And Filter, Sifter Or Screen Patents (Class 239/575)
  • Patent number: 11813632
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing device has a spool valve in a dispenser housing with a spool in a spool housing and a spool wall around the spool housing with entrance and an exit openings defined therethrough; an entrance channel in the dispenser housing proximate to the spool wall entrance opening; a force applying element in the entrance channel that applies force against the spool wall with entrance and exit ends with the exit end proximate to the spool wall; a hose adapter fitting with an entrance end extending out from and an exit end extending into the entrance and contacting the force applying element with a flow passage extending through it; and fluid communication through the hose adapter fitting flow passage through the force applying element and into an entrance opening in the spool wall; where the force applying element defines a tortuous path through which fluid must travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel R Schroer, Larry Dotson, Michael F Heckert, Greg T Stewart
  • Patent number: 11666932
    Abstract: A fluid applicator configured to receive a pressurized fluid includes a pressure vessel configured to receive the pressurized fluid from a fluid delivery line. The pressure vessel includes a valve chamber configured to receive a valve assembly, a filter chamber configured to receive a filter assembly, and a fluid delivery line fitting configured to be coupled to the fluid delivery line. The fluid applicator further including a tip assembly coupled to the pressure vessel and configured to atomize the pressurized fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Lee Fideler
  • Patent number: 10859051
    Abstract: A fuel injector with inlet and discharge ends includes a fuel tube through which fuel is admitted to a fuel passage extending to the discharge end. A valve element reciprocates against and away from a valve seat to prevent or allow fuel discharge. A calibration tube includes first and second ends and defines a portion of the fuel passage through which fuel must pass to the discharge end, the second end defining a spring seat engaging a spring and biasing the spring against the valve element. A fuel filter filters all fuel passing to the discharge end, and provides restriction of a first magnitude. The calibration tube includes a pressure pulsation damping orifice fluidly between the fuel filter and the discharge end through which fuel must pass to the discharge end, the pressure pulsation damping orifice provides restriction of a second magnitude which is greater than the first magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Robert B. Perry
  • Patent number: 10830196
    Abstract: A filter for filtering hydraulic fluid in a hydraulically actuated fuel injector. The filter includes a first disc structure and a second disc structure disposed axially spaced apart from the first disc structure. The second disc structure is also disposed parallel to the first disc structure. The filter further includes an intermediate structure extending from the first disc structure to the second disc structure. The intermediate structure includes a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite and parallel to the first surface. The intermediate structure defines a plurality of passages extending from the first surface to the second surface. Each of the plurality of passages is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Diego Caceres
  • Patent number: 9982641
    Abstract: A valve assembly for a fluid injection valve may comprise a valve body, a valve needle moving in a cavity of the valve body, an armature in the cavity for actuating the valve needle, and a particle retainer. The cavity may extend axially through the valve body to connect a fluid inlet end to a fluid outlet end of the valve body and have a valve seat adjacent to the fluid outlet end. The first portion of the cavity may limit movement of the armature in the axial direction towards the fluid outlet end by a bottom surface having a central opening from which a second portion of the cavity extends towards the fluid outlet end. The shaft of the valve needle may extend through the opening into the second portion. The particle retainer element may bear on the bottom surface, circumferentially surrounding the shaft of the valve needle and overlapping the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Edoardo Giorgetti, Lucca Matteucci
  • Patent number: 9951735
    Abstract: A filter for a fluid injection valve includes a filter sleeve and a fastening element. The fastening element includes a fitting portion for fastening the filter in the fluid injection valve and a connection portion mechanically interacting with a first part of the filter sleeve for connecting the filter sleeve and the fastening element. The filter sleeve includes a second part arranged inside the fastening element and disposed at a distance from the fitting portion of the fastening element. A fluid injection valve and a method for producing the filter are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Filippo Falaschi, Ivano Izzo, Luca Matteucci
  • Patent number: 9605638
    Abstract: A filter for a fluid injection valve includes a filter sleeve and a fastening element. The fastening element includes a fitting portion for fastening the filter in the fluid injection valve and a connection portion mechanically interacting with a first part of the filter sleeve for connecting the filter sleeve and the fastening element. The filter sleeve includes a second part arranged inside the fastening element and disposed at a distance from the fitting portion of the fastening element. A fluid injection valve and a method for producing the filter are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Filippo Falaschi, Ivano Izzo, Luca Matteucci
  • Patent number: 9593656
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a valve member for selectively preventing and permitting flow of fuel through a valve seat by selectively engaging and disengaging the valve seat, an actuator for selectively applying a force to the valve member in order to unseat the valve member from the valve seat, and a return spring which biases the valve member into contact with the valve seat when the actuator is not applying the force to the valve member. A calibration tube is positioned within the fuel tube and holds the return spring in compression so as to set a force on the return spring to achieve a desired dynamic flow of fuel through the fuel injector. The calibration tube includes at least one protrusion extending outward therefrom such that the protrusion engages the fuel tube, thereby creating a spring fit between the calibration tube and the fuel tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mahoro M. Fujita
  • Patent number: 9175656
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a nozzle body including an injection aperture; a needle that is slidably located in the nozzle body, forms a fuel introduction path between the needle and the nozzle body, and is seated on a seat portion in the nozzle body; a swirling flow generating portion that is located more upstream than the seat portion, and imparts a swirl with respect to a sliding direction of the needle to fuel introduced from the fuel introduction path; a swirl velocity increasing portion that is located more downstream than the seat portion, and increases a swirl velocity of a swirling flow generated in the swirling flow generating portion; and an air bubble reserving portion that is located more downstream than the swirl velocity increasing portion, and reserves air bubbles generated by passage through the swirl velocity increasing portion. The injection aperture opens in the air bubble reserving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8991731
    Abstract: A swivel fitting used to connect to various components in a fluid handling system is provided. The swivel fitting incorporates an annular chamfer surface to reduce the affect that the fitting has on the flow properties of the fluid when the fluid is caused to flow through the fitting. The use of the swivel fitting in a paint supply line is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hosco Fittings, LLC
    Inventors: Jan Pitzer, Bill Bertakis, Jerry Verhoven, Randall Sandifur
  • Patent number: 8979003
    Abstract: A filtration irrigation method, filtration irrigation device and the manufacturing method thereof, said filtration irrigation device comprises a water carrying chamber, in which one or more porous filter membranes are arranged. One or more flow restrictors corresponding to each membrane are set on the wall of the water carrying chamber. The total permeation capacity of the flow restrictors is less than that of said filter membranes. The present invention can avoid the blockage of the device effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: Jun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150041565
    Abstract: A valve for metering a flowing medium, particularly a fluid, which has a filter situated in the medium stream and has a filter ring that includes a plurality of filter pores and a support element supporting the filter ring on its outgoing flow side. The support element is developed as a radially elastic support ring having a plurality of through holes, which rests against the filter ring with radial prestressing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Mueller
  • Patent number: 8931716
    Abstract: The invention refers to a spray pump device for spraying a liquid operated by a memory shape element. The spraying device is provided with a memory shape alloy wire with electrical resistivity, that is able to generate heat that increases its temperature so that due to memory shape property, the wire shrinks when current is applied. This shrinking permits the wire to activate a pump that atomizes a volatile substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Zobele Holding SpA
    Inventors: Stefano DeFlorian, Julio César Ruiz Ballesteros, Walter Sordo, Daniel Mosconi
  • Publication number: 20150008271
    Abstract: A hoop filter is adapted to protect a pressure control orifice plate in a common rail fuel injector from being plugged by contaminated fuel. Shaped in the form of a band, the filter is configured to engage the circumference of a pressure control orifice plate. For purposes of filtration, the orifice plate has a circumferential groove which intersects at least one internal orifice; the groove is externally covered by the body of the hoop filter. In one embodiment, the band-shaped hoop filter has small apertures adapted to filter out any particle having a size greater than 50 microns. In another disclosed embodiment, the hoop filter is a solid band-shaped edge filter without any apertures; instead the orifice plate periphery includes circumferentially spaced vertical grooves which interface with the bottom and top edges of the filter to restrict entry of contaminant particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: David Clarence Mack
  • Patent number: 8919678
    Abstract: A filter for use with overhead sprinkler irrigation systems is disclosed. The filter includes a body, a removable screen, and a manually-actuated plunger adjacent the screen. A water hammer table is partitioned in the body and located above the plunger. The plunger is positioned for reciprocal movement through a debris outlet between an open, debris-discharging position, and a closed filtering position. The plunger defaults to the closed filtering position by pressurized water flowing through the body. The water is simultaneously filtered through the screen and passes out a clean water outlet while debris accumulates within the body. The plunger may be manually retracted to the open, debris-discharging position at any time, whereby accumulated debris is flushed out of the body through the debris outlet by residual water flowing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: American Agriculture Products, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Beer, Michael Woodford Freitas
  • Patent number: 8899495
    Abstract: A mist generating system includes an input pipeline, an iced water tank, a heat exchanger, a nebulizing pump, an output pipeline, a pressure regulating set and a pressure releasing set communicating with each other via a plurality of pipes. The iced water tank is connected between the input pipeline and the nebulizing pump. The iced water tank is connected to the heat exchanger. One end of the output pipeline is connected to the nebulizing pump. Another end of the output pipeline is connected to the pressure regulating set. The pressure regulating set is connected to the iced water tank. One end of the pressure releasing set connected between the nebulizing pump and the output pipeline. Another end of the pressure releasing set connected to the iced water tank. When the mist generating system is turned on, a volume of water is ejected toward the outside in a mist form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventor: Meng-Yao Chuang
  • Patent number: 8888015
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a spraying apparatus with an integrated filter, specifically to overcome the challenges of spraying asphalt sealant material. The present invention can be integrated within an asphalt sealant spray system and consists of a leak free large filter housing, multiple spray nozzles placed axially and pointing downwards towards the ground, a meshed filter that fits inside the filter housing, an actuator as means of on/off nozzle control, extension options for lengthening the spray pattern, a material inlet that will receive pressurized material from a pump the spray apparatus is integrated with, and housing end caps to provide easy access to the inside of the filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Inventor: Richard D Rayner
  • Patent number: 8881997
    Abstract: A nanoparticle aerosol generator, comprised of a vibrating fluidized bed with a baffle, a vibrating Venturi disperser and a cyclone separator. To generate nanoparticle aerosols, the nanoparticle aerosol generator uses the multiple impaction, vibrating air flow and vibrating high speed air flow to break up larger agglomerates, and multiple dilution to minimize the re-agglomeration of the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: West Virginia University
    Inventors: Jinghai Yi, Timothy Robert Nurkiewicz, Jinghai Yi
  • Patent number: 8876017
    Abstract: A variable flow control nozzle has a head, a tube, and a valve. The head disposes adjacent an opening and has a screen for passage of fluid flow into and out of the head's interior. The tube extends from the head through the opening and secures the head thereto. A tube passage communicates the interior of the head with the other side of the opening. The valve disposed in the passage has a first condition permitting first fluid flow from the passage to the interior of the head and has a second condition permitting second fluid flow from the interior to the passage. The second fluid flow may be greater than the first fluid flow. The tube can have first and second tube members with different internal diameters, and the valve can use a ball movable between positions in the tube members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Bilfinger Water Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ekholm, Richard C. Maxson
  • Patent number: 8864046
    Abstract: A closed nebulizing system for removing bubbles includes a first pump, a nebulizing module and a second pump. The first pump is for providing a fluid. The nebulizing module includes an outlet channel, an inlet channel connected with the first pump, and a plurality of nozzles for nebulizing and ejecting part of the fluid. The second pump is connected with the outlet channel for outputting non-nebulized fluid. The first pump, the nebulizing module and the second pump form a closed fluid loop, so that the fluid continuously contacts with the plurality of nozzles and bubbles generated during nebulization process are evacuated from the nebulizing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microjet Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Chang Chen, Shih-Che Chiu, Tsung-Pat Chou
  • Patent number: 8833672
    Abstract: An irrigation sprinkler is provided having a nozzle and a flow control device for reducing fluid flow through the sprinkler when the nozzle is removed, such as might occur due to vandalism. The flow control device is coupled to the nozzle and is moveable between a first irrigating position and a second signaling position. In the first position, the sprinkler discharges fluid for irrigation. In the second position, the sprinkler discharges a reduced amount of fluid and signals that the nozzle has been removed and should be replaced. The flow control device also allows sufficient fluid flow for flushing debris out of the sprinkler when a flush cap is mounted to the sprinkler, instead of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Skripkar, Krishnadidya G. Arkalgud, Gregory S. Palumbo
  • Patent number: 8720794
    Abstract: A system used for permeating or emitting a gas or a chemical at a constant, predictable and controllable rate uses an amorphous fluoropolymer material as a gateway. The system may comprise a tube assembly which holds a gas or liquid. The gas or liquid permeates though the fluoropolymer material to be released in precise quantity, resulting in known concentrations of the gas, when mixed with a flowing or carrier gas such as air or nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Real Sensors, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramesh Chand
  • Patent number: 8702019
    Abstract: A transportation device, physically transporting material to a target, includes an input module, a transporting module and an output module. The input module provides a carrier fluid. The transporting module is coupled to the input module for receiving the carrier fluid in order to disperse/atomize the material. The material enters the input module through a first opening and reaches the target Through a second opening. The input module further includes a guiding unit having a length longer than or equal to the distance between the throat portion and the second opening. One end of the guiding unit connects the transporting module. The other end of the guiding unit has a guiding comer for connecting to the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventors: Chien-Lung Chen, Cheng-Hsien Chen, Chang-Jer Wu, Han-Ning Huang
  • Publication number: 20140091161
    Abstract: A piston cooling jet includes a housing, a nozzle, a valve, a pressure chamber, a pressure adjusting passage, and a filter. The nozzle is provided to project outward from the housing, and capable of spraying oil toward a piston. The valve is capable of moving reciprocally inside the housing, and configured to receive a load due to a hydraulic pressure in an engine-side oil passage applied from a front side of the valve. The valve includes a valve-side oil passage that communicates with the engine-side oil passage. The pressure chamber communicates with the valve-side oil passage. The pressure adjusting passage is disposed between the pressure chamber and a space outside the housing. The filter is disposed in the valve, and configured to remove foreign matter that cannot pass through the pressure adjusting passage from oil passing through the valve-side oil passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka YAMAGUCHI, Masahiro KAWAHARA, Motoichi MURAKAMI, Akihiro HONDA
  • Patent number: 8622323
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer having a tank with a filling opening at the top thereof and a pressure chamber therein is provided with filtering apparatus for preventing particles in the fluid in the tank from entering an inlet port of the pressure chamber when suction generated by a pump causes fluid in the tank to flow through the inlet port into the pressure chamber. Pressurized fluid can flow through an outlet port from the pressure chamber to a nozzle, via a hose in communication with the outlet port. The filtering apparatus is provided by a filter in a frame removably captured in a fixture projecting outwardly from the outside of the pressure chamber on opposite sides of the inlet port. A handle extends from the frame upwardly along the outside of the pressure chamber a sufficient distance to be accessed manually by an operator through the filling opening of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Chapin Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Allen Klein
  • Patent number: 8556192
    Abstract: A portable pressure washer that includes a base and a tank assembly formed as a one-piece structure and for engagement with the base. The tank assembly has a pair of water tanks that are disposed separately from each other and a solution tank that is disposed between the pair of water tanks. Each of the tanks is provided with a filler cap. A latch mechanism is disposed at opposite ends of the base for releasably securing the tank assembly with the base. The base houses a liquid pump and air compressor. A manual selector is mounted at the base and has separately selectable positions for coupling either with the water tanks or the solution tank. A spray hose is coupled from the pump for directing either of the water or solution when the pump is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Inventor: Todd W. Wise
  • Patent number: 8413913
    Abstract: A unit fuel injector (30) has a boundary edge filter. A first endless annular internal space (100) is open to a holes (92) forming a fuel inlet port, a second endless annular internal space (102) that is spaced axially of the first endless annular internal space and through which fuel is supplied to an injection mechanism, and a series of circumferentially spaced apart, axially extending channels (104) through which fuel can pass from the first endless annular internal space to the second endless annular internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.
    Inventor: Erik Jordan Hansen
  • Patent number: 8403236
    Abstract: A nozzle includes a nozzle connector and nozzle filter engaged together. The nozzle connector is engaged with a tote connector of a tote which contains a paint component. A hose connector can be sealingly engaged with the tote connector if they are matched. The hose connector is restricted from being sealingly engaged with the nozzle connector if they do not match. Matching hose and nozzle connectors have the same color to indicate that they match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: MicroBlend Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall L. Hughes, Andrew B. Titus, Danny P. Boyle, Michael Mowen
  • Patent number: 8366016
    Abstract: An adjustable water jet device so as to continuously regulate the velocity of water exiting the device without interrupting the water flow, the water jet device including a nozzle body, rotatable nozzle seat, a flow control plate, an inlet, and a nozzle eyeball configured to direct the water supply, and a water supply system including the adjustable water jet device, a plate for accommodating the water jet device in a pool deck or pool wall, and a cover that is mounted flush with the pool deck or pool wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Custom Molded Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 8353469
    Abstract: A nozzle for a powder spray gun optionally includes an internal filter that allows air to be added to the powder flow within the nozzle shell. The nozzle may optionally include an off-axis outlet slot relative to a main flow axis of the powder into the nozzle shell so that powder encounters an obstruction before exiting through the outlet slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence M. Fulkerson, Michael R. Sanner, Brian D. Mather, Joseph G. Schroeder, Jeffery Edward Dailidas
  • Publication number: 20130000603
    Abstract: The filter is made of a flat wire with a generally rectangular cross section that has two long sides and two short sides. The flat wire is formed into a generally cylindrical helix defined by successive loops of wire stacked adjacent to one another. For any two successive wire loops, the long sides of the wire loop are set at a predetermined distance from the long side of an adjacent wire loop. Additionally, the short sides of successive wire loops are substantially aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: STEPHEN WILEY, DAVID MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20120312895
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing device is provided that is capable of discharging fluid in multiple different directions simultaneously. The device may include a deflector which redirects an initial stream of fluid from the container into multiple sub-streams that are oriented in different directions. The device may create a spray pattern that substantially covers an entire 360 degree area surrounding the device, which may be advantageous for certain applications such as toilet bowl cleaner dispensers. A control valve or flow restrictor may be provided for preventing unintended discharge of fluid when the container is inverted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew N. Thurin, Darren K. Robling, Linda Moy Madore, Ronald H. Spang, Charles P. Althoff, Hideaki Matsui, Brook S. Kennedy, Stian Tesdal
  • Patent number: 8308079
    Abstract: A sanitary installation element (1) having at least one bypass or cleaning duct (6) which is assigned a valve in whose open position the at least one bypass or cleaning duct is connected switched on. The installation element (1) according to the invention is characterized in that the installation element (1) has a filter screen (4) with at least one outlet opening (5), which outlet opening (5) has a larger clear opening cross section than the screen openings of the filter screen (4), that the at least one outlet opening (5) opens into the at least one bypass or cleaning duct (6), and that, as seen in the direction of flow, the outlet opening (5) is arranged in front of at least one liquid-conveying component of at least one functional unit situated in the installation element (1) and, as seen in the direction of flow, the duct outlet of the at least one bypass or cleaning duct (6) is arranged after this component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Grether, Manfred Gilcher, Jorg Rudolph, Christoph Weis
  • Patent number: 8245951
    Abstract: Use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a charge injector to assist in atomizing fuel for engine applications. A CNT charging unit is positioned in front of a fuel injector. A voltage is applied on a CNT coated mesh to charge the fuel stream when it passes. Then the charged stream goes through a grounded metal cage. The fuel is thereby electrostatically charged causing repulsive forces on surfaces of liquid in the fuel resulting in the liquid splitting into droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lee Fink, Nan Jiang
  • Publication number: 20120181357
    Abstract: A filtration irrigation method, filtration irrigation device and the manufacturing method thereof, said filtration irrigation device comprises a water carrying chamber, in which one or more porous filter membranes are arranged. One or more flow restrictors corresponding to each membrane are set on the wall of the water carrying chamber. The total permeation capacity of the flow restrictors is less than that of said filter membranes. The present invention can avoid the blockage of the device effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 8205809
    Abstract: An antomizing foam pump creates atomized droplets of a foamable liquid in air in a compression chamber. The compression chamber is then collapsed to force the droplets and air through a mesh screen to create a foam product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene W. Ray, Aaron R. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 8172160
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device comprising a rotary body (1) made of a fibrous or porous material, means for rotating (3, 4) said body (1) and means for inputting liquid (10, 11) contacting said body (1), so as to subject said liquid to the dispersing action of forces at the liquid/solid interface, and to rotate the body (1) so as to subject the comminuted liquid to a centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Inventors: François Simon, Sandre Simon
  • Patent number: 8123147
    Abstract: A nozzle for a powder spray gun optionally includes an internal filter that allows air to be added to the powder flow within the nozzle shell. The nozzle may optionally include an off-axis outlet slot relative to a main flow axis of the powder into the nozzle shell so that powder encounters an obstruction before exiting through the outlet slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Terrence M. Fulkerson, Michael R. Sanner, Brian D. Mather, Joseph G. Schroeder, Jeffery Edward Dailidas
  • Patent number: 8052073
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve main body of a hollow tubular shape, a needle valve provided to the valve main body in a slidable manner, a valve seat opposing the needle valve to form a seat portion and having an injection hole formed downstream of the seat portion, and a guide portion provided upstream of the seat portion to guide the needle valve. An annular passage communicating in a circumferential direction is defined between the inner peripheral surface of the valve main body and the outer peripheral surface of the guide portion and a fuel passage through which to introduce a fuel from the annular passage to the seat portion is defined. An almost cylindrical filter to trap foreign matter heading toward the fuel passage is provided to the annular passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Kitagawa, Masayuki Aota, Tsuyoshi Munezane
  • Publication number: 20110240764
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to fluid spraying devices and systems and more specifically, but not by limitation, to a fluid intake assembly configured to be used with a remote fluid source to supply fluid material from the remote fluid source to a fluid sprayer. In one example, a fluid intake assembly for a fluid sprayer is provided. The assembly includes an inlet tube providing at least a portion of a fluid path between a remote fluid source and the fluid sprayer. The assembly also includes a fluid flow control mechanism configured to allow a flow of fluid material in the fluid path in a first direction and restrict a flow of fluid material in the fluid path in a second, opposite direction. In one example, the fluid flow control mechanism comprises a valve mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Wagner Spray Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Sandahl
  • Publication number: 20110192785
    Abstract: A hydration pack (10) includes a bladder (11) attached to a pump (12) via a feed tube (13) and to a bite valve mouthpiece (14) via a drinking tube (15). The bladder (11) incorporates a filter cartridge (16) which is capable of ultra-filtration and thereby effective to remove viruses as well as bacteria from water. The filter cartridge (16) is coupled to the drinking tube (15) such that any water that passes from the bladder (11) to the mouthpiece (14) must pass through the filter cartridge (16). The pump (12) is able to act both to transfer water into the bladder and also to pressurize the bladder with air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: PRITCHARD IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Pritchard, Sally Ann Pritchard
  • Patent number: 7934667
    Abstract: A diffuser for a device for packaging and dispensing a product. The arrangement is particularly advantageous for foaming cosmetic products. The diffuser includes a collar which can be mounted on a container and a product diffusion head extending from the collar and provided with at least one output aperture. Preferably, the output aperture is oriented at an angle, relative to an axis of the collar, lying between 0° and 85°. The diffusion head is movable relative to the collar. Moreover, the diffusion head has an extension axis inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the collar, and has a size which is contained within the maximum cross-section of the collar and/or of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Caroline Westrich
  • Patent number: 7900854
    Abstract: A filter for use with overhead sprinkler irrigation systems is disclosed. The filter includes a hollow cylindrical body, a removable screen, and a manually-actuated plunger adjacent the screen. The plunger is positioned for reciprocal movement through a debris outlet between an open, debris-discharging position, and a closed filtering position. The plunger defaults to the closed filtering position by pressurized water flowing through the body. The water is simultaneously filtered through the screen and passes out a clean water outlet while debris accumulates within the body. The plunger may be manually retracted to the open, debris-discharging position at any time, whereby accumulated debris is flushed out of the body through the debris outlet by residual water flowing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: American Agriculture Products, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald Beer
  • Patent number: 7891587
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intermediate plate for a fuel injector, comprising a high-pressure through-hole which connects a high-pressure passage in a valve body and is connected to a high-pressure fuel reservoir, to a high-pressure space in a nozzle body, wherein the intermediate plate is arranged between the valve body and the nozzle body. In order to improve the injection behaviour of a fuel injector provided with the intermediate plate, in particular during multiple injection of small injection quantities, the high-pressure through-hole has a cross-sectional profile which improves the flow through the high-pressure through-hole from the valve body towards the nozzle body and impairs the flow in the opposite direction from the nozzle body towards the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Patrick Mattes
  • Patent number: 7878427
    Abstract: An injector having an injector body to which a fuel line is connected for delivering fuel at high pressure. A filter bore is formed in the body and a fuel filter is disposed, through which filter the delivered fuel flows. A sealing seat is formed in the filter bore against which seat the end of the fuel line is pressed upon fastening of the fuel line to the injector body. The filter bore discharges at the outside of the injector body. The sealing seat is disposed with its longitudinal axis inclined to the longitudinal axis of the filter bore, and in the injector body, a bore extending at least approximately coaxially to the sealing seat is provided, into which the end region of the fuel line plunges. By the end region, plunging into the bore, of the fuel line, an outer end region of the filter bore, discharging at the outside of the injector body, is separated from an inner end region, subjected to high pressure, of the filter bore, and the fuel filter is disposed in the inner end region of the filter bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Wengert
  • Patent number: 7878426
    Abstract: A sanitary outlet unit (1) is provided, including an outlet armature (2), with a flow regulator (4) in a region of the water outlet (3) thereof, wherein an aeration device is provided for aeration of the water flow. The outlet unit (1) provides that the aeration unit (5) is located in the outlet armature (2) and/or in at least one water line leading to the outlet armature (2) separately from the flow regulator (4). Through the spatial separation of the functions of flow shaping or water discharge and the aeration of the water flow, there are many possible embodiments for optionally providing the water outlet (3) of the sanitary outlet unit (1) with an extremely thin design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Denzler
  • Publication number: 20110011955
    Abstract: A fuel injector that comprises a parallel circuit fuel filtration circuit providing filtered fuel to the control valve. Specifically, a fuel filter is positioned inside the injector within the passage leading to the control valve. Debris is removed from the fuel and filtered fuel is allowed to pass through to the control valve. Unfiltered fuel may be purged from the fuel injector during injection. Alternatively, unfiltered fuel may be removed from the injector via the drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan D. Moore
  • Publication number: 20110006136
    Abstract: A lower fuel injector filter includes a generally planar disk having an annular shape and including a plurality of filter holes. The disk is retained by a valve guide within a valve seat. The disk prevents internally generated contamination particles contained in fuel flowing through the filter holes from reaching a valve and seat interface positioned downstream of the valve guide. The disk may also be retained by a ball valve stop proximate the valve seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Vicki A. Flynn, Stefan O. Fedunyszyn, Dominic N. Dalo, Paul A. Wheeler, Otto Muller-Girard, JR., Cynthia J. Baron
  • Patent number: 7866576
    Abstract: A combination shower arm and water filter having an integrated design for attachment between a water pipe behind a shower wall and a showerhead. The combination shower arm and water filter including a body having a first hollow arm and a second hollow arm connected to a central cartridge holding portion. The filter holding portion has a central opening with a filter cartridge or element removably held in a hollow chamber formed above the filter holding portion by means of a cap that is removably secured to the an upwardly extending annular portion formed on the filter holding portion. Water entering the combined shower arm and filter assembly through the first hollow arm is directed into the hollow chamber for passage through filter media in the filter cartridge or element before it exits through the second hollow arm and out a showerhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Inventor: David K. Farley
  • Patent number: 7850101
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying paint and reflective glass beads to a surface that comprises an airless paint sprayer system, a bead dispensing system, a chassis, a power source, and a user-activated control switch. The airless paint sprayer system comprises a paint reservoir, one or more airless spray heads for spraying paint onto the surface, and a pump for pumping paint from the reservoir to the spray heads. The bead dispensing system comprises a bead reservoir, one or more bead dispensing nozzles for dispensing beads onto the paint sprayed onto the surface by the spray heads, an air reservoir for holding pressurized air, one or more pneumatic cylinders configured for opening and closing a corresponding dispensing nozzle, and one or more flow control regulators for controlling air into and out of a corresponding pneumatic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sightline, LC
    Inventor: Thomas Walmer