Patents Examined by Charles G. Freay
  • Patent number: 12000386
    Abstract: A plunger, a hydraulic end and a plunger pump are disclosed. The plunger includes a plunger body, the plunger body includes a flow channel; a first liquid inlet hole is located in the plunger body and passes through the sidewall of the plunger body; the plunger body includes a first end portion and a second end portion, a flow channel extends from the first end portion to the second end portion, a part of the flow channel close to the first end portion is closed, the flow channel extends to the second end portion and forms a first opening, the first liquid inlet hole is communicated with the flow channel, the first valve assembly is located at the first opening, and is configured to allow fluid to flow out from the flow channel at the first opening and prevent fluid from flowing back to the flow channel from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baojie Wang, Hailong Li, Haiping Cui, Xiaobin Li, Jixin Wang, Peng Li, Chen Jiang, Shulin Zhang, Wenping Cui, Anpeng Ge
  • Patent number: 11994012
    Abstract: Oil and gas companies worldwide strive to improve artificial lift efficiencies to minimize environmental footprint and lower operational expense. In order to lower artificial lift costs, the traditional rod pump must be replaced and improved upon. The present invention of the rodless pump and multi-sealing hydraulic sub is an optimized hydraulic pumping system that eliminates rod wear, lowers pump intake pressure, and extends the reserve life of oil and gas wells regardless of casing configuration or depth. Lowering the pump's intake pressure in an oil and gas well by using a positive displacement pump such as the present invention will allow maximum hydrocarbon reserves to be produced with minimal energy consumption to power the pump. The superior surface seals and smaller footprint of the rodless pump eliminate the possibility of surface hydrocarbon leaks, minimizing environmental impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Digital Downhole, Inc.
    Inventor: Austin J. Shields
  • Patent number: 11988234
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic pump that can be used in a motor vehicle, particularly for generating hydraulic fluid flow for steering and braking, or to perform auxiliary functions such as dump bodies for garbage trucks or landscape trucks. Methods of operating the system and manufacturing the system are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Nott Company
    Inventors: Dusten Carl O'Konek, Jr., Anthony Reid Hennum
  • Patent number: 11988200
    Abstract: A compressor, which includes a cylinder block and a piston assembly arranged inside the cylinder block; the piston assembly includes a first piston, a second piston arranged inside the first piston, and a movable assembly connected to the first piston, and the movable assembly is configured to drive the first piston and the second piston to reciprocate; the cylinder block is provided with a first compression chamber that defines a space for the first piston to move up and down; the cylinder block is provided with a gas storage chamber for storing the gas after the first compression, and the gas storage chamber is connected to the first compression chamber; and the cylinder block is also provided with a second compression chamber that defines a space for the second piston to move up and down, and the second compression chamber is connected to the gas storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DONGGUAN XIANMA ELECTROMECHANICAL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Menglin Zou
  • Patent number: 11988219
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a plurality of non-contact seals provided along a sealed shaft; a contact seal provided on at least one of two sides of the plurality of non-contact seals; an injection part that supplies purge gas into a first space of spaces arranged in an axial direction of the sealed shaft, the spaces being between the plurality of non-contact seals and the contact seal; and a collector that collects the purge gas from a second space of the spaces between the plurality of non-contact seals and the contact seal, the second space being positioned to be next to the first space in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Kuga, Yasuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11988201
    Abstract: An anode current collector of an electrochemical compressor includes a plurality of first portions and a plurality of second portions that are alternately arranged from the first end portion toward an inner side in a plane direction of the anode current collector. In the first portion, a first porous body, a second porous body, and a third porous body are sequentially stacked. In the second portion, the first portion, the third porous body, and the second porous body are sequentially stacked. The porosity of the second porous body is larger than the porosity of the first porous body and the porosity of the third porous body is larger than the porosity of the second porous body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sugai
  • Patent number: 11976645
    Abstract: Air compressor systems that are configured to output compressed air. Each system includes a cabinet and at least one air compressor mounted at least partially in the cabinet. The air compressor includes a drive motor with a cooling air inlet through which cooling air can be input for cooling the drive motor. The cooling air inlet is directly fluidly connected to a cooling air opening of the cabinet so that the cooling air for the drive motor is drawn into the drive motor directly from the ambient environment instead of being drawn in from the interior space of the cabinet. In addition, the system includes an exhaust fan on the cabinet that vents the interior space of the cabinet to the ambient environment. During operation of the air compressor, a negative cabinet pressure is created in the interior space where the pressure is less than ambient pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Kasco Marine, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Dombrock
  • Patent number: 11952993
    Abstract: A compressor assembly has a pulley assembly and a compressor, with a mounting plate mounted therebetween. The compressor includes a front head, a rear head, and a piston assembly operably mounted between the front head and the rear head. A plurality of case bolts extend through the mounting p late, the front head, and into the rear head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Steven M Sunday
  • Patent number: 11952992
    Abstract: A linear compressor includes: a frame comprising a body portion, a flange portion extending from a front side of the body portion along a radial direction of the body portion, and a bearing communication hole that is in fluid communication with a front surface of the flange portion and an inner circumferential surface of the body portion, a cylinder coupled to the body portion, a piston that is disposed in the cylinder and that is configured to reciprocate along an axial direction of the cylinder, and a valve member that is disposed at the frame and that is configured to open and close the bearing communication hole based on a pressure of air between the cylinder and the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wooju Jeon, Kyungmin Lee, Sangik Son
  • Patent number: 11946465
    Abstract: A fluid end assembly comprising a plurality of fluid end sections positioned in a side-by-side relationship. Each fluid end section comprises a housing having a bore formed therein for housing a reciprocating plunger. Fluid is prevented from leaking around the plunger by a packing seal assembly. The packing seal assembly comprises one and only one packing seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Barnett, Micheal Cole Thomas, Kelcy Jake Foster, Nicholas Son, John Keith
  • Patent number: 11946473
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for sensing a rotational parameter of a rotating member of a downhole pumping system. The apparatus is capable of detecting motor rotation and pump operating conditions and includes control systems for methods utilizing the rotational parameters to control the operation of the downhole pumping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Magnetic Pumping Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Adam Esberger, Michael Yuratich, Andrew Jewell
  • Patent number: 11939974
    Abstract: A methods and system to operate hydraulic fracturing units may include utilizing hydraulic fracturing unit profiles. The system may include hydraulic fracturing units may include various components. The components may include an engine and associated local controller and sensors, a transmission connected to the engine, transmission sensors, and a pump connected to the transmission and powered by the engine via the transmission and associated local controller and sensors. A supervisory controller may control the hydraulic fracturing units. The supervisory controller may be in communication with components of each hydraulic fracturing unit. The supervisory controller may include instructions to, for each hydraulic fracturing units, obtain hydraulic fracturing unit parameters, determine a hydraulic fracturing unit health assessment, and build a hydraulic unit profile including the health assessment and parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Andres Alvarez, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11939971
    Abstract: A four-cylinder diaphragm pump includes a pump body having four pump chambers, and a drive mechanism that expands and contracts the four pump chambers with a predetermined phase difference, in which the pump body includes a first diaphragm having two diaphragm portions on a same plane, and a second diaphragm having two diaphragm portions on a same plane disposed to be located to be parallel to or coplanar with the plane of the first diaphragm, each of the diaphragm portions of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm constitute a portion of a different pump chamber, and the drive mechanism is configured to move the diaphragm portions of the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm forward or backward with respect to the corresponding pump chambers with a predetermined phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SIBATA SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Ikedo
  • Patent number: 11933291
    Abstract: A compressor, a monitoring system and a method of monitoring a compressor that make it possible to monitor the remaining lifetime of a semiconductor element of a motor control system while the processing load is reduced are provided. A compressor (1) includes: a motor control system (10) that controls the rotation speed of a motor (2); a compressor body (3) that compresses air by being driven by the motor (2); a pressure sensor (20) that is provided on the discharge side of the compressor body (3); and a running controller (11) that performs switching between load running and no-load running on the basis of the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Okubo, Norinaga Suzuki, Kiyomi Tashima, Akihiro Takanuki
  • Patent number: 11933301
    Abstract: A variable capacity screw compressor comprises a suction port, at least two screw rotors and a discharge port being configured in relation to a selected rotational speed that operates at least one screw rotor at an optimum peripheral velocity that is independent of a peripheral velocity of the at least one screw rotor at a synchronous motor rotational speed for a rated screw compressor capacity. A motor is configured to drive the at least one screw rotor at a rotational speed at a full-load capacity that is substantially greater than the synchronous motor rotational speed at the rated screw compressor capacity. A variable speed drive receives a command signal from a controller and generates a control signal that drives the motor at the selected rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Dennis R. Dorman, John R. Sauls
  • Patent number: 11933299
    Abstract: A dual-drive co-rotating scroll device includes a housing; a first scroll rotatably mounted within the housing via a first cylindrical extension and a first plurality of bearings, and having a first axis of rotation; and a second scroll rotatably mounted within the housing via a second cylindrical extension and a second plurality of bearings, and having a second axis of rotation different than the first axis of rotation. At least one of the first cylindrical extension and the second cylindrical extension may comprise a plurality of permanent magnets and operate as a rotor of a first motor. An Oldham ring may be positioned between the first scroll and the second scroll and configured to maintain a relative angular position between the first scroll and the second scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. D. Wilson, Nathan D. Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11932152
    Abstract: An air pump device includes an electric pump unit including a pump mechanism and a motor configured to drive the pump mechanism, a case housing the electric pump unit, and a vibration-proof member interposed between the electric pump unit and the case. The vibration-proof member is a plate-shaped member made of an elastic resin material and is wound around the electric pump unit to wrap the electric pump unit therein. A part of the vibration-proof member is sandwiched between the electric pump unit and one of facing surfaces that are inner surfaces of the case and face each other inside the case. Another part of the vibration-proof member is sandwiched between the electric pump unit and the other one of the facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Sakai, Kazuma Nishida, Takashi Yokoyama, Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11933289
    Abstract: A control system may include circuitry configured to: a deterioration level estimation unit configured to estimate deterioration levels of pumping devices based on information about driving forces of the pumping devices; a selection unit configured to select a pumping device from the pumping devices based on a comparison of the estimated deterioration levels estimated by the deterioration level estimation unit; and a pumping control unit configured to control the selected pumping device selected by the selection unit to pump fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Hideaki Ike
  • Patent number: 11927275
    Abstract: A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided a discharge port through which a discharge fluid of discharge pressure Pd passes, a suction port through which a suction fluid of suction pressure Ps passes, and a control port through which a control fluid of control pressure Pc passes, a rod configured to be driven by a solenoid, a main valve formed by a main valve seat and a main valve element and configured for opening and closing a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with a movement of the rod, and a CS valve provided between the control port and the suction port and controlled by a dynamic pressure of a fluid flowing from the discharge port to the control port at an opening state of the main valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayama, Kohei Fukudome, Takahiro Ejima, Wataru Takahashi, Keigo Shirafuji
  • Patent number: 11920584
    Abstract: A continuous high-power turbine fracturing equipment may include a lubrication system, which may include a first lubrication unit configured to lubricate a plunger pump. The first lubrication unit may further include a high pressure lubrication unit. The high pressure lubrication unit may include a high pressure motor, a high pressure pump, and a high pressure oil line. The high pressure motor may be configured to drive the high pressure pump, which may be configured to pump high pressure lubricating oil into the high pressure oil line. The high pressure oil line may be configured to lubricate at least one of connecting rod bearing bushes or crosshead bearing bushes in the plunger pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: American Jereh International Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaolei Ji, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Chunqiang Lan, Zhuqing Mao, Jianwei Wang, Mingchao Mao