Patents Assigned to Xylem IP Holdings LLC.
  • Patent number: 11273393
    Abstract: The present invention features a device having a strainer cover assembly having a strainer cover with tab openings, and a strainer housing having flexible tabs arranged thereon, the flexible tabs passing through the tab openings and fastening on the strainer cover with a snap action. The flexible tabs are deflected for removing the strainer cover. The strainer cover assembly includes a strainer with a screen for filtering a medium passing through the device. The snap action of the flexible tabs makes it easy to open, slide out and clean the screen on the strainer cover assembly. The strainer cover assembly and the screen may be formed as an integral unit, which helps in cleaning the screen. In operation, the user simply compresses the snap tabs and slides out the screen which is attached to the strainer cover assembly and rinses the contaminated screen while holding it by the strainer cover assembly. The integral unit being formed by plastic mold injection. The screen may be made of stainless steel material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Ashfaq Mir
  • Patent number: 10558512
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided having a signal processor or signal processing module configured to receive signaling containing information about the quality of water in a ballast water tank recirculation treatment system, e.g., in a vessel, boat or ship; and determine information about a variable fluorescence treatment to the water in the ballast water tank recirculation treatment system, based at least partly on the signaling received, as well as provide corresponding signaling containing information about the variable fluorescence treatment. The apparatus may include a variable fluorescence device configured to receive the corresponding signaling and provide the variable fluorescence treatment, including providing ultraviolet (UV) light to the water in the ballast water tank recirculation treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: David S. Palmer, Robert M. Ellison
  • Patent number: 9682873
    Abstract: A UV lamp module having a frame and at least two lamp units, wherein each lamp unit includes a UV lamp extending in an axial direction, a jacket tube enclosing the UV lamp, electrical connections and a head section for fastening the lamp unit to the frame, wherein for each lamp unit, a fastening device is provided by which the lamp unit can be separably connected to the frame in the region of the head section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Friedhelm Krüger, Heike Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9556870
    Abstract: A sliding vane pump is provided including a pump assembly having a housing with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet formed therein, a lining member received in the housing defining a substantially cylindrical inner surface and a rotor arranged inside the lining member, defining a substantially cylindrical outer surface. The inner surface of the lining member and outer surface of the rotor define a working space therebetween. The pump assembly also comprises a plurality of vanes received in slots formed about the rotor outer surface. Each vane is arranged to slide in the radical direction with respect to the rotor such that an outer edge of the vane contacts the lining member inner surface, thereby dividing the working space into working chambers. Rotation of the rotor draws fluid from the fluid inlet working into the working chambers, which is ejected into the fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: John Labbett, Neil Tindle, William Rawnsley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9391439
    Abstract: A partition for fluid tight sealing between a motor compartment and a coupling compartment of an immersible machine is described. The partition includes a partition wall having a seat, and at least one coupling terminal arranged in the seat, the coupling terminal being accessible from a primary side of the partition, and from a secondary side of the partition. A sealing member is located in at least a part of the interface between the seat of the partition wall and the coupling terminal, and a retention means is arranged to retain the coupling terminal in the seat. The coupling terminal includes a primary spring clip engageable from the primary side and a secondary spring clip engageable from the secondary side. Also disclosed is an immersible machine including such a partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Gunnar Nordfors
  • Patent number: 9174188
    Abstract: An electrode arrangement for an ozone generator includes a tubular dielectric which concentrically encloses a rod at a distance therefrom, and a filler material provided in an interstice between the tubular dielectric and the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: XYLEM IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Reiner Fietzek, Ernst Martin Billing, Ralf Fiekens
  • Patent number: 9073768
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the sterilization of ballast water on ships by means of UV radiation, with a pump line by means of which ballast water can be taken up and discharged, wherein the pump line is passed through by a number of UV-transparent sheath pipes arranged one behind another in the direction of the pump line and in which UV radiators are arranged for the emission of UV radiation into the pump line and sheath pipes arranged one behind another in the circumferential direction of the pump line are offset by an angle ? in relation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Rolf Sief, Friedhelm Kruger
  • Publication number: 20150171697
    Abstract: An electrical motor for a submersible machine, including a stator unit having a stator core and a rotor unit that is rotatably arranged in the stator unit. The rotor unit includes a rotor core and at least one permanent magnet. The rotor core has an outer diameter that is smaller than an inner diameter of the stator core. The rotor unit includes a brake, the radially outer surface of which is inscribed on a circle having a diameter that is greater than the outer diameter of the rotor core. At least a part of the brake is arranged to abut against an inner surface of the stator core upon mutual axial displacement of the rotor unit and the stator unit. The brake is spaced-apart from the stator core when the rotor unit is in the mounted state in the stator unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Johan Bratthaell, Ruben Martinez, Joergen Nilsson, Oystein Krogen
  • Patent number: 9027844
    Abstract: A water delivery system is provided, including at least one sink with a faucet device having a cold water faucet part and a hot water faucet part, a cold water line to the at least one sink, a hot water line to the at least one sink, and a valve associated with the at least one sink allowing in an open state the transport of water between the hot water line and the cold water line and inhibiting in a closed state the transport of water between the hot water line and the cold water line, wherein the open state and the closed state of the valve depend solely on whether a differential pressure across the valve is below or above a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Karsten Laing
  • Patent number: 8932031
    Abstract: A pump system includes: a first coupler that receives a common input feed and provides two input feeds of fluid being drawn into the pump system, a second coupler that receives two output feeds and provides a common output feed of the pumped fluid, and a third coupler that receives a common gas feed providing two gas feeds to drive the pump system; two pumps, each having an inlet to receive a respective input feed, an outlet to provide a respective output feed of the pumped fluid, and a gas inlet to receive a respective gas feed so as to cause pumping action to drive the pump; and a base for holding the couplers with straps for attaching the two pump. The common gas feed causes pumping action in the two pumps and provides a constant almost pulsation free flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Nathan D. Maguire, Robert J. Romero
  • Patent number: 8934763
    Abstract: A water delivery system is provided, comprising at least one faucet device with a cold water faucet part and a hot water faucet part, a cold water line to the at least one faucet device, a tankless heater device for heating water, a hot water line having a first portion running from an outlet of the tankless heater device to the at least one faucet device and having a second portion running from the at least one faucet device to an inlet of the tankless heater device, and a circulatory pump arranged in the second portion of the hot water line, wherein the circulatory pump has a prefixed first performance level and a prefixed second performance level, wherein the first performance level causes a finite water flow in the hot water line which is below an operation threshold value of the tankless heater device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Oliver Laing
  • Patent number: 8907302
    Abstract: A channel for a UV irradiation device, in which the UV irradiation device is disposed in a closed channel and an inlet cone is provided in the direction of flow upstream of a UV reactor, which, as part of the wall of the channel, increases the cross section of the channel from an incoming pipeline cross section to a cross section of the reactor, in which a flow rectifier with at least one inner first guide element and at least one outer second guide element is disposed in the inlet cone, wherein the inner guide element is a substantially circular, cylindrical pipe and the outer guide element runs substantially parallel to the outer wall and is disposed at a distance from the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Anton, Madhukar Rapaka
  • Patent number: 8875569
    Abstract: A sensor for determining level of liquid in a reservoir, a reservoir containing such sensor, and a method for determining level using such sensor. The sensor comprises a liquid-proof housing, at least one actuator operatively connected to the inner side of the housing and configured to generate vibrations, and at least one vibration sensor operatively connected town inner side of the housing and configured to measure vibrations. The actuator comprises an electromagnet directly or indirectly fixedly connected to the inner side of the housing, and a permanent magnet movably suspended in the housing, wherein the electromagnet and the permanent magnet are configured such that activation of the actuator creates an oscillating mutual displacement in parallel with a longitudinal center axis of the electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Jürgen Mökander
  • Publication number: 20140314633
    Abstract: An electrode arrangement for an ozone generator includes a tubular dielectric which concentrically encloses a rod at a distance therefrom, and a filler material provided in an interstice between the tubular dielectric and the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: XYLEM IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Reiner Fietzek, Ernst Martin Billing, Ralf Fiekens
  • Patent number: 8844977
    Abstract: A suction connection, including a first flange that includes a centrally located through hole and is arranged to be connected to an outlet of a suction pipe and a second flange that includes a centrally located through hole and that is arranged to be connected to an inlet of a dry installed centrifugal pump. The suction connection includes a first pipe socket, which is displacable in the axial direction between an operative position in which said first pipe socket disengageably connects the first flange and the second flange and thereby puts the through hole of the first flange in fluid communication with the through hole of the second flange, and a service position in which the first pipe socket is located at a distance from the second flange and thereby admit access to the through hole of the second flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC.
    Inventor: Bengt Södergård
  • Patent number: 8814463
    Abstract: In a first aspect the invention relates to a device for interconnecting a first element (2) and a second element (1) to each other in order to transmit a rotational motion. The device (3) comprises a tubular wall (4) having a circular inner surface, a part of which that is adjacent to said first end being arranged to abut said first element (2), and having a circular outer surface, a part of which that is adjacent to said first end being arranged to abut said second element (1). Furthermore, said tubular wall (4) comprises at least one pair of slits (18), which slits (18) are adjacent to each other and extends from said first end towards said second end, obtaining a finger shaped segment (19), which is deflectable in relation to neighboring parts of said tubular wall (4). The invention also relates to a pump comprising such a device (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Gert Hallgren
  • Patent number: 8808634
    Abstract: An electrode arrangement for an ozone generator with a tubular outer electrode, which concentrically encloses a tubular dielectric at a distance therefrom, wherein the dielectric concentrically encloses a rod at a distance therefrom and wherein a filler material is provided in the interstice between the outer electrode and the dielectric and another filler material is provided in the interstice between the dielectric and the rod, wherein the rod is an insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: XYLEM IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Reiner Fietzek, Ernst Martin Billing, Ralf Fiekens
  • Patent number: 8764278
    Abstract: A mixer assembly comprises a motor, a motor shaft, a propeller connected to the motor shaft and in operation driven by the motor in a first direction of rotation about a propeller axis, the propeller fully submersed in liquid during operation and in rotation generating liquid flow from a suction side to a pressure side of the propeller. Flow control vanes are arranged on the suction side of the propeller, and oriented in an axial plane to deflect the liquid from substantially axial flow into a flow containing a circumferential component of direction which is opposed to the direction of rotation of the propeller. A method for providing axial liquid flow from a mixer propeller that is fully submerged in liquid during operation comprises the steps of applying flow control on the suction side of the mixer propeller through the arrangement of flow control vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Johan Fondelius
  • Patent number: 8714501
    Abstract: A mounting bracket may include a base plate, at least one stationary clip disposed on the base plate, a push releasing plate disposed in spaced apart relation to the at least one stationary clip, and at least one movable clip operatively coupled to and movable with the push releasing plate. The stationary clip or clips and movable clip or clips are disposed and configured to mate with cavities in respective ends of a pump when the push releasing plate is in a non-pivoted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Xylem IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Thang Q. Dang, Jim L. Jackson, Jr., Vijay Mallik, John J. Fong
  • Patent number: 8696898
    Abstract: A device is proposed for the UV disinfection of liquids in an open or closed channel, having an inflow for the liquid to be disinfected, at least one UV irradiator arranged downstream of the inflow in a main flow direction and also having an outflow arranged downstream of the UV irradiator, in which a mixing device, driven by an electric motor, is arranged between the inflow and the at least one UV irradiator, which mixing device is set up for generating a cross-flow having at least one velocity component transverse to the main flow direction in order to improve mixing of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: XYLEM IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Meese, Geoff Jones-Prichard