasket substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: LGC US Asset HoldingsInventor: Robert Taylor
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Patent number: 11261968Abstract: A sealing device includes an annular reinforcing ring and an elastic body part, and the elastic body part has an annular seal lip, an annular dust lip, and an annular side lip. The side lip extends toward the outer side on an outer periphery side of the dust lip, and includes a distal end portion, a middle portion, and a root portion. The root portion is an annular portion, the middle portion is a portion that is outside of the root portion, and an annular portion that increases in diameter toward an outward side, and the distal end portion is a portion that is outside the middle portion, and an annular portion that increases in diameter toward an outward side. The distal end portion is bent to an inner periphery side from the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Nagahamaya, Kokichi Hamamoto, Masayuki Tanida, Takehiro Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11255319Abstract: The present invention provides a shaft-cylinder assembly for high-temperature operation comprising a pair of first and second dynamic sealing members having a helical coiled seal ring structure configured to be in contact with the shaft for providing dynamic sealing function in the cylinder; and a cylindrical cooling jacket configured to circumferentially surround the dynamic sealing members such that a cavity is defined between the dynamic sealing members inside the cooling jacket; wherein the cooling jacket comprises one or more inflow cooling channels and one or more outflow cooling channels configured to communicating with the cavity and circulating a cooling fluid through the cavity for moving heat away from the dynamic sealing members.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Neo Mechanics LimitedInventors: Stanley Moon Kai Ko, Kyong Tae Chang
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Patent number: 11255382Abstract: A seal assembly includes a housing defining a bore and a shaft received in the bore. A seal member is secured to the housing for sealing a gap between the housing and the shaft. A slinger is secured to the shaft. The slinger being made from plastic and including a first semi-circular part and a second semi-circular part that is secured to the first semi-circular part. The slinger includes a radially extending wall portion with a raised bumper feature at a radially outer surface opposing the seal member. The slinger further includes an axially protruding labyrinth feature extending from the radially extending wall portion and toward the seal member. The first semi-circular part and the second semi-circular part can be snap fit to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: FREUDENBERG-NOK GENERAL PARTNERSHIPInventor: Kah Fei Neoh
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Patent number: 11248707Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least one of the sliding surfaces, sliding surface S, includes a random dimple group 11 in which plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged, and the random dimple group 11 is arranged to be biased in the circumferential direction of the sliding surface S. The sliding components have an improved lubricating property and reliability of a sealing property.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTDInventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Ayano Tanishima, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Takeshi Hosoe, Yuta Negishi, Yuki Maetani
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Patent number: 11236944Abstract: The present invention relates generally to furnace systems and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to a split-ring assembly for sealing a junction between a catalyst tube and a furnace. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a ring-seal assembly. The ring-seal assembly includes a housing ring coupled to an outer surface of a furnace. The housing ring is disposed around a circumference of a tube proximate a junction with the furnace. The ring seal assembly further includes a brush seal that is at least partially disposed within the housing ring. The brush seal is disposed around the circumference of the tube. A plurality of brushes extend radially inwardly from the brush seal towards the tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER USA CORPORATIONInventors: Alfred J. Faller, Pasquale J. Giovannone
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Patent number: 11235653Abstract: The present invention relates to a door sealing device sealing a gap between a door leaf and a frame for a rail vehicle, where the door sealing device includes a flexible tubular hollow chamber formed by two opposite contact walls and two opposite side walls, where, in the mounted state of the door sealing device, a first contact wall of the contact walls faces the door leaf and a second contact wall of the contact walls faces the frame so that the hollow chamber is subject to compression in the event of a closing motion of the door leaf, thereby moving the contact walls towards each other, and where the sidewalls are formed to be buckled along predetermined buckle lines in response to the compression.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE GmbHInventors: Thomas Hirtenlehner, Peter Jetzinger
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Patent number: 11221074Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a mechanical seal in which a stationary-side sealing ring can follow the movement of a rotating-side sealing ring to provide reliable sealing properties and by which the entire device can be made compact. A mechanical seal in which a rotating-side sealing ring 13 attached to a shaft 2 and a stationary-side sealing ring 21 attached to a housing 3 slide relative to each other and seal between the housing 3 and the shaft 2 includes a case 22 which is attached to the housing 3 and which contains the stationary-side sealing ring 21, and a seal member 23 which is disposed between the case 22 and the stationary-side sealing ring 21, and the case 22 includes a holding part 22d which regulates the seal member 23 from moving to both sides in the axial direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadahiro Kimura, Hikaru Katori, Masatoshi Itadani, Takeshi Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Tomoko Yamaki
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Patent number: 11215286Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a magnetic liquid sealing device adapted to axial and radial displacements of connection, which includes: an end cover; a rubber-sealing-ring equipped first clamping plate fixed on the end cover by a first screw and a second screw; a rubber-sealing-ring equipped second clamping plate installed in a groove of the end cover; a fundamental sealing structure fixed on the rubber-sealing-ring equipped second clamping plate by a third screw and a fourth screw, so as to be isolated from the end cover by the rubber-sealing-ring equipped first clamping plate and the rubber-sealing-ring equipped second clamping plate. The device isolates the connected component from the magnetic liquid sealing structure by the two clamping plates, such that the axial and radial deformations and displacements of the connected component will not be loaded on parts in magnetic liquid sealing structure, prolonging the service life of the magnetic liquid sealing.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Decai Li, Siyu Chen, Xiao Liu, Qian Li, Rui Sun, Jixian Yang, Zhenghao Li
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Patent number: 11199261Abstract: A play-free oil scraper ring has a cross section with a running surface leg having at least one scraper web that is situated on a running surface, an upper piston ring flank leg that is connected to the running surface leg, and the upper surface of which forms an upper piston ring flank. A lower piston ring flank leg is likewise connected to the running surface leg, the lower surface of which forms a lower piston ring flank. The upper and/or the lower piston ring flank leg are/is elastic, taper(s) inwardly in the radial direction, and their/its piston ring flank(s) essentially form(s) a conical surface in an uninstalled state. The uninstalled piston ring has an axial height that exceeds a width of a piston ring groove for which the piston ring is intended.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventor: Nigel Gray
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Patent number: 11193592Abstract: A magnetic fluid sealing device includes: a housing; a shaft rotatably penetrating through the housing; a first shaft sleeve made of a magnetic conductive material, and fitted over the shaft; a plurality of pole shoes arranged in the housing and fitted over the shaft and the first shaft sleeve, an inner circumferential surface of the pole shoe being provided with a plurality of pole teeth arranged at intervals in an axial direction of the shaft, the shaft and a first part of the plurality of pole teeth being arranged at intervals in a radial direction of the shaft to form a first gap, the first shaft sleeve and a second part of the plurality of pole teeth being arranged at intervals in the radial direction of the shaft to form a second gap; and a permanent magnet arranged in the housing and fitted over the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Decai Li, Xiao Liu, Zepeng Li
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Patent number: 11187324Abstract: According to some embodiments, a multi-layer gasket with a non-compressible core, formed of any material that is relatively rigid and incompressible and can serve as a carrier for a gasket, and compressible layers, formed of any flowable or compressible sealing material with appropriate rheology for a particular sealing application, in the form of edge or surface coatings, is presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Lydall Performance Materials (US), Inc.Inventors: Brian C. Lehr, Krishna Venkataswamy, Jeffery L. Barrall
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Patent number: 11187326Abstract: A mechanical seal in which a rotary ring can be more reliably positioned. A rotary ring unit 100 includes: a sleeve 120 fixed to a rotary shaft 500; and a rotary ring 110 of which a movement in an axial direction and a rotation with respect to the sleeve 120 is restricted, a fixed ring unit 200 includes: a fixed ring 210 configured to slide on an end surface of the rotary ring 110; and a bellows 250 which presses the fixed ring 210 toward the rotary ring 110, and the sleeve 120 is provided with a stopper 140 which restricts a movement of the rotary ring 110 toward the fixed ring 210.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Moriya, Akira Yoshino
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Patent number: 11168790Abstract: A sliding member having a hard carbon coating that has a thickness of 3 ?m or more and demonstrates high peeling resistance and high wear resistance is provided. A sliding member 100 according to the present disclosure includes a base member 10 and a hard carbon coating 12 that is formed on the base member 10 and has the hydrogen content of 3 atomic % or less and a thickness of 3 ?m or more. When HM represents a Martens hardness of the hard carbon coating 12 and HIT represents an indentation hardness, the ratio HM/HIT is 0.40 or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKENInventors: Kazuya Kameda, Yuuichi Ishida, Hiroshi Maruyama, Takuma Sekiya
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Patent number: 11156294Abstract: There is disclosed a controlled gap seal for a gas turbine engine including a ring configured to be in a sealing engagement with a housing and a runner configured for rotation relative to the ring about the central axis. The runner has a runner face facing a ring face of the ring. The ring face is spaced apart from the runner face by a gap. A plurality of surface discontinuities are circumferentially distributed around the central axis on the runner face and/or the ring face. The plurality of surface discontinuities are spaced relative to one another such that a first set of adjacent surface discontinuities are circumferentially spaced from each other at a different distance than a second set of adjacent surface discontinuities. A method of using the controlled gap seal is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Ignatius Theratil, Aldo Abate
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Patent number: 11156293Abstract: A metal gasket containing a metal plate having an opening portion and having a seal bead having a bent cross-sectional shape formed along the opening portion in order to suppress a variation in the height of the seal bead due to a tensile stress generated in the outer periphery of the seal bead in the molding of the seal bead is provided with a lightening hole extending along the outer periphery of the seal bead, in which the distance between the lightening hole and the seal bead is constant.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Inventors: Kento Ide, Katsuma Imai, Hirotaka Muragishi