Patents Assigned to Atlas Copco Airpower, naamloze vennootschap
  • Publication number: 20210170325
    Abstract: A method for regulating the regeneration time of an adsorption dryer, the method including the steps of: subjecting the adsorption dryer to an adsorption cycle; stopping the adsorption cycle after a preset adsorption time interval; and subsequently subjecting the adsorption dryer to a first regeneration cycle during a preset time interval. The method further includes maintaining the first regeneration cycle for an additional regeneration time interval if the measured pressure dew point or relative humidity is higher than a predetermined pressure dew point or relative humidity threshold; and/or stopping the first regeneration cycle if the outlet temperature is higher than or equal to a predetermined temperature threshold, and, if the time frame in which the adsorption dryer is subjected to the first regeneration cycle is greater than a minimum heat regeneration time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Hans Maria Karel HERMANS
  • Publication number: 20210172436
    Abstract: A compressor or pump, including at least one compressor or pump element for pressurised supply of a fluid to a network of consumers of such pressurised fluid; a motor coupled with the compressor or pump element. The compressor or pump is equipped with a control having a basic control for the nominal regulation of one or more control parameters (Q, pw) as a function of a desired, set working point of the compressor within the nominal set working range of the compressor or pump, set during design. The control is further provided with an additional control function for static or dynamic adjustment of the working range limit values. The nominal control range of one or more control parameters is adjusted as a function of the actual working conditions of the compressor or pump that deviate from the nominal working conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Ivo DANIELS, Antoon STUER
  • Publication number: 20210155403
    Abstract: A canopy for a compressor or generator installation comprising a chassis (2) with—a base plate (3) comprising a body with a mounting surface bounded by a polygonal peripheral edge (4); and—a mounting frame (5) containing this base plate (3) and going around the peripheral edge (4); whereby the canopy (1) further comprises a number of corner stays (6), whereby each corner stay (6) is provided with a mounting end which is configured to be mounted onto the chassis (2), whereby at each corner of the peripheral edge (4), at least one corner stay (6) is mounted with its mounting end onto the chassis (2), whereby each corner stay (6) in a mounted state extends from the mounting surface of the base plate (3) in a direction essentially perpendicular to the mounting surface and outwards from the body of the base plate (3), and whereby each corner stay (6) in a mounted state has a free end which is opposite to the mounting end of this corner stay (6) and which is not mounted onto the mounting surface; and whereby the ca
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, naamloze vennootschap
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien Laura MARTENS, Yanni Francine DOLLEZ, Walter Josée Louis ADRIAENSSENS, Steven Ray Maurits LAURENT
  • Patent number: 11015647
    Abstract: A device includes a bearing-in-bearing with an inner ring, an intermediate ring and an outer ring. Between the inner ring and the intermediate ring and between the intermediate ring and the outer ring, inner roller elements, and outer roller elements, are attached, respectively. The bearing-in-bearing is attached between two components that can rotate in relation to each other, a shaft and a housing, of which one component is or can be connected to a drive. A transmission is provided between the intermediate ring and the driven component in order to drive the intermediate ring. The transmission is a contactless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Bjorn Verrelst, Hans Meeus
  • Patent number: 11015602
    Abstract: Screw compressor with a compression chamber that is formed by a compression housing, in which a pair of meshed helical compressor rotors in the form of a screw are rotatably mounted and with a drive motor that is provided with a motor chamber formed by a motor housing, in which a motor shaft is rotatably mounted. The motor shaft drives at least one of the aforementioned two compressor rotors, where the compression housing and the motor housing are connected directly together to form a compressor housing, where the rotor shafts of the compressor rotors, as well as the motor shaft, extend along axial directions that are oblique or transverse to the horizontal plane. The motor chamber and the compression chamber have the same or similar pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Andries Jan F. Desiron
  • Publication number: 20210146290
    Abstract: A filter assembly including a housing (15) and a filter cartridge (10). The housing has a housing inlet (16) and a housing outlet (17). The filter cartridge (10) has a filter inlet (11) fluidly connected to the housing inlet (16) and a filter element (12) between a top cap (18) and a bottom cap (19). The top cap (18) and the bottom cap (19) create a circular guiding system. The bottom cap (19) has a first part (19a) that receives the filter element (12) and a second part (19b) that is connected with a mating surface (20) of the housing. The second part has a first circular section (21a) and a second section (21b) and the first section has another shape than the second section (21b), such that the bottom cap (19) cannot rotate in relation to the mating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien Laura MARTENS, Steven Maurits Ray LAURENT, Joris Anna L. VLEESCHOUWER
  • Publication number: 20210138384
    Abstract: A flush valve, a dust collector provided with such a flush valve and a dust collection system, are disclosed. The flush valve includes a valve body and a valve spool. The valve body is internally provided with a fluid passageway. The valve body is provided with an inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet. The first outlet is fluidly connected to a device to be flushed. The valve spool includes a movable part, a fixed part and an elastic part, the fixed part being provided in the valve body, and the elastic part elastically connecting said fixed part to the movable part. One end of the movable part being provided with a first spool land for blocking the first outlet. The first spool land being configured to be pushed away from said first outlet by fluid in the fluid passageway when the pressure drops due to blockage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Prashant K. RAJPUT, Vishal Krishnarao PATIL, Vijay Sohanlal SHARMA, Srinivasan Venkataramani ARJUNE
  • Patent number: 10982749
    Abstract: Method for installing a transmission between a drive with a driveshaft and a load with a driven shaft, whereby this transmission includes a housing and at least a drive gear and a driven gear, wherein the method consists of first affixing the transmission over the driveshaft and fastening the housing of the transmission to the housing of the drive and then affixing a shaft seal over the driveshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Stephan Willem Van Praet
  • Publication number: 20210106945
    Abstract: An adsorption device for compressed gas, is provided with a vessel with an inlet for the supply of a compressed gas to be treated, and an outlet for treated gas and an adsorption element is affixed in the vessel. The adsorption element extends along the flow direction of the compressed gas to be treated, between the inlet and the outlet. The adsorption element has a monolithic supporting structure that is at least partially provided with a coating that contains an adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Carlo Lambert J. LAMMERS, Hans HERMANS, Geert VAN ROMPAEY
  • Publication number: 20210102554
    Abstract: A multi-stage compressor unit including at least a first compressor stage including a first compressor element driven through a first gear-transmission and a second compressor stage including a second compressor element driven through a separate second gear-transmission. The first and second gear transmissions include a driving gear and a driven gear configured to be a multiplier, each of the driven gears is connected to a shaft of a rotor of the first compressor element or second compressor element respectively, where the first motor and the second motor re adapted to drive the first compressor stage and the second compressor stage separately. The gear ratio between the driven gear and the driving gear of either one of the first gear transmission and second gear transmission is situated between two and six.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Thomas Willem I. DE BONTRIDDER
  • Publication number: 20210095668
    Abstract: Fluid-injected compressor installation (1) which is provided with: a screw compressor (2) with a compression housing (4) in which a pair of compressor rotors (6a, 6b) are mounted; a drive motor (3) with a motor housing (9) in which a motor shaft (11) is mounted which drives the compressor rotors (6a, 6b); an inlet (7) and an outlet (8) on the screw compressor (2) for the supply of a gas and for the discharge of compressed gas; with the compression housing (4) and the motor housing (9) being directly joined to each other; characterised in that the compressor installation (1) is provided with: a gear transmission (20) between the shaft (16) of one of the compressor rotors (6a, 6b) and the motor shaft (11), consisting of a driven gear (18) and a driving gear (19); a motor bearing (21) on the motor shaft (11) next to the driving gear (19), and a dynamic seal (25) next to the aforementioned motor bearing (21), on the drive motor (3) side, such that the motor bearing (21) is between the driving gear (19) and t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien Laura MARTENS, Cornelis Theodorus PHILIPPI
  • Patent number: 10965197
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for composing a sleeve assembly suitable for use in containment purposes in high-speed machine that are subjected to high operational temperatures. The method has the steps of providing a composite sleeve and winding at least two layers of woven fabric on top of the composite sleeve and each other, where the woven fabric is impregnated with a thermoset resin. The method additionally has the step of optionally winding a perforated layer on top of an outermost layer of the layers of woven fabric to remove excess resin when the woven fabric is wound over the composite sleeve. The method also includes the steps of wrapping an absorption layer over the composite sleeve for absorbing the excess resin, curing the thermoset resin, and removing the absorption layer and the perforated layer after the curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Aleksandr Pulnikov
  • Patent number: 10935016
    Abstract: Method for protecting an electric motor of a motor driven consumer equipped with a controller for controlling the capacity or the power of the consumer, comprises the following steps: the determination of the thermal condition of the motor by direct measurement on the motor; and the limitation of the maximum capacity or the maximum power of the consumer as a function of the aforementioned determined thermal condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Karel De Keyser
  • Patent number: 10935073
    Abstract: A bearing damper element includes a ring mounted between a rotating object and a supporting object which supports the ring. The ring includes at least three slits through the thickness of the ring in the axial direction and at a distance of the radial inner and outer surface of the ring. At least half of the slits have one or more damping parts with a maximum width of 0.5 millimeters, whereby the damping parts are concentric and do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Bjorn Verrelst, Hans Meeus, Guido Jan Bal, Koen Lea F. Peeters
  • Patent number: 10935579
    Abstract: A current sensor including a housing, the housing including a first module adapted to be clamped around a wire part of a power cable; a second module having a processing unit and a communication unit; the first module further including a device to measure the current through the wire of said power cable and to send the measured current to the processing unit through a first communication link. The processing unit includes a first time tracker; where the processing unit further includes software/hardware to increment the first time tracker if the measured current is above a first predetermined threshold and in that the communication unit includes a GSM module adapted to wirelessly transmit the value of the first time tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Damien Franck Hoyen, Tom Corneel Elise Bierhuys
  • Patent number: 10933505
    Abstract: An arrangement arranged to enclose a circuit board comprising electronic components is described. The arrangement comprises a structure designed to receive the circuit board and the electronic components, a housing designed to receive the structure, a cover designed to be connected to the housing, and an electric socket adapted to provide the circuit board with electricity. The electric socket is comprised in at least one of the housing or the cover. The arrangement is arranged to enclose the circuit board by the housing and the cover, wherein the structure is designed to be releasable and at least partly bear against the circuit board and the electronic components. A tool comprising an arrangement is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Per-Anders Karlsson, Magnus Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20210054838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a minimum pressure valve (10) comprising a housing (17) with the valve inlet (11) and the valve outlet (12) connected with each other by means of a chamber and connecting space (22a, 22b), the minimum pressure valve (10) also comprising a valve body (21) set up in a chamber (20) moveably between a closed position in which the valve inlet (11) is closed and an open position in which the valve inlet (11) is open, the minimum pressure valve (10) also comprising components which are provided with a seal and/or sliding parts (24, 26, 30), whereby a subassembly (22) of the minimum pressure valve (10) can be disassembled and/or assembled through an opening (31) in the housing (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Kristof Adrien MARTENS, Pieter DE SCHAMPHELAERE
  • Publication number: 20210054836
    Abstract: A method for actuating a compressor system in order to set a measured operating pressure, which serves as a measure for the operating pressure that the compressor system supplies to a user network at a flow rate demanded by a user network, to a desired operating pressure . The compressor system includes a compressor element with an inlet and an outlet, and where the compressor element is driven by a drive, where the compressor system is provided with a way for throttling the inlet of the compressor element. As long as an operating pressure, selected from the measured operating pressure and the desired operating pressure, is higher than the without the way for throttling the inlet maximum obtainable operating pressure for the compressor system, the inlet is throttled by the way for throttling the inlet for at least a specific percentage greater than zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Guy L.A. SNELS
  • Patent number: 10927836
    Abstract: Method for cooling a liquid-injected compressor element, where a liquid is injected in the compression chamber of the compressor element (2) via an injection valve (13). The method includes the step of adjusting the quantity of liquid which is injected in the compression chamber of this compressor element (2) as a function of a specific adjusting parameter, irrespective of any other possible adjustments. The quantity of liquid to be injected is adjusted by using a second injection valve (19), which has the shape of an adjustable valve to this end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Kristof Adrien Laura Martens
  • Patent number: 10920777
    Abstract: A Method for controlling the liquid injection of a compressor device or expander device. This compressor device includes at least one compressor element or expander element, whereby the element comprises a housing that comprises a rotor chamber in which at least one rotor is rotatably affixed by means of bearings, whereby liquid is injected into the element. The method comprises the step of providing two independent separated liquid supplies to the element, whereby one liquid supply is injected into the rotor chamber and the other liquid supply is injected at the location of the bearings. The separated liquid supplies are realised by means of a modular channelling piece of an injection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Sofie Deprez, Christian Schmitz, Johan Julia J. Dom, Aleksandr Pulnikov, Benjamin Moens