Restrictors Patents (Class 138/40)
  • Patent number: 11976677
    Abstract: A fluid manifold includes an inlet comprising an opening into an interior of the fluid manifold, an outlet end that is positioned opposite the inlet and that is in fluid communication with the inlet, a shroud extending between the inlet and the outlet end and surrounding a flow path of the fluid manifold, and a first flow distributor positioned within the interior of the fluid manifold. The first flow distributor includes a hollow body including a first surface at a downstream side of the first flow distributor and a second surface at an upstream side of the first flow distributor, a central cavity defined by the second surface of the hollow body, and openings extending from the first surface to the second surface such that a fluid can pass from the central cavity through the openings. The first flow distributor and the fluid manifold are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Ruiz, Mark A. Zaffetti, Jeremy M. Strange
  • Patent number: 11976011
    Abstract: Provided is a wear resistant, sintered body made of a binderless carbide, cermet or cemented carbide, e.g., WC, W2C and/or eta-phase, with a grain size less than 6.0 ?m, and less than 6% binder phase (e.g., Co—Ni—Fe). At least some working surfaces of the sintered body are surface treated with a boron yielding method including applying a low viscosity liquid medium having boron or aluminum content and heating at 1200° C. to 1450° C. under a pressure less than atmospheric pressure or a hydrogen containing atmosphere to from a hardness gradient with an increased hardness of the treated working surfaces of at least 50 to 200 HV5 and favorable compressive stresses in a surface zone that gives a tougher working surfaces of the boronized sintered bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HYPERION MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Stefan Sven-Olov Ederyd
  • Patent number: 11969016
    Abstract: The method includes defining a duct within a capillary medium, forming an air impingement surface that defines a first opening, the air impingement surface including electrically conductive filaments, and connecting the air impingement surface to a first surface of the capillary medium to form an assembly, at least one first portion of the air impingement surface extending into the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Michel Thorens
  • Patent number: 11946498
    Abstract: A flow conditioner for conditioning a fluid flow comprises a pipe that has a pipe axis and that can be flowed through by a fluid in the direction of the pipe axis; and at least one hub body that is rotationally symmetrical with respect to an axis of symmetry and that is fixed in the pipe such that the axis of symmetry coincides with the pipe axis, wherein the hub body fixed in the pipe has an onflow region that is arched outwardly against the onflow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SICK ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Künzelmann
  • Patent number: 11931148
    Abstract: A catheter system may include a catheter assembly, which may include a catheter adapter and a catheter extending distally from a distal end of the catheter adapter. The catheter system may also include a needle assembly, which may include a needle hub and an introducer needle. The needle hub may include: a distal end coupled to the proximal end of the catheter adapter; a proximal end; a wall disposed between the distal end of the needle hub and the proximal end of the needle hub; and a flashback chamber proximate the wall. The introducer needle may be press-fit within a through-hole of the wall. The catheter system may also include a plug coupled to the proximal end of the needle hub. A blood collection device may be coupled to a proximal end of the plug to collect blood from a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Linda Kunardi, Kiat Jin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11927151
    Abstract: An inlet duct for use with an engine is presented. The invention includes a duct structure, at least one spike disposed along an interior surface of the duct structure, and an inlet throat formed by one or more apexes disposed along an equal number of spikes. The inlet throat corresponds to the minimum cross-sectional area through which airflow passes as otherwise allowed by the maximal obstruction formed by the apex(es) within the duct structure. Each spike is bounded by a longitudinal ridge and a lateral ridge along an upper end and a base. The ridges intersect at the apex. A portion of each spike upstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a supersonic diffuser and downstream as a subsonic diffuser. Airflow is isentropically compressed and then expanded within the inlet duct so that greater-than-subsonic flow at an input end is reduced to subsonic flow at an output end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeraj Sinha, Stephen M. Barr, Michael R. O'Gara
  • Patent number: 11927410
    Abstract: Apparatuses and systems regarding a firearm suppressor having a remote chamber. The suppressor includes a base configured to be connected to a firearm. The firearm suppressor includes one or more baffles, an end cap, and may include a housing. An initial chamber is positioned between the base and a first baffle. A remote chamber is positioned exterior of the housing and is in fluid communication with the initial chamber. The initial chamber has a first volume and the remote chamber has a second volume, which may be substantially equal to the first volume, more than twice as large as the first volume, or may even be greater than 100 liters. The remote chamber may be connected to the initial chamber via a flexible tube. The remote chamber may be connected to a portion of a firearm, connected to a vehicle, or may be wearable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Jacob Kunsky
  • Patent number: 11913586
    Abstract: A flow limiter component including a monocoque body having first, second, and third sections along a longitudinal axis. The first section includes a first end defining a first edge of the monocoque body and a bordering second end, and a first inner diameter defining a first chamber inside the first section. The second section includes a solid wall, with an orifice disposed therein, in fluid communication with the first chamber, the orifice defined by a second inner diameter. The third section includes a third end bordering the second section and a fourth end defining a second edge of the body, and a third inner diameter, the third inner diameter defining a second chamber in the third section. The second chamber is in fluid communication with the orifice. The first inner diameter is greater than the third inner diameter, and the third inner diameter is greater than the second inner diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Chandra Sudhakar Gudimetla
  • Patent number: 11859883
    Abstract: A flow disturbance apparatus includes: a refrigerant pipe having a flow space in which refrigerant flows; and at least one disturbance member disposed inside the refrigerant pipe that is vibrated by the flow of refrigerant in the refrigerant pipe to disturb the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohan Lee, Bongjun Kim, Sehyeon Kim, Jaeyoung Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Hyungjin Sung, Jaebok Lee, Sunggoon Park
  • Patent number: 11845226
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing nozzles includes a header (41) extending in a width direction of the chamber and which is configured to be supplied with inert gas from the outside, and a nozzle body (43) connecting with the header (41) in the width direction and is configured to horizontally blow out the inert gas, which is supplied from the header, to a molding area. The nozzle body has a honeycomb part (52) which defines an inside of the nozzle body into flow channels through which the inert gas flows, a blowout part (55) disposed downstream of the honeycomb part and which is connected with the honeycomb part in the width direction. The inert gas passed through the plurality of flow channels is led from the honeycomb part to the blowout part, and a porous part (54), which has openings, is disposed between the honeycomb part and the blowout part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Higashi, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Yoshinao Komatsu, Takanao Komaki
  • Patent number: 11833380
    Abstract: A flame arrester/burner assembly with a multifarious arrester element for preventing deflagrations and extended endurance burning time (FABA-XT). The multifarious element flame arrester includes a pipe body having a first end and a second end, a first arrester element positioned within the pipe body adjacent the top end; a third arrester element adjacent the bottom end; and, a second arrester element positioned in the pipe body between the first arrester element and the second arrester element. The first, second, and/or third arrester elements may be of the same design or disparate designs. The FABA-XT of the present disclosure is an end-of-line burner element for use in VOC-Vapor Destruction Systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Dwight Brooker
  • Patent number: 11806651
    Abstract: A gas filtering rubber pipe and a pressure regulating valve bank are disclosed. The pressure regulating valve bank includes an angle valve, a pressure reducing valve and the gas filtering rubber pipe including a pipe body and a filtering mechanism. The filtering mechanism includes a shell assembly and a connector arranged at a lower end of the shell assembly, the shell assembly is provided with a separation cavity and a gas outlet channel located in an upper portion of the shell assembly. The gas outlet channel can be communicated with the separation cavity. A lower end of the connector is provided with a connecting portion fixedly connected with an upper end of the pipe body, an upper end of the connector is provided with a filtering barrier. A gas outlet hole is arranged in a peripheral wall of the connector connected with the filtering barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Guoquan Chen, Xianmin Deng, Jintang You, Guangzhi Mai
  • Patent number: 11795046
    Abstract: A clamp of the dispensing device may include a container engagement surface arranged to engage and/or disengage the clamp from the container neck when the clamp is pushed downwardly or pulled upwardly relative to the container neck. The container engagement surface may include a surface with a lower portion that slopes upwardly and inwardly, and an upper portion that slopes upwardly and outwardly relative to the container neck and that moves the clamp radially outwardly and away from the container neck as the clamp is moved vertically relative to the container neck. A latch may maintain a body portion of the dispensing device in an upper position, preventing needle insertion, until a container is suitably engaged with the base portion of the device, e.g., by a clamp. Sensors may detect engagement of a container with the device and/or insertion of a needle into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Coravin, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rider, Otto DeRuntz, Gregory Lambrecht
  • Patent number: 11788493
    Abstract: An inlet duct for use with an engine is presented. The invention includes a duct structure, at least one spike disposed along an interior surface of the duct structure, and an inlet throat formed by one or more apexes disposed along an equal number of spikes. The inlet throat corresponds to the minimum cross-sectional area through which airflow passes as otherwise allowed by the maximal obstruction formed by the apex(es) within the duct structure. Each spike is bounded by a longitudinal ridge and a lateral ridge along an upper end and a base along a lower end. The longitudinal ridge and the lateral ridge intersect at the apex. In preferred embodiments, the longitudinal ridge is at least partially non-linear so as to properly conform to the interior surface of the duct structure. The portion of each spike upstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a supersonic diffuser. The portion of each spike downstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a subsonic diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeraj Sinha, Stephen M. Barr, Michael R. O'Gara
  • Patent number: 11781897
    Abstract: The invention is embodied by a system that employs an inline metering station for (a) measuring both pressure flow and free surface flow in underground conduits without having to physically contact the fluid in the conduit, (b) operating under laminar flow and turbulent flow conditions, (c) providing continuous flow measurement, (d) offering remote data transmission to central control room or mobile device for real-time accessibility (e) detecting line sedimentary deposits (f), making computational adjustments, and (g) alerting maintenance for cleaning. In addition, embodiments of this invention are not disrupted by sewer pipe cleaning and are not limited by sewer flow velocity, depth, or Froude number. The preferred system comprises a pair of risers (or “tubes”) mounted on top of a buried underground conduit. On top of each riser is a sensor for measuring the distance between the sensor and the surface of the fluid that is flowing below the sensor (the “sensor-fluid distance”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Shi-En Shiau, Brian Chia-Huan Shiau
  • Patent number: 11777111
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to measuring ammonium bisulfide concentration in a fluid sample. The system includes an electrolytic conductivity cell, a temperature sensor and an analyzer. Logic of the analyzer determines the ammonium bisulfide concentration based on signals received from the conductivity cell and the temperature sensor that are coupled to monitor the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Phillips 66 Company
    Inventors: Charles John Lord, III, John Stephen Newland
  • Patent number: 11739877
    Abstract: An apparatus for a vehicle component venting system comprises a body having an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid pathway(s) therebetween through which air may pass, and a shield between the inlet and outlet configured to block liquid from passing from the inlet to the outlet. The inlet includes a first set of ports extending from an interior surface of the body through an exterior surface; and the shield and interior surface of the body define a void therebetween. A second set of ports extends through the shield and are in fluid communication with the void and a passageway extending between the shield and the outlet, the first and second sets of ports, the void, and the passageway form the fluid pathway between the inlet and outlet. The ports of the second set of ports are offset from and linearly misaligned with the ports of the first set of ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventor: Robert N Christoff, III
  • Patent number: 11739775
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an expanding and radiative flow mechanism. The mechanism has a bottom surface. The bottom surface is provided with a fluid supply port. The bottom surface of the mechanism and a surface of a to-be-adsorbed object form a gap during use. A fluid flows out from the fluid supply port, enters the gap and flows out along the gap. The gap is an expanding gap and meets the following: a radial length exists with the fluid supply port as an initial point of the flow, and a height of the gap continuously increases in an outward radial direction within this length. With improvements to a parallel radiative flow mechanism, the mechanism of the present disclosure can effectively increase an absorption force of a radiative flow, which is conducive to subsequent applications thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin Li, Xubo Yu
  • Patent number: 11723483
    Abstract: Briefly, a drinking set is provided that has a cup and a flow control disk set fully inside the cup. The flow control disk is constructed for creating a tortured flow path for any fluid flowing out of the cup. In this way, spills are substantially reduced or minimized, and the user has a stable and predictable sipping experience, even when the cup is jostled or violently moved. Fluid moving from the cup first hits a set of steeply angled entry fins, which absorb or reflect energy in the fluid. The fluid passes through a set of small entry openings, and flow to a set of exit fins, where the fluid strikes a face of the exit fins and changes direction to a set of larger exit openings. This tortured fluid path causes the drinking fluid to have a controlled flow and reduced kinetic energy as it approaches the user's mouth, multiple changes in flow direction, and provides several obstacles for absorbing kinetic energy and thus slowing the flow of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: David M Morelock, Joedin D Morelock, Richard C Yang
  • Patent number: 11725761
    Abstract: Gaskets for sealing two mating surfaces have an inner ring positioned between two inner sealing deformable layers and an outer ring positioned exterior and concentric to the inner ring, the outer ring positioned between two outer sealing deformable layers. The two inner sealing deformable layers are configured to compress a greater amount than the two outer sealing deformable layers when a compressive force is applied. In a compressed configuration, the two inner sealing deformable layers fill in the crevices of the mating surfaces of a corroded flange connection thereby avoiding immediate maintenance for the damaged flanges. The inner and outer rings have grooves and ridges on upper and lower surfaces to retain and receive portions of the inner and outer sealing deformable layers in a sealed flange connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LGC US Asset Holdings. LLC
    Inventor: Gary Briggs
  • Patent number: 11719359
    Abstract: In one general aspect, the present application relates to a leak detection device that includes a body, a liquid separator, and a liquid level detector. The body includes an airflow inlet, an airflow outlet, and a liquid reservoir. The airflow outlet is arranged to substantially align with the airflow inlet. The liquid reservoir is formed in a bottom portion of the body. The liquid separator is positioned directly between the airflow inlet and the airflow outlet. The liquid separator divides an airflow path from the airflow inlet to the airflow outlet into at least two separate flow paths around the liquid separator. The liquid level detector is at least partially contained within a channel defined within a lower portion of the liquid separator, where the channel is in liquid communication with the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PSG CALIFORNIA LLC
    Inventors: Erik Nathaniel Solfelt, Mehrab Mumin Choudhury, Brian Richard Binder, Leonard Galvan, Christopher H. Verdugo, Christopher Jon Distaso, Samuel Vanderpoel Gilbert, V
  • Patent number: 11713986
    Abstract: A throttling component and a conditioning and flowrate measurement device including a throttling component. The throttling component comprises a central throttling element and multiple peripheral throttling elements. The multiple peripheral throttling elements are sequentially sleeved on the exterior of the central throttling element, and are coaxial to the central throttling element; annular fluid channels are respectively formed between the central throttling element and its adjacent peripheral throttling element, and between adjacent peripheral throttling elements. A sensitive and clear differential pressure signal is generated while the throttling component stabilizes the flow, so that the accuracy and reliability of flowrate measurement can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING EXACTRA AUTOMATION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiao Ming
  • Patent number: 11662237
    Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes N first valves. Inlets of the N first valves are fluidly connected to N gas sources, respectively, where N is an integer greater than zero. N mass flow controllers include a microelectromechanical (MEMS) Coriolis flow sensor having an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of a corresponding one of the N first valves. A second valve has an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor and an outlet supplying fluid to treat a substrate arranged in a processing chamber. A controller in communication with the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor is configured to determine at least one of a mass flow rate and a density of fluid flowing through the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iqbal A. Shareef, Dennis Smith, John E. Daugherty
  • Patent number: 11578738
    Abstract: A vortex water flow accelerator comprises a joint pipe with a water inlet and a water outlet, a water outlet barrel connected to one end of the joint pipe, and a plurality of spiral blades arranged in the water outlet barrel and connected with the joint pipe, wherein the size of the water outlet is smaller than that of the water inlet, and the inner wall of the joint pipe sequentially forms an annular surface and a first conical surface along a direction from the water inlet to the water outlet, and the outer wall of the joint pipe is formed with a second conical surface, on which a plurality of splitter plates uniformly distributed at the circumference are formed; the splitter plate protrudes from the water outlet end face of the joint pipe, the water outlet barrel has a small diameter end and a large diameter end, and the small diameter end is connected to the splitter plate, so that a secondary water inlet is formed between the second conical surface, the water outlet barrel and two adjacent splitter plate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Yongzhen Du
  • Patent number: 11536369
    Abstract: A gasket having concentric or spiral serrations around the aperture on each side of the gasket, and wherein a facing is secured to such serrations, wherein each facing comprises a first layer which is in contact with a respective set of such serrations and a second layer which is in contact with the first layer. The first layer could be of a polyaryletherketone or polyimide, and the second layer could be of graphite or vermiculite. The serrations are designed to avoid damage to the first layer. An intact first layer can supply a property to the facing which may be absent in the second layer; for example, good dielectric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Flexitallic Investments, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Peter Bond, Stuart John Shaw, David Peter Gerrard
  • Patent number: 11519436
    Abstract: Serviceable laminar flow elements are described. The serviceable laminar flow elements includes a flow sleeve, a laminar flow rod installed within the flow sleeve, a mounting plug arranged at a first end of the flow sleeve configured to fixedly secure the laminar flow rod within the flow sleeve at the first end, and an index cap arranged at a second end of the flow sleeve configured to fixedly secure the laminar flow rod within the flow sleeve at the second end. A laminar flow path is defined by a gap between an interior surface of the flow sleeve and an exterior surface of the laminar flow rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger Corallo, Cory R. Rice
  • Patent number: 11466644
    Abstract: An inlet duct for use with an engine is presented. The invention includes a duct structure, at least one spike disposed along an interior surface of the duct structure, and an inlet throat formed by one or more apexes disposed along an equal number of spikes. The inlet throat corresponds to the minimum cross-sectional area through which airflow passes as otherwise allowed by the maximal obstruction formed by the apex(es) within the duct structure. Each spike is bounded by a longitudinal ridge and a lateral ridge along an upper end and a base along a lower end. The longitudinal ridge and the lateral ridge intersect at the apex. In preferred embodiments, the longitudinal ridge is at least partially non-linear so as to properly conform to the interior surface of the duct structure. The portion of each spike upstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a supersonic diffuser. The portion of each spike downstream of the inlet throat functions primarily as a subsonic diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeraj Sinha, Stephen M. Barr, Michael R. O'Gara
  • Patent number: 11460254
    Abstract: A heat pipe includes a container including a container substrate and a working fluid enclosed in the container. The working fluid contains water. The heat pipe includes a first film containing tin and/or a tin alloy on at least an inner surface of the container substrate and a second film formed on at least a part of a surface of the first film and containing an oxide and/or hydroxide containing tin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshito Fujii, Tomoaki Toratani
  • Patent number: 11415041
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method of igniting an air/fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine includes receiving an air/fuel mixture into a pre-combustion chamber, the pre-combustion chamber enclosing a portion of an igniter, igniting the air/fuel mixture in in the pre-combustion chamber with the igniter to produce a flame, directing the flame to eject the pre-combustion chamber through a collection of passages in a wall of the pre-combustion chamber, toward a peripheral wall of a main combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, igniting, by the flame, air/fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber adjacent the peripheral wall, and then igniting air/fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber in a central region of the main combustion chamber with a propagating flame front of the ignited air/fuel mixture or a portion of the directed flame adjacent the peripheral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Domenico Chiera, Charles Brennecke, Samuel James McCreery, Jeffrey Carlson, Suraj Nair, Gregory James Hampson
  • Patent number: 11408329
    Abstract: An engine system employs a pre-assembled and/or removable cartridge. In another aspect, an ignitor, a fuel injector and an air inlet valve are all accessible from a top of a cartridge even after assembly of the cartridge to an engine cylinder head. A further aspect positions centerlines of an ignitor, a fuel injector and an air inlet valve angularly offset from each other and also angularly offset from a vertical centerline of a cartridge to which they are mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Harold J. Schock, Thomas R. Stuecken
  • Patent number: 11357032
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a control information transmission method, a transmit end, and a receive end. The method includes: determining, by the transmit end, a first time domain resource used for sending scheduled data and a second time domain resource used for sending control information of the scheduled data in a transmission period, where the second time domain resource is a subset of the first time domain resource; and sending, by the transmit end, the control information on the second time domain resource, where the control information includes a parameter used to instruct the receive end to receive the scheduled data. Using the present invention can improve a success rate of data detection, shorten a transmission delay, and further improve reliability of a communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Li, Xingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11353265
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a heat exchanger for a motorized vehicle. In one example, a heat exchanger includes a plurality of tubes coupled to a header, with each tube including a partition extending a height of the tube. The partition includes a notch positioned at an end of the tube coupled to the header, with the notch extending into the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mahdi Rajabpour, Zun Wang, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11327509
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flow rate controller in which a clear width (6) of a control gap (4) between a main part (3) and a control element (2), which is deformable according to the pressure in order for the flow rate through the control gap (4) to be kept constant, can be adjusted as a result of the fact that at least one supporting element that adjusts the clear width (6) of the control gap (4) is designed to be movable relative to a main part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Keith Hart
  • Patent number: 11318427
    Abstract: Carbonation apparatus is provided for carbonating a mixed input flow of pressurized and refrigerated carbon dioxide and water. A first cartridge is disposed within the carbonation chamber, defining a porous micromesh net in fluid communication with the input flow and a central cavity in fluid communication with the carbonation chamber output port. The micromesh net is configured to break up chains of water molecules passing through the net, to enhance bonding between the water and carbon dioxide molecules within the cartridge. The net also responds to the flow of water and carbon dioxide molecules impacting and passing through the net by generating a passive polarizing field that has a polarizing influence on the water molecules to further enhance. Beads may be provided within the cartridge for capturing and stabilizing carbon dioxide molecules to yet further enhance bonding between the water and the carbon dioxide molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Fantappie, Farshad Kamali, Diego Macrellino, Joey Miyamot
  • Patent number: 11227575
    Abstract: An air-cooled enclosure of an information handling system has a chassis that receives at least one heat-generating functional component. An air mover is positioned within the chassis to move air within the chassis to convectively cool the at least one heat-generating functional component. An acoustic resonator includes a resonator body having a cavity sized to resonate at an acoustic frequency corresponding to a selected acoustic noise frequency, such as blade passage frequency, associated with the fan. The resonator body has an opening to the cavity that is directed toward and positioned a distance from the fan to receive and attenuate acoustic noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Jean M. Doglio, Evangelos Koutsavdis
  • Patent number: 11125364
    Abstract: Gaskets for sealing two mating surfaces have an inner ring positioned between two inner sealing deformable layers and an outer ring positioned exterior and concentric to the inner ring, the outer ring positioned between two outer sealing deformable layers. The two inner sealing deformable layers are configured to compress a greater amount than the two outer sealing deformable layers when a compressive force is applied. In a compressed configuration, the two inner sealing deformable layers fill in the crevices of the mating surfaces of a corroded flange connection thereby avoiding immediate maintenance for the damaged flanges. The inner and outer rings have grooves and ridges on upper and lower surfaces to retain and receive portions of the inner and outer sealing deformable layers in a sealed flange connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: LGC US ASSET HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Gary Briggs
  • Patent number: 11104053
    Abstract: The extruder includes: a cylinder having a first end portion and a second end portion respectively formed at two ends of the cylinder in an axial direction, and an ejection port formed in the first end portion; a screw including a shaft that is configured to rotate within the cylinder, and a screw blade that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; a supplier that is attached to the second end portion side of the cylinder and is configured to supply a kneading target to an inside of the cylinder; and a plurality of protruding members that protrude from an inner wall surface of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakamoto, Tomoo Tanaka, Takuma Konishi
  • Patent number: 11028755
    Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system is disclosed. The SCR system may include a mixing tube with a mixing tube inlet; a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) injector proximate to the mixing tube inlet; and a flow control device proximate to the mixing tube inlet, wherein the flow control device is positioned within the mixing tube or affixed to the mixing tube inlet, and wherein the flow control device includes a plurality of vanes arranged around a center of the flow control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Kurtis Chenoweth, Jianping Pan, Mohamed Daoud, Srinivasa Perumal Velu, Arvind Jujare, Y. T. Bui
  • Patent number: 11013247
    Abstract: A gas injection system for injecting a gas into a liquid to form a solution includes a flow channel that conveys a liquid from an upstream inlet configured to receive the liquid and a downstream outlet configured to dispense the solution, sparger positioned in the flow channel, a solution pressure detection device configured to sense a pressure of the solution in the flow channel, and a liquid valve configured to regulate flow of the liquid in the flow channel based on the pressure sensed by the solution pressure detection device. The sparger is configured to inject the gas into the liquid through the porous surface as the liquid flows across the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MARMON FOODSERVICE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Giardino, Jacob Lukjanowicz, José Renteriá
  • Patent number: 11009927
    Abstract: Disclosed loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator configured to vaporize a working fluid; a condenser configured to liquefy the working fluid; a liquid line connecting the evaporator and the condenser; a porous body provided in a columnar shape in the liquid line; and a vapor line connecting the evaporator and the condenser, and forming a loop together with the liquid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shioga, Yoshihiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10612421
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust assembly includes an exhaust flow path configured to receive an exhaust flow from a gas turbine engine, the exhaust flow path defined by an inner hub and a radially outer wall. The gas turbine exhaust assembly also includes a plurality of vanes circumferentially spaced from each other and operatively coupled to the radially outer wall of the exhaust flow path, each of the plurality of vanes extending only partially toward the inner hub and terminating at an inner end of the vanes, the inner end defining an open portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Simonetti, Donald William Lamb, Jr., Shyam Neerarambam
  • Patent number: 10605377
    Abstract: A safety faucet has a safety button which is positioned in front of a lever and slidingly moves in the front/back direction, and when the safety button is pressed, a cap contacting part on the lower end of the safety button rotates while forming a support point with respect to the upper surface of an upper cap; and has a fixed pin, which passes through an insertion groove formed on the upper end of an operation shaft, fixed together with the body of the lever, thereby preventing the lever from shaking left and right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CLOVER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Mu Moon
  • Patent number: 10571122
    Abstract: A fuel-fired furnace incorporates specially designed fuel/air mixing and combustion structures. The fuel/air mixing structure is of a mixing sound-attenuating design and comprises a venturi having a perforated sidewall portion and being surrounded by a noise-damping housing chamber communicating with the interior of the venturi via its sidewall perforations. During use of the mixing structure, air is flowed through the venturi in a swirling pattern while fuel is transversely injected internally against the swirling air. The combustion structure comprises a burner box housing into which the fuel/air mixture is flowed, combusted, and then discharged as hot combustion gas into and through the heat exchanger tubes. The fuel/air mixture entering the burner box housing initially passes through a non-uniformly perforated diffuser plate functioning to substantially alter in a predetermined manner the relative combustion gas flow rates through the heat exchanger tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Amin Akbarimonfared, Timothy J. Shellenberger, Robert Steven Neihouse, Scott Alan Willbanks, Darryl Farley, Nathan Taylor Whalen, Shawn Allan Reed
  • Patent number: 10557369
    Abstract: The invention provides a drain to allow water to flow out of a pressure sensing line. The drain comprises a tube including a plurality of restrictors in flow series, each restrictor comprising a constriction whose internal diameter is less than the internal diameter of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Annegret W Siebert
  • Patent number: 10500947
    Abstract: A fuel supply device (FS) includes a filler neck (10) that includes a nozzle guiding path that guides a fuel supply nozzle (FN), and a fuel passage that is continuous to the nozzle guiding path on a downstream side of the fuel passage, through which fuel that has been discharged from the fuel supply nozzle (FN) passes; a fuel vapor port (23) located outside of the filler neck (10) that has a through hole (23H) that communicates with the fuel passage (11Pd); and a vapor introduction body (70) that guides the fuel vapor from the fuel vapor port to the fuel passage (11Pd).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Suda, Keiji Miyoshi, Shintaro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10486339
    Abstract: A rubber article mold capable of discharging air from a molding-surface side to a back-surface side during curing while suppressing the entry of rubber into an air vent hole and a method for producing such a rubber article mold are provided. The rubber article mold includes air discharge means for discharging air from a molding-surface side for molding a rubber article to a back-surface side. The air discharge means is formed as an annular hollow penetrating from a molding surface to a back surface of the rubber article mold. The annular hollow has an inflow area where the air on the molding-surface side flows in, a discharge area for discharging the air having flowed in from the inflow area to the back-surface side, and an intermediate area communicating with the inflow area and the discharge area and smaller or larger in diameter than the inflow area and the discharge area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Kawaki
  • Patent number: 10377058
    Abstract: A tire mold capable of improving the efficiency in mold production and tire production without compromising the aesthetic quality and performance of a tire after cure-molding. To that end, the tire mold has a hole that penetrates from the molding surface for molding a rubber article to the back surface, a core member that is disposed inside the hole and forms an air discharge flow channel annular in cross section extending along the extension direction of the hole between itself and the hole wall forming the hole, and an interlinking part for interlinking the hole wall and the core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke Hiraki
  • Patent number: 10288365
    Abstract: A turbulence generating device for generating turbulence and vortices in a fluid inside a fluid transfer pipe, which acts as a heat transfer pipe, such that, by increasing the area of contact of the fluid with the pipe and the time of contact, not only sufficient heat exchange and heat radiation are conducted, but alien substances and the like, which accumulate inside the corresponding pipe, can also be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Dae Myeong Eng Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Jae Shin
  • Patent number: 10189194
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a unitary diaphragm assembly is for use in flush valves. The diaphragm assembly may have a flexible diaphragm which includes a seating portion and a mounting portion at the outer peripheral edge. A flow ring may be positioned adjacent to the seating portion of the diaphragm. An elongated barrel member may extend from the diaphragm in a longitudinal direction and may include a plurality of radial supports positioned circumferentially around the outer surface of the barrel member and along a portion of the length of the barrel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Zurn Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Funari, Robert E. Saadi
  • Patent number: 10149950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a small-volume nebulizer that is pre-filled with at least one unit-dose of medicine and hermetically sealed until use. The nebulizer may be sealed at the top with a removable cap that may be detached at the time of use and replaced with a patient connector. Likewise, the nebulizer may be sealed at the bottom with a bottom cap that is replaced with a gas source at the beginning of a therapeutic aerosol treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Caddo Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Dee Faram