Oblique To Direction Of Flow Patents (Class 239/598)
  • Patent number: 9038866
    Abstract: An application tip and method for dispensing a fluid into a hole, the tip having a hollow housing or body with an open end and a closed end, the open end configured to be removably attached to and in fluid communication with a fluid source, the closed end including a nozzle having at least one passage or fluid outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob L. Nelson, Mark A. Sikkink
  • Patent number: 8844571
    Abstract: A fluid actuator for influencing the flow along a flow surface by ejecting a fluid flowing through the fluid actuator is described. The fluid actuator has at least two outlet lines with outlet openings at the respective ends thereof, and a feed line connected to the outlet lines for feeding fluid at a supply pressure, a flow direction diverting device into which the feed line opens and out of which the outlet lines open, and an adjusting device coupled to the flow direction diverting device to control the latter. The adjusting device is configured so the fluid is conducted successively in a cyclic sequence into each of the outlet lines. A discharge device for discharging a fluid out of a flow body, and a flow body having a multiplicity of discharge openings and a discharge device of said type are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Burkhard Gölling, Matthias Bauer
  • Patent number: 8561924
    Abstract: A pipe for carrying a fluid, having a longitudinal axis and defining a radial aperture for release of a jet of fluid having a radial direction component ?, the aperture having an aspect ratio greater than 2 and arranged with its elongate axis within 30 degrees of the longitudinal axis and having area greater than 0.2 the cross-sectional area of the pipe, the fluid jet having an angle ? between 30 and 80 degrees from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Michael H Coney, Andrew J Mullender
  • Patent number: 8556195
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: InvisaFlow, LLC
    Inventor: Haynes Sloan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8534511
    Abstract: Improvement in a pouring spout for liquids of various viscosities comprising a small tube with adequate diameter and length (1) presenting its distal extremity curved in a cuneiform angle (2) forming a pouring mouth (3), oval or elliptical, angularly oriented downwards, which larger axis (4) extends longitudinally along with such small tube (1) so that its superior extremity or superior distal edge (5) is extended outwards and its inferior opposite edge (6) is retreated backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: David de Carvalho
  • Patent number: 8251302
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: InvisaFlow LLC
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8191803
    Abstract: An automatic washing device includes a plurality of fluidic oscillators arranged on the periphery of a rotating drum. The fluidic oscillators emit a pulsatile stream of fluid at a predetermined angle through a slit that is perpendicular or at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the oscillator. The automatic washing device can remove microorganisms from the pliant epidermal surface of a human hand that comprises brushlessly scrubbing the pliant epidermal surface of the human hand with a plurality of cleansing fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Fluidic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren R. Jewett, Thomas E. Plowman, Craig A. Dupree, Matthew D. Khare
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8092166
    Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current is described. The fan assembly includes a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the base, a mouth through which the air flow is emitted, the mouth being defined by facing surfaces of the nozzle, and spacers for spacing apart the facing surfaces of the nozzle. The nozzle extends substantially orthogonally about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan. The spacers can provide for a reliable, reproducible nozzle of the fan assembly and performance of the fan assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
  • Patent number: 7798430
    Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle is formed with a nozzle hole group including at least two individual nozzle holes, which are disposed close to each other. Fuel is injected through the nozzle hole group. In at least one combination of two adjacent individual nozzle holes included in the same nozzle hole group, at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes is configured such that each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes has a diameter, the diameter increasing only toward a corresponding adjacent one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes along a direction from an inside to an outside of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes, and the diameter being maximized at an outer opening of the each of the at least one of the two adjacent individual nozzle holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuji Kuronita, Satoru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7793859
    Abstract: A nozzle for the atomized spray of liquid hydrocarbon feed in a fluidized catalytic cracking apparatus having two or more slots with at least one lateral slot wall formed at an angle of from about 30 to about 60 degrees from the axis of the discharge. Also a method of spraying atomized hydrocarbon feed/steam into a fluidized catalytic cracking reactor using the nozzle described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Stone & Webster Process Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Kolb, Ed Yuan, Louis Robert Anderson, Gary Jackson
  • Patent number: 7748650
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end, an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: InvisaFlow LLC
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan
  • Patent number: 7648087
    Abstract: A spray nozzle assembly for atomizing a medium through a nozzle channel, comprising a first channel portion which is tapered by two lateral surfaces facing each other to form an elongate narrow cross-sectioned surface, a passage orifice disposed in the narrow cross-sectioned surface the cross-sectional area of which is smaller than is the narrow cross-sectioned surface, and a second channel portion adjoining the passage orifice in the direction of medium flow which has two opposed lateral surfaces separating from each other with an increase in distance from the passage orifice, whose edges facing the passage orifice extend crosswise to the longitudinal direction of the narrow cross-sectioned surface, characterized in that the nozzle channel having the two channel portions and the passage orifice are configured inside an integrally formed plastic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Aerosol Inventions and Development S.A.
    Inventors: Michael Horn, Oskar Pittl
  • Patent number: 7458532
    Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from a water source. The attachment comprises an inlet end, a transitional section connected to the inlet end, an outlet end connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet end, and a reinforcement member attached to the transitional sectional and the outlet end to support the transitional section. The inlet end includes an external cover and an internal sleeve disposed within and spaced from the external cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Inventor: W. Haynes Sloan
  • Patent number: 7415827
    Abstract: In an air mixing arrangement wherein a primary fluid is introduced through an opening in a wall to be mixed with a secondary fluid flowing along the wall surface, the opening is airfoil shaped with its leading edge being orientated at an attack angle with respect to the secondary fluid flow stream so as to thereby enhance the penetration and dispersion of the primary fluid stream into the secondary fluid stream. The airfoil shaped opening is selectively positioned such that its angle of attack provides the desired lift to optimize the mixing of the two streams for the particular application. In one embodiment, a collar is provided around the opening to prevent the secondary fluid from contacting the surface of the wall during certain conditions of operation. Multiple openings maybe used such as the combination of a larger airfoil shaped opening with a smaller airfoil shaped opened positioned downstream thereof, or a round shaped opening placed upstream of an airfoil shaped opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio P. Bertolotti, David S. Liscinsky, Daniel R. Sabatino
  • Patent number: 7401745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a powder diffuser nozzle (2) for an electrostatic dusting device, which is designed to be positioned at the end of an applicator gun. The inventive nozzle (2) comprises: a lateral wall (49) which defines a passage that extends from the powder conduit (8) of the gun (3), and a base (56) which seals said conduit (8) at the end thereof. In addition, a port (57) is provided in the lateral wall (49) close to the base (56) in order to connect the powder conduit (8) with the exterior of the nozzle (2). The axis (A1) of the port (57) forms a determined angle (A) with the axis (A2) of the powder conduit (8). Moreover, at least one deflector (58) is provided on the base of the nozzle (56) or on the lateral wall (49) close to said base in order to divert the jet of powder from the conduit (8) along the axis (A1) of the port (57).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Eisenmann France Sarl
    Inventor: Adrien Lacchia
  • Patent number: 7389944
    Abstract: A gas sprayer mounted on an edge removing robotic arm is disclosed, wherein the edge removing robotic arm circles around along the edges of a substrate and sprays a chemical solvent over the edge surface of the substrate to dissolve photoresist materials attached to the edges of the substrate; the edge removing robotic arm has a pumping conduit for sucking out the chemical solvent sprayed over the surface of the substrate and dissolved photoresist particles; the gas sprayer is mounted on the top of the edge removing robotic arm and comprises a hooked nozzle extending forward around the front end of the edge removing robotic arm and facing an opening of the pumping conduit to spray gas out so as to prevent the chemical solvent sprayed out from the edge removing robotic arm from splashing onto the interior of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Chao-Min Wu
  • Patent number: 7387264
    Abstract: A spraying system is provided including a spray gun and a spray nozzle. The spray gun has a discharge end. A locating pin is arranged on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle is selectively mountable on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle has a discharge orifice configured to produce a asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern wherein the location of maximum fluid discharge is offset from the center of the fluid discharge pattern. The spray nozzle has an alignment notch extending along an outer surface of the spray nozzle. The locating pin is arranged on the spray gun and the alignment notch is arranged on the spray nozzle such that when the spray nozzle is mounted on the discharge end of the spray gun in a predetermined orientation the locating pin extends into the alignment slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventor: Richard Kassanits
  • Publication number: 20080073451
    Abstract: A nozzle for spraying a fluid. The nozzle has in asymmetric orifice geometry. This asymmetric geometry provides a non-uniform flow pattern. This arrangement provides a heavier flow in one direction transverse to the primary flow direction of the nozzle and a lighter flow in a different direction transverse to the primary flow direction. The nozzle may be used with a floor cleaning device to provide a particularly desirable spray pattern on a surface to be cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Glenn Allen Bradbury, James Franklin Sloan
  • Patent number: 7344090
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described. The fuel injector includes an inlet, outlet, seat, closure member, and a metering orifice disc. The metering orifice disc is disposed between the seat and the outlet. The metering orifice disc includes an outer wall having a surface that defines first and second outer chords generally about the longitudinal axis A-A. The first outer chord intersects the second chord and has a length different than the length of the second outer chord. The metering orifice disc includes an inner wall having a surface that defines first and second inner chords. The first and second inner chords extend generally transverse to the longitudinal axis A-A. The first inner chord intersects the second inner chord. The first inner chord has a length different than the length of the second inner chord. Methods of atomization and targeting are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Hamid Sayar
  • Patent number: 7299997
    Abstract: A fuel injector is shown and described. The fuel injector includes an inlet, outlet, seat, closure member, and a metering orifice disc. The metering orifice disc is disposed between the seat and the outlet. The metering orifice disc includes a plurality of metering orifices disposed about the longitudinal axis and a flow channel to each metering orifice disc so that, when the inlet of the fuel injector is provided with a pressurized fluid over a range of pressure from 200 kiloPascals to 600 kiloPascals and the closure member is actuated to the first position, the metering orifice disc provides an atomized fluid having a Sauter-Mean-Diameter of less than 70 microns proximate the outlet of the fuel injector. A method of atomizing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Hamid Sayar
  • Patent number: 7285309
    Abstract: A wide slit nozzle having a slit as a discharge opening. The thickness of a lateral end part is set smaller than the thickness at a lateral center part. The thickness of the lateral center part is fixed. The thickness of the lateral end part changes linearly from opposite lateral ends of the lateral center part to the opposite lateral ends of the slit. Coating material is discharged from the slit while applied with pressure, so that the coating material is coated while expanded wider than the width of the slit. The coating material is discharged at 7 liter per minute, and a coating width of a first example is 100 mm, for example. A thickness increase of the overlapped part is +25% even when a width or an overlapped margin z of the overlapped part is 10 mm or 20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Aisin Kako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakamura, Akira Nonoyama, Shigeo Mori, Hisashi Kato
  • Patent number: 7255292
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing module and nozzle or die tip for discharging at least one liquid filament. The nozzle includes a wedge-shaped member having a pair of side surfaces converging to an apex. A liquid discharge passage extends along an axis through the wedge-shaped member and through the apex. The wedge-shaped member extends in a radially asymmetrical manner around the liquid discharge passage. Four air discharge passages are positioned at the base of the wedge-shaped member. At least one air discharge passage is positioned adjacent each of said side surfaces and each of the air discharge passages is angled in a compound manner generally toward the liquid discharge passage and offset from the axis of the liquid discharge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Laurence B. Saidman
  • Publication number: 20070158477
    Abstract: A spraying device for atomizing a liquid is proposed. The spraying device includes a nozzle plate and an actuator. The nozzle plate is provided with a plurality of nozzle apertures. Each of the nozzle apertures includes an entry end for the liquid to enter and an exit end for the liquid to exit. The entry end and the exit end of at least one of the nozzle apertures are asymmetrical structures. The actuator is integrated with the nozzle plate to actuate atomization of the liquid. The spraying direction of a liquid droplet after the liquid is atomized can be controlled by modifying the shape of the exit end of the nozzle aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Chou-Lin Wu, Chi-Ming Huang, Chun-Fu Lu, Chun-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 7198207
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7185833
    Abstract: A nozzle having a housing and an assembly including at least two conjugated parts separated by a spacer seal. The assembly is arranged in the housing so as to form a nozzle outlet. At least one of he housing, the parts, and the spacer seal are deformable so as to define a geometry of the nozzle outlet and seal surfaces between the parts and the spacer seal and between the parts and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Ernest Geskin, Boris Goldenberg, Thomas Ursic
  • Patent number: 7182278
    Abstract: Accordingly, the invention provides a spray valve comprising: (a) an upper valve body including a hydraulic chamber for receiving an incompressible hydraulic fluid through a piston port and a piston slidable within said hydraulic chamber; (b) a lower valve body including a fluid conduit for receiving fluid into the spray valve, a lower valve seating surface, an annular fluid chamber around the lower valve seating surface and a fluid outlet; and (c) a seating member between the upper valve body and lower valve body including: (i) an upper seat for the piston within the hydraulic chamber of the upper valve body; (ii) a diaphragm of resilient material extending between the upper valve body and lower valve body; and (iii) a valve seat for bearing against the lower valve seating surface and closing the fluid conduit when pressurised incompressible hydraulic fluid is received through the piston port and displacing the piston within the hydraulic chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Anaid Nominees Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Geoff Haviland, Sean Haviland, Peter Williams
  • Patent number: 7168637
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7159802
    Abstract: A fluid injection nozzle has an injection port plate, an injection port and a protruding portion. The injection port plate is to be mounted on a downstream end of a fluid injection valve so that a center axis thereof is coaxial to the fluid injection valve. The injection port penetrates the injection port plate between an inlet and an outlet. The protruding portion protrudes from an inner surface of the injection port to shift a direction of at least a part of a fluid flow passing through the injection port to flow in a circumferential direction of the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Oomura, Yoshinori Yamashita, Yukio Tomiita, Yukio Sawada, Ryo Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 7137577
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, James Raymond Winkelman, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7131600
    Abstract: An atomization chamber apparatus used for aircraft pesticide delivery, which has an open ended walled chamber, divided into left and right sections, each having outer and inner segments, each segment having a top and a bottom wall, the outer segments having a same radius concave upper wall and a convex lower wall, while the inner segments have a same radius convex radius upper wall and a concave lower wall. A nozzle injector connectable to a fluid pesticide source is laterally disposed in an inner segment. The nozzle is chosen such that exiting pesticide will not impact the chamber walls, and the radii of the segments are chosen such that the speed of pesticide atomization by the incoming air is slowed down to reduce fines upon pesticide impact, and the speed of the pesticide air mixture on exiting the chamber is increased to substantially match the airspeed of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Inventor: Russell Stocker
  • Patent number: 7124963
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7100848
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine for a vehicle is comprised of a nozzle plate which has a plurality of nozzle holes. Fuel injection jets are injected from the nozzle holes and collided with each other. The thickness of the nozzle plate is equal to or greater than the diameter of the nozzle holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kobayashi, Nobutaka Ishii, Tomoichi Misawa, Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7051953
    Abstract: A nozzle device for ejecting a liquid onto vehicle windows or headlight lenses. At least one rotation chamber is formed inside a nozzle body. The liquid enters the chamber, is rotationally displaced in such a way that it is then ejected as a homogeneous fan jet via at least one slit-like nozzle opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Valeo Systems d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Arndt Sternbach, Mark M. Benner
  • Patent number: 7048210
    Abstract: A showerhead as described herein includes a translucent hollow body having a fluid chamber, and a fluid distribution element configured to release fluid contained in the fluid chamber. The fluid distribution element includes a plurality of raised concentric rings having peaks that serve as the fluid release points. The fluid distribution element contains a number of fluid ducts that are specifically shaped to transport the fluid from the fluid chamber toward the fluid release points. The translucent nature of the showerhead creates an optical lens effect that illuminates the showerhead and the water droplets formed by the showerhead. The illumination of the water droplets creates a pleasant showering experience for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Frank Clark
  • Patent number: 7032832
    Abstract: A spraying system is provided including a spray gun and a spray nozzle. The spray gun has a discharge end. A locating pin is arranged on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle is selectively mountable on the discharge end of the spray gun. The spray nozzle has a discharge orifice configured to produce a asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern wherein the location of maximum fluid discharge is offset from the center of the fluid discharge pattern. The spray nozzle has an alignment notch extending along an outer surface of the spray nozzle. The locating pin is arranged on the spray gun and the alignment notch is arranged on the spray nozzle such that when the spray nozzle is mounted on the discharge end of the spray gun in a predetermined orientation the locating pin extends into the alignment slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventor: Richard Kassanits
  • Patent number: 7014128
    Abstract: A showerhead assembly has a tubular shaped spray head and a longitudinal axis. The tubular shaped spray head has several apertures located along the longitudinal axis. The tubular shaped spray head is connected to a water source for introducing water in the tubular shaped spray head. The showerhead assembly also has a housing for supporting the tubular shaped spray head on a surface. Water traverses through the tubular shaped spray head for spraying beams of water through the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Conair Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony Kit Lun Leung
  • Patent number: 6994279
    Abstract: In an injection hole plate of a fuel injection device, injection holes are arranged about a circle. Fuel injected from the injection holes forms a flat sector-shaped spray. The intervals between adjacent injection holes are approximately equal to each other, while the diameters of the injection holes are equal to each other. An injection hole is positioned on an imaginary plane, which contains the central axis of the sector-shaped spray along the injection direction and is orthogonal or approximately orthogonal to the sector-shaped spray. The injection holes, away from the imaginary plane in this order, are symmetric with respect to the line of intersection of the injection hole plate and the imaginary plane. The farther each injection hole is away from the imaginary plane, the larger an angle of gradient of the injection hole with respect to the imaginary plane becomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kimitaka Saito, Yasuhide Tani, Atsuya Okamoto, Takeshi Mizobuchi
  • Patent number: 6978948
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, has a valve body with a pressure chamber that can be filled with fuel under pressure. Embodied in the valve body is at least one injection conduit, which originates at the wall of the pressure chamber, where it forms an injection opening; the injection conduit connects the pressure chamber with the combustion chamber of the engine. By means of a valve needle, the injection opening can be closed or opened. The injection opening of the injection conduit has a cross section in the form of an oblong slot, so that the injection of the fuel into the combustion chamber is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Heinecke
  • Patent number: 6966499
    Abstract: A fuel injector that includes a housing, a seat, a metering disc and a closure member. The metering orifices can be located on a first virtual circle greater than a second virtual circle as defined by a projection of a sealing surface converging at a virtual apex projected on the metering disc. The metering disc can be dimpled to increase the spray angle. Various parameters can be utilized to achieve a desired cone size and spray angle. A method of controlling spray targeting of a fuel injector is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Nally, William A. Peterson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6921022
    Abstract: A fuel injector that includes a housing, a seat, a metering disc and a closure member. The metering orifices can be located on a first virtual circle greater than a second virtual circle as defined by a projection of a sealing surface converging at a virtual apex projected on the metering disc. The metering disc can be dimpled to increase the spray angle. Various parameters can be utilized to achieve a desired cone size and spray angle. A method of controlling spray targeting of a fuel injector is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Nally, William A. Peterson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6921021
    Abstract: A fuel injector that includes a housing, a seat, a metering disc and a closure member. The metering orifices can be located on a first virtual circle greater than a second virtual circle as defined by a projection of a sealing surface converging at a virtual apex projected on the metering disc. The metering disc can be dimpled to increase the spray angle. Various parameters can be utilized to achieve a desired cone size and spray angle. A method of controlling spray targeting of a fuel injector is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Nally, William A. Peterson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6883734
    Abstract: A fluid film is formed stably over a long distance from a nozzle without breaking a slit fluid jet by allowing fluid flow out from a slit to form a slit fluid jet. A crossed flow is superimposed causing a flip-flop phenomenon upon the slit fluid jet. Energy of a fluctuation velocity component of the slit fluid jet is absorbed into a vibration component of a flip-flop crossed flow so as to form a stable fluid film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Mayekawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Horii, Akitake Hashitate
  • Patent number: 6866211
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for directing a wide lateral spray curtain with substantially uniform liquid distribution throughout the length of the spray curtain is provided. The nozzle includes a nozzle body defining an elongated internal flow passage. The nozzle body includes an inlet end for connection to a pressurized liquid supply, a downstream end wall and a side wall. A discharge orifice is provided in the side wall of the nozzle body between the inlet end and the downstream end wall. The discharge orifice communicates with the internal flow passage of the nozzle body. The discharge orifice has a generally inverted teardrop configuration comprising a relatively larger area upper portion and a relatively smaller area lower portion arranged below the upper portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventors: Gary Paulsen, Bart R. Bolman, Patrick M. Maney
  • Patent number: 6742730
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for producing an asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern such as for use in a container coating application is provided. The spray nozzles includes a body portion having an internal fluid passageway which terminates in a substantially hemispherical dome shaped end wall. A discharge orifice is provided in the end wall which is produced by superimposing on each other an approximately round opening and an elongated opening having opposed rounded ends. The round opening and the elongated opening defining respective edges of the discharge orifice which extend at different angles relative to a longitudinal axis of the fluid passageway. The resulting orifice produces a fluid discharge pattern wherein the amount of fluid discharged tapers in a continuous, non-linear manner from the location of maximum discharge to points of minimum flow at either end of the discharge pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventor: Richard Kassanits
  • Patent number: 6651906
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing module and nozzle or die tip for discharging at least one liquid filament. The nozzle includes a wedge-shaped member having a pair of side surfaces converging to an apex. A liquid discharge passage extends along an axis through the wedge-shaped member and through the apex. The wedge-shaped member extends in a radially asymmetrical manner around the liquid discharge passage. Four air discharge passages are positioned at the base of the wedge-shaped member. At least one air discharge passage is positioned adjacent each of said side surfaces and each of the air discharge passages is angled in a compound manner generally toward the liquid discharge passage and offset from the axis of the liquid discharge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Laurence B. Saidman
  • Patent number: 6637731
    Abstract: A diffuser for use in a pressurized feed system. The diffuser introduces a carbonic acid solution into water to be treated. The carbonic acid solution within the diffuser is maintained at an elevated pressure. As the carbonic acid solution passes to the exterior of the diffuser, the pressure drop causes an effective mixing of the carbonic acid solution and the water. The carbonic acid solution mixes with the water and the pH of the water is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Tomco2 Equipment Company
    Inventor: Tommy J. Shane
  • Publication number: 20030197076
    Abstract: A coating material supply nozzle has a coating material reservoir where a coating material fed from the outside into a nozzle body, and an elongated nozzle port, from which the coating material passed through a nozzle passage is discharged. A coating material feed pipe for feeding the coating material is mounted in the coating material supply nozzle to extend in said coating material reservoir over the entire length. The coating material feed pipe is provided with at least one coating material feed bore for guiding the coating material within the coating material feed pipe into the coating material reservoir uniformly in a lengthwise direction of the coating material reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: Yasui Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Iwamoto, Hiroshi Miyamura, Takashi Iwasaki, Yoshinari Yasui
  • Publication number: 20030178506
    Abstract: At a time of forming lip portions 9e, 9f in upper and lower edge portions of an injection port 9d in a protruding manner, a nozzle for injecting a washer fluid of a washer fluid injection apparatus in a diffusion manner is structured such that a step surface 9i is formed on an inner side surface 9h such that protruding amounts of the lip portions 9e, 9f are set to the same size, a protruding tip portion in a washer fluid injection side of the lower lip portion 9f is positioned in a lower side than a lower side edge portion of the injection port 9d. Accordingly, it is possible to make the injected washer fluid hard to be affected by an air flow during traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventor: Takatoshi Kondou
  • Patent number: 6592058
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for producing an asymmetrically distributed fluid discharge pattern such as for use in a container coating application is provided. The spray nozzles includes a body portion having an internal fluid passageway which terminates in a substantially hemispherical dome shaped end wall. A discharge orifice is provided in the end wall which is produced by superimposing on each other an approximately round opening and an elongated opening having opposed rounded ends. The elongated opening having a length greater than a diameter of the round opening and the round opening and the elongated opening defining respective edges of the discharge orifice which extend at different angles relative to a longitudinal axis of the fluid passageway. The resulting orifice produces a fluid discharge pattern wherein the amount of fluid discharged tapers in a continuous, non-linear manner from the location of maximum discharge to points of minimum flow at either end of the discharge pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventor: Richard Kassanits
  • Patent number: 6444081
    Abstract: A nozzle for simultaneous application of a string of glue on two facing adjacent disc surfaces, especially for gluing together two optical disc elements to form a DVD. In order to make possible higher glue application rates and smaller dimensions of the glue application nozzle, the nozzle can steer the flow towards the facing disc elements. For this purpose, the nozzle has a channel outlet opening which has upper and lower outlet areas and therebetween a constricted outlet area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Odme International B.V.
    Inventors: Ove Öhman, Lars Bering