Patents Examined by Robert K. Arundale
  • Patent number: 11904817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pipe connector assembly and a tire maintenance apparatus having the same. The pipe connector assembly comprises a leak-proof valve, and the leak-proof valve is opened only after a sealed fluid medium path is formed between the pipe connector assembly and the tire valve when the pipe connector assembly is screwed to the tire valve. The present invention advantageously prevents fluid medium leakage at the connection between the pipe connector assembly and the tire valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Active Tools International (HK) Ltd.
    Inventors: Koonfung Lam, Huilong Ji, Jianghua Yan
  • Patent number: 11904642
    Abstract: A TPMS inflation valve for a commercial vehicle includes an inflation valve body, an inflation valve seat and a sensor subassembly. The inflation valve body and the inflation valve seat are components split apart from each other. The inflation valve is mounted on an automobile rim by means of the inflation valve seat, and the inflation valve body is provided with an installation portion for a valve core. The inflation valve body and the inflation valve seat are assembled and connected to form an airflow channel for communication. A cavity located outside the automobile rim and close to the automobile rim is formed at the position where the inflation valve body and the inflation valve seat are assembled and connected. The sensor subassembly is arranged in the cavity in communication with the airflow channel of the inflation valve or located on the airflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HAMATON AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianer Zhang
  • Patent number: 11906071
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes, a first moveable member disposed in a first chamber configured to move between a first position and a second position of the first moveable member to allow or prevent fluid from passing from an inlet of the first chamber to an outlet of the first chamber. A second moveable member is disposed in a second chamber configured to move between a first position and a second position of the second moveable member to allow or prevent fluid from entering a biasing chamber, the second chamber being fluidly connected to the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Connor Berube, Myles R. Kelly
  • Patent number: 11897270
    Abstract: Some examples include a valve for a printing fluid supply system, the valve including a static portion and a dynamic portion. The static portion includes a stem extending along a longitudinal axis. The stem includes a head, a tail, and a shaft extending between the head and the tail. The dynamic portion is disposed around the stem. The dynamic portion is longitudinally movable along the stem between a closed position and an opened position. The dynamic portion includes a neck and a body extending longitudinally from the neck, the neck to seal around the head in the closed position and fluidly open in the opened position, the body to slidably fluidly seal against a housing between opened and closed positions. A liquid ink pathway and an air pathway are formed between the static portion and the dynamic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: William Scott Osborne
  • Patent number: 11898648
    Abstract: Pressure valve for a liquid comprising a housing with an inlet and an outlet for directing the liquid from the inlet through the housing to the outlet along a flow direction, wherein valve further comprises movable member which is movable in the housing towards and away from the outlet between a blocked position wherein the movable member blocks the outlet and an unblocked position wherein the movable member is moved away from the outlet in a direction opposite the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Cenergist Limited, HaGePe International B.V.
    Inventor: Stijn Van Der Upwich
  • Patent number: 11898646
    Abstract: The present invention relates to adjustable flow control valves, for example to an Adjustable Pressure Limiting (APL) valve. The adjustable valve (2) described comprises a valve body (4) comprising a valve seat (6), a valve member (10) movable relative to the valve seat (6), a first valve cap (20), a second valve cap (50) and a biasing element (30) to bias the valve member (10) away from the first valve cap (20). The first valve cap (20) is movable to increase the biasing force applied by the biasing element (30). The second valve cap (50) is engageable with the first valve cap (20) to prevent such movement of the first valve cap (20) beyond a selected position, but to allow movement of the first valve cap (20) in an opposite direction, way from said position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INTERSURGICAL AG
    Inventors: David Simon Bottom, Christopher Edgerly Booth, Simon Robert Payne, Richard Francis Bowsher
  • Patent number: 11885419
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve including a seal seat that defines an opening. A seat stem is moveable between a closed position in which the seat stem engages the seal seat and prevents fluid flow through the opening, and an open position in which the seat stem is spaced from the seal seat and permits fluid flow through the opening. A biasing element biases the seat stem in the closed position. A housing defines a passage that extends between an inlet and an outlet. The seal seat, seat stem and biasing element are positioned in the passage such that movement of the seat stem between the closed and open positions controls flow of the fluid between the inlet and outlet. The housing has an outer wall including a coupling mechanism for fixing the housing inside a channel of a primary regulator body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ULTRA FLOW HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Steve J. Salcedo
  • Patent number: 11885453
    Abstract: A damping device, in particular for damping or preventing pressure surges, such as pulsations, in hydraulic supply circuits, preferably in the form of a silencer, has a damping housing (2) encompassing a damping chamber (10). The damping housing (2) has at least one fluid inlet (6) and at least one fluid outlet (8), as well as a fluid receiving chamber extending between the fluid inlet (6) and the fluid outlet (8). During operation of the device, a fluid flow coming from the fluid inlet (6) passes through the damping chamber (10) towards the fluid outlet (8). A wall part of the fluid receiving chamber extends as a guide element (16) in at least one direction of extension transverse to the direction of the fluid flow. In the damping chamber (10), several guide elements (16) are provided, against which guide elements the fluid can flow to alter the flow velocity in certain areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Baltes, Peter Kloft
  • Patent number: 11886212
    Abstract: A pneumatic valve for attachment to a source of high pressure gas comprises a valve body which comprises a gas inlet and a gas outlet. A rupturable membrane extends across the gas inlet. A membrane support element is slidably supported in the valve body for movement between an extended position and a retracted position, the membrane support element having a lower end engageable, in the extended position, with the rupturable membrane to support the rupturable membrane against rupture. The valve body further comprises a bore through which the membrane support element extends and one or more gas supply passages bypassing the bore for providing a gas flow path from the gas inlet to the gas outlet. The membrane support element is configured to be movable from the extended position to the retracted position to permit the rupturable membrane to rupture under the pressure of the high pressure gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piotr J. Zajac, Kamil Czechowski, Adrian Tarnowski
  • Patent number: 11879557
    Abstract: A clapper comprises a first valve body piece, a second valve body piece, wherein the second valve body piece is separate from the first valve body piece, and a seal. The first valve body piece has a seal groove. The second valve body piece has an angled edge. The seal is disposed in the seal groove of the first valve body piece. When the first and second valve body pieces are coupled together, radial compression of the seal between the seal groove and the angled edge causes the seal to be retained within the clapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SPM Oil & Gas Inc.
    Inventor: Nadiya V. Fuller
  • Patent number: 11879558
    Abstract: In an example, a pressure relief valve is described. The pressure relief valve comprises a housing configured to allow fluid flow therethrough. The pressure relief valve also comprises an adapter having interior threads, where the adapter is attached to the housing such that the adapter is positioned at least partially within the housing. The pressure relief valve also comprises an orifice plate having an orifice formed therein to allow fluid flow therethrough, where the orifice plate comprises exterior threads that engage with the interior threads of the adapter to couple the orifice plate to the adapter. The pressure relief valve also comprises a spring disposed within the housing. The orifice plate translates via engagement of the exterior threads with the interior threads to calibrate a spring force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Chandra Sudhakar Gudimetla
  • Patent number: 11873920
    Abstract: A safety device for detachably locking the output member of a linear drive has a coupling rod that can be coupled with the output element of the linear drive. A blocking unit is linearly movably penetrated by the coupling rod that is relatively movable with respect to the housing between a locking position blocking the stroke of the coupling rod and a release position enabling the linear movement of the coupling rod. A spring device prestresses the blocking unit in the blocking position and a locking device locks the blocking unit in the release position. The locking device has locking rolling elements in the housing and a support sleeve that is linearly movably penetrated by the coupling rod. When energized, an electromagnet device holds the support sleeve in the support position against the recoil force of at least one trigger spring of a trigger spring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Folkert Hettinga, Peter Van Der Wagt, Alfred Arnold Kruijer, Willem George Sied Van Rijs
  • Patent number: 11873914
    Abstract: A buffer valve is installed on a pneumatic diaphragm valve. An inner flow channel of the buffer valve includes an inner micro gas hole, an inner chamber, an outer gas hole, and a floating ball. The buffer valve has functions with a high-filling action, a shielding action, a releasing action, a shielding time ?t, and an adjusting mechanism. When inflatable, the floating ball will not block the inner micro hole to be quickly filled with high-pressure gas. when gas discharge, the floating ball will move to the outer gas hole with the gas flow and produce the shielding action to reduce the discharge rate to reduce the vibration and slow down the approach speed of the diaphragm to reduce the impact against the valve seat. When the pressure of the gas decreases, the floating ball is separated from the outer gas hole by the releasing action to accelerate the discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bueno Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huan-Jan Chien, Po-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 11859722
    Abstract: A piston check valve system includes a body including an upstream end and a downstream end, a bonnet secured to a proximal opening of the body, and a piston secured within the body, the piston being moveable between a closed position in which the piston rests upon a valve seat and an open position in which the piston is spaced away from the valve seat. The piston check valve system also includes a retainer configured to guide and retain the piston and to secure the valve seat within the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SCV VALVE, LLC
    Inventor: Sidney McCarra
  • Patent number: 11860646
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a pressure-regulating device, systems that include the device, and related methods. For example, the pressure-regulating device may receive gas from a gas supply at a first pressure (e.g., on a supply side of the pressure-regulating device) and may regulate or reduce the pressure of the received gas to a selected or suitable second, different pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MOBILE I.V. SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Gessler, Fred Vreeman
  • Patent number: 11860623
    Abstract: A method for depressurizing a pipe includes forming, by an ejector assembly, a seal between a first pipe and a second pipe fluidically coupled to the tee pipe fitting. The first pipe flows a first fluid at a first pressure, and the second pipe flows a second fluid at a second pressure lower than the first pressure. The ejector assembly includes a nozzle converging along a flow direction of the first fluid flowing in the first pipe, and a mixing chamber at an outlet of the nozzle, the mixing chamber comprising an outlet is in fluid communication with the second pipe. The method also includes flowing the first fluid from the first pipe into the ejector assembly through the nozzle so that the pressure of the first fluid decreases to a third pressure lower than the second pressure to draw the second fluid into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Abdulaziz M. Al Otaibi
  • Patent number: 11850898
    Abstract: A chuck for inflating a tire having a Presta valve includes a valve engagement device defining an aperture with a central axis and a diameter, the valve engagement device movable radially with respect to the central axis to increase and decrease the diameter of the aperture. A locking device can engage with the valve engagement device to lock the valve engagement device in a selected radial position with respect to the central axis of the aperture. The chuck can include a seal positioned within the valve engagement device, the entire seal moving radially with the valve engagement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Radian Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Fernando Tages
  • Patent number: 11852253
    Abstract: A shuttle valve is disclosed. The shuttle valve comprises a valve body, a valve member, and a catch. The valve body comprises a first and a second fluid inlet, a central chamber, and a fluid outlet. The first and second fluid inlets and the fluid outlet open into the central chamber via a first and a second inlet mouth and an outlet mouth. The valve member is configured to move between a first and a second position, the valve member closes the first inlet mouth and allows fluid communication between the second inlet mouth and the outlet mouth when the valve member is in the first position, and the valve member closes the second inlet mouth and allows fluid communication between the first inlet mouth and the outlet mouth when the valve member is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piotr Kielczykowski, Przemyslaw Kielczykowski
  • Patent number: 11846381
    Abstract: A method of restoring a tubular assembly having a plurality of coupled tubular bodies includes the steps of inserting a first tubular element and a second tubular element inside the tubular assembly, the first tubular element having a first free end facing a second free end of the second tubular element, and of pushing at least one of the first or second tubular element against the other so as to bring the first free end and the second free end into contact. Before the step of inserting, there is a step of producing a collar on at least the first free end of the first tubular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Alexey Zhuravlev
  • Patent number: 11845308
    Abstract: A safety valve replaces a tire valve. The valve includes a generally elongate hollow main body having an upper portion, a lower flex hose connector, a side tubular branch having a valve seat with a ball valve, an electronics housing having a battery, motor and a drive pin for the ball valve. The lower flex hose connector is adapted for connection to a flex hose or valve stem of the vehicle tire. The side branch branches from the main body and communicates with the hollow interior of the main body. The side branch has a plurality of air exit apertures at its periphery. The valve seat includes a base with an aperture therein through which the drive pin can extend through to engage the ball valve. The ball valve sits in the base and is biased in the valve seat via a spring to cover the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: James Andrew McGhee