Patents Examined by Charles G. Freay
  • Patent number: 11835045
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism, a casing, a motor stator and a motor rotor. The motor stator includes stacked steel plates, teeth, and slots. The stacked steel plates are fixed to an inner surface of the casing. A number of the teeth and slots is nine. The motor rotor rotates a crankshaft to drive the compression mechanism. The stacked steel plates have first to ninth areas radially outside the nine teeth, first concave portions provided in five of the areas, and a second concave portion provided in at least one of four areas other than the five areas. The five first concave portions and an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion form five first passages. The second concave portion and the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion form at least one second passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Yamamoto, Makoto Adachi
  • Patent number: 11835040
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a capacity change of a compressor, and a smart home appliance. The method includes: determining whether a capacity of the compressor is required to be changed; if yes, determining an intermediate frequency; changing the capacity of the compressor while maintaining the operating frequency of the compressor at the intermediate frequency; and the maintaining the operating frequency of the compressor at the intermediate frequency reduces a sudden change in output of the compressor after the changing the capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Kai Yu, Longfei Li, Qunbo Liu, Yi Ni, Ke Xu, Yaopeng Rong, Zhongqiu Zhang, Zhenjiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11833341
    Abstract: A heart pump including: a housing forming a cavity including: at least one inlet aligned with an axis of the cavity; and, at least one outlet provided in a circumferential outer wall of the cavity; an impeller provided within the cavity, the impeller including vanes for urging fluid from the inlet to the outlet; and, a drive for rotating the impeller in the cavity and wherein a flow path through the pump has a minimal cross-sectional area of at least 50 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BIVACOR Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Timms
  • Patent number: 11835039
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the functioning of a compressor, which is switchable into a delivery mode and, when in the delivery mode, delivers compressed air via a dryer line of a compressed-air preparation unit into at least one main supply line, from which multiple supply lines of compressed-air consumer circuits branch off, wherein a pressure sensor is connected at each of at least some of the supply lines, is disclosed. The method results in outputting a warning message if a weighted pressure gradient grd_pV_W has not exceeded a gradient limiting value grd_pG_W within a predefined monitoring time period TM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Hannover GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Brinkmann, Dirk Hillbring, Heinrich Diekmeyer
  • Patent number: 11828277
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for fracturing operation in oil/gas fields. The disclosed fracturing system is integrated onto a semitrailer that can be conveniently transported to any oil field. The disclosed fracturing system further includes major components needed for delivering high-pressure fracturing fluid into a wellhead, including but not limited to at least one power generation source and at least one plunger pump driven by the at least one power generation source via simple transmission mechanisms utilizing reduction gearbox and/or transmission shafts. The power generation source, in particular, includes a turbine engine capable of being powered by 100% natural gasified liquid fuel. The fracturing system further includes hydraulic and cooling component for serving the various needs for the turbine engine, the reduction gearbox, and the plunger pump, such as lubrication of various moving parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Yantal Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rikui Zhang, Xiance Li, Xincheng Li, Chunqiang Lan, Yipeng Wu, Zhuqing Mao, Sheng Chang, Xiaolei Ji, Jixin Wang, Peng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11828280
    Abstract: A pump for use with a tube, having a rotor having an axis of rotation and a plurality of rollers configured to define an orbital path about the axis of rotation, the orbital path defined by a radius, and a roller bed having a surface adapted to support the tube for peristaltic compression by one or more rollers, wherein the surface has a predetermined profile comprising a circular arc segment and at least one side segment, the arc segment having a first curvature defined by the radius, and the at least one side segment having a second curvature lesser than the first curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Itzhak Fang, Andrei Szilagyi, Alexander Lifshitz, Jack Walker, Sean Yasuo Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11828276
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjusting device for adjusting the swash plate of an axial piston machine comprising an adjusting piston, which is connected to the swash plate of the axial piston machine via an adjusting lever, and a regulator for adjusting the adjusting pressure acting on the adjusting piston in dependence on a control force acting on a control piston of the regulator, wherein the adjusting piston is connected to the control piston via a feedback spring. In accordance with the present disclosure the feedback spring is at least partly received in a pot-shaped recess of the control piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventor: Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Patent number: 11821431
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump has a stack of diffusers within the housing, each of the diffusers having a conical upper shoulder and a conical lower shoulder. The lower shoulder of each of the diffusers is in abutment with the upper shoulder of an adjacent one of the diffusers. The upper and lower shoulders of each of the diffusers slope downward and outward relative to the axis. Impeller hubs have conical upper and lower ends. At least some of the upper ends of the hubs abut and transfer up thrust to the lower end of an adjacent one of the hubs. At least some of the lower ends of the hubs abut and transfer down thrust to the upper end of an adjacent one of the hubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Ye, Michael Forsberg, Risa Rutter, Brett T. Williams
  • Patent number: 11821414
    Abstract: A fluid control apparatus (10) includes a first major plate (20), a piezoelectric device (30), a second major plate (40), a peripheral plate (50), a first film (61), and a second film (62). A space enclosed by the first major plate (20), the second major plate (40), and the peripheral plate (50) serves as a pump chamber (100) of the fluid control apparatus (10). A rectification base member (80) is provided between the first major plate (20) and the second major plate (40). The first film (61) is provided on the first major plate (20) and includes a movable portion positioned closer to the peripheral plate (50) than a fixed end thereof. The second film (62) is provided on a major surface (802) of the rectification base member (80) and includes a movable portion positioned across the fixed end thereof from the peripheral plate (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11821441
    Abstract: Various systems are provided for a single turbocharger case housing each of turbine of a turbocharger and a bearing of the turbocharger. In one example, an apparatus for an engine includes an integrated, monolithic turbocharger case that houses each of a turbine and a bearing of a turbocharger and a nozzle ring integrated into the turbocharger case between the turbine and the bearing. In further examples of the system, portions of the turbocharger case are formed of a lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Louis Kobielski, Baris Uygun, Adam Felton
  • Patent number: 11815076
    Abstract: A system and a method for producing fracturing fluid, comprising: engaging an engagement coupling attached to one end of a gear box dual shaft to a gear box connector of an external gear box, wherein the external gear box is part of a pump; rotating the gear box dual shaft to drive the pump after engaging the engagement coupling with the gear box connector; disengaging the engagement coupling from the gear box connector; and rotating the gear box dual shaft without driving the pump after disengaging the engagement coupling with the gear box connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TYPHON TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (U.S.), LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey G. Morris
  • Patent number: 11815083
    Abstract: A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Mu, Yan P. Kuhn De Chizelle, Florence Binet, Manbro Lee, Alexander Tanner Taylor, Bryan Suharik, Clare Schoene, James Matthews, Bao Mi, Muktabh Anchlia
  • Patent number: 11808266
    Abstract: A submersible pump (100) is a submersible pump (100) in which a one-sided waterway (6) extending along a rotation shaft (1) is provided on one side of a submersible pump main body (100a), and includes an impeller (4); and a pump casing (5) in which the impeller (4) is arranged, in which the pump casing (5) includes a tongue portion (53) that is arranged between a pump chamber (5a) in which the impeller (4) is arranged and an inlet opening (6a) of the one-sided waterway (6) when viewed from an axial direction of the rotation shaft (1), and a connection waterway (54) that is provided between the tongue portion (53) and an inner surface (55) of the pump casing (5), and is directly connected to the inlet opening (6a) from an upstream side when viewed from the axial direction of the rotation shaft (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tsurumi Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Torimoto, Hisakazu Shinya, Yutaka Terada
  • Patent number: 11808256
    Abstract: Provided are a discharge plenum integrated with a valve stopper and a linear compressor including the discharge plenum. The valve stopper includes a radial member that extends radially and an axial member that extends axially from a radial inner end of the radial member. The axial member may have a tubular shape. The axial member may define a slot flow path that extends axially. The radial member may include a peripheral hole that extends axially. The radial inner side of the radial member may define a central hole of the axial member. The slot flow path and the peripheral hole may minimize a pressure drop and energy loss of a high-pressure fluid flowing from a compression portion to a discharge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngmun Lee, Kyunyoung Lee, Kiwon Noh
  • Patent number: 11808259
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for two rotating parallel discs to power horizontal pistons back and forth configured in a radial pattern, comprised of double acting fluid end that may be used in high pressure fluid handling equipment, wherein the fluid end has an arrangement that acts upon both a suction and a discharge operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GARTECH, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Pendleton, Gary Warren Stratulate
  • Patent number: 11808261
    Abstract: Disclosed are a variable capacity compressor operation mode determination method and device, a variable capacity compressor and an air conditioner. The variable capacity compressor operation mode determination method includes: detecting a current value of a compressor at present as A1 before switching an operation mode of the compressor; detecting the current value of the compressor at present as A2 after switching the operation mode of the compressor and reaching a preset time; comparing A1 and A2, determining that the switching of the operation mode of the compressor is successful when a ratio relationship between A1 and A2 satisfies a preset condition, and determining that switching of the operation mode of the compressor is failed when the ratio relationship between A1 and A2 dissatisfies a preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Longfei Li, Handong Xue, Yi Ni, Yingsheng Fu, Yaopeng Rong, Zhongqiu Zhang, Qunbo Liu, Ke Xu
  • Patent number: 11808254
    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 made of multiple-piece construction. One or more pieces of the housing are configured to have a plurality of stay rods attached thereto. The stay rods interconnect the fluid end assembly and a power end assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kerr Machine Co.
    Inventors: Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett, Kelcy Jake Foster, Nicholas Son, John Keith
  • Patent number: 11808286
    Abstract: A jet pump for a system for supplying fluid to a turbomachine. The jet pump includes an active fluid inlet pipe including a tube delimiting the inlet pipe, and a passive fluid inlet pipe that is fluidically separated from the active fluid inlet pipe by the tube. The active fluid inlet pipe includes at least one twisted blade that is positioned within the tube and is configured to make the active fluid rotate with respect to the axis of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Philippe Vertenoeuil
  • Patent number: 11802555
    Abstract: A piezoelectric pump includes a first faceplate, a second faceplate, a diaphragm, a first peripheral wall, and a second peripheral wall. The diaphragm includes a vibrating portion to which a piezoelectric device is attached, a frame portion, and a connecting portion. The connecting portion defines a third opening that allows a first pump chamber and a second pump chamber to communicate with each other. The first pump chamber is provided with an annular first valve surrounding a first opening at a distance from the first opening in plan view from a major surface of the first faceplate toward a major surface of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhira Tanaka, Masaaki Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11802570
    Abstract: A cover for a ceiling fixture including a top piece having an outer edge, a bottom piece having an outer edge, first and second linear coupling arrangements. The outer edges of the top and bottom pieces being joined together. An opening extending from a beginning point at a location on the top piece through a middle of the top piece outwardly toward a point along the outer edge of the top piece opposite the beginning point to an ending point on the bottom piece. The first linear coupling arrangement being coupled to the top piece and the bottom piece along the opening from the ending point of the opening toward the middle of the top piece. The second linear coupling arrangement being coupled to the top piece along the opening extending from the beginning point through the middle of the top piece toward the first linear coupling arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventor: Shon L Hadden