Pressure Responsive Relief Or Bypass Valve Patents (Class 417/307)
  • Patent number: 11668289
    Abstract: A fracturing apparatus is provided. The fracturing apparatus includes: a plunger pump including a hydraulic end and a power end, the power end having a power end oil outlet and at least one power end oil inlet that are coupled to each other; and a power end lubricating system, including: a lubricating oil tank configured for defining an accommodation space, at least one lubrication pump having a lubrication pump oil inlet and a lubrication pump oil outlet that are coupled to each other, and at least one lubrication motor configured for providing power for the at least one lubrication pump, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the lubrication motor and the lubrication pump is located in the accommodation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Chang, Shuzhen Cui, Liang Lv, Jifeng Zhong, Shanwu Fu, Chunqiang Lan, Ruijie Du, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11530692
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure supply unit has a storage chamber which stores hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic pump which is arranged within the storage chamber and dips at least partially into the stored hydraulic fluid, and an electric motor which drives the hydraulic pump. The electric motor is arranged below the hydraulic pump in a separate motor chamber which is situated below the storage chamber, is dry, and is not connected fluidically to the storage chamber. The electric motor is coupled in a thermally transmitting manner to a separating floor, the upper side of which delimits the storage chamber and is wetted continuously with stored hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HAWE ALTENSTADT HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Roider
  • Patent number: 11391274
    Abstract: A device for moving a fluid includes a dosing head in which a dosing chamber is arranged, and a displacement element which can be moved between a first and second position. The displacement element borders the dosing chamber, and the volume of the dosing chamber in the first position differs from the volume in the second position. drive unit for moving the displacement element from the first position to the second position and a return mechanism for moving the displacement element back are provided. The return mechanism has two magnetic parts. The first part is placed on the dosing head, the second part is connected to the displacement element, and the two parts are designed such that a magnetic force causes a force to be applied to the displacement element in the direction of the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ProMinent GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Reinhard
  • Patent number: 11365710
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel pump is provided with a pumping bore and a pressure relief valve only opening to enable a return flow from the outlet conduit back to the compression chamber when the pressure in the outlet conduit exceeds a predetermined threshold. The pressure relief valve is arranged in an elongated pressure relief valve chamber extending parallel and offset to the pumping bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS LUXEMBOURG SA
    Inventors: Andreas Aye, Arnaud Leblay
  • Patent number: 11365729
    Abstract: An overflow valve is built into a metering head for a metering pump used with aggressive media and under high pressure. The overflow valve follows the suction valve or expands it, and directly lowers a critical pressure that occurs in the metering head, using an overflow line. In this way, the safety of the arrangement is improved, and at the same time, less construction space is used up by the additional valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: LUTZ-JESCO GMBH
    Inventors: Steffen Roth, Peter Bernard Militzer
  • Patent number: 11280306
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes an injector housing, a check control valve assembly within the injector housing, a direct-operated check, a valve biaser supported on the injector housing, and a dry-running protection valve trapped between the valve biaser and the injector housing. The dry-running protection valve limits expelling drained actuation fluid from the fuel injector to enable filling a low-pressure volume therein in advance of filling a low pressure drain line common to a plurality of fuel injectors in an internal combustion engine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Manjunath Bannur Nagaraja, Venkata R. Tatikonda, Benjamin R. Tower
  • Patent number: 11225953
    Abstract: An injection assembly configured to supply an additive from a reservoir to a fluid in a pipe has a pipe portion and an injection pump. The injection pump has a linear motor comprising a stator and an armature reciprocatingly driven by the stator, and a pump portion comprising an additive inlet chamber. A piston coupled to the armature is configured to reciprocate in said inlet chamber, thereby alternatingly compressing and decompressing a volume of said inlet chamber, an additive outlet chamber in fluid communication with the pipe portion, and a bypass channel between the inlet and outlet chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventors: Robertus Martinus Van Opdorp, Willem Ten Kate
  • Patent number: 11078928
    Abstract: A hydraulic control unit that delivers hydraulic fluid to a limited slip differential includes a hydraulic control unit housing, a vent hole and first and second passageways. The hydraulic control unit housing has an accumulator housing portion that houses a biasing assembly and a piston. The accumulator housing portion forms an accumulator chamber with the piston. The vent hole is defined in the hydraulic control unit housing. The first passageway is defined in the hydraulic control unit housing. The second passageway is defined in the hydraulic control unit housing that intersects the vent hole and is oriented at a different angle than the first passageway. The vent hole is dual purpose permitting hydraulic fluid entry into the accumulator chamber through the second passageway while air is permitted to escape the hydraulic control unit housing through the vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Fox
  • Patent number: 11073149
    Abstract: A system and method for the early detection of connecting rod bearing failures in pump power ends using temperature measurements is provided. The system may include a housing enclosing the pump power end, and a crankshaft, connecting rod, and crosshead all disposed within the housing, with the connecting rod coupled between the crankshaft and the crosshead. The system also includes a temperature sensor assembly at least partially disposed on the housing. The temperature sensor assembly is communicatively coupled to a controller located outside the housing, and the temperature sensor assembly is positioned such that the temperature sensor assembly detects a temperature of the connecting rod or the crosshead. A controller may read, store, and monitor temperature data received from the temperature sensor, and output an alert to an operator or shut down the pump upon detecting a temperature that exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe A. Beisel, Justin L. Hurst, Dickey Charles Headrick
  • Patent number: 10961962
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge valve mechanism provided at an outlet of a pressurizing chamber of a high-pressure fuel supply pump that aims to reduce a backflow amount of fuel from a discharge valve and to prevent cavitation erosion. There are provided a discharge valve disposed on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber, a discharge valve seat that closes a discharge side flow passage of the pressurizing chamber by seating the discharge valve, and a discharge valve spring that presses the discharge valve toward the discharge valve seat. It is configured such that, in a case where a minimum seat diameter of a seat portion in which the discharge valve is seated on the discharge valve seat is set to D and a spring force of the discharge valve spring at a time of setting is set to F, a coefficient K obtained by dividing the spring force F by the minimum seat diameter D is set to be 0.2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nemoto, Shigehiko Omata, Moritsugu Akiyama, Shunsuke Aritomi, Takanori Oginuma
  • Patent number: 10941740
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump includes a housing including a chamber, an inlet flow passage to draw fuel into the chamber, and a discharge flow passage to discharge fuel out of the chamber. The high-pressure fuel pump further includes a piston disposed in the housing and configured to compress fuel, a sleeve coupled to the housing and configured to support the piston and form a space for storing fuel, a discharge valve disposed in the discharge flow passage and configured to open when a pressure of fuel stored in the chamber is equal to or greater than a first pressure, and a pressure relief valve disposed in a relief flow passage that communicates with the discharge flow passage and the space. The pressure relief valve is configured to open when a pressure of fuel supplied into the relief flow passage is equal to or greater than a second pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HYUNDAI KEFICO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyung Chul Han, Jin Sung Kim, Eun Woo Nah, Chun Ky Hong
  • Patent number: 10711748
    Abstract: A fuel supply device includes a fuel pump for delivering fuel within the fuel tank to the outside and a sub-tank having a temporary storage region capable of temporarily storing the fuel. The sub-tank includes an inflow opening to allow the fuel to flow into the sub-tank under its own weight. The temporary storage region includes a top part positioned above the inflow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kensuke Niwa, Koji Yoshida, Tatsuki Fukui, Hiroyasu Kariya
  • Patent number: 10364761
    Abstract: A turbocharger (1) includes a turbine wheel (3) driven by exhaust gas, first and second compressor wheels (4, 5) coaxially coupled to the turbine wheel (3) via a shaft member (6), a compressor housing (8) accommodating the first and second compressor wheels (4, 5) and having defined therein a communication passage (17) through which air compressed by the first compressor wheel (4) flows to the second compressor wheel (5), and an electric motor (11) arranged in the communication passage (17) and using the shaft member (6) as a rotation shaft thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE FILTER SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijayakumar Sivaraman, Masamoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10344724
    Abstract: In a high-pressure pump, a relief valve main body has a rod shape. A relief valve seat portion is integrated with an end of a relief valve main body so as to be capable of contacting a relief valve seat. The relief valve main body is inserted into a guide hole portion of a support portion. The guide hole portion slidably supports an outer wall of the relief valve main body so as to guide a reciprocating movement of the relief valve main body in the axial direction. A fuel guide portion is provided at an end portion of the relief valve main body facing the pressurizing chamber and can guide a flow of the fuel in a direction radially outward of the relief valve main body on the way from the pressurizing chamber toward the valve seat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Koga, Noriya Matsumoto, Seiji Tanizawa
  • Patent number: 10267278
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel pump unit includes a pump head where an inlet channel opens into a low-pressure chamber itself in fluid communication with a compression chamber. A valve is arranged so that when it is closed the fuel fills the low-pressure chamber and when the valve opens the fuel flows from the low-pressure chamber into the compression chamber. The pump head also includes a resilient member arranged so that when the valve is closed, the resilient member deforms to increase the volume of the low pressure chamber. When the valve opens, the fuel flows into the compression chamber, pushed by the resilient member which takes back its original shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED
    Inventor: Onur Mehmet Tansug
  • Patent number: 10082137
    Abstract: A relief valve assembly includes a housing assembly defining a chamber therein. The relief valve assembly includes a piston. The piston may be at least partially disposed within the chamber. The relief valve assembly includes a pilot inlet. The pilot inlet may be configured to provide a pilot pressure proximate a second end of the chamber. The relief valve assembly includes an overpressure inlet sealed from a first end of the chamber by the piston. The overpressure inlet may be configured to provide an inlet pressure which may actuate the piston when the inlet pressure exceeds the pilot pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis John Graham, Samuel Jaroslav Stafl
  • Patent number: 10054116
    Abstract: A pump for conveying a liquid, having a pump housing that has at least one inlet and at least one outlet, an eccentric element being rotatably arranged in said pump housing and surrounded by a deformable membrane, the deformable membrane and pump housing delimiting at least one conveyor path from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet and forming at least one seal for the conveyor path, and the seal being able to be displaced along the conveyor path by a movement of the eccentric element. Between the eccentric element and the deformable membrane, a spring layer is arranged by the eccentric element and deformable membrane are tensioned relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Brück, Jan Hodgson
  • Patent number: 9964008
    Abstract: An engine-case component and a variable displacement oil pump are provided for an internal combustion engine. The engine-case component includes, but is not limited to a first oil channel suitable for connecting an oil outlet of the variable displacement oil pump with a primary control chamber of the same variable displacement oil pump, a second oil channel suitable for being independently connected with a secondary control chamber of the variable displacement oil pump, and a seat communicating with the first oil channel and the second oil channel, which is suitable for accommodating an electrically driven control valve for selectively opening and closing the communication between the first and the second oil channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Giuseppe Maccarrone
  • Patent number: 9944287
    Abstract: A method for controlling a hydrodynamic retarder in a motor vehicle that can be mechanically disengaged via a disconnect clutch, comprising a drive motor whose power output is controlled via an actuator such as a foot pedal or a lever; whereby in an overrun operation the acceleration of the motor vehicle is collected or detected and compared with a pre-specified acceleration value; and whereby in the non-braking mode the disconnect clutch is engaged, regardless of an initiation of a braking mode by an operator of the motor vehicle or a driver assist system and the working chamber is maintained drained when the acceleration exceeds an acceleration limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Adams, Dieter Laukemann, Achim Menne, Ravi Schade
  • Patent number: 9835147
    Abstract: A continuous run controller for a dual control compressor system includes an integrated housing containing a pilot valve and a hydraulic unloader valve. Low pressure in the hydraulic oil system opens the hydraulic unloader valve such that the suction valve unloader assembly unloads the compressor. High pressure in an air receiver of the compressor system opens the pilot valve such that the suction valve unloader assembly unloads the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUINCY COMPRESSOR LLC
    Inventors: Tingrong Ren, Keith Stephens, Gary Hyer
  • Patent number: 9677348
    Abstract: A commutating valve for a downhole steering tool. The downhole steering tool has a sleeve which surrounds an annular body which in turn surrounds a driveshaft. A plurality of steering cylinders are located in the annular body and a steering piston is located in each steering cylinder, the steering pistons engaging the sleeve. A pump pressurizes hydraulic fluid within a reservoir, the reservoir having a closable outlet whereby the pressure of the hydraulic fluid within the reservoir can be raised by closing the outlet and lowered by opening the outlet. The valve comprises a number of discrete valve members which are all in communication with the reservoir and can be opened sequentially whereby to deliver hydraulic fluid to the steering cylinders sequentially. The pressure within each steering cylinder can be controlled in order to control the position of the driveshaft within the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SMART STABILIZER SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Daniel Brendan Crowley, Robert Donald John Sedgeman
  • Patent number: 9651040
    Abstract: An unloader valve apparatus is provided for an air compressor. The unloader valve apparatus comprises a cylindrical piston having a longitudinal central axis and movable along the longitudinal central axis between a loaded position and an unloaded position. The unloader valve apparatus further comprises a stopper member pivotable about a pivot axis between a blocking position in which the stopper member blocks an unloader port when the piston is in the loaded position and an unblocking position in which the stopper member is not blocking the unloader port and is thereby allowing compressed air from the compressor to flow through the unloader port when the piston is in the unloaded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: David D Colavincenzo, Padraig B. Yeats, Tyler Johnson
  • Patent number: 9572919
    Abstract: A dialysis system includes a fresh dialysis fluid pump, a used dialysis fluid pump, a fresh fluid flow path, a used fluid flow path, and a dialysis fluid cassette carrying a balance chamber, the balance chamber including a first rigid portion, a second rigid portion, and a flexible sheet located between the first and second rigid portions, the flexible sheet dividing the balance chamber into (i) a fresh dialysis fluid compartment connected fluidly to the fresh dialysis fluid pump via the fresh fluid flow path, wherein fresh dialysis fluid contacts the first rigid portion and a first side of the flexible sheet, and (ii) a used dialysis fluid compartment connected fluidly to the used dialysis fluid pump via the used fluid flow path, wherein used dialysis fluid contacts the second rigid portion and a second side of the flexible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Thomas Kelly, Robert W. Childers, Don Busby, Rodolfo Roger, Waleed Mutasem El Sayyid, Shahid Din
  • Patent number: 9149041
    Abstract: The invention provides a process of removing or preventing biofouling, particularly on surfaces of industrial and agricultural equipment in contact with aqueous liquids. The process employs an antifouling composition of stabilized active halogen having a low pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Bromine Compounds Ltd.
    Inventors: Shlomo Antebi, Chen Zolkov, David Feldman
  • Patent number: 9133690
    Abstract: Disclosed are fluid handling systems and methods for mitigating the effects of pressure drops that occur at the startup of subsea pumps associated with liquid producing reservoirs. The systems and methods are particularly useful in conjunction with subsea pumps used for producing liquids from high-pressure, low permeability hydrocarbon reservoirs. The systems and methods can mitigate damage to reservoir completions and reservoirs caused by high pressure transients downstream of the pump. A choke valve is used to restrict the flow of the liquids prior to the startup of the subsea pump. After the start of the subsea pump, the choke valve is gradually opened while a recirculation valve is gradually closed, and a full bore valve is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Baha Tulu Tanju, Joseph Micheal Smoorenburg, Brian Jake Arias, Emile Boudreaux, Karry Guidry, Marcus Paul Abshire, Fred Anderson, Lee Eric Mitchell
  • Patent number: 9109560
    Abstract: A plunger stopper is installed to a cylinder hole forming portion of a cylinder forming member. The plunger stopper cooperates with a step portion of a plunger to limit movement of the plunger in a state where a slide surface of the plunger contacts an inner peripheral wall surface of the cylinder hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Osamu Hishinuma, Teppei Matsumoto, Yuichi Irino
  • Patent number: 9103307
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump arrangement (1) which can be especially used for a common rail injection system and has a pump member (2) that contains a low-pressure inlet (8) and a high-pressure outlet (9). A pressurization chamber (12) is provided, within which a plunger (3) is movably mounted and which is connected to the high-pressure outlet via a high-pressure valve (7). Furthermore, a suction chamber (6) that is fitted with a suction valve (5) is provided within the pump member. In addition, an intake duct (13) which extends between the low-pressure inlet and the suction chamber is provided within the pump member. The low-pressure inlet is connected to an electrically regulated pre-supply pump (10) which is permanently operated such that a low pressure is sure to be maintained in the suction chamber (6) of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Uwe Lingener
  • Patent number: 9062786
    Abstract: A relief valve for a compressor includes a valve body, a relief port, a cap and a cover. The relief port is formed in the end of the valve body and refrigerant gas is blown out through the relief port if pressure in the compressor is excessively increased. An engaging portion is formed in the cover so as to be engageable with the valve body such that the cover is prevented from moving relative to the valve body. With the cover is mounted on the valve body through the cap, the relief port is covered by the end of the cap, a first clearance is formed between the ends of the cap and the valve body so as to be in communication with the relief port, and a flowing passage for refrigerant gas blown out through the relief valve is formed from the relief port through the first clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Kenta Nishimura, Koji Ishii, Atsuo Sumi, Atsushi Shibata, Toru Mizutani, Terunao Kono
  • Patent number: 8967195
    Abstract: A pressure relief valve includes a housing including an inlet chamber adapted to be in communication with an outlet of a pump and an outlet chamber adapted to be in communication with a pump inlet. The housing includes a bore having a first end in communication with the inlet chamber and a main spill aperture in communication with the bore and the outlet chamber. A piston includes an orifice and an axially spaced apart aperture. The piston is axially moveable within the bore between a first position whereat the piston seals the inlet chamber from the outlet chamber, a second position whereat the inlet and outlet chambers are in fluid communication with one another via only the orifice, and a third position whereat the inlet and outlet chambers are in fluid communication with one another via the orifice and the aperture. A spring biases the piston toward the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Magra Powertrain of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Williamson, Karthikeyan Ganesan
  • Patent number: 8951021
    Abstract: An example dual pump/dual bypass fuel pumping assembly may include a dual bypass valve including a first inlet port, a second inlet port, and a movable spool arranged to modulate fuel flow from the first inlet port to a first bypass port and a first discharge port and arranged to modulate fuel flow from the second inlet port to a second bypass port and a second discharge port based on a position of the movable spool; a first pump arranged to supply fuel to the first inlet port; a second pump arranged to supply fuel to the second inlet port; a supply header arranged to supply fuel to the first pump and the second pump; a bypass header fluidicly coupled to the first bypass port, the second bypass port, and the supply header; and/or a discharge header fluidicly coupled to the first discharge port and the second discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Walter Decania Hutto, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150017029
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pressure overshooting prevention system for an electronic hydraulic pump in a hydraulic system, in which a flow rate command is added (+), a discharge flow rate is subtracted (?), a displacement flow rate (Delta Q) is calculated, a first pressure command corresponding to the displacement flow rate (Delta Q) is generated, a working fluid pressure value corresponding to the discharge flow rate is generated, a limit pressure command is generated to limit an increasing gradient of the working fluid pressure value, a stall is determined based on a first rate of change of the flow rate command, and a second rate of change of the discharge flow rate, and the limit pressure command is set to a second pressure command when the stall is determined, and a small value of the first pressure command and the second pressure command is selected as a final pressure command so as to control an electronic proportional control valve, thereby reducing overshooting of the electronic hydraulic pu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Woo Yong Jung
  • Patent number: 8920133
    Abstract: The invention discloses an adaptor (10,50) for an air compressor (11,51). Adaptor (10,50) includes a manifold (14,52) having an inlet (20,74) adapted to be connected to the air exhaust of at least one air tool device (34) having an air motor connected, in use, to the air compressor (11, 51). An outlet (12,54) is adapted to be connected, in use, to the air intake of the air compressor (11,51), an air inlet (16,70) is open to ambient air and a valve mechanism (33,66) is adapted to, in use, close the air inlet (16,70) when a first predetermined pressure is reached by the air compressor (11,51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ears Deutschland GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Christopher John Bosua
  • Publication number: 20140377081
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor for the oil and gas industry, the reciprocating compressor has a chamber, a timing valve, an actuator and a controller. A fluid entering the chamber via a suction valve is compressed inside the chamber, and evacuated from the chamber via a discharge valve. The timing valve is located between the chamber and a fluid volume at a relief pressure that is lower than a pressure in the chamber when the timing valve is opened. The actuator is configured to actuate the timing valve. The controller is configured to control the actuator such that to open the timing valve during an expansion phase of the compression cycle, and to close the timing valve when the relief pressure becomes equal to the pressure in the chamber or when the suction valve is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Riccardo Bagagli, Leonardo Tognarelli
  • Publication number: 20140286799
    Abstract: An air compressor assembly includes a cylinder housing, an outlet receptacle disposed on the cylinder housing, and a partition having an air passage formed between the cylinder housing and the outlet receptacle, and a piston slidably received in the cylinder housing for generating a pressurized air, the partition includes a channel communicating with the chamber of the cylinder housing, and the cylinder housing includes a compartment formed in a casing and communicating with the channel of the partition for partially receiving the pressurized air and for buffering purposes. A regulating valve is engaged in the casing for adjusting the volume of the compartment of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Wen San CHOU
  • Publication number: 20140255220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump, which comprises a pump body, a pair of check rings and a pneumatic control valve. When the pneumatic control valve is operated, a main shaft in the pump body is enabled to reciprocally move in a shaft hole, thereby enabling two diaphragms to be stretched and compressed at the same time for performing the compressing and the sucking stroke for the liquid; when subject to the hydraulic pressure, an arc-shaped convex ring of each of the check rings is deformed, and a contract ring is contracted for enclosing the main shaft thereby forming a liquid checking effect; when each of the check rings is not subject to the hydraulic pressure or the air pressure, the arc-shaped convex ring is not deformed thereby forming a slit between the contract ring and the main shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: DINO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Chou CHANG
  • Patent number: 8827659
    Abstract: In an oil supply apparatus, a valve body includes first and second radially protruding lands, and a small-diameter portion continuously connecting the first and second lands and having a diameter smaller than at least the outer diameter of the first and second lands. Rotational speeds of a rotor are set as first, second and third rotational ranges in the ascending order. In the first rotational range, work oil from a second discharge port is fed to a first oil passage via the small diameter portion. In the second rotational range, work oil from the second discharge port is fed to a return oil passage via the small diameter portion. In the third rotational range after the second oil passage is blocked relative to the return oil passage by the second land, work oil from the second discharge port is fed to the first oil passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshito Uno
  • Patent number: 8821132
    Abstract: Apparatus (1) for providing a supply of natural gas fuel comprising a compressor (2) having an inlet (3) for a stream of natural gas (4), wherein the inlet (3) may be placed in fluid communication with an LNG storage tank (5) in order to provide a supply of boil-off gas (6) from out of the LNG storage tank (5), and an outlet (7) which may be placed in fluid communication with a natural gas supply pipe (8), characterised in that the compressor (2) comprises a first and subsequently a second compression stage (9, 10), wherein the first and the second compression stage (9, 10) take the form of labyrinth-sealed piston-compressors (11, 12) or piston-ring-sealed piston-compressors (15), and wherein the first compression stage (9) features a larger piston diameter than the second compression stage (10), and that the compressor (2) comprises at least a third subsequent compression stage (13, 14), which takes the form of a piston-ring-sealed piston-compressor (11, 12) or a labyrinth-sealed piston-compressor (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Burckhardt Compression AG
    Inventor: Besim Fejzuli
  • Patent number: 8821134
    Abstract: A pump having a substantially cylindrical shape and defining a cavity formed by a side wall closed at both ends by end walls wherein the cavity contains a fluid is disclosed. The pump further comprises an actuator operatively associated with at least one of the end walls to cause an oscillatory motion of the driven end wall to generate displacement oscillations of the driven end wall within the cavity. The pump further comprises an isolator operatively associated with a peripheral portion of the driven end wall to reduce dampening of the displacement oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Technology Partnership Plc
    Inventor: Richard Janse Van Rensburg
  • Publication number: 20140244049
    Abstract: Detecting a failure mode of a fluid flow controller configured to control fluid flow between first and second chambers of a downhole positive displacement pump and a flow line, wherein the positive displacement pump comprises a piston moving in an axial reciprocating motion, and subsequently adjusting operation of the downhole positive displacement pump based on the detected failure mode such that the downhole positive displacement pump piston operates differently in different axial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Villareal, Julian J. Pop, Albert Hoefel, Kent David Harms
  • Publication number: 20140234132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump comprising a housing (2), comprising at least one pump chamber (15), comprising in inlet valve (30) that has a valve element (30a) which controls an inlet opening (30c), comprising an outlet valve (33) that has a valve element (33a) which controls an outlet opening (33c), comprising a pressure relief valve (43) that has a valve element (43a) which controls a pressure relief opening (43c) and on which a spring element (48) acts in the closing direction (31), and comprising a spring chamber (49), that receives the spring element (48) end that faces away from the closing direction resting against the stop element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: ALFMEIER PRAZISION AG BAUGRUPPEN UND SYSTEMLOSUNGEN
    Inventors: Erich Dörfler, Ronny Gehlmann
  • Patent number: 8801395
    Abstract: A twin screw compressor has a working chamber bypass that is used at start-up of the compressor. This system provides pressure relief by allowing oil or other fluid to pass through it. The bypass includes a fluid passage that extends from the working chamber to the discharge port with a one way valve disposed inside the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Gardner Denver, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Keene Heimonen
  • Patent number: 8790098
    Abstract: A compressor includes a housing, a first scroll member, a second scroll member and a valve assembly. The first scroll member is positioned within the housing and includes a first end plate portion and a second end plate portion coupled to the first end plate portion and having a first spiral wrap extending therefrom. The first end plate portion and the second end plate portion define a discharge passage. The second scroll member is positioned within the housing and includes a second spiral wrap meshingly engaged with the first spiral wrap. The valve assembly is supported by at least one of the first end plate portion and the second end plate portion at a location radially outward from the discharge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Stover, Masao Akei, Michael M. Perevozchikov
  • Patent number: 8784080
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump for a seat adjusting device comprises a diaphragm and a valve member which define a pump chamber therebetween. An inlet valve and an outlet valve are formed on the valve member. A pressure chamber is in fluid communication with the outlet valve and receives fluid discharged from the pump chamber via the outlet valve. One of the diaphragm and the valve member comprises a valve membrane of a pressure relief valve integrated in the pump. The valve membrane is integrally formed with the one of the diaphragm and the valve member. The valve membrane is moveable between a first configuration in which the valve membrane closes a pressure relief channel and a second configuration in which the valve membrane opens the pressure relief channel to allow fluid to be discharged from the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: L&P Swiss Holding AG
    Inventors: Erich Dörfler, Johannes Schwarz, Paul Tindall, Horia Blendea
  • Patent number: 8763634
    Abstract: A relief device includes a relief housing constituted by a relief inflow portion, a valve passage portion, a recess, and an oil discharge portion having a relief hole; a relief valve having a small-diameter portion between a first large-diameter portion and a second large-diameter portion; and a spring elastically biasing the relief valve toward the relief inflow portion. The recess is formed at a position that is closer to the relief inflow portion side than to the oil discharge portion, the axial length of the recess is larger than the axial length of the first large-diameter portion of the relief valve, and the shortest axial distance between the recess and the relief hole is less than the axial length of the small-diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Akaishi, Masataka Ikawa, Yasuhiro Ueta, Takuji Ishioka, Hidehiko Kamiyama, Takuya Yamazaki, Yoshiro Umezawa, Hirokazu Inoue, Yoshitaka Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20140161639
    Abstract: A pressure transducer, particularly to be installed in liquid pumping devices, comprising a cup-shaped container from the bottom of which a connector protrudes for connection to a pressurized duct; the connector and the bottom are traversed by a through hole for the passage of fluid inside the transducer to a pressure sensor; the transducer comprises elements for locking the pressure sensor in a single possible orientation inside the container and elements for preventing the extraction of the pressure sensor to from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: DAB PUMPS S.P.A.
    Inventors: STEFANO TAZIOLI, FRANCESCO SINICO
  • Publication number: 20140119956
    Abstract: A bypass directional control valve has a valve sleeve, and two sets of outlet ports on each of two axial sides of the inlet ports. The outlet and the inlet ports all are formed to be cylindrical holes, and a diameter of the inlet ports is greater than a diameter of the outlet ports. A valve sleeve, a spool, a fluid flow system and a method are all also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter M. Ballard, Richard H. Bostiga
  • Publication number: 20140109544
    Abstract: In one featured embodiment, a closure sleeve for a valve comprises a sleeve body surrounding a center axis and defined by an overall length extending from an upstream end to a downstream end. The sleeve body has an internal cavity that is enclosed at the downstream end and is open at the upstream end. The internal cavity is defined in part by a piston contact surface that is defined by an inner diameter. The piston contact surface is configured to slide against a piston to be received within the internal cavity, and a ratio of the inner diameter to the overall length is between 1.0 and 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Rickis, Francis P. Marocchini
  • Publication number: 20140099214
    Abstract: In a capacity control valve, a discharged-fluid-receiving part having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of a valve hole interconnecting a first valve chamber and a third valve chamber is provided to the outer periphery section of a third valve part. It is thereby possible to obtain a capacity control valve in which, when the first valve part opens, the discharged-fluid-receiving part receives the pressure of the discharged fluid, the actuation response of the valve body during an opening action is moderated, an excessive increase in the sensitivity to a rise in pressure in the crank chamber caused by a rapid increase in the amount of coolant flowing into the crank chamber is prevented, and the action of the valve body is stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Fukudome, Hideki Higashidouzono, Masayuki Futakuchi
  • Patent number: 8678780
    Abstract: A system for providing pressurized hydraulic fluid in a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a pump for providing pressurized hydraulic fluid having an inlet port and an outlet port. A bypass valve includes an inlet port in communication with the outlet port of the pump, a first outlet port in communication with the inlet port of the pump, and a second outlet port. The inlet port of the bypass valve is in communication with the second outlet port of the bypass valve when the bypass valve is in a first position and the inlet port of the bypass valve is in communication with the first outlet port of the bypass valve when the bypass valve is in a second position. A control device and accumulator are operatively associated with the bypass valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Dougan, Fredrick R. Poskie, Edwin T. Grochowski, Bret M. Olson, James W. Haynes
  • Publication number: 20140056731
    Abstract: A system for pressurizing a working fluid including a cylinder having an outlet through which the working fluid is exhausted at a discharge pressure and a plunger translatably disposed within the cylinder, the plunger including a first piston coupled thereto. In addition, the system includes a second piston disposed opposite the first piston, the second piston driven to reciprocate and a variable-volume chamber disposed between the first piston and the second piston, the variable-volume chamber substantially filled with a volume of hydraulic fluid. Further, the system includes a hydraulic system configured to adjust the volume of hydraulic fluid within the variable-volume chamber, whereby the discharge pressure is maintained substantially at a first predetermined level. Still further, the system includes a transducer coupled to each of the first piston and the second piston, wherein the transducer is configured to measure a relative position of the first piston and the second piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventor: Adrian MARICA