Patents Examined by Anthony Ayala Delgado
  • Patent number: 11859529
    Abstract: An exhaust purification device includes a casing which accommodates a purifier that purifies exhaust gas of an engine mounted on a vehicle and in which a flow direction of the exhaust gas corresponds to a longitudinal direction of the casing, an inlet opening at a first longitudinal end of the casing, an outlet opening provided at a second longitudinal end of the casing, a first pipe connected to the inlet opening, and a second pipe connected to the outlet opening. A cross section of at least one of a connecting end of the first pipe for the casing and a connecting end of the second pipe for the casing is in a flattened shape as a dimension of the cross section in the longitudinal direction of the casing is shorter than a dimension of the cross section in a lateral direction of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI FUSO TRUCK AND BUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadao Kobayashi, Kazushige Sugi
  • Patent number: 11852141
    Abstract: A screw spindle pump having a spindle housing, in which a drive spindle and at least one running spindle which meshes therewith are received in spindle bores, and having an outer housing which encloses the spindle housing and on which an axial inlet port and a radial outlet port are provided, wherein the spindle housing has an axial fluid outlet for the fluid delivered through the spindle housing by the drive spindle and the running spindle, which axial fluid outlet communicates with a fluid chamber, which is formed between the spindle housing and the outer housing, extends around 360°, and in turn communicates with the radial outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LEISTRITZ PUMPEN GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Metz, Kristin Lissek, Florian Popp
  • Patent number: 11852139
    Abstract: Disclosed are an outer ring for an oil pump having an increased number and size of open pores in a surface of a molded article and a method for manufacturing the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, MYUNG HWA IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Soo Kim, Dong Sub Song, Jung Beom Koo
  • Patent number: 11840937
    Abstract: A diffuser nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a housing disposed about a nozzle axis and extending between a first nozzle end and a second nozzle end. The housing defines a nozzle duct. A plurality of walls is disposed within the nozzle duct. The plurality of walls subdivides the nozzle duct into a plurality of duct sections. The plurality of walls further defines a plurality of axially-extending duct segments of the nozzle duct such that within a first axially-extending duct segment, the duct cross-sectional area of a first duct section of the plurality of duct sections is greater than the duct cross-sectional area of each other duct section and within a second axially-extending duct segment, the duct cross-sectional area of a second duct section of the plurality of duct sections is greater than the duct cross-sectional area of each other duct section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Russell Stratton
  • Patent number: 11840947
    Abstract: There is provided a straddle-type vehicle. An exhaust pipe includes a first portion extending downward from an exhaust port through a region in front of an engine and on one lateral side of a down frame in the left-right direction, a second portion extending upward through a region in front of the engine and on the other lateral side of the down frame in the left-right direction after extending from a downstream side end portion of the first portion to the other lateral side of the down frame in the left-right direction through a region in front of or to the lower front of the down frame. The catalyst device is disposed in a portion of the second portion of the exhaust pipe that is located in front of the engine and on the other lateral side of the down frame in the left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11840952
    Abstract: An aftertreatment device includes flow guides disposed within a dosing conduit. Exhaust enters through a perforated region of the dosing conduit and passes through the flow guides. The flow guides induce swirling or other turbulence to mix injected reactant with the exhaust gas. Various types of flow guides include cantilevered vanes, guide passageways, and louvered openings of a second conduit. Some types of flow guides induce localized mixing to inhibit deposit formation at the doser mounting unit. Other types of flow guides induce mixing downstream of the dosing conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Todd R. Taubert, Derek M. Larsen, Korneel De Rudder, Mark Thomas Brandl
  • Patent number: 11841018
    Abstract: An all-metal conical combined screw pump suitable for petroleum field includes: a stator, a rotor, a sleeve and a sucker rod, wherein the internal threaded curved surface and the external threaded curved surface are both tapered The spiral structure and the taper are the same; the all-metal conical combined screw pump further comprises a movable part, a fixed part and a elastic part, the movable part is fixedly connected to the rotor, the fixed part is fixedly connected to the sucker rod, one end of the elastic member abuts against the movable part or the rotor, and the other end abuts against the fixed part or the sucker rod, the elastic member can Elastic contraction or elastic expansion along the sliding direction of the movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WUXI HENGXIN BEISHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Haiyang Liang, Guang Zhou, Zhihai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11834973
    Abstract: This oil case of an outboard motor is provided below an engine and stores lubricating oil of the engine. In this method for manufacturing the oil case, the oil case is manufactured so as to comprise: an oil chamber; an introduction path that guides upward cooling supply water drawn in from outside the outboard motor; a delivery path that guides downward cooling discharge water that has cooled the engine; a main exhaust path that guides exhaust gas of the engine downward; and a sub exhaust path that guides exhaust gas during low-speed rotation of the engine. The oil chamber, the introduction path, the delivery path, the main exhaust path and the sub exhaust path form an integral structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11834975
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for purifying exhaust gas and to an electronic device therefor. The electronic device includes: a sensor module; a heating device; a memory; and a processor operatively coupled to the sensor module, the heating device, and the memory. The processor is configured to: control the heating device such that a catalytic converter of a vehicle is heated, measure an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas passing through the catalytic converter using the sensor module during heating of the catalytic converter, and control the heating device such that heating of the catalytic converter is ended based on the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: ChangHoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11828287
    Abstract: A screw spindle pump, including a spindle housing, in which a drive spindle and a running spindle meshing therewith are received in spindle bores. The drive spindle has a cylindrical spindle core and at least two circumferential spindle profiles, and, on an end face, in a depression axially delimited by a planar bottom surface and in which the two profile valleys open out between the two spindle profiles offset by 180°, there is a disk-shaped coupling element, which has an insertion receptacle for a drive shaft of a drive motor and which is coupled to the drive spindle for conjoint rotation therewith via a form-fitting engagement with axially protruding projections that laterally delimit the depression and engage in lateral receptacles of the coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LEISTRITZ PUMPEN GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Metz, Kristin Lissek, Florian Popp
  • Patent number: 11828216
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an exhaust, a frame hanger connected to a body of the vehicle, and an isolator connecting the exhaust to a body of the vehicle via the frame hanger such that the exhaust rotates about the frame hanger. The vehicle further includes a first frame bracket having a fixing portion fixed to the body of the vehicle and an engaging portion located near the isolator at a first distance. The first distance defines a first maximum allowable displacement of the exhaust as it rotates in a first direction about the frame hanger. The vehicle may include a second frame bracket having an engaging portion located adjacent to the isolator at a second distance opposite to the first frame bracket. The second distance may define a second maximum allowable displacement of the exhaust as it rotates in a second direction about the frame hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kerry Timothy Havener, Shawn D. Norman
  • Patent number: 11821421
    Abstract: Seal systems are provided that use a variety of seals to seal fluid processing apparatuses, such as gear pumps, to facilitate the prevention of a leakage of fluids from the respective fluid processing apparatuses. Fluid apparatuses that use such seal systems are also provided. Methods of uses, making, and assembly of seal systems are further described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PSI-POLYMER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David C. Woodcock, Joshua A. Bibey
  • Patent number: 11815090
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor with enhanced sealing structure of a back pressure chamber. The scroll compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll fixed to inside of the housing and including a fixed wrap, an orbit scroll including an orbit wrap which forms a compression chamber together with the fixed wrap, a back pressure chamber formed at a frame supporting the orbit scroll, and accommodating refrigerant for pressurizing the orbit scroll to a direction of the fixed scroll, and a sealing ring arranged between the fixed scroll and the orbit scroll to prevent the refrigerant in the back pressure chamber from flowing in or out through a gap between the fixed scroll and the orbit scroll, wherein the sealing ring includes a cut portion cut for the sealing ring to be deformable in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghea Cho, Junghoon Park, Jongcheun Seo, Namkyu Cho, Dohyun Kim, Junguk Jun
  • Patent number: 11815000
    Abstract: A method of treating exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine as the exhaust gas passes through an exhaust gas pathway includes injecting reductant into the exhaust gas pathway with a reductant injector, filtering particulate matter from the exhaust gas with a first treatment element located downstream of the reductant injector, oxidizing soot on the first treatment element with ozone, and converting nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the exhaust gas with a second treatment element located downstream of the reductant injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Danan Dou, Eric J. Hruby, Bryan T. Geisick
  • Patent number: 11808271
    Abstract: Provided is an axial fan including: a rotor blade; a base portion placed on a rotation axis of the rotor blade and on a downstream side in an air-blowing direction of the rotor blade; and an outer frame portion where the rotor blade and the base portion are housed, wherein the base portion includes an inclined portion in an end portion, on the downstream side in the air-blowing direction, of the base portion, the inclined portion reducing in diameter toward the downstream side in the air-blowing direction, the inclined portion includes opening portions and hollow ribs, the opening portions are placed at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction of the inclined portion, and each of the hollow ribs surrounds a peripheral part on an outer side of each of the opening portions, sticking out from the inclined portion toward the downstream side in the air-blowing direction along the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11788449
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment apparatus is disclosed. An exhaust gas treatment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a gas/liquid reactor contacting a treatment liquid and an emission-regulated gas included in exhaust gas, to absorb and remove the emission-regulated gas; a treatment liquid supply tank supplying the treatment liquid to the gas/liquid reactor; and a gas/liquid separation treatment liquid regeneration unit regenerating a waste treatment liquid in which the emission-regulated gas is absorbed, into a treatment liquid in which the emission-regulated gas is not absorbed, and supplying the regenerated treatment liquid to the treatment liquid supply tank, wherein the gas/liquid separation treatment liquid regeneration unit includes a gas/liquid separation membrane through which a gas can pass but a liquid cannot pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA SHIPBUILDING & OFFSHORE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-Gu Hong, Do-Yun Kim
  • Patent number: 11788530
    Abstract: Some embodiments of a disclosure provide a piston limiting structure, a compressor, and a heat exchange apparatus. The piston limiting structure includes: a cylinder, having a piston hole perpendicular to an axial direction of the cylinder and penetrating the cylinder, wherein a projection of the piston hole in a penetrating direction is circular; a piston, disposed in the piston hole and slid in the piston hole, wherein a side wall of the piston is provided with a limiting surface, and the limiting surface does not penetrate two ends of the side wall of the piston along an axial length of the piston; and a limiting member, wherein the cylinder is provided with a limiting hole penetrating from an outer wall of the cylinder to the piston hole, the limiting member is mounted in the limiting hole, and the limiting member abuts against the limiting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLICANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Yusheng Hu, Huijun Wei, Jia Xu, Zhongcheng Du, Sen Yang, Zhi Li, Liping Ren, Shebing Ren, Shebing Liang, Rongting Zhang, Zhengliang Shi, Ning Ding, Shuang Guo, Liping Liao
  • Patent number: 11781456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method involving the treatment of the pollutants emitted by a vehicle having a heat engine, in which catalyst means (3) are heated, characterised in that the amount of oxygen (OS) in the catalyst means (3) is controlled to be over a minimum amount of oxygen (OS1) by injecting air upstream of said catalyst means (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cathy Batisson, Bruno Peressini
  • Patent number: 11781461
    Abstract: An exhaust device of an engine includes: a muffler provided with a plurality of muffling chambers separated by a plurality of partition walls, a communication pipe accommodated in the muffler and penetrating at least one of the partition walls, and a catalyst accommodated in the muffler and penetrating at least one of the partition walls, wherein the muffling chambers include: a pair of first muffling chambers each provided with an inlet port for exhaust gas; a second muffling chamber communicating with the pair of first muffling chambers via the communication pipe; and a third muffling chamber communicating with the second muffling chamber via the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sayaka Yasoshina, Atsushi Murao
  • Patent number: 11773806
    Abstract: An assembly includes a structure with 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock beams and front and rear curved beams, in which the 12 o'clock beam is mounted to be able to rotate on a pylon of an aircraft between a closed position and a raised position, a fan cowl fixed to the structure, a thrust reverser with a rear cowl and that is able to move in translation along the 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock beams between a forward position and a backward position, cascades fixed to the thrust reverser, and a mover for moving the thrust reverser. With such an arrangement, the fan cowl and the thrust reverser are fixed to the same structure, and it is this structure that is hinged to the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Thierry Gaches, Laurent Cazeaux