Patents Examined by Anthony Ayala Delgado
  • Patent number: 11976571
    Abstract: A section of a gas turbine engine includes a ceramic component and a metallic component situated adjacent the ceramic component. The ceramic component and the metallic component are situated outside of a core flow path of the gas turbine engine. The section of a gas turbine engine also includes an interface between the ceramic component and a metallic component and a mullite-based coating disposed at the interface. The coating provides thermal protection to the ceramic component and the metallic component, and provides thermochemical protection against interaction between the ceramic component and the metallic component. A gas turbine engine and a method of protecting components in a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. White, III, Ahmed Abdillahi Abdi, David A. Litton, Daniel S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11970597
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material consisting of at least three constituents, a substrate material, a first fibrous reinforcing material and a second reinforcing material, wherein the first fibrous reinforcing material has a lower thermal expansion coefficient than the second reinforcing material and wherein the second reinforcing material has a lower electrical conductivity than the first reinforcing material, wherein the composite material is provided for use in building components of force and motion transmission, in particular those building components of force and motion transmission which come into contact with ultrapure water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Gerome Fischer, Arne Peters, Wolfgang Kunz, Scott Cohen
  • Patent number: 11971033
    Abstract: An internal gear fluid machine has a first gearwheel having external toothing mounted rotatably about a first axis of rotation and a second gearwheel having internal toothing meshing in regions with the external toothing in an engagement region and mounted rotatably about a second axis of rotation different from the first axis of rotation. A filler piece is arranged between the first gearwheel and the second gearwheel away from the meshing region which bears on the one side against the external toothing and on the other side against the internal toothing, in order to divide a fluid space present between the first gearwheel and the second gearwheel into a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, and housing walls of a machine housing of the internal gear fluid machine being arranged in the axial direction with respect to the first axis of rotation on both sides of the first gearwheel and of the second gearwheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ECKERLE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Goss
  • Patent number: 11971030
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing; a motor provided in the housing; a rotating shaft rotated by the motor; an orbital scroll orbital moved by the rotating shaft; and a fixed scroll forming a compression chamber together with the orbital scroll, wherein the fixed scroll includes an injection hole guiding an intermediate pressure refrigerant to the compression chamber, wherein the compression chamber is formed in a pair, and wherein the injection hole is formed to communicate with any one of the pair of compression chambers when communicating with the other one of the pair of compression chambers. Thereby, an amount of refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber is increased, and thus the performance and efficiency of the compressor may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Kyung Jae Lee, Jeong Ki Seo
  • Patent number: 11953010
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing; a motor provided in the housing; a rotating shaft rotated by the motor; an orbital scroll orbital moved by the rotating shaft; a fixed scroll forming a compression chamber together with the orbital scroll; an injection flow path guiding an intermediate pressure refrigerant from an outside of the housing to the compression chamber; and an injection valve assembly opening and closing the injection flow path, wherein the injection valve assembly includes a cover plate having an inlet through which the intermediate pressure refrigerant is introduced, an injection valve opening and closing the inlet, and a valve plate having an outlet guiding the refrigerant that has passed through the injection valve toward the compression chamber. Thereby, an amount of refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber is increased, and thus the performance and efficiency of the compressor may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Kyung Jae Lee, Jeong Ki Seo
  • Patent number: 11946398
    Abstract: A broadband resonator for a fuel cell compressor is disclosed. The resonator having a resonator insert having a tubular pipe surrounded by a plurality of disc-shaped walls separating the resonator insert receiving chamber into one or more individual resonator chambers. The tubular pipe is positioned eccentrically within a resonator insert receiving chamber. An entrained water removal system is formed in the resonator, preventing entrained water from accumulating in the resonator chambers which would result in an undesirable detuning of the designed amplitude frequency spectrum response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Hung Le, Eric Gallagher, Hoa Le
  • Patent number: 11939878
    Abstract: A turbomachine component is provided. The turbomachine component formed from an additive manufacturing system. The additive manufacturing system defines an axial build direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. The turbomachine component includes an exterior portion. The exterior portion includes a first end wall, a second end wall, and an outer band extending axially between the first end wall and the second end wall. The turbomachine component further includes an interior portion disposed within the exterior portion. The interior portion includes a self-breaking inner band extending axially between the first end wall and the second end wall. The self-breaking inner band includes a plurality of teeth disposed between the first end wall and the second end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Emily Kaufman, Clay Thomas Griffis, Bailey Basso, Archie Lee Swanner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11939899
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion includes a resin rear exterior member, a metal exhaust finisher, and a reinforcing block. The rear exterior member is provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body. The exhaust finisher is provided at a terminating end portion of an exhaust pipe. The reinforcing block is fixed to the exhaust finisher and attached to the rear exterior member. The reinforcing block has an upper side portion that straddles an upper side of the exhaust finisher in a vehicle width direction, an inner side portion that extends downward from an inner region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction, and an outer side portion that extends downward from an outer region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Oshima
  • Patent number: 11933296
    Abstract: A safety device for an orbital pump has first and second interleaved parts which are operable to follow an orbital path with respect to each other, the safety device comprising: a first member fixable with respect to the first interleaved part; and a second member fixable with respect to the second interleaved part, the second member defining an aperture into which the first member is receivable, the aperture being dimensioned to prevent movement of the first interleaved part with respect to the second interleaved part beyond the orbital path. In this way, the members of the safety device help to prevent the moving components of the pump contacting, thereby preventing damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventor: Peter Anthony McBrien
  • Patent number: 11933298
    Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided which is capable of performing an adjustment to appropriate back pressure in both a low-speed operation condition and an operation condition low in suction pressure by improving the position or dimension of a back pressure hole. The scroll compressor includes a back pressure chamber 29 formed on the back surface of a mirror plate 31 of a movable scroll 22, and back pressure holes 51 and 52 formed in the mirror plate of the movable scroll and providing communication between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber 34. After the back pressure hole 52 is opened inside a lap 32 of the movable scroll in a first crank angle range, the back pressure hole 52 is temporarily closed by a lap 24 of a fixed scroll 21 and then opened inside the lap of the fixed scroll in a second crank angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsuo Teshima
  • Patent number: 11927123
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system includes an inner pipe in which exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine flows, and an outer pipe surrounding a part of the inner pipe. One end of the outer pipe is formed to have a diameter smaller than that of other portions of the outer pipe, and fixed to an outer surface of the inner pipe. A region of the outer pipe from the other end before the one end is a free region unattached to the outer surface of the inner pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiji Utsunomiya
  • Patent number: 11927121
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a snowmobile includes a muffler housing, the bottom end of the muffler housing including a muffler exhaust outlet configured to emit exhaust. The exhaust system includes a muffler housing cover spaced from the muffler housing to define an airflow channel therebetween, the muffler housing cover forming a bottom opening. The exhaust system also includes a gas combiner at least partially surrounding the muffler exhaust outlet on the bottom end of the muffler housing and extending through the bottom opening of the muffler housing cover. The gas combiner receives air from the airflow channel and the exhaust from the muffler exhaust outlet to emit a combined air-exhaust stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Tweet, David L. Vigen
  • Patent number: 11913366
    Abstract: A heating device for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine and having: a tubular body, where a combustion chamber is obtained on the inside; a fuel injector, which is designed to inject fuel into the combustion chamber; at least one inlet opening, which can be connected to a fan so as to receive an air flow, which is directed to the combustion chamber; a feeding channel, which receives air from the inlet opening, surrounds an end portion of the fuel injector and ends with a nozzle, which is arranged around a spray tip of the fuel injector, from which fuel flows out; and a spark plug, which is mounted through a side wall of the tubular body. An axial distance, namely measured along a longitudinal axis of the tubular body, between the spray tip of the fuel injector and a longitudinal axis of the spark plug ranges from 33% to 100% of an inner diameter of the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MARELLI EUROPE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco La Sana, Emanuele Milani, Mauro Brignone, Luigi Lubrano
  • Patent number: 11905951
    Abstract: A scroll compressor for compressing a gaseous fluid, in particular a refrigerant. The scroll compressor exhibits a non-moving stator with at least one outlet and a moving orbiter, each with a base plate and a spiral-shaped wall that extends from the base plate. The base plates are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the walls interlock with one another and closed working chambers are created. The volumes and the positions of the working chambers are changed in reaction to a rotary movement of the orbiter here.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Dirk Gutberlet, Kadir Dursun, Michael Friedl
  • Patent number: 11905962
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust dissipation system includes a fan unit and one or more processors. A memory is communicably coupled to the one or more processors and stores a fan control module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processor(s) cause the processor(s) to, responsive to a determination that an ambient temperature is equal to or below a fan rotor activation temperature, control operation of the fan unit to generate an airflow directed into an exhaust gas exiting the vehicle from a vehicle exhaust opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Rafael Castillo
  • Patent number: 11898556
    Abstract: A safety device for an orbital pump has first and second interleaved parts which are operable to follow an orbital path with respect to each other, the safety device comprising: a first member fixable with respect to the first interleaved part; and a second member fixable with respect to the second interleaved part, the second member defining an aperture into which the first member is receivable, the aperture being dimensioned to prevent movement of the first interleaved part with respect to the second interleaved part beyond the orbital path. In this way, the members of the safety device help to prevent the moving components of the pump contacting, thereby preventing damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventor: Peter Anthony McBrien
  • Patent number: 11898511
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit that controls the air-fuel ratio of incoming exhaust gas flowing into a catalyst. The electronic control unit performs oxygen amount variation control in which a target air-fuel ratio for the incoming exhaust gas is switched between a rich set air-fuel ratio and a lean set air-fuel ratio. The electronic control unit switches the target air-fuel ratio to the rich set air-fuel ratio when an air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor is equal to or higher than a predetermined oxygen saturation determination air-fuel ratio. The oxygen saturation determination air-fuel ratio is leaner than an oxygen depletion determination air-fuel ratio and richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11891996
    Abstract: A compressor element (1) comprising at least one compression member (2), a housing (3) and a rotatable shaft (4) rotatably connecting the at least one compression member (2) to the housing (3), wherein at least one intermediate element (5) is provided between the rotatable shaft (4) and the housing (3) for facilitating rotation of the rotatable shaft (4), wherein the compressor element (1) further comprises at least one oil injector (6) extending from an inlet port (7) to at least one nozzle (8a, 8b, 8c) via an oil channel (9), wherein the oil channel (9) is shaped to allow a substantially primary flow of oil through the channel (9) for cooling of the at least one intermediate element (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Fernanda Lato, Michaël Raphaël Angèle Adens, Andrew Aristizabal
  • Patent number: 11879370
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a power converter that receives power, and has first and second outputs, a low voltage battery that receives power from the power converter via the first output, and a heating element that receives power from the power converter via the second output, and provides heat to a catalyst of an exhaust system. The vehicle also includes a controller that commands the converter to provide power to the heating element via the second output according to a temperature of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Cox, Anthemios Philemon Petridis, David Hesketh
  • Patent number: 11878943
    Abstract: A method of forming an integral fastener for a ceramic matrix composite component comprises the steps of forming a fiber preform with an opening, forming a fiber fastener, inserting the fiber fastener into the opening, and infiltrating a matrix material into the fiber preform and fiber fastener to form a ceramic matrix composite component with an integral fastener. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventor: David C. Jarmon