Combined Patents (Class 417/313)
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Publication number: 20130142676Abstract: Provided herein is a bladeless fan including a base and an blower. The base includes a rotating body configured to create the airflow and a fixed body installed below the rotating body and configured to drive the rotating body to horizontally rotate, the rotating body includes a rotation case being connected to the blower and having installed therein a turbine and a motor, the motor drives the turbine to rotate, an air suction hole is formed on the sidewall of the rotation case, the fixed body includes a fixation case and a synchronous driving mechanism configured to be fixed on the top of the fixation case and drive the rotation case to horizontally rotate, and a touch screen controlling device is installed in the fixation case.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Xiaomin Zou
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Publication number: 20130129533Abstract: A salt-spray protection structure for fan includes a frame, a hub, at least one protruded portion, and a stator assembly. The frame is internally provided with a base that internally defines a receiving space and has a bearing cup and at least one raised end formed thereon. The hub is mounted on the base, and one side of the hub facing toward the base has at least one open end. The protruded portion is selectively formed on one of the raised end of the base and the open end of the hub. The stator assembly is fitted around the bearing cup. The protruded portion works to scrape off salt grains that are attached to and accumulated on the hub or the base, allowing the fan to have extended service life.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventor: Guan-Chen Yin
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Publication number: 20130121854Abstract: A hydraulic pump arrangement (1), has a hydraulic pump (2) with two flow directions. The hydraulic pump (2) has a first hydraulic port (3) and a second hydraulic port 4. A first feed line (5) and a first discharge line (6) are, both connected to the first hydraulic port (3). A second feed line (7) and a second discharge line (8), are both connected to the second hydraulic port (4). A non-return valve (9, 10, 11, 12) is arranged in each feed line (5, 7) and in each discharge line (6, 8).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: GKN WALTERSCHEID GMBHInventor: GKN Walterscheid GmbH
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Publication number: 20130115115Abstract: High pressure pumps for injecting cement mixtures are provided. Such pumps are configured so that the frequency and costs of servicing are greatly reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: SOILMEC S.p.A.Inventor: SOILMEC S.p.A.
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Publication number: 20130108483Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a compressor (2); having a turbine (3); having a bearing housing (4) which is connected at one end to the compressor (2) and at the other, turbine-side end (5) to the turbine (3) and which has an oil collecting chamber (6) at the turbine-side end (5) and which has a plain bearing arrangement (7) for a rotor shaft (8), which plain bearing arrangement comprises a compressor-side bearing (9?) with an inner bearing surface and an outer circumferential surface, and comprises a turbine-side bearing (10?) which is spaced apart axially from the compressor-side bearing (9?) and which has an inner bearing surface (11) and an outer circumferential surface (12), wherein the compressor-side bearing (9?) and the turbine-side bearing (10?) are of different design.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: BORGWARNER INC.Inventors: Martin Becker, André Seiler
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Publication number: 20130098005Abstract: A delivery pump for delivering a fluid includes a delivery piston to be moved in a delivery direction from a pump inlet to a pump outlet. The delivery piston is supported in an axial bearing having a cooling device for cooling the axial bearing with the fluid. A metering device having the delivery pump and a motor vehicle having the metering device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: EMITEC GESELLSCHAFT FUER EMISSIONSTECHNOLOGIE MBHInventor: EMITEC GESELLSCHAFT FUER EMISSIONSTE
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Publication number: 20130094976Abstract: A water pump of an internal combustion engine, including a pump housing having a cylindrical portion constructed so as to surround an outer peripheral side of a drive shaft, the cylindrical portion being integrally formed of an aluminum-based metal material, and a stepped portion provided on the outer peripheral side of the cylindrical portion. A bearing is provided having an outer race fixed to a pulley and an inner race made of an iron-based metal material and fixed to an outer periphery of the cylindrical portion. Additionally, a shielding member is provided having an inner peripheral side sandwiched between the inner race and the stepped portion, an outer peripheral side having a plate shape and extending to side of the outer race, and an end-face seal structure portion formed of an elastic material and formed on at least one of opposite surfaces of the sandwiched inner peripheral side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130094977Abstract: The present invention concerns a pump that includes a drain path for a liquid and a drain unit configured to realize the suction of the liquid along the path. In accordance with the invention, the pump further comprises a containment chamber to contain the drained liquid, and one or more than one exiting conduits in fluid communication with the containment chamber. Moreover, one or more than one vertical conduits are provided that develop from the containment chamber upwards and in fluid communication with the containment chamber. In such a manner, the vertical conduits form with the exiting conduits, through the containment chamber, one or more than one vessels communicating one with the other in such a way that the liquid that is drained by the drain unit into the containment chamber re-ascends along the exiting conduits towards the level of liquid contained in the vertical conduits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: April 18, 2013Inventor: Giuseppe Masciarelli
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Publication number: 20130084196Abstract: An aggregate, in particular a hybrid engine, electrical power generator or compressor, comprises a housing in which are arranged a piston motor part and an electric motor part, wherein the piston motor part has a first piston with a first end face and at least one second piston with a second end face, wherein the first piston and the at least one second piston perform reciprocating motions, wherein between the first end face and the second end face is provided a working chamber for a working medium, which chamber is periodically reduced and enlarged because of the reciprocating motions of the pistons, and wherein the electric motor part has an annular rotor which can rotate in the housing about a rotation axis that is fixed relative to the housing. The rotor surrounds the piston motor part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventor: Herbert Huettlin
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Publication number: 20130078115Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and to a unit for drying and compressing a CO2-rich stream. The CO2-rich fluid is compressed in a compressor; upstream of the compression step, an antifreeze is mixed with the CO2-rich fluid containing water; the CO2-rich fluid containing the antifreeze is cooled, water is separated from the cooled fluid and the water-depleted cooled fluid is compressed in the compressor; and the CO2-rich fluid containing water is sent to a scrubbing column fed with a water/antifreeze mixture, where it cools and is separated from the water.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Philippe Court, Alain Briglia, Arthur Darde
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Publication number: 20130068345Abstract: A reciprocating compressor comprises a gas inlet section including an inlet gas meter for metering inlet gas from a high pressure storage vessel, a compressor, a valve control panel and storage, a pressure let down that depressurizes the high pressure gas from the high pressure storage vessel to the inlet of the compressor section, a heat exchanger having thermal storage media, and a dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Denis Ding, Mitchell Pratt
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Publication number: 20130064689Abstract: A compressor assembly having a tank seal which seals a tank gap between a portion of a housing of the compressor assembly and a portion of a compressed gas tank and a method for controlling the sound level of a compressor assembly by configuring a tank seal to seal a gap between the housing of a compressor assembly and a compressed gas tank. The sound level of the compressor assembly can be controlled by sealing a tank gap between at least a portion of a compressor assembly housing and at least a portion of a compressed gas tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Gary D. White, Dalton E. McFarland, Stephen J. Vos, Scott D. Craig
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Publication number: 20130064692Abstract: A pump cartridge for use in a hydraulic braking system includes a sleeve having an outer surface and an inner bore. A piston has a first portion that is coaxially received within the sleeve inner bore. A second portion of the piston extends from the sleeve and is configured to reciprocate the piston first portion relative to the sleeve in response to rotation of an eccentric. A retainer engages the sleeve and is configured to maintain the first portion of the piston within the sleeve inner bore. A filter assembly is formed as a separate component and has a bore configured to permit the piston second portion to extend through the filter bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: KELSEY-HAYES COMPANYInventor: James Sechler
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Patent number: 8393142Abstract: A reductant dosing manifold is disclosed. The reductant dosing manifold may have a housing with a pump interface configured to directly connect the reductant dosing manifold to a reductant pump, and a reductant supply passage in fluid communication with the pump interface. The housing may also have a reductant outlet port, and a pressurized reductant passage connecting the pump interface to the reductant outlet port.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Shashank Mupparapu, Raymond Upano Isada, Stephan D. Roozenboom, Michael R. Errera, Bryce L. Tiller
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Patent number: 8393876Abstract: A combined canned motor-pump operates directly in the process fluid without the need for shaft seals or buffer or lubricating fluids. The pump incorporates an integral gas-separating system that includes gas separating hydraulics and a flow path that returns the gas to the main gas/oil separator. The gas-separating system includes a pump inlet for accepting incoming multiphase flow, at least one blade rotatable about the axis of rotation, an open annulus region for separating gas from liquid in the multiphase flow, at least one radial hole in the shaft for directing separated gas to the axial hole, and a pump outlet for discharging liquid from the pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corp.Inventors: Donald P. Sloteman, Cliff H. Campen, Eric S. Conaway
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Publication number: 20130058803Abstract: A tower frame combined transmitting pumping unit without guiding wheels includes a tower frame, a powering system, a transmitting system, a controlling system, a balancing weight box, a weight hauling cable, a rope wheel, a driving rope and rope hangers. The rope wheel is fixed on a side of an operation platform through a rope wheel supporting device. A central axis line of the rope wheel is located within the operation platform. A wheel rim of the rope wheel extends beyond the operation platform and a minimum distance between a most external rim thereof. The weight hauling cable and the driving rope twine around the rope wheel reversely. A free end of the weight hauling cable is connected to the balancing weight box through a rope hanger A. A platform moving device is installed between the operation platform and a top of the tower frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventor: Hongwei Mao
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Patent number: 8388318Abstract: A heater is provided inside a hermetic compressor to heat the fluid in an oil sump of the compressor. The heater can be substantially submerged in the fluid even at low fluid levels. The heater can raise the temperature of the fluid to a predetermined temperature to substantially maintain non-lubricant fluids in a gaseous state and prevent non-lubricant fluids from mixing with the lubricant in the sump. A feed through assembly in the compressor housing is used to supply power to both the compressor motor and the heater.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Bristol Compressors International, Inc.Inventor: John W. Tolbert, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130052052Abstract: An inflating pump with auxiliary knotting functions for filling up air balloons has a cylinder, piston, actuating shaft, operating handle and outlet nozzle. The piston is set slidably into the actuating space of the cylinder. The inner end of the actuating shaft is linked to the piston, and the outer end protruded from one end of the cylinder. The operating handle is linked to the outer end of the actuating shaft. The outlet nozzle is set to connect with the actuating space of the cylinder. An auxiliary knotting portion is set with a spacing to the outlet nozzle and has a bulge and an internal flange formed at end of the bulge for knotting purposes. After the air balloon is filled up with air, the user could rewind the opening of the air balloon for auxiliary knotting by taking the bulge and internal flange as the guiding structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventor: Chia-Leh WANG
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Publication number: 20130052048Abstract: A personal fan generally comprises a source of electrical power such as, for example a power supply unit and a fan motor supported by an interposed arm. Where the fan motor has one or more blades that propel air towards the user. A battery housing that supports a cup or mug situated above it that serve as a beverage holder or holds snacks. The battery housing attached to an on and off switch that interrupts the fan's operation. The handle on the mug that may serve as a battery compartment and may stabilize the fan motor situated on the opposite side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventor: Joe R. Santos
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Publication number: 20130045119Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermally efficient refrigeration compressor, comprising a housing which surrounds the component parts of the compressor and a heat accumulating material occupying a volume internal (4, 7, 15, 18, 23, 27) or adjacent (9, 11, 30, 32, 37) to the compressor housing. Accordingly, the present invention takes advantage of the thermodynamics existing between the compressor and the refrigeration system, achieving a reduction of the internal temperatures reliably and efficiently and consequently improving the performance of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: WHIRLPOOL S.A.Inventors: Fernando Antonio Ribas Junior, Rodrigo Kremer
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Patent number: 8376717Abstract: A multi-stage compressor (1) for compressing gases with a low-pressure region (2) and a high-pressure region (5), wherein at least one rotary compressor (3) is provided in the low-pressure region (2), and at least one reciprocating piston compressor (6) with two cylinders (7) is provided in the high-pressure region (5), and wherein a common engine (4) is provided for driving the rotary compressor (3) and the reciprocating piston compressor (6), wherein the cylinders (7) are arranged to be rotated relative to each other by 180° in the high-pressure region (5).Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik AGInventor: Ernst Huttar
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Publication number: 20130036762Abstract: A scroll type device for operating on a fluid provided thereto that includes, as a unit, a housing with two interleaved scroll plates that are installed within such housing and that are operably movable relative to one another in an eccentric orbit, with such scroll plates including interleaved spiral projections, spiral projections include first and second portions, which portions will operate for expansion and the other of which portion will operate for compression as the unit operates in a given normal direction of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventors: Robert W. Shaffer, Bryce R. Shaffer
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Publication number: 20130039783Abstract: A fan has an electronically commutated external-rotor motor serving to drive it. The motor has an internal stator (20) having a stator lamination stack (64) and a winding arrangement (66; 164, 166, 168, 170) associated with said stack. The internal stator has a central opening (149) for journaling a shaft (42). The fan further has a permanent-magnet rotor (28) separated from the internal stator (20) by a magnetically effective air gap (99), which rotor is equipped on its outer side with fan blades (32) and comprises a shaft (42) journalled in the central opening (149) of the internal stator (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: EBM-PAPST ST. GEORGEN GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Thomas Wagner, Francisco Rojo
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Publication number: 20130039782Abstract: A gas separator having an improved flowpath for lighter fluids having a higher concentration of gas decreases total pumping head for an ESP assembly. The ESP assembly includes a rotary primary pump, a motor coupled to the primary pump for driving the pump, a seal assembly between the primary pump and the motor, and a gas separator between the seal assembly and the primary pump. An outlet of the gas separator feeds an intake of the primary pump, and a rotating shaft operationally couples the primary pump to the motor and passes through the seal assembly and the gas separator. The gas separator contains a venting portion, and a diverter positioned within the venting portion having diverter guide vanes formed in a flowpath of the lighter fluid for aiding in a directional change of fluid momentum. A slinger is positioned within the diverter for impelling fluid through the venting port.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Donn J. Brown, Brown Lyle Wilson
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Patent number: 8371825Abstract: A retrofit kit for an emergency eyewash station and method of retrofitting a plumbed emergency eyewash station is disclosed. The kit includes a sterile eyewash fluid source. A pump assembly having an input port and an output port is also included. The input port is configured to connect to a dispensing structure of a plumbed eyewash station and the output port is configured to connect to the sterile eyewash fluid source. A drive assembly is configured to drive the pump assembly to draw sterile eyewash fluid from the sterile eyewash fluid source and discharge it through the dispensing structure of the plumbed eyewash station. The eyewash fluid discharged from the dispensing structure is configured to drain through a discharge of the plumbed eyewash station and away from the plumbed eyewash station.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Sperian Eye & Face Protection, Inc.Inventors: Benoit Devinat, David J. Copeland, Michael C. Pereira
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Patent number: 8360740Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing defining a first cavity containing a pump, a second cavity containing a filter and a lumen configured to provide fluid communication between the first cavity and the second cavity. The housing has a first end portion configured to be disposed within a fluid reservoir and a second end portion including a flange configured to be disposed outside of and coupled to the fluid reservoir. A surface of the first end portion defines a first opening in fluid communication with the first cavity. A surface of the second end portion defines a second opening in fluid communication with the second cavity. A cover is configured to be removably coupled to the second end portion of the housing about the second opening such that the filter can be removed from the second cavity when the flange is coupled to the fluid reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Synerject, LLCInventors: Kevin L. Leppert, Jason D. Keown
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Publication number: 20130022477Abstract: A turbine system comprises a rotor operatively coupled to a plurality of blades, at least one blade of the plurality of blades having one or more blown passages for providing a pressurized fluid to a pressure side and/or suction side of the at least one blade. The rotor is selectively or simultaneously coupled to a compressor and a power generator. In some situations, the rotor is selectively coupled to one of the power generator and the compressor with the aid of a clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Caitin, Inc.Inventor: Paul Lees
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Patent number: 8356804Abstract: Humidifying apparatus includes a humidifier for emitting moist air into an external environment, and a fan assembly for generating an air current within the external environment for conveying the emitted moist air away from the humidifier. The fan assembly includes a device for creating an air flow and a nozzle comprising an interior passage for receiving the air flow and a mouth for emitting the air flow. The humidifier is located behind nozzle, the nozzle extending about and defining an opening through which both air from outside the nozzle and the moist air emitted from the humidifier are drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Nicholas Gerald Fitton, John Scott Sutton, Peter David Gammack, James Dyson
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Patent number: 8353681Abstract: A compressor, such as an air-conditioning compressor for motor vehicles, particularly with a drive which has an adjustable swept volume, for the intake and compression of a refrigerant and a lubricant separator, which separates lubricant from the refrigerant, in particular, in the discharge pressure region of the compressor. The lubricant is introduced to the drive by a partial flow branching off from the high pressure refrigerant flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Luk Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jan Hinrichs, Thomas Di Vito
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Patent number: 8333816Abstract: A ventilation device uses a cross-flow fan and one or more filters, where the filter preferably has a J-shape that at least partially surrounds the rotor of the cross-flow fan. In one embodiment, the filter includes a plurality of pleats, preferably along a bottom surface of the filter. The filters preferably remove particles, undesired gases, and micro-organisms. A filtration and ventilation system with at least one first ventilation device and at least one second ventilation device larger than the first ventilation device, as well as a method of filtering contaminants out of air using a personal ventilation device, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Propulsive Wing LLCInventors: Joseph Kummer, Jimmie B. Allred, III
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Publication number: 20120315161Abstract: A portable mechanical fan device comprises a spring loaded hand grip, one or more hand grip springs, a saw-tooth drive plate, upper and lower drive gears, a fan blade gear, a fan blade shaft and fan blades. The saw-tooth drive plate is attached to the top of the spring loaded hand grip. Squeezing the spring loaded hand grip by a hand drives the saw-tooth drive plate against the lower drive gear which in turn drives the upper drive gear forward to be meshed against the fan blade gear and causes the upper drive gear and the fan blade gear to rotate. Releasing the spring loaded hand grip allows the upper drive gear and the fan blade gear to be unmeshed and continue rotating. The fan blade gear is attached to the fan blade shaft to allow for continuous rotation of the fan blades through the squeezing and releasing of the spring loaded hand grip to create a cooling breeze.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventor: Lawrence Edward THOMASSON
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Publication number: 20120301330Abstract: A fluid machine includes a lubrication mechanism (70, 72) configured to utilize a rotary shaft (14) to supply lubricating oil stored in an inside bottom (2a) of a hermetic container (2) to an upper region in the hermetic container, a frame (36) secured to the hermetic container and disposed in contact with an upper surface (16a) of a cylinder block (16) to support a driven unit (6), the frame having an upper surface (38a) onto which the lubricating oil supplied to the upper region in the hermetic container flows down, a connecting rod (20) arranged under the frame and coupling the rotary shaft to a piston (18), a piston pin (66) coupling the connecting rod to the piston, a first oil feed hole (78) formed through the frame and the cylinder block, and a second oil feed hole (80) formed through the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventor: Teruo Higuchi
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Publication number: 20120275936Abstract: An air compressor comprises a compressing device driven by a motor, a heat exchanger cooling the first air compressed by the compressing device by the second air blowing from a blower, an intake path through which the first air sucked by the compressing device flows, a discharge path through which the second air blown by the blower and heated by the heat exchanger flows, and a dehumidifying rotor that carries an adsorbent adsorbing moisture from the first air, the moisture being removed by the second air to restore the adsorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: Tamotsu Fujioka
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Patent number: 8297944Abstract: An air compressing device includes a piston slidably engaged in a cylinder housing and driven by a motor to generate a pressurized air, the cylinder housing includes an outlet tube, and an outlet port extended from the outlet tube, and an anchor plate extended from the outlet port, and a facility includes a coupler for engaging with the outlet port and the anchor plate and for quickly and detachably securing the coupler and the facility to the outlet port of the outlet tube and for allowing the pressurized air to be supplied to the facility. The facility is selected from a hose, a relief valve, a pressure gauge, or a cover, and the coupler includes a C-shaped structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Inventor: Wen San Chou
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Publication number: 20120263608Abstract: A pump casing has a metallic band that defines a sidewall of the pump casing and having at least one tab projecting from a surface thereof or at least one opening. The pump casing also has first and second plates disposed opposite one another, with the metallic band being disposed there between, and with the first and second plates and the metallic band jointly defining a chamber of the pump casing. At least one of the first or second plates includes at least one tab or at least one opening respectively cooperating with the at least one opening or the at least one tab of the metallic band so as to retain a formed shape of the metallic band in the pump. The at least one opening may, for example, be a slot in the at least one of the first or second plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: THERMO NESLAB INC.Inventors: Randall D. Dickinson, Nathan Norman Lang, Don Enos
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Publication number: 20120260990Abstract: The present invention is centralizing vertical flow cage attachable to a subsurface pump in a downhole recovery application, and method of use. In one embodiment, the vertical flow cage is defined as comprising a hollowed, centralizing cone portion having at least one spiral vein formed in the cone's surface. In another embodiment, the centralizing cone includes a ledge having at least one discharge hole disposed thereon, with each discharge hole being selectively located above each vein. Each discharge hole is formed through the centralizing cone so that each hole formed is in fluid communication with the hollow interior portion of the centralizing cone. In this regard, during the pump process upstroke, any fluid below and outside of the centralizing cone will be forced vertically upwards through each vein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: KLM Specialties LLCInventor: Curtis Allen
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Publication number: 20120257987Abstract: A storage method of a cryopump is provided, the storage method including: closing, with a pump cover, a pump inlet in the cryopump for receiving gases to be pumped by the cryopump; and reducing a pressure in the cryopump through a fluid channel for communicating an interior of the cryopump to an exterior of the cryopump. A start-up method of a cryopump is also provided, the start-up method including releasing a negative pressure in the cryopump by removing a closing member from a cover main body of a pump cover mounted to the cryopump.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Hidekazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8277653Abstract: A power recovery chamber is used for a positive-displacement power recovery apparatus in the seawater desalination plant or system. The power recovery chamber includes a cylinder, a piston disposed in the cylinder and capable of being reciprocated in a longitudinal direction of the cylinder, and a piston guide disposed in the cylinder and extending in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder for guiding the piston when the piston is reciprocated in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder. At least a part of an outer circumferential surface of the piston is out of contact with an inner surface of the cylinder, and the piston is brought into contact with the piston guide at a part where the piston guide passes through the piston.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Masao Shinoda, Kenichi Hoshino, Akira Goto, Hideki Kanno
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Publication number: 20120244020Abstract: A pump system configured to deliver drilling fluid in at least one of a driving well and a drilling well includes a pump unit, a rotary drive device configured to drive the pump unit, and a gearbox comprising a driving gear and an driven gear. The rotary drive device is operatively connected to the pump unit by the gearbox.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: AKER WIRTH GMBHInventor: ALBRECHT HEINRICHS
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Publication number: 20120237371Abstract: [Object of the Invention]An object of the present invention is to provide a reciprocation compressor comprising an extraction passage connecting a crank chamber with an inlet chamber, an aperture disposed in the extraction passage and a filter capturing foreign matters flowing from the crank chamber to the inlet chamber, wherein the foreign matters captured by the filter is restrained from returning to the crank chamber even if reverse flow of refrigerant from the inlet chamber to the crank chamber is generated, and the filter does not restrict design specifications of other members of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventor: Yukihiko Taguchi
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Publication number: 20120211093Abstract: Pumps are disclosed that include a pump housing and at least one movable pumping element situated in the housing. The pumping element(s) are magnetically driven by magnetically coupling an external magnet driver (e.g., a stator) to a driven magnet located in the housing. A control circuit selectively operates the stator and a heat-producing element, so as to energize the heat-producing element especially in a potential freezing condition when the pump is not being otherwise operated. Thus, the fluid in the pump is prevented from freezing, and freeze-related pump damage is avoided. The heat-producing element can be the stator itself energized differently from when the stator is used for driving the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventor: David J. Grimes
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Publication number: 20120213648Abstract: A compressor compressing a fluid including lubricating oil includes, on the discharge side thereof, a first separation chamber for separating the lubricating oil by generating a swirling flow in the fluid. The first separation chamber includes: a circumferential wall; an inflow port that is formed in the circumferential wall and causes the fluid to flow into the first separation chamber; and a guiding plate extending from the circumferential wall. The guiding plate extends so as to face the inflow port in a direction where the fluid flows from the inflow port into the first separation chamber, and so as to deflect the fluid flow from the inflow port to guide it along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Akihiro NAKASHIMA, Shinichi SATO, Akio SAIKI, Kazuo KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8246318Abstract: Provided is a water-cooled air compressor which is capable of restraining lowering of the performance of a plate type compressor for heat-exchanging compressed air from a compressor body, with cooling water due to clogging of gaps between plates in the heat-exchanger by dust or the like, incorporating a first solenoid valve and a second solenoid valve connected respectively in a cooling water supply pipe line and a cooling water discharge pipe line of the heat-exchanger, an air feed pipe line connecting between a compressed air supply pipe line on the outlet side of the heat-exchanger and the cooling water discharge pipe line, a third solenoid valve and a check valve connected in the air feed pipe line, a discharge pipe line connected in a discharge pipe line 18 so as to branch therefrom, a fourth solenoid valve connected in the discharge pipe line, and a control device for controlling opening and closing of the first to fourth solenoid valves.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideharu Tanaka, Masahiko Takano, Akihiro Nagasaka
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Patent number: 8245890Abstract: An intake nozzle for the inlet pipe of a pump has a vertical duct with a downwardly facing mouth and a surrounding disk shaped intake portion with a bottom surface which faces a flat surface such as a floor or tank bottom to take liquid from the floor down to a shallow depth. The bottom surface is shaped with a flat outer part and an upwardly and inwardly curved inner part converging to the mouth. The surface is shaped and spaced from the flat surface with annular areas defined therebetween so that the liquid enters the peripheral edge slowly and accelerates up to an inner edge of the flat portion and then remains at constant velocity from the inner edge of the flat portion through the mouth and the pipe to the intake of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Inventor: Edward John Koch
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Patent number: 8246330Abstract: The invention relates to an air compressor having a catalyst that is disposed in a reception block. The reception block is interposed between a valve block and a cylinder cover, comprises an inlet port in the region of a valve block outlet port, and an outlet port in the region of a cylinder head inlet port, so the compressed air exiting the valve block outlet port flows through said catalyst and through the outlet port into the cylinder cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignees: Wabco Fahrzeugsysteme GmbH, Beko Technologies GmbHInventors: Dogan Ay, Steffen Jordan, Ingo Stumberg, Herbert Schlensker
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Publication number: 20120205964Abstract: A cutter head segment for use at the front of a train of conveyor segments for high wall mining includes at least one fluid transporter connected to a fluid distribution chamber. A pump segment for use in a train of conveyor segments for high wall mining as a segment following the cutter head segment is provided with a second fluid transporter and at least one front connector and at least one rear connector for connecting the second fluid transporter to adjacent fluid transporters. An assembly includes a cutter head segment and a pump segment, and a train of conveyor segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: CATERPILLAR GLOBAL MINING HIGHWALL MINERS LLCInventors: Cornelis Wilhelm In't Hout, Robert Th. Stein
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Patent number: 8241012Abstract: In a structure for mounting a filter in a compressor, a mounting member is connected to the filter. A receiving hole is formed in a housing of the compressor for receiving therein the mounting member. A first fitting portion is formed on an inner circumferential surface of a holding portion of the filter. A second fitting portion is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the mounting member for having fitting relation to the first fitting portion for an overlap distance in a radial direction of the receiving hole. When the mounting member is received in the receiving hole with the fitting relation, the filter is disposed in a fluid passage of the housing. A clearance having a dimension is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the holding portion and an inner circumferential surface of the receiving hole. Minimum value of the dimension is smaller than the overlap distance.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Hiroyuki Nakaima, Yoichi Takashima, Kazuya Shinmyo, Atsuo Sakagami, Masaya Sakamoto, Satoshi Umemura, Naoki Koeda, Yuji Hashimoto, Hisaya Kondo
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Publication number: 20120192969Abstract: A flow sensor includes a fluid chamber configured to receive a fluid. A diaphragm assembly is configured to be displaced whenever the fluid within the fluid chamber is displaced. A transducer assembly is configured to monitor the displacement of the diaphragm assembly and generate a signal based, at least in part, upon the quantity of fluid displaced within the fluid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Russell H. Beavis, Benjamin W. Jones, JR., John M. Kerwin, Larry B. Gray, Casey P. Manning, Felix Winkler, Robert A. Charles
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Publication number: 20120195771Abstract: The present invention addresses the need for a water pump that may be constructed from inexpensive materials available even in impoverished areas. The pump uses a simple rocking motion to pump water and can pump significant amounts of water from sources that otherwise could not be reached. In a preferred embodiment, the pump comprises three concrete chambers, a pumping platform adapted to rock in a see-saw fashion, and a plurality of valves to control the flow of water. The first two chambers contain diaphragms that, as a result of rocking the pumping platform, draw liquid into the chambers and force liquid from those chambers into the third chamber. Two valves selectively permit liquid to be drawn into the first and second chambers, and prevent the liquid from exiting the chambers and returning to the source. Third and fourth valves allow liquid to flow from the first and second chambers into the third chamber, and prevent the liquid in the third chamber from flowing back into the first or second chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: THE FULL BELLY PROJECTInventor: Joost Brender a Brandis
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Patent number: 8215922Abstract: An invention is claimed that enables the pumping of compressible fluids at high pressures when an accurate flow is desired. Two pressure sources, for example pumps plumbed in series, separate thermodynamic work, such as pressurization, at the first pressure source from a volumetric or matter metering function in the second pressure source. One example is a flowstream delivery for a chemical instrumentation system that is manufactured from relatively unsophisticated pumps yet delivers precise flows with low pulsation (<1%) over pressures greater than 100 bar. An advantage of one embodiment allows the economical conversion of typical HPLC systems to state of-the-art supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) systems with minimal modification to system components.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Aurora SFC Systems, Inc.Inventors: Terry A. Berger, Kimber D. Fogelman, Edwin E. Wikfors, L. Thomson Staats, III, Samuel O. Colgate, Michael A. Casale