Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 9494188Abstract: A compliant fluid-film riding taper bearing is configured to include a rotor and a stator for supporting a rotating shaft. The rotor is configured as a rotating monotonously tapering body of revolution having an axis of symmetry and an external tapering surface. The stator has a longitudinal axis and an internal surface disposed in coaxial and conformal alignment with the external tapering surface. The stator is preloaded against the external tapering surface, and is pliantly supported to respond to a distribution of biasing forces and to permit matching elastic and resilient adaptation thereof conformal to deformation of the tapering rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: ETTEM ENGINEERING S.A. LTD.Inventor: Rammy A. Shellef
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Patent number: 9492859Abstract: Press systems for manufacturing hot formed structural components are provided. The systems comprise a fixed lower body, a mobile upper body and a mechanism configured to provide upwards and downwards press progression of the mobile upper body with respect to the fixed lower body. The system further includes a cooling tool configured to cool down a previously heated blank. The cooling tool includes upper and lower mating dies, the lower die connected to the lower body with one or more lower biasing elements and/or the upper die connected to the upper body with one or more upper biasing elements. The system further includes a press tool configured to draw the blank, wherein the press tool is arranged downstream from the cooling tool. Moreover, methods for hot forming structural components are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: AUTOTECH ENGINEERING A.I.E.Inventors: Ignacio Martin Gonzalez, Manuel López Lage, Pedro Raya Zamora, Anna Sunden, Daniel Berglund, Kenneth Isaksson, Sören Isaksson
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Patent number: 9494035Abstract: A fluid pressure pulse generator comprising a stator and rotor that can be used in measurement while drilling using mud pulse or pressure pulse telemetry is disclosed. The stator comprises a stator body with a circular opening therethrough and the rotor comprises a circular rotor body rotatably received in the circular opening of the stator body. One of the stator body or the rotor body comprises one or more than one fluid opening for flow of fluid therethrough and the other of the stator body or the rotor body comprises one or more than one full flow chamber. The rotor is rotatable between a full flow configuration whereby the full flow chamber and the fluid opening align so that fluid flows from the full flow chamber through the fluid opening, and a reduced flow configuration whereby the full flow chamber and the fluid opening are not aligned.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Evolution Engineering Inc.Inventors: Aaron W. Logan, David A. Switzer, Justin C. Logan, Jili Liu
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Patent number: 9494337Abstract: An apparatus for heating air comprising an elongate body adapted to receive, or integrally formed with, one or more electrical heating elements in thermal contact therewith, said body comprising a plurality of heat exchange fins defining a plurality of axially extending flow passages therebetween for heating air flowing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Munster Simms Engineering LimitedInventor: Christopher William Ragg
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Publication number: 20160326166Abstract: The present invention relates to ?-carboline, dihydro-?-carboline and tetrahydro-?-carboline alkaloid derivatives (I) and a method for preparing same and the use in the aspects of preventing and treating plant viruses, fungicides and insecticides. For the meaning of each group in formula (I) see the description. The ?-carboline, dihydro-?-carboline and tetrahydro-?-carboline alkaloid derivatives of the present invention show a particularly ourstanding anti-plant virus activity, and also have fungicidal and insecticidal activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: NANKAI UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL PESTICIDE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER (TIANJIN)Inventors: Qingmin Wang, Hongjian Song, Yongxian Liu, Yuxiu Liu
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Publication number: 20160325764Abstract: An anti-pollution-flashover locomotive roof composite insulator, comprising: a support body, and several groups of sheds arranged side by side along the axial direction that are set around the sidewall of the support body, wherein the sheds protrude out of the sidewall of the support body along the radial direction, the upper end of the uppermost shed is set with an upper metal fitting, and the lower end of the lowermost shed is set with a lower metal fitting. The creepage distance of the sheds between the upper metal fitting and the lower metal fitting is 1085 mm-1095 mm, and the arcing distance between the upper metal fitting and the lower metal fitting is 245 mm-255 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: BEIJING RAILWAY INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTDInventors: Sha LI, Guangdan LIU, Leren WANG, Xiaoqing SHEN, Jiangfeng LIU
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Publication number: 20160325746Abstract: A vehicle race track driving assistance system may include a location tracking system that tracks the location of the vehicle; a memory for holding race track data indicative of the shape and location of the race track, including a turn on the race track; a steering control system that controllably steers the vehicle; and a controller that causes the steering control system to controllably steer the vehicle into the turn on the race track when the location tracking system and race track data indicate that the vehicle is approaching the turn, the steering being in an amount that is insufficient to cause the vehicle to navigate through the turn without deviating from the race track.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Robert C. MacArthur
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Publication number: 20160325654Abstract: Embodiments of radiant barriers for vehicles are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a vehicle includes an interior cabin at least partially enclosed by a roof panel, a floor panel, and an engine compartment firewall, and a radiant barrier positioned within the interior cabin. The radiant barrier includes a first thermally reflective surface and a second thermally reflective surface opposite the first thermally reflective surface and separated from the first thermally reflective surface by a thickness t. The thickness t is constant along a length and a width of the radiant barrier. The radiant barrier at least partially thermally isolates the interior cabin from an external environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Robert Day
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Publication number: 20160325763Abstract: An interface breakdown-proof locomotive roof composite insulator. The composite insulator comprises: a support body; and at least five shed groups arranged side by side along the axial direction that are provided around the sidewall of the support body, the at least five shed groups includes: at least four shed groups located on the upper end with each group including a large shed and a small shed; and at least one shed group located on the undermost end with each group including two small sheds. For such a shed structure, it is favorable to tolerate impulse voltage, and it is difficult for the interface to be broken down; the electric field on the interface even does not exceed 3 kV/mm, and even if a gas exists on the interface, it will not break through the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: BEIJING RAILWAY INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTDInventors: Sha LI, Guangdan LIU, Leren WANG, Xiaoqing SHEN, Jiangfeng LIU
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Publication number: 20160329756Abstract: An axial flux stator includes a plurality of magnetically permeable members, a plurality of windings, a back iron, and an encasing. The plurality of windings is associated with the plurality of magnetically permeable members to produce a plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies. The back iron is mechanically butt joint coupled to the plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies. The encasing maintains the butt joint coupling of the back iron to the plurality of winding-magnetically permeable member assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.Inventors: Lester B. Ashe, Matthew S. Hanson
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Publication number: 20160324484Abstract: A sensor interface system for providing a connection between at least one sensor and a maternal-fetal monitor, wherein the interface system converts electrical muscle activity captured by the sensor(s) into uterine activity data signals for use by the maternal-fetal monitor. The sensor interface system of the invention preferably includes a conversion means for converting the signals from the sensor(s) into signals similar to those produced by a tocodynamometer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: Convergent Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Neil Russell Euliano, II, Dorothee Marossero, Shalom Darmanjian, Daniel Patrick McKenna
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Publication number: 20160326604Abstract: A method for operation of a blast furnace able to greatly reduce the CO2 emission and enabling stable production of pig iron over a long period of time in a commercial blast furnace, that is, a method for operation of a blast furnace in which iron ore and coke are charged from a furnace top and is blown in pulverized coal from a usual tuyere, comprising blowing in a gas containing at least one of hydrogen and hydrocarbon from the usual tuyere together with the pulverized coal and blowing a gas comprised of a top gas of the blast furnace from which carbon dioxide and steam is removed from a shaft tuyere into the blast furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, JFE STEEL CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanobu INADA, Hiroshi SAKAI, Yutaka UJISAWA
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Patent number: 9490649Abstract: A system and method to integrate a wireless charging apparatus and system into an existing or a standard wall electrical receptacle housing is disclosed. The system may utilize a transmitter that includes an antenna coupled with a controller that operates with a power converter for the wireless transmittal of an electrical signal to a receiver associated with an electrical device to be charged. An indicator may be illuminated or otherwise notify a user of the charging capability or status of the wireless charging apparatus of system. The wireless charging apparatus or system may also include a standard electrical socket for providing a wired electrical connection. A standard wall plate coupled with the wall electrical receptacle housing accommodates the transmitter and the electrical socket.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Alan Moore
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Patent number: 9487713Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a hydrocarbon oil, including performing a hydrocracking by continuously feeding, to a hydrocracking reactor containing a hydrocracking catalyst, a wax to be processed including: a raw wax containing 70% by mass or more of straight-chain hydrocarbons with a boiling point of higher than 360° C; and an uncracked wax containing 70% by mass or more of straight-chain hydrocarbons with a boiling point of higher than 360° C, which uncracked wax is separated from a hydrocracking product discharged from the reactor, to thereby yield a hydrocarbon oil including hydrocarbons with a boiling point of 360° C or lower.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignees: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, INPEX CORPORATION, JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION, JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., COSMO OIL CO., LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Marie Iwama, Kazuhiko Tasaka, Yuichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 9487415Abstract: A mobile mechanical vapor recompression evaporator system including a horizontal vapor separator and a horizontal forced circulation heat exchanger. The horizontal vapor separator can include a generally cylindrical housing configured in a generally horizontal orientation. The housing can include at least one product chamber having at least one product passage configured to receive at least one product. The housing further includes at least one vapor chamber having at least one vapor passage and at least one vapor window located between the at least one product chamber and the at least one vapor chamber, wherein a portion of the at least one product evaporates in the product chamber to produce a vapor that passes through the at least one vapor window into the at least one vapor chamber, and is discharged through the at least one vapor passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Caloris Engineering, LLCInventor: Artur G. Zimmer
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Patent number: 9487125Abstract: A system for notifying a third party as to whether a vehicle is producing or generating emissions. The system includes an internal combustion engine capable of producing exhaust gases, an exhaust pipe coupled to the internal combustion engine and for allowing passage of the exhaust gases and a sensor positioned within the exhaust pipe and configured to determine a characteristic of the exhaust gases. The system also includes a switch configured to activate and deactive a zero emissions mode, an electronic control unit (ECU) for determining whether emissions are present based on at least one of the characteristic of the exhaust gases or the zero emissions mode and an external light, controlled by the ECU, that is activated when no emissions are present.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Benjamin M. Geller
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Patent number: 9487714Abstract: This invention relates to a process involving hydrocracking of a feedstream in which a converted fraction can exhibit relatively high distillate product yields and maintained or improved distillate fuel properties, while an unconverted fraction can exhibit improved properties particularly useful in the lubricant area. In this hydrocracking process, it can be advantageous for the yield of converted/unconverted product for gasoline fuel application to be reduced or minimized, relative to converted distillate fuel and unconverted lubricant. Catalysts and conditions can be chosen to assist in attaining, or to optimize, desirable product yields and/or properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: William J. Novak, Robert Allen Bradway, Stuart S. Shih, Timothy Lee Hilbert, Michel Daage
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Patent number: 9487066Abstract: A door assembly for a vehicle is provided having a door positioned between a first pillar and a second pillar, the first pillar having a first surface, the second pillar having a second surface. A bar is contained within the door, the bar having a first end and a second end, the bar extending between the first pillar and the second pillar, the bar at least partially bowed as defined by a first position. In the event of a collision, the bar moves to a second position where the bar is extended, the second position further defined when the first end of the bar is in contact with the first surface and the second end of the bar is in contact with the second surface of the pillar thereby distributing the force to the first pillar and the second pillar.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Charles S. Hansen, Todd R. Muck
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Patent number: 9487071Abstract: A foldable tonneau cover for a pick-up truck is disclosed and has at least one clamp storage mechanism. Each of the clamp storage mechanism is provided with a cushion member mounted on a lower rigid cover of a frame section and over a distal end of a track rail. The cushion member has a storage notch for at least partially receiving a handle of a clamp assembly when the clamp assembly is shifted into a stored position. In the stored position, the handle is inclined in relation to the lower rigid cover, and the handle is located outside the track of the track rail. Thus, the convenience to manually operate the handle can be enhanced, the vibration during the pick-up truck is moving can be absorbed, the handle can be tightly positioned in the storage notch, and the entire strength of the lower rigid cover can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: CYC ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Shiawdar Shaun Yue
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Patent number: D771352Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Weadapt—Inclusive Design and Engineering Solutions LDAInventor: Miguel Angelo Fernandes Carvalho
