Patents Examined by Charles G. Freay
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Patent number: 11326588Abstract: A diaphragm-type compressor includes a substrate, a diaphragm, and an actuator, the substrate, the diaphragm, and the actuator being laminated and provided in this order. In a plan view from a direction of the lamination, the diaphragm includes a first film section that overlaps the actuator and a second film section that does not overlap the actuator. A step is provided on a surface at the diaphragm side of the substrate. A portion corresponding to the first film section and a portion corresponding to the second film section of the substrate are respectively different stages.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Inventors: Tsukasa Funasaka, Yuki Hanamura
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Patent number: 11326428Abstract: A stator for a downhole-type motor includes a housing. The housing includes a sleeve. The sleeve includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is erosion-resistant. The second layer is corrosion-resistant. The third layer can provide structural support. The stator includes a motor stack. The stator can be used to drive a rotor disposed within an inner bore of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Upwing Energy, Inc.Inventors: Patrick McMullen, Kuo-Chiang Chen
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Patent number: 11319794Abstract: A pumpjack monitor includes a processor and memory, a communicator for communicating with other monitors and a server, a sensor module having at least one strain gauge, and accelerometers for determining vibration and position of the monitor. Other sensors may be internal, including sensors for polished-rod rotation, and linked to the monitoring device wirelessly. Some embodiments serve as network hubs or bridges for other monitors. The server is configured to generate surface cards. A method for monitoring of pumpjacks uses the monitor to sense changes in pumpjack parameters, and communicate the changes to a server when changes exceed configurable thresholds. Some embodiments include determining location with GPS and/or relaying signals from other monitoring devices, smart power management, gas sensing, and relaying of signals from external wireless-equipped sensors such as valve position sensors, oil level sensors, and pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: 4IIII INNOVATIONS INC.Inventors: Kelly Fyfe, Kipling William Fyfe, Thomas Richard Williams
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Patent number: 11319942Abstract: A compressor includes a motor body having a gas compressing motor, at least a pneumatic cylinder for compressing gas, and at least a cooling fan. The pneumatic cylinder comprises a cylinder support arranged on top of the compressing motor, a valve panel arranged on top of the cylinder support, a cylinder cover provided on top of the valve panel, and a piston connecting rod body slidably connected with the cylinder support. The heat dissipating channels, the gas channels, and the heat dissipating passages are arranged in series to jointly form a heat dissipation path, such that when the piston connecting rod body is driven by the compressing motor to conduct a gas compressing process in the cylinder support, the cooling fan is also driven to operate to drive the external gas to flow through the heat dissipation path and to flow out, so as to bring out the heat produced during the operation of the pneumatic cylinder and to achieve an effective heat dissipation.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventors: Yu-Wen Lin, Shi-An Sun
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Patent number: 11319941Abstract: A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a cylinder that defines a compression space for a refrigerant; a piston that axially reciprocates inside the cylinder; a motor configured to provide a drive force to the piston; a discharge valve configured to discharge the refrigerant compressed in the compression space; and a discharge cover having a discharge space in which the refrigerant discharged through the discharge valve flows. The discharge valve and the discharge cover may be arranged inside the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Sangsub Jeong
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Patent number: 11317731Abstract: A pump assembly is provided for use with an inflatable product. The inflatable product has a chamber having an air inlet/outlet port. The pump assembly has a pump unit that is positioned inside the chamber for inflating and deflating the chamber, the pump unit having at least one motor that is operatively coupled to a blower, with the blower fluidly coupled to an opening of the pump housing. The chamber is inflated by intake of air through the inlet/outlet port to the blower and then into the chamber, and the chamber is deflated by drawing aft from the chamber to the blower and then out of the chamber through the inlet/outlet port.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Sun Pleasure Company LimitedInventors: Vincent W. S. Lau, Shouguo Long
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Patent number: 11313363Abstract: A pump assembly has a motor, a gearbox, a rotational to reciprocal action transmission and a diaphragm pump, in which a shaft of the motor, an output shaft of the gearbox, a reciprocal movement axis of the transmission, and a pump shaft of the diaphragm pump are all aligned on a main axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Brightwell Dispensers LimitedInventor: Andrew Timothy Marshall
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Patent number: 11306608Abstract: A gas turbine casing made of composite material from fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix. The casing includes at least one stiffener portion extending at a radius greater than the radius of upstream and downstream portions of the casing that are adjacent to the stiffener portion so as to form an annular recess in the inside surface of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Sébastien Marin, Quentin Damien Lombart
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Patent number: 11306714Abstract: A liquid feeding pump operation monitor includes: a liquid gauge that measures a remaining amount of a liquid to be fed by a liquid feeding pump; and an operation detector configured to detect a reduction of the remaining amount, which is measured by the liquid gauge, of the liquid to be fed, and to detect an operation of the liquid feeding pump based on the detection of the reduction.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Yusuke Yokoi
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Patent number: 11300115Abstract: A pump includes a first diaphragm, a second diaphragm, and a circumferential wall, which define a pump chamber, and a driver. The driver vibrates the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm in a flexural mode to cause pressure fluctuation in the pump chamber. The first diaphragm has a first hole to which no check valve is attached. At least one of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm has a second hole to which a check valve is attached. The first hole is located at a portion that coincides with an axis orthogonal to a center of the first diaphragm and a center of the second diaphragm. The second hole is located at a portion that does not coincide with the first hole when viewed in a direction in which the axis extends.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11293428Abstract: A pump includes a first pump chamber defined by a first plate-shaped body and a second plate-shaped body, a second pump chamber defined by the first plate-shaped body and a third plate-shaped body, and a driving body. The driving body causes a pressure fluctuation, by causing the first plate-shaped body to undergo bending vibration, in both the first pump chamber and the second pump chamber. The first plate-shaped body is provided with a plurality of first hole portions that does not overlap with an axis orthogonal to the central portion of the first plate-shaped body, and a check valve is attached to each of the plurality of first hole portions. The second plate-shaped body and the third plate-shaped body are respectively provided with second hole portions and third hole portions, and no check valve is attached to the second hole portions and the third hole portions.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
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Patent number: 11293422Abstract: A system comprises: a vacuum chamber disposed within a housing and having a vacuum port; a vacuum pump within the housing and having a gas inlet port that is fluidically coupled to the vacuum port; and a fluid circuit that comprises: one or more fluidic tubing lines, channels or conduits in thermal contact with a housing of the vacuum pump; a liquid pump fluidically coupled to an inlet of the one or more fluidic tubing lines, channels or conduits; and a heat exchanger having a heat exchanger inlet and a heat exchanger outlet, wherein the heat exchanger inlet is fluidically coupled to an outlet of the one or more fluidic tubing lines, channels or conduits and the heat exchanger outlet is fluidically coupled to the liquid pump. The fluid circuit may also include a portion that is in thermal contact with the vacuum chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: THERMO FINNIGAN LLCInventors: Jaime A. Carrera, Dustin J. Kreft
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Patent number: 11293426Abstract: A pump device for delivery of at least one delivery means, particularly at least one fluid, with at least one drive unit and with at least one delivery device, particularly a delivery membrane comprising at least one, particularly at least substantially annular base body which is elastically deformable and comprises at least one delivery surface arranged on a delivery side of the base body and comprising at least one activation element for connection to at least one drive element of the drive unit, which is arranged on an activation side of the base body, the activation element being designed as a positive or non-positive element that cooperates with the drive element at least for the transfer of a driving force acting in a direction facing away from the activation side, by means of a positive and/or non-positive connection, particularly by means of a positive and/or non-positive connection without adhesive force.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: qonqave GmbHInventors: Lars Freiherr Varnbüler Von Und Zu Hemmingen-Redschlag, Alois Krutzenbichler, Raymond Ritschka, Jochen Baumann
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Patent number: 11293453Abstract: A blower includes a stationary portion including an inlet and an outlet, a rotating portion provided to the stationary portion, and a motor adapted to drive the rotating portion. The inlet and outlet are co-axially aligned. The stationary portion includes a housing, a stator component provided to the housing, and a tube providing an interior surface. The rotating portion includes one or more bearings that are provided along the interior surface of the tube to support a rotor within the tube. In an embodiment, the blower is structured to supply air at positive pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: ResMed Motor Technologies IncInventors: Barton John Kenyon, David B. Sears, Aleksandr S. Nagorny, Samuel Aziz Mebasser, Peter John Sweeney
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Patent number: 11286942Abstract: A fan control system includes an input unit receiving a domestic power signal, an operation controller, a first converter connected to the input unit and the operation controller, and a second converter connected to the first converter and a fan. Upon receipt of an operation signal outputted by the operation controller, the first converter switches from a normal mode where the domestic power signal is directly outputted as a converted power signal, to a converting mode where the domestic power signal having an attribute thereof varied for a preset duration is outputted as the converted power signal. The second converter outputs an output signal based on the converted power signal for controlling rotational speed of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Kuo-Tsun Lin
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Patent number: 11286918Abstract: The present invention discloses a path-type liquid medicine delivery electro-osmosis pump that can be applied to a wearable medicine device. An electro osmosis pump according to the present invention includes: a connector provided with a liquid medicine inlet and a liquid medicine outlet; a check valve assembly combined to one side of the connector; and a driver that is connected to the other side of the connector and moves the liquid medicine toward the liquid medicine outlet by applying pressure to the liquid medicine while being separated from the liquid medicine, which passes through the check valve assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: EOFLOW CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung Ha Kim, Jae Hong Kim, Jesse Jaejin Kim, Yongchul Song
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Patent number: 11286924Abstract: A control device is provided for controlling a rotation speed of an electric oil pump, including a motor and a pump mechanism connected to the motor, based on a command value input from a host device. The control device includes: a first calculator calculating a first duty value of current to be output to the motor based on a deviation between the command value and a rotation speed of the motor; a second calculator calculating a second duty value of current to be output to the motor based on a deviation between a current limit value of the motor and a current value of the motor; and a drive current determiner comparing the first duty value calculated by the first calculator and the second duty value calculated by the second calculator, and selecting the lower duty value as a duty value of current that drives the motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Shirai, Koji Higuchi
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Patent number: 11286934Abstract: A vacuum pump system is provided that includes a main vacuum pump that is connected to a chamber that is to be evacuated. An auxiliary pump is connected to an outlet of the main vacuum pump. Furthermore, a sealing gas supply device is connected to the main vacuum pump. The sealing gas supply device is switched on and off with the aid of a control device as a function of a predetermined control variable. Additionally, a method for controlling the vacuum pump system.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Leybold GmbHInventors: Max Pelikan, Raffaello Ghislotti, Dirk Schiller, Daniel Reinhard
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Patent number: 11283324Abstract: A drive device for a hydraulic pump of a braking system for a motor vehicle includes a housing, a rotor, a rotor shaft mounted in the housing and supporting the rotor, and a commutator arranged in the housing. The commutator includes at least one commutator brush held by a brush holder. The commutator brush cooperates with a commutator ring arranged on the rotor shaft in a non-rotatable manner. The brush holder includes a sealing ring assigned to the commutator which is arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft and interacts with the rotor shaft in a sealing manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Edgar Kurz, Juergen Haecker, Massimiliano Ambrosi, Michael Eisenlauer, Wolfgang Schuller
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Patent number: 11280327Abstract: A low-force, non-displacement, micro/miniature valve and/or pump assembly is provided. A tube component having a first side port coupled to an inlet portion and a second side port coupled to an outlet portion can be selectively moved to alternatively couple the side ports to a first or second piston pump chamber. First and second pistons can be actuated after positioning the tube component to either draw in fluid or push out fluid from either the first or second piston pump chambers during each actuation of the pistons. The fluid can be drawn in from a reservoir and can be expelled to a patient for providing a dose of the fluid to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: INSULET CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel Allis, Ian McLaughlin, Kenneth Phillips